Short Stumps Poems

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


Premium Member Who am I

the question
who am I
stumps our mind

no problem
just be still
shift to heart

pulse dual
disappears 
truth is known
Form: Other


Peril In the Wood

Red fire blazing in the wood;
just charred stumps where trees once stood.
The denizens must flee and run
because the deadly flames have won.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Spring Rains

spring rains soak open land, pines removed~stumps stand... silence of the woooooo
An owl that I have been hearing will no longer be heard..
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Tulip Tree

the tulip tree tosses petals
to the dying maple tree
tree-cutting men and chainsaw converse
leaving stumps ...of words
a twitching, gray squirrel cusses....

the tulip tree has lost its mate

The Calcium Thief

A badgering wife caused her husband such grief,
Each time she did he ground his teeth,
Over the years his teeth become
Nothing but stumps upon his gum,
His friends all called her, 'the calcium thief.'
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Unicorns Diet

Undaunted unicorn, the tamers dew leaf, Auspicious lovers tryst due utopia, Virtuous sojourn flung upon sublime wings, dew clump stumps couple... Date: 06/27/2019

Premium Member A Disruptive Epoch

A whole is normally the sum of all of its parts Cept in politics, stumps even us most clever bards All rules are out the window The world is in limbo We'll soon come to our senses and this era disregard
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Different World Beyond Our Back Gate

Summer was here at last
cricket,stumps and pads,
dusted off,leather on willow,
echoed across the green

No scorers or umpires,to dispute
adjudicate,challenge or replay,
honesty justice shout,if
caught,bowled or run out
Form: Quatrain

Artemis

she travels like a silver mirror
across the midnight sky
her lights play hid and seek
within the foggy forest pines
the rotten stumps do seem to swoon
as crickets present to her their tunes
and blackbirds worship as she passes
down behind the mountain grove

Woman Sues R.J. Reynolds Over Son's Tobacco-Related Death

it started

as fevered

bee sting

on tongue—

then lips

gone

like beaver-gnawed

tree stumps—

then the chin

till like

some ruined

Greek statue

you lay

still

awaiting

a new chance—

the planting

in warm earth

to grow again
© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.

Skyfall

Skyfall

Big massive piling machine hammers thumps huge steel 
iron girders into evil rancid ground. Tree spiralling behemoth rams 
dead tree stumps into bare earth to hold up falling cracked sky. 
Without them we’d be crushed dead. Empty heavy sky forces on me, us.

Premium Member Painted Shadows

brown and orange hues, branches painting shadows over the tree stumps with a boisterous wind a mesmerizing dance ensues birds tweeting away mating ritual displayed the first signs of fall accompanied by the sounds reflecting the changing times...
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Stumped

There was an old klump by the name of Trump
He lost the elections and was bowled at the stumps
Though the self opinionated never suffer self doubt
I don’t think he still has a clue of what he brought  
about 
Not wanting to concede the opinionated lump.

21.11.2020
Out on a Lim.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Bumblebees

I was a lad of seven

When attacked by bumblebees

Those little fellers bite me

Since I chose to run!


They were provoked I admit

By my Pappy pulling stumps

The moral is stand don't run

Else dear Vie you're stung


Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 3 in Linda-Marie's "Bite Me" Contest - April 2012
Form: Dodoitsu

Last Night I Dreamt

Last night I dreamt
Of mountain trees that ail
The needle rusted red
For beetle bark has ate

For global warming so
Causing the trees to dry
Rising in altitude though
There’s little room beyond

So pine beetles devour 
Create their home in trees
While slicing lives for hour 
Thus only stumps appear

Foreshadow mountain after years
All trees are gone and hill side bare
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member Bringing Down the House

Draft an Article a den of soul slackers No room for sanity humanity elected crackers Uncivil ones to fail the civic duty pledged Ride a rift split society - drive a wedge Trail Trump slumping stumps winded carpetbaggers Talking heads robbing hoods all cloak and daggers Riding herd wicked turn charging alibi Stuck off bicker batter were all gonna die
Form: Rhyme

Shredded Fingers

I shoved my fingers into a paper shredder to trim my nails.
But it shredded my fingers and it hurt like hell.
People stare because I have stumps instead of fingers.
I had to give up my career of being a country singer.
Listen to my advice so that my predicament isn't some thing you'll have to endure.
Don't be an idiotic moron like me, if you need your nails trimmed, get a manicure.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Slim Pickings

A waning moon hangs
under an obsidian sky
as I walk through a 
the dark scrub  forest
past stumps of giants
felled long ago.

The river‘s low 
few salmon in the pools
and none flounder
on the gravel banks. 
Eagles and ravens 
are not to be seen
though the signs say 
bears have been 
sighted.

Once this river sustained
an autumn feast but
now pickings
are pretty
slim.

Premium Member He Made Her Hair Curl

There once was fellow could really jump
But his arms were blown off, left with two stumps
   When with a new girl
   He made her hair curl
He would dive in there, knees first, for a hump

The girl said, "Please, dear, don't do that; it hurts!
And your bare knees are just covered with dirt"
   But the jumper's reply:
   "I'm a civilized guy
Not a stuffed-shirt or a mud-caked pervert!"
Form: Limerick

Enough

A leached amputee
living with stumps of flawless
dying.

Round and round, blindfolded
moving in circle, drawn by rhyming
bells.

Perhaps you need to suffer
with the drunken race of
snipers.

I am in the silent valley of
barefoot secrets where moon waits to
die.

The poppies will buy the bullets,
a gift to unending kiss of
grief.

Tell every vulture on the tree,
there is endless arrival of 
feasts.



SATISH VERMA
art
Form: ABC

The Bomb

.Boom! Boom! Boom!

Is the sound of the bombs,
Destructive echoes from metalic stumps.

It kills the young.
It kills the old.

With a ravaging sound,
That rises from the ground.

From the evil man's indurate heart,
That is always cold.

With unremorseful force,
It pierces our loved ones.

Leaving us with havoc,
Bloodshed and tears in our eyes.

This cruel incessant 
Reverberating sound,

Boom! Boom! Boom!
Form:

Winter Cadavers

If those buried beneath us
could rise today,
would they run to any patch of sunlight,
make snow angels, heap-up snowmen,
stick blackened bones into white bodies?
Would they fashion a bright face
from tooth stumps and icy eye-sockets?
Sadly I imagine that some,
(the frost-jelled and un-melting),
might return to crumbling factories
or defunct offices,
their briefcases or tool boxes
stuffed with snow
to labor over epitaphs.

Blurred

Blurred and broken lines.
The charred stumps of ancient pines.
Receiver of an ordinary life.
A directive of outbound strife.

Lost in a sea of shifting light.
The way forward or back is severely tight.
Crystalline formations of danger.
The battered muse is getting ever stranger.

Hope has ceased in circular motions.
Drowned and swept in infinite oceans.
You write because your mind is broken.
Out of power. Insert more tokens.
Form: Rhyme

Enough

A leached amputee
living with stumps of flawless
dying.

Round and round, blindfolded
moving in circle, drawn by rhyming
bells.

Perhaps you need to suffer
with the drunken race of
snipers.

I am in the silent valley of
barefoot secrets where moon waits to
die.

The poppies will buy the bullets,
a gift to unending kiss of
grief.

Tell every vulture on the tree,
there is endless arrival of 
feasts.



SATISH VERMA
art
Form:

Premium Member Wishing For the Other Side

Blinking to the waking dawn
Slowing peeling off the blackness 
Sighing as he merge 
With the familiar turf
Waking up his memory 
To this side of life
He grunts and growls
Stomping at the stumps 
Placed on his journey 
On this side of life
He grumbles as he trembles 
Wailing and craving 
Wishing for the other side 
Sealed in an internal struggle
As he wish the sea of fate
Would wash him over 
Far away from this side of life
Form: Narrative

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