Best Shortness Poems
Below are the all-time best Shortness poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of shortness poems written by PoetrySoup members
IfIF
If you can help others fulfill their dreams
And your heart ever seeks far greater Light
If you hold true, evade life tempting schemes
And with...
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Categories:
shortness, art, creation, deep, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Stepping Into the TempleI step into the temple
in search of painted dreams
Figures wrapped in irresistible shine
they come to life within their fresco prisons
A kaleidoscope of painted saints
powerless...
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Categories:
shortness, god,
Form:
Free verse
Stuff I WonderWhat does it feel like to wake up into your skin?
Your day?
What do you feel first most days?
Is it in any way influenced by gratitude,
or...
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Categories:
shortness, dream, earth, health, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Always BelieveBirds singing in the warmth of the sun
Flowers blooming means spring has sprung
Your innocence of the world today
May diminish some, but most will stay
I hope...
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Categories:
shortness, faith, nature, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
Questions of LifeWhen all the days have been counted
and all the night's dreams lived
Could we hope for anything more,
than to be loved?
If every bright star was a...
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Categories:
shortness,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
shortness, money,
Form:
Epigram
Hold Me For a MomentYou held me for a moment
For just a moment it would seem
It seems like forever ago
Although I could never remember
Remember those warm-filled months
Between March and...
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Categories:
shortness, daughter, death, dream, journey,
Form:
Elegy
D3sp3rat3 M3asur3sYou see, Desperate
Times call for
Desperate Measures.
Lengths no longer
defined by the kind
of weather.
The shorter the
shorts, the higher
the self-esteem.
and the Longer the
Sag the more Swag
and being oh...
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Categories:
shortness, slam,
Form:
Free verse
Open To EvolutionariesDear Andrew Cohen,
I am riveted by “Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening.” Your theme that enlightenment need not be limited to elitist...
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Categories:
shortness, culture, health, humor, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
School and My FutureMy future happiness depended upon school,
They’re understanding of religious older parents,
Them constraining them with supervision,
So that I could have autonomy in my garments....
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Categories:
shortness, caregiving, character, education, mother
Form:
Rhyme
Press ReleaseA listing of the fires
and all the survivors
will be provided
Names of the dead
are written on broken cobblestones
at the bottom of the...
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Categories:
shortness, crazy, humor, political, satire,
Form:
Verse
A Genuine SmileA genuine smile joyfully gives to a day
Much more value than one really knows
It's more than the gold light of the sun
More soothing than the...
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Categories:
shortness, happiness, smile,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Descendent of Eve"Descendent of Eve"
by: Eric L. Boddie
As she walked through the door, I recall a shortness of breath
My heartbeat fluttered, my palms moistened, my mind...
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Categories:
shortness, beauty, inspiration, passion, philosophy,
Form:
Ballad
High BeamsLove matures,
optimally co-arises,
to fill a vacuum left by former fears
about shortage of time,
sub-optimal outcomes.
High pitch synergy
swells toward Beloved Climax Community
as fears and anger about...
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Categories:
shortness, creation, culture, death, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Passionate LovePassionate Love
There's a heat burning intense inside;
inside my soul,
and inside my groin.
Not the heat of temperature but of lust and desire
causing a shortness of breath...
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Categories:
shortness, boyfriend, desire, fantasy, love,
Form:
Free verse