Short Thistle Poems

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


Since You Didn.T Like the First Pickle, Tickle Hears Another One

I found me self in a pickle
When I sat on a thistle
The pricks went in 
I started to scream
They lied, they said it would tickle
Form: Limerick


Premium Member God Never Promised You and I Eden -

God never promised you and I Eden –
Only thistles, but even a thistle
Will grow tall in shaft and be edible.
Was that not sufficient for Adam?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member growth of a thistle

purple thistle grows like a giraffe
dandelion not as tall, by half
weeds will grow eight foot in one night
easily crowding out a garden’s light
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Bit Magical

A song trickles from the thicket...
bouncing off the cowlicked grass.
It tilts its beak toward my whistle...
re-branding the day 
"Bull thistle magic".

Premium Member Memories of Summer

In fields chasing my youth.
Endless expanse of buttercups thistle and daisies.
The sun to my face.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other


Educated Br Reading Each Epistle

Educated Br Reading Each Epistle

Were educated reading each epistle;
Jesus was stuck with every thistle;
Crucified;
Died;
Wind would sound like a whistle.

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

Premium Member Not a Thistle

Everything in my yard can grow
Except a thistle
Because of their mean thorns

I put on gloves and eradicate them
I have stepped on these thorns
And I do not plan to again.

Premium Member yard will soon be camouflage for big cats

our yard is creeping with dandelions
clover and wild thistle growing too
soon it will be camouflage for full grown lions
black pumas, spotted leopards and king of the lions too
may
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Perfection

“Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow." 
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden


Red roses rambling over an old sandstone wall…perfect.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Thistle Gone

Dug up a thistle today
Planted a rose I hope will stay

Giving color and perfumed scent
Making life become a mint

Of happiness, joy, and beauty
To fill our life and make enjoying our duty
Form: Couplet

Waiting For____?

Desperate wisps of love,
  floating through the air.
Like thistle seeds,
  waiting to land.
 sowing a new meadow
 in the hearts of all
Hours upon years, 
 waiting for _____.( enter your love here)
Form:

Saving Grace

Upon his saving grace I bred,
Who bought my pains with the tears he shed;
In tears and torment of thorns and thistle
He wept and died in a cursed, cruel castle
Where he bought my pardon with his blood

Saving Grace

Upon his saving grace I bred,
Who bought my pains with the tears he shed;
In tears and torment of thorns and thistle
He wept and died in a cursed, cruel castle
Where he bought my pardon with his blood

Santa

As thin as a thistle Santa  in chimney  got stuck
In  the passage heavily blocked by years of  muck
struggling through the  soot
Santa fell down like a coot
And came out looking like a dark fancy duck.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Thistle

Thistle's when i'm prickly down
Upon your silky pappus.
Ither on over
Your showy
Purple flower head.
Onorpordum Acanthium
Is where i quencheth
On the pointed end
Of a prickspur
Not knowing the time.

Premium Member Mother

the Scottish thistle
strong , tenacious, beautiful
just like my mother




~~~~~~~~~
02/01/2020
this was written to be a tattoo. 
to compliment my thistle tattoo I 
had done when my mother passed away
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Penny Whistle

I’ve got a penny whistle
I made it out of tin
I wander through the thistle
And traipse across the glen
A tune for bonnie lassie
On this wee flute I built
Soon as I get untangled
From the briars in my kilt
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Looking Back

Things are not like they used to be
way back when.
We are not as young and spry as
we were then,
and the Golden Rod looks paler
than when
we blew thistle down, in the field
as children. 

© cghjr Sept 17 2012
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Poor Martha Anne Mcbanes

Here lies pretty Martha Anne McBanes She never sang verses, only refrains While attempting to whistle, Pricked her chin on a thistle And died of an infection in her brain.
written March 3, 2022
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member staring at my honeysuckle tree

honey loaf? honey thistle? honey suckle?
I stare at the renegade tree
She has exploded with tiny bright orbs
smaller than marbles, deadly, poisonous berries
this tree will be here many mountainous lifetimes after I am gone.

Premium Member Communion

Like the Oriole to the thistle, we are drawn together in harmony; a family gathering, gives birth it is in the sharing, that we are sustained.
1-13-2022 Bite Size Poem #32 Poetry Contest Line Gauthier

Premium Member Vacant Lot

.   
                 in a nettled field riddled with foxtail that pricks the sun
                     a Popsicle wrapper clings to a thistle in sweet surrender
                          remembering the yesterdays of bare feet and blue jeans
Form: Sijo

Thistle Seed

Sword flashing fire flows
leap lurch land on pipe led toes
Down hill slicing foes






The title comes from Scotland's flower
The picture is a young wild clansman
with a shiny wet sword
led by bagpipes like a wind blown thistle seed
Form: Haiku

Thistle

One tiny purple pom becoming
food for butterflies and thought 
stretches out her long lilac colored fingers to get her first  taste of the sun
she smiles as she blooms
The tiger swallowtail flutters excitedly around her, announcing her arrival

Premium Member Dandelion Wishes

Walk with me where wildflowers grow
among weeds and thistle in the meadow.
We'll share memories from years gone by.
Then, hold hands beneath a lavender sky,
and make a wish on dandelion wings of gold.
That's how they come true, so I've been told.
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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