Short Barbed Poems

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


We Ask For Peace Once More

The casualties of  war
It shocks me
to the core
the 
barbed wire fences
at your door
then
we ask
for peace
once more
Categories: barbed, imagination,
Form: Free verse


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Lawns luxuriant 
Drew sight of poor passersby
Barbed fence mocked when near!

Copyright Anulaxmi Nayak, 2017
© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbed, discrimination, pain, social, society,
Form: Senryu

Kudu

Once
I roamed the grasslands
Free
Once
Full quick alert vital
Free
Nature framed my existence
Now
Your barbed wire is all
I see.
Categories: barbed, animal, nature,
Form: Free verse
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it never ends

Confederate types some admire
Punctured DEI's entire hire
The world is a throng
And civil war's wrong
But that car just hit their barbed wire
Categories: barbed, racism, war,
Form: Limerick
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On Prairies Lovely

on prairies lovely combed with moth wings emerald.... barbed pines prick clay's flesh
(( for Charles Henderson's Strict Haiku 2 Contest))
Categories: barbed, nature
Form: Haiku


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It Was One of Those Mornings

dawn’s barbed talons
slowly splay a sleepless night…
            crimson scars

     daybreak’s ruby blouse
softly drapes a diamond skirt…
             morning dew
© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbed, morning,
Form: Haiku

Pretty Hair

Her eyes drip down scorn
Like pus from running sores
Every word edged and barbed
To rip and rend and tear
She lives to laugh at suffering
But oh she has such pretty hair
© Ron Porter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbed, funny
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Soul-sucking grind

Sitting on the fence I get entangled
in the barbed wire,
I lie on the heap of ashes
of my cherished dreams  
wondering when a stray spark might 
rekindle the flames of my dormant desires.
Categories: barbed, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
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Dunnock

feel the hedge the dunnock had slept
its lines a scribble toddlers had drawn
he nested in a pen test on scrap paper
edging fields in barbed wire branches
sleep static acrobats on frozen trapeze
Categories: barbed, analogy, bird, fun, nature, seasons, sleep, tree,
Form: Free verse

Waiting in Fear

the sun, having been fixed
on the barbed wires of my ranch,
is in a state of fear and shock,
cause it has blocked the night's path;
that's why it will have to be exposed
to the night's wrath
Categories: barbed, day, night,
Form: Free verse

Cutting

Dark emotions like barbed wire wrapped around my heart 
I grab my blade 
I watch as blood flows and my skin comes apart 
With the blood goes the pain
A temporary release to keep just barely sane
© Ruine Wren  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbed, depression,
Form: Free verse

Addiction

and so it begins....
my withdrawal from an addiction
that causes so much pain
frustration and confusion
as I bounce off
of these barbed-wire walls
I know I am strong enough
to finally break free
© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbed, lost love
Form: Free verse

Wire Nest

There's a fairy in my chest
Live's with two crooked knives
In a barbed wire nest.
She loves to play and hide
In the dense and dolorous vines.
And I can get no rest.
As she tortures me at all times.
Categories: barbed, angst, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Separation

In the debt of separation
Yet we mortgage our eyes
On the firing sand of separation
Yet there has left a long way
In this barbed valley
Yet it to be blooded our dreams
Listen Imran please
Yet you do not lose hand
Categories: barbed, dream, literature, lost, love hurts, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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Whitney 2 - Faux Distance

I wander
        In barbed circles
          Seeking grace
         In faux distance-
           Looking back
          In wry dismay… 
My baggage has followed me

WHITNEY 2 - Poetry Contest
        ~05 Sep 2017~
© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbed, travel,
Form: Verse

Barbed Wire Ballad - (3)

Rusted wire against a tree, year by year recedes
The countless rings of outer bark enwrap the wire within.
I mark the circles choking me.  I’m taut, stretched thin.
Thus Time is so absorbing me. Consumed. The oak tree feeds.
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbed,
Form: Verse
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acknowledgement

I’m a fencepost 

With barbed wire

Leaning 

On the prairie



I don’t know 

What I’m keeping in 

Or 

What I’m keeping out


I’m just a fencepost 

With barbed wire

Leaning 

On the prairie
Categories: barbed, allegory, deep, how i feel, i am,
Form: Free verse

a hunch

Dripping over with the magic sense, you
With violet wings soar unnaturally low.
I split with your cloud's grief my own adieus—
And the words that can hold your barbed mind close,
A place where there's dreams— I hope— to shed to.
© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: barbed, dedication, flying, humanity, innocence, light, lonely, love,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
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Wounding Words

Your words sting me like a bee Barbed, cutting, cruel and callous You really don’t understand me Go back and live in your ivory palace 18th March 2015 Inspired having read the recent poems of Jade Celeste
Categories: barbed, pain, poetry,
Form: Couplet
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Wallowing Iced Fish-

break of day pungent a small swimming fish wallows because of the ice ~ break barbed of this day a large swimming fish wallows he enjoys the ice
2/21/21 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Categories: barbed, analogy, fish, fishing, winter,
Form: Haiku
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Jagged

Jutting out dangerously.
Attention needed urgently.
Gashed and hurtful no one liked. 
Grating metal barbed and spiked. 
Exposed wire to catch your clothes.
Dull and jagged everyone loathes.
Categories: barbed, nature,
Form: Acrostic

J'Accuse

Barbed volleys 
Wound my heart.
Sieved and torn,
Crippled beyond repair.

I crawl,
Seeking  condonation,
For what I know not,
Content with scars.

Would that they disappear
Without trace,
To start afresh;
But barbs suppurate!
Categories: barbed, abuse, betrayal, depression, feelings, forgiveness, hurt, words,
Form: I do not know?

A Picture of Misery

I saw misery 
in three horses
huddled in the corner
of a paddock -
cold, rainsoaked
they stood motionless
in the open
heads turned towards
a large tree 
with its wide canopy
a few lengths away
on the other side
of a barbed wire fence.
Categories: barbed, horse, sad,
Form: Free verse

The E T

Zena hailed from the Zeta Reticula star system and she
was bored with the military’s handling of her.  Day after day of
interrogations and discussions for weapons or space travel.

barbed wire
she yawned wondering if it was
to keep her in or them
Categories: barbed, allegory, child, fantasy, love, science,
Form: Haibun

Am I In Hell

Thoughts billowed out from the mind
All the disbeliefs and sins whirl around my soul
What's more...
The barbed arrow of time pierces into my heart
And as the witching hour dawned upon us
It snatches my breath away... Am I in hell?

©malavikavipin
Categories: barbed, 8th grade, fate, fear, grief, halloween, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
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