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Short Slipping Poems

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


Premium Member Grasping at straws
When we feel life is slipping we grasp for anything...

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Categories: slipping, life,
Form: Monoku



Avoid Banana Peels
for slipping on one
is never         
very appealing...

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© Tina Marsh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slipping, introspection, word play,
Form: Carpe Diem
Flip the Glass
Sands slipping away
From one crowd to another
True Obedience...

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Categories: slipping, angst,
Form: Haiku
Singed Cheeks
the winter sun aches with me— slipping through a tulip's throat...

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slipping, angst, flower, heartbroken, introspection, life, loss, sun,
Form: Monoku
As We Are
As we are one
You are slipping away
I am holding on
As we are one...

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Categories: slipping, dedication,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Michigan Sunset
orange shadows water
slipping into it's ripples
as it disappears...

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Categories: slipping, sunset, water,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Seeds Slipping Away
Seeds of apples shall always go
Somewhere you may never ever know....

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Categories: slipping, earth day, fruit, nature, tree,
Form: Crystalline
Pillow
Slipping Pillow Paused

At The Edge Of The Bed,

With Muffled Grunts....

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Categories: slipping, love, romance,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member American Bobcat
Bobcat slipping thru
The underbrush hidden there
Camoflauged  color...

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Categories: slipping, animals, imagination, nature
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Diving Into Dreams
Soon slipping into sleep, as though 
Descending into the ocean deep....

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Categories: slipping, dream, sleep, spiritual,
Form: Crystalline
The Journey
Cold Icy Stares       Slipping through time         Gazing at the stars...

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Categories: slipping, future,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Falling
Feeling of falling 
losing control and slipping 
downward spiral done...

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Categories: slipping, depression,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Cycles of Love
our love was so close
your love keeps slipping away
you and me parting...

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Categories: slipping, lost love,
Form: Haiku
Dusk
Sun slowly shining
softly slipping now to dusk-
to be swallowed whole....

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© Amber Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slipping, dark, earth, light, nature, night, sun, sunset,
Form: Haiku
Spring
Yellow buds
begin to blossom
spring slipping in slowly
       Forsythia...

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Categories: slipping, flower, spring,
Form: Cinquain
Where Does the Time Go
I feel as though time is slipping away,
And more is gone each passing day…...

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Categories: slipping, angst, childhood, confusion, dedication, devotion, faith, family,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Mindless Brook
water wanders slipping
over and down rocks aimlessly
finding its way home...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slipping, home, nature, water,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Slipping Blindfold
jurisprudence -at the confluence of affluence and influence
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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slipping, corruption, judgement,
Form: Monoku
Afternoon Delight
Spring's slipping away

A May shower falls at noon

       The final rainbow...

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Categories: slipping, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member grains
how many grains fall 
slipping through the hourglass 
before time runs out...

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Categories: slipping, time,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Slipping away
Time slipping away 
treasured dreams lost and buried 
my time has passed away...

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Categories: slipping, life,
Form: Senryu
No Hope
My grip is slipping 
Thorns have all but severed my hands
Hope left me lonely...

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Categories: slipping, feelings, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Haiku
From Between My Fingers
Slipping through my life,
slipping through my fingers all
the time. I loved you....

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Categories: slipping, love
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Dry Run
slipping in the shower
coming unglued, the ceiling
strips...collapses

6/1/2018...

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Categories: slipping, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Slipping
slipping on
her cinderella slippers
the six-year-old



posted on July 18, 2018...

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Categories: slipping, child, cinderella, fantasy, girl,
Form: Senryu

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