Short Desert Poems

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


In the Desert

In the desert
My soul withers not
Her love is my hope
Blues lose the war for my heart
I stand tall against the flames
Form: Tanka


Song of Beauty

A lotus in mire,
A rose amid thorns,
A cactus in desert,
A creation in derision,
A song of beauty
Born in adversity!!
Form:

Africa - Tanka Contest

Sweet Home Eden.
Amidst widening desert.
Faint lions whisper:
"globes warming, rains rare."
Sweet Home Eden, for how long?
Form: Tanka

Wet Season

Sleeping desert bed
Blue skies turn orange to red
Now alive once was dead


By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Arid Land

Arid Land Miracle Man 3/3/2025 Sahara Desert Within this ocean of sand Oasis’ exist
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku


Joy Within

Let the joy that flows in the gate of affection
Flood your world like an ocean
And water your desert with a unique bloom.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Untitled


Rising from dunes of despair after desert storm of strife,
I gather in the vase of quietude the strewn shards of life.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Light and Water

Rain Wet cold Falling soaking running, Rivers floods desert summer Baking heating drying Hot warm Sun
Form: Diamante

Agua Impression

Swallowed in sun bites
to butter burn the dreaming
of men in sandals
with one foot in the desert
and one foot in mirages.
Form: Tanka

Thirsty Heart



Rain deprived desert -
My heart - you came in drops
To quench my thirst

(C) Anindya Mohan Tagore (Bobby)

Form: Haiku

Premium Member Mirage Mirror

My mind swims
90% form mass
full filled limbs,

liquefied desert
of a water world
quench a thirst.


Date: 09/07/2017
Form: Imagism

Premium Member CHIHUHAHAN DESERT

Cactus stand guard in the desert heat, their shadows trembling on pale sand, silence holding its breath.
Form: Kimo

Bird By the Lake

Bird by the lake,
looking over
at a duck
whose egg
has been
taken by
mr fox
who
comes
back for
desert.

wrote 8-5-08

Premium Member A Stream In the Desert

thankful for God’s gift babbling springs of clear water no longer thirsting
written August 2, 2021
Form: Haiku

Desert Well

In the parched desert
Bedu nomads search the night
For the buried well
In the desert of the mind
A healing fountain will flow
Form: Tanka

Rhamnus Tree

Rhamnus so sweet fruits 
leaves are good medical herb
Shade is lovers place 
No side-effect, natural
A great semi desert tree
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Seen and Scenes

Seen and Scenes

two old red tractors
orchard, trees and red apples
desert cacti blooms

Robert J. Lindley, 5-03-2018
Haiku
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Unquenched

Your SMILE ...

Is like a raindrop
In the desert ...

It's all I long for,
Yet it leaves me thirsty ...

For so much MORE.

Premium Member Dolls on the High Desert

Onto the high desert of a low-browed world.
Lost in the me of their scratchy egos.
Doll-eyed souls raped by the gears of techno.

Premium Member FRANKLIN MOUTAINS-El Paso, Texas

Franklins rise like brittle bones of the earth, holding the heat in stillness, while the desert sand drifts.
Form: Kimo

Premium Member Desert Thorns

Desert thorns that sting.
Careful desert animals. 
Both have great instinct,
Finding safety together.
Not permanent for either.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Rain In the Desert

Rain in the desert
                              Saguaro's ancient arms lift
                                     Nature rejoices
Form: Haiku

Nights Out

Darkness surrounds dusk
Clown beetles saunter about
Sought by desert rats
Moths gather at lit porches
As the black widow gorges
Form: Tanka

Chris Stevens

Death in the Desert
Good man dragged though the streets
not expecting such an inauspiscous end
Islam lovely Islam giving such treets
© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Oasis

Oasis
A rose blooms silent
In the middle of desert,
Oasis of life.

A thought blooms silent
In the middle of my head,
Oasis of life.
Form: Haiku

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