Short Sestina Poems

Short Sestina Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short Sestina poems by PoetrySoup poets. Search the short Sestina poetry form by poem length and keyword.


Family Affair

Family Affairs 

Uxorious 
Devotion to wife 
Dotingly
Submissive 
Sounds like a serious offence 
In the dictionary
Categories: family,
Form: Sestina


Sad Sextet

Sad Sextet. 


Rainy day 
Wet dog on pavement 
Looking in
Seeing me
Sit by the cosy fireside 
Ignoring its plight.
Categories: animals,
Form: Sestina

Dream What May Come

Dream what may come
Recalling past lives lived
Every fantasy comes to life
All night long 
More nightmares to come
So many worlds to explore
© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: age, allegory, dream,
Form: Sestina

Pro Choice Without a Voice

My seed, I must admit I never even once wanted
Sitting unreallisticaly, at a doctors office
Waiting for my name to be called and to terminate this
Categories: death, life, people, sad, social
Form: Sestina

Love Sestet

you walked out of my dreams
into my life that day
the day that changed my life
when you became my wife
and filled my life with love
that date I met true love
© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: how i feel, love, lust,
Form: Sestina


An Unhidden Reality

I hate my deeds & 
everbody hates me
It's a fact and I know it
I am a burden so heavy 
I am a curse so dark
I am a person , i'hv bones
Not just a reason to 
throw stones
Categories: depression, grief,
Form: Sestina

The Poetry Type

Happy birthday, Sister Gina, 
Poets write in many a form; 
The poetry type Sestina 
Lets writers brilliantly perform. 

Topic: Birthday of Sister Gina V. Castillo (March 17)
Categories: sestina, birthday,
Form: Quatrain
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Sestina

Sestina’s are skillful
Select a subject scene
Six lines per six stanza’s
Simple three lined envoi
Stressed and unstressed meter
Structure your sentences
Sequence strategic schemes
Categories: sestina, poems,
Form: Pleiades

Will It

Will I ever know how to write
Will you ever know what I wrote
When I was idolized and free to write?
Will it ever come to be eternally
That in the grave fore I lie
In the world I never die?
Categories: absence, anniversary, art,
Form: Sestina

September 7, 1982

September 7, 1982
a date I shall always remember
 for on that date, I met my fate
 for eight years 
 I dreamt of meeting her
then she walked into my life.

six lines 
bite size poetry contest
© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fate, feelings, first love, magic, marriage, romantic,
Form: Sestina

As the Danger So the Savior

Though the attackers are many in number
The escaper is courageous and clever
So the attackers have failed to harm that
The escaper has befooled them in fact
Though the danger is dense and severe
The Strategic Manager is called the Savior.
Categories: dark, light,
Form: Sestina

Be Zealous By Patriotic Zeal

If patriotism really is in brain and mind
All superstitions, crimes instantly go out
Let's grow there the great patriotic zeal
And we do never ourselves lively kill
Real patriotism makes us really great
Fake one makes narrow and hypocrite.
Categories: patriotic,
Form: Sestina

La Doncella Oscilante

The winter stood amaze,
As the summer set the atmosphere a-blaze.
The swaying maiden is found in nought,
For the scorching sun had with it fought.

All dawn does the sun arrives early,
And the lady could no longer tarry.
      18:01:12:22:37
Categories: allegory,
Form: Sestina

Tree and Me

Sitting under a tree, old and grey
No flowers to bloom, leaves falling down
Birds desert the nests, no one to play around
The clouds are around, they hold no charm
Gave shade to many, no one to shade us
Waiting to fall one day, are we made for each other?
Categories: introspection, life, nature, sad
Form: Sestina

A Sestina Is Order and Scramble

A
sestina
is
order
and
scramble.

Scramble
a
and
sestina
order
is.

Is
scramble
order
a
sestina
and?

And
is
sestina
scramble
a
order?

Order
and
a
is
scramble
sestina.

Sestina
order
scramble
and
is
a.

And order.
Is scramble
a sestina?
Categories: confusion, poetry,
Form: Sestina

Two Stars In a Child's Future

Choosing a faithful woman to fulfill this fate
to bring forth a baby with a loud scream;
sweet cry so innocent piercing air and soul,
touch him tenderly: he is the fruit of our seed!
May his faith shed light on doubt and darkness...
let's hope that his deeds and words will be fine.
Categories: character, child, hope, love, pride,
Form: Sestina
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Appearance Without An Opposite

Appearance w/o an Opposite..

Oppositions

We observe today with expectation

In that stretch of the future..

But in a new time..as time is exposed

Oppositions are also exposed..and the

Seamless sounds..quivering and revealing:

Appearances..beauty expressing

Nothing at all..
Categories: happy, meaningful, mystery, uplifting, voyage,
Form: Sestina

Sorrow Hidden In Wealth

What is wealth without happiness?
Mansions that allow them to sleep in different rooms,
Expensive cars that allow them not to travel together,
Chef meals that allow them not to cook for each other,
For it's very much possible for wealth to hide deep sorrows,
As naked happiness lies in the poor!
Categories: africa, happiness,
Form: Sestina

Thinning Hair

Despair...
limp hair
falling:
screaming!
A cure...
for sure?

Quick-fix...
Rogaine!
Who laughs?
Who cares!
I'm young,
not old!
  
Ladies
notice...
dark suit,
white shirt:
free-way 
to joy!

All stare...
fanfare:
not hot
to perk?
Petty...
not me!


Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci
Categories: funny
Form: Sestina

Butterfly

Butterfly

{Sestet}
Sep 11, 2017• By daniel miltz •

A splendid butterfly, floated out there 
I stood there frozen, watching, winging flight
Gazing its beauty, then onto the air
Its rippled wings, shivered ever so bright
I couldn't allow it, be out of my stare
While looking at such beautiful invite
Categories: butterfly,
Form: Sestina

In Beauty

To live in beauty is to flower the heart
To walk in beauty is to blossom the being from start 
To truth in beauty is to think positive thoughts abound
To see in beauty is to view it all around
To pleasure in beauty is to exalt the spirit 'n mind
To define in beauty is to shape, color, form, sight combined
Categories: beauty,
Form: Sestina

Sestina

I have cat that wakes me.
At night when she wants a pet
She determines when it's time.

Why does she choose the time?
I'd like that time to be chosen by me.
When I have to pet.

A cat that determines when it's time to pet.
I think she thinks she owns me.
I think she owns everyone's time.

She does own me cause I pet her on her time.
Categories: cat, cat, time,
Form: Sestina
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Bowling Fun

BOWLING FUN

Bowling can be fun
But – ball in
gutter?
Ball point reaches
pins

12 strikes – perfect
game
No strikes – dirty,
rotten shame
Ha, ha, aint this
fun?

Have another beer
When you can see
twenty pins
Bowling can be fun

My wife has beat me
She only weighs
one-twenty
Bowled her weight
plus ten



      .
Categories: humorous,
Form: Sestina

Class Divide

Poor  men  with  wealthy  lives  are  low  dead
Dead  and  poor  low  mens  lives  were  wealthy 
Wealthy  dead  with  lives  poor  were  low  men
Low  and  wealthy  men  had  dead  poor  lives
Lives  low  remembering  poor  wealthy  dead  men
Wealthy  lives  are  dead  those  low  poor  men
Poor  lives  are  dead  those  low  wealthy  men
© Zack Dicks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, political, men,
Form: Sestina

October Moon

Beneath moon shadows.
Elwood's room looks like an owl's moon.
Owl's nest has curled around the clock, knotted lost tick tock.
Trick or treat is catching up with the clock.
It's quite clear now strawberry snail is on paper with it's appetite,
to eat of this tale.


08-13-21, Bite Size Poem No 17 Poetry Contest.
Sponser Line Gauthier.
© Kathy Bahr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: autumn,
Form: Sestina
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