Short Meter Poems

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


Last Night 03-11-24

Last night the westerly wind
climbed up the western walls
tearing ivy from its sockets at every meter
to glimpse the eastern dawn.
© Shane Zhao  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member ''An Arduous Art''

Poetry's an arduous art.
It requires skill and meter
and a poet with very rare heart,
or he will tire and teeter.


29 December 2014
Form:

Premium Member Mystery Fish

eager eyes watch the float jump
tradition passed from elders
this year could be different
rad meter training




08/25/13
© All Rights Reserved
Form: Dodoitsu

On Whose Love

The rhyme,
  my consort

The meter,
  my friend

The music,
 my mistress

On whose love,
—I depend

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Good times ahead

Unleash the dogdays of summer
live each day to never have regrets
~ turn up the fun meter!



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other


Premium Member My Poem

You're my poem
My consummate rhyme
And I could reread you
Time after time
Flowing in meter
Perfect in sync 
Inscribed on my heart
In indelible ink
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Limerick on Limericks

A sentence or two, nothing more.
Five rhymes, and then back out the door.
A meter that’s strained,
Some topic profaned:
Ah me! What’s a limerick for?
Form: Limerick

Liar

My poetry really does suck.
I look for true rhymes, but get stuck.
Though my meter is fine,
When you follow each line
you’ll see that they all run amok.
Form: Limerick

I'M So Sick of Rhyming

Sometimes I get so sick of rhyming 
All the meter and structure of rhyming
When I just need to say
What I've wanted to say
Without worrying about rhyming
© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Nature's Meter

ancient redwood gleams
softly through the mists of time…
mayfly flitters by

-08 Jun 2014-

Average Lifespan:
Redwood Tree - 600 years
Mayfly - 1 day
© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Sapphic Stanza

Sapphic works are hard for a novice writer.
Tricky is the fact of the meter changes.
Stress or non it can but confuse the reader.
Writhes here  my sapphic.

Premium Member The Meter Maid

I truly apologize to any reader.
I've run out of change for my poetry meter.
Please send me some quarters or a quartette.
The meter maid has not been by yet..

Premium Member Mayhem's Mistress

Mayhem's mistress of sweeter meter ~
                             prime time's rhymes - Nina Parmenter!

1/13/21

'Tease a Friend' contest
Sponsor: Bobby May
Form: Monoku

Poetics 101

There once was a poet named Bieter
Who, when asked how he measured his meter
Said, my rhythm's kaput
So I just use the foot
Which is about the size of my peter
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Well Versed

well   you got me beat

                                         the wrong end

                                      of the meter stick





MagiCicada13
Form: Senryu

Premium Member test

Free verse is a form of poetry
describing various styles of poetry
     strict meter or rhyme
     strict meter or rhyme
correct form to be eligible for contests

Gourd and God

I
mystery in seeds:
real to me, small, flat gourd seed
now, shoots at window smile

II
Flat white seed planted
a meter from window
three weeks: hi from window
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member June 11 '78

Sitting in a breeze,
Soaking in the sun,
Feel the beat beginning,
Pulsing on the run.
With a common built in ease
The sights and country scan
In a hidden meter.
© Wm Paul  Create an image from this poem.

Rhyme and Meter

M-ake
E-very
L-ine
I-n
S-onnet
S-ublime
A-s

R-hyme
A-nd
M-eter
O-ften
S-how

Topic: Birthday of Melissa B. Ramos (January 17)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Ghost - a Haiku

Ghost - A Haiku

liveliness meter
a female, active ghost sneers
at the perfect wolf

perfect is the wolf
unholy, active ghost sneers
life story meters

5/29/19
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Degenerative

Once while suffering from writer’s curse,
a man’s symptoms grew steadily worse.
He first lost his rhyming,
next, meter and timing,
and succumbed to AI for bad verse.
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Angst of a Struggling Poet

Sometimes I struggle to write a poem.
Frankly it's really hard to do 'em,
With the meter and rhyme,
I do think it's a crime
To write poems to rule, not what moves 'em.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Someday It Seems So Futile

Let me tell you what I sometimes think And why I am so often forced to drink Most of what I write will be forgotten 'Cuz my rhyme and meter are so rotten
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Just Sling 'Em

Straight
        from the
    Heart, sling 'em 
     Forget all that
    meter, metaphor 
 and rhyme...just sling
     'em from your
       pure Heart
         Straight
Form: Ninette

Peter On the Beach

Peter ran up on a nude beach in a swoop
Wearing just a cape he jumped into a group
With perfect meter
He yelled, "Super Peter!"
A voice in back said, "I'll just have the soup!"
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

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