Short Spoken Word Poems

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


What Makes Me Tick

The empty page of an old sage is what needs to be filled.
To instill peace and then engage in what should not be killed.
Form: Couplet


A Peach and a Speech

The bigger/the richer/the faster the peach, 
the better the chance to catch up someone's speech.

Volodymyr Knyr
2014
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Movement of Sound

PIACEVOLE

It rolls from
the tongue this
agreeable
word
like music
from heaven

See my recent blog on this topic
Form: Verse

Premium Member Swallowed Sounds

bitter cold voices lost behind woolen mufflers definition blurred
written December 7, 2021
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Compliments and Condiments

Much like compliments, so do condiments  
                                              ~ bring forth sweet temperaments
Form: Monoku


Premium Member Most Delightful and Delicious

There is no such thing as a remarkable dinner
                                                         ~ sans the remarks
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Our Own Backyard

we can talk about the world
till we’re blue in the face
what about us
what about us



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Premium Member Tension

nuggets of 
wisdom
mined 
from 
the
crucible 
of the 
misshapen
slumped figure
in 
the
disconsolate
wheelchair
Form: Imagism

Premium Member The Cower of Babel

Listen to poem:
Bow in hand, arrow
Dared man, 'YOUR WORDS ARE LIKE DUST,
THEN BABBLE YOU MUST'!
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Talk To Me Jesus-

Talk to me Jesus
Speak to me Lord my God so
~
 Speak to me O' God


2/27/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2o23
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Having a bite sized trouble

You are in trouble ? No need to shout Because if you got yourself in You can usually get yourself out.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Interlude

   Interlude from annoying talking heads ~
                                              ballet's leaps and bounds ahead
Form: Monoku

Repeat

THE SAME
NON NAME
A FLAME
A GAME.

AWAKEN
NOT BROKEN
NON TAKEN
WORDS SPOKEN.

RELAXED
REWARDED
BLESSINGS FORWARD.

Defenseless

Defenseless

Young, Black, Brown, Defenseless.
Naked, Bleeding, Mute, Defenseless.
Broken, Hopeless, Afraid, Defenseless.
© Carol Ali  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tristich

A Certain Death

Political Correctness ...
  handcuffs that restrain
  until the executioner arrives

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Quote

"You have the right to be right, the right to be wrong, and the right to keep your mouth shut in both instances."

1/15/2023
Form: Monoku

Goodbye Tomorrow

“Free speech for me,
but not for thee”

All bridges burned
—an ashened dream 

(Dreamsleep: February, ‘Nat Hentoff’ 2021)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Praise

  Ingenious phrases of praise 
     fall flat on our ears
   
  The conscience pricks them ~
     balloons of our fears

Premium Member Word of the Day March 11, 2021

tutelary
 
adjective TOO-tuh-lair-ee

1 : having the guardianship of a person or a thing

2 : of or relating to a guardian
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Whorled-Wind

   Assaulted by waves of profanity
     high tides of depravity

   Bestrewn, shards of urbanity
     ~ flotsam of humanity
Form: Rhyme

Another Quote From Daisy

Remember to do;
What you listen to.





Another word of wisdom I had my children to SPEAK so that they would remember it.

Morality

ROBERT SHERRIFF - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER

Morality keeps a child pure

Premium Member Let Them Not Hold Their Breath


     Parliamentarians debate
        matters of state

     In the taverns they wait 
        for ‘do-ers’ on the slate
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Silenced By Awe

mouth unable to form words
     then sounds of desperation
inspired by wisdoms presence
     awestruck I retreat into silence
© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Speech Trammeled

      marsupials are just mammals   
         pity duplicity

       speech whenever trammeled
         surceases clarity
Form: Rhyme

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