Best Smaller Poems
Below are the all-time best Smaller poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of smaller poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
smaller, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
Between the Words of My FatherI tried my best
To live between your cruel words
Yet there was no room
I felt less
Smaller than small
So why didn't I fit?
I wonder
Now that you...
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Categories:
smaller, farewell, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Tangled VinesI walk along the old familiar path in the wood of my childhood -
the place that I willingly abandoned
for the lure of new...
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Categories:
smaller, childhood, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Perfect Christmas TreeWe ventured out into the woods one day
Trying to find the perfect Christmas tree
A beautiful fir all will want to come and see
Planning to cut...
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Categories:
smaller, beauty, bird, christmas,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
At the Golden Dawn of Understanding PotdIt was late in gorgeous springtime, and I was teaching my class,
A lesson in African history, and the events of time's hourglass.
My fourth graders were...
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Categories:
smaller, africa, christian, education, history,
Form:
Couplet
The Crying CandleThe candle seemed to call my name
I watched its brightly flickering flame
The light from it shone bright in the dark
I was hypnotised by its golden...
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Categories:
smaller, father, light,
Form:
Personification
A Letter SentI am writing to you because I know you have a wish.
I have been thinking diligently about your wish. It is not
going to be easy...
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Categories:
smaller, love,
Form:
Narrative
Hell's HospitalityThe sun cries for us, its heat fades away
snowflakes sprinkle round its orbit, yet go unmelted
it feels like evening, but its yet noon
time never changes...
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Categories:
smaller, africa, anger, corruption, culture,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Where Did the Years GoRemember years ago, when you were fit
Now you can't stand too long, before you have to sit
And all the times that you ran to catch...
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Categories:
smaller, age, old, retirement,
Form:
Rhyme
Impressions From a Stone Skipped On WaterHe grabbed me up from where I lay, peaceful in the sun,
with my brothers and my sisters round about me.
I felt four digits...
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Categories:
smaller, character,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Disillusioned ManAlways alone, no matter where
never understanding the why
The question not answered,
there's no one to ask
passage of time appears endless
trying to fill an emptiness, struck at...
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Categories:
smaller, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Between Your WordsBetween Your Words
Dad
I tried my best
to live between your cruel words
Yet there was no room
I felt less
smaller than small
Like a comma that didn't fit
a...
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Categories:
smaller, abuse, angst, character, child
Form:
Free verse
The StreetThe street seemed so much smaller now
The grime and the smell were still the same though
Engrained like the people who lived there
It was the only...
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Categories:
smaller, death, love, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Swans Lake SateSwans so gracefully gliding o'er lake
Delightful scenery they create
Dressed all in white feather finery
True beauties of the lake dynasty.
Falling in love with love forever
Swan...
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Categories:
smaller, beauty, bird, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-The Sun Is a Liar
It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed...
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Categories:
smaller, childhood,
Form:
Prose