Short Cannot Poems

Short Cannot Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Cannot by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Cannot by length and keyword.


Lightning and Thunder

Lightning and thunder,
Vortex swirls above my head.
I cannot hear you.
Form: Haiku


Hard To Save

These fleeting sights
These sleepless nights
Are only of my mind
I rip my soul and body apart
Yet peace I cannot find

Premium Member Courage

Maxim #8:

COURAGE


They hurt body whole
Yet cannot touch soul




Leon Enriquez
15 February 2015
Singapore
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Old Beat

Skip the
Old beat that
Sounds in your head
That tells you cannot strive
Your dreams












2-7-2016
Form: Cinqku

The Way Things Are

Kids today cannot resist;
Technology entices,
So from our grands, we won’t be missed
When left to their own devices!
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member On Translating Turbulent Tulips

    ‘Turbulent Tulips’ 
     cannot be translated to Vietnamese
 
     Neither can
       ~ ‘Peripatetic Peonies’
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member I know what I know

This cannot 

Be known

Nor that..

No I to know..

Yet

I know what

I know..and I

Am sticking with it...

Premium Member Driven

  
      Colors of sunsets 
        Artists cannot match

      Yet we try anyway
         ~ our itch to scratch
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Venom's Thrall

Lying in wait 
Is a liar 
Aligned with a snake 

Such you cannot debate 
For the liar lives
In a trance-bound state

Premium Member Enjoy Your Bliss

joy cannot be appreciated fully
unless there has been suffering and pain
bliss follows you
revel in her while she lasts
joy

For You

My hand, 
My arms,
My voice 
These things, 
may hesitate

My eyes,
My ears,
My heart,
These things, 
cannot wait

Wastebin

The planet hums with broken things,
Puzzles, birds that cannot sing,
Tearing fabric, tarnished rings, 

And I.
And I.

Susceptibility

Why? Tell me why?
I ponder why you avoid me?
Couldn't  you see!?
I love you till I die..
I cannot see you, yet I see I.
Form: Ghazal

Premium Member S Memo

I treasure that which cannot be found.
The antecedent at a juncture.
Your face laying on my timeline.
A just God somewhere.

' More Will Rise ...' 71st Senryu

‘ More Will Rise … ’  71st  Senryu


  They Shoot Messengers
They Cannot Kill The Message
   More Rise, To Tell It ! …
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Sorry Baby No Milk Today

come here baby
have a drink
have a drink
oh wait a second.
Mama made a mistake
get away get away
cannot do this today

Premium Member A Conversation

My grandchild didn’t know the horror that the war had brought.
But then, they cannot remember what they were never taught.
Form: Couplet

Happiness

don’t run after it 
happiness is a shadow 
you cannot catch it 
man can be happy though poor
but no happy man is poor
Form: Tanka

Premium Member THE MIND AND AN UMBRELLA

How is a mind like an umbrella?
This theory I propose…
They cannot do their best work
when either of them are closed
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member the wet dog smell

If you have never had a dog
you might not know this
but there is a wet dog smell
that you cannot buy
you have to earn it
dog

Premium Member Who Cares

I think to myself who cares?
And I know the answer
Me

I might not even ever meet these people
But I cannot help myself
emo

Family

With my family,
Distant from where I am now.
I wish I was there,
I would love to see them all
But I cannot go right now.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Critics-N

Finds me
Binds me
Cleans me
Frees me
Critics cannot blind and bind my guts
Call me mean, it cleans, frees, can’t rebut.
Form: Tyburn

Absenteeism

We agreed on this
I stamp on your toe, slyly
You cannot feel it
Eyes on what you want the most
This is why you kept me home.
© Nicola Noo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Mystery

Truth in which we cannot understand, Very revealed truth 
We should and often believe when proof of their existence

7212013
Form: Couplet

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