Short Pensive Poems

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


Premium Member Pensive Moment Waning

those dueling branches
giddy to impress the moon
slow onslaught of night

desperation fades to black
a passive moment waning
Form: Tanka


Purge

lost in pensive thought
fire burns all mendacity,
 self-hatred hooked me.
Rid the hateful piercing cries,
intercept thoughts I despise
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Written in Response to Pensive Solitude on The Eve of This Night

An outcast this night,
I mournfully sigh with gloom:
but, I make war, fight!
to defeat my rising doom,
and defend my haunted tomb.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Still Life Quatrain

Warm sunlight,into perspective
percolates upon pensive portraits.
Anecdotes of the bourgois domestique
commissioned to decorate &please
art
Form: Ekphrasis

There Were Woes, There Will Be Troubles

There were woes, there will be troubles,
Sunset's mean, there's poor sunrise,
You can't see the stars in puddles 
if they are not in the skies.
Form: Rhyme


A Drive In Disguise

A Drive In Disguise
Kiara Lebel

Beyond successful
A mind full of redemption
And positive vibes
Now I’m in deep pensive thought
For both of us to be dead
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Woot

Quick with wit
Funny and strong
Quiet and pensive 
Amazing with song
Sometimes a tiger
Sometimes a soft cat?
Sometimes I wish...

I'll just leave it at that
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The King of 'I'

       Pensive
        Moody
         Brooding
          Melancholy
        Immersed in a realm of his own making
          His kingdom left ripe for the taking
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Day Dream

Dark
lady;
skin,pale cream,
pensive in her
dream-
he 
painted
a love that
never could have
been

Ekphrasis on painting of the wife of his friend  by Gabriel Rossetti
art
Form: Lanterne

Resolution Too

pensive intelligence,
seeking resolution,
all of it for free -
all of it for free.

creative intelligence,
altering the solution:
all of it for free -
all of it for free.
Form:

Premium Member Ekphrasis-Triplet

ENIGMATIC VARIATIONS
precision pensive girls
vermeer to us unfurls,his passion for all to see-
in pictorial poetry

see my cartoons thereof 
@www.vermeersgirls.blogspot.com
art
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Dimensions of divinity

Pensive under a midnight vault:
What artist could conceive such infinite beauty?
I'm awestruck within nature's cathedral.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Form: Other

A Poem Is Brewing...

Stolid, terse
Ferrous verse

Raw, crude
Pressing lewd

Fiery, rage
Warring sage

Wild, free
As the open sea

Clever, deft
Mindful theft

Longing, attentive
Yet pensive

Ella

E - xquisite beauty like a precious stone, 
L - ike lilac blue and light pink diamond,
L - aced with platinum and gold ribbon, 
A - mbering my pensive horizon. 

September 4, 2022
Form: Name

Premium Member WISTFUL

forlorn
     woebegone
in
pensive
    musing

this
    yearning
this 
     longing

melancholy
becomes
a
   rueful
     pining
almost
   nostalgic
       contemplation
Form: Verse

Premium Member Fp Whitman D

A TRIBUTE FOUND POEM IN 5 PARTS
INSPIRED BY PHRASES FROM INSCRIPTIONS

Part D
a retrospective
          of me
whatever
      qualities 
they may be
pensive
silent
or profound
Form: Verse

Premium Member Autumn Leaves Keep Me

autumn leaves keep me
pensive, wrapped in reverie
amidst the colors


For: Shards of Light Contest by Raul Moreno 

It is autumn in the southern hemisphere (my second home is Sydney)
Form: Haiku

Golden Chain Tree

Honey coloured blossom
dawn-to-dark 
pensive belle
bear the palm 
tremulous branches 
moves back and forth 
toppling flamelike
beauty by the road 
golden hue forsaken 
trampled by feet

Premium Member I Love a Rainy Night


On rainy nights, in pensive thought,
I claim the respite I have sought
but seldom found on sunny days.
Cool drops soothe more than brightest rays
in times when life's with trouble fraught.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Pensive

My pen is having an off day
It refuses to write
It didn't consult the hand
To ask if this was alright
The hand said the pen
"You are such a pain."
Who do you think you are?
You are not the Brain!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member drawn to her

suiters were drawn to her
she was reflective
what was she contemplating?
She seemed introspective and preoccupied
Women who are pensive are often fascinatingly contradictory
men waited for their turn

Premium Member Body Language

Introspective or
Sparkling bright,along
Life's highway we alight.Now
Crestfallen,then tearful sad,
Pensive,wistful blue
Steadfastly our moods show through;
Close up or afar
Our moods make us who we are.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member full blown thunderstorm

gray tranquility
cloudy unmoving pensive
endearing silence

moments before rain
loud whip cracks across the sky
wind quickly picks up

full blown thunderstorm
peace is obliterated
nothing tranquil now
Form: Haiku

Swear Word Scrabble

Great fun games for the English summer
They don’t have to be expensive
Play new swear word Scrabble
It’s a simple game not for the pensive
All words must be in common usage
And should be genuinely offensive
Form:

Why Does a Poem Need a Title

I am deaf to words
That should come 
From an addled brain
And mercurial soul
words came and words went
But the page remains blank
no words fell from pensive hands
this  is the poem that 
I will never write

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