Short Paper Poems

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


Paper Tomb

Scholars squander sunny days
Coffined in their cloistered nooks,
Where a wise man never stays
Buried, bored, by books.
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse


Paper Aeroplanes

transient souls take offs and landings always going to other places paper areoplanes are ghostly things

Premium Member Paper Fortune Teller

Unfold, now behold
The truth of how all answers
Are hidden within
Every folded, small facet;
Every fibre part of you.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member A Can Knot

a po-at-tree
can knot one's
toil...letting...

when

th(e)-oughts go
directly to paper
as any po am

stans sand
© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.

The Law of Existence

Chance the work of man
Necessity a work for you

Paper and cloth

Pen and ink
Needle and thread

dancing with them.


Self Crusade

the holy
grail has
been
found

yet
sated
by blood
i'm not

instead a brown
paper bagged
bottle of red
dry wine
Form:

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Paper Plate

serve me well friend poet;
flavor anew words I've
eaten all my life.

Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
July 16, 2011

Paper Clip

to thing in places
in everycase
or as you wine sip
take pool dip
go on a trip
kept things order
you need a
PAPER CLIP

One of My Favorite Worlds

the ink is dripping from 
skin to delicate 
paper



Lost. 



is so beautiful,
so serene,
so still 

be here.

Premium Member Karen

Karen is an 
Artistic person
Ready to spread words
Evenly across empty paper
Neatly crossing her t's and dotting her i's
Form: Acrostic

Candescence

Keep the fire burning,
 worshipping the ash
Changing paper into smoke
—time and mood recast

(Dreamsleep: January, 2022)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Haiku 120

HAIKU #120


Ink on paper
Stray words converge;
Haiku fragment

~~~~~~~~~



Leon Enriquez
22 Nov 2020
Singapore
Form: Haiku

Butterfly

Butterfly

Purple butterfly 
Flaps its paper wings
Lays on blooms
Folds to feed

Marckincia Jean
Free verse 
11/27/18

Paperweight

I am a paper
 you are weight
 without you
 I’d fly away
 and with you
 I am crumpled
 crushed under
 and faded with age

Premium Member Unrelated Things

A white piece of paper lies on a blue table
She looks at me out of the corner of her eye
A flock of birds flies into the air

Poet

What is a poet
without his pen & paper?
watch...
as his finger becomes his pen
& the Earth his paper.
...He is still a poet...

A Man Named Dan

There once was a man named Dan
Who sat with a paper fan.
He sat in the sun
and had such fun
and wound up with quite a tan.
Form: Limerick

Eight Oh Eight Through Eight Twenty One

Emotions poured out
Thoughts bound together and shelved
Dreams shared on paper

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX
Form: Senryu

Paper Tiger, Paper Moon

Paper tiger,
Good afternoon
Staring at
The paper moon
Lurking at
The water’s edge,
Capturing the
Beautiful origami bird

Ancient Glass of Wine

Every now 
And then
We meet  
Old friends
This paper and pen
We make amends
To share this ancient
Ancient glass of wine

Premium Member Poet

Poet, sharing her soul, paints a picture with words. Pen and paper are her canvas. ....artist
Form: Cinquain

No Paper Trail

My memories scream back
echoing down through
small solemn streams of desire
leaving whispers of love and 
tears.

Cynthia

Premium Member Creation

In an adept's hand, graphite sweeps across paper: a masterpiece birthed. --------- (C) John C Michaels, 2014
Form: Haiku

Battling the Times

the New York Times
should show an affinity for rhymes
the leading paper
regarding them quite properly as an essential caper.
Form: Clerihew

Rats In Ties

Dollars and consensus,
Violate our senses,
A symbol condenses,
Our spirit's presence, 
For paper worth less than a cent is.
Form: Rhyme

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