Short Smarting Poems
Short Smarting Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Smarting by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Smarting by length and keyword.
eyes smarting with tiredness,
not registering on the words I see,
heart aching with heaviness,
looking at the last letter you wrote to me,
pages full of the love, that wasn't to be.
Penned 26/7/2017
Categories:
smarting, lost love,
Form:
Quintain (English)
I have seen people just about starting,
There’re others at the end of the rope
crisis ridden and with anguish smarting
and latched onto a diminishing hope
With sorrow no longer able to cope.
~Janice Canerdy contest.
Categories:
smarting, hope, lost,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Mermadic waves, her feminine tailspin kaleidoscopic.
Drastic and hypnotic, nautical miles in search of new blood.
Sea’s miffed with white caps drawing Neptune, smarting for epic brawl.
6/4/2020
Let the Pens Flow - Sijo Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Jenish Somadas
Categories:
smarting, sea,
Form:
Sijo
Remember when we were young-
Like Quails on the wing.
Darting smarting all so refined-
We chased rainbows to the end.
Little did we know they lied-
A life forever was implied.
Our eyes now mirror the uncharted-
Melancholy we are for the departed.
We now sit huddled around tables
and reminisce ;
Like awkward Hadedas in lamentable bliss.
Categories:
smarting, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Dots of light dotted the dome
Displaying dismal disks
Halfhearted innuendos of harmony
Repetitive, unremarkable recordings
Minimally interesting, middle class, mediocre
Small wonder he thought, smirking, smarting
Discipline dismissed, discarded
Replaced with fun, funk and fad
Foolishness fueled Fukem, he fumed
No more, no more, no more
The military, military school, immediately!
Categories:
smarting, family, father,
Form:
Alliteration
SOFT HEART – RAW NERVE
suspecting my position is unsound
accepting sinking feelings I
may drown
heartbeat limp and malleable
gentle and mellifluous yet
scarcely stable
smarting anguish of frayed nerve
raw, synthetic hyper alert
tests reserve
escaping at last to spaces I go
pacified nerve and compliant
heart flow
(‘mellifluous’ = pleasing to the ear)
© Kim van Breda—April 2014
Categories:
smarting, feelings, heart, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
COPLA CINCUENTA Y DOS: This Bad Guy World
Stand and fight! Don’t abandon the field!
Confront not the Enemy alone:
Bad Guy cowards
So long as Good Guys drop their shield
Bad Guys will multiply and clone
Filthy innards
Yi Jing says denounce the Yin first
Let everyone see its bared face:
Make public – fate
Seek not to quench your smarting thirst
The more it hurts the more the furnace
Will burn in hate!
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
Categories:
smarting, conflict, courage,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Stunted fingernails scrape back
the first slither of orange skin,
bounding a torrent of zest to spurt
into the royal keyhole of my soul,
stinging, watering - heartbreaking.
Reluctant, I remove the fruit’s shell
longing for a worthy distant aim
to splash upon an unwary significant,
instead, my citrus emotion’s reflected,
discarded, rejected - abandoned.
Eyes smarting – juice offends a single soul.
Pith concealed – surplus heart needs healing.
Categories:
smarting, inspirational, introspection, lost love,
Form:
I do not know?
Each word I place
is cupped in my hands,
till the page unfolds
to accept my offering
in the stain of each letter
is the blood of my tears
and my sorrowful fears
magnificent in love
and joyful bliss
arias of evermore
ripple to watermark
as each curve
embossed into form
it came to life,
smarting with the etching
but ever ecstatic
in the release
And,
with the closing
of my book
lines will be straight
the backs bound
in titanium
standing for all time
Categories:
smarting, on writing and words, passion
Form:
Blank verse