Short Given Up Poems

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


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The Sparrow

The bird's husk
a salient point
for even the ants
have given up
on the dry feathers
of the small
lonely ghost
of no account.

True Love Found Me

Although love dosent usually last
I cant let my lifetime pass
My true love
Whoever you shall be
Iv given up on love
So come find me.
Form: Rhyme

On Writing

I will write of happiness and ecstasy
Though my heart is burdened 
For I've given up on that one fantasy 
He whose passion I've yearned
Form: Quatrain

The Reward

Winners rewarded – for losers… if not given up… more is reward. 





December 23, 2018
One Liner: winners and losers, sponsored by Silent One
Form: Monoku


A Technical Failure

A technical failure
Your plan backfired
And so did you
But I still swell strength
My life hasn’t given up on me
Although sometimes
I wish that it would
Form:

Faded Flowers

The flowers of my youth,
may have long since given up,
their struggle to bloom.

But there is still beauty
hidden behind these
battle scars of age…
Form: Rhyme

Rip Tide

struggle given up
   at last
resigned
to swirl
twirl
   and
inhale
watery reality
  top floating
trailing bloody strings
of wishful
    make believe

Ocean Views

Flung open to
Which stepped out view
A window's, to contain
Given up on
Freshly aired lured
All of him cured
Of sea breadths, which, a-glow
Spark religion.
Form: Rhyme

Fouad Abbas

He was steering us somewhere
This Fouad Abbas
Having given up the world as unreachable
Now took hold the yellow disc
and wrested what was left
into some sort of plan.

I Have Given Up For Lent

I have given up for lent
Pate de fois gras
Lobster thermadore
And Beluga caviar
Well in a way 
I’ve never had them ever
But I won’t have them
Between now and Easter
Form:

Given Up, and Found

Looking through the glass--
Should be better for us both;
Years later I choke
On tears of a faulty choice;
“I have a mom, it's not you”


February 25, 2016
Form: Tanka

Burdening

When one is pushed far away, When one is given up on 
a stone is set deep in the heart, and it grieves me deeply 
to watch as she walks with burden, please lighten her soul
© Rhoma Em  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Didactic

Beautiful Lies

Pretty smiles
Deceitful laughs
Unanswered cries
Lonely days
&goodbyes
Given up on hope
Fairytales don’t come true
Liars prey on soft hearts
And they seek to devour you.

Premium Member No Cure

"You Need Help!" they say to me constantly,
and so I agree to begin attending therapy,
but I never go. I have given up.
I know that there's no cure or treatment 
for my kind of "messed up".
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member i can make a difference


hope in the midst of despair
the world may seem at its darkest
but i've not given up on life
you and i can make it beautiful again
one dream at a time



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In Real Life

in real life you're not real
I got the idea of being there
I constructed myself at your being
I gave myself in your image
I was given up
far from happy psychoanalysts
faithful to your beauty

Premium Member New Year's Resolution Devolution

Sue’s given up picking her nose And wiping the slime on her clothes But what she does more Is what I abhor… She’s eating the fluff from her toes! 15th January 2018
Form: Limerick

Baaa Baaa

I've given up my right to keep

           Active in Political Speak

           So I don't vote election day

            I just follow along the way

            Now, I lay me down as Sheep
Form: Limerick

Premium Member children like each other any way

Two stubborn brothers were in a little imbroglio
Their annoyed wives had given up on peace
Their children’s cousin’s hearts were rich and full
Ironed in love and unity, nary a cross word or crease

Fight For Me

You are not afraid
To go to war for those
You love
And that my darling
Is why I will always 
Look at you
Like you put the stars
In the sky
Because my dear
You fought for me
When I had given up
Form: ABC

Premium Member Chicago In Seven 2

A seven-game world series
Chicago, down three to one
Given up on my cubbies

Seemed an improbable feat
But they refused a defeat
Cubs did what cubs had to do
Cubs in seven, four to three

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Given Up All Hope

Given Up All Hope

Of things, Trump never understood the scope,
While women, he would gather up and grope;
Always mumbling;
An idiot bumbling,
And on him we definitely did give up all hope.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member First Thaw

An old charm bracelet, given up for lost, spotted in the melting snow brings summer to her eyes
............................... Contest: One Kimo Sponsor: Rick Parise
Form: Kimo

To Fill the Cup

I've given up 
To fill the cup
So my words are full
Amd not those of a fool
Being used as a tool 
Waiting for the light to show 
Without it this seed could never grow
Through it all
I've had to let go
Form: Rhyme

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