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Best Short Lived Poems

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


Premium Member Whose Muse Elusive Dew
The worldliness within the sphere     
reflecting morning light, 
as poignant as a single tear 
idea bright is crystal clear 
and frames...

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Categories: short lived, destiny, life, lost love,
Form: Rhyme



Remember Me
Remember me...

A  fresh sweet scent

of  last gardenia

on yesterday's linen sheets

Remember me...

A cherry bud

in your backyard orchard

revealing  first pink shades

in once upon a...

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Categories: short lived, baseball, basketball, blue,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shackles of Love
Shackles of cynicism have displaced your heart,
the love that once transcended time is no more.

No wordsmith can bring beauty to an invisible emotion,
lost in translation...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: short lived, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Meaning of Life
Since I've resolved to laugh at life-
   find humor in its flaws,
      and realize that stress and strife
are...

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Categories: short lived, inspirational, life, meaningful,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Jazz Man
JAZZ MAN

Lips of sweat,
Igniting catalyst tune as they burn, 
Crossed eyes, attention spreads
feeling the whiteness in the pure magic
Each memo confronts the other, 
Soul cord...

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Categories: short lived, art, music,
Form: Free verse



A Kiss Within the Stars
So easy to remember ,So hard to forget
A kiss within the stars,through eyes of love once met.

Softly spoken voices still whisper in the wind
As gentle...

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Categories: short lived, absence, sleep, stars,
Form: Lyric
Painting With Stardust
From night to night
I searched in a distant sky
To catch a falling star
To collect its silver dust
which fell ever so slow
upon the life-lines of my...

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Categories: short lived, metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Blind Man Turns
"Blind Man Turns"



Rest easy in my lull, Love

Love 
is not the gentle goodnight, Love

in the beguiling
silence of Lost Lovers' Woods

It is the war we 
all...

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Categories: short lived, love,
Form: Free verse
Soul Mates Solace
When my final shadows cling on desperately
Where I fight formidable battles
to merely hold the light
I send you loving vibrations
and soul sustenance
Deep from the cathedral
of one...

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Categories: short lived, art, bereavement, body, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life's Fading Light-Part 2-Heroic Crown of Sonnets
Alone

For in the end it's just one soul that's passed.
Alone I'll lie in sod of greenest grass
to answer for the sins that I've amassed
at gates...

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Categories: short lived, age, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member December Rain
Unexpectedly the timid sun made an appearance,
an orb of flames, silent amidst the peaceful horizon.

Wistfully, the harmony was short lived.

Ferocious winds blew with merciless tones.

Melancholic...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: short lived, analogy, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Fascinates Me
art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me! 
                                 
   ...

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Categories: short lived, art, sky, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
Broken Instrument
What happens to this poetry embroidered within the walls of my heart, 
When the joy of my words are shattered underneath your feet, 
Can the...

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Categories: short lived, love hurts, poetry,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Loch Ness - Constanza
Oh, Loch Ness monster, there you are,
from depths below to surface came...
and Nessie you are called by name.

'Neath eerie moon that glows afar
and thunder clouds...

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Categories: short lived, mystery, myth, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Old Age Is a Buzz Kill- Two Lenses
How
I loved
summer fairs -
the cool night wind
in my hair as I
twirled on the tilt-a-whirl
or climbing into sky. . . then
descending at lightening speed,
stomach leaping at...

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Categories: short lived, age, fun, drug,
Form: Etheree

Book: Shattered Sighs