Short Puppets Poems

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


What Lack

what lack what lack have i to deny liar lie her whom says sew sewn puppets sewn ing zonezonezone ing ?
art
Form: Concrete


Premium Member Puppets

I can't see my strings;
But I know that they are there.
Who controls the bar?
Form: Senryu

Pettweet

Prepare to procure passivity in perpetual progress of personifying perfection! Puppets prefer playing pretend. Preposterously pretentious.
Form:

A Puppets Life Line

Strings pulled
Man moves
Mouth moves
Man Listens
Money paid for show
Man is poor
Long nose
Lies are told
Puppet in box
Man is gone
© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.

Puppets

Puppets

Philosophies 
Of fear
And divine
Retribution
In deaths
Promises
Of never ending
Tortures
Will never
Let you
Enter
heaven


Premium Member Inner Stillness

Reveal and conceal
Enable and disable
Puppets on a string
When the going is good pause
When the going is bad pause

10-November-2020
Form: Tanka

We Are Puppets

We are a puppet 
A puppet of our senses 
We spend our life satisfying our senses 
What about the real us?
The soul 
What we do for it?
Nothing!

Puppets

Puppets

All Associates of 
the National Puppet (walking puppets only) of 
Wales leak and 
alloy of
mercury with 
iron down 
crooked paths.

Premium Member In someone else's game

We stand at our post
ready to move at a moment's notice
~ pawns and officials mere puppets



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Unseen Pan

I am the unknown hermit
living beyond your sight
Follow your puppets
beneath lives the boy who never grew up
Living in reality but not in real time

Premium Member Manipulation

Manipulation
Pressing the buttons that count
       Refined seduction


          Manipulation
Of puppets on strings controlled
      By hidden agendas
Form: Senryu

Paid Dogs

Paid dogs watching over
Barking their insecurities 
Like puppets in a show
Craving for someone 
Else's life and liberty 

January 7, 2023, PST, BC

Tremors



Power shifts from points
Capital demands profit
We are just puppets
Nature revolts through tremors
Towering greeds - shatter down

20.01.16


Form: Tanka

Premium Member Crazzzzzy

Curious George to be reforged
Fuzzy Muppet puppets must shut up
Dr. Seuss will now be shuuushed
Holy Wow! And Holy Wee!! 
Our country has done gone crazzzzzy!!

Sock Puppets

"sock puppets"


trying to wiggle
my imaginary toes
there's nothing below

my waist 
everybody 
knows i am 

playing a piano 
song sung
by Tom

Waits

Premium Member 2026 Word-Toy Soldiers

Word of the Year 2026 Poetry Contest
Sotto Poet

ICE Agents,
poised as Trump's puppets,
take the stage,
like mad dogs,
marking their territory
without lawful cause.
Form: Shadorma

Predestination

I do not need Miss Doris Day
telling me 'what will be, will be'.
Yet if what she says is quite true, 
what does it make of me and you,
mere puppets just passing through?

Premium Member ---Midnight Horizon

midnight horizon 
trees move like finger puppets
stars pinwheel golden
death looms in homey shadows 
like worms writhing in a tomb 



*Van Gogh Starry, Starry Night
Form: Ekphrasis

A Puppets Pet

Here's a story you might not have heard
About a puppet that owns his own bird
This is quite the brain wrecker
Pinocchio has a woodpecker
To me that just seems too obsurd!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

We Dance Sickly 2k11

Hark! Loudly sounds th' ill-advised trumpets...  
Dance thou Addicts! Dance thou Alcoholics!  
'We Dance Sickly' as though helpless puppets;  
Do all addicts and alcoholics.
Form: Quatrain

Through Heavenly Cloud

angels
are
the
architects
that
dangle
the
soft white clouds
like 
marionettes
that
dangle
their
puppets upon a string
while
whispering still
through
the
heavenly clouds

Premium Member Hell-bent

   
	Hell-bent on achieving peace
            the puppet-master sets up 
                the guillotine

            Tremors in puppets’ voices
                ‘the secret’ leaked

Puppet Play

Night falls and morning calls 
Puppets gearing for a play 
By the sway of their master's fingers
For how would you expect a puppet to sleep and think? 

December 31, 2023, 3:13 AM, PST, SPC

Finger Puppets

children
         create jolly
       finger puppets
      from cardboard,

   chocolate smeared
        little hands
    make them sticky.

Jack Horne, 18th September for Nette’s Septolet the Puppet contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Do Puppets Fall?

Do puppets fall

        or can they stand,

on their two feet,

         without a hand,

to hold them high

         above their fear?

I think I can............

                    unhand me Dear.
Form: Couplet

Get a Premium Membership
Turn off ads, get more exposure for your poetry, and get more features with a Premium Membership.
Book: Diverse Voices: The Poetry of Human Rights and the Pursuit of Peace