Short Metrical Poems

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


Premium Member Clerihew Moore

St Louis-born Marianne Moore
began poetics a 'The Dial' editor
In metrical patterns her verse brought fame
 medal &prizes & much acclaim
Form: Clerihew


Premium Member Notably Quotably

Notably quotably
Poetry's potency
Metrical dictation
Meditation

Cozily, dozily
Wordably herbal tea
Personification
Medication


1/7/2021

In Praise

I feel blessed by your informative write.
It was inspired and very well put.--
A pleasure to read your post to this site.
I loved every, single metrical foot.
Form: Quatrain

Puzzling Puzzle

trying to
solve the
puzzling puzzle 
of swings 
in mood 
was not 
an easy task to 
undertake 
that is 
why in the 
end the 
puzzle was 
left half solved

Premium Member One Circle

Eagles fly

Minds soar

While Eagle flies
soaring off ahead
echoing upriver cries
to where s/he became
back before

Egged on
Eagles fly

Fertile minds soar...


Premium Member Rhyme

Rhyme imbues metrical
rhythm with a distinctive 
ring tuned to human ears,
relaying a beat that
reverberates through the
reading, as your tongue starts
rolling over the words.
Form: Pleiades

Premium Member Metrical Units


if meter refers to a poem’s beat ~
    why are iambs, spondees, and trochees feet?






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Measuring with Metrics by Milt Hankins got me thinking...
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Cedar

Cedar is my biggest  crush yet but he has moved on and now i fret that he will not remember  me. I still love him dearly his is so funny so kind and so endearing i miss him so but now i know

The Lesson of the Chicadee

The Lesson of the Chicadee The Chicadee has found the tube Of little bird seed, then She flew away to spread the news To her flock to feed. To share her joy with Her friends in need.

Premium Member da DUM da

It seems there’s a certain melodious beat 
discovered reusing these metrical feet.
You can’t help but tap it
first slow, and then rapid:
an odd syncopation that brings ears a treat.


H/T to Ostrich Learning to Swim by Clive Culverhouse
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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)

Dactyls and Elephants

Dactyls are metrical
Feet that are named after
Fingers with three little
Parts like the knuckles that
Lie in a pattern of
Stress like these sentences:

'Jealously murmuring
Elephants quietly
Sob in their handkerchiefs.'

Feet that are fingers -
How odd!

Premium Member Emagi Montrose Metrical Prayer

James Montrose 'METRICAL PRAYER'

                                -
                             - || -                              
   ~/  ~ / ~ /  ~/  - |||||| -
   / ~ / ~  /~    /  ||||||||/ |
                          \  our   /
                           \father/
Form: Shape

Premium Member The Joy of Poetry


Writing poetry is my profound joy.
It begins when the sun rises in the sky.
You see,my heart has a metrical beat.
I sense it at the bottoms of my feet.
It’s the heart song that keeps me young!
Poetry,is indeed, my life’s eternal song.

4/18/2023


Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Alphabet Poetry Soup, Part XI

Angelic
Bardic
Composers
Dole
Everlasting
Fabled
Garnishments.
Heathenistic
Improvisors
Jostle
Kitchen
Ladles.
Metrical Composers
Nourish
Otherworldly
Poetizers'
Quirky
Rumbling
Stomachs.
Tenacious
Umbelliferous
Versifiers
Whisking
Xysters
Yolk fully
and
Zestfully.
Form: Acrostic

Bad Poems

A thousand poems I write,
And not one of them I like,

Could I let you see that,
All my poems are bad.

I lost my gift with words,
And left alone with hurt.

It is too late to take back,
Now ready for your attacks!!!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++
Giorgio Veneto
Metrical verse~contest
Form:

Transparent Gods

 ( upon hearing the expression: "I can see right through him". )


No one simply takes up space,
light bends merely stabbing the dew,
and I've never heard of a transparent race,
unless God's creating them- even new.



_________________

Notes:

Mama's metrical chicanery!
Form: Rhyme

The Heart of a Poet

i always find myself
passing the time
thinking of life
in riddles and rhymes

moments to moments
my visions are verse
metrical in composition
as if watching a play being rehearsed

poetry runs through my heart
 thoughts woven in gold
lyrical are my days
maybe my life would best be told
with an ode
© Ron Derby  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Premium Member The Sun Never Sets on PoetrySoup

Sailing the seas on a lyrical sloop,
visiting pensmen in a metrical loop
with alternating laughs and sighs,
I smile and realize
the sun never sets on PoetrySoup.

In every time zone, in every land,
shining on each seashore's sand,
a seashell or a nautilus
sings to amuse or slaughter us, 
from a poet, awake, pen in hand.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Sigh, Ready Spring

 
I am so ready for Spring to arrive, for flowers to bloom in my small garden; oh, bees and butterflies ! _________________________ February 19, 2021 Poetry/Non-metrical/Tristich/unrhymed/Sigh, Ready Spring Copyright Protected, ID 02-1330-668-19 All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France
Form: Tristich

The Taste (Dodoitsu)

Your lips softly brushing mine,
Soulful kiss, ignited passions
Pleasantly savored, indeed--
The sweet taste of love






The Dodoitsu is a fixed folk song form of Japanese origin and is often about love or 
humor. It has 26 syllables made of four lines of 7, 7, 7, 5 syllables respectively. It 
is unrhymed and non-metrical.
Form: Dodoitsu

Premium Member Oh, Spring Pandemic

 
I am so ready for Spring to arrive, for blooming flowers in my small garden to thrive; oh, then I can survive ! ________________________ February 19, 2021 Poetry/Non-Metrical/Tristich/Rhymed/Oh, Spring Pandemic Copyright Protected, ID 02-1330-676-19 All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France
Form: Tristich

Premium Member Try-metrical '

A tireme was set to sail
Yet wind failed; to blow
Deploy oars it never fails

Once far enough out
Again they raised the canvas.'
The wind came as a !shout

The ship creaked and drove
The sails bellied so freely
Twas as when sins are shrove'

The cox'n sounded the bell
All the crew yelled and cheered
Music to a capt'ns ears i hear tell.?
Form: Tercet

Premium Member The Cat Needs Sleep

The earth and the sky will not rest, or wind, and the birds in their nest; O, make it all STOP, let sleepy eyes drop; so still- I shall DREAM, a must quest ! _____________________________ July 28, 2019 Poetry/Limerick/Non- metrical/the CAT needs sleep Copyright Protected, ID 19-1169-402-02 All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym.
Form: Limerick

Aap Ki Awaz

Aap ki awaz 

Na Mai mazboor nope it's a dark sky 
which cry when you cry and the sadness 
of your dreams comes near you like a shadow of love 

For giggling and waiting for the smile
 of an angel who's doll and pet where 
looking amaze for just a gaze of your 
Starring by tirchi blink eyes 

Jis Mai hai appki awaz. 

With love all 
Jagdish Bajantri

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