Short Spouse Poems

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


Premium Member Jughead

his drinking obscene
geezer guzzles a gallon —
impure milk cures spouse

7/5/2018



Mick Talbot’s Senryu Contest
Form: Senryu


Premium Member Clerihew Schumann

Composers Schumann husband&spouse
music filled their marital house
Clara an infant prodigy
Robert with musical urgency
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Love and Humor

Nobody's spouse is perfect. Marriage always has conflicts. You need a sense of humor To remain in love.
Form: Dodoitsu

Premium Member My Quote For Posterity

Neither spouse should ever forget -
             In marriage, the courting never ends

~Paula Swanson



Placement:  9th

Premium Member Mickey's Spouse

Didn't Mickey Mouse
Care for his spouse?
  If he didn't
  'Tweren't his fault
    ~ 'Twas Mr. Disney
        was the louse!
Form: Clerihew


Premium Member Unpretensious

President Harry Truman,
Told his Bess she wasn't human,
When she, his beloved spouse,
Wouldn't move with him into White House.
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member This Old Post Card Made Me Happy

The Easter Butt, the Easter Butt
Put Away Your Booze and Smut
Kiss your Spouse and Hug your Mutt
And Motorboat the Easter Butt.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Clerihew Pryde

Nicholson 's spouse Mabel Pryde
too young with Spaish flu,she died
Yet like him a portraitist 
as wife & mother she did persist
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Dawn Vs Dark

DAWN
Light refreshing
Welcoming beginning wanting
Lovers spouse ex's enemies
Uninviting hurting ending
Deceitful hateful
DARK
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Odd Couple

“Your spouse?” “ Big louse!” ,,,,,,, 7/8/2015 by nette onclaud Contest:Judy Konos' One Footle
Form: Footle

Pew Poop

The widow of Codswallop House
Was observed not wearing a blouse
It seems our vicar
Succumbed to liquor
And pretended to be her spouse
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The Reviling

Loves control through Fear
Variant spouse-righteous blame
flat liner heart waves
thirty and four-lorn strangers
where does the time go
Form: Tanka

Whirlwind Romance

A woman is like a hurricane
Whether your partner or your spouse
When she comes she’s hot and wet
When she leaves she takes half the house
Form:

Premium Member Surprise Gift

a lovely soft fur coat . . . when my spouse  first pleased me with a surprise gift

jan. 2, 2023
for JCB Brul's The Best Gift Poetry Contest
Form: Monoku

Rented Beds

In piss-stained linens
and rented beds 
they lay.

Grasping straws 
of forgotten places
in time.

Begging the touch
of a spouse
long dead.
Form:

Penguin

Penguin sat on ice thinking
the young ones captured
spouse perished in heat
hot weather was biting
instead of singing
she wept till she too went

Serendipity

A girl with a mouse in her blouse
Ran half-naked into our house
She did not lose face
Nor suffer disgrace
Just lost the mouse and found a spouse!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Mere Words

The cries of a mother in labor
   And those of her new-born babe
The tears of a spouse, grieving other
   Transcending language, one after another
Form: Rhyme

Goldilock's Walk

Goldilocks walks inside a house
It was the home of a giant mouse
There was no hot porridge
But there was a forage
Who tries to make her his spouse
© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member He Turns a Deaf Ear

wife’s loquacity spouse turns his hearing aid off silence is golden Senryu Contest Sponsored by Mick Talbot 7/6/18
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Two Is Better In Empty Nest

tree rather   e  m  p  t  y
ornaments hung by my spouse
feels now like Christmas
      motivation was waning
long season of empty nest

12/4/2020
Form: Tanka

Premium Member even worse than delirium tremens

Who claims an IQ doctorial? 
Melania’s spouse who's scansorial
This second act ape
Will all of us rape
As the new D.T.Dick Tatorial
Form: Limerick

The Elephant and the Mouse

The elephant told the mouse
'I am sick of your grouse'
The mouse wagged its tail
Brought a bunch of cat's mail
'Look! all's written to your spouse'.
fun
Form: Limerick

Home On the Range

The wife kicked me out of my house
Saying I'm no longer her spouse
Its all for the best
Now I'm with the rest
Who can put both hands down her blouse!
Form: Limerick

Spouse Without Summer

In the kitchen, she is spring.
In sleep, she is deep winter,
In best mood she is autumn.
Hey, a spouse with no summer!
She puzzles me daily; no heyday

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