Best Shorts Poems
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
Apt Name Limericks Collaboration -Nb Some Poems Will Be BawdyCOME 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
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
Beach Footles CollaborationHot 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 FruitForbidden 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
My Long Walk HomeT'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 OpenThere'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
One More Rosey TripI'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 Lifehttps://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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Categories:
shorts, farm, humor, self,
Form:
Couplet
What's Fair Is FairWhat’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 Eyesalarm 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 MeInexpert 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 SpringTake 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
The Golden HourGorgeous 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
Way Back Then When I Was TenI 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
My First Real KissI’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