Short Common Poems

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


Common and Book Sense

Common and Book Sense

Just because he had
Book sense doesn't mean he's with
Any common sense.

Jim Horn, Soothsayer
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku


Salt and Sugar

salt and sugar have 
something in common
 appearance 

but something uncommon
once they touch and melt
on the tongue

Premium Member Unlike a Common Bride

unlike a common bride
she featured a turquoise veil
there were hydrangeas in her hair
her groom adored her even more now

Premium Member Clerihew Wilson

For Dennis Bruce Wilson of Thame
as a hobby poetry was hid game
Famed for his WWIi elegy
'A Common Soldier' for all to see
Form: Clerihew

Bedfellows

Differing from our enemy,
in one way the same

Our conflict in common
—to praise or to blame

(The New Room: May, 2021)
Form: Rhyme


Saying Right Over There and Pointing To the Left

Sometimes Rights
should be left
get your head straight 
forward think
and let common sense
direct you
you can’t go wrong
© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Common Ground

We all continue to feed from the soil
Except for the children that starve
Seed our world of turmoil
Save Eden, sow a garden
© Monk Frost  Create an image from this poem.

A Series of Common Characters

I'm writing a series;
it goes like this:
"I"
"m"
"w"
"r"
"iting a series;"
"it goes like this:"
I just wrote a series.

Premium Member Common Words

And when you think you've lost the inner light
Let's yourself speak for the first time.
So many doors there are of your mind.

The Genius

The genius of the mind is limited only by 
The mentality of the fool.

The fool has common sense,
The genius has solutions.
Form: Concrete

Premium Member Emphatically Speaking

With common sense so sporadic 

I just want to be emphatic

But with all this social static

It's hard to remain pragmatic
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Poet And Priest

It is all the same
both poet and priest
The Word his feast

One quotes God
the other, less above
in common
they both love

Premium Member No Nietzche, no'

We love not life, in fact?  for the
fact; that
We love; to love..Its that most fear death'
Wots most common bruvv.)
.

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Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Ebony Neon Woman

Ebony neon woman
Mysteriously beautiful
We stand off in the distance
Admiring, but fearful
Gorgeous is not common around here

Premium Member Viceroy Butterfly

a frail beauty floats
atop a common milkweed
       viceroy butterfly



Date written: 08/21/2019
Form: Haiku

Recluse

She says she hates those
Wretched spiders and their webs
But she hath much in common
Threadbare words homespun
Envy of Ariadne
Form:

Looking Up

As the drunk teacher was saying:
The hum of the computer
Was a common feature
In 5 BC one student 
Was looking up:
Anachronism
Form: Shape

Premium Member Hidden Tongue In Mountain Cheeks-A Haiku

winters osculate
 a common intense tongue hides
 inside mountains cheeks


1/12/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Form: Haiku

Sex Education

A common Kama Sutra pose
Assumes men have a garden hose
When one is rigid
The woman frigid
And checking which way the wind blows
Form: Limerick

Occam Says

Common Sense
uncommon
Wisdom 
in the queue
Figures lie
as liar’s figure
Judgment
— left askew

(Dreamsleep: August, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Achieving Peace

Unless we all work for the common good, peace would never be achieved! 









© Demetrios Trifiatis
      10 April 2018
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Elderberry Bush

The elder is a bush with properties that can heal the sick. The common cold, has no chance when its’ used.
Form: Ninette

Premium Member Sequence Weekend Walk

Along 
a footpath,
into a wood
upon a bridleway-
across
hillock
coppices
common and coombe-
free to roam with plenty 
of room
Form: Cinqku

Piece In Our Time

A Russian inside the Ukraine
Was greeted with NATO disdain 
But ladies found
Some common ground
Whilst sipping a glass of champagne
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Poem In Common Words

to be
of the
we

from what
which go
there

when if
they will
see

who can
know more
about

because any
way these
work

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