Short Planning Poems

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


Stage 2 Slam-Demic

Stage 1

Preparation 
Fastidious planning

Stage 2

Phased in Execution 
      Roll the Dice
( get the ball rolling )


Premium Member A Four Line Poem

At the kitchen table I like to linger while I drink ginger tea
Planning my weekly shopping list I must remember corn and peas.

Premium Member Praying Mantis

Mantis
Verdant, skinny,
Praying, sneaking, planning
Insect, wife, insect, husband
Surviving, hoping, dying,
Fearful, easy,
Prey
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Surviving, Hoping Praying Mantis

Mantis
Verdant, skinny,
Praying, sneaking, planning
Insect, wife, insect, husband
Surviving, hoping, dying,
Fearful, easy,
Prey
Form: Diamante

Premium Member My Hero

You once were the very hero
I needed when I as a lonely child.
You and I dreamed so wild,
Always just us two planning for tomorrow.
Form: Quatrain


Premium Member Lone Wolf

solitude is my delight
i thrive on the cover of no one
i revel in my freedom
listening to no ideas but my own
plotting and planning

Premium Member My thoughts

When in my waking hour 
I see my thoughts before me 
planning for the future 
I follow like a lost puppy 
hoping not to be led astray

Premium Member Mischief in the works

Devious eyes and devilish smile.
Youth testing how far they can go.
Planning new tricks and shenanigans.



AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Trump Family Planning

Donald Trump opposes abortion
The President favors extortion
"We must keep them dumb
And under out thumb
To grope the greatest proportion"
Form: Limerick

Planning

He, as a young man did aspire,
To early in life retire.
A savings plan he began,
To which he continually ran.
Better planning this did require
Form: Limerick

Premium Member a grateful murderer

Falcon with a curved beak
Your amber eyes miss nothing;
Sensing the mice in the corner
You begin plotting and planning
A grateful murderer

Premium Member Window Shopping

idling
   a spare hour
planning
  her next
             buy
satisfying
    that feminine need-
of a  perpetual
            heart's cry
art
Form: Ekphrasis

All in for Americans

Biotech company Amgen set to build $600-million research center in Thousand Oaks

Tastefully Planning 

Commission 


New Hires Welcome

Premium Member Gormless

A lack of forward planning raised a question just for me What kind of numpty vacuums… THEN sets up the Christmas tree?
Form: Couplet

Synergy

Drink coffee and do stupid things -
Intense! - With so much energy. 
Mistakes in planning... oh they sting
While team should form a synergy.
Form: Lyric

Hearteater

With that waiting line
I'm not surprised you're greedy,
On fresh hearts feasting;
Planning a different fate,
Mine won't be served on a plate
Form: Tanka

Senior Planning

At Seventy-eight it will click
You're got the short end of the stick
If you want some fun
Better get it done
"The End" appears pretty damn quick!
old
Form: Limerick

Premium Member When he closes his eyes

In his little boy’s dreams
Tall sandcastles guarded by dragons
He’s the bravest of knights



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Life is too short

I'm fab... in my prime.
I'm planning on making each minute count.
Adventure is calling, come along ~



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 2nd place 2025
Form: Other

Embalming Fluid

You expect progress,
and you, 
understanding,
and I just pray,
that I'm never caught planning,
any life... into an early grave.

Let's not decay,
Let's not decay.

Bleeding Black Ink

We need more compassion in our planning
I believe it would fashion more insight
I perceive our actions would be forthright
We would receive a life more enchanting
Form: Verse

Planning For the Comming Year

when it comes in
i'll make freinds
we'll have the same blend
going the same way
i have a lot to say
 righ now i sit and stare
AM
PLANNING FOR THE
COMMING YEAR

Master

Master, master 
I have to succumb to your every command
Not able to fulfill my own desires
My destiny has been mapped out
By your sadistic planning
My fate sealed

Premium Member November Dreams

November dreams of beauty of my garden in springtime,
planning horticultural fancies my garden has never grown.
Dreaming of it in November is easy part of gardening.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Live In the Moment

I do things in a momentous way
Planning nothing day to day
Living in the moment by the bay
Doing a gloriously crazy sashay
Happy that I was born knowing how to play
Form: Monorhyme

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