Best Smaller Poems
Smaller
False promises that
you made to me
Letting me see
What you wanted
Me to see
Giving me hope
When none was there
Making me care
And leaving me scared
Fasting my heart
To fill me with doubt
Making me feel
Just like a small mouse...
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Categories:
smaller, deep, emotions, grief,
Form:
Verse
Suddenly, I Find Myself Smaller
There is brown here
A dooming neutrality
darkening to black
as I picture you
further than the
sleeve equipped for
my emotive exchanges
In my misspelled well wishings
I hope you thought kindly
I am not as bitter
as my mocking your pockets may seem
I prefer you this way
Except, you must understand
that the best way to please me
is to not
And out of the other twenties...
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Categories:
smaller, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Smaller By Name, Huge By Heart
Let the winds of the earth chant of our love, for it is the sun that witnessed what we were
Feel the rain upon your soul, that it may taste life once again
Press your head firmly on my bossom that I may protect you in the days to come
It was your smile that kept me going,...
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Categories:
smaller, artheart, fire, fire, heart,
Form:
Free verse
A Much Smaller Place
Our planet's a much smaller place today;
the internet connects us one to one.
And we understand what each has to say;
everyone can converse with anyone,
foreign translations are instantly done.
We're now able to link with each other;
learn how we differ and what goals we share.
Calling strangers my sister or brother;
we expound on love and voice our despair,
sharing...
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Categories:
smaller, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Tall Men Overshadow Small Men Who Overshadow Smaller Men Who Are Overshadowed By Tall Men
tall men overshadow the small men
in great sadness we all fall down
joy abounds from the inside of hearts and souls
tears fall like stars
onto the cracked pavements of old...
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Categories:
smaller, angst
Form:
Free verse
Smaller Is Better
My life at seventy-two, amazing, yet there are times when its blue. In context, a haibun is of the now, not the future, or past. Oh, references can be made, in context, to ether, with qualifiers. So, today, for me has been a quest, Japanese poem rules investigated, cross-referenced, and found abused. No expert am...
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Categories:
smaller, poems, poverty, words,
Form:
Haibun
Taller That Humanity But Smaller Than the Gods
For whosoever feels lonely here is my hand
I guided up the sun, so you could see better
For whosoever fears doubt
I talked about myself failing you
Though you never saw it
You just noticed me
Standing like a statue
Right behind you all along
Hoping that you won't look back
For even I might start to reconsider
How tough I posed...
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Categories:
smaller, inspirationallight, light, seasons, ,
Form:
Free verse
The Smaller Child
When I was but a baby boy
No sweeter life could I enjoy
Beyond my room, my welcome bed
My refuge in the years ahead
Where nothing but the night is black
And black is never dark for lack
Of something bright or greater light
But merely brings a lesser sight
And should a sullen something scratch
Or enter unbeknownst to hatch
A nightmare by...
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Categories:
smaller, childhood, fear, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
The Products Get Smaller and Smaller
The Products Get Smaller and Smaller
By Elton Camp
Every time that we go to the store
Containers hold less than before
This is only a hidden price increase
A practice that truly needs to cease
For it will hurt all in coming days
When there’s no cost of living raise
Sometimes the shape will change
Slyly cutting contents to arrange
A bubble at the...
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Categories:
smaller, business,
Form:
Rhyme
Smaller
I see the world through a screen
The lines cut everything into little squares
If I get far enough away I can hardly tell
But when I am up closer it all gets clear
Nothing is connected everything is alone
The lines are there because I drew them
The separation protects my fragile self
The little squares make everything smaller
The tiny...
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Categories:
smaller, fear, loneliness, loss, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Silently Contemplating Smaller Things
lyrical embellishment
of a crescending scratch
packs
its things, ready to run
builds its place
among the nothings
of an empty woods...
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Categories:
smaller,
Form:
Gators Have Smaller Heads
I have a flatter head said the gator, haughtily.
So what? The crock answered. “Let me see.”
But crock went home and pouted about it too.
His mother told him not to be so blue.
Gators have much smaller heads, she said.
Their brains are tiny, not easily fed.
But don’t tell him that. For you will hurt your friend.
So crock’s...
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Categories:
smaller, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form:
Rhyme
A Smaller Flame
A Smaller Flame...
Death, where is your respite?
Fear, how bitter your taste?
Time, how fickle your finger,
upon the pulse of haste.
Anger, how deep your reach?
as I turn my face away...
Hatred, your cold embrace,
has left me with nothing to say.
The voices of the heart are faint,
and whispers fade to nothing.
Tears that never fall,
For a moment soon forgotten....
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Categories:
smaller, anger, death, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
Smaller Joys and Pleasures Are Not Sought
How like a prison is my once loved home
Since now I linger here in fevered chills.
No more may I be free to walk and roam
Nor climb the mountains and the hills.
The television irks me and annoys
I cannot bear the sound of human voice.
My lost intelligence is not deployed
I err in thinking I ...
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Categories:
smaller, feelings, health, introspection,
Form:
Sonnet
Smaller Slices of Larger Pies
Once there were millions.
Now there are billions.
Once there were kings.
Now there are councils.
Once there was ignorance.
Now knowledge abounds.
Once there was poverty.
Now comfort for most.
Once there was war.
Now there is peace.
Once there were traditions.
Now there are systems.
Our relative power is slipping away.
Even as we all grow greater each day.
8 October 2023...
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Categories:
smaller, power, time,
Form:
Free verse