Short Traffic Poems

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


Soul On Traffic To Hell

Soul on traffic to hell
do you know how it feels?

Try out once before answering
but will you come back to tell story?
Form: Couplet


Premium Member Underneath the El

Underneath the El
traffic madly dashes on
pizza shops, barbers

hustle here and bustle there
adrenaline keeps flowing
Form: Tanka

Floor Mirrors

Floor Mirrors

The way free standing floor mirrors use colour is 
very close to
the way traffic lights use 
colour.

Senryu Rolling Down the Road

now that it`s legal...
                                      zig zagging
                                      in traffic
Form: Senryu

Black Friday

black Friday
so long have detested you
traffic and shoppers
fighting over a cheap purse. . .
lost car in the parking lot
car
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Angel Sun

Ebony tent covers traffic
Glory of God 
Calls forth a gasp
Angel Sun
Peeks over horizon
Announces beauty
White pinkness
sun
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Watercolours

as rain extinguished embers
of the long day's city heat
blurred traffic light reflections 
painted puddles on the street.
Form: Quatrain

More Oil To Supply

On halt 
All traffic movements 
All over this planet

Demand for oil say no
To supply more and more

Oil prices slashed!

Winternight Lane


chilliness glistens
under traffic citylamps
an abandoned road
time slowly travels little
mist chasing away the ghosts
© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Selfie

SELFIE

cockatoo upside-
down-under.
checks out
camera, outback
jiggles traffic cam.
handsome tuft
hangs on.

6/2/2018

The World

The roaring of the seas
The tumult of traffic
The rumbling of the wind
The curses of the crows
eternal damnation is its thing

Premium Member blizzard anticipation

blizzard on the brink
everyone is stocking up
weather sequestered

anticipation
eight to ten inches of snow
unmoving traffic
Form: Senryu

Where Were We

Crushed can. Blank face. On a Campus bus in traffic. Hold on; Just for a moment.
(? after title.)

A Bad Wreck

A Bad Wreck

Traffic jammed the life flight flying to it—


© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 14, 2010

Poetic form: Monoku
Form: Monoku

Traffic Three

a future with driverless cars
soul phones without any bars
tight traffic patterns
sanitized slatterns
poetry different from ares
Form: Limerick

Road Rage

We know all roads lead to Rome
So you drive a posh Motor Home
For goodness sake
Elate your mate
And lose that damn garden gnome!
Form: Limerick

Midnight Road

Thoughts honking at me,
We're trapped in a traffic jam
Eager to reach home,
I let them pass me by on
The midnight road to nowhere
Form: Tanka

Traffic

we travel for hours and hours
flogging our fossil-fueled powers
when we get there
we are nowhere
as our taste for the present sours
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Interstate Highway

commuting fast highway teeming with traffic morning and evening jams exasperating
Written July 28, 2022
Form: Cinquain

Premium Member Metamucil

Metamucil can be deadly Can cause a bathroom medley Reaching High “C” Ships sink at sea Sound causes traffic jams in NYC
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Traffic Light

Sometimes he's like a traffic light:
Red, stopping me in my track,
Yellow, 'cause he always has my back,
Green, 'cause he knows my plight.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Take Off

The engines roared into life
And the plane,as it soared skywards
Smiled down at the traffic below,
confined to the ground.
Unable to fly.

Goosey

A gaggle of geese in the Bronx
Were confused by competing honks
With traffic so slow
There's not much on show
'cept gander at the honky tonks
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Duck Crossing

traffic stopped, but why?
no stop sign; no traffic light.
a duck family.

081520PSCtest, Nature Themed 2, 
Tania Kitchin. 5 7 5 Syllable scheme
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Monday

Monday
mocks melancholy
chides children
plagues parents
traumatizes traffic
meanders meaninglessly
toward Tuesday

John G. Lawless
9/28/2020

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