Short Novella Poems

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


Premium Member Sea nymph

sea nymph falling prey
to harsh world realities
~ love overrated



Inspired by Ondine which is a play written in 1938 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, based on the 1811 novella Undine by the German Romantic Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.



AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Senryu


Premium Member Gemini at Dawn

Listen to poem:
Two faint stars meet at the edge of night,
Sharing one moment in the hush of twilight.
They cannot contend with the rising Sun,
Nor ask the morning what they have begun.
So they shelter together beneath each other's umbrella,
Sharing a glance, a chance, to write their brief novella.
Form: Couplet

The Moses Toe

Pricklescoff sits at a Moses Toe
where two rivers meet
where two rivers flow
with one from his left 
and one from his right
as he, a troll, sits at the point
where two rivers meet
on into the night
and see all the fish
stickleback, minnow
swim as he sits
at the Moses Toe



Based on the novella Where Two Rivers Meet, A Dark Romance Fantasy by Clive Culverhouse
Form: Rhyme

Novella

Eyes move across her page,
I have read her before,
memorized her mind.

The book on her lap
is a tragedy.
Her lips move, as I approach,
as if she is reading a sudden thought.

Are we still writing a thriller,
or is this mutual recognition,
a romantic interlude,

a magnetic, moment,
an impulsive flame of truth,
that flares between the covers
of a fictional novel.

Thrift and Opulent

her opulent presence
is beautifully crafted on the night of the mind
her tattooed form elegantly painted sensitively
but oh so erotically
lip rings and candy necklace feast for the lusts
but she knows your eyes are on the plunging neckline
she is a deeply written romance novella
she is a poem of darker daylight
longing within her good girl image
to be as bad as bad girl can be
beautifully written in that smile
written in the sunshine of the opulent soul
© Mark Junor  Create an image from this poem.


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