Short 'Life Poems

Short 'Life Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about 'Life by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about 'Life by length and keyword.


A Man In a Dream Called Once His Wife

A man in a dream called once his wife
By another women's name.
What can I say? He lost his life
In bed, without pain .
Form: Quatrain


Premium Member Decisions

Decisions Haiku: by Tom 12/28/2020 Today’s decisions, determine eternity, for our later life.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Stranded Heart

His heart stranded in the dark 
stands alone under the rain 
of tears that soaks his sad soul 
feeling the cold chill.
Form: Dodoitsu

Woe Bailer

The hounds are hungry; 
Wolves paws, claws are venomous
Dark is woe bailer

© Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
28.06.2021
Form: Senryu

Wet Days

Pink sky with the rains
Dying the bared city streets
Wet days are beauties 

©Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
30.06.2021
Form: Haiku


Mind

"If you have faith, then you don't need to have knowledge. Then we wouldn't have to see you Bleeding of reality."

-Ds-
Form: ABC

All From Zero

From the nothingness
Eggs of thoughts- atomic point
Centripetal source



© Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
26/08/2021
Form: Haiku

Divinity

From ever good one
No need to ask forgiveness
Blessing- constant sketch 


© Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
29/08/2021
Form: Senryu

Spider Net

Stunning embroidered
Handmade hammock of insect
Waving with mild breeze


© Mahtab Bangalee 
Chattogram
29/08/2021
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Life In the Married Lane

When we first dated
         she gave me erections
       Now that we're married
         she just gives me directions

Cult

After the fire,
smoke...
Ashes...
Cult !
only when we leave
is when we will be
what we've always been,
 ..spirits!

Premium Member What Moves Me

day by the water
soaking up rays
reflections
calming
blue dreamy skies
ready to face the uncertainty
of the unknown

Springtime Pleasures

Green,
Lustrous,
Gleaming bright,
Shades of beauty,
The dead come alive,
Nature exhales,
Waterfalls,
Sing a
Song.
Form: Ninette

Praedicatum

Art,
being tied to form
is inferior to life

In the actuality
of its being
—life is

(Dreamsleep: February, 2022)

Premium Member Clerihew Chardin

Widower Jean Chardin
simplicity was his genre then
Small crystallized moments of intimacy
in life study symbols we see
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Revision of September

A life for a life,
far too many were taken;
Difficult lesson; 
Two towers fell we stood tall, 
revision of September.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Self-Determination

Never allow others to make life less than what you want yours to be!
Written October 5, 2022
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Useless

Useless is inner-light
if it can't be gathered,
as is water in the air
which can't be drank,
even if dying of thirst.

Before the Flood

Death was invented
when life tired of the living
Eternity flexing
—the muscles of time

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Clerihew Flegel

German George Flegel
of whom you may have heard tell
Still life his passion&metier
exccedingly well therefrom did fare
Form: Clerihew

Before the Flood

Death was invented
when life tired of the living
Eternity flexing
—the muscles of time

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)

Premium Member Clerihew Hulme

Thomas Ernest Hulmeaka 'T E'
sent down from Cambridge was he
After some trouble&strife
settled into an 'Imagiste' life
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Alarming

The alarm clock isn’t going off;
    it’s dead there on the stoop.
I fear the feral cats
    were in the chicken coop.
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member A Turning Point

A turning point's not always fight or flight
                                             ~ It just may be left or right
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Clerihew Rousseau

French painter Phillipe Rousseau
with still life had a go
Paris salon medals one two three
& Knight d'honeur was to be
Form: Clerihew

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