Short Eight Poems

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


Hate

I hate, I hate, I hate, I hate
I hate, I hate, I hate
That seven I hates seems just enough
When I really wanted eight.
© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Question

I read that tale when I was eight
And I've wondered ever since
Just how many frogs must I kiss
Before I find my prince?
Form: Rhyme

Wisdom

Beethoven's fingers aged him by ten
Einstein eye's by nine
Shakespeare's wrists at eight
and those other seven
moisturised.

Status Quo

A girl with a figure eight
Went out on her first blind date
She hoped to find
And equal mind
But he just wanted to mate
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Beloved Poet Adelaide C

For the lovely Adelaide Crapsey
a long life was not to be.
In syllable,two,four,six &eight
she created the cinquain anew!
Form: Clerihew


Premium Member cancer is a killer

cancer survivor
eight years with a clean record
feeling some relief
year nine is a killer year
cancer takes body hostage
Form: Tanka

Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy (Mr Spock),
His music career quite ad hoc,
Sang of Bilbo in sixty eight,
With his fringe still Vulcan straight.
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member God's Ways -W

Men,
My ways
Not your ways
I'm mysterious,
Folks.

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Eight Place
For contest : They know not what they do
Form: Lanterne

Premium Member Eight Tolls of the Bell

eight tolls of the bell

I wait in the pause

to hear six more

even her death knell

has kept Aunt Nell's age secret
Form: Tanka

Premium Member American Pharoah

American Pharoah,
swift as an arrow.
First triple crown winner to date,
since nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.

7/1/15
Form: Clerihew

Eight Oh Eight Through Eight Twenty One

Emotions poured out
Thoughts bound together and shelved
Dreams shared on paper

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

Premium Member blizzard anticipation

blizzard on the brink
everyone is stocking up
weather sequestered

anticipation
eight to ten inches of snow
unmoving traffic
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Blue Jay Congregation

a cardinal and
eight blue jays at the feeder ~
rowdy communion

May 10, 2020
for Brian Strand's  the 'HI-KU(2)' Poetry Contest
Form: Haiku

The Garden Journey

Picking up flowers 
But carrying on walking on 
Looking at the trees 
Must continue walking on 
To reach the eight-pointed star
Form: Tanka

Beautiful Twin

so amazing twin
what about the twinning trees!?
not only twin trees
yet, eight hundreds years old age
they are in South Korea
Form: Tanka

Cubes Have Eight Corners

CUBES HAVE EIGHT CORNERS

Dice have three dimensions
Opposite faces total seven
Luck represents a fourth
Winning is finding Heaven
Form: Verse

Premium Member Reality's a Joker

  You've eight fingers, two thumbs, like most folk
                                                ~ I've got ten thumbs, what a joke
Form: Monoku

Ten

One, two, three,
Look at the tubes sticking in me.
Four, five, six,
Nothing can be fixed.
Seven, eight, nine,
Now I am dying.
Ten.
Form: Rhyme

The Vanity Wall

With a flick of all eight carpi
Our POTUS dismissed an harpy
Trump's Vanity Wall
Shall attest to all:
Donald Trump is NOT a Sharpie!
Form: Limerick

Study For a New Lamp 1990

A date rams gate tiny merry line ..., time to a ramble in a gait to date twelve times
twenty-four to half-past eight makes pivotal mime.

Inside of the Red Rose

eight legs wide
an array of eyes
a red hourglass
that glows
from her side, but
the black widow spider
lives inside of
the red rose

Innocence Lost

Her innocence lost,
Shattered and shamed, scared alone.
Picked up the pieces;
She waited for the sentence.
Forty-eight months, not enough!
Form: Tanka

One, Two

One, two
I texted you.

Three, four
I wanted more.

Five, six 
saw your tricks.

Seven, eight 
It was too late.

Nine, ten
Now it's broken.
Form:

Premium Member Adopting My Own Ferdelance

I think that I shall take a chance
Carefully looking among plants
Make a pet of thee
Eight foot two or three
Adopting my own ferdelance
Form: Limerick

Premium Member High Wire Act

high ceiling eight foot ladder reaching for the fan — n sturdy a d steady 8/6/2020
*third line split for effect
Form: Haiku

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