Short Defer Poems
Short Defer Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Defer by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Defer by length and keyword.
Dogs obey,
Cats defer,
the difference something grand
Loyalty wags
its loving tail
—as purring hides the fangs
(Dreamsleep: June 2021)
Categories:
defer, pets,
Form:
Rhyme
A few seconds more
Youth will set you ablaze with
Fiery beauty store.
Staring at the red
Why defer you the mirth till
Gray burnt is the bed?
Categories:
defer, passion,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Certain, certain be when a heart is breaking,
banish doubt and conquer the simple truth: that
love does not defer to the circumstantial
(nor to my logic)
Categories:
defer, angst, life, love,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
Morning rebirth.
Stirred by a dream.
Rendered my serenity.
For the soft requiem.
Defer our mortal fate.
For life awaits.
With all of its virtue.
And veiled charades.
Categories:
defer, creation, destiny, dream, faith, fate, life, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
My wails of woe
Won't bring her back.
They are for me.
They sound the lack
Of any future touch
With her
Who meant so much.
I can't defer
To some imagined
Promise land
The simple holding
Of a precious hand.
Categories:
defer, bereavement,
Form:
Rhyme
Youth's sure, sinewed fire of limb and gait,
Reside not long not tarries late.
The unetched silk of fair Morning's face
Dons so swift a different grace,
As boastful Dawn must e'er defer
To the granite reign of Time...
Categories:
defer, death of a friend,
Form:
Rhyme
Dappled daunting dandy
deft decentralizing defender
deistic delphian deniar
deliverable deflationary determinist
deny defer delude deflect
divisive dissentious dualism
dogmatic dumbstruck duplicity
dyspneic democratic disillusioned
Donald.
Categories:
defer, political, pollution,
Form:
List
Late one afternoon,
wind chimes rang a pleasant tune.
Sun would soon defer to moon.
Breeze blew warm and light,
wooing my desire to write.
Imagination took flight.
I wish I could say
I'd penned flowing lines that day.
Dozing chased my muse away!
Categories:
defer, muse, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
who we are is who we were
multiply and then defer
all the things that you just said
divide by visions in your head
subtract the world
of might have been
now give yourself a dividend
for the dreams that
did come true
the synergy,
the sum of you
Categories:
defer, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
In this Sleep and Death defer:
The former,
On a daily return trip, us takes,
The latter,
Into a permanent one, without a chance
of return!*
© Demetrios Trifiatis
18 December 2019
* In Greek Mythology Sleep and Death are brothers.
Categories:
defer, brother, dream, sleep,
Form:
Epigram
Inquiring minds want
To know how it all works
Ticklish subject
A question that can get your
Knickers in a twist
Especially if they look you in the eye
So, I suggest
Take them out for ice cream
When you get back defer to father/mother
Oh, parental duty..spare me!
Categories:
defer, angst, nature
Form:
Acrostic
The strength of one that’s young and bold.
The patience of one who’s wise and old.
Is it false, or is it facts?
Are the reigns pulled tight, or are they lax?
Which would you prefer?
Or, in giving your’ answer, would you defer?
Life is about choice.
About heart, soul, and voice
Categories:
defer, life
Form:
Rhyme
I am not extremely important.
I am not powerful.
I have only minor influence.
I am a small person.
I thought I was omnipotent.
I defer to my leader,
To my country and to God.
I give my ounce of influence
To Lester Holt, journalist, NBC News.
This is my resolve.
Thank you for reading what I write.
Categories:
defer, god, i am, patriotic, political, self, teacher,
Form:
Free verse
My mood is hopeful every time
old calendars defer to new.
Post-Christmas doldrums start to fade.
It's time to bid the old adieu.
God’s blessed us with another year.
New opportunities are here!
January 4, 2023
Bite Size Poem no. 58 contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
January 6, 2023
entered in Brian Strand's Poetry Contest 1167
Categories:
defer, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
Friday afternoon, the day winds down
My Muse, exhausted, limps around
Her brain, 'most fried, her vitality shot
"I'm out of ink," she moans. "And I'm not---
"Not to worry, my friend," I console her
"Sabbath draws near, so we'll both defer
to the Lord above, Who on this day did rest
to return to work after ~ completely refreshed
Categories:
defer, god, jewish, muse, poetry,
Form:
Couplet
If I was your Father
I would defer
The big questions
Would I rather
You follow the life of a Nun
Than to fall in Love
With all the pitfalls
That love can impart
On a fragile heart
All I can do
Is be here for you
No 1 can love you as much as
I do
But if you do
Promise me this
He better treat you as good
As I do
Or it will break my heart
Categories:
defer, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Despair aught I care, in distraught
adhere I thought.
I fear unsure in revere, insecure of
love immature.
Unfair sincere demure, disdain severe
I incur pain.
Allure in dire devour, deplore I cower
pure desire.
Bizarre amour to perish amiss, ignore I
defer jealous affixed.
Temerity in moral of boredom, surety a quarrel of
Vulnerable Decorum.
Categories:
defer, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh me, oh my! It’s now July!
The months are flying fast.
The summer days, with sun and haze,
Will soon be in the past.
The calendar cannot defer
To what we may desire,
That time would pause a bit because
The days too quick expire.
So we must take each day and make
The effort to embrace it,
Before July is kissed goodbye
And August does replace it.
Categories:
defer, july,
Form:
Rhyme
Remember once you were my friend
I’m quite sure you were
It was oh so very long ago
To my hearts memory I defer
We once laughed a very lot
I’m very sure that’s true
And then we went our separate ways
As people often do
Our acquaintance was not long; I’d call it brief
But that’s not what really mattered
It’s what you leave in another’s heart
And it was joy you scattered
Categories:
defer, friendship, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Venture without stopping
Hold on to your dream
Remain flipping flopping
That dream will lose gleam
Demur without waver
Do not hesitate
Defer, Accept favour
And you seal your fate
Observe, eschew bias
And trust what you see
Maintain neither pious
Submission; be free
Toward freedom aspire
Spurn hegemony
Honest witness require
For integrity
2 March 2018
Categories:
defer, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
What is your secret? We asked the lovely new queen.
Create a faerie tale life for yourself, a glorious scene.
But where do we start? What do we do first? I asked her.
Once upon a time is a beginning to which you must quickly defer.
You will want a villain too, and a hero who can save you from them.
And of course always write “happily ever after” in your book, at the end.
Categories:
defer, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
Why
By Miracle Man
5/31/2024
Oft times I hear a child question why?
Then anxiously await a response.
To, why raindrops always fall from the sky,
I stand slack jawed as if in a traunce.
Only God has answers to the question why,
at His prompting only do things occur.
A child might question why birds fly?
To all childish questions I simply defer.
Categories:
defer, child, how i feel,
Form:
Quatrain
I have tied it together,
captured all of it
the good and almost good;
the bad I have
put in a forgetful box.
My collection,
my opus,
my sickness
all of it bundled -
nine yards of nothing much.
I suppose
I defer,
I hope inside
a ticking
moussing heart
somehow
far beyond reason
a book of wayward poems
might emerge
in the lap of a ghostly entity
that once had my name.
Categories:
defer, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
defer, allegory,
Form:
Nonet
Do I enter this contest?
Or do I defer?
The pros and cons battle
And will not concur.
On the one hand, you'll judge me -
I hate to be judged.
Is that reason enough
That my "No" won't be budged?
On the other hand, well,
I love challenge and dare;
And not winning is something
I think I can bear.
So I sit here just mulling,
My nerves getting frayed;
'Til I realize that somehow,
My choice has been made!
Categories:
defer, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme