Short Deferred Poems
Short Deferred Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Deferred by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Deferred by length and keyword.
The Truth Is
Isn't truth the dream of lie but deferred....
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Categories:
deferred, imagination, poems, truth,
Form:
Monoku
Business
Basic compliment
Of credit economy
is deferred payment....
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Categories:
deferred, business, education, engagement, perspective,
Form:
Haiku
Deferred Gratification Personified
I am not living
I am epitaph writing
The deferred reward...
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Categories:
deferred, anxiety,
Form:
Haiku
Now a Scene So Real Haiku
this one bedroom suite
formerly a dream deferred
now a scene so real...
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Categories:
deferred, dream, truth, uplifting,
Form:
Haiku
Untitled #251 / True Love
“Ah! But I thought you were dead!”
“Death cannot stop true love,
it can only delay it awhile.”
What happens to a dream deferred?...
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Categories:
deferred, confusion, life, loss, lost love, love, mystery,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Hopeless
Hopeless
from sky falls rainbow,
as clouds lose silver lining -
dreams deferred drifting...
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Categories:
deferred, depression, life, pain, sorrow,
Form:
Haiku
Evidence
What future substance do you see
for your present hope that is yet deferred?
And what past hope has come to you
as present substance now confirmed?
Where is your faith?...
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Categories:
deferred, devotion, faith, hope, people, philosophy, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Punch Drunk
Smashed
And on the rocks
Shaken and stirred
To a paranoid
Amygdaloid
Control deferred
***...
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Categories:
deferred, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
Grandeur
From the mighty breeze of legend pulls the word
None to be diminished by a cord of doubt
His meanings for the reader all deferred
The turns of grandeur from another route...
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Categories:
deferred, art, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Munchkinland Remix
"Kansas, she says, is the name of the star"
as for my mom's place, it was Mira Mar :)
"When she fell out of Kansas, a miracle occurred"
after we moved, my grandma's house remodel deferred...
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Categories:
deferred, childhood, grandmother, growing up, house, memory, mother
Form:
Lyric
Procrastination
A lazy man's dialect
Langston Hughes' dream deferred
A place in the sun, postponed
Procrastination
Date written: 06/08/2020...
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Categories:
deferred, analogy, perspective, truth,
Form:
Dodoitsu
Beauty Deferred
Beauty
Aesthetic grace
Is muted for a time
Weary eyes searching the darkness
New dawn..
Absence makes these eyes grow fonder
Beethoven's sonata
Comes to a close
Sunrise
...
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Categories:
deferred, beauty, moon,
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Cinquain
Blurred
Eccentric is not her word
Passionate is often heard
When she’s feeling absurd
She relies on the preferred
Her hunger – stirred
Remembers
The storm, deferred
The brilliance of her love, incurred...
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Categories:
deferred, beautiful, emotions, passion,
Form:
Monorhyme
Spreading the Dream
Million dollar fireworks light up
the eastern sky
leaving red tracers between broken homes
and marking the rank of ordered followers
blackened by the smoke of oil money
smoldering
and a dream deferred
in the cradle of life...
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Categories:
deferred, death, life, places, social,
Form:
Free verse
No Title
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it sink like an anchor at sea?
or reek like a corpse and then rot?
Does it ache like a broken bone? or scab and scar over like a battle wound?
Maybe it just spoils like old milk
or does it expire?...
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Categories:
deferred, imagination
Form:
Free verse
Shadows Deferred
He is the son,
of the storm,
and from bone and blood he is reborn,
a dancing ghost-god matador,
spinning in the sea.
Though he appears,
calm as stone,
he is lost amid the ocean foam,
unable to reclaim his throne,
of human dignity....
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Categories:
deferred, lost, memory, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Inner Peace
Unspoken word
Nothing is heard
Thoughts now deferred
Float in my mind
Safe from all harm
Peaceful and calm
Soothing with balm
Time to unwind
7th December 2014
Theme 1 - Remember what peace there may be in silence...
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Categories:
deferred, peace,
Form:
Verse
Hope Deferred
MY HEART
IS A WOUNDED BIRD
WINGS QUIVERING
IN SILENT PAIN
WITH STIFLED BREATH
UNABLE TO FLY
PALED FROM BATTLE
MY HEART
IS AN ICEBERG
WEIGHED HEAVY
IN MY CHEST
FOGGING MY THOUGHT
WITH COLD MIST
RAINING DOWN
MY SKIN, INSIDE.
AUGUST 2000...
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Categories:
deferred, death, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Langston Hughes
Iconic, late African-American poet, Langston Hughes.
Dropped "John Mercer" from name; paid his dues...
As one of the leading voices in the Harlem Renaissance.
Poem, "Dream Deferred," deemed his piece de resistance.
Date posted: 07/28/2021...
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Categories:
deferred, art, celebrity, people, poetry, tribute,
Form:
Clerihew
Shrouded
Muffled dialogue ennui sequestered intimacy so distant,
smothered in ebbing surreptitious fantasy.
Musing how close is close?...
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Categories:
deferred, desire, how i feel,
Form:
Verse
Precedence
Precedence are they mere fragments of one’s imagination dreams deferred of acceptance, denials, or excuses. Precedence beyond one’s control although it may seem.
In systems called life, Are their really second chances re repeated cycles in this game of precedence....
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Categories:
deferred, business, character, creation, destiny, family, humanity, introspection,
Form:
Blank verse
Their Emotions He Stirred
Caesar preferred to be quietly interred
But to Antony his friend he deferred --
With Rome's citizenry Antony conferred
Spurred them on with the passion of his words
Masterfully, did he their emotions stir --
They'd hunt down and kill the conspirators, sure...
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Categories:
deferred, death of a friend, emotions, history, murder,
Form:
Monorhyme
Worry
Worry no more, Dreams deferred? Temporary setbacks. Questions, Answers often Worry
Fears, wants. Constantly seeking one's body, mind, soul. Worry no more inhale, exhale release breathe eventually finding solace slowly releasin until one's peace of mind, body, soul worry no more....
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Categories:
deferred, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal, cheer up, stress,
Form:
Free verse
What Do You See
Two old men walk with talk deferred
One finds a mirror on the way
He picks it up and says, "My word,"
"A handsome fellow, I must say!"
His buddy then takes a peek
He says, "He's handsome I agree,"
"But has your old mind become weak?"
"Of course that handsome fellow's me!"...
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Categories:
deferred, character, confidence, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Deferred
The grapes are crushed and trodden,
winnowed the golden grain;
if winter comes tomorrow
my heart shall not complain.
Richer this tardy harvest
than one could ever dream
who has known the taste of famine
and drank a drought extreme.
Copyright, 7-19-2014
Faye Lanham Gibson...
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Categories:
deferred, longing, love,
Form:
Lyric