Short Original Poems

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


Premium Member A Not So Original Monoku - Unchallenged

A Not So Original Monoku - unchallenged


Yeah!  But the one that got away was this big.


John G. Lawless
4/4/2016
Form: Monoku


Premium Member The Not So Original Monoku Challenge

TOUCHDOWN!!!!  WHAT’S THE POINT SPREAD??


4/2/2014

for – The Not So Original Monoku Challenge
sponsor – Timothy Hicks
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Unique,Original

FACSIMILE
if we paint
we do not copy,
facsimile-
an appearance,we see
through who,we be

after Van Hoogstraten's dictum
art

Premium Member Enlightenment

(“The Empty Mirror”, 2024, original encaustic)

Oh enlightenment
No matter what they call you
Nothing but a dream

(5/6/26)
Form: Haiku

Premium Member The essence of play

playful progeny of my creativity
the product of my muse ~
I gave it my all



AP: 1st place 2025, Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Persona


I Think We Need An Auto Save

I shall try to recreate what I wrote and lost (again) but as all artists know the recreation can never be the same as the original

Premium Member We Will Remember Them

war graves surround me stretching into the distance scarlet poppies grow N/A in original Contest 07~15~15
Form: Haiku

Primeira Classe

1ª Classe

Na vida ou nos negócios;
acredite: 
sempre existe 
uma versão original de si mesma.

O mundo adora “o original”.

Just Ice

Justice Barr-Nunn and his nice niece
Went on a vacation to Greece
Under the covers
Justice discovers
The Original Golden Fleece
Form: Limerick

Anything But Mine

Don't make me yawn
Just pick
One color
It doesn't much matter anyway
What color
You pick
Any will do, aside from the original
Form: Other

Premium Member light footed danseuse

light footed danseuse
admired by the masses
original steps

danced like a faerie
twirling her petite body
bloodying her feet
Form: Senryu

Premium Member I Am Scorpion

Simplistic in view
Caring of heart
Original in style
Rehabilitated in life
Poetic in love
Insightful in thought
Omni competent
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Clerihew E E Cummings

e e cummings a poet, i be
& this is how i found my u s p
in verse to be 'the most original'
penned lower case poesy in the vertical
Form: Clerihew

Digging For Gold At a Cost

Jerry Hall
it's her original husband we older guys recall
once Jagger now Murdoch
much more of this and we should summon Sader Masoch.
Form: Clerihew

Light

VI. Light

A point in the refracted agregated spectra.

The instance that proceeds the original moment.

© veritatem voluntatem 2015?
© Uns Sdf1  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Dusty Love

briefly concerned 

                                  original love novel

                                        dust heap on a shelf
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Now

(“Mind’s Eye”, 2017, original encaustic)

Neither coming or going, 
The Nature of Mind
Simply is
What always has been
Now

(11/8/25)

Parking On Pelican Pier

Parking on Pelican Pier (Not so original monoku) contest 




             Pelican Pier here I come...Landing to eat Tuna Tuesday treats
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Tastes Funny

Two cannibals eat
Comedian for supper
One says tastes funny

(This is not an original idea.  Just hope that it would lighten someone's day.)
Form: Senryu

Bell Captain

Bell Captain

Bill Shatner
Was in TV ads as a hotel rate flattener.
Maybe known from his original dint
As a space captain in a 3 year stint.
Form: Clerihew

Humans

Humans are exotic choices-preferences that belong to and originate from one original source.

Humans are clone-like species of-from the original.
Form:

Genuine Happiness

If you even having no  evident
  reasons, still lives happily...
Possess within you, the greatest
 proof of the truly and original
happiness...

Premium Member Eye of Storm

("Eye of Storm" - aka "Tibetan Blue Poppy", 2017, original encaustic)

Eye of Storm

No matter where you go, there you are.

(11/5/23)
Form: Monoku

Premium Member DER XL 1 poetic translation

original available to read here at archive.org/details/himmlischelibesk0000kuhl
Der XL1 page 54 thru 55 my translation of this in above youtube clip
Form: Sonnet

Poetry Is Silent

P-Poetry
O-Original
E-Eternity
T-Talent
R-Real
Y-You


I-Imagination 
S-Silent

S-Speechless
I-Important 
L-Love
E-Ever 
N-New
T-Taciturn
© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Acrostic

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