Short Relics Poems

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


Premium Member Idols

Grand basilicas
built to papal false idols
of graven image -
to apostate relics from
pagan Rome and Babylon!
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Alligatorinae

Scaled relics of time Ancient reptilian living fossils The Alligator http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/nature4.php
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Tangibles

What’s hiding in the attic
Nothing but dusty boxes of sentimental relics
~ past I can’t let go



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 3rd place 2025
Form: Other

Premium Member Sketches From the Past

postcards tattered relics soft paragraphs wailing faint memoirs languishingly dampened... boneless
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Form: Cinquain

Premium Member Mood Swings Flotsam Jetsam

Listen to poem:
Each dawn's debris sort of wreckage from day before yields jetsam just junked and flotsam break-up relics. On the beach who can tell which?
Form: Tanka


My Chest Is Double Crossed

My chest is double crossed
To defend from demons
A heart protected from evil
Is another life saved by Him
And two radiant relics
Keep me safe
On the Devil’s Earth
Form:

Premium Member The Drink That Divides Us

Bailey's Irish Cream, a delicacy
  Perfect for old country relics, you see
    Joe Biden would take a sip
    Or an elongated nip
  If it weren't for his 'white supremacy'
Form: Limerick

Regret

Bonfires of instruments play faded relics
of song.
Hungry enough to steal,fingers beg,know longer
do they hold a lover or hope.
I am a disfigured statue vandalized by currency
of regret.

But a Beggar

You see a wall,
where I see a door

You are imprisoned,
I am implored

You spend your fortune
on relics that burn

I, but a beggar
—last verse heaven earned

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

Holy Relics

R ead into what you will
E ntrusted into a religion
L acking proper understanding
I mplicating sinners into false saints
C onflicting souls one at a time, what do you really believe if not in me
Form: Acrostic

Time

TIME passes timepieces sundials, water clocks known relics of past time timers supplant the hourglass “I-phones put the wristwatch on hold.”
revised June 21, 2014, Spring Equinox.
Form: Verse

Take Me 3

Our love is like a pilot light
Burning long, burning bright
But if that light beomes erratic 
And gas leaks out into my attic
The compresser on my fridge turns on
 Bam! the relics of my life are gone

Thus Passes By the Glory of the World

Relics, relics sad and lone,
Cromwell's head and a single bone
that William the Conqueror left on earth
prove today of petty worth.
Oh that now those proud in  power
knew the shortness of their hour.

Life

As the ocean's anchors - hold the relics old
time engulfs life's sphere - to seize
generation's gold
murkiness of sea - may well
mark the moments slight
oh, but nothing can blot out
the brilliance of the light
© Katy Weir  Create an image from this poem.

Springtime Sapphic Stanza

Leaning pine trees yearn for the open coastline,
needles pointing far and away from vernal
bondage. Left with relics of restless newborn
butterfly's cloister.


for Craig Cornish's 
"Sapphic Stanza Number Three" Contest

Premium Member Relics

Read,
escape;
Then share it;
That adventure 
will last for all time;
Before bed give daydreams,
feast on relics from the past;
Passed to the next generation
a gifted storyteller wields the 
mystery and magic of evening tales.
Form: Etheree

Geschichte/History/ Historia

Geschichte zum Anfassen
Geborgen aus dem Kern der Erde
Relikte des Vergangenen



Living history
Recovered  from the core of the earth
Relics of the past



Historia viva 
Salvado del  núcleo de la tierra
Relictos del pasado
Form: Senryu

Rogue Ravens

Rabid, renegade ravens, rise.
Relishing rancid refuse; repugnant.
'Round rural relics, resounding ruthless retorts.
Retrieving realm revelations.
Rival reckonings; regimes ruptured.
Repent! Release. Repeat..
Reconcile. Rejoice. Retreat.
© Talia Hill  Create an image from this poem.

Caesars Time

Standing by the colosseum
Is the time of the last persecution
When the houses of Caesar
call out for revenge
Byzantine highways have lost their sheen
thwarted tall ships fall
and trumpets sound
relics of soldiers roam
you walk to your fate alone

Premium Member When Revealed Again

Withering winter 
will fold away 
like relics of old
smashed flat 
inside a musty 
static suitcase,
stacked under 
chaotic blunders 
of wonder.
These photos 
and notes 
unknown for 
ticking moments
will be 
as chilling as 
a blizzard wind 
when revealed again.

12-8-2020

Premium Member Shells and Ruins

But what of shells and ruins
The stories they hold
In silence they ponder
The truths of the past

And what of echoed voices
Do they tell what will be
Friend or foe
Piercing the wind

I also ponder the truth 
As I stand among the relics
And beseech the looking glass 
To speak to me

Mountain Fountain

Up the mountain
The forest hides a fountain
Escape the summer madness, 
In cool shade

Ice cold water
Glides through my fingers
Senses awake
A gushing melody Under Ottoman shapes

There's light on the surface
Even oppressors
Leave relics to impress us
This oasis of calmness sedates
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Turin

I bought the shroud of Turin
the vatican had a sale
they have legal expenses
and priests that needed bail.

It was just an old dusty cloth
so I put it in the wash
that Tide detergent, never fails
all the smudges and stuff washed off.

don’t get excited, i was raised a catholic
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Where, Oh Where Has My Little Mind Gone

I think I lost it...
Has anyone seen my mind?
Must of wandered off...

I'll check lost and found
The last time I lost my mind
It played hide and seek

I last found my mind
Hold up in an old Junk Trunk
Sorting memories...

A box of clutter
Relics that remain after
We've faded away...
Form: Haiku

An Epitaph For Arlington

Beneath this green and grassy field
Whence ghosts of heroes past doth shield;
Lie noble relics of flesh and bone,
To each bequeathed a marble stone.
And as you walk amongst  the rows
May you learn what each one here knows;
O that freedom should not be lost,
All who lie here have paid the cost.
Form: Epitaph

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