Short Reckoning Poems

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


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A day of reckoning

Karma suddenly dropped the other shoe
She bit off more that she could chew
Payback’s a b*tch when you’re a snitch
Categories: reckoning, judgement,
Form: Rhyme


Day of Reckoning

Tis his pity
Day of days to cry.
Day of reckoning that will be
When we all stand guilty
Before throne of mercy
Our eternal destiny
To decide
Is he.
Categories: reckoning, anniversary, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
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I'm Blessed

in the reckoning

            a multitude of blessings.....

i woke up today



Date written: 10/27/2019
Categories: reckoning, appreciation, blessing, life, me,
Form: Senryu
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O Dayton My Dayton

Memorial Day 
mother nature’s reckoning 
is gain worth such loss
de-constructing life with limb
Collision course toward ourselves











05/29/2021
Categories: reckoning, anxiety, death, memorial day, rain, weather, wind,
Form: Tanka

At the Witness Box

Ready Reckoning 		
                                               Water evaporates to........... 		
                                                 At the witness box
Categories: reckoning, introspection, passion,
Form: Haiku


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Reckoning

Redolent reverie
Rain-soaked in raspberry 
Roses most delicate
Runes woven from star seeds
Refulgent petals swirl 
Russet thorns of my heart
Regrets etched in kohl quartz
Categories: reckoning, color, deep, red, writing,
Form: Pleiades
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The Butterfly

And when the shadow of a large boot blotted out the sun
I then knew my final  day of reckoning was done

Now that I am on the other side
Free from pain and hurt I now reside
Categories: reckoning, death,
Form: Couplet

Day of Reckoning

The hours they pour
Grains spotlight each moment
That plundered a life
Then lied to deny

The hours pour down
And tides do reveal
The Judge sees the heart
Hidden from men
Categories: reckoning, imagery, judgement, spiritual, visionary, world,
Form: Imagism

Reckoning Storm

With eyes that see and ears that hear,
but hearts that look away

Each child unkept—all life bereft,
to rue these mournful days

(Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia: March, 2020)
Categories: reckoning, child,
Form: Rhyme

Dreamland

find yourself in whispered places,
the way out guarded by your own reckoning.
you bundle yourself in uncharted pleasures; the door is blocked you can't get out.
you don't really want to either.
Categories: reckoning, fantasy, imagination, loss
Form: I do not know?
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A Lovely Little Daydream

Floating between the cottony clouds 
Perception of the beloved
Lingers in the dreamer mind
Reckoning about sight
Deliriously 
Raising the hands
To caress
Simple
Dream







1-20-2017
Categories: reckoning, love,
Form: Nonet

Depressed and Stressed

Depressed and Stressed

Whatever I do seem to end up depressed;
Certain things about it must be stressed;
Always beckoning,
Day of reckoning;
Disasters are produced when poorly dressed.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reckoning, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
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The Heroes Quest

 Go you must when you Hear The Call
 know to Trust when you've blazed Afar,
 for you are The Hero, this Quest will Unveil it all
 have Faith in the Reckoning, the Quickening shall Quelch the Squalls
Categories: reckoning, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
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the ponding - a period of deconstruction: A Boketto Poetic Form

an artesian altar stocks moist manna seized in vast rounds twice arrested sights cascade moment instills reawakening a sheltered reckoning breathes no regrets prepped ascensions ~a ponder
© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reckoning, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character, imagery, meaningful, poems,
Form: Other
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Pirates

Pirates don't roam the open seas anymore They secretly pirate movies, that's bad to the core No conscience it seems They continue to stream Days of reckoning are coming, that's for damn sure
Categories: reckoning, corruption,
Form: Limerick

Shepherd's Watch

A voice for the voiceless
whose cry still unheard
Alone in the womb
but blessed by the Word

Defending the helpless
as murderers loom
Divinity watching
— a reckoning soon

(The New Room: April, 2024)
Categories: reckoning, abortion, birth, death, murder,
Form: Rhyme

Subliminal Ink

I refuse to remember
what I can never forget

Words lost to my memory,
lined deep with regret

The faster I write,
the deeper I hide

A reckoning hovers
—forgiveness denied

(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)
Categories: reckoning, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Hallows Keep

Precipitation, a drop of gold
Water pours down, almost tenfold
Standing in silence at hallows keep
Scarce crowds gather where families sleep
The silent reckoning of murdered smiles
As brave men lay, spread for miles
Categories: reckoning, death, deep, depression, emotions, poems, remember, war,
Form: Free verse
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Forever Free

  May America and Israel forever be free
    from sea to shining sea
       ~ of Nazis

  And should either country find itself drowning
    in an ocean of jackboots and hate
  May there be a reckoning and accounting
Categories: reckoning, america, freedom, international,
Form: Rhyme

Reckoning

Doors creak
Floors squeak
The heartbeat thuds again

Fingers itch
Mouths twitch
The door swings in the rain

Open gaping
All men calling
Come the judgements passed

One last step
Towards the brink
There is but one last chance
Categories: reckoning, education, school,
Form: Free verse

Haiku For Isidora's Moonlight Smoke:

A stellar pathway:
No rain in the sky to douse 
the moons umbrella.

Hoary puffs racing 
through glowing rings, while she smokes:
Lunar reckoning.

Coconut palms wave
their sleek fronds in the high wind:
Long midnight goodbyes.
Categories: reckoning, farewell, moon,
Form: Haiku

Tick, Tick, Tick

Knowing the answer,
excuses imbue

The right thing for others,
 never following through

A feigned double standard,
the past in pursuit

Reckoning scheduled
—payment en route

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
Categories: reckoning, truth,
Form: Rhyme

Admire What

You can't be just
An admirer
Of His sublimation
And yet,
But be the keeper'
Of His charge
Fore the reckoning
Of God is
Rearranged and preordained
With mere mercy
And mere mercy is the
Cantor of Thy Heart

         GF
Categories: reckoning, visionary
Form: Light Verse

Eternity Waits

Wrestling in heaven,
  two Archangels beset

An arm bar on hell,
  to the devils regret

Scepters now grapple,
  as eternity waits

One rule to pin down,
—a reckoning at stake

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Categories: reckoning, heaven, strength,
Form: Rhyme
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Soul Changing Moments

What day will we know
how adorable we are?
What second will we feel our own shining star?

Will the instant of reckoning be obvious
Or just one of those almost forgotten seconds?
We did not realize was soul-changing until years later?
Categories: reckoning, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Free verse
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