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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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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: upstairs, fun, nonsense, silly, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things