Short Population Poems

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


Premium Member You Can'T Handle the Truth

I never thought that I would be quoting Jack Nicholson,
but, "You can't handle the truth," applies to most of the world's population.
Form: Couplet


Premium Member Seals Versus Sea

caught in frigid traps
seals struggle against the sea…
population culls

*Strong waves hurled seals against rock walls, killing some.
Form: Haiku

Forever Illness

A forever illness. 

That manifests as a culmination. 

An illness that is widespread. 

Creating a population. 

That hides its exhaustion.

Premium Member Dwindling Population

The rural church closed.... cemetery still receives the dead
Form: Monoku

Better Or Worse

A baby will grow.
A child will grow.
A family will grow.
A village will grow.
A population will grow.
Relationships will grow

Better or worse?


Premium Member To Life

Population Control
           Is on a roll
           In the West.
             Elsewhere, however,
             Babies are--
             Price-less.
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Vaccine

Coronavirus spread has locked us in
production of goods has gone to dust bin
it is a forced vacation
for entire population
Till someone could produce a good vaccine.
Form: Limerick

Invasive species

As our human population increases 
we risk becoming an invasive species.
   We are spreading with speed
   like an unwelcome weed,
so native creatures are suffering decreases.
Form: Limerick

Unknown City

this city behind my eyes has
  a population of one.

 windless sidewalks swept clean, 
 empty houses, empty streets.

  this city behind my eyes is
  so empty and so clean.
Form:

A Colony

In a age of provisions
Dealt with meager hands

Gone are the lucent
A briskness of night impounds

Vast altercations sever the thread
The youth population carries our debts.

Ghosted

It was a close-knit town hostile to strangers
that lost its citizens for imagined dangers.
Move-ins were rejected
and to threats subjected.
Shortly the population was two park rangers.
Form: Limerick

Newest oldest modern quagmire

the merely bourgeois, so-called collective Western world:

dysfunctional political economy, broken system w/ a

population neither able to solve the problem, nor willing to solve it.

Premium Member Urbane Refrains

Hokey-pokey 
rhymes with Skokie
  largest village in the land

New York's a city
'tis a pity
  still inhabited by man

___________________________
Skokie, IL -- population ~ 75,000
Form: Rhyme

Good Living

Give me a log cabin, cooking over a campfire
                        Birds, bears and other critters for the population
                    Heaven on Earth, a five gallon bucket full of good living
© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Peeping Tom

Sick minds grow rapidly,
Yet they’re treated with equality.

Spread through our population,
The cancer of our generation.

Sex crimes, rape, and molestation,
Evolve from disgusting infatuations.
Form:

Premium Member 2023


The year 2023: It gave to us the very worst and best of times.
The Worst of Times: There were two Wars over Geography.
Best of Times: There were gains in the Christian population. *

*The Pew Report
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Fascinating Planet

In the galaxy called "Milky Way",
there's a planet Earth where people stay.
It's population, eight billion strong,
and they're always right, never wrong; 
and each lives by this dictum, 
"Never a perp, always a victim".
Form: Rhyme

July

JULY

The
Summer
Has begun
Celebrations
On various dates
In USA, the fourth
But elsewhere like on the moon
The first man to take the first step
For mankind, World Population Day
And for myself, well I was born in July
Form: Etheree

Premium Member Finding Peace

Positivity presents polite poses,
Parties pave productive pathways,
Problems pass, pain pauses,
Practical perspective proves purposeful.
People practice perseverance,
Population produces powerful partnerships,
Peace prevails.

Pandemic

they are sleepless intelligence that dwells in hospitals 
masked walk around at the ends of the streets

the population dreads on me 
poofs blackness into space 
everywhere is a fallout at stake
it will sway the dwelling in us

Premium Member The Worm Ate the Bird

When the worm ate the bird
and its body became big
and puffed,
we would never hear the end of it.

When the population
took over from the kings,
it became big and puffed...
Isn't this the trouble with the world?





5/10/2015
© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.

Gatortale

Alligators bellowing chorous dance.
Eerie freshwater gator holes.
Intense jaws, killer lizard-like.
Marshes nest offspring, population quickly rebounds.
Southeastern territorial. 
Underwater vegitation. Wetlands xylem.
young zoologist.
Form: ABC

Social Networks

Bragging and boasting
is all people do.
Making it hard
for people
to break through. 
If only, if only 
compliments would be given.
Allowing the population
to be driven. 
Suicide rates
wouldn't rise. 
Happiness
would be
gleaming in
many eyes.
Form:

Premium Member Power Manipulation

Politicians are manipulated by bankers, lawyers and big businessmen.
Politicians in turn manipulates the mass population.
Whenever I hear terms such as "democracy" and "freedom,"
I hear things that don't truly exist other than an illusion.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Butchers Paper

BUTCHER’S PAPER population growth, wrapped in butcher’s paper, blossoming beautifully eyes dot the vainglorious poppies — bloodshot with remembrance 6/1/2018 Silent One’s When one line is not enough 33 syllables
Form: Verse

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