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Best Run Short Poems

Below are the all-time best Run Short poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of run short poems written by PoetrySoup members


Everyone Can'T Be a Swan
Preoccupied with symmetry
                The world considers face
The quest for winsome...

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Categories: run short, beauty, society,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Celena, Brave Celena- Part 2
Their rending cries, when all is still, reecho in the moonlight;
They lie about in fitful slumber on the ground at noonlight,
Their virgin hair spread in...

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Categories: run short, assonance, bible, courage, daughter,
Form: Narrative
Overflowing
Overflowing

 The God of glory
 never run short of mercy
 flowing  in my life...

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Categories: run short, encouraging, mystery, spiritual, uplifting,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Recycled
Recycled

I have gone through many storms. 
Some I thought would capsize the boat, 
and drown both me, 
and my beloved children.
At the first sign of...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: run short, abortion, abuse, addiction, america,
Form: Free verse
The Mall Game
Listen and watch, study and learn, 
the smallest to the largest, average to the brightest of human brains, 
turn them lose to play 
The Mall...

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Categories: run short, funny, life, peopleeducation,
Form: Free verse



This Contest of Poems
To pick a good subject - to know what to do
A matter that matters 'bout what, where and who
To stick to the script and be...

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Categories: run short, fun, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Verse
From First To Third World
When our Government Controls Everything

Beware of those you may call friend the crisis is not here
When everything is "Government Free" there will be much to...

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© Pete Yuhas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: run short, conflict, patriotic, political, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
The Laptop Cowboy
The Laptop Cowboy

I got four hundred white face cows,
A breed that I swear by.
A herd of Mustangs to be rode,
New laptop standin' by.

I keep it...

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Categories: run short,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Embrace the Chaos, Part I
The Islamists claim that their views
are the very words of God,
and when they try to make it real,
it just ends up in death and rot.
They...

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Categories: run short, america, freedom, how i
Form: Rhyme
Shall I Compare Life To a Game
Shall I compare life to a game?
Sometimes the coldness in life, 
Can tremble the bones,
Of brave men, 
And women,
Alike.

By chance some may see heaven,
To shine...

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Categories: run short, adventure, games, happy, imagery,
Form: Verse
My Prayer
My prayer,
 My Soft cry for help,
Lord please let my voice rise from this weakness.
My prayer,
 I want to be heard,
I want a life worth...

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Categories: run short, childhood, confusion, dedication, depression,
Form: Free verse
A Symposium of Sun
The summer has its mission at hand.
A commitment to change lives.
Sitting there smoking and thinking.
With a light that makes up the sunset.
The warmth given with...

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© Meru Groen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: run short, life,
Form: Free verse
Fall of Natural Beauty
Women’s wombs, I guess
have run short of materials
beautiful babies are not born
paintings, fittings are after birth
Inventors paint and finish
things pregnant mothers miss
beauty made by machines
and...

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Categories: run short, culture, satire,
Form: Free verse
Money: We Cannot Run Out of Money - a Symbol of Wealth
 symbol, a measure -
an inch, pounds, kilogram:
could we run short of symbols?...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: run short, 12th grade, analogy, international,
Form: Senryu
Wedding Vows
With this ring I thee wed
Only to awake and find that once again it's all pretend
It's my crystal clear visions of you whirling around in...

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Categories: run short, angst, devotion, hope, lost
Form: Romanticism

Book: Reflection on the Important Things