Short Persnickety Poems

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


Premium Member blue jeans grandma

blue jeans grandma with a plaid shirt
three days wearing them, she has dirt
not persnickety in any way
happily grungy every day
Form: Couplet


Premium Member Prettiest Posy Parasols

Prettiest prancing posy parasols play
Petunias preen provocatively
pathetic persnickety performance
pretty parasols procure the prize

Premium Member persnickety jeeves

whilst in the midst of your dream

perceived i a prankish scheme

how loudly you snore

you infinite bore

splat sir a saucer of cream.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member your attitude is a choice

their dresses were parachutes, panties showing
Seventy-year-olds laughing their knees off
Their sisters were two cars behind, persnickety and pinched
age

Premium Member Messy With a Capital P

messy with a capital P
That to me is creativity
persnickety muse showing mean to me
being the best grizzly bear I can be
I am in love with creativity
art


Premium Member Persnickety Phoebe

Persnickety Phoebe parades pompously
Privately, we make fun where she can’t see
We are kind of mean
Think we are unseen
But Karma comes back indubitably
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Nature’s Art Rendition

Dandelions bountiful spot the lawns
Adding unwanted colour where it’s not welcome
Persnickety eye of the beholder



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 2nd place 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Pigeons

Pompous city dwellers,
pretentious rock doves now
parade around like a 
popinjay or fancy
peacock, and yet, they're not
persnickety poopers:
pooping on everything.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Lion Kings Yes Men

King blew bubbles from his lounging couch!
One hit persnickety rabbit, and he yelled ouch!
It did not hurt you the royal yes-men said.
They always said this, being rather brain-dead.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Powerfully Positive Playful P

Peter Pan, Pippi Longstockings,
Pandora’s box, plentiful play, 
Pleasantries, primary, preferences,
Perfect, personal, persnickety,
Persevere, powerful, purple,
Playful, positive P.

Premium Member Persnickety Pete

Cattle rustler’s name - Persnickety Pete
Never rustled, just lured cattle with treats
   For a rustler, a freak
   Pete was a real sneak
If treats didn’t work, he’d pull a cow’s teats
Form: Limerick

Premium Member P Q R S

Paula persnickety poppycock provided proof
Questioning quarrelsome quick-witted quail
Responsible radicals reacted, reminding raised roof
Shopworn shortbread shakes shifty ships and shale
Form: ABC

Premium Member Ps having fun

peppermint Pauline persuaded perky puppies to prance their
prissy paws politely in Pennsylvania’s puppy parish. Perhaps Pauline
proved puppies are not as persnickety when they are prancing?

Premium Member Dishwasher Madness OCD

There once was a husband quite persnickety,  
  Whose dishwasher rules were so nitpicky~
  "Knives must point down!
Bowls go up—that’s their crown!"  
So the forks ran away—how unsickety!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Persnickety Porcupine

Persnickety porcupine are you a rodent then?
Are those quills at the end of your tiny chin-chin?
To the ocean, have you ever travelled or been?
Swimming with porpoises next to your prickly skin?
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Make Young Girlies Giggle

Once was a handsome fellow of twenty-eight Don't know what happened, maybe something I ate Got old and crickety A trifle persnickety The young girlies giggle when I try to negotiate
fun
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Paula Paulsons Persnickety Personality

pandemonium preceded Paula Paulson’s painstakingly prissily packed
packsack. Pathetic poetic Parnassian provided paramount particulars,
a peep and a peek into Paula Paulson’s persnickety personality.

Premium Member Persnickety Perfectionist Parents

She did a whizbang job on her science project
Her teacher was impressed and did a genuflect
Parents pretended she had done it all her way
These perfectionists had done it after sending her out to play
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member she gives him her meanest shoulder

Margaret is astounded
That someone dare call her prissy
persnickety, uptight, queen

She gives the man her coldest meanest shoulder
his eyes captivate her imagination
her telltale cheeks flush pink

Premium Member I am not persnickety

I have worn this nightie for several days now
ketchup, syrup and other stuff is on it somehow
I’ll wash it says my husband who likes things clean
It’s not ready yet, I say. I’m not a persnickety queen.
me
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Quizzed By a Stranger

persnickety?
you obviously have the wrong woman.
fussy?
I can see you are at the wrong address.
prissy?
you may be on the wrong block.
angry?
Go two doors down and ask for Gladys. She can set you up.

Premium Member Teamwork

       Ornery welcomed
          Persnickety aboard 
       Stubborn manned the wheel

       Mischief infiltrated
          Nooks and crannies  
     
        Teamwork sank
          ~ the ship piecemeal
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member snippy snotty persnickety uptight and mean

my co-workers were snippy, snotty, persnickety, uptight and mean.
I had been discounting this for some time, but could not ignore any longer.
quitting my job was the right thing for me; I did not belong with mean girls.

Premium Member snooty cat queen

the persnickety, snooty, snotty cat queen put on airs
as if there were not a ridiculous succulent on her head
I watched her climb those red-carpeted prissy throne stairs
and thought she must be low class, common, and pretty lowbred.
cat
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Premiere of Persimmon Pureblood

Premiere of Persimmon Pureblood
Pennsylvania’s premiere debutante
prettier than a Parisian parasol
persnickety and powdery
poufy, perfumed, perfectly petite
Persimmon practiced her pirouette
pleats parading petals in a perfect circle

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