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


Premium Member Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be Bawdy
COME ON SOUPER'S LETS HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE FOLK SMILE DURING SUCH DIFFICULT TIMES FOR US ALL. THERE ARE LOTS MORE APT NAMES ...

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Categories: shorts, giggle, jobs,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Sex After 40
(WARNING  SIGNS)

You are old and fragile
Claiming to be a lion when in bed
In some way, you remind me of the walking dead
Your bones make...

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Categories: shorts, body, change, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beach Footles Collaboration
Hot sun
What fun

Soft sand
How grand

Blue sea
For me

High tide
Surf side

Beach babe
In shade

Undress
Top less

No finds
Tan lines

Swim suit…
pursuit

He sports
Tight shorts

Romance?
No chance


Jan Allison
Casarah Nance
1st December 2014...

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Categories: shorts, beach, humorous,
Form: Footle
Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden fruit is sweetest, or that’s what they all say
So I thought I’d give it a try and went for some today
I didn’t know just...

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Categories: shorts, funny, fruit, me,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member My Long Walk Home
T'was freezing cold and I struggled in the heat
I was pleased I'd put warm gloves on my feet
I shouldn't have been out on such a...

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Categories: shorts, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme



Where the Woods Open
There's a path I always take
down to the river where the woods
are dressed down open
The light of the sky
doesn't shine in your eyes
but leads the...

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Categories: shorts, autumn, imagery, inspirational, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One More Rosey Trip
I'm off on the beaten path
with Little Rosey in my grasp

There's palm fronds like a giant clock,
twenty hands instead of two
And there's the honeysuckle bush
that...

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Categories: shorts, child, childhood, cute love,
Form: Narrative
The Humorous Side To My Country Life
https://soundcloud.com/kentucky-gal/2012-10-24-12-47-20-774the


Now Y'all have had embarrassing moments that happen to you. 
Well, I had some myself that I thought I'd share that are true. 

Ahh, the...

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© Mary Hoose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shorts, farm, humor, self,
Form: Couplet
What's Fair Is Fair
What’s fair is fair

I walked into Macys Department Store the other day
thinking I’d buy a few items for the summer
I entered on the first floor...

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Categories: shorts, fashion, humor, men, women,
Form: Free verse
A Day In School, Thru Autistic Eyes
alarm goes off*
I sit straight up startled and scared
Just my alarm, I hit the button
Get up and go to the bathroom
I brush my teeth with...

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Categories: shorts, child, childhood, emotions, feelings,
Form: Narrative
Simply Me
Inexpert at rhyme 
or singing in time
I bray like a laryngitic donkey
my artwork's inept 
I'm ham-fisted except
when doodling things that are wonky

Of style I'm bereft...

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Categories: shorts, introspection
Form: Rhyme
Give Me Spring
Take away my static hair,
My thick, wool toque, my glassy eyes.
Take away the chilly air,
The endless clouds, the covered skies.

Give me back my sun-streaked hair,
My...

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Categories: shorts, seasons, me, me,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Golden Hour
Gorgeous boy, your skin shines in the sun’s golden hour.
Waves of your jet-black hair, short-cropped like Caesar's 
dripping tendrils on a chiseled brow, wisps beside...

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Categories: shorts, beautiful, hair, introspection, life,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Way Back Then When I Was Ten
I was shot by Cupid's tainted dart
And puppy love awakened my sleeping heart
Tried to impress with exaggerated tales
Mark the box letters sent through the mail

Hunted...

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Categories: shorts, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My First Real Kiss
I’d kissed at least one boy by age fourteen.
Disappointment was the taste it left.
Although it was short, it was far from sweet.
In contrast, my second...

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Categories: shorts, kiss,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs