Short Figures Poems

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


Ghosts

"GHOSTS"
elusive shadows
apparitional figures
peering hollow eyes
calculating shrewd moods,
anguish mortal clarity...
Form:


Fire Spirits

Dancing flaming figures of the 
wood/Wistful wonderful spirits of 
flame/Meditative my own mind you 
seem to have understood
© Jim Furey  Create an image from this poem.

For the Unborn

As figures don't lie
but liars can figure
Right is still right
—and wrong is still wrong

(Ronald McDonald House: July, 2022)

Beyond

Where darkness,
Goes to rest,
Cold, unwelcome,
Territory,
Silence towards the end,
Fleeting figures,
Whisper,
From,
Beyond.
Form: Elegy

Occam Says

Common Sense
uncommon
Wisdom 
in the queue
Figures lie
as liar’s figure
Judgment
— left askew

(Dreamsleep: August, 2025)
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Don't Look Up


the dark skies laden with swollen rain clouds
with sorrow's stain endows 
haunted funereal shrouds
figures swinging from tree boughs
Form: Englyn

Premium Member Formless Poetry

Somewhere
In a cave
She sits
Carbon stained fingers
Drawing
A poem
Disproportioned figures
Dancing
As a moon
Rises
Over arched
Stones

Premium Member Clerihew Gill

English engraver Eric Gill
created alphabet figures at will
Now known for his sans-serif type -face
thus carving out a  unique artistic  place
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Polyhedron

Polygonally,¬ Are closed plane figures bounded ~¬ Egypt's pyramids ~¬~ http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/science.php
Form: Senryu

Decayed Installment

opposite sexes
in front of a decayed installment
there were two figures

one observer
posing in front of the installment
they were semi-naked

Politic Figures

Many of them are
rather shallow and almost silly,
and also extremely
poisonous like many species of lily

(at least those in my beloved country)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Clerihew Verrocchio

Andrea of Florence took his patron'name
as  Verrocchio he later found fame
He loved fabrics & things in gold
his figures seem modelled& rather bold
Form: Clerihew

Fearless Eyes

dark clouds part to let streams of light through consuming angry figures tears in fearless eyes choka © CarolineCécile - 03.29.12
Form: Choka

Sweet Jesus

four
figures
cradling
Jesus in their
arms




Tribute To Jesus Christ
{Amen}


Also Entry For
Raul Moreno's
The Deposition Contest
GL All
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Clouds, Towels and Bedspreads

Many see figures up in the clouds
  I see them in towels and bedspreads
 
My family groans and says, 'Dunderhead'
  ~ Jealous of the fun I have in bed
Form: Rhyme

Gambling With Life

white horses
seven eyed monsters
we are riding high
blue blinking lights
from the turquoise trees
shaking figures of rotten flesh
we are gambling with life
Form:

Beast

Eyes of sorrow
Bleed new pain
Twisting Vision
In the rain 

Hidden lifeless figures faint
New found fury feeds the beast
As curious train tracks lead me
East.
Form: ABC

Premium Member Canvas In a Blaze

hands dip on easel

        blazing hues like moon's textures

                ...while figures unfold




Brian Strand's Contest 222
art
Form: Senryu

Premium Member MIRO titlista 39-41

dew falling
  awakens
     shadowed
figures

firmanent
   lights
in
the morning
             rain
irridescent
ciphers
  revealing
    the
          unknown
art
Form: Ekphrasis

Impromptu

some say
the earth is
flat that all is

fake but
forsake me not
my moon is pear

shaped
in a graceful
figure beyond what

figures
make she
is also truly red
Form:

Monoku Time Again

I
Human perception is self-limiting - like radars, we scan for targets - not diffuse area.

II
Gestalt psychology knows how humans focus on figures, not background canvas.
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Strange Life

Life:
a strange trip
undertaken alone,
by ghostly bodies,
encountering a variety of faces
atop the figures
of other solitary travelers,
searching 
for someone
to touch.
Form: Grook

Amedeo Modigliani

stretch artist, A. Modigliani amplifies
sketching curvilinear bodies, weak eyes 
his far-fetching figures still mystify us
despite his premature death to meningitis.

May 10, 2022
Form: Clerihew

Long Rolls

long rolls
of feverish faces
watery flames
of fire
of fiery fire
the broken
hearts
the mangled
figures
those are new casualties
but
not the only casualties
in old towns
of modern villages
© Canny Amah  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Premium Member Clerihew Bouts

Bouts the elder christened Dieric
a painter with a unique trick
Such slender figures,truth to tell
exampled in this painting of Hell*

*https://www.wga.hu/html_m/b/bouts/dirk_e/1/5thefall.html
Form: Clerihew

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