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Best Short Run Poems

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


Cold Spring Street
Cold Spring Street

When I was young
I could walk far on sidewalks
For it was a different time then.
Corner to corner
Across the busy avenue
Up Prospect Hill and...

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Categories: short run, childhood
Form: Free verse



Tonight
Tonight, I do not feel so saved,
I do not feel so good or right,
Tonight, I feel so close to death,
That pains in my heart do...

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Categories: short run, angst, beauty, bible, gospel,
Form: Blank verse
Botanic
After a short run
The road takes a diversion :
A curvilinear path.

Throwing a long lush green shadow,
The woods devoid of sorrows
Invites the heavy down power.

I peep...

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Categories: short run, depression, desire, symbolism, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wander Lust
When moving to a new location
Love to survey the land
Finding the nearest gas emporiums
A Starbucks close at hand

McDonald's which I frequent often
Food stores with all...

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Categories: short run, moving on,
Form: Quatrain
The Heart of God
Sometimes it seems like God doesn’t care,
We pray and pray and nothing happens,
The pain and sorrow get worse and worse and we wonder? 
Does God...

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Categories: short run, baptism, beautiful, beauty, ,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Wander Lust
When moving to a new location
Love to survey the land
Finding the nearest gas emporiums
A Starbucks close at hand

McDonald's which I frequent often
Food stores with all...

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Categories: short run, moving on,
Form: Quatrain
Pain Again Part 2
>'Oh no.'  Then she said to me.
'I see the problem.  Don't worry Stanley.'
Soon as she left, the pain, hurt so.
Will she return? ...

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Categories: short run, adventure, body, care, health,
Form: Dramatic Verse
First Quail Hunt
When I turned twelve, Dad bought me a shot gun
Thought two sons hunting with him, would be fun
My brother also got his at that age
They...

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Categories: short run, adventure, dad, old, red,
Form: Quatrain
Selling Us On Fear
Do you ever get the feeling..
That this whole place is bull****
Wishing to run away
But they even own the wilderness
	
Sick of all the f***ing lies
And fed...

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Categories: short run, politicalhouse, house,
Form: Free verse
Soon Back To School
we were at the water fall
and i had a ball
it was summer fun
it was a short run
it also cool
i don't have the blues
SOON
BACK TO SCHOOL...

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Categories: short run, holiday,
Form: Light Verse
Thwarted
They say that it’s smart, and ultimately wise,
for many passwords a person to devise,
to protect access and block meddling hands,
stopping those e-thieves and other brigands.

So...

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Categories: short run, humor, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Four Seasons: Part Four
The days and nights are long, hard and heavy
A blank look at my burdensome third leg
Laying at a mocking distance from me
Suppresses me down upon...

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Categories: short run, adventure,
Form: Sonnet
Shifts
Earth’s here quaking,  
while I’ve been thinking
of shifts.
Like the shift in love,
the shift in economy:
the dollar-fat trolls
who play tricks.
The many wounded and
the sick.
I see...

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Categories: short run, angst, confusion, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Uplifting
“If you keep only healthy food in your cupboard and fridge, you will eat good food.” – Errick McAdams

“You need a steroid to fix your...

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Categories: short run, health,
Form: Rhyme
Study Time
time to get hook
back to the books
leave summer behind
it was fun
its a short run
you mine feed the mind
its
STUDY TIME...

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Categories: short run, devotion, education,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things