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Below are the all-time best Shortest poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of shortest poems written by PoetrySoup members


Shortest Love Story
Our elbows collided, 
'cause my desk is wrong-sided.
Made for a lefty, 
When I write
with my right....

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Categories: shortest, care, celebration, child, courage,
Form: I do not know?



Here, Again: the Autumn Equinox
Written for the Avebury Gorsedd, 24th September 2016  
I wish you well...

I’m here, again…
Come riding in, upon the western wave
My hair all wove with...

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Categories: shortest, autumn, england, myth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Because of Just One Poetess
BECAUSE OF JUST ONE POETESS

I let go of living in sadness.
My life seemed going nowhere,
and looking back now, it all
seemed like madness!

It wasn't because she did
gymnastics...

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Categories: shortest, beautiful, celebration, encouraging, poetess,
Form: I do not know?
Winter Solstice
You are
 the shortest day
but longest night
within a memory
of my four seasons

Every cell in my body
remembers you

It remembers
Your amorous glance
Your ardent touch
Your effervescent kiss

and even...

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Categories: shortest, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetic Meraki
Upon the twinkling of silent twilight,
tranquil thoughts set adrift, 
infatuated in elysian reflection.

The mind wanders, 
observing and listening - roaming;
avoiding confusing crossroads
leading into chimerical phantasms.

Overwhelmed...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shortest, analogy, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse



The Human Smile
Nothing in the world so disarming,
so charming in it's domain.
Across a crowded room or two feet away
it's all the same.
The shortest distance between two people
despite...

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Categories: shortest, funny,
Form: Free verse
In My Dream
In my dream…

In my dream, I can fly,
  hug the moon kiss the sky.
I will drink, morning dew,
  I get drunk, to get...

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Categories: shortest, age, allusion, dream, lost
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Dad's Last Ball Game
Being the shortest in my high school gym class
Attempts to play basketball brought no success
Broke my finger while trying to catch a pass
Leaping to take...

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Categories: shortest, father, sportsdad, basketball, dad,
Form: Quatrain
Roads
the shortest road
is the one that you know
the longest road
is the one that you love...

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© A.O. Taner  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shortest, adventure, car, change, confusion,
Form: Verse
King of the Jungle
There you sit...you patiently wait...
thinking of which animal you want to sate...

Observing a fine fox, who favourable flirts...
with sexy green eyes and the shortest of...

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Categories: shortest, passion
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Is the Beauty of the Soul
A COLLECTION


Love is the smell of a newly mown lawn

Or the gentle breeze on a summer's eve

The clear blue sky with the occasional 
Puffy white...

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Categories: shortest, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Voyeur
I watched you this morning.

When the cool of the air settled on the morning buds
leaving only the hint of moist stolen kisses
as golden rays slowly...

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Categories: shortest, beauty, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Angel's Touch
ANGEL'S TOUCH

Did you ever stop to think,
What this angel's touch really mean?

Smiling at you at a flower's blush
Giving you the time to think and hush
When...

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Categories: shortest, analogy, care, feelings, love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Quotable Quotes
Don't count your days, make your days count for lost time is never again found.
If you want to see rainbows don't stare at the ground.

When...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shortest, inspirational,
Form: Prose
Premium Member This Time of Year
The air is fresh, mornings crisp and clear
God I do love this time of year
Vibrant colors abound on the trees
Gracefully falling with the breeze
The workday...

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Categories: shortest, confusion, faith, health, life,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs