Short English Poems

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


Eminem

I DONT KNOW ENGLISH
BUT I LOVE EM
I DONT LOVE RAP 
BUT I LOVE SLIM
I DONT KNOW WHY
I LOVE EMINEM


HE IS A LEGEND
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Bad Seed

field of planted seeds
  moonlight rises zombies
   evil road exceeds
detache bodies 
no lawyers doctors just a nobody

Those Who Hack Never Bring Back

there were those who hack
what did do matter of fact
should never bring back

This is English Language with no  links.
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Waving At October

Waving at October...!
welcome the rain,
watching leaves flying to die.
Between colours and cold,
new changes to breath

Premium Member T A N K A defined SHOW then TELL

Haiku in English a strict 5/7/5
the most difficult to contrive
Tanka adds a couplet 7/7
show then tell the poetic leaven
Form: Didactic


Premium Member Clerihew Spender

English Poet Stephen Spender
political verse seemed to prefer
Later though a change instead
to the apolitical he was led
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Hi-Ku Jan 13

a dawn delicacy-
the mistlethrush's
everyday grub


NOTE-HI-KU is any English language variation on the Japanese haiku
Form: Haiku

Love

What is love? Is it loving? Is it making love? Is it feeling? No, it's simply being.





Picnic by Jimmy Boom Semtex

Reasons

Up, down
Keeping my stairs
Please hide my sad eyes now
Take it like a man would take it
Only I can decipher the reasons

Puppies

Quintain--

Puppies
Playful, awkward
Spirited energy
Clumsy fur balls to cuddle with
Hazard vest is highly recommended

Premium Member Hi-Ku Jan 12

thoughts hold on pause
ivy climbs a wall
  unnoticed

NOTE-HI-KU is any English language variation on the Japanese haiku
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Hi-Ku Jan 6

the email opens-
through the tears
a rainbow appears

NOTE-HI-KU is any English language variation on the Japanese haiku
Form: Haiku

The Unseen Monster

Everything is blur.
I stand up to see
and find a monster.
I try to touch and It moves with me
It's a mirror, oh it's me.

Premium Member Cleriew Auden

English playright W H Auden
also poetized with his pen
Famed for his 'Stop the clock'
his.Funeral blues gave many a shock
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Cherihew Belloc

English but Paris born Hillaire Belloc
who amusingly did mock
With nonsense verse oh so light
ever humerous & never trite
Form: Clerihew

English

I feel no need to fly the flag 
Just to please the crowd. 
I  see no need to demonstrate 
To prove I'm English and proud.
© John Read  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Shakespeare Today

Playwright Wiliam Shakespeare 
held rhyme & cadence ,so dear.
Plays in verse were his thing
making our English lingo sing.
Form: Clerihew

Love In a Pandemic

She stood in the moonlight smiling.
My perfect English rose.
Personal protective equipment
from her head down to her toes.

Your Mum and Dad

Philip Larkin
an English poet to whom we hearken
invoked his Mum and Dad
in words now famous, funny but some consider bad.
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Clerihew For Today

Playwright Wiliam Shakespeare 
held rhyme & cadence ,so dear.
Plays in verse were his thing
making our English lingo sing.
Form: Clerihew

Higher Affliction

Beneath,
Moving higher,
Upset and distressed now,
Lapsed into disturbed sleep or grief,
Afflicted with uneasiness for you.

Premium Member Dreams of March

Look,exquisite white blossom,
bathing in the sun-
the scents of Spring,cross my path,
a magnolia blossoms
a sunlit bouquet

Premium Member Unique,Original

FACSIMILE
if we paint
we do not copy,
facsimile-
an appearance,we see
through who,we be

after Van Hoogstraten's dictum
art

Premium Member A Confession

The God I know,is love
gave me the Holy Ghost,
Fills my thoughts from above:
Not so I may boast..
But I may,this love host

Premium Member Clerihew Kipling

English poet Rudyrd Kiplng
'My Son Jack' a WWI ode did bring
Alsi known for for the poem 'If'
in a simple style never stiff
Form: Clerihew

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