Short Scissors Poems

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


New Computer

new computer
wrestling with tape
and yards of bubble wrap 
make me sure to trust spirit
will have scissors to unwrap me
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Joan Rivers

Joan Rivers -
Her face saw many surgical scissors,
yet a routine endoscopy ended her life
and she hadn’t even gone under the knife.
Form: Clerihew

Scissors

We are like a pair 
of scissors: alone - useless 
blades of solitude,  
but together - Atropos' 
shears cutting the thread of fate.
© Diana Bosa  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member MIXED MEDIA miss

Delany's scissors were like a brush
bringing the art lteratti to a hush
Her paper Pancratium* daffodil
with Matisse-like cut-out** skill
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member CUT OUT by Matisse




scissors of
    osmosis mode
maquettes
   & abstracts
shapes
    stark
sensation
    collage
to imitate
&
never
    fade
Form: Bio


"cut Ties"

The scissors have cut

                      memories not forgotten

                                                  only tucked away...
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Clerihew Matisse Cut Outs

Drawing with scissors was no great change
in reality it increased Matisse colourful range
Creating in form,so unique
bringing is art to its peak
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Six kids early September afternoon

Eve of first school day.
Mom sets up al fresco.
A bowl, scissors and a broom.
Kids in a queue get their haircut.



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Little Liars

Put pen to paper
Scissors to hair
I'll change my name
Get lost somewhere
I'll take my pride
And take my guilt
Look around 
At the lie we've built
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Rock Paper Scissors

Change the game 
Make it hip
A rock
A paper 
A chip

A paper covers a rock
A chip replaces paper
A rock smashes a chip
Into trillions 
Of meaningless bits

Snip

The scissors go snip
While the blood just drips
The tears drip drop
While the heels clip-clop
The mind races
While looking at their disappointed faces
© Ava Thomas  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Who are you trying to impress?

You'll want to cover yourself.
I've got circumcision scissors in my pocket.
I'm liable to use them.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Form: Other

Consumer Convenience

" Cut from here" are the words printed on the chips packet
with image of the scissors but irony is that 
one is carry the scissors if thinks of having the stuff
Form: Ballad

Envy

Flowering empathy
...Blooms
Run my beautiful one, 
Run!
Have you not heard?
(Jealousy raped Vanity)
Their child
That child Envy!
She searches for you
…With scissors

Premium Member Philosophical Questions

Is a barber or scissors the snipper?
A shoeless man, or sock, the slipper?
Why was mom, not a housewife, but a stripper?
You may as well ask a dolphin - Flipper?
Form: Rhyme

Snip, Snip, Clip, Clip

Sound scissors make,
each time they are 
opened and closed…

Snipping out and ad 
or clipping the hair…

Snip, snip, clip, clip…

By Sandra Lea Hoban
©2007
Form: Rhyme

Rock - Paper - Scissors

With scissors, some paper and rock,
He tried hard to make a new clock.
But his efforts all failed,
And, frustrated, he wailed,
‘It ticks but I can’t make it tock.’
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Rock-Paper-Scissors

"Rock, Paper, Scissors" played with my brother
We'd usually fight, then here came mother
I'll thump your head!
Now off to bed!
While our giggles we'd try to smother
Form: Limerick

Rock Paper Scissors

Would you like to challenge your mind
Easily and without far to climb.
Place your palm out open wide 
In your mind try and decide
Show me cutting, hard or thin hide.
Form: Limerick

Rock Paper Scissors

Flatten my hand to claim Paper
Rock is her choice so I beat her
But Scissors will conquer 
I'll change my gesture
To make sure I'm always the winner


12 June 2011
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Rock, Paper and Scissors

The scissors are beaten by the rock
Man made steel has been left in shock
Now the rock has been beat
By a flimsy light sheet
The winning paper is where our words talk
Form: Limerick

Hand Jive

Prepped to become political fixtures
mirror practice would reflect their picture
elite hand jive
making signs
first one taught was rock paper scissors.



9-30-17
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Mad Barber

There once was a mad barber named Max
Instead of scissors, he wielded an axe
   He chopped off your hair
   And shaved your head bare
Then he rubbed on depilatory wax
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Rocks-Papers-Scissors

The rock, paper and scissors game
at first glance may seem very tame,
but if you are the loser
and he's an abuser
your wrists may be set quite aflame.

For pd.s contest
Form: Limerick

Rock Paper Scissors

How badly you want a ride on my bike
How many times I've said "go take a hike"
To settle this dispute
Rock-paper-scissors...SHOOT!
My scissors crashes as your rock does strike
Form: Limerick

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