Short Television Poems

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


Televsion Freak

yes its my beat
it my treat
i love  it
i can sit
home or alone
or in rome
all shows i do seek
am a
TELEVISION FREAK


Premium Member Oven Fried Chicken

Grandma's chicken oven fried
every Saturday,
the aroma had power
to pull kids away
from television 
cartoon fun~
yum!
Form: Epulaeryu

Premium Member Tv

T.V. Haiku: by Tom December 15, 2020 Television is; ninety per cent commercials, ten percent other.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Aimless Couch Surfing

Lulled by the electronic funk
A willing participant
Hypnotized onlooker
In a hazed stupor
Television
Time eater
Droning
Rest
Form: Nonet

Premium Member The Summer I Turned Dumb

I hear there's a television show - 
"The Summer I Turned Pretty", and so,
I propose this little plum,
"The Summer I Turned Dumb".
Form: Epigram


Premium Member Luxuries

Green sequin lines leather seats
In a shining emerald limousine,
As a television screen streams
Sequences of the finest of suites.
Form: Quatrain

The 10 O'Clock News

The television,
tells me of too much bad news.
I'm afraid to watch,
for fear that my tears won't stop.
Devastation of this world.
Form: Tanka

The Curse

If I spend the same hours with Life
That I spend with television
There would be no weeds in my garden
And the vegetables would taste good
Form:

Premium Member Daylight Boogeymen

Awake before dawn
The night's Boogeymen retreat
Into daytime  rest.

Television news
Fearmongers quickly step in
To fill up the void
Form: Senryu

Prac Senryu

example

category
television
carriage


example

busk
rythem
fright
basket
stroll

example


landlord
clean
cockeral park
Form: Senryu

Debate Shows Channel Cancel

Does anyone know

Or can they tell me

Where the debate shows
are on television now

Is it the Cancel Channel 

Because I don't get it

Untitled #175 / the Voicebox of God, Pt. Ii

The voicebox of God still sits in the corner
and the opaque, blank, glassy Cyclops-eye
of the never-used television screen
still stares at me

Premium Member Tv

Yes, I watch TV,

                                      the dramas and comedies.

                                         Commercials bore me.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member War

WAR


Red
White
And blue
Bleeds purple
Generations lost
In shadowed television lips
Smiling behind masks of golden mountains screaming graves
war
Form: Fibonacci

Premium Member Easy Sunday Night

easy sunday night
with ed sullivan
~ old flannel pj's



Published in Haiku Canada Review vol.14 no.2, October 2020

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Best part of the week

Saturday morning cartoons for kids
Pow! Batman and Robin save the day
Heroes and villains at play



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Tele Vision

Interruption in Television 
To read as Tele Vision 
Far sight as to mean 
Telling of blindness 

Television to imply darkness 
Lack of vision or blindness T
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Day

Then one day she thought too hard,
and her television exploded into  tiny shards.
While sweeping the pieces from the floor,
the Mind Police knocked at her door.
Form: Verse

Enigma

Distant dogs
bark at rainclouds

Dead moons
collide with the living

A television blares
from a plastic
coffin

He watches distant dogs
hunt the sleeping

Premium Member Football is Religion

   Football's my neighborhood's religion
     its altar, the couch near the kitchen

   Worshiping the big-screen television
     every home in the subdivision
Form: Couplet

Listening To Television

Listening To Television

I will listen to my TV everyday,
To hear what they have to say;
Expound upon,
Until all gone;
On your mind my poem did play.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Tale-O-Vision

Tale-o-Vision: previously, television! 

I dial, turn on!
I smile!
Blame starts..
I turn off!

TV needs a new name:
Blame-o-Vision

Panagiota Romios
4/3/2019

Premium Member Even If the House Is Moving

rarely look out
vibrations don’t titillate
same bat time...same bat channel*

5/18/2020

From 1960’s television show “Batman.” This is the way they would advertise.
Form: Senryu

Thoughts Without Adjectives

Can’t see television because you occlude my vision
People could be compared to a door for that.
Certainly you are not the window type
To keep blocking me the way you do.
fun

Premium Member The Funny Side

The funny side of life is for everyone Open your mind, greet each day with a pun It's easy as pie Just give it a try Might wind up on television making tons
Form: Limerick

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