Short Hold Back Poems

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


Little Bird

Little bird singing
        Alone on a slim dead limb
Cannot hold back tears


Just learned about syllables in Haiku. Updated
Form: Haiku


Let There Be No Love

Let there be no love
Those that hold back false tears
Hated him and me
When you visit my lover's grave
Kill me and bury me with him
Form: Tanka

The Donald

The Donald stood atop Trump Tower
Counting his income by the hour
When it would go down
He'd hold back a frown
And when it was lost he'd glower
Form: Limerick

Destiny

Defy not the will
Escape not the clutches
Submit to your fate
Tread the uncertain path
Ignite your dreams
Never hold back
You are the master of your destiny
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Age Rushed In

Age rushed in like the waves of an unrelenting sea…
knowing she could not hold back the tide
she welcomed in the ocean
and did her best to enjoy the ride.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse


You're Gone

Someday I'll see you again, my Love.
Till then, I'll seek guidance from above
To help me through the coming years,
To hold back sadness and floods of tears.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member In Caps

Fingertips move the keyboard taps,
over time my patience just snaps;
Pulse raises in my bloodstream 
hard to hold back a scream
when you shout at me in caps.
Form: Limerick

Paris Good Soul

Paris is not an abstraction
Paris is more than my tea
Paris is now one theory
where I hold back my cry
because its heaven is not me
just a self-control
good soul

Premium Member Don't hold back

Your goals in life should be clear.
Aim for what you hold most dear.
Knock off checkmarks on your bucket list.
Go for it and live your dreams.



AP: 1st place 2025

Premium Member Thought of the Day

People view us with a quizzical eye,
when we speak of God’s bliss that makes heart sigh
but how may we hold back, when soul’s aflame,
so we share secrets of God’s divine game.
Form: Quatrain

Cry Wipe

as i sit and think
my eyes blink
your on my mind
you up where sun shine
our love is still combind
hold back tears
think of all the years
yourr always in my sight
always a
CRY WIPE

You Have the Energy

You have the energy
Utilize it wisely
Have it in your mind to achieve 
Go for it respectively 
Do not hold back 
For time is essential 
Knowledge and wisdom 
Are indeed vital

P’S AND Q’S

P’S AND Q’S

There once were some dogs in line
Waiting to go, all started to whine
But the mutt at the tree
Couldn’t hold back his pee
And the rest, they soon stopped trying
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Success and Failure

As the attainments of others never assure one's own success 

So their deafening failures shouldn't hold back one's progress








© Demetrios Trifiatis
     29 August 2018
Form: Couplet

Premium Member For the Sake of Aesthetic

Artists hold back a lot more than their potential alone. 
For they feel if their tears are ever spilled, their pain revealed: 
Their facade, of being as fine as their art, will be ruined.

Not a Word

Hold back,
 please don't say it.
There it is so clear
 on your face
 in your eyes
 beating in your heart,
nothing need be said
 not a word 
 this must be it
 the time of last goodbyes.
© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.

Cry

tirade better your silence
senseless
then hold back not 
cry
tears flowing silent streams
trickling your breath caressing
turning them vapor
kissing skies
keera rafid neenoo
rim chim  blaasoo
Form:

Demons and Angels

Demons and angels 
And spirits I hear.
Which one do I heed?
Which one do I fear?

This one on the left,
Tells me to hold back.
This one on the right,
Says hold nothing back.

October 17, 2014
Form:

Writer Don'T Hold Back

if its in you
be ture
get it out
no doudt 
some won't like what you do
you owe it to me and you
we must must not be a few
mack you think your be wack
put that on the rack
WRITER DON'T HOLD BACK

Some Men Who Really Can't Call Themselves Men

Do what I must,
To keep him happy,
To please him,
Feed his hunger,

Don’t mess up,
Don’t flinch,
Let him touch me,
Smile now,

Hold back your tears,
It’s just once,
Right?
Maybe just once

The Old Fisherman Got a New Truck

The Old Fisherman got a new truck.

A cranberry Chevy.

The people who sell his face

gave it to him.

It replaces the old Ford

with wood side panels 

which hold back the barrels, 

his catch.

In Plain Is Pain

Where do the tears
i hold back go
maybe i am drowning inside
guess the chasm
is deeper than i thought
cause the salt
is catching in my throat
couldn't feel if i could
playing a shadow
hidden by the dark

Premium Member How Charming Can I Be

Want you all to know how charming I can be But must hold back or you'll succumb don't you see It's for your own good More open I would But fear your advances would be too much for me (grin)
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Fairy Type Being

With a first sip of java I reach heaven's door Come back to life and start soaring once more Like a fairy type being As I hold back my peeing Mere mortals have rarely witnessed such beauty before
Form: Limerick

Sailing

Cast all your fears to the wind
and take each moment as it comes;
row your boat and put up your sail
out to the far blue horizon;
lead on, don’t hold back for
you are not really alone,
near you I’d always be..
Form:

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