Short Shiftless Poems
Short Shiftless Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Shiftless by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Shiftless by length and keyword.
Toll Tell Tale
“toll tell tale”
you’re
the dead
ringer
i the shiftless
nightshift
dweller
listlessly
listening
for thee...
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Categories:
shiftless, color,
Form:
Free verse
Gone Fishing
shiftless louies constant wish
for a new satellite dish
made his wife stammer
in her best grammar
come home once you caught a fish.
...
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Categories:
shiftless, anxiety, cheer up, fishing, fun, giggle, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Swept Away
Households unhitch so readily.
We watch incredulous as they float off,
hulls creaking,
rafters cracking like wind-lashed rigging.
Where we once believed roots gripped bedrock
now shiftless boards bob in the swell.
Domesticity tumbles out.
Bed springs gape,
a chest-of-drawers turns, inside out.
The everyday innards of a dwelling, face up,
barely floating:
a sure sign of those about to drown....
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Categories:
shiftless, poetry,
Form:
Free verse