Short Southern Poems

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


Twin Auroras

Streamers of smooth light--
luminous phenomenon
hovers the northern
and southern magnetic poles--
mesmerizing Auroras
Form: Tanka


Draught In Southern Tamilnadu,India

dry water resources 
                        withered trees, crops 
                        farmer throws hands skywards
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Fireflies

Evening fireflies...
fleeting illumination...
an evocation
of a warm Southern spring night
with my partner, lover, friend
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member southern belles - edited

beauties
unruffled
on a steamy day
float in boats rowed by their beaus 
white silken hands folding their fans at sunset

Oak

What I miss at this old age
is sitting high like some tree sage,
in a stately southern oak
not thinking of being rich or broke.
© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Black Oak Tree In Stratford, New Jersey

In the South New Jersey town of Stratford grew a southern black oak tree. It’s now a lifeless stump.
Form: Kimo

Southern Livin'

Southern livin’s mighty fine,
On chickin’ you can daily dine.
So pull up a chair
Don’t go anywhere,
And don’t even begin to whine!
Form: Limerick

Southern Cross

A young kangaroo pickpocket
Got nabbed when she tried to hock it
But Joey saw
Sex in the raw
And damned if he did not cock it!
Form: Limerick

Southern Liquor

Tea kettle whistles;
As the life evaporates,
The brew soothes the soul.

In Loving Memory of Granny Pearl's Heavenly Homecoming
Form: Haiku

Springing Guise

Upward rise,
Daily highs.
Skyward eyes,
Season's ties.
Crowded skies,
Southern cries,
Northward flies.
Mated prize,
Winter dies.
Form: Monorhyme

Hanging On

I just wanted your attention
nothing more.
But you are busy 
chasing the north wind.

I am here
by the southern breeze, 
waiting.

Premium Member Sailing the Southern Stormy Seas-

Sailing... I must go now to the steep strange stunning cunning Southern stormy seas~


12/28/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr

Holiday Down Under

autumn time in may
    blue mountains and coral reefs
    southern hemisphere

    11 / 19 / 2021.
    Poetrysoup syllable counter.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Pie

Shoo
Shoo-fly
Shoofly Pie




Shoe-fly pie is a southern favorite, 
made with molasses and named for its
tendency to draw flies.
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Southern Dessert

Peaches, nothing fancy
          in a sweet fruit salad,
                    to drink, likely, iced tea.


written July 1, 2021
Form: Epulaeryu

Southern Comfort

Although there's no sign from above
That the two of us are in love
Before day is done
Our hearts beat as one
Because we both fit like a glove
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Easter 2020 In the South

a 5-7-5 (not sure if it could be called a senryu)


In some Southern states,
nature rivaled Corona.
We worshiped at home.


April 12, 2020
Form: Verse

Iridescence

Silver-blue magenta
shimmering warmly white
damson-dark at center
like southern summer night
clay might yet invent a
true visceral new light.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Southern Blue Swallowtail

Southern Butterfly
The Green dill gave him a thrilll 
Caterpillars born

Caterpillars gone
Dill eaten none remains now
Empty stems no chance
Form: Haiku

Great Southern Swweeeett Tea

oh so sweet
i wonder if they'll do magic to my feet
cus they sure do so to my tummy
and freeeze my thumb..y
hahaha crack me up with sweeetness
Form: Ballade

Premium Member A Southern Memory

A Southern Memory

dusty, winding road
cotton crops glowing bright white
Mississippi mud

Robert J. Lindley, 3-25-2019
Haiku, (Time has flown)
Form: Haiku

Bird On a Wire

bird on 
a wire
what makes
your heart
go higher or
is it 
what you
desire
that true passion
to be
absolutely
free
as 
the 
southern wind

Southern Skies

Southern Skies

Clouds burst a new rain.
The golden sunlight glitters.
Thus quenching drought’s pain.

©  Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
December 7, 2009
Form: Haiku

My, My, Mahalia!

In the town of Vidalia, GA,
Lived a girl named Mahalia, they say.
Then a strong southern breeze,
Blowing in from the seas,
Blew Vidalia Mahalia away.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member One Flaw

A vampire known as Silent Killer,
wanted to star in a thriller;
He had just one flaw,
that lisp in his southern draw; 
Film’s a talkie, what a bummer.
Form: Limerick

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