Short Lungs Poems

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


My Heart Swells and Explodes With Love Whilst My Lungs Collapse From Unexpected Memory Loss

heart swells and explodes
                           with love
but then i fall
          its chaos and death from above
Form: Rhyme


Dry Mouth, Empty Lungs

I went to call
Hung up
Thought again
Tried once more

My mouth
was dry
It thirst
for water

My lungs
Colapsed
From your
Empty heart

Lifeless Lungs

Never to be rescued
I drown in my own sorrow
Waiting for the water
To fill my empty lungs
Dream of his breath
Near my lips
So close to touching his skin
Before I swallow death
Form: Rhyme

If I Had Whale Lungs

I would take in liters of air of 
confidence and honesty,
after that, I would dive 
in the deepest parts of the 
political ocean
to hunt politically apathetic, callous
dishonest squids

As Lungs Defeat Opponent

R-ightfully
O-bliterate
G-lobal
E-nemy's
R-eigning

R-age
E-mploying
Y-our
N-eatness
A-s
L-ungs
D-efeat
O-pponent

Topic: Birthday of Roger Reynaldo (April 02) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic


Examine Lungs

F-rontliners
E-xamine
L-ungs
I-mplementing
X-ray

J-ust
U-nder
R-epublic
A-ct's
L-aw
B-ecause
A-ntagonist
L-oiters

Topic: Birthday of Felix Juralbal (April 08) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Defend Our Lungs

D-efend
O-ur
L-ungs
O-nce
R-aging
E-nemy
S-preads

E-mploying
S-tandard
P-rotocol
I-f
R-ecent
I-nfection
T-errifies
U-s

Topic: Birthday of Dolores Espiritu (April 05)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

New Lungs

To let go of
the negative energy
I both inhale and exhale
I need to redeem
my old lungs
and implant
some new ones
to absorb
new life
and new energy
hovering
the atmosphere
around me
Written by: Mia Pratt, 2017
© Mia Pratt  Create an image from this poem.

Infected Lungs

A-larming
L-ink's
J-eopardy
E-mploys
N-astiness

Q-uietly
U-sing
I-nfected
L-ungs
A-s
N-otorious
T-hreat
A-pplies
N-efarious
G-rime

Topic: Birthday of Aljen B. Quilantang (June 12) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Life's Lungs

My challenge for October
Is to still be alive in November
I am in my 89th year
It is not dying, I fear
We all face challenges every day
Life will always be that way
From the moment of conception
To our resurrection.
Life is a challenge.
Form: Rhyme

Blazing Pens,Smoking Lungs

Dive into poetry,
Smoking a lot less,
Less smoke,free breathing,
Less stress on my chest,

Longer life,my health,
I know its for the best,
Although stopping is so hard,
So hard to digest,

Ink versus Smoke,
An internal test,
Who will be victorious,
In my contest......
Form: Didactic

Lungs Back To Gills

Silent steps I take
Across the ocean floor
Cool abyssal plain
Bluescape peace

Gazing up
At the sunlit surface
A false freedom
Beckons…

The air above
Polluted with urgency
Foul with anger
Not so sweet anymore

Enveloped in briny womb
No longer ashamed
Submergence forever
Lungs back to gills
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Cheer Your Lungs Out

The crack of the bat
  The arc of the ball
It lands over the fence
  Gives the fans a thrill

Close play at the plate
  A headfirst slide
Clouds of dust raised
  He's safe; game's tied!

Cheer your lungs out
  Give an occasional boo
Beer and brat at the ballpark
  Great day for me and for you
Form: Rhyme

The Ten Days of Covid


On the tenth day of Christmas, 
my true love gave to me;
one dose of Covid, 
breathless and restless, 
tire and fatigue, 
loose bowels and sickness, 
sore throat and acne, 
phlegm, cough and sneezes, 
acute loss of smell, 
aches and pains, 
cycling high fever, 
and a lung full of pure misery.
Form: List

Premium Member Gasoline Lungs

I've come to believe
we're born with lungs
filled with gasoline
along a fault line of flint.
Better to inhale than exhale
be silent as a pansy
smiling at the breeze.

Open your ears 
to the sound of metal on metal
always be ready to run...
but for the time being
have a little fun.
Gasoline lungs.

Ribs, Lungs, Head and Heart

I want you to touch me until
My ribs become piano keys and my 
Lungs are filled with sheet music I 
Want you to love the way that
Art fills my soul and blooms in
My head, I want you to hate
The way that I can't let go
I want you to touch me the way
That the crisp winter air suffocates 
The corrupted inside air.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Lion In the Lungs

Swept away on the wave of your voice 
Never another will be my first choice 
I play with my eyes closed to take it all in
Please song don't end, just forever begin
Parked in the lot of my favorite store
I have to compose this, I cannot ignore
The beat of my heart, it just won't calm down 
No one can top you, you wear the crown
Form: Rhyme

Iron Lungs

A film of bubbles on her hull
  
   as ice around her crowns it's chill

      descension pits and twinks it's tune

         to merry wandering fish full bloom

         In white, albino, skeletonised

       with scales of silver for their eyes

     as liquid in their mouth, it glides

these hollow sailor's wave goodbye~
Form: Couplet

Fog Borrows Lungs

Nette Onclaud
EIGHT BY EIGHT
31 July 2026


Fog uncorks wet cedar perfume,
then pours it through each waiting lung
where moss rehearses nameless years
and bark remembers rain by scent—
until my breath is not my own
but loam translating root to blood,
as earth inhales itself through me
and leaves with my remembered breath.

Inside My Walls

I take you in like water
to quench my thirst and pain.
I breathe you in like the air
that keeps my lungs and pulse.

I couldn't resist
leaning on your shoulder
and feeling the warmth of your chest.

My feelings were in a twist,
flying in the land of nowhere,
before you insisted
on mending my broken pieces
and creating a new world
inside my walls.
© Oula Willy  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Lungs Wrapped In Black

~ emptiness chokes lungs of night coughing from rib caged fever, a tight-rope walker lies still... amidst full moon’s howl pain, wrapped in black holocaust as her bridal dress withers, staining a torn, cancelled love… pre-nuptial songs crack ~ _________ Rick Parise's CONTEST: One Of Your Favz - 1 - 8 LINES!!! OLD POEM
Form: Dodoitsu

A Love to Keep

Your love came shyly wrapped—
I almost tore the paper too roughly.
One careless tear
and the whole gift might have scattered
like thin glass across stone.

Now that it’s mine,
it trembles whenever I breathe,
sweet as the first sip of wine
after years of thirst.

I will not raise my voice.
I will not let it fall.
I will keep inhaling this quiet
until my lungs forget every other air.

Lungs

i wait for that phone call
staring out my window
sun bleeds in,
the pane condensed like tears
just hearing your voice makes me happy,
inspires me,
just your voice
i wait,
and wait,
until the sun has faded into the horizon,
the darkness begins to flood
finally, that loud ringing
a slight panic,
my heart leaps
come to find out,
it isn't you
it's your mother,
sobbing,
water in your lungs.
Form:

Stardust in my Lungs

I consume the galaxy,
My fingers rooted in the cosmic soil of Saturn's rings. 
Smoke enraptures like a comet,
Prancing in the vacuum of my soul.
The moon caresses me with careless whispers as I orbit thoughts I do not dare name.
Quasars pulsating in the rhythm of my heart.
Each beat is consumed by luminous stars.
I surf the cosmos in creation of my own cloud. 
Safe at home in the infinite High.

Lungs

It's despicable
Lies
All around me
Breathing down my neck
It's like I've never lived before
Why can't I
Live for myself
And I don't know
Why
Do I suffocate
The dust is choking 
But it's the only way that I can
Breathe
So controlling
Comforting
Insight 
All around me
Still can't seem 
To find the reason for my dying
Because I 
Live for myself
Must I stop my lungs from breathing
Oh, unrest in my soul
Living for the world
Never satisfies
Is nothing

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