Short Former Poems

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


Premium Member Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee,
a presidential wanna be.
Former governor and preacher man,
is touting his "Fair Tax" plan.


8/22/15
Form: Clerihew


A Base Man

A Former Minister Of Goverment in Dominica 
Charles Maynard
Once Said
A Base Man Can never Blow The Trumpets Of Serenity.
© Lord Cam  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Zen Mode

we are either aware
or in hypnotic trance
former void centric
latter, form centric

as we choose to be

10-December-2022

Premium Member They Happen To Rhyme

Bin Laden, Osama
and Barack Obama
  Their names happen to rhyme
  but the former killed the latter
      for heinous crimes
Form: Epigram

Base of Gold

An old best friend is like a gold, 
New one‘s a diamond to hold, 
If you ever get the latter, 
Just never forget the former.
Form: Quatrain


My Morning Telegram Chat

Getting older day by day
Sunrise, coffee, chat, hurray
Smiles, news, regrets and wins
Things to do and former sins

April 17, 2024
© Ed Kay  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Serial

A serial doer of tasks
obsesses until he then asks:
what is it that’s next?
His old muse is vexed;
the former, the latter now masks.
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Between Two Moments

there are two moments
in this world
we cannot know about.
at birth and At death . And
the former cannot be prepared,
but the latter we can.

Premium Member Lesean Mccoy

Lesean McCoy For the Eagles, he is a joy. The former Pitt Panther running back leads a formidable ground offense attack.
Form: Clerihew

Former Felicity Felt


R-eaders
O-ften
S-ee
E-motional

V-erses
A-s
L-ines
D-escribing
E-rstwhile
Z-est

©bfa051025
Monocrostic (Birthday of Rose Valdez)
Form: Other

What It Can Do

“One time I smoked pot behind a bush, and then I didn’t talk to anyone for 4 years.” 

-Shane G. 
Former roommate at my 6th drug and alcohol rehab
Form: Bio

It's No Longer L

it's no longer me, 
it's he, 
to hear and to see, 
Christ in me, 
the hope of Glory, 
my former being now history......

by Luckson Mupakamiso
Form: Epigram

Old Age

years pull away from
petals fragile limp dusty
which curl as they dry
aging stops all former bloom
once smelling sweet with vigor



6/25/2017
© Tina Marsh  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Trump In Wonder Land

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Dump the Trump or Trump had won If former, Dems winner, If latter, Reps matter, Senate yea or nay, outcome?
Form: Limerick

Accepting

Soundlessly I lay,
Contemplating former bonds,
Catastrophic ends,
Variation of reasons,
Significance is revealed.



By: Sabina Nicole

written: 6-10-10
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Love the Other

Being different doesn't matter,,,
Be a flower, or be a feather,,,
The former or the latter,,,
I pick the one I'd rather,,,
And show I love the other.

Premium Member Hunter's Cabin

deer hunter's cabin left naked in former woods... miles_strip cleared of trees
Not sure that this qualifies as a true Haiku
Form: Haiku

Premium Member First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt With women's rights mostly dealt But her husband Franklin Let "Missy" Lehand spank him
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member One For the Poets--Just Revised

Words we write sometimes do matter: 
"Each candidate's like a mad hatter"
So please Trump and Hill
Take a suicide pill
We dislike the former and latter!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member When I Look At His Picture

I kiss his bedazzling framed picture,
Every time, I miss my former mister.
I gently hold my own cheek imagining
How he used to do so in a way so endearing.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member She Is a Cartoon

She is a cartoon 
a sketch of her former self
she is a comic
no one sees her anymore
she is older now
opinions have atrophied
an invisible old crone, me.
Form: Choka

Honoring Liberty

There is no debate,
what we celebrate.
Formation of the state,
never racial hate.

Former colony,
freed from monarchy.
Honoring liberty,
not inhumanity.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Thought of the day

both, the ripening fruit and the withering leaf
at the ordained time fall off from the tree
former in fulfilment, latter in decay
which oh hermit, will we be
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Telling of Tales

Scribbling is a splendid vacation,
Whilst the rewriting be 'back to work'.
We all much prefereth the former,
It be quite what they calleth the perk.
Form: Rhyme

Blue Moon

the moon is turning blue
by every hour and it is losing its former glamour 
because it sees no more of earths glimmers
because its seeing earths true colours.

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