Short Reader Poems

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


Premium Member mystical palm reader

keen orphic reader
cabalistic tendencies
mystical and keen

enigmatic strong
a master of the occult
lively prophecies
Form: Senryu


A Vain Request

Pain is much too personal for verse,
Don’t curse
The reader with your anger-anguished words.
Rhyme flowers, sun and birds.
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

A Poet's Ambition

The poet's task is simple, noble and bold
For the poem need only hold open a door
long enough to allow the reader to escape
Form: Tristich

Pace

Not all meaning of a poet
Paces form his inner
To the reader of his words
Some stay in its right place
In between his arms.

Transition's Town

Many worms becoming wonders
And the fragile becoming agile
The reader s becoming leaders,
Join the train to transition’s town
Form: Verse


Premium Member Clerihew Marvel

Engish poet Andrew Marvell
passionate words the erotic did sell
In expansive metaphysical conceit
the reader so often did meet
Form: Clerihew

Up To the Reader

it's up to the reader to offer life
to my hardworking pure verse
if today I live as distant poet
my amicable poetry is at sight

Untitled #256 / Less and More

More scrawny, more quiet
longer hair, less homework
less liberal, more open
more listening, better
writer
reader
liver
lover?

Short Simple Write

simple but not stolen
nor AI nor chattering nor gossip
respect the reader time
I love short simple poems,
and writes that's right
Form: Prose

Intelligent Reader

I-ntelligent
R-eader
I-s
S-eeing
H-armony

U-nder
Y-ou

Topic: Birthday of Irish M. Uy (April 24) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Word Master - Tanka

behold me, reader,
riding your dreams in the night,
melting into lust...
i am the scent of the words
spreading all over your tongue...
Form: Tanka

A Reader

he reads aloud
his voice clear and expressive - -
the book shakes *

*An observation at a writers’ group

For Susan’s senyru contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member It Is So Humorous

Your poem is so humorous a reader says.
Surprising me indubitably.
I did not expect that in my head.
When I penned it for others to see.

Premium Member The Magic Book

A reader devout -
inquisitively I sit.
Page two. . . stars leap out!
Another page . . .  I turn it.
Like magic, butterflies flit.
Form: Verse

Reader of Note

R-eader
O-f
N-ote
A-dvances

P-oem
U-sing
N-oble
O-bjective

Topic: Birthday of Rona F. Puno (June 08) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Western Decadence and Debauchery

Putin's banned
                  ~ Walt Disneyland



  When the title is longer than the poem,
    the discriminating reader forgoes 'em
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Clerihew Blake

Multi-gifted William Blake
poetry&art he would never forsake
He made his collection in illuminated print
thus the reader had no need to squint
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Men really are from Mars

he warns he's not a mind reader
as the wiles of my silent treatment
fall by the wayside wasted and utterly forlorn 


AP: 2nd place 2025

Bishu

Big man
International poet
So cool mind person
Hearty writer friendly reader
Unique man and very lovely friend!

Bishu is his pen name.
Form: Acrostic

Poetic Play

A composer uses a play of words
That just makes the reader really enjoy;
Every line is as frolic as a toy,
The melody is like the song of birds.

Revelations

Every poem tells a story… To the reader And of the poet It’s revelatory, this little story… Yet both reader and poet Seldom know it!
Form: Limerick

Reader of Excellent Line

R-eader
O-f
E-xcellent
L-ine

S-till
A-llows
N-ame
T-o
O-pen
S-oul

Topic: Birthday of Roel Santos (May 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Let Expression Amaze Reader

L-et
E-xpression
A-maze

R-eader
A-s
M-essage
O-ffers
S-weetness

Topic: Birthday of Lea N. Ramos (January 01) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Eyes of Reader

L-iterary
E-xpression
O-pens

R-eader's
E-yes
Y-early
E-asing
S-oul

Topic: Birthday of Leo A. Reyes (October 08) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member We Say Too Much

I think the greatest
flaw as writers is
our tendency to say
too much--
for the reader
not only participates
with his mind
but also 
with his heart….

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