Short Fortune Poems

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


Premium Member Paper Fortune Teller

Unfold, now behold
The truth of how all answers
Are hidden within
Every folded, small facet;
Every fibre part of you.
Form: Tanka


Death Gliding Through This Storm

I seek not
Fame or fortune, nor glory
From this untimely death, but
Death has patient wings gliding
Through this storm

Premium Member Pitch Man

He was an All Star Athlete,
A potential Hall of Famer.
He could have made a fortune, if,
His hair was not like Kramer's.

The Way I View Life Simply Put.

I aint never had alot of money or good fortune.But I always had life.Be happy or be sad,life 
goes on.So i choose to be happy.
Form: Verse

Love Luck

Good fortune
I dream this time
What are our wishes
I make it on my own
Blame fate
If you don't find 
Love luck for today.


Premium Member THE THRILL OF COMING HOME

No matter how old we grow…
no matter our fortune or fame
may the thrill we get when we return home
always remain the same.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Luck of the Wallflower

My luck, much like a wallflower
    that never sought attention

  Fortune blinked! Her coyest smile
    invited apprehension
Form: Rhyme

Spin That Thing!

Wheel-of-Fortune:  That's my game!
How much money can one claim?
Solve the puzzles:  Use your mind
Pure happiness you shall find!
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Profound Revelations

fortune pocketful
the lines of his front palm read ~
sought a sage gypsy



Date written: 05/05/2023
Form: Senryu

Weightless Fortune

I willingly pay a hard-earned fortune 
just to lose excess 
weight.

Many others have the misfortune 
of having nothing 
to eat.

Premium Member Destiny - C

Fate's fickle fingers frequently foist frustration and fortune 'fore us ----------------- (C) John C Michaels, 2014

Serendipity

serendipity makes man
all the more richer
fine wine distilling and champagne
cultivated 
curiously imbibing fortune
robes the wino

Premium Member Worth Every Penny

Peace is a distant star
  It's far, far away
    It's hard to get to
      It costs a fortune to go
        ~ It's worth every penny

Unloyal Gold Diggers....

They
unjust
no mercy
nary mercy
a mercenary
no loyalty but gold
hidden soldier of fortune
different kind of payment recieved.....

POTW

My writing's are far from unique 
Neither fame or fortune I seek 
My only claim 
To  poetry fame 
To be chosen for poem of the week.
© John Read  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Weal of Fortune

Limelight can burn;it never heals,
no matter fame how good it feels -
succombing to excesses, worse,
resisting not temptation's curse.
Form: Quatrain

Fortune

When the fortune gets awake then
the problems become wind.
Thousands of problems also came,
the destinations themselves become the way.
Form:

I Feed Corn To Pigeons

I've been to battlegrounds fighting for free
                I've run worlds searching fortune
                 now feed corn to pigeons
Form: Kimo

Time's Fortune

How lucky you are…
to be a Poet

The window to tomorrow
left open

All tracks into the past
—to reclaim

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)

Existence

Had some lonesome soul not wrecked,
and fortune never let preclude,
to disrupt this butterfly effect,
then, in this world I'd not bedeck.
Form: Quatrain

Disagree

It's too late, it was always too late,
A sudden stroke of fortune or fate,
You can make your own destiny,
But one or another might disagree.
Form: Rhyme

Horror Scope

Astrologists look at the stars
Whilst Gypsies read palms in the bars
But Fortune lies
With alibis
So mind the lights, but watch the cars!
Form: Limerick

Salvation Besought

My currency
My words
My fortune
My thoughts
My freedom
My expression
My salvation,
—besought

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Wanda Freebie

Wanda asked with eyes big and blue
Could it be I needed a screw?
With drinks on the table
I found she was able
To do what she wanted to do.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Tides of Good Fortune

Whatever the tides of good fortune bring 

With the same ease may take them away!  








© Demetrios Trifiatis
       28 June 2021
Form: Couplet

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