Short Polishing Poems

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


Big Green Apple

Big Green Apple

Utterly honest and 
open big green apple addicted to 
substances used for 
smoothing, polishing, and 
cleaning.


Premium Member Oh Deer

Santa Claus was in a tissy,
At this time of year, he's always busy.
Frantically polishing his big sleigh,
He forgot it was Christmas Day.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Gifts

We're all born with gifts
Life's about unveiling those gifts 
Living involves polishing those gifts  
Love's about uplifting others with our gifts

Premium Member Los Marbles

polishing pieces
                               fragments of a broken brain

                                       spinning poetry







MagiCicada17
Form: Senryu

Premium Member apple polishing flattering sycophant

flattery and compliments oozed out of her
she would apple polish a weirdo, a cur.
a suave sycophant of the nth degree
her nose as brown and smelly as an eye can see
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member He Will Kill You Too

Geo is an apple-polishing sycophant.
He’ll kill you too, says hard-of-hearing Grandpa Grant.
Confusing sycophant with psychopath, I guess.
The next family reunion is a horrible mess.

Premium Member When Jim Crow Goes Hunting For Gems

Teachers are supposed to be polishing gems.
But instead, are cracking the gloaming of innocents. 
Judging children by their race, when all they want to do is play.
Jim Crow is cawing for souls once again.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Who’s Your Daddy

daddy’s stepping out
mother Russia reach around 
polishing his throne

***

According to Alnur Mussayev, Trump was recruited 
by the KGB’s 6th Department as a spy in 1987, 
and given the nickname Krasnov.
Form: Senryu

Flame Polished

flame polished my hands are wet polishing flames of regret names abolished my plans far fetched abolishing names a nest fame demolished my demands star bet demolishing fame at best ?
art
Form:

Creeks I

                                                Caressing waters
                                          Clearly polishing the rocks
                                                Mimicking our lives
Form: Haiku

Assertive Dystopic

You performed
superiorly well
Magnificent, they yelled for you

You Dreamed
Certain utopia
However, only you will gain

You militant
Got crowned
Warm, your sitting place stays

You made
this society
servant, to polishing your shoes

Dentist

Dentist

While polishing some canine teeth
and cleaning out some gums.
the werewolf bit down viciously
on the dentist’s thumbs.

Although he bit him brutally,
nothing will transpire.
The patient was a werewolf,
but the dentist’s a vampire!
© Judy Valko  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Pearls

Suffering sautées souls
Peeling away the impurities 
Revealing the obscurities
Redeeming even polishing
Character like a crystal 
Creating out of clay
A great new display
Despite mud of former day
Wiped and made
Shiny and new
A pearl birthed by world

Premium Member Trixie Takes Over

Purple unicorns prance into my mind
Polishing up ideas
Worthy of a princess

Followed by kittens wearing toothbrush hats
With smeary feline smiles
Diabolical laughs

Trixie takes over immediately
Pirate queen gives them the boot
She is ready to play!
Form: Kimo

Drowning

Wanting
twin lips of a viola.
Sun 
polishing the dagger.
Death was only feet away.

A seething ocean 
of mirrors
unmakes the bed.
You sleep in shoes 
like a *****. 

Naked as a moon 
the hand opens the gate.
Sheer feline 
night moves in
purring.



Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC

The Mirror

Rumi said,
“Polish the mirror of your soul
that it might better reflect God.”

An antique hand mirror,
the leaded glass is warped,
its wooden and carved frame cracked
yet keep polishing it.

One day hope to see
what has always
been in front of your face.

Stars In a Night Sky

The Goliath reaches deep underground,
grabbing a hand full of coal
Crushing the black rock in his huge maw,
polishing it to gleaming diamonds.
Flinging the treasure into the ebon sky.
So at night we can look heavenward,
and enjoy  a million stars
 in a midnight sky.

Father Yet Closer

Take off your mortgage and remove your career,
stop polishing your act.
Stop taking stock,
stop the clocks 
and open the locks.

Let me in
let me in,
let me in 
let me in.

And let me begin where you end,
let the footsteps fall,
a path to amend,
and you,
friend.

Premium Member OCD Merry Go Round

his OCD merry-go-round
is noticeable all around
repeated behaviors over and over
tearing up dandelions and clover

polishing table twenty-three times
recounting once again his tin of dimes
repeated efforts are automatic
familiar patterns, nothing unexpected or sporadic

Premium Member Umbrella

when rain tumbled the skies they blackened lightening wrapped around branches and pulled stripping some autumn red leaves wind shears push crystal rain against my house polishing and cleansing away impure dust and debris i l o v e / a / g o o d / shower
Form: Shape

Polishing Poems

a lay (lei)

Took a walk in poetry’s field,
many poems caught my appeal.

Planting of new notions I saw
and older verse puts me in awe.

Metaphor, hyperbole, rhyme
alliteration, form take time.

Patina on each unique write
shows poem's polish and sheds light.

January 13, 2020
Form: Lay

Premium Member When the Lobster Plays Grand Piano

Dragging our lobster claw 
haphazardly across rows of ivory song
scratching both beautiful and hideous notes 
throughout our lives-somehow, we stayed afloat-

Racing the foaming mouth of death.
Polishing up melodies of opaque regrets...
High tide, swallowing a lobster claw
and a grand piano bench.

Premium Member All The Luster

Where Now We
Lustre Exposed
It Self Same Cave
Man Un-Hooked
Tide To The Tale-Man-Mad Made.

Oh, No Waste With More
POLISH!

Just Stop All
The Polishing
Soft Infant Nurtured 
Oh To Soft Raised
To Animal Where
It Came On Come
It Came There In.

No Time For Cleaning.

-Gray Squirrel

01-03-2026

Premium Member The Silent Feast

Corruption reigns while silence is served.
We hone their knives with indifference,
keep polishing their plates with our fatigue.
The reckless and the cruel—
they feast well, for the tables are laid.
A democracy isn’t taken;
it’s surrendered, a napkin at a time.
We end the banquet by taking the plates away.

Premium Member Ghost of a Chance

A tombstone cleaning workshop—
don’t bother the ghost…it’s sold out!
You can no longer finger this rest stop.
How about this Halloween turnout!

Will it be a Poppins extravaganza,
sweeping and polishing to Step in Time?
It’s a grave matter to the living, who plans a
cleaning party— the chance of a lifetime.

10/21/2021

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