Short Expectations Poems

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


Selfish Desires

Feeling abandoned
Your enforced expectations
Got you entangled
In selfish desires to mold
Their existence to your own
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Goodbye 2025

You had your challenges
Glad you're on your way out
We have grand expectations for 2026 !



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

EXPECTATIONS poetrix






        you can't trust expectations
         if it's not an exact science...
            it's just probability...
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Expectations

ain’t that the truth~ at least you won’t be disappointed the sooner you learn this~ the better off you’ll be
Form: Ekphrasis

Haiku

to the horizon
waving to our destiny
no expectations
9-05-2018

3rd Place
Haiku Theme sea-ocean
5-7-5
sponsor Mick Talbot
Form: Haiku


Impossible Yet Easy

She was a puzzle
With such high expectations
Yet easy to spoil
Melting from the simplest words
Smiling from the smallest gifts
Form: Tanka

Autumn's Fall

The breeze chills branches
as leaves (and expectations)
relinquish their grace,

abandoning all thoughts of
inevitable rebirth
Form: Tanka

Of Perception

Perception is that
intricately painted
canvas of reality
which has been
crudely painted over
with our fears
and expectations.
© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.

Does Not Meat Expectations

My favourite steno, Sibyl
(No one else can read her scribble)
Has declined to wed
Our Legal Team Head
Solicitor Wilt N. Dribble
Form: Limerick

Premium Member No Demand

no demand


         when left all expectations, each reached close to me.


   'When plans dont go to plan' Contest by Silent One.
Form: Monoku

Transcending

My heart's desire is forever unlimited
to the reality of this world's expectations
that we've inherited
on this journey of meditations
Form: Quatrain

Sail

Nothing beats the power of hope.
But false expectations help that hope stay afloat.
Disappointed.
Patience, help hold that sailed boat.

Premium Member Charles Dickens' Best Pickins'

David Copperfield's Great Expectations
  Oliver Twist's Hard Times
Tale of Two Cities, No Christmas Carol
  Dickens' Novels -- Poetry Sans Rhymes
Form: Epigram

Premium Member EXPECTATIONS

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ snowflake's sharp lattice~ never quite the way she dreamed~ melts on her warm tongue
Form: Haiku

The Hold-up

He noted with much exasperation 
Bordering on desperation 
For his basic expectations 
Were yet to get any direction
Despite his heavy expectation
Form: Limerick

High Expectations

Is that light at the end of the tunnel as bright as you think it will be. In my opinion it seems that 
way but im not setting myself up for the hurt.

Premium Member Child---Adult

Child active, happy growing, jumping, running future, plans, hopes, expectations, worrying, paying, scheming discouraged, burdened adult
Form: Diamante

The Wonders

FOR WE HAVE LIVED IN THEIR TIME ,AND DONE THINGS BEYOND THEIR EXPECTATIONS WHEN WE ARE GONE FROM THEM LET THEM SAY GREAT MEN AND WOMEN WALKED AMONG US.
Form: Bio

Premium Member Promises Promises

Falling for it every time
His lavish words and overt good intentions
All end up falling flat



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Passion's Pulse

Passion's pulse now beats slower
  Expectations sink ever-lower

Bees and butterflies back underground
  Summer's song silenced, snowfalls surround
Form: Couplet

In Own Condition

heart's like pond or sea
                                        expectations desires live
                                             in own condition
Form: Senryu

Blink

In a blink of eye
An year passed or as decade
Made all of my dreams dry
With your compassion to fade
Still illusions or I say expectations were high
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Triumph

In my hand I have a key
That will open the door
Of the expectations 
For my conquest.
I will continue to walk to the doors
For I will reach my victory.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Nobody remembers who came in second

Best friends but the competition is fierce.
Prom night has its expectations.
The queen crowned ~ the mood is bittersweet.



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Premium Member Giving

(G)reatness lies within you
(I)nviting you to share
(V)ery special moments
(I)gnite with sacrifice
(N)o expectations
(G)racious offerings

Heidi Sands
Form: Acrostic

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