Short Dilemma Poems

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


Premium Member The Dilemma

Lead me not into temptation

Well, at least not on weekdays

Deliver me from evil

For those temptations on weekends


Premium Member Asking a Tuning Fork Why

use a tuning fork
when facing a dilemma
for the two prong shape
provides two preset options
for keeping progress in tune
Form: Tanka

Parent's Dilemma

My teenage daughter
Should be shorter,
If water makes you shrink,
So many hours
Taking showers,
She's clearly turning pink.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Letter To Santa

the bald eagle
wishes for a wool watch cap
                                   ...santa's dilemma

John G. Lawless
©12/11/2022
Form: Senryu

Premium Member OKAPI'S DILEMMA

Okapi thought he was a horse
Attempted to blend in, of course
Zebras kicked him out
Horses ran about
But okapi had no remorse
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Wake up

attached to transience
shifting tides determine mood ~
piquant dilemma 
let’s get to the source, hermit
reclaiming light eternal
Form: Tanka

Title

Styrofoam, mans’ cool invention
                                 


                                     Nature’s dilemma to negate
Form: Monoku

The Toilet Seat Dilemma

Toilet seat up?
If yes, stress
Big mess.
If no, oh
So less stress
So less mess
Less mess for Jess.
Rhyming aside, I hope it’s down.
© Mike A.  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Adverse Dilemma-

Allure mountains rain down on valleys weep
Dismal dismiss the challenges you keep


3/10/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Form: Rhyme

Newtons Dilemma

works of art
like the ocean.
one dropped stone
causing a seemingly
infinit ripple.
movement. 
through art,
through literature,
through music.
© Amra Cau  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Going To Defeat the Dilemma

GOING TO DEFEAT THE DILEMMA


heaving sighs I grip my walker tighter  facing the tightrope ahead





(c) sally young eslinger 1/15/23
Form: Monoku

Dilemma

More than offered
Too long pondered
Sitting smiling
Happy yet somber
Risky relations
Offered not taken
Unconscious unbroken
Maybe mistaken

Excess Dilemma

A man
with excess of money
 IS not exactly lucky...
But a wretch of fortune !
Or hazard...
with enormous aplomb
to agony and unhappiness...!

Premium Member Dilemma

Need to spread out
is stronger than
Desire to get along 

Aby M.

Besoin de s'étendre 
est plus fort que 
Désir de s'entendre 

Aby M. (french)
© Aby M'Baye  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member abc poem 55

crabby crackpot craved credibility
draconian dilemma decreed deliberately
encouraging enthusiasm eventuality
feeling feckless and ferocious, frivolously
Form: ABC

Premium Member Dilemma

space flickers
light soft white
shimmering

what we see
others don’t 
what to do

let’s bury
such secrets
in our heart

15-February-2023
Tricube
Form: Other

Human Dilemma

man’s ever-beguiling, eternal quest:
the paradoxes of life
the mysteries of soul.



~03/21/19
~Contest: Kimo, Challenge 4
~Sponsor: Dear Heart
Form: Kimo

Difficult Dilemna

When you do have a difficult dilemma,
Will you need to have a naughty enema,
Or after day became old and was done,
Went out and had whole hell of a lot of fun.
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member "the Cluck Stuck Dilemma"

When a wood duck’s,
cluck is stuck, 
how much cluck, 
would a wood duck cluck, 
if a wood duck, 
could cluck, 
as a wood duck, 
with a stuck, 
wood duck’s cluck?
Form: Rhyme

Dilemma

Oh dilemma oh dilemma

One night I dreamt, thy were so away from me 
but very happy to be seemed and saying to me oh dilemma oh dilemma

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A Dilemma

I stand near and peer over 
The face of the chasm of darkness
Deep inside I know two options:
Tell her how I feel and jump-
Sit, wallow wet in tears, and never know.

Premium Member daylight's dilemma

Time is on my side says Mick Jagger
Yes it is and thus he can swagger
But here with disgust
We must clocks adjust
And in morning out of bed stagger
Form: Limerick

In Dilemma We Live Here

in dilemma we live here
in pains my age-mates
dig the earth each year
we try to wipe the sweat
and bride the adversary
with our plastic smiles
in vain our efforts are

The Time Traveler's Dilemma

When I think of traveling backwards in time
With all of life’s processes run in reverse,
The thought of unaging seems wondrously fine,
But of undigesting, decidedly worse.
© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.

Economic Dilemma --- Roundelet

economic
fear overwhelms  hearts with distress.

economic
boom--congress promise the public.

yet their debates often digress
to issues that are rather less 
economic.
Form: Roundel

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