Short Retro Poems

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


Premium Member Retro-File

Signs
buildings
words in space-
fill his artists
book

Ed Ruscha (b 1937) famed for 're-inventing' the artists book
Form: Ekphrasis


Premium Member London Town: Brick Lane

graffiti stares
and retro drips
beneath the 
shoreditch sky

like those who watch
 - between their sips
the world and
us go by.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Retro-reflection and Afterglow

Is knowing what's known
enough, or must you know it
beyond the pretense
to feelings and perception ~
with bright light glow in its shine
Form: Tanka

Temptation, Vade Retro

o temptation
         ó glamor
         enticement !
        By God or 
        devil I beg;
        proceed in peace 
        or Vade retro   !!!

Premium Member Rave

A rusty old retro vintage bubblegum drop machine
Positioned next to me as I am seeing above me
Spherical lightbulbs and strobelights of flashing rainbow colours.
Form: Sijo


Premium Member Hard Judgments Calls

HARD JUDGMENTS CALLS

everything pure at heart
retro brand new start
can we all be a part
in judgments hard as rocks


05/16/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr. 
2018©

Premium Member Dateline

There once was a young boy named Gideon He lived on the dateline meridian He flew east each night To get yesterday right We'll call him a retro-quotidian?
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Retro

Retro

Last fall I took time watching a falling leaf,

Underneath it was something like my name

When I could clearly see,it became another name

I took the leaf and head back home in disbelief

Premium Member I Love Lucy

The fifties brought on dazzling star Lucille
Zany and bubbly she was ideal 
O like no other sitcom
Pure entertainment for Mom
Laughing at each week's new crazy ordeal



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Originally posted on February 1, 2019
Form: Limerick

Premium Member CONTEMPRISTA koons tombley

CONTEMPORISTA koons tombley
imagination
  personified
in
  One
    to One
left - field
             e g o
   extravaganzas
retro
random
 improvisations
realised
  ambivalent
tensed dialectical
diatribes
  defying
    descriptive
critique
art
Form: Didactic

Childhood Retro

When I was a child
I like to go outside of the house
Because staying at home is boring
Growing up, I like to go back home
Because life outside is boring. 

If I could go back the past 
Once in my life
I would like to have
An innocent childhood life
Back then.

menage a trois

.

                     in retro
                      'spect
                         no
              mine would have
                      wait'd

                     not me
                        or i






*ménage à trois...
     ^       ^
  PS allowz not "special
  characters" in title
Form: Epigram

Robust Remembrance

Rivers rinse rocky riches
Rockets race revolutionary reaches
Rudeness rusts royal rewards
Righteousness reflects real ranks
Radios recreate retro refreshments
Relaxations restart revolting ranges
Roadways route routine regulations
Rational rage renders realisations
Restaurants reap ripe reviews
Readers remember robust resources.
Form: Rhyme

Life Is Misty

The road ahead seemed so bright,
then i woke up the sun upsurged over the horizon,
My feet excited and tingling to run outside the fields ,
The air unblemished the morning is fresh and full of life,
The birds dance retro with hope and bliss in there smiles.
Life is misty full of intent , my mind contemplates as the morning recommence.
Form: ABC

Retro - the Ever Fashionable Oppression of Women

A modern trimming,
Grin and bear it.
The slap of a buckle,
Reminiscent of the squeeze.
Laces bloodied,
From a prayer of acceptance.
Breathing is optional.

The shove to a corner,
Start early for pattern recognition,
Bind the idea prematurely.
Numbed pain,
Limited motion.
Embrace wind through the long locks,
It's only an illusion of progression.

Vision of the Fall

Visions of Usher,
Seven rooms with which flesh dwells
As reddened as a

Retro rocket ship.
Party to end all parting,
Macabre essence 

Is all prevailing. 
The mayhem of ring-a-rose
Maddened stares. I sit
 
Alone in green sin 
When Death travels amongst us,
All that can be done

Is find the culprit
And grovel to the void face 
Of my own doing.
Form: Elegy

C-O-U-R-T-N-E-Y

Cry ‘en out runty Court, corny core country coon unroot. Ornery, yet not your crony too. Uncute nut one rut —or cooter coroner. Neo coy Cure concert tune crooner. Once retro eye toy, no contour nor couture. Enter unto none true outer nurture. Run or not— yet outrun no one.
August 8, 2019 Anagrammatic Poem

Retro

“I’m not old – I’m retro”
Says the sign that looks antique.
I bought it ‘cause I liked 
Its sassy message, tongue-in-cheek.

But really, who embraces old
Or elderly or aged?
Why, even senior can be wrong
When someone’s years are gauged.

So I will stick with retro
‘Cause it sounds so cool and hip.
Come join my Retro club – 
It’s an exclusive membership!
age
Form: Rhyme

Girdles and Garters

A museum exhibit
Showed 200 years
Of clothing for women
In varied careers.

It also had items
To wear in the home – 
The aprons and housecoats
Not oft in a poem.

The garters and girdles
Made us reminisce
About underwear parts
Not one woman would miss.

Certain styles have evolved
While some retro ones last,
But I’m happy some things
Have remained in the past.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Vibrant Rumors

July evening sun was setting, red and yellow,
Upon the beautiful skies, like the sun's echo!
Goldfinch was singing, in a sweet rapid tempo,
As red carnations bloomed, like a day in retro.

The skies were wine, when moon began to shine,
And purple finch sang, a song to his valentine,
In the evening's calm, in fragrant lilac times,
A world turned surreal, with rumors of divine.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Threads

Box up my gift to the world,
release the fun and frolic;
The inner child who is lost,
set her free to open up;
Let the ribbon fall apart,
unleashing silken flowers;
Watch as the colors blossom;

Threads dissipate to poems,
a lexicon avant garde; 
Delicate words join and soar
changing culture’s migration;
Retro reminder of joy,
the power of innocence;
Box up my gift to the world.

Jekyll and Hyde

His infant's recurring childhood dreams...
Nightmares while running through the streets
Pitch black her sky; these fields their scenes ?
Half a century passed still turning pages to his haunting's
Truth foreboding it's images ? Silhouetted, of silent screams
Standing at life's window, Prophetic, and a baby's tears crying..
In retro these revelations but no one could hear ? Gazing into this glass.
Form:

Premium Member Me (Or Francine)

Friendly and witty, at least in my mind.
Rock and classical, my music combined.
Artistic and creative, when I want to be.
No longer dependant, happy to be free.
Casual and retro, my chosen form of dress.
Insecure at times, not fond of stress.
Need personal space, probably too much.
Enjoys being single, but misses someone's touch.





For "Forms of Poetry 101" contest.
Form is "Name"
Francine Roberts
Form: Name

American Graffiti

Iniquities vertical archways 
Traversing twilights retro
Drafted abysmal shadows
Aneath the roses bush...
Coloured acrylic murals 
Acidics transcending 
Medievils vague ambulant 
Abstract mystique ?
Embellished cerium 
Charcoals as that of gothics 
In vitro; masque'd
Achromatic architectural 
Envisioned designs...
Gomorrah's holistic 
Gargoyles; a black plagues 
Overture amid, Nefarious
Nepenthes, garden of her eden.

America Graffiti

Iniquities vertical archways 
Traversing twilights retro
Drafted abysmal shadows
Aneath the roses bush...
Coloured acrylic murals 
Acidics transcending 
Medievils vague ambulant 
Abstract mystique ?
Embellished cerium 
Charcoals as that of gothics 
In vitro; masque'd
Achromatic architectural 
Envisioned designs...
Gomorrah's holistic 
Gargoyles; a black plagues 
Overture amid, Nefarious
Nepenthes, garden of her eden.
Form:

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