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Best Not Long Poems

Below are the all-time best Not Long poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of not long poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Liberty of Expression Is Here
Why I am here in Poetrysoup?

I like a seed carelessly thrown 
upon dirty solid black, brown rocks,
I strive, thrived to grow 
despite big rough blocks..

words......

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Categories: not long, poems, poetess, poetry, write,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lonely Leaf In the Water
I watched it fall
In spiralling flight
This browned yellow leaf
A saddened sight

For not long ago
It was alive and so green
In a canopy of cover
Above the stream

I...

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Categories: not long, nature, sea, water,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Man Under Stress, a Collaboration With Francis Crasto
My appreciation Francis Crasto for allowing me to collaborate with you as your 'psychiatrist' on ‘A MAN UNDER STRESS’- A great sequel to your recent...

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Categories: not long, humor, rap, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Politics and Poetry - Is Hate Really the Answer
Politics and Poetry – is hate really the answer

Why write a poem of hate about Trump
He’s been there just over a week
Though Hilary Clinton the...

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Categories: not long, angst, political,
Form: Rhyme
When He Came
I waited for him as the soldier comes
With a beating of drums and trumpet call;
But he arrived instead with a quiet tread
That my ears never...

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Categories: not long, love, me, me,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Be Free, My Brothers
Penned like cattle, as if chattel,
     cages rattle, sounds of brattle,
          no...

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Categories: not long, africa, america, black african
Form: Monorhyme
Blue Words
Blue words cry, 
smearing bare 
               paper walls. 
I am only...

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Categories: not long, feelings, introspection, words, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Twig
I wandered lonely as a twig
that fell into an endless stream.
I’d turn and sometimes make a zig
or bob along in a bad dream.
No longer on...

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Categories: not long, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
It
It is a horizon of dreams aloft in hope.
It is love, stirred with hate that drips need
to bleed us, heal us and force our tired...

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Categories: not long, emotions, humanity, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member When Autumn Comes
When Autumn comes, she saunters in.
paints asters blue and streaks the skies
magenta! When chill winds begin
to susurrate, we hear her sighs.

Wearing multi-colored dresses,
when Autumn comes,...

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Categories: not long, autumn,
Form: Quatern
When the Bottle Lets You Down
Can I ask a question of you my friend?
   Have you started drinking from the bottle again?
You look so down it’s clear to...

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Categories: not long, friendship, hope, love, care,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Man and His Tree
Armed with chainsaws in the field, two young men are shirtless guests
with shoulders bronzed by sun and sweat.
The timbre in the August sun has scattered...

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Categories: not long, bereavement, brother, goodbye, how
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Silent Song
"A Silent Song"

Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Blessed or cursed
Morning shave
Coffee please
Write a verse
Remembers last night’s dream
Grabs a napkin, spills his spleen
Shoves it in his pocket
Walks...

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Categories: not long, imagery, romance, romantic, romantic
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member A Rose By Any Other Name ---
Through the hushed whisper of the breeze
Flowing through the majestic circling pine trees
I sense that I have stepped
Into a sacred hallowed space

A GARDEN OF ROSES

A...

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Categories: not long, beauty, humanity, love, peace,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Painful Perspectives: Bullying In America
Painful Perspectives
                Bullying in America

"About 77% of students have admitted...

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Categories: not long, school, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs