Short Missives Poems

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


Premium Member reading forced poetry

Some writers struggle
Coughing up words in a painful way
I feel a bit of their agony as I read their missives
A jumpy spotty difficult flow is painful to readers too


Missives From a Massacre 1

It's time
To bring back 
The days
Weeks
Months 
We spent locked in combat 

It's time 
To wade through  
The bones
Lungs
Hearts
That still yearn for you

Premium Member I love cockeyed whangdoodle writing

I love cock-eyed whangdoodle writing
When frogs are croaking and fish are biting
I adore silly missives with cartoon-like stuff
Of child-like fun I simply cannot get enough
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Poet

Poet
Wordsmith master
Intense concentration
Playful muse untethered release
Study missives, marveling at their worth
The erasing, chasing, pacing
Challenging word play self
An Inspired
Poet

Premium Member The Barrage Incessant

   the barrage 
   incessant
   24/7

   day after day
   after day... 

   the bombardment
   will not
   go away


  columns of tanks

  missives of missiles

  roar of rockets


  the news cycle
  dashes
  all hope


Premium Member too verbose

Her preservative process
To utilize words no one knows or understands
Guarantees her failure in the contest realm
She does not do well with herself
Using these unnecessarily verbose vocabulary words
Most of us stopped reading her missives years ago

The Coming

Inside the Keepers pantry
Jesus can stare at any mirror
Our lives have changed
likens the chaff of wheat 
The Lord is neigh
as truth wrestles amongst the shimmering trees
and we are guided by our missives
The green patterns of holly
roots our dreams

Premium Member my bossy fingers do the writing

each of my fingers has a mind of her own
tapping a rhythm as she taps out a poem
I relax as the ten take over the task bossily
writing missives that are way beyond the real me
as my fingers dance on the computer keys
I wonder, do other poets have fingers like these?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Is that another laugh

I reach for a book
A tiny arm comes out of the spine
The arm slaps my hand
Not that one, my muse suggests

The next novel laughs as I open her
Then she screams
But wait
Is that another laugh?

Have these missives always been alive?
Why has it taken me so long to notice?

Spider

Pictures posed in finest clothes
smiling eyes that tantalize
Words so warm, so sure to charm
yet acrid thoughts are all she's got
Never paired,  her hatred's shared
through missives penned to many men
Stay in your hole, please, bitter troll
or heal your heart, before you start
Form: Rhyme

Miss you

Take something with you
You ll get hungry on the way
hurry to your destination
taking in your daily pride
there's missives to write
like exalted letters

take these promises
rinse the truth
like a plummeting bird

the painter paints his vista
and sees you by the world

Robust Cadence

birth out in the mist
bright things then have birth
between the beauty and decay
molten lead adjourned

the faithfulness of a century
lies bedridden
the missives continueth

Doom stirs the mosaics of dearth
please do not disturb
the cadence of tomorrow's plan
The butterflies hoover

Premium Member On Not Being You-- Dueling Senryus

Keep quiet, be nice.
            Do not love, be cold as ice.
            Alas, spineless mice!

            Just one life to live.
            Light poems that drip like old sieves?
            Meaningless missives!

            

                       3/3/2021
                         ~2~
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Twinkle Snowman

Twinkle Snowman loved the evening star
Feeling it came from somewhere afar
Glittery diamond paved way for dreams
Floating in tandem with starlit beams

Heaven is close Twinkle told his friend
Magical missives from December end
Showed him mystical power from this star
Comes every Christmas to raise the bar
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member not wanting to be a word thief

I read poetry from forty poets last night
some of these missives were brilliant
others were stunningly fresh
I try to intentionally forget most of it
not wanting to be a word thief
or a plagiarists
I cannot fathom why any writer would use A.I.
What satisfaction could that give them?
I want my own words, my own way and no one else’s.

Premium Member value in every poem I read

I see value in every poem I read
often wishing I had thought to write that line myself
or that word or that stanza

I sometimes marvel at the rhyming prowess of the poet
so many marvelous missives to read
I concentrate on the short ones

skipping all of the long ones
figuring they have lots of extra words
my attention span is better used elsewhere

Premium Member The Magical Moon Ladies of the Stars

The magic qualities of the moon 
oozed in my sleeping berth, enlightening me gently.
Sage ideas danced and played, 
swirling around poetic missives, forgotten by morning.
These are not your best, a woman’s voice whispered, 
giving me a fair delicate warning. 
Prepared by soulful ancestral pull of the 
mystical, magical moon ladies of the stars evidently.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member less is often more

Luther had a tendency to write with prolixity
using six adjectives when two would do
there were no breaks in his text
his missives were written as a brick pedestal
solid from side to side, top to bottom
Many who read the words of other poets skipped his
preferring to spend their time on smaller less wordy missives
Oftentimes less is more
in poetry as well as art.

Earthen Quakes

Little earthen quakes
Rumblings of the soul

Missives made of letters
Placed in ordered rows

Tales of ancient ruins
Never told before –

Little earthen quakes
Restless on the page

Telling little tales
Giving it away –

Aftershock upheavals
Pain, that trembles, grows

For the pen that wrote them 
Little did it know

Little earthen tremors
Never letting go –
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Brilliant Missives

To start with a word -- an object, person, notion, or motion,
something intimate, personal... to develop it, digging deep,
to then expand it, connecting its dots to the far reaches of
the universe... Ah, Poetry! few feelings more rewarding...


     specks in the cosmos
     poets launch brilliant missives
       -- to eternity




               June 23, 2020
  Rhymes and Reasons Poetry Contest
           Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Form: Haibun

Unhealed Hand

My time not yet,
This denial still denied,
These choices from aught,
In darkness still cried,

Who knows depths unreached,
Passive anger evolving faster,
Trials failed vitality leached,
Missives quoted dialing disaster,

Only misfortune I've kissed,
None other would dare,
Chance all others missed,
Finding any who care,

Before I greet farewell,
Innocence soul cannot understand,
Maybe one tale tell,
Improbable yet unhealed hand.
Form: Quatern

Premium Member What Frightened the Crow

the crow was shaking, his feet could barely land
He had recently come from graves near the sand
What has frightened you? I asked, watching him squirm.
Was it a devil, a Dracula, a ghoul, a snake or a worm?

Have you ever read Poe? He asked me with a quaking beak.
I had actually read a few of his missives just last week.
His words are frightening, they terrified me forevermore he said.
Don’t worry, I told him, ravens will handle it and Poe is dead.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Poetry Was No Longer My Thing

I decided that poetry was no longer my thing
Ideas were not coming, falling off my back, sliding onto my desk.
I shut down my computer and stopped thinking of words.
My list-making ceased. I was done. It was over. Kaput.
This lasted about three days, but then bam.
The muses were back in full force, and I began filling up notebooks.
I had to have a place to put these missives.
What better place than Poetry Soup?
So forty-nine hours later, I was back.

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