Short American Dream Poems

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


Foreclosure

the day they walked out
closed the door for the last time
boxes on a truck
carried their memories away
with the American dream
Form: Tanka


American Dream

Open-top convertible 
Zooming along
Highway 61
Dylan on the radio 
Chasing the American Dream. 

        W.A. CHOLT.  Copyright Fergal O Reilly  2018.
© W.A. Cholt  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

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Pursuing the great American Dream Juggling life-children, work and home Justifying time away from family Genuflecting to the Almighty Dollar
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MEGALOMANIA AMERICAN DREAM





          sans geography
      The USA is this world
        others, planets...

     Japan is Russia
        Brazil is in China
          China is out there...!

Hail To The Chief

A bold and brash decree
With a TRUMP AND A TALE he stirred the sea
A leader's journey, in the spotlight's gleam
Echoes of a nation, chasing the American dream

© daniel miltz


Stuck In the Middle

There is no prayer for the Middle Class The American Dream we no longer see We can not get the help to meet our needs the Middle Class Soon we will be extinct...

Trump Did Destroy American Dream

Trump Did Destroy American Dream

Trump thinks  he is reigning supreme,
While he did destroy American dream;
Even would scour;
Found golden shower,
And economy is floating down stream.

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

Premium Member My Country Tis of Thee

it waved at me
but i was not friqhtened by the gesture

the stallion red,
the flourescent white,
the unblemished blue,


now 
the lastest addition to the american dream, a newborn

in her own time will sing

The Ill of Capitol Hill

If you think what happened was too bad,
Imagine, had he been elected...
Oh four more years of him
On American dream!
Think, world's a small price paid, and be glad.
________
Tongue-in-cheek 03/01/2021
Topic: humour, happenings
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Safe at Home

     Safe at school
        safe in the subway…

     Safe on the sidewalk
        safe on the street… 

     Safe in my home
        safe in the basement… 

     The American dream scammed
        See it on you-tube webcam

Dissoluting Heart

Feeling of heart got melting 
after dissoluting of pain.
Core of heart got dissoluted 
when dullness of dreams of pain.

Happiness of heart is for a while 
but sadness is for long time 
with a pain of dissoluted heart.

Avnesh yadav

Premium Member Dying To Live - Greed

He had one goal, the "American dream" paradigm.
Giving his wife and kids everything but his time.
Working more and more to reach his perceived level of contentments.
He died alone, suffocating neath the weight of his "accomplishments."
© FJ Thomas  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

From the Ledge

A rose bloomed.
A poem written in buds.
It offered its arms, illiterate to whats been written. 
It fell asleep. A garden in thought.
Slipping from the ledge it grew.
In REM it whispered.
Wake me when we land.
For I will have acheived my dream

Fortitudes Ardour

Could you blame the American dream
Plastic coast to coast
A Harlequin pawns himself
Enterprise gone mad
Ply the rebop
The spirit of 1973
Corporate Lawyer loathed to tell the truth
A confident already foretold
Fortitudes' ardour
doomed to quieten itself

Quarantine For Contest

Yesterday we complained over, familiar routine
We longed for a break from the American dream
But things have, since, changed
The world rearranged 
Now complaining to walls, about life, quarantined 

Quarantine poem
3/31/2020
Sponsored by Julie Leigh Rodeheaver
Form: Limerick

Up In Flames

As the heavens sang
The choirs belted
And the birds chirped
America went up in flames.

As boots marched in lines
Towards the sea of rage
A sea of people who once fought
For the land they now destroy.
  
It’s been a long time since I heard
The American Dream.

The American Dream

Apocryphal					
Misleading 				
Egotistical				
Reckless	
Illusion				 
Comical			
A Fool's paradise
Non-negotiable		

Deceptive
Radical 
Expendable			
Alluring
Manufactured
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member My Mother's Life

born on foreign soil she came through Ellis Island American dream she never had much worked from sun-up to sun-down wanting more for me dying much too young wishing I could say once more "Mother, I love you"
For the Senryu for Mother contest
Form: Senryu

Premium Member The American Dream

the American dream.

oh...

...for it

i'll cry - i've cried, i am crying


oh...

...for it

i'll weep - i've wept, i am weeping


oh...

...for it

i'll faint - i've fainted, i am fainting



oh...

...for it

I'll never die - I am not dead, I am not dying

America 6

A new party that will bring unity is needed
Merging Republicism and democracy
Every young person today desire change
Rising from the dying embers of the past
Inspire and show true leadership for all
Choose to remain in glory past or it future
Awake once again the great American dream
Form: Acrostic

Smiles To the Sky

I saw a cloud today
shaped just like smile

Then I saw it fade
became sad a while

Sitting there in wonder
I Had this Little Dream

About the lips that smiled
on a face I'd never seen

Then I heard a whisper
That I could barely hear

Telling me to smile back
So I did from ear-to-ear
© Kelly Page  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

The American Dream

The American Dream

By Elton Camp

A real bargain in a house the couple spied

To become owners, it was time they tried

Filled out a stack of paperwork

Submitted it to loan officer jerk

The answer soon came back:  loan denied


(Are banks doing what they can to help the economy revive?)
© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Help Me Reviving The Dreams

The Dreams… 
That human beings pursue Freedom and Happiness
That men share all of Mother Nature’s resources
That all religions and faiths practice Compassion
That land and sea disregard the boundaries
That men’s skins recoat in the Blue Earth’s color
That we can tell alien visitors: We are Earthman!

15 January 2024

The 20s

The people were out of luck.
The music sucked.
The American dream 
was just some evil scheme.
The world was a thrill ride
to the people who lied.
There was murder, fights, 
and lots of suicide.
Nobody had any pride.
Times were tuff
and days were rough.
The president never did a good deed.
I think he needed some weed.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Only the Dreamer Dies

ONLY THE DREAMER DIES…

The arid winds steal
     Our tears.
The sterile dust tease
     Cystic hopes
Of dreams deferred.

At shrines of Lazarus
     Visions
Beckon the faithful
     Silencing
 The wailing discontent:

Only the dreamer dies; the dream
     Lives on.
Only the dreamer dies; the dream 
     Lives on.

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