Short Meanings Poems

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


The Smile For Rick Parise

The 
Smile has
Two meanings,
One, contentment
Or a facial strain of... constipation


**Michael J. Falotico contest**
Form: Tetractys


Premium Member In Words

Restive meadows, silent stones, shallow graves
                                            ~ in words their meanings emerge
Form: Monoku

Arrows

Coated with meanings
Destructive or uplifting
When your aim is true
Responsibility's huge
Once released, there's no return
Form: Tanka

Servitutem

Indentured as servants,
and not as our masters

Words are conscripted
—their meanings enslaved

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)

Untitled Tanka

sleep overtakes quick
dreams incubate during night
their meanings elude
upon awakening and haunt
and wonder what mind perceived
Form: Tanka


Meanings

Why and to what end,
Trying to understand life
By using sheer force
You can't hasten the meanings,
They'll come to you in good time
Form: Tanka

Premium Member CREATING RAINBOWS

Rainbows have a lot of meanings.
It depends on whose translating them.
but we know exactly what they mean
if we’re the ones creating them
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Tweet and Twitter

Outside my window, hark! a tweet
   Alarm clock opens, a whirring twitter

These words' meanings, we depleted
   Their message, away we frittered
Form: Epigram

Lovely Dictionary

That ancient dictionary is very informative
It gives the words meanings, origins in details and opposites 
Etymology and scientific historical search
Form: Sijo

Premium Member I'm an expert word inventor

Why does English have so many words
that have two or more meanings attached

There's many unused letter combos
(which my "invalid" Scrabble words hatched!)
Form: Rhyme

A Poem Shared

words i put on page
shared with librarian
at information desk
find new meanings
when read between lines
friendship defined

Bite Size Poem
May 20, 2023
Form: Verse

Metempirical

Mystical meanings
Memes morphing many musings
metempirical

Inspired by the  “ Contest”  “ Alliterative Haiku “
        Sponsored By “ Chris D. Aechtner “
Form: Haiku

Premium Member The Lamplight

hold eternal thy purest thought
for surely the flowers will bloom they must!

questions are asked, meanings are sought,
answer to none but thy purest thought
Form: Lyric

Premium Member The Meanings Of Our Names

I gaze at a forest of willow trees beside the sea,
Presenting to me lovely meanings of love and beauty
In loving a man so deeply that I want him to be with me.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member hogwash

hogwash
that’s baloney
I don’t believe you

hogwash
kitchen slop for pigs
trash

hogwash
cheap liquor
inferior writing

one word
variety of meanings

Premium Member Where lies fulcrum of love

Fontanel glistens
but then mind assigns meanings,
to effervescence of love.

When there’s no one here,
who then wishes to assign
labels to God’s outpouring?
Form: Sedoka

Never Explain

Once I tell you what it means,
the cell walls isolate

Other meanings locked inside
—no hope of an escape

(Inspired By Bob Dylan’s Comments To Dick Cavett)
Form: Rhyme

Life

Love is a word
       whIch  has all meanings
            F ill  with true 
            Emotions of Nature in. ...






With love all
jagdish bajantri
Form: Narrative

Why

Why can’t you
 See
I need
Your hands around me

Why won’t you
Read
The double meanings
In the words I’ve said

Why don’t you
Inch
Nearer to pinch
My hip
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Radio Silence

And the radio silence is making me cipher my feelings
Into higher words beyond the expression of meanings,
Making me loosen my grip on reality through new thinkings.
Form: Sijo

Ghost Words

Words are old
Meanings paused unfold.
Sounds turned dead quiet .
Darkenss killed all light .
Left nothing to be seen.
Just Ghost words that don't mean.

13 july 2025
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member po-at-tree lane-gauge

a po-am...a toil
letting of
word...sound-dings

that splash
meanings...of an
idea-as a

lane-gauge...for some
word flow
from an id-as...clear

stan
© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Eruption of Love

A word that evokes 
Lot of meanings and feelings
Exploding as sparks
Like a volcan eruption
When the heart controls the mind










Nayda Ivette
12-14-2015
Form: Tanka

Lust, again

Why can’t you,
 See
I need,
Your hands around me

Why won’t you,
Read,
The double meanings,
In the words I’ve said

Why don’t you,
Inch,
Nearer to pinch
My lips

Shortcut

I was supposed to give birth
 
But my unborn
Found a way
To avoid the world 
As we know it
 
Under the scars
Meanings are rumbling
That I can no longer hear
The beat of my heart

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