Short Lengths Poems

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


Rushing Waves Music

rushing waves music
                              sings acoustic sound with lengths 
                                     plays in frequencies
Form: Haiku


Premium Member The Owl

the wisdom of the owl
comes from lengths
of being perched and keeping watch
posture of a statue
int eh glow of a full moon
eyes piercing every move

Premium Member Wisdom

the wisdom of the owl

comes from lengths

of being perched and keeping watch

posture of a statue

in the glow of a full moon

eyes piercing every move

Premium Member The Mighty Oak

Rocked fence rounds tinged of moss,
Laurels languish on limbered lengths aloft,
Faithful oak blessed rays anoint.


2019 September 24
howmanysyllables
6, 10, 7
Form: Kimo

Premium Member All For Mammon

Work, loot, kill, the whole nine yards.
The lengths folks go for the dough;
willing to sell out their souls!
Good and bad deeds done.


Date written and posted: 03/17/2019
Form: Dodoitsu


Not Wanting To Let You Go

e-mail and wail
out your name
to the lengths of the universe

tug that tantrum
around the stars
shining full moon
staring me in my face

looking nature in the eye
i come to terms
and surrender you to bleed

Walks The World Over

Bundles of the pungent-stalked
In placidities
Baskets of the flashy-stemmed
In felicities
Walks, of all lengths, the world o'er
As gathered up are.
From air wrenched down! For air weighed for!
Not that you're aware!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Untitled

I did learn at an early age that girls 
can leave our lives
In varying lengths of time.
This interval can from a drink
to years
or even over the length
it takes to have dinner.
One week was Summer Camp
When I was eight.
© Wm Paul  Create an image from this poem.

The Breath

Alive and death,
Are only The Breath,
Moving through the depths,
Growing it's strength,
Going to any lengths,
To enjoy an experience,
Coming In sync with the dance,
Back out into the expanse,
Creating chance after chance
Form: Rhyme

Blake Lively

Is
Unwriting lend
Trample undered doubt 
Nill grace, staggered taunt
Farthings tormented delays
Whispered daughter on hilt

Aphrodite sours the lengths rend

Milkened ponds
Battles fetch, torn and bent
To no hearthed bends hallow he crawls
boy

Premium Member Edmund Clerihew Bentley

As a tribute to Sir Edmund Clerihew Bentley 
I now write this unique form- consequently 
Two rhyming couplets, with line lengths unequal 
I'll tribute myself...in my clerihew sequel 



Clerihew Poetry Contest 
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh 
12/18/20
Form: Clerihew

What's That Smell I Smell

What lengths we go and cash we spend
On soap and scent and balm.
Our mornings rife with toil and scrub
As taught to us by mom.

We mustn’t stray from hygiene’s aim
Spit toothpaste in the sink.
Throw on your coat and head to work
Here’s hoping we don’t stink!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Blatherskite

I knew a man from Isle of Wight
who often got into a fight.
His words made little sense
and people took offence.
He was, indeed, a blatherskite*.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -				   
*a person who talks at great lengths
  without making much sense.
Form: Limerick

A Fit Of Sulks

A bully found within—
always the one wronged,
going to great lengths
to communicate your offence
at things so trivial.

You are the ironic
definition of the humdudgeon!

Almost obsolete in the dictionary
and modern use.
When you were needed most,
you were gone.

Premium Member Starlight

Sensual heavenly bodies
Tempting man to risk it all
Answer to a lovers dream
Reclining under with moonbeams
Light years away they do shine
Immittting wave lengths our eyes blind
Great excitement when one falls
Halting me in my steps to stare 
Total darkness shows them all
Form: Acrostic

I Like To Off

end
sofa ukk
ew
----e
did he mean shoop
or they and me
did he mean
so f**k you
yeah thats write
two times
Thrice you say
so faux yew
I say it all to destiny
to hope that never came
to all fired, by particles
to waves lengths
never swam
We are the ones
that f**ked us all
now feel ashamed
I AM

My Inspiration

For a long time I searched,
I wanted to feel that surge of 
power
That peaceful wonderful feeling
I could go to such lengths
Maybe my heart wasn't in the 
search
But a turmoil was stirring
My only route to escape
Took me a while but finally
The shear joy it brought
I'm satisfied...
I found my inspiration.
Form: ABC

Premium Member Go Figure

  
    Media-produced wars
       won’t let good defeat evil

     Media coverage of arrests
       never lets the fuzz do their jobs

     Media-coverage of politicians
        portrays the decent ones as snobs

    We go to great lengths to protect the First Amendment
        but its implementation doesn't protect us

Spooked

Spooked wheels Jamming
Hot sauce vibbing
Waste land Popping
Edge space shaping
Indigo Spreading
Liminal roasting
Nylon sliding
Questions arising
Spooked Wheels Jamming
Hot Sauce Vibbing
Waste Land Popping
Edge space Shapping
Indigo Spreading
Liminal Roasting
Nylon Sliding
Questions arising
Wave lengths coliding
Silence echoing
Form: Lyric

Hundo

Vibe times ride right.
Lazy days dreaming right.
Safety with Yeshua.
Truth is I got Yeshua.
Nights I spend time light.
Wave lengths of echoes die.
Quiet stars fall from the sky.
The heavens melt the Earth dies.
Live right give it to Christ.
Quoting God gives life spice.
Moons tied to our sailing spies.
Walk right and Praise Yah most High.

Premium Member Red Fawn

Light breaking forth at dawn reveals right there on my lawn a lovely sight to which I’m drawn: a wee woodland sprite to gaze upon, prancing with joy and delight, a red fawn.
---------- Another 'jump rhyme': 5 line monorhyme of lengths, 6,7,8,9,10 with internal rhyme jumping from word 1 to word 5 through the progression
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monorhyme

Marathon

marathon of deep seeded feelings 
a long-distance emotional
endurance race to the finish
a maladaptive mental competition 
that lasted an extremely long time 
that want great lengths to try and 
remain within the unhealthy contest 
within the game that played out year
after year between the two hearts that 
fell into the emotional trap long ago
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Too many bridges

They’ve built bridges
wanting to cross them
to conquer the other side
where the grass is greener.

They want what they can’t see
and will go to great lengths
to lay claim to the other side
where the sky is ever bluer.

Men’s dreams entice them 
to reach out to distant shores
convinced what lies beyond
is infallibly better. 



AP: 2nd place 2026

Liberating Arts

To what end art,
or music, or poetry,
but to frame a moment
and simply see something
of that moment itself,
ineffably ordinary and peculiar;
her seamed and wrinkled face,
a silence broken to uneven lengths,
the exact expression of love -
and in that moment have revealed
something you hide from yourself,
an ability to remove the frame
and still see the beauty

At What Lengths

What do you 
Believe in?

How far will you
Go?
For something
You love

At what lengths
Would you stand 
Up for
Something
Believe in?
Something you
Cherish?

Would you
Stand up to fight?
Would you contend?
How about if 
You knew your life
Would end?

Would you die
Or stand
Falsely accused 
Sitting in jail
For something
You didn’t do?

Would you?

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