Short Sixteen Poems

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


Premium Member It Happened One Rainy Night Continued

Just a maid & just sixteen
a serving girl  a go-between
upstairs and downstairs  her  scene
was true  love  to intervene?
Form: Quatrain


Half Open Red Rose

sweet sixteen
                                            half open red rose
                                                 lover's gift
Form: Haiku

Premium Member colors of tree

a leaf is sixteen colors of green
often unseen, often unseen
bark of her tree is several colors too
my artistic eyes surmises brown and blue
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member November Birthday

sweet sixteen confident expectancy on coming of age oblivious to life’s fruit turning sour - - - - - - - - - - -
Form: Ninette

Premium Member Pulled From My Arms

 
Had a baby at sixteen: was told he was adopted. I spent years searching for him, but, mom and dad lied to me, the baby had died.
Form: Verse


Premium Member Best Day When You Are Sixteen

A delightful day
Walking talking and flirting
Seeing his eyes for first time
Close and personal
Dazzling with intensity
Best day ever for sixteen
Form: Cinqku

Premium Member The Rain Shadow

Pacific winds blow over Olympic mountains rain shadow of Sequim sixteen inches the year’s rain Seattle gets two hundred 12/1/2021
Form: Tanka

Hug Tree

that old olive tree
over sixteen hundreds years 
what a lovely tree!


In Salento peninsula which is part of Puglia, Italy. One of its names is Hug Tree.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member do not text and drive

Foolhardy sixteen-year-old driver Jay
Risked his life to show off for a friend
Felt invincible every single given day
Until his life came to a crashing end
car
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Des Moines Rumble

During the famous Des Moines rumble
Sixteen boys landed in a giant jumble
No one bragged for they were horribly humble
Soccer ball was lost in this mad fumble
Form: Monorhyme

The Midnight Hour

Sixteen hours ahead of time
you sleep in my tomorrow
a half a world apart
I loving you  – iambic rhyme
long pierced by Cupid’s arrow
another has your heart.

Val 'N Tyne

At sweet sixteen she'd never been kissed
And then she met Miss Kuni Lynn Guist
A sweet Valentine
Would suit her just fine
And Mr. Wright would never be missed
Form: Limerick

Pressure

You will study hard and be a solicitor he said
Be yourself and don't be soft she said
You'll be pregnant before your sixteen they said
You were all wrong I said!
Form: List

What a Sweet Sixteen

What a Sweet Sixteen;
I sit alone.
I stand alone.
I walk alone. 
I eat alone.
I sing alone.
I read alone.
I write alone.
I AM alone. 
Happy Birthday to me...

Truly British Dogs

There once was a field, with a tree
On which all of the dogs liked to pee,
And whilst one was urinating,
The other sixteen were waiting,
In a queue- oh so orderly!
Form: Limerick

Love At All Ages

LOVE  AT  ALL  AGES


At  sixteen
Send me the pillow that you dream on
So I can dream on it too


At sixty
Send me the pillow that you drool on
So I can drool on it too
Form: Verse

Premium Member On Being a Car-Less Driver and Other Frustrations

Can't reach those cookies
at five... can't date till I'm twelve...
  can't drive a car till
  sixteen...can't buy a drink then...   
Off to fight wars at eighteen...
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Confidence

Confidence walks ahead of me
Sixteen steps or more, people feel her coming.
They clear out of our way. She laughs.
Clearing my path. My eyes are bright with happiness.

Laundromat, 9:12 P.M.

Sixteen unique individuals
sit on sixteen washing machines.

As they make small-talk
they stare at sixteen dryers, all in a row
chugging and churning to the same hum.
Form: Narrative

Signature-

White shoulders
with hair pinned up.
A velvet dress,
shows just enough.
Sweet sixteen,
a first date gift,
of bottled perfume,
the fragrant mist.
Of White Shoulders.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member The Joy of my Life

The great joy of my life is the stage,
singing and acting, regardless of age.
Starting at age sixteen,
five decades on, I'm still keen.
With an audience, I love to engage!
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Diligence

 
diligent duty demands dedication and decisiveness
May.9. 2022 Work Perspective Monoku Poetry Contest Sponsor- Beta Augustin No. of syllables-sixteen
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Writing as I Wait

I have been in this medical clinic way too long
Forty-eight and a half minutes
Long enough to write sixteen poems
So as you may have guessed
Most of them
are not
really
great

The Trick of St Patrick

Patrick lived in Great Britain, his wick,
But when he was sixteen and quick, 
Was captured by pirates horrible, 
Taken to Ireland adorable, 
Where he found god, his walking stick.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member my only disappointment

fresh faced like a sixteen-year-old debutante
Audrey Hepburn, brought My Fair Lady to life
I wanted her to marry Freddy
only disappointment of her work
not her fault
stupid writers

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