Short Proverbs Poems

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


My Own Proverbs

" Life with struggle is an achievement, other than to get everything at door steps" _ Ravi Sathasivam
Form: Haiku


My Own Proverbs

" One should understand another one's difficulties then only that will free us from selfishness" - Ravi Sathasivam
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Fear God

Fear God The fear of the Lord, The beginning of wisdom; But Godly wisdom; Haiku Proverbs 10:19 KJV Tom
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Proverbs Shmaverbs

       Cast your bread upon the water
          if you like it soaky
    
       As for mine it’s in the oven
         ‘cos I prefer it toasty
Form: Rhyme

My Own Proverbs

My Own proverbs...... " Any action should be based on knowledge " Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka All rights are reserved @ 2015
Form: Haiku


Proverbs

After reading 
The proverbs of Solomon 
I carry the light 
Of ancient wisdom 
Into a dark world. 

         W.A. CHOLT.  Copyright Fergal O Reilly.  2018
© W.A. Cholt  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Monoku Pm2

receive inner wealth which is freely given; be no money changer

Proverbs 8:10
Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Form: Monoku

My Own Proverbs

My own proverbs....... ' Make your life rich with compassion and not with wealth' - Ravi Sathasivam / Sri Lanka All rights are reserved @ 2015
Form: Haiku

My Own Proverbs

“ In your life you can have just one soul mate as your life partner If you have more than one soul mate, then you are full of sin” - Ravi Sathasivam
Form: Haiku

Proverbs 3:33

The Devil certainly would, to give in to evil you could, may the good Lord curse you
The word of God is good, to strive for it you should, and may you live a life of virtue
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Proverbs 25:21

A corner of the roof is a better life
    than a fine house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member And

And all at once it came to me
The reasons things are meant be
Are not always for my eyes to see
But I know Who holds my destiny
And I trust in Him implicitly

Proverbs 3:5-6
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Inaccurate Proverbs

Sometimes I get my proverbs confused and merge two into one.
For example: "He who is without sin, is a rolling stone."
If you have any inaccurate proverbs, I would love to hear them.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Trust the Lord

Trust the Lord PM2 
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding 
 
Please Lord, watch over my son until the day that I see him again
Form: Monoku

My Own Proverbs

"Do not preach to fight for the rights and freedom to the people when you hold a sword in your hand, it would take you nowhere other than to the hell." - Ravi Sathasivam
Form: Haiku

Webs

Horror yellows in vaults. The commonplace entertains the unspeakable. We have photographed every ghastly act. Pundits endlessly debate the proverbs of ancient spiders.

My Own Proverbs

" The blessings from God and all that he created are the foundations a country must build on. Only then that country and her people live in peace and harmony" - Ravi Sathasivam
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Trees of Life

Life-producing fruits bring forth trees of life*; I pray that God makes me such.

*Proverbs 11:30 “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.”

February 9, 2019
Form: Monoku

Proverbial Monoku

such plunder and tyrannic tutelage--a fraud, a fellowship's plague
08.17.18 Proverbs 22:7 The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Enough Is Enough

Why,why, the barren womb's cry
More water,sighs the earth,run dry;
The grave ever cries for more;
An unending roar,the fire's rampage
Give,give echos this pagan age !

Inspired by Proverbs 30 :15-17
Form: Verse

Premium Member Proverbs 7: 4, 5

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*Image of Proverbs 7:4-5, KJV Bible Quotes by ArtStation.

Proverbs 7: 4, 5

Counsel with the known women who careth for thee,
Avert from the unknown women who flattereth thee.

2019 May 29

Not In the Bible, Though -

God helps those who help themselves
Hidden here a kernel of truth: "no free lunch!"
But if I seek a shelter in real or fancied homelessness
"A stitch in time saves nine," - not my bikini (thanx a bunch)
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epigram

Tears

tears spurted out like arterial blood
tantalising cobwebs on the roof of flood
tearing hearts fed on love delivered
tangentially proverbs choked
halla lameni biscraho barassed
premas bulando keglig pharised
Form:

Premium Member Proverbial Monoku

Sanguine songs of summer drift on by
for foolish souls who laze away.

8-31-18

Proverbs 10:5 
He that gathereth in summer is a wise son, but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Murder By Tongue

A prattling tongue,
Is like a heat seeking missile,
Or ordnance of mass destruction,

It indiscriminately destroys,
And disables, with harsh words,

Those targets, who to it,
Are of no consequence;




Proverbs 17:4
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.

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