Short Ballet Poems

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


A Late Summer Wind

Long slender coconut trees
                      Sway and dance a ballet to
                      late summer gusty wind
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Clerihew Adams

Adolphe Adams known for ballet 'Giselle'
& forhis carl musicale
O Holy Night was the score
writing it was never a chore
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Wasn't That a Day

Wasn't that a day - 
Peter and the Wolf
in the Bolshoi Ballet.

Yet, in that regard,
Peter - and a wolf
in a leotard?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Whispering Wings

ebony winged
aerobatic Ravens dance
                                ……..a feathered ballet

John G. Lawless
©1/12/2022
Form: Haiku

Premium Member In Destiny's Way

From pirouettes to guitar frets
    ballet to country crooners

  Enchanted elegance poached
    by bluegrass sand-duners
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member ART APPRAISAL twinku


MAGRITTE dream world unfurled DEGAS BALLET a pose on toes WARHOL FACES monroe tableaux
art
Form: Footle

Premium Member Clerihew Stravinsky

Composer Igor  Stravinsky 
an overnight sensation came to be
He got the ballet audience ro sing 
his praise with Rite of Spring
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member rosehip tea

in this mug red roses dance

ballet brewing excellence

petals entwined

sips so refined

tasteful this rosehip romance.
Form: Limerick

The Butterflies Run Ballet Flight

The butterflies run ballet flight,
They're fluttering around anew,
As brighter your inviting light
as thicker spider's next to you.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Dancing Fall Wind

dancing on fall winds orange aerial ballet... monarchs passing through 10/26/2018
© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Candle Ballet

A burning desire,
Wax sweat glistens her figure: 
A scented routine.

Passion on the wall,
Illuminated shadow:
Ballet of the flame.
Form: Choka

Whap

Belle E. Danser tried some ballet
But Double D's got in the way
No one could forget
How her pirouette
Simply floored Maurice Chevalier!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Christmas In Minnesota

digesting ballet —
prime rib and bacon, waltzing
Nutcracker taters
Tchaikovsky suite crescendo
fork and knife tenderizing

12/25/2021
Form: Tanka

Premium Member The Queen of Day

The Queen of Day in cool array
Dances her gay dewdrop ballet
Her morning rays light up the skies
She lifts the Lord of Night’s disguise.

Winter Symphony

shimmering snowflakes
ballet dancing in the wind
winter symphony

Bite Size Poem no.38 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
3/1/2022
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Heaven on tiptoe

Ballet slippers on her feet.
She twirled so gracefully across the room.
As ethereal as an angel.


Words: 5-7-5 words

AP: 3rd place 2026
Form: Other

Premium Member Kim Basinger

 Kim Basinger
 To ballet classes, her mother would bring her
 Agoraphobia grounded her for a while
 But she posed for Playboy with a smile
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Star Ballet


Night wraps woods,
frenzy fireflies swirl,
webbed live light 
snares stillness… 
dark stage holds cosmic concert,
star ballet on land.
Form: Shadorma

Premium Member Spring Day

clouds part, sun strikes earth
a glimpse of warm hopefulness
light lifted ballet
















Haiku composed: January 14, 2021
Form: Haiku

Premium Member The Ballerina

never a quitter ,
the boundlessness ballerina
is spunky and trusting
with mercurial will .


(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • August 10–16, 2026)

Premium Member Winter Day

Unscripted ballet Branches dip and sway Dressed in somber gray Blustery winter day
for Brian's" short and sweet" contest
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Moon-Pearled Rose

when maple sun melts
along orange ice of dusk
brisk-ballet shall breathe
in pale love's snowy scents for -
I'm your midnight's moon-pearled rose...
Form: Tanka

Premium Member The Symbols of Love

Flowers, trees, the clouds above Symbols of nature, symbols of love Day after day It's nature's ballet When shown the image of a dove
Form: Limerick

Night Ballet

Ladies falling from the sky
like twirling silver buttterflies
in white lace tutus
swirling, spinning
in a an evening performance
of a winter dance...

Show Tonight

The ballet dancers are missing two  members for the show tonight.
They got caught in an accident on the way.
Two members of the audience joined the show.
Form: Sijo

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