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Short 40 Poems

Short 40 Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about 40 by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about 40 by length and keyword.


Premium Member Ageisms Jh 40
youths reign
 pasteurized
 senyours...

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Categories: 40, allusion, class, lost, society, truth, youth,
Form: Haiku



Haiku's Temple 40
An echo:-
a pigeon,
checks all round....

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Categories: 40, adventure,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member 40 Comin
40 
Comin
To make
Me a
Better 
Man...

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© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 40, age, america, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Still Point 40
...twixt..
    paint stick drip
and floor...

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Categories: 40, art,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Haiku 40
two worlds —
	night and a new day 
	life’s gyre...

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Categories: 40, life,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Monoku#40
oyster mushroom clouds - atomic particles alight...

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Categories: 40, nature, sea
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Work exercises
Another one of life's challenges is to touch your toes after 40...

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Categories: 40, life,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Haiku 40
late spring
fragrance fills the air
cherry blossoms

2/21/14...

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Categories: 40, spring,
Form: Haiku
#40 Discernment
to be right or to 
be happy discernment at
it's very best, yes!...

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Categories: 40, inspirational
Form: Haiku
40
Inhaling  the scent 
I forget about the heat
While the flower dies...

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Categories: 40, nature,
Form: Haiku
Turning 40
oh no here it comes
that big barrel that big gun
i will not go yet...

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Categories: 40, art, black african american, fantasy, funny, life
Form: Haiku
#40
Fate sealed long ago
No love, this life or the next
A sigh of relief...

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Categories: 40, confusion, lost love, love, sad,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Oscar-Ku 40 -In the Heat of the Night
smart cop from Philly
bigoted Southern sheriff-
...call me Mister Tibbs!...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 40, conflict, courage, murder, race, racism,
Form: Haiku
40-Love
words thrown in the wind

love is not a tennis ball

she's a leaf blower...

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Categories: 40, muse,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Monoku Ekphrasis 40
Tim Dudley-Smith-
                         poetry made to sing ...for  Hymn...

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Categories: 40, music,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Picture Rise
40
Do
Picture
Rise
Till
There’s
Tears
In 
My
Eyes
You float
On by...

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© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 40, abuse, america,
Form: Free verse
Haiku #40
Like heaven on earth

What do the angels look like

Who fly with birds wings...

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Categories: 40, nature
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Haiku: Traditional 40
springtime lost in dream
dreaming might my rhyme be true?
all that rhymes is God!...

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Categories: 40, poetry, writing,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Pissing Contests
Pissing contests
And me over the
Brink of 40
Now mending
The mistakes
I’ve made...

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© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 40, age, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Monster of the Marsh
under the lotus,
his tail sways like a cedar

— mighty behemoth

Job 40:15,16, 21...

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Categories: 40, animal, bible,
Form: Haiku
40 Degrees West Nor West
sunrise charcoal silhouettes ember warmth forty degrees west nor west
...

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Categories: 40, nature, sun,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Spa
spa day
dad comes home
to a brunette



Published in Bottle Rockets #40 2019

Posted on June 18, 2018...

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Categories: 40, change, color, family, father, home, mother,
Form: Senryu
How Old Are You
If you are 40 you are actually 40 years and 9 months old so, 3 months after your 40th birthday you will be 41...

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© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 40, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Be Mine
Be Mine

     Dear, waiting only for you: Be mine.


    02/27/21

 Bite size poem No.40

Contest by Line Gauthier...

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Categories: 40, love,
Form: Monoku
Markdown
40% off --
That draws the customers in;
They like their bargains.
But at the end of the day
I have sold more and made less....

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© Jim Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 40, work
Form: Tanka

Book: Shattered Sighs