Short Poems
Short poems say what need to be said in a few words. Sometimes it is hard to find the words you want, however, short poems have a few well-chosen words that quickly get to the point. Poetry can be brief and have the impact of embellished writes. Sometimes what you need to say can be very concise and refined, and still have great impact on readers. Short poems often show that time and energy were put into every word.
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I will still love him
For all of my forevers
I will still love him
I will forsake him never
He is in my heart to stay
Categories:
devotion, health, love, love,
Form:
Tanka
A slithering creature is the snake
He gives me such a fright
For when he coils up and hisses
I know he’s about to bite
Categories:
animals, children, nature,
Form:
I do not know?
Star
Big, bright
Glowing, giving, shining
Lights up the universe
dazzling, sparkling, lighting
Object, sphere
Light
Categories:
life, nature, space, universe,
Form:
Cinquain
In a land of make belive,
a place whare I can hide,
where reality seems so far away.
just like these tears i've cried.
Categories:
passion, sad, teen,
Form:
I do not know?
Anger
Breaking
Chills
Deepening
What they did to the child slowly eats me alive.
Categories:
loss, sad, sorry,
Form:
ABC
tear down to create
and begin. shiver at the
thought of this aspect?
this can be explained in the
duality of Shiva.
Categories:
introspection, life, philosophy,
Form:
Tanka
negative noise
weighted chest
arms extended
overhead
waiting for a
falling breeze
to
carry me over
Categories:
angst,
Form:
Free verse
A door unopened
the knock
makes almost
no sound
so subliminal
is
the flimsy veil
of steel
that guards the answer.
Categories:
imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Morning’s golden
Dawning
Kisses my wings
As I fly
To the sky
Looking for you
Instead, I found
Half moon
Aloft
Categories:
life, lost love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
That's
how it is
the chaff
blown away
and the kernel
of truth
takes root
a magnificent
everlasting
tree
of man.
Categories:
life,
Form:
Free verse
Please don't promise me forever
I've had promises before
Just give me a new dream every night
And I won't ask for more
Categories:
hope, love, sad, me,
Form:
Rhyme
man gives a woman
a kiss and a once-over
without his glasses.
he kisses her again and
says, "i love you as you are."
Categories:
husband, introspection, love, wife,
Form:
Tanka
black
brown
purple
red
orange
and
yellow
leaves
scattered
aground
with
some
green
ones
fallen
among
them
Categories:
death, faith, family, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
thought wirrlin'
blood screamin'
steel flash
torn voice
armies clash
unmade choice
feet poundin'
trumpets soundin'
Categories:
visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Back to the music from TV and Internet,
Enjoy again a fresh air, no cigarette,
Let dance together, now is good weather!
Categories:
family, children, people,
Form:
Haiku
its dynamite when i sing,but better when jossswings,beat that cuss champ,any
tramp,cant carry my joy,let alone my lamp.
Categories:
funny,
Form:
ABC
seems what it can seem,
really there, although unseen,
chameleon blends in.
Categories:
animals, nature, places,
Form:
Haiku
Study!study!study!
Mum says,yelling each day.
If only she could understand
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
Categories:
education, children, funny,
Form:
Burlesque
instinct
drives us to a place
where the physical world
interfaces
with the spiritual...
a place
of holy intention
Categories:
hope,
Form:
I do not know?
And was blue Earth, green woods and hills,
Place that is good, animals had a dream:
My dear, remember me and my deer...
Categories:
family, children, people,
Form:
Haiku
I'm a man so much in love
but nobody cares enough,
they laugh at me behind my back,
I'm everybody's fool, oh so alone.
Categories:
sad,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The morning sunlight
And night's breeze
Hit me in the face
Like the way
Eileen hit me between
My bones
And my skin.
Categories:
art, love, passion, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
How she wears yellow! Big
bright ear-ring like a personal
sun that dazzles
a blue twinkle
in the corner of her eye.
Categories:
happiness, life, people, ,
Form:
Free verse
see like a fiend.a cocaine herion fiend.winged an angel then dangled a song.left
alone to wrong the ship.i get skipped.
Categories:
inspirational,
Form:
ABC
What is the nature
of a confident heart
shrouded by insecurity....
Categories:
love, passion,
Form:
Free verse