Short Refrain Poems

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


Premium Member Sunday Birds

Sunday birds up early, brightly singing,
               resurrecting their refrain -
            releasing Sabbath rest
Form: Kimo


Premium Member Needle Now

My life 
My lust
For her
And her bust
Made me cave
From all the 
Love I gave
Needle now
Not the same
Dare I refrain
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Ticking Away

A clock ticks away all its life
Unknown to the world outside
Does it like its refrain?
Our does it think it's all in vain?

Passion Released

The chorus unleashed
  all heavens refrain

The passion released
  —again and again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Not With Fanfares

O
that I
will give thanks-
this poet's refrain,
again,again and again.

This resolution inspired by Ps 107: v8; v21; v 32
Form: Bio


Cold as Ice

Why is my name blue
on your lips? You cry it to
The heavens--silence!
If I am your refrain, let
My name burn as cold as ice!
© Uncle Bob  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Encounter An American Cinquain

Poems
in shapely form,
displaying syllables
or stresses in a versatile
refrain.

Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007
Form: Cinquain

Premium Member Money Can'T Buy Love

amongst the eulogies so fine

this refrain....prompted by the divine


Saturday reflection II enroute to a trip along the Thames

Premium Member Words

writing
~beginning, end
lyrical longings wail
effervescent vowels rise high 
refrain

Poet:D. Guzzi
Contest: Melody of Cinquain
Form: Cinquain

A Smoldering Refrain

Straddling the candle,
too close to the flame

A fiery benediction
—a smoldering refrain

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

A Smoldering Refrain

Straddling the candle,
too close to the flame

A fiery benediction
—a smoldering refrain

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Loves Refrain

The tree bears our names

Deep are the initials carved

A heart and arrow

Forever it will remain

So long after loves refrain...
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Zen mode

the universe bestows mantras on us
which reverberates within our core
the cosmic refrain plays by itself
without our seeking an encore
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Distant Thunder

rain steals the morning,
 falling in degrees of gray 
 staining misty sighs
 with hues of melancholy,
 drifting with  thunder's refrain
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Put It All Together

Arrangements of words can exist  
So limericks end with a twist
This jolt to the brain
Is the final refrain
Of a punch line not to be missed
Form: Limerick

A Smoldering Refrain

Straddling the candle,
  too close to the flame

A fiery benediction,
 —a smoldering refrain

(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Thought of the day

soul’s spontaneity holds not onto
imagery evanescent manifest
ever changing refrain of joy retrains
enjoying earth life fest in light jest
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Rocking Robins - Ah

raucous red robins
rocking, rolling, ring refrain ~
redwood ricochet

2/26/23
Contest: Alliterku Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina
Form: Haiku

Russia Refrain

The Russians have made it quite plain
Life is something that they disdain
They plan to destroy
Every girl and boy
In Syria and the Ukraine!
Form: Limerick

Sorrow

Sorrow is a dark well; 
Each drop dripping,
Echoing throughout, 
With the surety of a church bell,
Through its delicate refrain,
Instant Pain...
Form:

Vatican Express

An excited priest on the train
Was found rubbing against the grain
"You need a giraffe
To service that staff"
Some Sisters laughed in refrain
Form: Limerick

Musical Lobotomy

If I could purge
that part of my brain
that stores pain,
 
I would replace it 
with a soothing refrain;
Bach, Beethoven
 
or simply rain…
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Brain Control

Some people don't give a flip
About what passes their lip
They really should refrain
From by-passing their brain.

written July 8, 2021

Premium Member If Ideas Grew Wild

If ideas grew wild like weeds
    We'd curse each one that impedes

  So, I vow to refrain as if 'tis decreed
    No more wild ideas shall I seed
Form: Couplet

Premium Member To a Wife

Softer than the summer rain

Are your kisses refrain,sweet-heart

Inspired by Amy Lowell's 'To A Husband'


http://brianspoetrybio.blogspot.com
Form: Imagism

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