Short Left Behind Poems

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


Eccentricity

Your undoing my venturing mind
I woke up in a daydream, left behind
I found it eccentric...
But, together, we are epic
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Perfect Drama

curiosity interludes
dreamscape silhouettes
vermillion light shadows 
light your pathway
all physical you left behind.

Cupid's Arrow

I’ve been hit by Cupid’s Arrow,
He’s left behind his mark,
For now all I see is your face
And all I want is your heart.
Form: Couplet

Scars Left Behind

Behind friendly smile and bright eyes are scars
left by raw pain and sorrow
Heart broken when love died





Seren Roberts
Form: Kimo

Premium Member Childhoods End

No child left behind 
Was the chant at one time
Now kids in school
Dodge bullets and youth
Is filled with less sunshine
Form: Limerick


The Scenes We Left Behind Remain

Embedded in tormented mind , 
blood clogged fields,
dangling limbs - contorted.
Whistling ammunition,
gun fire resounds.

Premium Member MORNING AFTER

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ tide retreats~ slick black rocks gleaming with secrets left behind
Form: Other

Show Time

its on line
stars be on time
i'll be there
i go everywhere
 i love to sing
love this thing
i'll not be left behind
at
SHOW TIME

Premium Member Forgotten Path

Forgotten Path


Life I’ve left behind
Still waits for promises lost
Loyal to the end


…for Raul’s “still life” contest
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Drifted Off

Dreams drifted me off

Reality left behind

Endless freedom found!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
       16 March 2017
Form: Haiku

Travelling

Shoes worn
clothes torn
miles travelled
 footprints left behind

Mistakes made
friends regained
lessons learned
love is born
Form: Verse

Shape of You

I sit here alone, without you,
Longing deeply to feel whole,
This open void you left behind,
No shape fits, no one fills the role.
Form: Rhyme

A Map To the Stars

The stars map a place
kept safe in their mind 
to the memories of you 
for your kin left behind 

Laura Jane Hay
Copyright 2019
© Laura Hay  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Red Sun

A blush colors the sky's cheeks;
Oh my! that flirtatious Sun!
Steamy whispers in the ear
a smile left behind.



Red Sun Contest
7/1/13
Form: Dodoitsu

Lonely Heart

Lonely heart,
Absent mind,
Looking forward,
Left behind,
Searching for happiness, 
Seems so useless,
When emptiness is all I find.
© D. Steel  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Bone Beach

where he takes his dates
is undisturbed and concealed
by myriad pines.
left behind, their flesh decays
over time . . . into the sand
Form: Tanka

Premium Member **** To the Wind

sprung from spring they fly

                                 liberation aflutter

                                 cages left behind
Form: Haiku

Wheel of Wealth

Wealth is a wheel which
vice and virtue turning well.
Solo vice follows,
fain to the wealthy abodes.
Why the virtue left behind?
Form: Tanka

Formula One

Talent versus genius,
innate the spirit cries

Surpassed by something undefined
—old limits left behind

(Dreamsleep: December, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member When a Win Is a Loss

I won the career footrace, but she got the man I left behind...





*December 22 for Silent One's Winners and Losers contest
Form: Monoku

Numb Feelings

Feelings dissolve first.
The good feelings. Love, hope, faith.
"It" knows you can't live
with hate left behind to feed,
on your very soul.
© Bri Brown  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Clear Is the Road

Heaps of broken dreams the old year has left behind -clear is the road to success!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
     02 January 2018
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Onward It Goes

summer was over in a wink
and dreams would get left behind
stranded and forgotten
that's just the way of it



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Catch Up

this is your time
don't get left behind
your life can shine
over power the bad stuff
life is tough
you moing kind slow go
don't miss the bus
CATCH UP

The Actors

I feel bad for the actors left behind
Already past their prime
New actors come in
And they take the spotlight from him
Now he is all but forgotten
© Shay Funk  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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