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Short Skeletons Poems

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


~haiku #9 ~
In white coats
skeletons look warm
without leaves...

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Categories: skeletons, nature
Form: Haiku



Transition
rusty skeletons
frigid granite sky 

the fifth season
...

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Categories: skeletons, change, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Skeletal Halloween
Scary Halloween:
Skeletons burst out closets
with ugly secrets...

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Categories: skeletons, angst, mystery
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Listen up
It's all or nothing 
no skeletons in closets 
to stop our romance...

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Categories: skeletons, love,
Form: Senryu
What's In Your Closet?
Skeletons with skin
Carcasses with hair and nails
Not fully decayed...

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Categories: skeletons, angst, confusion, death, depression, introspection, life, people,
Form: Senryu



Holocaust Haiku One
Skeletons walk free. 
Their minds once dead, resurrect, 
Remembering...

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Categories: skeletons, holocaust,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Horizontal View
Stripped bare,
skeletons 
of Summer gone-
silhouettes in open
copses...

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Categories: skeletons, seasons
Form: Cinqku
Premium Member The Clearing
Stripped bare,
skeletons 
of Summer gone-
silhouettes in open
copses...

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Categories: skeletons, winter,
Form: Cinqku
Holiday
Fall leaves, Winter sky
Skeletons for all to see
Mirth conjoins spirits...

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Categories: skeletons, holiday,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member centennial change
morals corroded 
humans live like skeletons ---
phantoms play ballets
...

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Categories: skeletons, evil, life,
Form: Haiku
Finding Skeletons In Your Closet
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Black road of death
Finding skeletons 
In your closet...

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Categories: skeletons, imagination
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haiku 24
driftwood beached
in helpless tumbling water...
skeletons legacy

4/17/13...

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Categories: skeletons, ocean,
Form: Haiku
Skeletons
Free 
or not free
long haunting skeletons 
trying to escape imprisonment 
for freedom...

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Categories: skeletons, angst, depression, imagination, introspection, life,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Fern
A fountain of fronds gushes like fish skeletons in their jade mischief
...

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Categories: skeletons, garden, nature,
Form: Haiku
Epigram
Obituary - Paleontologist George Harris 

His death revealed many skeletons in the cupboard...

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Categories: skeletons, death, humor,
Form: Epigram
Bell
bricks suckle might crime road show
hotel room play skeletons
post man wage drink car lot bell tot...

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Categories: skeletons, write, writing,
Form: Senryu
Skeletons
We all have skeletons
Burried in our closets.
Hidden amongst the dusty baggage.
Remnants of past demons...

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Categories: skeletons, introspection
Form: Free verse
Captcha Haiku
piranha fish swim
up and down the swimming pool - -
skeletons in shorts

written 16th September for Harry's captcha contest...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skeletons, animal,
Form: Haiku
Skeletons
Behind everyone lies a story
To those unwilling to unveil,
To the heart of the free
Bones buried in the closet labeled, past...

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Categories: skeletons, identity, image, imagery, life, loss, lost, men,
Form: Free verse
The Forgotten Keys
One day I cleaned a
bulging and over stuffed top drawer
found three keys hidden
in a yellowed envelope 
marked in red ink skeletons...

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Categories: skeletons, mystery,
Form: Tanka
I Have Brought My Flesh To Sell
I’ve brought my flesh to sell
Where are you, butcher?
pick as much as you like
but leave skeletons for me
grandchildren will use them...

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Categories: skeletons, satire, trust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My True Composite
   Do you have skeletons in your closet
      I have a few in mine

   They jingle and jangle ~ remind me
      of my true composite...

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Categories: skeletons, identity, me,
Form: Rhyme
Weak But Wise
Weak but wise
Sleep in the tombs
Skeletons of ancient
Serene men of virtue
Brutally taken away
By strong but foolish
Beasts of closed minds...

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Categories: skeletons, metaphor, power,
Form: Free verse
Palaeontologist's Obituary
Let's make no bones about it ~
He left many skeletons in the closet!

15.02.2022

Bite Size poem no.36 Poetry Contest
sponsor -Line Gauthier...

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Categories: skeletons, humor,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Skeletons Hanging
Skeletons hanging From an old, decrepit tree A shady worn place A scary place for people For fear is running rampant
Russell Sivey...

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Categories: skeletons, holiday, life,
Form: Tanka

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