Short Failing Poems
Short Failing Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Failing by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Failing by length and keyword.
The Spirit Heart
When exterior
Utopia is failing
Go interior...
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Categories:
failing, introspection
Form:
Haiku
Criminality
Criminality,
is just a symptom of a failing society....
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Categories:
failing, society,
Form:
Couplet
Failing
marriage is failing
all he does is argue daily
doesn't comprehend...
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Categories:
failing, anger, sad,
Form:
Haiku
Spitting In the Wind
Death is not a failing
—only its denial
(Dreamsleep: December, 2019)...
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Categories:
failing, death,
Form:
Free verse
My Failing
the right words don't come
why cant i speak properly
i can't give the truth...
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Categories:
failing, absence, break up,
Form:
Haiku
Prayer
Prayer is repentance for failing our better selves;
It is both bolt and lock....
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Categories:
failing, 6th grade, appreciation, community, jesus,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Death
Darkness is not death.
Failing to turn on the light of life is death....
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Categories:
failing, confidence, death,
Form:
Free verse
A Soul Sold
I sold my soul to find love,
failing to realize I needed a soul to "be" in love....
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Categories:
failing, life,
Form:
Free verse
Resting
Religion drains me,
Trying hopelessness failing,
Now resting in Christ...
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Categories:
failing, christian, faith, gospel, jesus, religion,
Form:
Haiku
the gift
fostered failing health
through last year with lasting faith…
thank God for the gift
...
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Categories:
failing, blessing,
Form:
Senryu
Mortal Bred
Strange creatures we are,
Like lemmings at dawn.
From the failing stars,
To sunrise at morn....
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Categories:
failing, life
Form:
Couplet
He Gave
he gave up on life
his body failing
~ unsure which came first
posted on November 8, 2018...
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Categories:
failing, depression, health, life, loneliness, loss, sorrow,
Form:
Senryu
No Easy Walk To Glory
From now on
No easy walk to glory
I have a big heart
Failing means i try
The coward walks away...
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Categories:
failing, africa,
Form:
Tanka
Senryu 8-1-2016
Senryu 8/1/2016
strings fray slowly
puppeteers ignore
life’s failing steps
John G. Lawless...
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Categories:
failing, age, life,
Form:
Senryu
Man On a Cane
failing health
all by him self
sone look insane
from the legs pain
and other things
THE
MAN ON A CANE...
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Categories:
failing, adventure, character,
Form:
Light Verse
Worse Than Loss
worse than doing so.
achieve goals without failing.
to have a vision....
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Categories:
failing, analogy, success,
Form:
Haiku
Speechless
when she gently laughs--
I tremble on roses bought
failing to propose
Valentine Senryu
Feb 5, 2019...
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Categories:
failing, silly, words,
Form:
Senryu
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
Former governor, limelight failing
Famous quotes sometimes loom big:
You can’t put lipstick on a pig...
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Categories:
failing, political,
Form:
Clerihew
Maria Tallchief
Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief
bigotry gave her grief
failing health, unsteady,
she railed, “Get my swan costume ready!”...
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Categories:
failing, celebrity, dance, death, native american,
Form:
Clerihew
Life
Do breathe thy guilt today—believe not tomorrow be endless
Lest Death, failing to hear a breath, permit no forgiveness....
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Categories:
failing, death, life, sin,
Form:
Couplet
The Green Twig
the green twig
from the failing honeysuckle
presses this window
leads me to love the green force
even in chilly december...
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Categories:
failing, allegory, december, green,
Form:
Tanka
Cult of Personality
They believed a Capitol riot could make a loser a winner,
After failing, they cling to changing facts by terror and thunder....
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Categories:
failing, bullying, corruption, death, political, truth,
Form:
Couplet
Coming So Close
Coming so close
And failing
Is not what I do now
And it’s called
Fulfilling and filling
Books full of writing
Now I am winning...
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Categories:
failing, absence, america,
Form:
Free verse
"do You Want To Know"
Do you want to know
How easy it is
For someone
To break my shadow?
It’s not hard,
But people keep on
Trying,
And failing....
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Categories:
failing, life
Form:
I do not know?
Tanka Xviii
her bed clothes
laid across her bed--
a trek to town?
her failing memory
won't lead her home
Prev. Pub. in TSA Anthology 2020...
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Categories:
failing, confusion, memory,
Form:
Tanka