Short Lament Poems

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


Premium Member My Tear

My tear is an expression
A deluge of emotion
Flooding out of one’s torment
A need to lament.

© Harry J Horsman  2011
Form: Dodoitsu


Premium Member JULY'S LAMENT

JULY'S LAMENT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ heatwave leaves sighing for a cool embrace July’s lament

Lament

Fallen leaves are 
Battered but not bowed after
The siege of the frost
I blame my long lament
You really wanted to stay
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Jokers Lament

eyes of deepest blue
lips sweet as maple syrup...
his dog loves him too
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Lament

He left and stole moon’s glow from the skies of July. Warm nights – I miss them so. Bereft am I.
Form: Cinquain


Premium Member Unrequited

Each gesture lent
to conceal consent
  if reveal intent

Look-back's lament
undetected signs went
swift fireflies senescent
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Extravagance

Money and time well spent, 
Yet you secretly lament. 
Seems now even generosity feels resentful, 
As we continue to be so wasteful.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Clerihew Moser

Lucas Moser famed for his art quotes
when this adage he once wrote
'Cry ar &lament' nobody wants you!
Oh oh sadly still so very true
Form: Clerihew

The After Shock

Hold my thoughts, keep them from me
Help me release them,and so I can be free
As I tremble and lament
I can’t handle the sad torment
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member A Widows Lament


 How can I go on?
 I reach out for you
 To be in your arms
 But then I awake
 My tears start to flow
 I'm trapped here in life.
Form: Verse

Lament For the Dead

not sure where they go
hell or heaven I don’t know
all traveled by air
but plunged into sea, buried!
oh,death! ,oh,fate! Thou are mean.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Stench of Lament

Stewed regret begets
laments like mythical ents
puts legs on old scars
that haunt and herd the present
tense with stench of past reborn
Form: Tanka

Artist's Lament

Fingers filled with ocre paint
the skin worn deep and brilliant
I'm not the same girl you met yesterday
I no longer shine when you push me.
Form:

Par Lament

The British love a special dish
Which satisfies their hunger wish
The Times reports
Government sports
Bojo's chips went down with the fish
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Waiting List

His soul lament
He’s not here yet
His retirement
Still life with breath

4/13/2019

An Epitaph to Make Us Laugh 2
Jesse Rowe - sponsor
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member Diarrhetic's Lament

Here I sit, thinking away
  On the toilet seat half the day

It takes me so long to finish my needs
  ~ All my thoughts down the hole I pee
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Sequence-A Poet's Lament

A
crackle
of dead wood-
an unfinished
book,
as
driftwood
on the strand,
beginnings no
end-
in
timeless
tedium
of paralysed
thought
Form: Lanterne

Premium Member What Should I Say

What should I say
When she called
Me over today
Said it was urgent
To my lament
I ached for her touch
But then she said
That I’m too much
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Lament For Summer

The summer solstice
in years past so much welcomed...
now there's foreboding:
soaring temps, wildfires, drought...
idyllic days are numbered.
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Midwesterner's Lament

     Kentucky never did pull me
        Neither did Tennessee

     Kansas, best left to Dorothy
        ~ O, for the beaches of Waikiki
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Silent Auction

quiet pillows ebon noisemakers brass-blows, red-green drums tympanic lament of grief solace throws on brown sofa
Form: Tanka

A Short Lament About the Weather

Winter's last hoorah
Silent snowfall covers the blooms and newly budding green
Hear the mourning doves sorrowful cries
It's supposed to be spring
Form: Rhyme

Cruxifiction

Hanging upon that cross one last time 
A lament to thine sweet Divine.
Who conquered death but thyself did die-
Well, I now know He’s here with I.
art
Form: Elegy

A Tin Can’s Lament

There once was a man made of tin,
Whose joints made a horrible din.
“I need oil,” he’d plea,
“Or a heart, possibly,
But rust ruins romance again!”
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Getting It Together

Hate bedewed with youth
power to impair one’s kin,
grace in growing old
a time to regret, lament...
grandson, reflection of time.

© Harry J Horsman 2012
Form: Tanka

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