Get Your Premium Membership

Short Quintain (English) Poems

Short Quintain (English) Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short Quintain (English) poems by PoetrySoup poets. Search the short Quintain (English) poetry form by poem length and keyword.


Paradise For Sale
big envelopes,
big prayers
big envelopes
big blessings...

Read More
Categories: heaven, satire,
Form: Quintain (English)



Palace
thinking place
where king
serially thinks
how great he is...

Read More
Categories: leadership, power, satire,
Form: Quintain (English)
Rondaveous
The breaking ages the heart

can you escape it

have you tried...

Read More
Categories: love,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Qintain-Alitteration
dull
dank 
December day-
devastation's depression 
descends...

Read More
Categories: seasons
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member My Choice Quintain
Hey ho
sweet maiden
prithee tarry-
lack-a -day,anon we
marry...

Read More
Categories: poetry, word play,
Form: Quintain (English)



Can I Live
There's little I want so bad

Other than my life?

Can I live?...

Read More
Categories: inspirational,
Form: Quintain (English)
Quinzaine Again
Kids see the bright side of things
Are we color blind?
We see dark?...

Read More
Categories: children,
Form: Quintain (English)
Life Cycle
Life is love
Love is pain
Pain is loss
Loss is death
Death is life....

Read More
Categories: appreciation,
Form: Quintain (English)
Quiet Bliss
"All my problems
 are behind me...
 In quiet bliss
 is where you'll find me"...

Read More
Categories: beauty, cheer up, depression, happy, perspective, self,
Form: Quintain (English)
Quinzaine Again
Children imagine things big

Why do we stay small?

Can we grow?



Valerie Sherman...

Read More
Categories: children,
Form: Quintain (English)
Jealousy
Jealous. 
Hard not to be. 
Vast insecurities. 
Mirror, show me someone not so 
jealous....

Read More
Categories: anxiety, character, emotions, feelings, jealousy,
Form: Quintain (English)
Love in 15 words
When we first met
Sparks flew from heart to heart.
Mesmerized,
Your mojo
Working overtime
...

Read More
© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: i love you, love, magic,
Form: Quintain (English)
Trump Tetractys
Trump
Fuming,
 Can’t shut up
 About Deep State.
Trump tweeted, “Deep State is out to get me!
...

Read More
© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: political,
Form: Quintain (English)
Tears
Tears, I hide
Fears I did not see
Blinded by my pride
Now my tears run free
And my fears are history...

Read More
Categories: fear, life,
Form: Quintain (English)
Jingle Bells
We’re cuddled up now, 
In the back of the sleigh;
Listening as the bells jingle,
In a Merry Christmas way!...

Read More
Categories: child, childhood, christmas, cowboy-western, family, winter,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Preciousness
A couple's ability to reproduce
should not be focused
on pleasure alone...
babies are precious,
so are we!...

Read More
Categories: family, husband, love, wife
Form: Quintain (English)
The Best
His voice is soft as air,
The reflection of his mirror fair,
If he is a nest to rest
This home is the best....

Read More
Categories: home, love, nature,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Night
The star is bright,
But yet so shining,
Soon the sky will light
The moon is dining,
While the stars are wining....

Read More
© Tay M  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: space,
Form: Quintain (English)
A Break of Dawn
of that fine day,
mornings magnificent brawn
and beautiful bay,
whose skylines soon would yawn,
a break of dawn...

Read More
Categories: art,
Form: Quintain (English)
Hairy Jam
Tam catching air
Gust left me in a jam
Uncontrollable hair
My best lambs skin leather tam
In the bay it swam...

Read More
Categories: life
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Life's mess
my life is that of a mess

so what can i do?

oh what if?











karen croft
quinzaine again...

Read More
Categories: life,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Easy Listening
melodies of yesterday,
dancing cheek to cheek
as I feel your body sway
memories I seek
'ere the record fades away...

Read More
Categories: music, nostalgia
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member An Impossible Choice
judging 'twixt poems that sing,
it seems to me,akin-
to distinuishing
'tween a rose or peony-
surely both must win...

Read More
Categories: on writing and words
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Quintain-The Present of Life
YESTERDAY has flown,
buried in the past
TOMORROW is another day,
twenty-four hours away
for in TODAY always we stay...

Read More
Categories: life
Form: Quintain (English)
In the Morning
I hate waking up.
My eyes are always heavy.
This Morning I lost my coffee cup,
And this weather is making me sweaty....

Read More
Categories: appreciation, art, aubade, baby, baptism, morning, nonsense,
Form: Quintain (English)

Book: Shattered Sighs