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Short Standards Poems

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


Double Standards
Separate the art from the artist,
Because you had all once bought it....

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Categories: standards, art, people, writing,
Form: Crystalline



For Mother
Will I ever live
Up to your highbrow standards
Like him,  when I die....

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© E.J. Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standards, death, mother,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Standards and values
Today's standards don't hold the value they use to-our forefathers are rolling in their graves...

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Categories: standards, life,
Form: Monoku
Per Se
Per Se
a devastating auto-da-fe
with standards slipping
and then the confusion of optional tipping....

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Categories: standards, hyperbole,
Form: Clerihew
Degenerate Double Standards
No principles 
Only pleasures
They will bend the ledgers 
For their own gain
At the cost of others pain...

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© Sandy Axe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standards, political,
Form: Rhyme



Standards
“Standards”

Philosophy knows.
Morality shows.
Pureness with truth glows.

© Dane Smith-Johnsen
Mar. 2010...

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Categories: standards, social
Form: Senryu
Modern Youth
Flourishing business of 
‘’OLD AGE HOMES’’ 
‘’ORPHANAGES’’ 
‘’ABORTIONS’’ 
Unique standards 
For the modern youth....

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Categories: standards, life,
Form: Light Verse
One Line - Anagram
"TESTING the standards equals SETTING for excellence."


                                        DECEMBER 11, 2015...

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Categories: standards, education,
Form: Verse
She Had Standards
I tried
to tell her
not to resort
to slum
dating
and living

but she just
did not see
the queen
she was
inside....

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Categories: standards, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Agony of Riches
The ultimate indulgence…
blind acceptance

All standards rescinded
—all judgment forlorn

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)...

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Categories: standards, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Follow Your Own Path
One mustn't strive to live up to someone else's standards; you are~enough
















Alexis Y.
02/24/2021...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standards, how i feel,
Form: Monoku
Not So Forever
It's hard to trust love
When others tag emotions
Based on cheap standards,
Their forever lasts a month
When you think it means for life...

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Categories: standards, devotion, emotions, life, love, time, trust,
Form: Tanka
In My Opinion
There are no standards any more; Opinion's all that counts. We all must have our voices heard, And everyone must win.
...

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Categories: standards, society, truth,
Form: I do not know?
Its Hdst Not Ptsd
while the heart may come off pure
secret desires inherently do not
synchronized standards = compatibility
yet unhealed trauma = an utter mess...

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© Poet Lazey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standards, desire, emotions, fear, feelings, love, true love,
Form: Free verse
Choka #3
You set the standards,
And they should not be challenged
By the obsolete.
Since you are the boss,
You deserve to rule the world,
By getting ahead....

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Categories: standards, introspection
Form: Choka
Pest Aside
Political standards are falling
To a point some say is appalling
The Elephant said:
"You've got to wear red
And knock on their door, "Aphid calling"!...

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Categories: standards, humor,
Form: Limerick
Bygones
The fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Once rivaled those of Roy Rogers
But when Trump came on
Those standards were gone
Trigger got stuffed with old codgers...

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Categories: standards, america,
Form: Limerick
Next President
Next President

Senator Bernie Sanders
Inspires with his candid standards.
Presidential campaign rally 15,000 strong,
Hope for Presidency 2 terms long....

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Categories: standards, america, beauty, celebrity, hope, inspiration, inspirational, political,
Form: Clerihew
Wishin'
Wishin' you hadn't done that
Wishin' you were honest
Wishin' you could've understood
Wishin' you were like me
Wishin' you had the standards,
But you lied....

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Categories: standards, emotions
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Eating Mess
There once was a lady called Rita
Than whom no one was ever neater
But when she chose to  drink
 Her standards would sink
And she would end up covered in pizza...

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Categories: standards, humorous,
Form: Limerick
The Penguin
THE PENGUIN

The penguin’s no slouch, he’s a winner
By sartorial standards no sinner
He’ll emerge in a trice 
From the Antarctic ice
Already dressed for dinner...

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Categories: standards, animal, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Credit For Whom Its Due
don’t judge others by your own standards ~ only end up hating yourself 

be like me take others as you find them ~ and then become mad jealous

 By
David Kavanagh...

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Categories: standards, allegory, jealousy, judgement,
Form: Monoku
That Day
Winking sun through downpour trails
Earth foraging lives
Blackened standards show respect
In our sullen retreat
memories start to fade
The forgotten scar the forgetful...

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Categories: standards, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Deranged World
This freaking world is totally deranged Standards are low, we're becoming drained What has happened Life has saddened Worst it's been since sanity reigned>center>
...

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Categories: standards, world,
Form: Limerick
Measures and Standards
N-otably
O-bserve
E-nhanced
L-ockdown

T-o
A-pply
M-easures
A-nd
S-tandards
E-ffectively

Topic: Birthday of Bro. Noel Tamase (June 10) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Categories: standards, birthday,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Shattered Sighs