Short North Carolina Poems

Short North Carolina Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about North Carolina by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about North Carolina by length and keyword.


Godel Was Right

Scientific Discovery…
 but one grand paradox

The Spacetime Continuum
  —contradiction defined

(Greensboro North Carolina: April, 2019)


Premium Member The Break of a New Day

It's another North Carolina morning,
Just before I see the sun rise.
To lighter blue the sky is turning,
And nature wakes opening her eyes.



©2013 Honestly JT
Form: Quatrain

Caroline

There are very pretty girls in North Carolina,
But they’re not all named Caroline, or Charlotte
Beware of confusion, a summer at the beach,
Watch out for temptation, strawberry ice creams.
Form: Quatrain

North Carolina

North Carolina

A young woman of North Carolina,
Danced on tables at a down-town diner.
Serving Chilli-dogs and fries,
To leering men she despise,
This Lady deserves something much finer.
© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Chow Chow Injustice

A sweet Chow Chow called Charleston Dinah
Was court-ordered to go back to China
Told: Leave the U.S.
You made this covid mess!
She arfed:  You nut I’m from North Carolina!

Written 5/12/22
Form: Limerick


Premium Member 13 Original States

•	Connecticut
•	New Hampshire
•	New York
•	New Jersey
•	Massachusetts
•	Pennsylvania
•	Delaware
•	Virginia
•	North Carolina
•	South Carolina
•	Georgia
•	Rhode Island
•	Maryland

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Form: List

Premium Member Billly Graham

A young North Carolina preacher named Billy Graham
Was filled with God's Words, and knew how to say 'em
All across the nation, many people came to salvation
Now heaven will be home to more than a few; how about you
Form: Clerihew

Barney Fife

ive never met anyone in this life
as nervous as deputy barney fife
andy gave him a big gun
but a bullet only one
and will thelma ever become his wife

Limerick 4 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph may
2/13/19
Form: Limerick

Next Station

With no advanced ticket,
  I pay as I go

My boarding left open,
  still more things to know

The day train a local,
  expresses by night

My spirit rolls inward,
 —next station in sight

(Highpoint North Carolina: April, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Spirit Imbued

The morning bid welcome,
  the night said goodbye

The sun gave us reasons,
  the moon made us cry

The cycle repeated,
  the old freed the new

The darkness retreated,
 —the spirit imbued

(Highpoint North Carolina: April, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Heaven Proclaimed

Be in awe of yourself,
ever struck with delight

Gift wrapping your thoughts,
in the goodness of life

Treasure the memories,
letting go of the pain

Releasing the wonder
—as Heaven proclaimed

(High Point North Carolina: April, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Heaven Proclaimed

Be in awe of yourself,
  ever struck with delight

Gift wrapping your thoughts,
  in the goodness of life

Treasure the memories,
  letting go of the pain

Releasing the wonder,
 —as Heaven proclaimed

(Highpoint North Carolina: April, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member I’m Sorry to Say

I’m sorry to say
red cardinals don’t live
in the evergreen state
unless a migration 
has lost its way. 

My husband was not lost
when he came to Washington,
he never missed North Carolina,
except for those red birds~
Sadly, I’ve never seen one.

Love Living and Forgiving

Love Living and Forgiving

Washington is where we love living;
Soon may be skiing by Thanksgiving;
Cascades snowing,
And we are going;
Found them friendly and forgiving.

Jim Horn

Live here in North Carolina now 
but our hearts are still in Seattle.
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Defying Gravity

Both Orville and Wilbur Wright,
    Two brothers who pioneered flight.
    When at  Kitty Hawk, in North Carolina,
    They first flew their forerunner, of the modern airliner.

    Sponsor Regina McIntosh.
    Clerihew poetry contest.
    12 / 28 / 2020.
Form: Clerihew

One Last Time

I’m not wishful anymore
or here to ride the wave
My feet both mired in aging mud,
my heart now turned away

I’m not here to save the world,
nobility be damned
Time on trial my last denial
—on distant Ronan land

(Henderson North Carolina: October, 2021)
Form: Rhyme

The First Plane Flight

The First Plane Flight

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
December 17, 1903

Oh see it fly!
Above this field, the pilot steers.
Oh see it fly
amid the clouds across the sky!
The people watch it as it veers
through winter air along with cheers!
Oh, see it fly!
Form: Rhyme

My Newspaper Horn Haiku

My Newspaper Horn Haiku

what we did detect 
newspaper had intelect 
we knew was correct

This is my 8,800th Horn
Haiku especially designed
for Brunswick Beacon,
Shallotte, North Carolina

James Serious Mysterious Horn
RiverSea Plantation
Bolivia, NV 28422
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

No Longer Free

Bring your lover into your world,
  don’t hide inside of hers

    ‘A mistake too often made
       with respect to women’

Self inflicted homicide…
  men die of good intention

A modern age hormonal trap
  —loves truth no longer free

(Greensboro North Carolina: April, 2019)

The Earth Was Turning In Her Sleep

A hurricane tore North Carolina
After ripping Haiti!
It stalks like a hyena,
Leaving a trail of calamity!

I, The Earth, was turning in my sleep.
Humans live for seventy years.
Some build in areas that are deep
Or somehow interfere with my affairs.


               May 8, 2022 the
© Abel Jae  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Doshier Memorial In Wilmington North Carolina

Jill has been in the hospital for
seven days and I have not been 
writing any poems on Poetry Soup.
Here is one I wrote while there with
my wife.

We would have started out to seek,
Things explained when did speak;
Could hear,
Far or near,
When the weather was very bleak.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Premium Member The Final Four

Two storied teams
Creme-de-la-creme
  Yet one has to lose
  To sing the blues
Tear-stained its dreams



______________________
University of North Carolina
nipped Duke University in a 
game for the ages tonight,
81-77, and goes on to play
Kansas for the national
championship Monday night.
Form: Rhyme

Strawberries From Fairies

Strawberries From Fairies

In purse know that she always carries,
Some whipped cream with strawberries,
She would make,
Tasty short cake;
She received them from friendly fairies.

The strawberries are flowing here 
in Southern Part of North Carolina 
and were grown for me by Dinah.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Soprano Soloist

A distinguished soprano named Dinah
sings arias in North Carolina.
But her favourite thing,
without doubt, is to sing
selections from Handel's Messiah.

With extraordinary vigor and pith
she sings "I Know My Redeemer Liveth".
When she goes to perform
she'll be in fine form
and precisely know how to giveth.
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

The Dark Abyss

He found what he was looking for,
   his shadow turned inside out

He moved beyond prescriptive cure,
  all questioning and doubt

He left the future-past behind,
  silhouette of all he’d missed

Impregnating the moment within himself
 —to light the dark abyss

(Winston Salem, North Carolina: October, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

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