Short Shoveling Poems

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


Worms In Dirt ~ (Haikus)

Dirty worms squirming
Excavating with instinct
Wiggle brown wormy ~

Shoveling thick dirt
Accidently cut a worm
It wiggles in pain
© Jane Bowen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku


Coal

Coal dirty, grimy shoveling, glowing, burning smoke, soot, heat, pressure hardening, shining, dazzling brilliant, beautiful Diamond
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Kids First Jobs

On a wintry day 
The snow fell several hours 
Shoveling wasn't easy
 
I stayed toasty warm 
I paid two kids to shovel 
And... I gave them hot cocoa!
Form: Sedoka

Summer Winter

Summer Hot, vibrant Scorching, sweating, illuminating Shorts, sunglasses, snowman, sweaters Shivering, shoveling, darkening Cold, white Winter
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Snow Shoveling

Dad and son emitted a healthy glow
while shoveling the walkway clear of snow,
but one look at the sky
made them both start to cry:
"There's more of the white stuff?! Oh, no!"
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick


Premium Member A Glimpse

a glimpse before shoveling
newly fallen snow crystals
dazzling sparkling magic
in the glare of back-alley lights 

almost enough to make him
fall in love again
with snow
almost
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Chicago Blue

My one and only Uncle Leonardo
Who moved few years ago to Chicago
Came home again last week
He said, he was homesick
But then, he just got tired of shoveling snow.





July 16, 2019
© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Snow

Surprise! six inches fell
Silently through the night,
Secretly, unforeseen.
School cancelled, sleds are launched
Salt brine is useless now.
Stay home, no shoveling,
Sunshine will seize the day.
Form: Pleiades

Premium Member Dear Mo Is Responsible

The only thing I like about winter is spring Spoken like a Canadian, winter puts our head in a sling Shoveling snow Frozen ears and nose Dear Mo was my inspiration for this silly thing
Form: Limerick

Premium Member I Dig My Puppy and He Digs In My Yard-

I DIG MY PUPPY AND HE DIGS IN MY YARD-
I dig my puppy
He is so big and funny.
He has running legs
And many joyful diggings
He barks I feel like shoveling 


8/9/20
written word by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020 ©
Form: Tanka

Steam Locomotove

Black, white and gray smoke trail a mile long, working all the way
                The fireman shoveling more coal, heading for the next water stop
                 Across the country, "The Iron Horse", goes down the rails
© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Two Lenses

As a child I loved to ride 'Thunderbolt" into the wind 
living then rural, Thunder was my best and only friend 

but now that I have grown so much older, more wise, mature 
I no longer desire shoveling barns, filled with manure!
© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Snowflake

SnowFlake
                                      Unique, Frozen
                                Falling, drifting, Shoveling
                              Catching one on your tongue
                                            CRYSTAL
Form: Cinquain

Loco Motive

be my engineer
heat me to
boiling

open my mouth
stoke my fire
shoveling

words in
but save
one

chunk of
coal that
was

heated
but now
has cooled

and as is time
for all time
this will be

ours as coal 
becomes a
diamond
Form:

Miracle Negate

My miracle was helping all
when forced to help my neighbor
The thought of shoveling all his snow
brought visitors he favored

So now I say he's in the light
for all who say he's great
And I can say I've helped them all
despite what I'm negate
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Cute Christmas Couplet

Chased down, Santa’s sled leaves skid marks on the ledge of North Pole.
Sacks in hand, green elves turn Christmas red - punishment shoveling coal.


12/18/2018
Cute Christmas Couplet Poetry Contest/Andrea Dietrich

*Green - New employees
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Oops

i am strange the fly in the sky
to greet you every morning
with bonjour hello sayonara
 
a trip to the bodega for a banana
to eat with blueberry and a look at the sky
children waiting  for the bus to nowhere

adios you kidding me the wonder of a pass
the future of me shoveling the snow
not a wonder the grand ma
Form: Bio

Yinder Yangsun

laughing the background shoveling into the depth of my mind
drawing a blank but insistent I never forfeit to submission iron the idol tactic is weakness I allow it the visits there are many I am alone and I dare to compete
listen only to my 3rd person when sized up in seconds the army lone side of my villa put the napalm to the childrens feet

Premium Member Stages of Boredom

BORING INTO OBLIVION

rump gripping leather seat ~ brainwaves depleted

FRIGHTENED BY BOREDOM

tablet blackout - afraid of the dark

BOREDOM RELIEF

neighborhood powers down - shoveling snow - old school manipulation

DEADLY BOREDOM

fingers chattering      chilling text      —   rigor mortis

1/23/2018
Form: Monoku

sugarcoat

chunks of dirt mingle with the bread.
cinnamon wafting in the wind.
a house of sugary bliss,
a promising deal of sweet paradise.

shoveling savories like a last meal--
bellies rising like dough,

suddenly shoved into a scalding scene.
outsides on fire,
insides igniting--
charred little children, 
burnt sugar lingering on their tongues.
© Ziya Momin  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Shoveling Snow

Here comes the county snow plow down the street,

     He will clear the street of snow and that's neat!

         I'd scooped snow, how I did strive,

            To move heaped snow from my drive!

               He just grinned dumping more snow at my feet!

Entry for Charles Messina's "Same Word Winter Limerick" Contest
(6 January 2019)
Form: Limerick

Eyes of Reality

Eyes of confidence
Naïve and hardened	
Advancing on the battlefield

Eyes of anguish
Discovering the horror
Spent upon the blood of war

Eyes of hope
Peace in reprieve
Hold fast to victory’s color

Eyes of benevolence
Engulfed within anguish
Rueful to the melee’s victims

Eyes of regret
A human understanding
Shoveling over another grave

Premium Member An Aching For the Cosmos

“An Aching for the Cosmos”
I’ve fount fault
With finding fault
For days and days uncounted
Washed away his beach of wonder
After an introspections over 
What world has wonder brought?
To sinking ship and shoveling sun
All dreams are broken pieces
Fallen apart for shame and speechless
When will this earth then dead fall?
Turn round from life withdraw
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member In Need of Clones

None so weary as the hard-working man
Moving as much dirt as he possibly can,

His wife does her share of shoveling, too
They’ve bit off more than they can chew,

Both need some rest from the daily grind
But it seems reliable help is hard to find,

They work their fingers bare to the bone
Too bad they each do not have a clone.

Written June 23, 2022
Form: Couplet

Cold Winds Blowing

Cold winds blowing the white snow flakes.
People out shoveling after the many inches
that has just fallen, children sledding, building
tall snow men with button eyes, carrot noses
coal for the big smile and the hat and arms.
Cars spinning in the deep snow drifts some
getting stuck but it is still a beautiful site to
watch the snow fall from the gray sky above.

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