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Stiff Poems - Poems about Stiff

Stiff Poems - Examples of all types of poems about stiff to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for stiff.
Working Stiff
a working stiff Woke, the bedroom was cold under the duvet snugness I burrowed deeper, enjoying the freedom of sleeping late. Life was hard, getting up at five and preparing breakfasts for grumpy seamen, smoking the first cigarette...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, anger, deep, fate,
Form: Light Verse
Scared Stiff
Any noise, any sudden movement Any voice calling me, A step outside my door A shadow in the street A creaking stair The rustling of fallen leaves A tap on my shoulder, Sets my heart pounding My legs growing roots My blood turning cold My...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, scary,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Keeping a Stiff Upper Lip
Now we have been released from the EU, and its cheap cost of livingWe are now going British with prices that are more than unforgiving...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, anxiety, endurance, perspective,
Form: Couplet


Premium Member Keep a Stiff Upper Lip
Keep a stiff upper lip, it isn't that bad Things will surely get better Life is a series of these ups and downs Surely isn't always fair weather Unpredictable is a word that's often used When referring to things in...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shadows Are Rather Stiff
Shadows are stiff hard-edged, all telling, not fibbing nor forgiving. The mind's eye is blind to the shadowy-side we carry in ruck-sacks behind our backs. Shadows are brutally honest, dark and gloomy, sketches of self in outline, that we would rather lose 'cause they can't...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, mirror,
Form: Free verse



Stiff Stuff
STIFF STUFF Old age in men is when joint parts supposedly flexible just aren’t any longer, but are stiff instead; and parts supposedly stiff just aren’t any longer, and certainly no longer any longer. 10 April ...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, body, old,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Keep a Stiff Upper Lip
Keep a stiff upper lip, it isn't that bad Things will surely get better Life is a series of these ups and downs Surely isn't always fair weather Unpredictable is a word that's often used When referring to things in...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, life,
Form: Rhyme
An Invocation
An Invocation Owusu Ansah! He birthed water it retained its wetness the water was not licked dry. Break your wooden confines! Get out! Get off! Get up! Shake off the Pincers, ...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, bereavement, cry,
Form: Free verse
A Cold Stiff Shadow
A candle light in a dark smokey room Flames dancing on the walls across the roof A twinkling star high up in the sky Suddenly falls away into the space yard of goodbyes Dreams do die in the bitter struggle for gain The last...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, abuse, addiction, death,
Form: Verse
An Unlively Very Stiff Upper Lip Masquerade
An Unlively Very Stiff (upper Lip) Masquerade (any resemblance between averred one laid to rest and yours truly...purely coincidental regarding unnamed person liberated into heavenly glade!) though innocently youthful looking air at three score year, or so the trumpeting "FAKE" mirrored...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, absence, blue, creation, death
Form: Epic
Stiff Neck
I will not turn towards God, I keep my face away from him, I know he has blessed me, But I choose to sin on purpose, I am ashamed to turn my face toward him, My neck has become very...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, god, sin,
Form: Free verse
Stiff One On the Beach
The beach was warm the waves felt nice Till they crashed down with razor cold ice Now I look into your face, lifeless gaze and not a trace Drifting to a different place, somewhere in the depths of...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, absence, dark, death of
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Stiff Drinks
One shot, two shot, three Stiff drinks don't hide all the pain they sugar coat tears...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, pain,
Form: Haiku
The Bindle Stiff
The Bindle Stiff Parks have beckoned me with aplomb A bench to sit and lay at night with limpid dreams I share with naught And realize that I’ve been taught To set my sails for wondrous seas To live a life...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Light As a Feather, Stiff As a Board
Make sure you enunciate it loud and all five girls in accord… Then repeat three times, “light as a...Read the rest...
Categories: stiff, scary,
Form: Rhyme

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