Short Forbidding Poems

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


Cold Sea

Cold Sea
Cold forbidding sea,
Stinging salt and blinding spray,
Bringing home the ships.
© Jerry Chen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku


Sage

Enveloped in humane rage,
she was a torturous sage,
pierced his wounded spirit,
she went forth to tear it,
forbidding it for him to breathe
she summoned dark to wreathe
© Mibdah Mir  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Screwtape

Long forbidding fingers dig deep in,
Appearing black contrast on pale skin,
The puppeteer directs your gaze,
A brief view but the vision stays,
Ruinous renderings plague the brain,
His dark imprint now shall remain.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Lure of the Sea

The lure of the sea was lost on me
  Forbidding waters caused me to flee

  But to where ... not to the air
  Imagine a fall from way high up there

  Seeking a safe zone, I stayed at home...
  And with little to say, I mastered the poem
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Forbidding Island

I swim to an unknown rocky strand, marooned by the captain's hand,
Up on the barren shore I stand, up on the wave-washed sand.
The sandpipers dance a saraband; could I like the birds withstand?
Held by the bars of a coral band, alone in a rocky land.
Form: Monorhyme


Premium Member A Cat Disappeared

in summer
 a cat appeared
 in my backyard
 every day
 bathed in the sunshine
 rolled on its back
 then sneaked under the fence
   on its merry way...

 now a forbidding wind moans
 leaves snap off of trees
 late afternoons
 the hawk is out
   the sky, an angry gray
Form: Imagism

Ravelston Hall's Gardens At Night--From the Secret of Ravelston, a Novel

The gardens’ magical beauty comes to life 
in the dark of night.  
The large treetops seem to float right up above you 
and merge with the open sky.  
The flowers seem forbidding in the dim light of the night,
but as you look at them for a while, 
they glow to you, 
and are more radiant than at daylight.

Premium Member The Lure of the Familiar

The streets of yesterday, comforting
   The landscape of tomorrow, forbidding  

Familiar foods rouse fond memories
   Tampering with tradition, disapproval

My well-worn armchair's form-fitted to me
   That new recliner, stiff as a bad knee

Your scent, your aura, ingratiating
   All others, alienating
Form: Rhyme

The Only Birds That Never Sleep

...title courtesy of Victor Hugo


Silver'd whisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophecy or prayer. 

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies.
Form: Quatrain

Clouds

Silver'd wisps, diaphanous, floating 'neath the ether, 
flying high like prophesies from God.                                         
Black forbidding masses rumble out their warning,
jagged bolts of lightning rend the air.
Innocuous or deadly, oft they're in disguise, 
it would behoove us all to heed the skies.
Form: Verse

Clouds

Silvered wisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophesies from God.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
oft they're in disguise;
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies.
sky
Form: Verse

Clouds

Silver'd whisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophesies from God.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
oft they're in disguise;
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies.
Form: Verse

Premium Member The Cookies

Bird food bought instead Of cookies, no dread Of eating them at tea or Snack, I'll make brownies Ride over the counties Maybe do fun chores galore Who am I kidding Can't do forbidding I'll just eat so much, much more Maybe some apples Dipped so they're dappled No, I'm trapped just as before
Form: Rhyme

Vegetarian

(This is a fictional poem)

My wife is a vegetarian and she wants me to be one too.
She's forbidding me to eat meat, what am I going to do?
If she has her way, I'll never eat another whopper.
She's a monster, somebody has to stop her.
I can't continue to go without any meat.
I just opened the door and tossed her out in the street.
Form:

Title Song

TITLE SONG


In that grinding solitude 
"I Wander Lonely as a Cloud"
Echoing an "Ode on Melancholy"
To my spiritual
"Waste Land".

Doing the "Digging"
On that "Sunne Rising"
breathing a "Valediction Forbidding Mourning" 
 
I fear I am "Gone With the Wind"
Fixing my date
"Crossing the Bar"
Being the "Adonais"
Heading for a
--ROMAN HOLIDAY
© Sadat Khan  Create an image from this poem.

Clouds

Silver'd whisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophesies from God.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
oft they're in disguise, 
so it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies.
Form: Verse

Autumn In Life

Traveling sullenly 
Through the worst season
Of my life
I watch hope fall
Like autumn leaves
I stand against the rising chill
And beckon my soul to come
And lift itself out of hibernation
And back to a place and time
When everything had
Possibilities
And it was so bright that the entire world
Seemed familiar and not so 
Strange and forbidding
© Zaida Ruiz  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

The Only Birds That Never Sleep

...title courtesy of Victor Hugo

                 ******

Silver'd wisps, diaphanous, 
floating 'neath the ether, 
flying high like prophecy or prayer. 

Black forbidding masses 
rumbling out their message, 
jagged bolts of lightning rend the air. 

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all to heed the skies!
sky
Form: Verse

The Only Birds That Never Sleep

...title courtesy of Victor Hugo

                 ******

Silver'd whisps, diaphanous, 
floating 'neath the ether, 
flying high like prophecy or prayer. 

Black forbidding masses 
rumbling out their message, 
jagged bolts of lightning rend the air. 

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all to heed the skies!
Form: Verse

The Only Birds That Never Sleep

Silver'd whisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophecy or prayer.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies.


Note: title courtesy of Victor Hugo
Form: Quatrain

The Only Birds That Never Sleep

Silver wisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high as 
prophecy or prayer.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies.


Note: title courtesy of Victor Hugo
Form: Verse

The Only Birds That Never Sleep

Silver wisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophecy or prayer.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies.


Note: title courtesy of Victor Hugo
Form: Quatrain

Insomniac's Requiem

Can’t sleep,

My thoughts race skin deep

Forbidding rest,

I’m wearing my dreamless vest

Made of flesh and stress

Heavy clothes I can’t undress

Trapped under stained sheets

My mind wanders the sleepless streets

Searching for a cure,

My body can no longer endure

Skin and bone is all I am

Once a lion, now a lamb,

Falling farther every night

To the sandman’s delight.
Form: Rhyme

The Only Birds That Never Sleep

Silver'd whisps, 
diaphanous, floating 'neath 
the ether, flying high like 
prophecy or prayer.                                         

Black forbidding masses
rumbling out their message,
jagged bolts of lightning 
rend the air.

Innocuous or deadly, 
omens to discerning eyes, 
it would behoove us all 
to heed the skies.


Note: title courtesy of Victor Hugo
Form: Quatrain

A Silent Mind

a vicious silence
feeds on my mind
stifling my essence
a curse designed
       to destroy and erase
       all authentic creativity
       leaving not a trace
       of poetic ability
my pen overflows
with eager ink
but the silence grows
forbidding me to think
        my mind must be restless
        I despise this peace
        allow my pen to be reckless
        this silence must cease!
Form: Rhyme

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