Short Literal Poems

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


Love Could...

Love could return us the rest
Of delicious fresh air like a child reading at first
Literal world of live words would do!
Form: Haiku


Premium Member From inspired '

From inspired to tired..Subtle yet literal.'
Truths heavy load, often takes us there.'
Enlightenment.. Now essential.!

Premium Member A Work of Art

A LITERAL IMPRESSION
Flowing
swirling swathes swarm,
fervent,fervid feelings-
stirring stark sensations once hid
within.

Literal Obesity

Word count a burden,
  lines adding weight

Meaning gets crushed,
  —feelings deflate

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Clerihew Wallis

Henry Wallis a social realist
with literal art did persist
A triangle scandal forced him to excile
givingup painting meanwhile
Form: Clerihew


Literal

That's not my elephant!
It's spaghetti on a spoon!
Ella held back tears.
2nd graders can be so cruel,
just like the bill of rights!
Form:

Premium Member WOLS ekphrased

WOLS

Tachiste
 blot
& stain
spontaneous

 moments
literal
  compulsive
unrecognised
yet
long lasting
in
memory's
    eye
art
Form: Ekphrasis

Capitalization

When you write using capitalization 
You don’t give us consideration 
It reads like you yell 
They could hear you in hell 
It’s a literal abomination
Form: Limerick

Premium Member If It Is Dark

Is poetry literal?  If it is dark,
does the protagonist become me?
Did Poe really hide bodies in the wall?
Probably not! It is telltale, is it not?

2/12/2021

Premium Member Woe of the Water Heater

In life you learn the true valuables,
Hot water is gold when the heater goes,
All my cash I'd give out
To have steam from the spout
Taking a literal cold shower blows!

4/22/18
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Digging Up the Dead

A society dedicated to an ancient era Digging to unearth early life's spectra Excitement explodes Like the mother lode They find a treasure, it's a literal fiesta
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Prose Poetry Tachiste

Tachiste,blot and stain,spontaneous of the moment ,like life itself can so often be small scale in composition,compulsive unrecognised at the time,yet literal and long lasting,are the memories we see

Premium Member Very Literal

Very happy with my new fridge magnet Up to now twelve fridges it did attract Now that's very literal Should explain it to all You see... oh never mind, just ask your kiddies in fact
Form: Limerick

Custom Love

im just another version of
the centience in you
and if it comes to making love
my pattern you cant do
and i dont mean just physical
im talkin everything
but what i say is literal
you can not match my swing
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Something I Can Touch

I don't always get your literal direction ~ though worth reflection

your margins may be quite narrow ~ but you always shoot a straight arrow

searching for something tangible to feel ~ may not lead to a reveal
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member A Liberal

A liberal
Is moderately progressive
Believes in giving generously
Broadening the mind in a general way.
A liberal is not too strict and not too literal
Is tolerant and open-minded
Favors good reforms
Loves Liberty.

End Of The World

If this, its literal
Echoes that personal
Once succumbed to, for sulky fits
Then indeed should I pray!
Whilst not underrating
When a child, which state in!
Through each toy, broke and throwing
Game, lost running away.
Form: Rhyme

Do Gain Our Trust

Do Gain Our Trust

To do are many things that we must,
When trying to gain another's trust;
If a quitter,
Will be bitter;
Likely end up with literal, total disgust.

James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Literal Stuff Again

A dad was washing the car with his son! Here we go again with the literal stuff, so dumb! Son said next time, let's use a sponge This really hurts me quite a bunch Now how silly is THAT... seems a bit overdone!!!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Obsolescence

OBSOLESENCE
evaporates
in
conventional
enterprise
intricate
 delicate
an
abstract
setting
    memorably
vibrant
 flamboyant

 iridescent
gleaming
alluring
an
liberty
in
literal highlights
with
reserved
reality
Form: Other

Interred

Literal is not,

the fake climb is aunt,

and a stake in the attrition not an alimony as you can see clearly in me...I do not assuage an empire-

I follow in the most economical exigencies,

as one is up, another is down my friend.

Quoted

Quoted
In a matter said
 repeated,
  stated,
  literally,
word per word,
 innovation,
literal formation,
 nicely said,
 literature,
 translation,
matter of fact,
 famously,
intriguingly,
 quoted,
 verse,
said so nicely,
Quote's
Form:

Prose

A metrical escape valve,
  letters in the maelstrom

Lightning on the horizon,
  second child of the Gods

Sacrificial waterfall,
  its current overflowing

A literal dilation
 —of the verbal supreme

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)

Premium Member Army Ants

One whisper...

The forest floor trembles

A path of literal 
mayhem

Untethered to mankind

Strangely eschewing
Frogs, snakes and lizards

"Long Live The Queen"
Their 
Only 
Anthem!

Eternity 
Their
Reward

I
Fall
In



10/01/13

Premium Member INNER CONFLICTS-:-

INNER CONFLICTS-:-
multiple 
 subjective
viewpoints 

literal
creativity

of EIDETIC FACILTIES

receptive
  visual
existential 

metamorphic
insights 
in SINGLE SENSATIONS

startling
 open-mided
uncertainties

oscillating
reciprocity
Form: Other

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