Short Influence Poems

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


To a Musician

For might and majestic influence
This at your finger-tips
What impart summer winds, angel wings
Caressingly outstrips.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member To Influence

To influence or to persuade
      is not from opposition made

   Sit together at the table
      ~ to antagonists disable
Form: Couplet

The Function of Prayer

"The function of Prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one 
who prays".

Soren Kierkegaard
Form:

Understanding

free the rivers course

influence pulls to and fro

forever knowing

shore returned to destruction

anew the cycle begins
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Clerihew

Talented Gustave Moreau
so prolific with many paintings on the go
Erudite & imaginative
a gifted teacher& influence so long lived
Form: Clerihew


Premium Member Drunken By the Moon

Drinking all your beauty
Crazed under your influence
Intoxicating moonshine






*Not for the contest, just inspired by it.
Form: Haiku

Flaws and Virtues of Stardust

Coded in your genes
Generations of stardust,
Their flaws and virtues
Vying to influence you,
Pick and choose which ones you'll keep
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Clerihew Saigyo

A 12th century poet was Saigyo
so famous he poetized the willow
He also poseyed about Spring
his words of influence made others sing
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Clerihew Poynter

Edward John Poynter a classicist
a successor to Leighton some insist
As President of the R& A
&teacher had some  influence in his day
Form: Clerihew

Sainthood

1.Ain Mashaq Trataka
2.Visualizing the naqsh
3.Divine Spark(source)
4.Divine Sparks(Hub)
5.Tasarruf(influence)
A to Z of Sainthood...
Form: Imagism

Premium Member The Parable of the Leaven

Leaven, the Kingdom of Heaven, meager start, yet influence many. *One of the shortest parables Date: 06/19/2019
© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member I Was Born In 1944

I was born 
in 1944
many things
have happened
prior to 
and since then
but being born 
was the greatest 
influence 
on my life;
up to now.

Premium Member Ideas

Great individuals can die and be forgotten, never again to be recalled,
but if embraced, their ideas can influence many and go on eternal.
Form: Couplet

Drugs Aka the Influence

You think you know just what you see
You think you see right through me
But really I see straight into your core
So now you're not you anymore.
Form:

Destroying Each Other

N-ature has control, 
A-s humans have influence, 
Q-uesting for power. 

Topic: Birthday of Nicole Ann Quintos (March 22) 
Form: Acrostic Haiku
Form: Haiku

Pervasive Influence

A-s man dominates 
O-ne big planet Earth somehow, 
S-till nature controls. 

Topic: Birthday of Android One Seven (March 20) 
Form: Acrostic Senryu
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Pressures

force, punish, burden,
insistent coercion, and threat,
compulsion, tension.

Stressful stranglehold,
urge, force per unit area,
fuss, influence, duress.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Breaking free from reality

Tipsy when under the influence
world closes in for a private party
~ the illusion of escape brief



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Using My Influence

I cannot change the world at large ~~ But I can change my little piece of it!
written December 7, 2021
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Inspiration

Latin:  inspiration = inbreathing
Eternal God’s influence 
The human writers of the bible
So that he himself 
Regarded 
As the author
Of the Sacred Scripture

4102013
Form:

Premium Member Teaching Is Hard

A teacher with an always late student
Looked for ways to influence improvement
She tried best she could
But it did little good
Now the student remains mostly truant
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Inspiration

Latin: inspiration = inbreathing
God’s influence of the human writers of the bible so
He Himself should be regarded as 
The author of the Sacred scripture

11302011
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Under the Influence

Listen to poem:
you have me
eating out of the
palm of your hand

why would i mind
~ it’s a gentle hand
and the feed is sweet



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on November 11, 2021

Premium Member the mars man

Musk has deployed a mother lode
Trump’s tariffs can't ever erode!
His influence gift 
Means we get short shrift
And Earth is his private commode
Form: Limerick

Tendency Trending

Tendency Trending

Has been a new tendency now trending,
So message to everyone, I am sending;
A big storm;
Habit form;
Want Trump and influence to be ending.

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

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