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Short Frayed Poems

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


On the Edge of Forever
We stand on edge of
Forever overlooking
Our frayed existence...

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Categories: frayed, life,
Form: Senryu



Along Came Adonis
Her frayed soul revels
for along came Adonis
her pain thus deserts...

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Categories: frayed, happiness, love, romance,
Form: Haiku
Tomorrow's Waiting
Tomorrow's waitng,
Yesterday lingers alone,
Days frayed fade away....

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Categories: frayed, time
Form: Haiku
Quilt Made Was Frayed
lovely quilt was made
found to be crooked and frayed
unevenly laid...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frayed, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
One Hundred and Thirteen
Unraveled and frayed
Futile shouts in the valley
My soul flash frozen...

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Categories: frayed, mystery, nature,
Form: Haiku



Frayed
My heart is frayed
Hope to tie the ends together by those who betrayed...

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Categories: frayed, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Yoyo
you toyed with my heart
like a yoyo on a string
a frayed string that broke...

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© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frayed, lost love
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Fallen
a rose frayed and dying

crisp death as love does

when fallen from grace...

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Categories: frayed, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member His Lonely Tombstone
no tombstone no plaque
worn out frayed flowers hang
unkept weeds grow fierce...

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Categories: frayed, sad,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Ringing Phone
The  princess phone was ringing off the hook
Her frayed nerves were really shook....

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Categories: frayed, nostalgia,
Form: Crystalline
Smile
With her smile she plays
     my frayed heart-strings like Chopin; 
a sweet melody....

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Categories: frayed, desire,
Form: Haiku
As We Move Through Life
We must soar above
Frayed madness of worldly deeds
That singe our spirits

4/8/10...

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Categories: frayed, life,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Midday Sun
cardboard window frayed
sun shards reaching basement floor…
       handcuff chafing wrist...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frayed, loneliness, sun,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Restoring Life
seams frayed and threadbare
rocking time till life to come
old clock once more chimes


4/1/2018...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frayed, health, heart, life,
Form: Senryu
Sunflowers
Shards of frayed humanity
    Lifting their face
To the hope of sun

Liberated in the grace of wind....

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Categories: frayed, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Loveless
Days and
Nights tied in frayed
Ribbons of resentment--
She throws out his careless words while
Leaving....

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Categories: frayed, leaving, lost love,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Frayed Straw
frayed straw hat
hangs by the door
~ garden gloves patient



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted on May 31, 2018...

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Categories: frayed, garden, nature, passion, summer, sunshine,
Form: Haiku
Frayed
Gray day hideaway:
what an electric day!
Why I still try
   makes my head sigh
once anguish ebbs away....

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frayed, depression
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Encounter Chastushka
Christmas comes but once a year
friends&family all draw near
Silly games& charades are played
pity me as nerves get frayed...

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Categories: frayed, christmas, poetry, word play,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Grandson
Caleb you I held on my knees
A child I truly love
Lent to me from God above
Everyday when you gone
Blank is the canvas and frayed...

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Categories: frayed, family, love
Form: Acrostic
The Little Knot
Scraggy little knot I know not what you are !
Are you not now known as a reef or square knot or not ? 
No sorry I’m a Frayed Knot !...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: frayed, funny
Form: I do not know?
Rope's End
Hold onto what is right
Let the unimportant frayed, fragments fall
Hope for hope's sake
Stare into renewal
Leave, cares away
Leave?...

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Categories: frayed, angst
Form: I do not know?
Ageing
Staring at frayed picture of yesteryear
An old man lives with strangers
His caring son and wife
Date
Sept9 2016
Contest Kimo
10, 7 6...

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Categories: frayed, age, change,
Form: Kimo
Premium Member Defining Lines
Frayed
around
the edges
outlined by life
my portrait is etched by experience




Inspired by Brian Strands' Five and Twenty Contest...

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Categories: frayed, introspection, life
Form: Tetractys
Premium Member Inheritance

In this quiet room
I will hear my mother's words
frayed from years of missing her


_______________________________

6/27/16...

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Categories: frayed, longing, love, mom, mother,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs