Short Instinct Poems

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


Holy Intention

instinct
drives us to a place
where the physical world
interfaces 
with the spiritual...
a place 
of holy intention
Form:


Ucanadd2it

sometimes though we never think, it happens in a wink, and its gone time... instinct, between the rhymes....Don
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Power Within

fierce under water 
removed from dry dominion. . .
instinct not submerged


For Raul Moreno's "Primal Instinct" contest
Form: Haiku

Ivory Tigress

Ivory Tigress
   Escape your species perish
      Pool full of your tears


For Raul Moreno's contest "Primal Instinct".
© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member why do you write poetry

why do you write poetry some ask
don't know
instinct maybe
fills my soul up with a bit of happiness
like a drug of choice


An Unquestionable Skill

The agile leopard
dives into the deep waters
to seek its dead prey


Entered in Raul Moreno's contest, " Primal Instinct "
Form: Haiku

Animal Instinct

Animals just know
The praying mantis looks above
The clam closes down
The turtle’s head hides inside
The spider seizes the fly
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Desert Thorns

Desert thorns that sting.
Careful desert animals. 
Both have great instinct,
Finding safety together.
Not permanent for either.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Zen Mode

is our reflex instinct
as yet not quite love inked
if not, then hermit, think
wake up now; blink, blink, blink

20-January-2023
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member journeying without a compass

sunshine above our head
moonlight caresses our nights
no roadmap no gps
just following instinct


AP: Honorable Mention 2024

Premium Member Killer Instinct

fire and brimstone
he's got confidence in spades...
and drive to succeed!


Date written: 01/27/2020
Form: Senryu

The Maternal Instinct

The imaginary unborn
lives within my soul
It will never die
or ever get old
Yet there's a joy
that lies within
the depths of my being
Form: Rhyme

Worms In Dirt ~ (Haikus)

Dirty worms squirming
Excavating with instinct
Wiggle brown wormy ~

Shoveling thick dirt
Accidently cut a worm
It wiggles in pain
© Jane Bowen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Where's the Instinct

The maternal/paternal instincts are the other side of the coin of the erotic/sexual instinct.If you corrupt one. one corrupts the other.
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member Zen mode

when every instinct be love inked
there then remains no doer here
then thus with the universe linked
we behold light of God draw near
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Zen mode

honing instinct
to be love inked
bliss hum steady
says we’re ready
empty yet full
soul beautiful 
to do as tasked
as by God asked
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Oh I Get It! -squirrels

They ARE Skittish!

Just Like Real SQUIRRELS!

It's A Survival 

Instinct...

It Stinks!

See?

-Gray Squirrel

02-28-2026

Premium Member Catherine Tramell

If I could read your book
I would have but a taste
Of the thrills you had in life,
And to live in desire
With passions burning bright.

Premium Member S H a R K

S-Smells blood for miles
H-Hot foots it to the area
A-Arrives famished and ready for action
R-Ready to eat carnage
K-Kills by instinct
Form: Acrostic

Then There Were None

swirling ~ twirling
faster ~ faster
time promenades
look listen learn
beggars ~ thieves
trust YOURSELF
humanity
instinct or extinct?

Premium Member Das Ich Und Das Es

Id fierce, intense raging, urging, demanding savage, instinct, moral, probity loving, caring, giving civil, gentle ego
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Survival

Search of food is the basic instinct to live and survive.

   03/14/16

  Monoku # 9  See or Feel Contest

  Sponsor  Poet Destroyer A.
Form: Monoku

Instinct Is Natural

Biological
                                         one's instinct is natural
                                         cry,laugh,eat and sleep
Form:

Communication

Dogs, communication
auditory perception 
transcends the act
in the sense of formulation
 the animal instinct
performs the sketch... barks !

Premium Member Spirit

Hope
instinct
ideas
expectation
Faith
© Tom Larrow  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Lanterne

Get a Premium Membership
Turn off ads, get more exposure for your poetry, and get more features with a Premium Membership.
Book: Diverse Voices: The Poetry of Human Rights and the Pursuit of Peace