Short Private Poems

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


Premium Member Private Eye

From his cocoon
  overlooking the fray

  the poet strikes
    his keyboard
    
    triumphantly
 
    Truth ablaze


How To Kill a Dream

The answer to this question need 
not be investigated.. no private eye.

The only way to kill a dream is by 
letting it die.
Form: Rhyme

True Victory

Whenever you play
Regardless of the outcome
Make sure you improve
For that's your true victory
On the field and private life
Form: Tanka

To My Beautiful One - My Only Property

Hey, My Beuatiful One!
You don't need to attempt
to steal too much from me,
but my heart,
as that's my private 
and only property

Premium Member Candlelight

dining with two children candlelit private room could be aesthetic romantic son, set napkin a blaze
Form: Verse


What Part Is Private

I assummed breast
Was no longer
A private part
Until they began 
To expose the pudenda
And I began
To wonder
What part
Is then private?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Information Technology

I.T.s
replacing
old fashioned stuff
computer science
children exposed in droves
ahead of parents
private language
A new wave
I.T.'s
Form: Ninette

Premium Member She Lacks All Common Sense

Second Lady, Karen Pence
Surely lacks all common sense
  Teaching at a private Christian school
  She's just so tone-deaf; it's so un-cool
Form: Clerihew

Gallo-Romance

A rooster gave an hen a chase
And caught her in a private place
The hen had fun!
When she was done
The rooster had egg on its face . . . .
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Gnawing

I can’t outrun you,  
with last night’s dream on my lips;
A racing heartbeat 
breaking through a private wall,
your kiss is gnawing my gut.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Private Gardens

wildflowers abound
   in places we may not see
      on a mountain ledge
   deep within a forest glen
 in nature's private gardens
© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Save the Beach House or the Beach

the beach is public
but the beach house is private
when the sea erodes,
which is saved; you can't save both
saving houses erodes the beach
Form: Tanka

Love

Love is an equation with 2 dimension! private and professional , yet none of them should be merged! else you can find yourself neutral and alone!
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Apex of Love

Like tan quicksand 
I sink into your touch
Losing myself yet gaining
A new set of love wings 
Flying me newly made
Into a private universe

Catherine the Great

A czarina whose needs couldn’t wait.
Rumored to have a private stable,
with horses….if her Cossacks weren’t able.


For the clerihew 2 contest
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Nip and Shred

Catnip and claws are A lethal combination. Shredding carpets and converting furniture to Your own private garbage dump.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Tricks Are Treats

The once was an old private Dick
who oft bought lottery quick picks
Raja’s corner store
sold tickets galore
Dick went broke and paid him with tricks.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Breaking free from reality

Tipsy when under the influence
world closes in for a private party
~ the illusion of escape brief



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Size

A woman seductively dance
As the man's private starts to prance
He shouts, you're alive
As his heat starts to thrive
He claps back, Cuz his size is enhance
© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.
men
Form: Limerick

Sky To the Mountain

sky to the mountain

                                          i have a private rainbow

                                           rain  and sunshine laugh
Form: Haiku

Pine Seed

Pine Seed

Don't forget
it's clay
that learned how to
soak itself and wrap
in gelatine.
It opened
secret compartments
in it's glue
to do its
quiet, private
oozes.

Premium Member The Nilands of Tonawanda

Siblings fight for peace
unknown horrors they now face
theatres of war
fallen, in recognition 
we must save the surviving 







"Saving Private Ryan"
Form: Ekphrasis

Inside -Out Sun

The black hole at the center of the galaxy 
Is only dark from the outside 
Inside is the light of a thousand suns
Clinging tightly to itself in a private moment

Premium Member "giant Isopod"

Makes love Bathynomus giganteus
Isopod love not a casual lust
    Romance private ocean deeps
    Where little light ever creeps
Lovemaking crustaceans is no fuss
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The Tryst

There was that moment,
that glimpse of sadness come,
when silently she withdrew.
To savor in private thought;
a memory which only she knew.
Her secret rendezvous
Form: Rhyme

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