Short Affairs Poems

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


Family Affair

Family Affairs 

Uxorious 
Devotion to wife 
Dotingly
Submissive 
Sounds like a serious offence 
In the dictionary
Form: Sestina


Premium Member Affairs of the Heart

When the music 
     doesn't sing
When whispered words
     want wings
Then affairs of the heart
     are just flings
Form: Rhyme

Broken Hearts We Bare

love tighten her grip on delinquent love affairs and we must pay our dues for all the broken hearts we bare

Premium Member Bzzzzzzzzzz

Listening to bee's hum
Hearing love-me-tender tones
Wings caress the wind
Flowers patiently await
Passionate nectar affairs
Form: Tanka

Sticks and Stones

Stick's and stones may brake my bones but words will never hurt me, But love 
affairs and broken swears will leave me scared deeply.
© Tc George  Create an image from this poem.
Form: ABC


Haiku

Decide the world's fate/nothing changes but the year/so who made YOU God?

from LIZARD SNAIL 124K
Nick Armbrister and other writers
Form: Haiku

Growing Pain's.......

Tragedy of human affairs
        fledgling...a comedy of errors
             incidental....accidental
    awkward,as we clumsily stumble

Feng Shui

A mirror hanging on a wall
May be bewitching to us all
At the foot of the stairs
Best arrange your affairs
As Pride goeth before a fall!
Form: Limerick

Cookie Byte

There never were cookies in prayers
And facebook was caught unawares
Zuckerberg cried,
"Suppose they lied!
Let's prophet from Pubic Affairs!"
Form: Limerick

Premium Member We Should Noah Better

Noah had a mission
	Build an ark on commission
		Fill it full of animal pairs
			To square away human affairs


01/03/2021
Form: Clerihew

Love Versus Lust

Some folk are prone to love affairs
For sex rewards the one who dares
They are hot to trot
Because they forgot
Miracles don't happen in pairs!
Form: Limerick

The Best of Charities

She was given in marriage now arrived back home in old age,taking care and  going engage in her affairs for her survival,counts the best of charities!

Psychic View

When a psychic named Krystal Ball
Predicted our President's fall
She meant down the stairs
Not from his affairs
(Trump's belly blocked seeing them all)
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Affairs of State

Pralines
  for queens
  are green

  Most teens
  in jeans
  are lean

  If queens 
  eat zinc 
  pralines

  Will teens
  in jeans
  be seen
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member I know you want me

Classy black and white affairs.
Take me home as your perfect pet.
Admit it ~ I'm quite adorable.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Form: Other

Premium Member Limelight and Fanfare

Limelight, band music, fanfare
Politicians love gala affairs
Hidden in secret plans sealed
Who would have thought such a deal
By politicians who seemingly care
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Friday Afternoon

Friday afternoon a Jew's week winds down
His affairs wrapped up before sundown
   
   He puts away his workman's dress
   Then dons his finery, his Sabbath best
Form: Rhyme

If I Were Perfume

If I were perfume
I would file many cases
against young ladies
for serial indecent assaults
breach of my privacy
obscene daily errands
and forced love affairs
Form: Imagism

The Moon

Like a devoted dog, ignorant of human schemes,
The Moon returns and seems to watch,
Towards worldly affairs she is ambivalent,
Instead she simply shines. 

©david byrne oct ‘12

Premium Member A Vignette Narrative

The weather changes abruptly
table for two, tea will do
the affairs of two go on sweetly
the weather lets up, but they do not
more tea will do as the affairs continue.

Bellicose and Verbose

Bellicose and Verbose 

Trump has been known to be bellicose,
And at same time also very verbose;
Sad affairs;
Never cares;
While feeling like we may be morose.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Suits and Ties

Why is it that men in suits and ties 
Tell some of the world’s biggest lies
Nurturing their business affairs 
Befriending loser billionaires
All while another innocent person dies.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Current Affairs Explained

We spend so much time on current affairs
Even though we have no influence there
   So, why do we persist
   Here's why, if you insist
We've found an excuse to yell, curse and swear
Form: Limerick

Ii

II
Ukraine belonged to Russia
So they acted doing their job
To make things easier 
Ukraine was Russia
Russia was Ukraine
Outsiders don't get it
One Mother Russia
Always forever

Premium Member Lucille Ball

American actress that had a ball, 
Her madcap antics behaviors enthrall 
Millions "I Love Lucy" fans 
With musical pots and pans
Desi Arnaz affairs her sad downfall.

9/2/2024
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

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