Short Prickly Poems

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


Premium Member Blackberry Winter

blackberry winter small white blooms not for picking prickly spring cold snap
August 3, 2022
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Cactus Cry Tricube

Prickly plant,
reminds me 
of my heart;

Sharpened, tough;
Time thickened,
weakening;

Falling for 
a flooding
cactus cry.
Form: Other

Premium Member lassoing a porcupine

lassoing a porcupine isn’t as much fun as I thought it would be
the worst part is releasing the rope from something prickly like he

Premium Member seventy three

prickly and simply
wrinkly and pimply
old aged and one paged
ungauged and enraged
wildly carefree
honest living at seventy-three
age
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Cockeyed Pincushion

cockeyed pincushion
stabbed prickly but no blood
i admire you 

so puffed up and proud 
always ready for grandma
i poke you silly
Form: Senryu


Premium Member Mean Mama Raises Mean Child

Prickly		                  
Annoying
Situation
A nasty letter
Mean capital letters
A mama bully
Raising baby
Bully ways
Hostile
Form: Ninette

Premium Member Prickly

If anyone supposes
That life should be a bed of roses
How boring this would be
With no diversity
Roses have prickles the blossom exposes
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Closure Denied

stoic expression
though prickly thorns stabbed her breast
silent suffering

lingering sorrow 
memories drift unbidden
closure is denied
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Rose

she's wild
she's prickly
distant and aloof
stand-offish
guarded and withdrawn
but i will always love her


AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Premium Member Junipers

Big tall evergreen trees are monoecious
But others are only dioecious
Two sexes are mono
While only one dio
Both prickly to handle coniferous
Form: Limerick

A Lone Star Pun

A cowgirl got bucked off her horse
And flew through the air with some force
A prickly pear
Caught her right where
A lack of chaps caused her remorse!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Nonsense

Some say life is not a bed of roses
A bed of roses would be as uncomfortable as hell
They may be prickly
But are beautiful and have a delightful smell
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Porcupine Named Prickly Pete

A porcupine named Prickly Pete
Did doze in his condo in Crete.
When slumber turned sour,
Unleashing his power,
He skewered both a ghost and his sheet.
Form: Limerick

Ice

Piece of ice
floating in the sea
cold head
hot feet
clouds of black fog
prickly breeze
I don't know who you are
or what you want from me.

Jessica
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Red Roses and Razor Blades

Red roses and razor blades
woven into the soggy beds we've made
sweet scent of heaven, the smell of slow death.
Red roses and razor blades...a prickly romance.

The Naked Truth - Prequel

Laid right there on some fluffy grass waiting for all the boys to pass the wind would blow Callie would show those gazing down her prickly azz
© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member I am a Mosaic Today

I am a mosaic today
made up of sharp glassy shards
feeling sticky and prickly
pushing people away
if my trail goes cold
and no one can follow
I can reglue myself
me

Premium Member Rose's Thorns - a Response To Belle Bellevue's 'Thorn Rose'

Rose's thorns scare admirers away
There's not much a poor flower can say
   Her skin is so prickly
   It makes suitors sickly
So she shows them her petals ~ Come play!
Form: Limerick

A Different Collaboration

His prickly quills were more than a few,
her black ink was seldom used,
octopus in sink,
porcupine got ink,
their writing poems making headline news.






11-5-16
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Flower Power-God's Must Be Crazy

There’s a prickly old man who seemed lazy
Yet while loafing he pushed up a daisy
And said with some practice
He’d force up a cactus
Just to prove that the gods must be crazy
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Slug-Free

Yellow fire hazards blemish the lawn,
prickly to bare summer feet.
Locusts overtake the heat.
Aphids feast and continue to spawn,
yet still remain strawberries to eat.

7-8-2021
Form: Rhyme

If I Were Love

If I were Love
Or the rain
Or that prickly feeling
Or the pain 
I would be
Above all
And below
A wretch 
If I were Love
Or the dirt
Or the dust
Made up of rust
I would be
Love

Premium Member Henry Harry Harold Hubert Hedgehog

Henry Harry Harold Hubert Hedgehog he
Rolls himself into a prickly ball, let’s let him be
When predators come to annoy, torment or play
His prickly thorns discourage them to go far away
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Wakey-wakey

some mornings before my coffee
i feel as prickly as a porcupine
and don't want anyone nearby
precious silence respectably
a most welcomed blessing



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Premium Member Ethel Mae Mcmurtrey

Here lies old Ethel Mae McMurtrey She fell while trimming a pine tree The mortician removed the needles From prickly Ethel Mae McMurtrey
Written March 20, 2022
Form: Epitaph

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