Short Upstairs Poems
Short Upstairs Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Upstairs by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Upstairs by length and keyword.
Perpetual Winner In Elections
juggle downstairs
intimidate middle stairs
befriend upstairs...
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Categories:
upstairs, political, satire,
Form:
Triolet
Morning Surprise
The culprit asleep
Upstairs. I go cross-eyed.
Lego in my shoe....
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Categories:
upstairs, child, funny,
Form:
Haiku
Star Shines
The star shines bright
Upstairs where no one goes
So no one gets it...
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Categories:
upstairs,
Form:
Haiku
Marriage
Many years married.
One upstairs the other down-
He comes up for meals....
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Categories:
upstairs, love
Form:
Haiku
Streetlight Through An Upstairs Apartment Window Haiku
my streetlight darkness
with cold beverage in hand
and my mind's eyes closed...
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Categories:
upstairs, how i feel,
Form:
Haiku
Late Night
Late night,
Streets are silent
Upstairs, my husband snores
In the light of my computer,
I write...
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Categories:
upstairs, computer-internet, life, on writing and words,
Form:
Cinquain
The Very Old Lady Upstairs
The very old lady upstairs
Keeps dropping things on the old wooden floor
I keep waiting for the big old thud...
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Categories:
upstairs, age, deep, funny, humorous, life, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Shuttlecocks
Shuttlecocks
I’ve changed all the bathing schedules for
shuttlecocks in
boxes in
the upstairs spare room.
...
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Categories:
upstairs, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Winter Gravestone
winter gravestone
dash between dates
father's life
the upstairs transmitter
where you rocked the world with code*...
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Categories:
upstairs, abuse, death, father, winter,
Form:
Tanka
It Happened One Rainy Night Continued
Just a maid & just sixteen
a serving girl a go-between
upstairs and downstairs her scene
was true love to intervene?...
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Categories:
upstairs, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Susan Showering
Susan Showering
Brilliant
May morning.
Upstairs
Susan
showering,
singing
as the children
waken.
Donal Mahoney...
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Categories:
upstairs, wife
Form:
Free verse
All Of Us
a tomb
you say
domed
and grand
and cherubin
temerity
a mass grave
of all of us
but
who still
creeps around
upstairs
...
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Categories:
upstairs, dark, death, fear, horror, humanity, mystery, scary,
Form:
Free verse
The Man Upstairs
'Pon thy throne
He sits in wait
"Son"
He says
"In time, he finds his way"
Then smiles as He clears the path
that leads back home...
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Categories:
upstairs, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Face Towels
Face Towels
I won’t anymore check on
the German and Japanese face towels in the
upstairs linen cupboard for
they’re pro-recycle toothpaste cap.
...
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Categories:
upstairs, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Please Hide Me
Please Hide Me
Please hide me under the blanket,
There’s somebody coming upstairs.
I’ve taken off my night shirt,
and don’t want to be caught unawares....
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Categories:
upstairs, fun, nonsense, silly, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
April Snow
April snow still batters my soul
Someone upstairs is asleep at the controls
A negative tone
One person alone
Still wreaking havoc on us a-holes...
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Categories:
upstairs, betrayal,
Form:
Limerick
Ghosts Populating the Attic
Achtung! Ghosts populating the attic
Electricity fills air with static
Normally buy a new house
And worry about a mouse
But footsteps upstairs are so emphatic...
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Categories:
upstairs, halloween,
Form:
Limerick
Bats Everywhere
Bats are in my house
They are in my head as well
They’re looking for food
They flutter around upstairs
Catching the leery stray bugs
Russell Sivey...
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Categories:
upstairs, holiday, life,
Form:
Tanka
The Abandoned House [for S.R. 1988]
green and white
he asked
why was it covering the peeling ochre walls
and the moldering door
she said
it was different then
an artist used to live
upstairs...
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Categories:
upstairs, adventure
Form:
Elegy
Round Trip Ticket
The union shop decided to picket.
The union rep got a round trip ticket.
To meet with those upstairs.
And voice the workers cares.
Butt in the end, they told him to stick it....
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Categories:
upstairs, assonance,
Form:
Limerick
What I Do For Fun
Sometimes for fun I take walks out in public in my underwear,
because as long as I keep smiling nobody seems to care.
They just assume that I'm senile and not quite right upstairs....
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Categories:
upstairs, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
A Quandary
Which came first, the chicken or the egg
Brain's in a quandary, I'm on my last legs
The world is flat
And stuff like that
Think something upstairs has come unpegged...
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Categories:
upstairs, quinceanera,
Form:
Limerick
Who Gets What
Which granddaughter gets which ring and which watch?
To care at all would take it up a notch.
I’ll be upstairs, seeing what heaven brings.
No worry about these soulless material things....
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Categories:
upstairs, heaven, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
A Quandary
Which came first, the chicken or the egg
My brain's in a quandary, I'm on my last legs
The world is flat
And stuff like that
Think something upstairs has become unpegged...
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Categories:
upstairs, endurance,
Form:
Limerick
broken glass in the kitchen
Glass
Slivers
Broken chards
In the kitchen
We are all barefoot
Daddy’s eyes are not sharp
Baby wants to help of course
Big sister takes baby upstairs
Mama heads for the broom and dustpan
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Categories:
upstairs, family,
Form:
Nonet