Short Adult Poems

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


Pure Vision- Form Lune - 3 Lines Contest

Form: Lune   5/3/5 words

children can look and see
only pure visions
which adult minds then defiles

penned 18/5/2014
Form: Verse


Do

Do Dogs actually bark?
Do cats actually miaow?
No sound comes out.
Just makes you think it exists
Our adult lives do not.

Iv

Milk to children is love
Honey to adult is love
kiss to children is affection 
Sex to adult is affection
Love is an answer
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Playful Child To Curious Adult

Adult
hopeful, kind,
amusing, loving, driving
car, college, sandpile, swings
loving, exciting, enjoying
playful, kind
child
Form: Diamante

Hawaii Five-O

As a little boy
Hypnotized by gyrating
Hips and bare navel

As an adult man
Light-skinned exotic women
Always more preferred
Form: Haiku


Inner Child

A creative adult,
a child who survived

New toys in the attic
—where time comes alive

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Odds and Ends

barely adult male lacking abilities needs aimless future trials~ driven working family young man dies by drunk driver
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Parent Child Reunion

Listen to poem:
Fledgling child unclasps
Turns and flees,
Away unhitched.
Blatant rebel, free
Rejects parents as uncool,
But as an adult, reunites.

Jealousy

Laughable when kids;
Treated with leniency.
Disturbing when growing up;
Seen with concern.
Bothering when adult;
Seen as a sickness!

Premium Member BEE

B = Be sweet as honey is what we are told
E = Every child as you buzz around so bold
E = Every adult no hiding in a hive as you get old
Form: Acrostic

When I Was a Child

when I was a child I used to wonder
when I was a teen I used to lust
when I was an adult I used to love
Now I am old I wonder, lust, admire

Premium Member Willy Wonka

Willy Wonka sang the cheeriest of songs
to every child he did see.
For what other adult could eat candy all day long
and not get a single cavity?
Form: Clerihew

Growth

Life as an adult
Is at times difficult
There is no shortcut 
They can criticize and insult 
In God you should consult 
For a successful result

Premium Member Young Adult

I bit into the hardest of suckers
‘Cause I’m no longer a big huge baby
With moods a lot like teeter-totters.
Now, I’m who I always wanted to be.
Form: Quatrain

Changing

Child

Young, Innocent

Laughing, Playing, Smiling

Preschool, Middle School, High School, College

Working, Working, Working

Serious, Tired

Adult
© Selena R  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Every Woman Is a Paw Tree

with paw fruits of sizes
purchased at birth for nothing
thrown on the chest by word of mouth
young, ripe, old they are
but a taboo for adult diet

Premium Member Child---Adult

Child active, happy growing, jumping, running future, plans, hopes, expectations, worrying, paying, scheming discouraged, burdened adult
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Clerihew Baudelaire

The French poet&critic Baudelaire
made many a quote sans a care
Genius, being chi!dhood retrieved, at will 
a childhood.. equipped with adult skill
Form: Clerihew

Hope Harper

Who cares who calls
How to handle balls?
Kidding bidding close near
Sweet woman lovely dear
Slow fast flickering flame
Adult star tacky sesame...
© Bhalu Shah  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Losing Your Innocence,...Oops! I Meant Ignorance

The adult equivalent of children losing their innocence
is when adults come to find a much greater, broader open mind
because they've lost their ignorance.
Form: Rhyme

Baby To Adult

Baby adorable, lovable crying, crawling, nursing angel, sprout, toddler, teen, cunning, deceiving, lying thoughtless, reckless, Adult
Form: Diamante

Pundit

A lot of the limericks I’ve known
Were composed for adult ears alone.
   I guess that applies
   To this one likewise,
If the final word makes you all grown.
© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

There Once Was a Known Lady of Vice

There once was a known lady of vice
Who charged for her moist pie by the slice
Famous men would holler 
Down many a dollar
To taste the infamous Heidi Fleiss
Form: Limerick

Premium Member time for black magic

From cult leader wafts a weird smell
What adult can conjure a spell
With words from occult
Which bring the result
That catapults Trump back to hell?
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Living In An Adult World As a Child

psychedelic frogs wandering in and out of my mind
taking my blue eyes away from adult sights
I thank you for distracting me
as I taste another of Mommy’s gummies

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