Short Eileen Poems

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


Soft Encounter

The morning sunlight
And night's breeze
Hit me in the face
Like the way
Eileen hit me between
My bones
And my skin.
© Atef Ayadi  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member Eternal Love

whispers in ear
the love of my life
will I still hear in death

Inspired to write after reading Eileen Ghali's Questionku.

Premium Member The Other Cheek

I'd turn the other cheek, but here's the thing
that cheek's been slapped before, and there's the sting

Eileen Manassian
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Courtesy Counts

I'd like to visit you, but well
you never visit me
what happened to that courtesy
called reciprocity?

Eileen Manassian
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Time Falls

Time falls, a silent prey
When calls your love to play

Eileen Manassian
For Nette's Onclaud's Essence Contest
October 12, 2014
Form: Verse


Premium Member Butter Me Up

Please, butter me up
I don’t care why you do it
I love to feel good—
It makes me sweet and yummy
Now come take a bite

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Untamed

I will not be tamed
Life cannot harness my soul
I race with the wind
You cannot break my spirit
I thunder on wild and free
 
Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Forgive and Forget, a Foolish Fallacy

The grace to forgive
Does not mean it’s forgotten
The heart remembers
Scar tissue ever present
Yet it pumps out crimson love

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Tanka

Premium Member One Day He'Ll Leave You

One day he'll leave you
Just like he left HER for you
like her, you will break
relish him, but remember:
unfaithful hearts never change

Eileen
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the beast
Both have possession of me
Beast won't let me go
Beauty tries for mastery
In your eyes is the real me...

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Tanka

Premium Member My Face

My words are the same
But would you read more of me
If you saw my face?

Eileen Manassian Ghali

*Inspired by Caleb Smith's Poem, "Stories of Beijing I"

Premium Member Empty Yet Full

My bed is empty
He’s gone on another trip
Loneliness threatens
Our child sends love from afar
My heart is filled with loved ones

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Tanka

Surrealism Xii

My life went off 
In a blast 
.... Of a drop 
.... Of ink 
Eileen looked 
At the Blast 
With a smile 
As if, she discovered a nebula 
In the sky.
© Atef Ayadi  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member The One Who Loves You

this is the sad truth:
you want them ALL to love you
and in that wanting
you will lose the very ONE
who does love you with her ALL

Eileen Manassian
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Words Unspoken

It can’t be the same
Once a heart has been broken
Can’t go back again
Don’t offer that peace token
Please leave your words unspoken….

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Tanka

Premium Member The Essence of Love

Love’s seed will surely sprout
When freed from any doubt

Eileen Manassian

Not for Contest: Didn't realize the theme is TIME. There you go...me and romance!
Form: Verse

Premium Member A Little Girl Cries

A little girl cries
Porcelain doll lies broken
No solace for tears

A young woman cries
Heart, soul, and dreams lie broken
Oh, to be a child

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Cotton Candy Treat

You’re my cotton candy treat: insubstantial but....oh....so sticky and sweet!

Eileen Manassian Ghali

Sticky...as in you stick to my soul....people! Get a grip!
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Gentle Murmurs

Words sweet!
My muse murmurs:
love's treat

I sigh!
With each nuance:
he's nigh

I melt!
Promised pleasures:
ALL felt

Eileen Manassian

NOT for Contest
Form: Verse

Premium Member I Smile

She celebrates love
"And a sword will pierce your heart"
A sure prophecy

And so I can smile
What goes around comes around
there is no escape

Eileen Manassian
Form: Senryu

Premium Member The Cremation of Your Love

I cremated you
In scorching flames of passion
His blaze a consuming fire
Now only ashes
I have no tears left to cry
The kind wind bears you away

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Sedoka

Premium Member The Forbidden

The forbidden is always sweeter
I hear some people say
I tend to disagree
For can’t you see
Nurturing the sanctioned
Makes it sweeter every day!

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Recovering From You

Heartache
Caused by you
Misunderstood
Learning to walk away
Freedom


Laughter
Caused by him
Loved and cherished
Learning to trust again
Hopeful

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Cinqku

Premium Member To the Extent

We pardon to the extent that we love. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

I've forgiven you
No, you didn't ask for it
Can't breathe without you

Eileen Manassian Ghali
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Dead Sea Poet

You don't read my words
Yet long for visits from me
All take and no give?

I, too, need your praise
I hunger for a kind word
A Dead Sea Poet?

Eileen Manassian Ghali

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