Short Folly Poems
Short Folly Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Folly by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Folly by length and keyword.
Babel Bumble
ladder of folly
human hubris appended
divine will rended...
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Categories:
folly, religion
Form:
Haiku
Brian's Folly
truth's hiatus
meets a Messiah
broken promise
June 2, 2020...
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Categories:
folly, 11th grade, remember, truth, vacation,
Form:
Haiku
Rose
Beautiful rose
Youths folly
Hidden fragrance
True loves intended...
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Categories:
folly, age, appreciation, beauty, innocence, introspection, romantic, rose,
Form:
Haiku
existentialism
are these beetles born
to die around burning bulbs?
zenith of folly
...
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Categories:
folly, life, philosophy,
Form:
Haiku
Good Golly, Miss Molly
Good golly,
Miss molly
What a bit of folly
Let’s be jolly
Have a tamale...
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Categories:
folly, fun, giggle,
Form:
Rhyme
Man's Folly
Gunfire lit the clouds
as the weeping sky shed her
tears on Flanders Fields...
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Categories:
folly, war
Form:
Haiku
Folly
ivy clad folly
where romanticism took root
flourishing unchecked...
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Categories:
folly, uplifting,
Form:
Senryu
Desired
wisdom is desired
it is a brand of folly
employed by the wise
to dupe the powerful...
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Categories:
folly, irony, wisdom,
Form:
Quatrain
Haiku Coo-Coo
I shovel winter
juxtapositions folly
I dig spring
John G. Lawless
©5/22/2018...
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Categories:
folly, humor,
Form:
Senryu
When Folly Weds Greed
they beget lame ducks
that lay rotten eggs
ducklings they hatch not
to swim troubled seas...
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Categories:
folly, integrity, satire,
Form:
Quatrain
Cinquain
Folly
brought down a notch,
outrageous fortune foiled,
shot down by due irreverence,
humor....
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Categories:
folly, humanity, humor, life, psychological,
Form:
Cinquain
Free Will's Folly
Free Will’s Folly
free will’s folly
celestial indifference
a distant “god”
John G. Lawless
©2/7/2018...
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Categories:
folly, death, life,
Form:
Senryu
History's Folly
Charge it to stupidity
or perhaps life's futility
that little is being learned,
just more wrinkles earned!...
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Categories:
folly, history, satire
Form:
Verse
Limits
LIMITS
The limits
Of wisdom
Are indicated
By
The perimeter
Of folly
©Demetrios Trifiatis
10 January 2013...
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Categories:
folly, education, life,
Form:
Epigram
Waste and Folly
We are ill-served to give those who do
nothing
and know nothing
—everything
(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)...
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Categories:
folly, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Nightmare
A nightmare
you may dream
let me be.
A king then
before you
fire is out.
Even if ...
that nothing
adorns you....
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Categories:
folly, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
Folly of Youth
~ troika of young teenage boys leap from bridge into the river at once ~
Date written: 12/05/2020...
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Categories:
folly, imagery, people, teenage, youth,
Form:
Monoku
Ignorance and Folly
Listening to the words of ignorance prisoner one becomes of folly!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
19 November 2018...
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Categories:
folly, introspection, truth,
Form:
Monoku
Haiku
craving afterlife
aspiring for the heaven…
a human folly
~04/24/18
~haiku "Human Nature" contest
by Mick Talbot...
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Categories:
folly, humanity,
Form:
Haiku
Man's Folly
Your eyes stare at me
Wild beast beautiful and proud
Who so freely roamed
Regal Sumatran Tiger
God creates then man destroys...
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Categories:
folly, animals, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Wishing Well
Do you love me? I can't tell
Threw me in a wishing well
"Wish you'd pull me out" I said
"Sure, I'll do that, when you're dead."...
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Categories:
folly, dark, funny, hate, lost love, romance, silly,
Form:
Quatrain
Binge
As I sit here, melancholy
Surrounded by filth, full of folly
I did this to myself, why complain?
And then I stuff my face again....
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Categories:
folly, addiction, body, corruption,
Form:
Rhyme
Foreclosure
I can no longer afford
what my folly has purchased
Return not an option
—my bank account dry
(Dreamsleep: December, 2020)...
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Categories:
folly, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Signare
The part you transform
is that part you possess
The rest is pure folly
—petals scattered to the wind
(Dreamsleep: April, 2022)...
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Categories:
folly, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Albert's Folly
Particles in the void,
memories in the stream
Lovers in the mist
—time caught inbetween
(Rosemont Pennsylvania: January, 2020)...
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Categories:
folly, time,
Form:
Rhyme