Best Scanty Poems
Below are the all-time best Scanty poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of scanty poems written by PoetrySoup members
The True Knight -POTDPOTD 9th April 2018
Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even...
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Categories:
scanty, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Twas the Night Before Christmas'Twas the night before Christmas
when I and my groom
finally found a motel
but with just one room.
My groom was in the bathroom -
leaving me alone-
so...
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Categories:
scanty, funny, holiday, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Finding ForgivenessFinding Forgiveness
Can you forgive my humble home?
A cardboard box my diamond dome
Can you forgive my scanty clothes?
The least that I worry of my woes
Can you...
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Categories:
scanty, forgiveness, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
A Futuristic Christmas- For ContestTwenty fifth of December, three thousand and four
and already I'm down in the dumps
we're round at the neighbour's via tubes that save labour
propelled by some...
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Categories:
scanty, christmas, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Big Five Here We ComeWow is this for real, my boy lollipop,
My best ever destination, da, da da da,
Is a trip to the park
I love it when it gets...
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Categories:
scanty, animal,
Form:
Free verse
Time Ebb and FlowHow vast and pervasive is the Moon?
Hugeness hints there stand two
Orbs and a turbulent stream
Simply like the dawning sun
All over the half-moon horizon.
On the shore...
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Categories:
scanty, adventure, destiny, dream, moon,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
scanty, adventure, courage, leadership, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Solitary TravellerDown the endless road I
Walk.
The road of life or you
May call it the road of
Torment-but know I the
Name.
Along I walk,the trees...
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Categories:
scanty, allegory
Form:
Narrative
A Little PatienceA little patience,
Tomorrow shall come
And you’ll be a day older.
Just a little patience,
The egg shall hatch
And the chick shall be cock.
A little patience,
The night...
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Categories:
scanty, introspection
Form:
Idyll (Idyl)
The Old Country ChurchWending my way down a country road in my air-conditioned car,
In yon vale a weathered church steeple beckoned me from afar.
'Twas Sunday morning and the...
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Categories:
scanty,
Form:
Rhyme
A Farmer's Eyes and a Sailor's ShadowA thorough yield
On a farm field of far east
It took me time to realize
How far I am to my far east of coast
Call of my...
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Categories:
scanty, age, analogy, autumn, beautiful,
Form:
Imagism
Political TerrorismLife is a combination of different strata and classes
with the upper classes feeding on the states of the lower
which is the usual, displayed in most...
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Categories:
scanty, adventure, africa, america, passion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Soul Stance River - 12In the setting sun the Sioux Tepees look like vandalized pyramids,
the Tetons themselves appear as though angels raped
by the savagery of centuries yet noble in...
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Categories:
scanty, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Class ReunionA football star with super speed,
Our prom king, Kyle, has gone to seed.
No longer likely to succeed,
He's out of work and hooked on weed.
Behind you's...
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Categories:
scanty, change, high school, humorous,
Form:
Quatrain
WarHow has it dawn on us so soon when we hadn’t even achieved much?
Why has the marketplace ceased to buy and sell so scanty the...
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Categories:
scanty, bereavement, death, soldier, sorrow,
Form:
Elegy