Short Reacting Poems

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


Premium Member pulse of the wild

the couple no longer heard the music
bodies knew what to do,
they were undressing each other with their eyes
unaware of anyone else,
reacting to pulse of the wild


Premium Member Happiness

Be yourself
Enchant from a distance

Have a true dream
Avoid ghoulish competition
Passion in anything
Past lessons learned before reacting
Yes, it’s only beautiful if it’s different…
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Concerns of Mine

A big concern during excavations
from granite hillsides is just
keeping limited mishaps near
observed palladium quantities,
reacting swiftly to utility vehicles
wanting X-rays yields zeroed.
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Grasshopper Wild

your green twitching legs
making music in the grass
not so silently

pinging out at me
and sticking to my shoulder
reacting too late

dive into the grass
your enormous hiding place
i smile at your stealth
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Saturate

Let me take you by your hand, lead us to our ending.
A place where we can embrace, released from company.
Where our DNA would saturate, slowly mixed together.
A reaction worth reacting to, long-standing urgency.
© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Sensory Overload

cut off
deprived

magnetized
sensitized

to crave
desire

ache
the longing

touching
caressing

skin tingling
reacting

sensations
heightened

devouring
sole passion



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Premium Member Lion and Lamb of Myself

The lion in me wants to roar my truth
tearing the invaders apart with her teeth and claws
the lamb in me holds back.
reluctant to show her hooves,
knowing the value of being understated
and waiting before reacting
I hear the lion roar.

Facades Fading In the Mirror

Artifice-cultivation 
Cracking pitches, up at bat
Impactful, this journey to fame
Reacting, claims to my own name
Control, my poison cup

So let go as follows
untying the knot
Wading through crystal water
Unearthed root systems 
Free, complete

Premium Member Fireworks

We all grieve in our own little way but this was a bit unusual Fireworks a wife put in her late husband's pockets were really beautiful A heart-felt display A loving gesture I'd say Maybe reacting harshly but they had problems irrefutable
Form: Limerick

Premium Member D a N G E R

Did he have to toss me out here? 
Alleys are not comfortable places to be dumped off.
Noting a bad feeling, I keep my mace close. 
Gory things happen to those who are unaware. 
Even if I cannot see someone, I sense them. 
Reacting to my fear, I keep my back bristled.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Haversack Hope

Haversack hopes bring bitter crack
Next to nothing is brought back

Recalled promises all are lacking 
Adding nothing but subtracting 

Public messages are attacking 
Better dreams start retracting

The finish line is protracting 
People gather and start reacting
Form: Rhyme

Filler

This is 
not a world for me.
I am no
good for it.
First of all,
I can't be young again

and can't 
hope. I miss
hoping.
Stand around
in the market
useless in my space

reacting to the
pardon me
of those who seek
what they need.
They are the pleasant ones
who smile in their waiting.

Premium Member Shock and Awe

shock 
                       electric, astound 
           zapping, traumatizing, reacting 
 speechlessness, surprise, spellbound, thrill 
           bedazzling, gaping, impressing 
                     majestic, awestruck,
                                   awe


Date written: 06/06/2023
Form: Diamante

Multiple Sclerosis

Memory Loss
Urinary problems
Losing vision
Thinking difficulties
Individual weakness
Painful moments
Losing balance
Extreme fatigue

Stress induced
Coordination problems
Life altering
Emotional rollercoaster
Reduced strength
Over reacting
Smell sensitivity
Irritable feelings
Suffering daily
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Firefly

FIREFLY

      Luciferin in
      abdomen of a firefly
      reacting with air
      forming warm glow of glowworm.
       Firefly without any fire.


      03/14/22

                         First Place

    Firefly Tanka
Contest by.        JCB Brul


Bite size poem no.44
Contest by Line Gauthier
Form: Tanka

Start

Sometimes I drive to work
listening to nothing except tires rolling
and air conditioning blowing,
few thoughts since I got out of bed,
just reacting to the world and road,
can feel brain shrinking, no heavy load,
no heartache or pain, worries that clatter,
even my duties ahead don’t matter,
till I park, and the day shifts to start.
© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Zen Mode

witnessing without reacting
in as if a response arises
it is simply noticed
as a nonevent
a mere wave
appearing in mind
or felt within our body
both of which we are not
thus void-centric is our stance 
an ever present stillness continuum 
moment to moment in time thus
treading mindfully on earth
leaving no residue

17-April-2023

Poet's Confinement

The poet’s heart so solitary
Never to be understood
It bleeds with ink, fluidity
Releasing as it should
Others can not grasp the beat
Nor, can they tame the pace
Reacting as if faced with fear
Yet, not wanting it replaced
For in the heart there lies the truth
The poet’s artistic way
A quality so loved by all
Understood? No, not today.

Otherwise It's a Burden

She, life, is for living her, 
not for thinking her,
you have to forget yourself,
gliding in personal and 
societal  avenues, 
acting and reacting 
attracting and rejecting 
forgetting where and when 
was the start 
and where and when
it's the end. 
Live it like it's eternal,
die tomorrow but today 
plan what to do
the day after tomorrow.
Form: Prose

My Own Scars

No one is reacting as dramatically as me.

Because no one is struggling as dramatically as me. 

Some unspecified illness-

To them is not real. 

Maybe they are not conscious of their callousness. 

But it still feels like I must reach a crisis for action to be taken. 

Whether the guilt falls on me or them-

They will still be my own scars.

Puckered

puckered
i like your shapely legs
your thighs are awesome
so muscular

your pek pek shorts hug you
as i want to do
me naked

my body reacting to you
i want to be there
between your thighs

to explore you baby
i love you and your legs

from  F*cking Upside Down In a Blazing Avro Manchester Bomber – Poems from My Life and More 

Nick Armbrister

Premium Member Reacting To Aphrodite

Stunned by her beauty, our tongues would not work
We could not stop staring, she was a flaming goddess
A princess, a queen, the quintessential woman
We admired her from afar, afraid to get closer.

Her beauty might dazzle our eyes out.
Who is she? I asked, when I regained my speech.
Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty and passion.
Validation that I was not overreacting.

Justice and Talking






                                         Justice
                            Subjective, questionable 
                          Building, creating, reacting 
                Colony, anger, happiness, perspective 
                        Identifying, acting, laughing
                             Cumbersome, vocal
                                          Talking
© Trish Fern  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Diamante

Explosive

Insurmountable These feelings seem to overpower As your breath seduces me Calls to me Excites the very part of me That seems to always seek more And needs more I am enamored Brilliantly blinded by beauty Sensually, silently seduced Reacting quietly, yet fervently Heated to reactive tendencies Letting my mind erupt in fantasy As thought turns to reality

Premium Member Terrified of Medications

I am scared of medications
They terrify me
because of the effects
they have on me

They rarely do what
is expected,
and almost never do
what they do for others,
for me

Because I have the
dubious talent of
not reacting to
medications in 
expected
or usual
ways

Pills that
knock three hundred
pound men out for
seventeen hours
keep me wide awake
for seventy-two hours.

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