Short Divorce Poems

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


Pledge of the Ex's

Today I'll give up all my ex's
for something that is true.
And hope to find just one more wreckless
man for paring to.
Form: Quatrain


Beneath

Here I am.
Everywhere we were.
Capillaries fill with her,
rotting roots beneath trees,
feeding truth in buried leaves.

Premium Member Childhood Lovers

CHILDHOOD LOVERS initials broke upon the old gray oak fallow hearts 6/26/2017 haiku form
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Divorce Alley

Just hours before now
we were landscaped together
my 3 sons null, void
fateful meetings of goodbyes
Solitary confinement
Form: Tanka

Fast Marriage Slow Divorce Stop

Our love began FAST
Wedding, honeymoon, Marriage
Our hate ended SLOW
We both settled for Divorce
You and I came to a STOP
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Habitual Resentment

Ever present, sometimes languished,
Almost gone, then reestablished.
This is why, defences high!
To your offer, no reply...
Form: Couplet

Robin's Love Poems: The Sacred Of Letting Go

We loved enough to build a
beautiful home.
We loved enough to let each other go.
May we both find peace in
the quiet after.

Bi-Ology

Two, a couple, 'twixt them a divide...
O'ercome if both can divorce pride.


Written for "Two Timer's" Contest
October 14, 2012

Premium Member Paper

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Divorce

Well honor, you see
A million dollar gift all to me
For if I was married my conscious would say
I'd have to give it all away

Four Too2 Zero

Zafar say zindagi bhar wafa ham karain gay,
   Mar jain gay ham daga ham karain gay.
Note.Tera ulfat ka qasam I Love You Too2.
© Mortal Man  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member No Need For Divorce

King Henry VIII wed them
In order to bed them.
When they no longer suited
Had them executed.






For Catie's contest
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Logic at its Finest

  A pony grows into a horse
    Some marry to get divorced

  A cute piglet grows into a sow
    Some get married anyhow
Form: Couplet

Premium Member The Altar Weeps

      A marriage ends
      The altar weeps
         her bitter tears

      Fondly she remembers
         better years
Form: Rhyme

A Complicated Couple

Kellyanne and George Conway:
One lauds Trump in every way.
One says he’s a damn freak show.
How they’re married, I don’t know.
© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Storm In a Teacup

Marital squabbles
A philandering husband
Divorce proceedings


Date written and posted: 07/12/2018
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Opposites

Marriage
Rocky stable
Loving hoping longing
Family warm cold divided
Hating torturing and loving
Distasteful awkward
Divorce
Form: Diamante

Tragedy

Thought this was a fairy tale, 
Thought you were my happy ending, 
But this is a tragedy, an epic fail,
I'm broken and bending.
Form: Rhyme

My Sweet Aunt Mabel

There is my sweet Aunt Mabel
sitting across the table
ever since her divorce
she eats like a horse
so we put her up in a stable
Form: Limerick

Darth Vadar Rebuttal

What is Darth Vadar's wife called after the divorce?

                      Exca-Vadar!!


My husband came up with this one...

Dark Room

I thought she was the light in a dark room.

She had me circling the bright fumes

but I did not know.

She was the dark room.

Premium Member Pushed Away From a Dead Marriage

Sorrow and heart ache
Rebuffed, rebuked, pushed away
Edging on Nasty

Bad feelings surround and stun
Marriage done, over, kaput
Form: Tanka

Splitsville

tear open the seal
thick folded papers land loud
eviscerated
like our forever, but how
soulmates aren’t supposed to end

9/18/16
Form: Tanka

So This Is Love

He vowed to love her forevermore— But already forgot her trivial name. August 6, 2019 Epigram
Form: Epigram

For Life

The day i took you for my wife

I intended vows to bind for life.

So divorce is out of course.

Uh honey, please put down the knife
© Ron Porter  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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