Short Platform Poems

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


Premium Member Moving Canvas

hot, crowded platform
repulsive subway station
rush of rank damp air 
screeching heralds arrival
beast covered in urban art
Form: Tanka


Premium Member The Scale That So Blatantly Lies

That platform of sorrow and sighs,
The scale that so blatantly lies,
I think it takes glee
In laughing at me,
"Your diet has too many pies."
Form: Limerick

The Other

Real eyes
have shapes
we never really understand.
Are made of
water bags not glass,
we never quite know how.
Real eyes
dance on a platform of moments.

Premium Member Golden Platform

Corn silk flags the wind
Sunflowers dance the road's ditch
sun falls down the sky
leave me end of day wonder
tip like a wink over pond.

Sheri Fresonke Harper
Form: Tanka

Change

Change

Obama’s platform seems kind of strange
All he stands for is lots of change
He's made it easy for me to heft
The small amount that I have left

By Mike Francis
Form: Rhyme


Monarch

You're the King of my heart
It's not fair; this monarch

I want control of my soul
I'm destined to rule

I'll commit treason if I have to
Which might end on a platform
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Irrepressible Gracie Allen

Find here a tribute to one of the cleverest gals
To ever grace a show biz locale

   She mused that parties 'stand' for a platform
   For which voters 'fall' by the swarm
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member No Smile

Starving little turtle
Cracked eggshells
Lost relationships
Broken dreams
Falling teeth
Death opens the door
Train departs from platform
No one
Waves of emotions
No more

Grand Central

Grand Central 
At four in the afternoon
On the platform 
Awaiting your arrival,
A cold shiver passes through me.


           W.A.CHOLT.  Copyright  Fergal O Reilly. 2013.
© W.A. Cholt  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member The Tiny Elf

Matt the elf wanted to drive Santa's sleigh
Standing at just 3 feet tall, there was no way
He put on high platform shoes,
but fell over, not amused
He'll settle as a passenger today
Form: Limerick

Premium Member My Life Journey

on the platform, waiting to catch the next connection...new year's eve


______________________
Monoku 2 New Year Contest
Hosted by Silent One
Placed 2nd
© 28th December 2017
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Ants

I see an ant crawling along the train platform.
We are like ants in the universe's vast form.
Life as hard as stone, like this ant I am alone,
But I know I will return home, each milestone.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member NIGHT WATCH

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ empty train platform~ midnight rain taps old tin roofs no footsteps echo a stray cat licks its wet fur under the flickering streetlamp
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Sarcastic Wit

We laugh to be pleased.  It may be harsh and haughty.  It may seem quite rough.  Haters use satire to taunt.  It's a criminal's platform.
  Written: December 05, 2021
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

The Cry of Heart

Neither thy face, nor features, lips and eyes
Nor it is my yearning for mirth which my heart fries

My feet are advancing towards the hangman’s platform
     O sword of tyranny! It is for thee my heart cries
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Station Cat

hi to station cat napping neatly on platform its limbs are so white

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9/21/2015

Contest  - One Liner

Sponsor - Silent One

2nd place win
© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
cat
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Check These Boxes

Middle America's Democrats are reeling in shock
At the party's Progressive Agenda, tailor-made to block
   The candidacy of anyone who can't check these boxes
   Minority Female, Pro-LGBTQ, P.C. Platform ~ sky-high taxes
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Missed the Train

MISSED THE TRAIN

     Tried to catch you my sweetheart.
      Immediately after
      my arrival, train whistled,
      moved leaving me at platform.
      I know, we will never meet.

   12/04/19

 Edited on 01/25/22
Form: Verse

Two and Two for Poetrysoup

"One day accidentally 
     came across a platform
poets from different countries
         with their own norms***
yet kindest and most 
resilient people ever,
 a community, 
am 
grateful
 to have been a part of"
Form: Other

Premium Member My Old Hometown

quaint chats, district twangs,
greet my shell clad ear as I step,
on grey day mist platform,
childhood echoes rife,
sign rust, green flake post box, stuffed waste bin,
cute named antique street birthright,
one true home found

Premium Member MEMORY OF YOUTH

MEMORY OF YOUTH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ we built it crooked in oak’s arthritic elbow— a fortress of scrap lumber a crooked platform steel nails bent like question marks with acorn armies we ruled
Form: Other

Borrowed Time Horn Limerick

Borrowed Time Horn Limerick

Borrowed time did like to live on
Finally when it was all gone
There had been a big race
Wanted me to set pace
And spread political platform on.

You can imagine what all
of this means.

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

Premium Member The Gold Theater

On the shiny platform
I hold a microphone
raising it higher
the ground trembles in thrill
power slowly amplifies
fireworks from behind burst upward
enthusiasm overwhelms the room
the candle of joy
shall blaze for a while
before it burns out

Premium Member A Tale of Two Voices

    In the midst of a desert
      a voice cries out
    Woe to him who snubs
      a hungry hand held out

    On a crowded subway platform
      a different voice rings true
    Hand over your wallet, sir
      ~ If you value your life, you do
Form: Rhyme

No Man's Life

Transient home full of visitors!
A highway flooded by travellers!
A major platform staged by performers!

Nobody owns it
Nobody overstays their welcome 
It is the "No man's Life"

Just do your best,  make the most of it with little or no regrets!!!!
Form: Lyric

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