Short Shrew Poems
Short Shrew Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Shrew by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Shrew by length and keyword.
Teaching
Taming the shrew
Before it erupts
Against society...
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Categories:
shrew, education, satire, society,
Form:
Triolet
The Cunning Shrew
The cunning shrew
Her bow drew -- Why?
Bull's eye! O, my!...
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Categories:
shrew, evil, hurt, woman,
Form:
Than-Bauk
Daffodil's Gold
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Daffodil's gold
You are a shrew...
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Categories:
shrew, funny, roses are red,
Form:
Rhyme
The Taming of the Shrew
Balderdash, that's what it is
Balderdash. For shrews are untamable
except in movies....
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Categories:
shrew, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Roar
roar of lioness
placated with tenderness
taming of the shrew
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Posted on April 2, 2025...
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Categories:
shrew, change,
Form:
Senryu
Bird Versus Mouse
bird
delicate petite
flying flitting flapping
cardinal wren rodent shrew
scattering scurrying shrieking
gray round
mouse...
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Categories:
shrew, animal,
Form:
Diamante
Silly Shrew
Tiny, insignificant little shrew
Spinning lies which you spew
The rubber walls are calling you
Marbles left, you have but few...
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Categories:
shrew, funny, people
Form:
Monorhyme
Deceptively Honest
bridled or footloose
priests, politicians, a shrew
keep a safe distance
~10/04/22
~Contest: Simply Senryu
~Sponsor: John lawless....
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Categories:
shrew, perspective, political,
Form:
Senryu
Shrew
pettifogging shrew
mad landlady glares at you
your rent overdue...
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Categories:
shrew, people, places, social,
Form:
Senryu
Married to a Shrew
He crawled out of the doghouse looking sad
His new wife was mean, big and bad
I had been warned, he said, by my dad
He had also married a shrew, big and bad...
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Categories:
shrew, humor,
Form:
Monorhyme
Sheared
Sheepherder Larson married a shrew
which was an ignorant thing to do.
Seldom did he get his way
except that there came a day
he found a farmer needing a ewe....
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Categories:
shrew, recovery from,
Form:
Limerick
A Single Drop of Dew Captured In a Buttercup
A single drop of dew
caught in a buttercup
Provides a welcoming d
first drink of the day
to Ladybugs Dormouse
and busy shrew.
Peter Dome.copyright.2013. July....
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Categories:
shrew, animal, drink, flower, insect, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Man From Rangou
THE MAN FROM RANGOU
There once was a young man from Rangou
Whose wife was a horrible shrew
He beat on her head
Until she was dead
He now lives in Cell thirty-two...
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Categories:
shrew, anger, death,
Form:
Limerick
Wildlife 11
Wildlife 11
Timmy, a cute little shrew,
Wrote limericks smutty and blue,
His rhymes were not 'Chic'
But a bit 'tongue in cheek
That he sent to some poets he knew....
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Categories:
shrew, animal, funny,
Form:
Limerick
Catherine
Catherine, behave yourself!
Can't you be like Bianca?
Somebody straighten her out.
Where's Petruchio?
Based on the play "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare
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Categories:
shrew, literature, love,
Form:
Dodoitsu
Set Her Straight
Catherine is like a shrew.
What are we going to do?
Petruchio, set her straight
right now, before it's too late!
Based on the play "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare
...
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Categories:
shrew, literature, love,
Form:
Jueju
Communication
Talk talk talk
Said the stork
I can not hear you
Said the shrew
Oh shut up
Said the pup
Can you not see
Said the bee
Do you not feel
Said the eel
Bad communication
Leads to disorientation...
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Categories:
shrew, conflict, hurt, pain, perspective, relationship, wisdom, words,
Form:
Rhyme
The Haunted House
SHE SITS LIKE A WICKETY RICKETY SHREW
COBWEB ENCRUSTED - WAITING FOR YOU
RUSTED AND BUSTED WANTING TO CHEW,
COME ON IN, BUT DON'T SAY "BOO"
SHE'S HAUNTED, UNDAUNTED
UNWANTED, ITS TRUE......
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Categories:
shrew, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Old Woman Redux
There was an old woman:
a bit of a shrew -
She couldn’t have children,
'cuz guy parts won't do.
A shocking pink swath
up there on her head,
she drank boxed Chianti
and raised cats instead.
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Categories:
shrew, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
Write Me a Poem
A poem without a topic
That’s an easy thing to do
You’re a writer aren’t you - she said
As if to tame the shrew
The rhyming is just reflex
I’m nervous now you see
Maybe you’ll see through the words
Maybe, you’ll see me.
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Categories:
shrew, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Daisy Dormouse
Daisy Dormouse
My dearest Daisy Dormouse,
will you invite me in for tea?
I seek your hand in Marriage,
what will your answer be?
Dear Sir, my heart you flatter,
but I cannot marry you,
Mother say’s you’re a Rat
and betrothed to Chantelle Shrew....
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Categories:
shrew, animal, cute love, fun, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
William Wordsworth, Shakespeare
William Wordsworth
England was the place of his birth
He got inspired and became quite thrilled
When he saw a host of golden Daffodils
William Shakespeare
Had great poetic flair
He wrote several plays too
Like Macbeth, King Lear, And The Taming of the Shrew...
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Categories:
shrew, people, daffodils,
Form:
Clerihew
Debt of Narcissus
now behold, self-loving self-beholder
your self-seen self perfection
cracked mirror's reflection
but outside screams a pettifogging shrew
mad landlady curses you
your rent long overdue!...
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Categories:
shrew, funny, life, people,
Form:
Rhyme
An Odd Couple
A dashing, young field mouse
Once married a shrew,
And they set up housekeeping
In an old tennis shoe.
When their babies were born--
Not shrews and not mice--
They were the proud parents
Of a shoe full of shrice....
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Categories:
shrew, animals, children, funny,
Form:
I do not know?
Categories:
shrew, animal, conflict, extended metaphor, flower, husband, wife,
Form:
Tanka