Short Warsaw Poems

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


Premium Member Cerihew Belotto

Canaetto's nephew was Bernardo Belotto
Venice famiy problems made him go
He became painter in Warsaw
his single perspective was major flaw
Form: Clerihew


By Degree

If the first casualty of war
is truth

The next casualty of war
is peace

The third casualty of war
is life

Until the last casualty of war…
hope

(Warsaw: March, 2022)
Form: Rhyme

Killing My First Russian

Deep in the fountain
of life’s betrayal
My knife drank freely,
a last denial
With screams unanswered,
he tried to run
The first of many
—from Odessa’s son

(Warsaw: March, 2022)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Polish Limerick

There once was a dumb blonde from Warsaw
She was the dumbest I ever saw.
She was bound for Krakow
But wound up in Moscow
Holding a kielbasa in each paw.


Who says a limerick has to be Irish?
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Mapmaker, Mapmaker Me

Warsaw, Moscow
       cities in Indiana

     Pekin, Paris
       towns in Illinois

     All four northwest
       of the Iroquois...

     Don't ask me why I wrote this
       Ask me instead for a kiss


Premium Member Warsaw Poland written by Mrs Yolanda Joy Nicholsen

camped out behind
the baltic sea 
the making of me
washes up apon
blood soaked stones 
of cunning tides
behind the vacant 
graves apon our
burial ground 
silence abode
all movement
abroad
written Mrs. Yolanda Joy Nicholsen
sea
Form: Naat

Gallop Pole

A Pole Dancer in need of a pole
Believed Warsaw might help meet her goal
When her legs were split
She found some might fit
Just as long as they stayed in the hole


For Tania Kitchen's Bawdy Limerick Contest 29.V.19
Syllables Per Line:     9 9 5 5 9
Form: Limerick

But Not Forgotten

Locked behind the doors of my heart,
good wishes sleep unsaid
Whose key I’ve lost and yet to find
…this lonely empty bed
With dreams undreamt and vacant nights,
the hours linger on
All hopes and tidings unfulfilled 
—and feelings all but gone

(Warsaw: March, 2022)
Form: Rhyme

The Blackest Sea

Buried in the sand of ill regret,
a rifle washes free
Remembrance of a time when darkness coiled,
a snake of Russian greed
Its chambers empty, sights removed,
it could not, would not, fire
Perdition’s tide reclaiming fast
—its shame into the mire

(Warsaw: March, 2022)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member An Odd Couple

There once was a man from Warsaw
Whose appearance was terribly flawed
A contorted face
His body a disgrace
People looking at him would guffaw

The wife of the man from Warsaw
Was positively perfect as I recall
Pretty as can be
Built quite flawlessly
The oddest couple that you ever saw
© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

International Love

I snowed love
   In Moscow
I showed love
   In Warsaw

I kissed love
   In Paris
I romanced love
   In Rome

I showered love
   In London
I lived love
  In Sweden

I sited love 
   In Dubai
I tasted love
   In Mumbai

I burnt love
   In Jamaica 
I fell in love
   In Africa
Form: Rhyme

Warfare

meanness
cruel actions
human history
this being our legacy
before being submerged in our own heart-waste
what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibor, Buchenwald
Dachau, Belzec, Chelmno, Warsaw, Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen?
No more war.
war

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising / Der Warschauer Ghettoaufstand

Innocent people forced
Into an inhumane Ghetto
While being Jewish

Admiration for the fighters
In the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

-------------------------------------------------

Unschuldige Menschen 
Gezwungen in ein unmenschliches Ghetto
Nur weil sie Juden waren

Hochachtung für die Kämpfer
Im Warschauer Ghettoaufstand
Form: Tanka

Taken

Herded humans
Sweltering trains
Dead cargo
Suffering remains

Gunshot glory
Spurting spite
Guarded genocide
Barbwire lights

Warsaw widows
Stripped of food
Numbered days
Ribs that protrude

Anesthetized surgeons
Screaming knife
Smoldering smokestacks
Vacating life

Conveyor belt corpses
Rolling into ravines
Six million taken
Will no one intervene
Form: Quatrain

The Mark of Cain

Death twisted history,
guilts conferee
the liar unmasked
revenge by decree

His legions unfurling,
their flag through the smoke
the volunteers hailing,
preserving all hope

With dark days upon them,
no fear to be found
the women, the children,
in place underground

Around every corner,
behind every door
their liberty sacred,
today—evermore

(Warsaw: March, 2022)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Polish Limerick-And Then Some

There once was a dumb blonde from Warsaw 'twas the dumbest blonde I ever saw. She was bound for Krakow but wound up in Moscow holding a kielbasa in each paw. This dumb blonde headed back to Warsaw without kielbasa in either paw. Under a chair beneath she had lost her false teeth and had to eat sausage through a straw. written March 15, 2011 I checked the syllable counts in each line myself
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Indonesia and Poland

An Indonesian flag is a Polish flag upside down. The capital of Jakarta is a long way from Warsaw town. On the islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo, sauerkraut and kielbasa is something they don’t know. Has the average Indonesian ever heard of Thaddeus Kosciusko? Does anybody know a good Indonesian joke? People tell Polish jokes until they choke. There is little to compare between these two countries. Poland and Indonesia bear very few similarities.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member S-K-I

A burgeoning yearning is what I have seen start. This fair-skinned blonde has gone straight to my heart. She is one of the sweetest women I ever saw. Chances are, her ancestors came from Warsaw. Yes, this attractive doll has caught my eye. I found out her last name ends with “S-K-I” I want to get to know this female who appears nice. Perhaps “Co Slychac?” would be good to break the ice. “Co Slychac” (pronounced “So-sweehatch”) means “How are you?” in Polish.
Form: Rhyme

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