Short Shelf Poems

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


Premium Member A Four Line Poemangels Stautes

Angels statues upon my shelf
Big ones,small and tiny ones
All these angels keep a watch
When I sleep through the night
Form: Verse


Thyself

know thyself
keep off the shelf
plot the essence of thy life
avoiding cracks of strife
then with thee shall walk an elf
Form: Limerick

Book Shelf

i have a stack
on my rack
am hook
on books
i read like no one
els kept this under youe
belt
theyer on my
BOOK SHELF
Form:

Premium Member Sometimes It Hurts

Some think that the word poetry
should be tossed upon the shelf,
and wedged between two angry bookends: 
'what' and 'ever'.
Form: Bio

Premium Member I Felt Like A Book

I felt like a book
very tired old and worn out
needing rest on shelf.
Form: Senryu


Heart

My heart was on a dusty shelf.
Broken, rotting, and dead.
You picked it up and revived me.
You brought me back from the dead.
Form: Lyric

The Thing You Seek

For the thing you seek,
Aou must take a peek,
At the shelf,
With a elf,
You better get going,
Or it's going to start snowing!
© Jacky Chan  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Cold Comfort

having a bad day... on the freezer shelf .... Häagen Dazs ice cream!!! Jan Allison 29th April 2016
Form: Senryu

Re-Inventing Yourself

The day I found out I could re-invent myself,
Was the day I came down off the shelf,
And became, more than just a one dimensional elf.

Premium Member Homeopathic Medicine

.
The 
One
Sure cure
Mother could
Produce from the shelf
Was that of castor oil
It made all complaints go away__disappear__vamoose
Form: Fibonacci

Premium Member Dusty Love

briefly concerned 

                                  original love novel

                                        dust heap on a shelf
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member If I Could Live Life Over

Once I felt sorry for others
    Now I feel sorry for myself

  Life hasn't time for such feelings
    ~ Best to leave them on the shelf
Form: Rhyme

Stupid Qpid Qtip

When Trump fell in love with himself
Melania was placed on top shelf
Though Trump is a cad
He felt really bad
And gave her a Valentine elf
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Wood Carved Elf

A wood carved elf
placed on a shelf,
his bones began to tingle.
He said to himself,
I'll jump off the shelf
to work for old Kris Kringle.
Form: Rhyme

What a Cheek

A grocery shelf in Soup Creek
Has been vacant throughout the week
With Pinkerton care
Now Vegemite's there
Tom's living on bubble & squeak?
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The True Highest Mountain On Earth

Mauna Kea is 44K, Mount Everest is 29K, Kea is measured from ground level, Everest is on a shelf level. Date: 08/31/2019
© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Loser

There once was a pudgy old elf 
he loaded the toys from the shelf
	filled the sleigh full 
	too heavy to pull
needed to lose half of himself
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Dreaming Book

while we're still dreaming a book is lift off the shelf out of our own past.
written: August 29, 2021
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Book Shelf

i love to read
the mind feed
its a deed
got room
make books your tune
let the gloon
so you can get a stand
lock in with belt
a
BOOK SHELF

I've Arrived

Feeling old is something else
Being old is out of self
Getting old is finding a shelf
Living old is pain itself
Dying old is righteous death
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member I need Help Here

Explain this that and the other to me
Also decipher what-not-shelf
Help me to understand why subpoena has an o in it
And why vacuum has two u’s.

Premium Member The Book Beyond the Shelf

the book beyond the shelf
- alludes us
- teases us
we seek its meaning
but its pages are blank

yellow with age
red with rage
without meaning

Grocery Poem Xvi

a young man reaches for green tea
	with lemon
but the shelf is empty and he sighs

it’s the tiny deaths in life
	that prepare you for the big one
© C.W. Bryan  Create an image from this poem.

Chocolate and Baby

Chocolate has a shelf life of 9 months,
Just like a baby to be born
Either is an adorable seed of corn
among the others
that grow on the life-cob

Premium Member Frozen Tears

Frozen ice shelf spans water Snow burnishes the ice-way Tears that once been sadly shed Now freeze in their place
Russell Sivey
Form: Dodoitsu

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