Short East Poems

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


Way Down In East Jabib

Way down in East Jabib
where I told many a fib
I spoke so many lies
it should be no surprise
that I used to lie in my crib
Form: Limerick


Child In the East

Dreaming sex,
4 months pregnant,
A child in the east,
Fire in the west,
Who can I tell it to but you,
Someone tell me what to do.
Form:

Light From the East

R-ays above the line
E-mit bright light from the east, 
X-factor is sun.

Topic: Birthday of Rex Briones (May 2) 
Form: Acrostic Haiku
Form: Haiku

Lower East Side Tanka

Walking on the streets 
Which my ancestors came to 
To find a better life 
Those gentle folk will always 
Have a place in my hearts'core
Form: Tanka

Premium Member East of Eden

A fellow who lived free of sin,
Was alone and let no one in.
When asked for his name,
Or his claim to fame,
He said, “Eve, but now I'm Adam.”
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Far Out-Far East

Home-made teriyaki sauce (soy)
a yakitori (chicken thigh)
a mackerek in miso
a ponzu salad
with konbu seaweed
schichimi (7 spices dip)
Dip !
Form: Epulaeryu

Muddle East

Allah has EL AL in his hand
The First Class fares don't understand
The pilot and crew
Don't care who has who
They just want the airplane to land
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Star In the East

a star in the east shining in His manger.... man’s destiny changed ~//~ 29 Nov 2910 For Andrea's "haiku me a Christmas tree contest
Form: Senryu

Premium Member West Meets East

When the west Indian met her ideal east Indian man,
She went through a string of more than several Indian lovers.
Decided he's the one she refuses to string along.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member The East End, Ends

It's goodbye to mad Frankie Fraser The East Ends gangster appraiser So loyal to the Kray's To his very last day One the Sixties ultimate erasures .
Form: Limerick

The East Coast

We two, hot, muggy.
Lay beneath diamond sparkles.
Wind blows gritty sand.
We snuggle on the blanket.
Peacefully, until sunrise –

© July 13, 2011
Dane Smith-Johnsen
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Down East

In the hills of sunday sunrise
Eastern township churches stand steeple heights
Loud summer bells chime fervently



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member East

brisk east wind white flurries blown.... pear trees end stage blooms
remember a kite rises against the wind not with it..a good day to fly a kite???
Form: Haiku

East Meets West

When a Continental 
Met an Oriental,.
He thought it detrimental 
To his mode of life.
But soon this Occidental,
Growing sentimental, 
Wed the Oriental,
And she became his wife.
Form:

In the Middle East Countries Laws Not So Tough

In the Middle East countries laws not so tough.
If a dangerous murderer repent and regret,
His punishment  will be reduced by a half, 
And  will be chopped off only half  villain's head !
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Your Lower East Side

How's your lower east side making out Mine's fine 'cept I creak when out and about Maybe an old war injury Too young for the infantry War ended, was wounded as a Boy Scout
Form: Limerick

City East Side

it was water so high
cars couldn 't drive by
thie is no lie
some over city had to die
this sandy was  randy
a friend wouldn't gave in
tho the street or very wide
i got caught on
CITY EAST SIDE

Mid-East Has Been Extremely Hot

Mid-East Has Been Extremely Hot

Mid-East is always exceptionally hot;
Bad things to our attention brought;
We should select,
Those who infect,
That should be sought and then shot.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Sunrise

I think the sun rises not from the east—
but from your stomach 
Nor does it sink from the west—
but returns to your stomach 
When I touched it I truly understood the work of art that God created

Elections West and East

haiku Elections West and East electors do not vote so much in the west as the east now demands to
© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Elections West and East

haiku Elections West and East electors do not vote so much in the west as the east now demands to
© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

East and West

Dawn: 
pink azaleas on the east horizon – 
faded before I could possibly
reach them.

Sunset:
Layers of lavender, saffron, 
lilac, tangerine – a watercolor wash
of sunset beyond darkening 
trees.

Premium Member east peanut butter cookie recipe

peanut butter cookies are easy for me
one cup of sugar wild and free
one egg stirred as I mutter
one cup of any old peanut butter
wonderful if baked ten minutes, truly nifty
be sure and set the over to three fifty

Xianghua Cherry Blossom of the East

she dances with her blade
her beauty unparalleled
the petals blow around her
with the gusts in her hair

though many battles she has fought
never will a single scar
blemish the beauty she sports
for she is blessed as such
Form:

Premium Member East Hollywood Bus Stop, 1977

A bus stop and a savage brute
all sewed up in a lion suit.
"Did you ever find where the Oz Wizard was?
(The lion-man belched a cloud of fuzz)
and those three ne'er-do-wells and that?"
He just said, "why'd ya think I'm fat?"
Form: Rhyme

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