Best Briefer Poems
Below are the all-time best Briefer poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of briefer poems written by PoetrySoup members
winter wildflower -
oh tell me what's this ruse, my little friend?
proud petals spread and reaching for the sun
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Categories:
briefer, flower, life, metaphor, nature,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Me, My Muse and MeME, MY MUSE AND ME!
ME
What I am about to say and do,
Would be inconceivable by more
Than a few,
How could I dare,
Its isn’t fair,
For it...
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Categories:
briefer, muse,
Form:
Free verse
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child...
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Categories:
briefer, child, child abuse, children,
Form:
Free verse
Leaf BriefsUnderwear used to be a fig leaf
Then somebody invented the brief
I think it’s absurd
To name it that word
I mean, what’s briefer than a leaf?
Was it...
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Categories:
briefer, clothes, funny,
Form:
Limerick
Categories:
briefer, lost love, love, romance,
Form:
Sonnet
''Little Bird, What Troubles Thee''Little bird, what troubles thee
is it the worm in your belly
little bird, what pains thee
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Categories:
briefer, allegory, anger, betrayal, bird,
Form:
I do not know?
Frosty Jack Goes MissingF - First of November, winter takes the reins,
R - rime appears as Jack Frost has his first peek,
O – Oddly it seems, the Sun...
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Categories:
briefer, 11th grade, allusion, autumn,
Form:
Acrostic
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I...
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Categories:
briefer, books, culture, discrimination, education,
Form:
Sonnet
Unsung HeroHere he lies lifeless
He whose hands had many healed
though unsung by some
Now, we cheer him home
Down his homestead, we set him
Our selfless hero!
Pain is the...
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Categories:
briefer, bereavement,
Form:
Haiku
Categories:
briefer, fun,
Form:
Limerick
If Anything At Allshould my voice fade in your ears
and my love vanish in your memory
it is then I will come gain
although time may hide me yet again
I...
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Categories:
briefer, absence, appreciation, blessing, children,
Form:
Sonnet
SaudadeMy heart felt old; I sought the cold.
Canada’s land was what I planned.
Among trees grand and far inland
To dance my sad brand of sarabande.
Yet precious...
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Categories:
briefer, death, flower, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
An Epanalepsis Poem- a ReminderEPANEPLEPIS POETRY
A
REMINDER
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A man who knew what he was talking about, a man who knew!
"Mankind must put an end to war or, war will end mankind"
Quote...
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Categories:
briefer, anger, angst, anti bullying,
Form:
I do not know?
Thru Maritime Miles-BeginningsThru maritime miles of meals and mates
I posed as a pirate for polishing plates
For singing a song of the surf and the sea
I traded my...
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Categories:
briefer, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
A Day That Ends In NightWe Look For Holy Moments,
And In Looking, Overlook
Moments Blessed And
Filled With Things
From Mountains We Once Shook.
Small Events Unfolding,
Each One Smaller, Briefer Still.
As...
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Categories:
briefer, father, father son, for
Form:
Rhyme