Short Squinting Poems

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


Dawn of Day

Morning approaching fast…
Hateful sound of dreaded alarm
I’m squinting my eyes, realize
Dreams are gone and it all starts again.
Form: Concrete


Premium Member Beholden Kowtow is Beautiful

Listen to poem:
a crack lets light in
so squinting with eyes half-closed
highlights kintsugi ~
showing the view beholden
kowtow is so beautiful
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Astride Distant Shores

Squinting, straining ocular muscles
  unveils a lonely, battered beacon
astride distant shores, welcome signal
  to weary sailors bleary-eyed

Premium Member Earth's River

A walk on a warm winter's day
   Birds chirping and children at play
Folks smiling 'neath squinting sunshine
   Earth's river flows peaceful today
Form: Rubai

The Fence Builder

brimmed eyes 
squinting against the noon brightness.
gloved hands 
wiping the salty drops away.
denim moving
with the lankiness beneath.
strong lines
rising as the maul swings


Recognition

Recognition 

I would slumber in you 
Squinting with an owl’s grin,  
Like a standing wave 
Like a hoarse flapping
My peafowl would cover me 
With a chickadee’s  flutter of wing
© Aniko Puky  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Portrait of An Aged Scholar

The stooped gait
   the squinting eye
A curmudgeon sure
   personified...

Yet when from parted lips
  his timeless treasures poured
The very Founts of Wisdom
  yearned for even more
Form: Rhyme

The Lurid Moon

The lurid moon-
Dim as an eye, 
squinting, and
waning unnoticed in 
the despair of darkness,
like souls that trudge
through the roadless
vast transit of Sheol.
Guideless wanderers 
lost: no spirit, essence,
nor aim.

Outside the Mosaic

Blinking,
out of focus,
beyond the frame,

hidden very well,
pointing, clicking, snapping,

silhouettes, visions of illusory 
promise,

squinting,
straining to see,
the slice of reality,

left outside the mosaic
Form:

Premium Member Bizarre Behaviour

Why do passengers freak out when driving in my car Do they feel insecure coz I'm old and can't see very far Is it the squinting stuff Or driving in the buff Should I worry explaining to the cops my behavior bizarre
fun
Form: Limerick

Old Photograph

you 
on the beach
in the blazing sun 
face down
       naked 
on the sand
soft waves 
lapping
at the shore
sea water 
glistening
   on your skin
 blue eyes
squinting
      up at me

the scent 
of you
even now
    lingers
© Barry Levy  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Bizarre Behaviour

Why do passengers freak out when I'm driving the car Do they feel insecure just coz I'm old, can't see very far Is it the squinting stuff Or driving in the buff? Should I worry explaining to the cops my behavior bizarre?
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Old Solitary Lovers

OLD SOLitary Lovers

Sun worshippers these sunflowers
turning their backs on their tenders
lolling in the squinting rays of sunrise
stretching to catch last touch of sunset
sadly hanging their heads at dusk.


John G. Lawless
7/23/2015

Premium Member edvard cloezez in

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                     and out mine 
                patagia        flair'd 
                            flared
                            snatch'er




*zez; dictionary.cambridge.org  
 polish-english noun squint, a 
 squinting position of the eyes

Squinting To Yet Retain

Squinting to yet retain
Not just of it what outlines
As fruit's in tree's sight.
Are we not the more transfixed
In a fading light?

Inferred, my inner eye!
Whilst is as blurry figured
This sweet memory.
Yes, that stilly obsessed! Yes
This hour, life's, dusky.
Form: Rhyme

Smiling Skirt

Flying away as feathers is her smiling skirt
Blouse flaps itself as eagle wings in windy sky
Her legs tantalizing gazers as ripe sugar cane
With the eyes squinting as vale blue berries
And the hair like peeling off Sahara waste 
Pelt men as horses in a poorly shot movie
Form:

Raul's Shards of Light

.                           ~~~*~~~;;;~~~*~~~
                        
                            Blinding, squinting sight
                              Kaleidoscope of colors
                                  Blurry sanity

.                           ~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~
art
Form: Haiku

The Ghosts of Halloween

Halloween frights creep ever nearer,
their mask-less faces are peeping,
squinting in the daylight.

The children are restless
they tug at invisible hands
pulling us away from what we fear.

Hours are bewitching the sun.
Monsters roam Party Shops
haunted by our bad dreams.

Sunset

SUNSET

Squinting at a blinding white sun
The whole of planet Earth turns
And from the viewpoint of us all
A fiery giant ball of red and gold
Dips so slowly below the horizon
Until the merest sliver disappears
And recognises time for darkness
Leaving a crescent moon smiling
sun

Snowflakes On My Tongue

Waiting to be
Blinded by
Snowflakes of
Beauty falling
From the sky.
Eyes squinting,
Mouth opened
Wide just
For droplets of
Frozen water to
Touch the sensitive
Muscles of my 
Tongue. Dying 
From dehydration
With only the 
Intent of
Catching a
Beautiful
Snowflake
On my tongue

Premium Member What's My Life Mission

How the question
Troubled me so
Squinting for clarity

Revealed when ready
Seems clearer now
In a hazy sort of way

Creativity
Talents to exploit
Almost too late

Feeling I have to rush
Before crossing the finish line
To earn any celestial reward



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Premium Member Point of View

Point of View Hag in the mirror Squinting at me Waiting and watching A young face to see. She doesn’t know Face that stares back Never thought she’d see That old hag in black. But here they are Alone the two Seeing each one From own point of view. 10/2017
Form: Rhyme

Intrigued

under a rock, squashed,
i peeked out, squinting -
the blinding sun pushed
my shades to their limit, glinting.

i could not be cool
i could not hide
like anybody's fool i know
i'm taken for a ride

and then you passed by
with a hint of expression
that made me wonder why
i'd seek nothing but your passion.
Form:

Premium Member Barbed Wire Impressions -Visual 2

Dark eyes peer through freedom's grate
squinting in a spotlight glare
lost between a fear's folly
and bloody fingered courage

Escape - denied the body
freed the passion of the mind
a visage in the twilight
dark eyes challenging their fate

10/17/2020

IMPRESSIONS Poetry contest
sponsor - Nette Enclaud
Form: Verse

My Shadow

Shadow, shadow on the wall. Why mimic me at all?
Hiding upon rising til out the door
From early morn, you wave from next door
Distant and forlorn you stretch away
Then hide at my feet as we feel the heat
Only to run away as the day fades
Squinting, you wisp away and fade to grey
As I step inside to watch you hide
fun

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