Short Five Poems

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


Chronicles of a Stray Hero--Five

Confusion stains the eye
while the mothers wonder why
all their pretty children had to die
                 --stray hero
© John Allen  Create an image from this poem.


High Five To Brian Strand

Doggie paw patting
My leg under the table
Notice me, love me,
Give me a sweet treat to eat
Don't make me have to repeat!
Form: Tanka

Highway Star

A zooming car, a Speed King.
All day, all night.
All down the highway,
Racing with faces unknown
To prove what he’s got.
© A. P.  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Forty Five Foot Oak

impressive palm print
fills the bulk of the forest
forty-five foot oak
leaving me warm memories
heavenly haven for crows
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Five Fabulous Fun Footles For Contest

NONE’S FUN

Rabbit
Habit

Convent
Intent

Praiser
Raiser

Farewell
To Hell

Deacon
Streakin’



10/28/2016
Form: Footle


Huntin Seeson Five

smilin sam set out to sin
sherry sue set out to win
smilin sam squeezed
sherry sue pleased
sam and sue married with twins
Form: Limerick

Been Five Years Today

Been five years today
Miss the joy you brought to me
I'll never forget
Those were loving, tender times
Years ago but yesterday
Form: Tanka

Five Minutes After Thursday

If it is five minutes after Thursday would it be 12:05am Thursday or would it be Friday? Thursday is named after a Viking god.
Form: Epic

Premium Member Five Percent

OK, you got me, I admit,
ninety-five percent of life is sh**;
but, still, I am glad I'm alive
to experience the other five.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Five and Two Posts

1.29 plus tax
light it up
hour glass countdown
quadruple meltdown
she keeps her lamp burning
but it's illegal 
3000 years

Give Me Five

street talk
as you walk
with money
some you call sonny
repect you call son
that mean you won
 talking jive
you say
GIVE ME FIVE

Five Fabulous Fun Footles For Contest

chatty 
fatty

happy
chappie

jelly
belly 

caring 
sharing

funny
fella 


comp entry 24102016 1st go at footle
fun
Form: Footle

Premium Member Just Five More Minutes

Just Five More Minutes

the morning sun
tip-toes amid dawn’s slumbering
snooze alarm shadows


John G. Lawless
7/26/2017
Form: Senryu

Meta Five

Your eyes are charming  your voice makes me alive
I wanted to call you an angel as a metaphor
But you were yourself,a meta five
Form:

Give Me Five

it was the way to speak
its still  keeps
some say this
its a love kiss
the word still excist
and have that jive dive
GIVE ME FIVE

Hawaii Five-O

As a little boy
Hypnotized by gyrating
Hips and bare navel

As an adult man
Light-skinned exotic women
Always more preferred
Form: Haiku

FIVE line poetry number 2

In the madness of morning 
she filters my thoughts
brightening up the moments
cutting through the chaos
of another clouded day
© Ts Poetry  Create an image from this poem.

5th Five Fabulous Fun Footles Not For Contest

We walk And talk In words Absurd. Words flow With no Pretense Of sense But sound Profound.
Form: Footle

Five Fabulous Fun Footles

Hot chick,
How slick

Short skirt,
Must flirt

Firm bum,
Oh yum

A bulge,
Oh fudge!

Shemale,
Wrong trail!

10/25/2016
Form: Footle

Five Fabulous Fun Footles

I Fret


I miss
That kiss

That first
starburst

The one
that's fun

Truth told
I'm old

And yet
I fret

10/27/2016
Form: Footle

Oracle of the High-Five Justices

Buy your full-body burka now 
Made in Texas to fit a cow
The colour is black
It fits like a sack
So you'll feel as free as a sow!
Form: Limerick

3rd Five Fabulous Fun Footles Not For Contest

My cat, So fat, Had thought It caught A mouse In house, But found From sound Did not; Distraught.
Form: Footle

Premium Member Our Big Five-Oh

Golden rings on held hands
city streetlights glow
voiceless given glance
extended serenity
eyes for each other
a long road walked.
Form: Verse

FIVE line poetry number 3

The world spins but I stood still
in awe with the view
every curve consumed 
the wind whispers in my ear
and my thoughts run, to you
© Ts Poetry  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Ready In Five

Salad & garlic croutons
A noodle stir fry
Sweet & sour diced chicken
hot garlic roasties
chateau-neuf-de pape
Hot cross buns
Gee !
Form: Epulaeryu

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