Short Cliff Poems

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


The Cliff of My Lips

the words fall over the cliff of my lips
and as they fall they die
why cant I form a single sound 
that has the wings to fly?
Form: Couplet


Premium Member On the Cusp

Listen to poem:
on the cusp

poised precarious, point perched,
lies threshold brink verge,
the tipping-point pivot to,
rise/fall from grace.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Mahogany Cliff

Looking at the scarp
Of the mahogany cliff
Cerulean tides
Calm down the racing mind thoughts
Offering a peaceful state













3-16-2016
Form: Tanka

Premium Member CERAMISTA cliff leach

CERAMISTA cliff leach
impermeable
  & opaque
functional
  translucent
  vitrified
faience
  undervalued
engobe
 terra
      signposts
burnished
& defined
art
Form: Didactic

Premium Member From High On Life's Cliff

Leap from the bed, need to stay ahead
  of the upstart pack, baying for bloodshed

Visions of the abyss, from high on life's cliff
  spur me to fight the daily battle for bread
Form: Rubai


Cliff

''Standing on the edge of cliff that drop suddenly. So vast, depth unknown. The sky is clear and blue. Watching the heavens, while it twirls. It's easy to imagine --that this is the world's brink.''
Form: Epigram

Cliff

The rocks crumble
beneath my feet
alone,
unlike the last time.
No one to catch me 
to tell me to stop.
Seems as if
no one even cares.
But in truth, 
no one knows,
Because I hide behind a smile.

Toward the Cliff

The Pied Piper of failure
loose in our schools
Cacophony playing
of pedants and fools

He lures and beguiles 
to those innocent souls
Who locked in his footsteps
—will never be whole

(The New Room: March, 2023)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Rondelet: Cliff Hangers

Rondelet: Cliff hangers

In the name of 
Our party let other half cry
In the name of
Our safety sever one half off
For mere two per cents let's all die
The chosen people never lie
In the name of

(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2012
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member Cliff Notes

war be no game
war is men
in the trenches
on the line
up the hill
downwind 
flying colors through the air
blue sky and rabid sun snapping
pictures of flapping angels
falling off a cliff
digging a deeper hole
amidst the powdery musket-mist

12/19/2019
war

Over the Cliff

Here lies dear Eileen Tufar Over the cliff in her brand new car Passed suddenly without leaving a scar Please tell my husband to get out of the bar April.15.2019 An Epitaph to Make Us Laugh 2 Sponsored by: Jesse Rowe N/A for contest
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member Cliff Hanger

I can recall two occasions when I should have rightfully died,
and regarding both of those events, it was an animal who saved my life.
One of them may still currently be alive,
but the other who saved me paid with her life.
Maybe I'll share with all of you their stories sometime.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Cliff: Huxtable

The Cliff: Huxtable

My Favorite Comedian
  Was! 
   Mr. Bill Cosby.

Surprise!

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-Gray Squirrel

06-09-2025

Off the Cliff:Fragment

emerging in the rising twilight
the stars brought tears to our eyes
the wings were like songs
signaling the dry desert rising, 
reaching 

from the great nest 
by the edge where the world 
is split open
some hands reach up 
from an opening in the sky
the belly of the earth 
heaving out its kin

Cliff Notes

The mountains of the mind
are not high,
peaks that raise no taller
than the spike of a moment,

and yet,

to climb them can be treacherous,
thoughts can be avalanches.

Better to just watch,
those bluffs, buttes, and cliffs
as if on an oscilloscope,
let them pass you by
as meaningless blips.

Premium Member Cliff

Near the end of the edge, truth is there is no end,
But only a different story into which I descend.
A drop so high, seemingly endless,
But I am near the edge of my life's end.
Falling alongside the wall of time,
Truth is there is no wall, but only a cliff to grip 
As my soul slips into death as I breathe my last breath.

The Cliff

Onward, forward, I stride
To the cliff I march
No rope nor gear
Just the Sun as my guide

Onward and forward, I trudge
Deafening whispers of echoing winds
Carving their mask on the valley below
As I ponder the muddy clay path before me

Onward, forward, I go
To the cliff I march
Ignoring the urge to stray
To take a leap of faith
© Byron Kaya  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Icy Cavern Cliff

cavernously eerie
echoes long dead
frosted over and irritated

grating silence
cold as ice 
unforgiving, unyielding, just un…..

woods feels disapproved,
disrespected, unappreciated
rock solid hush dispels possibilities

slate and shale
hiding teensy glimmers of mica
shining like her ice heart

cavern rules 
showing a presence
that scares many

Cliff

She stands, a horse with legs taut and proud
And her eyes are an opera, 
The clashing and rising of war voices
Marble eyes in rubber casing.
She is perfectly how
Hope stands in battle.
I bought a horse with a tail like a cliff, 
Blown, fine, proud, tall; 
Stalked.
And I would have bought you
But your hair was lavender.
And I would have bought you, twilight
Form:

Cliff-Hangingconformity

.. must self-worth perilously 
   hang on to a cracking crag..

         crag  that is slowly loosening 
         off  the edge of a crumbling cliff..

               cliff of other people's opinion,
               dangerously above the rocks..

                     rocks of subjective humiliation,
                     actually, self-perceived oblivion .. ?

Premium Member i'm dancing to cliff richard in the attic

there's no one around you see
it's just me and cliff
ear buds help cushion the volume 
my smartphone warns me 

it could damage my ears
i put it at full volume
it's 9:40pm and the family are asleep
this could go on all night

cliff said he was proud he never adopted a 
hedonistic rock and roll lifestyle and never wanted
to trash a hotel room

i've just trashed the attic

The Cliff

Standing on the edge
Looking down into the swirling abyss below
That could be my watery grave
Just a quick step forward
And it would all be over
Leaning forward
Thoughts flooding in
The sound of waves crashing assaulting my ears
It would be so nice
Just to sleep
Sleep and never wake up
Life is so complex
Death is easier, quicker
Less painless
I decide
Take a deep breath
And step back

We Walked In Oak Cliff

We walked in oak cliff
Down a street, Rosemount I believe
a house, a dream
we released this home
It breathes,now
underneath
plastic, siding
we conceive
a life, a child
That’s her room
she could play
My studio
With windows
build
a entry way
windows
the kind that stick
and resist Your fist on the frame
But life exists
In wood floors
A scratch, on buffet
what stories they tell
what treasures in age
Form:

Tintin Got Stuck To a Cliff-Hanger

Tintin got stuck to a cliff-hanger
limerick
(C) rajat kanti chakrabarty



                                     Tintin got stuck to a cliff-hanger
                                   Snowy was asked to bring a banger
                                             Snowy was needy
                                             So he was greedy
                                  And all hell let loose with a clangour
Form: Limerick

Our Love Is On a Cliff

Love is standing on the edge, 
Up on the edge of the cliff. 
You'd better hurry up and catch, 
Catch it before it slips. 
There it stands at the edge, 
Walking and wanting to jump. 
Reminiscing the times that brought it there, 
And hating the things that won't work. 
It wants to jump, but knows it's stuck. 
It won't get out very easily. 
So I guess this is life, 
And without a knife, 
This love will be stuck there forever....
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