Short Futility Poems

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


Premium Member Futility

Futile it is to toil to know others while one ignores himself!








©  Demetrios Trifiatis
        04 April 2018
Form: Monoku


Premium Member Wife

I once had one
So much in love
That we couldn’t see
The futility
Of love in this life
No what I really need
Is a loving wife
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Trimming

Clipping, smoothing, pruning; silly
dilly-dallies that people do.
Gross lessons in futility 
achieved. And Oh!, tis true, tis true!
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Grim Reaper

Battle
of Britain-
futility
in the shadows of a 
world war

Totes Meer by Paul Nash
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=10547
Form: Ekphrasis

Four Lines of Life

A rose falls on the sore wound
Healing the deep agony within
Both pain and love have been seen
Friends, feel the futility of fatal fights...


Premium Member Grim Reaper

Sunlit
summer scene-
futility
cas shadows of the
great war

The Cornfield by John Nash
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=10520
art
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Futility

Futile one's efforts to live in peace with others are if peace in his heart is missing!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      30 August 2018
Form: Monoku

Futility

Round and round the dog chases it's tail running after dreams; so with Man.

~09 Jul 2016~

17 syllables checked via www.howmanysyllables.com
Form: Monoku

One Mad Summer Afternoon

Forgetting to hold my breath, 
I was swept away in an ocean
Of passion and futility, 
Without any thought of resuscitation.

Cynthia
Poetry I Motion

I Am Impaled

Flailing madly
Against the tide,
I am impaled
By the futility of life.

Slowly losing myself
In the bitter cold,
The devil's clenching fingers
Encase my soul.
© Deb Radke  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member a cosmic exercise in futility

The king loves his creatures quite white
Colored beings make him uptight
From those he’ll secede
Though that won’t succeed
Since leaving this Earth’s not too bright
Form: Limerick

Total War

Bitterness, loneliness,
Anger and pain,
Whole worlds suffer
Yet none may gain.
Frustration, futility,
Strife without end,
Mankind’s in the dust
Death comes as a friend.
© May Fenn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Life is Short

Do you wonder and worry only to know futility? Will you continue to scurry until you learn humility? Life is short and often blurry. Summon your inner tranquility.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Turntable of Despair

bound and tethered
held strong with grievous filaments
i struggled not
feeling the futility
and the masterful illusion of my jaundiced mind
she holds me captive
on the turntable of despair

A Question of Futility

too many angels lost in a broken world futilely searching for their wings
............
Written: 10/12/2016
Contest Entry: A Sad One Liner
Sponsor: Silent One
Results: 1st Place
.............
© Jesse Day  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Futility of a Run

ebony carnivore’s velvet coat comes into view in a rush
his prey is terrified, too frightened to run, knowing the futility of it
she advances, with those determined amber eyes
her babies will eat tonight

Premium Member We'Ve Been Trumped

Each day is a frustrating adventure in futility Tolerating such weird behavior is incomprehensible The man at the helm Is spitting out phlegm Normal just ain't in his realm of possibility
Form: Limerick

Jack 2

As my mind slips away
A little more each day

Regressing into a world of juvenility
With less and less social civility

Physically capable but losing mental mobility
I believe this road is called futility
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Lonely Remedy

When you're lonely
it can lead to further misery
whereupon escape from loneliness feels like an eternal futility.
When loneliness grasps you, there is only one remedy.
Loneliness is good to share with somebody.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Below Zero

the cold
          dulls
subtle senses,
sterilises
            well-being:
unsettles
        the positive
induces
           futility
vanquishes
             desire-
and in silence
                     kills
Form: Verse

You

i call your name aloud...this time...
not carefully in lyric rhyme,
but shrill and all too recklessly
devoid of pretty poetry:
“YOU!!!!”
…but penned, as spoken words, from me
are each the same: futility.
(“…you….”)
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Premium Member the search shows up empty

presence

seems as lost

as conditioning

captures the child~

conditioning may

initiate a search 

of futility to find

what is not lost

until the search

shows up empty

and already 

presence

Graves of Our Fathers

The Black Hills are crying,
our Mother forsaken

Enemy boot prints
where moccasins claim

To live just to die
in noble futility

All drums beat in silence
—He Sapa in shame

(Pine Ridge South Dakota: July, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

Sweet Abandon

Your voice, it calls to me
Your eyes, they signal me
Your lips, pucker frequently
What is this man to do?

The passion, so overpowers me
To fight? It’s just futility
Your touch, it sets me free
To lead me back to you
Form: Rhyme

You

"You!"
I call your name aloud. This time.
Not carefully in lyric rhyme,
But shrill and all too recklessly
Devoid of pretty poetry:
“YOU!!!!”
…But penned, as spoken words, from me
Are each the same: Futility.
(“…you….”)
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

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