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Best Shorting Poems

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


I Am Here For You
When, life gives all you can take and the loads to heavy to take. I am here to 
lessing the load and carry it with...

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Categories: shorting, caregiving, daughter, family, life,
Form: I do not know?



The Perfectionist Is Listening
The Perfectionist is Listening

the rich are committing suicide
and taking us with them
the prosthetic limbed bastards
Fort Darwin tottering on fewer stilts
once the masters of the universe
presently...

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Categories: shorting, slam, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Electricity Car-Show Me the Funny Part Two
I bought a used electric car, and not coz I’ve gone green
For there were better reasons for obtaining that machine.

I figured weekday mornings I could...

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Categories: shorting, humorous, car, green, cousin,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member The Game of Hockey
The Game of Hockey 

By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed...

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Categories: shorting, hockey, sports,
Form: Verse
You Have Been Cautioned
CAUTION: 
the contents of this coffee cup may be HOT 
please be careful not to burn yourself or others 
the contents may also be wet...

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© Art Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shorting, satire, social, may,
Form: Prose Poetry



Short Stuff
You can short yourself
You can keep shorting yourself!
You can make it short......

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© Davin Math  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shorting, adventure, art, confusion, fantasy,
Form: Haiku
Mirrors of Alzheimers
written too late for the contest, but wanted to post it anyway....

I had one of the most wonderful mom's any human being could have...she lives...

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Categories: shorting, change, heartbreak, life, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Put the Fire Out
Wow! babe, this is as hot as I've ever felt
Hurry, put these flames out before I melt
Stop teasing me darling, with your body so mesmerizing
Seems...

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Categories: shorting, emotions, encouraging, sensual, sexy,
Form: Rhyme
You Might Ask Yourself Why
Perpendicular to the day and the 
horizon looks no nearer than the day 
before a yesterday, 
am I moving 
or is this spinning just a...

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Categories: shorting, destiny, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Combination Lock
I'm trying to figure my life out
It's like a combination lock 
That I don't have the code to
With every turn I gain a little hope
But...

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Categories: shorting, lifelife, hope, life,
Form: I do not know?
Sad Bad Mad Poem
I've got a poem,
its really rather sad,
I learned it many years ago,
From my dad,

Its all about a person,
that's very very glad
who had invented a new...

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© The Didds  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shorting, silly,
Form: Free verse
Time To Rise!
WAKE-UP SLEEPING FRIEND, 
LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD, 
TIME TO RISE FROM THE ASHEN, 
LIKE PHOENIX THE MYTHICAL BIRD. 

BASE OF CHEMATICS, 
HACKING INTO YOUR...

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Categories: shorting, song-lyricvoice, voice,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Ghosts
A shadow of a family
Sits, lumping on our couch
Watching TV with mindless eyes
Occasionally letting a few words out

The lines that bind together
Lie about on the...

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Categories: shorting, family
Form: Rhyme
University Girls
University girls 
You oath to be in school
Now you are catching fun 
At your boys friends quarters 
Having a good time 
Throwing parties all the...

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Categories: shorting, africa, dedication, for her,
Form: Epic
Zen State
With whatever retrospect behind my neck I’ll make you look like an insect to intersect/
I inflict and solicit my scripts strict to set out a...

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© Kyle Gee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shorting, addiction, adventure, crazy, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs