Short Stray Poems

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


Had Passed Away So Yjey Say

yesterday had passed away 
while at home would stay 
soon soul started to stray 
My sins did cause dismay.

Jim Horn
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Chronicles of a Stray Hero--Five

Confusion stains the eye
while the mothers wonder why
all their pretty children had to die
                 --stray hero
© John Allen  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Haiku 120

HAIKU #120


Ink on paper
Stray words converge;
Haiku fragment

~~~~~~~~~



Leon Enriquez
22 Nov 2020
Singapore
Form: Haiku

Caught Unprepared

bread of idleness,
sweet wine of busy-bodies
for companionship
awhile, but what have I done? 
--a stray dog roams the city
Form: Lyric

Time Ends

time suddenly ends, as your last breath does stray, im doing cpr, but deaths; here today,, unravelled a life that unwinds......
Form: Ballade


Premium Member Defenestrate Begone

riddance flung, begone done, when blight cast out window with careless stray abandonment, called 'fore'
Form: Cinquain

Premium Member Being Happy

Embark on your course in life As if it were some great play Be vigilant never stray Revel in yourself.
Form: Dodoitsu

Truth

Hours fly,
Mortals die;
New days,
Old ways
Pass by.

Hearts stray.
Bodies are clay;
Sun shines,
Moon pines
But love stays.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Runaway Teen

like stray animal
flees creature comforts of home ~
roaming in the cold



Date written: 10/02/2021
Form: Senryu

Try This Literally

When people have trouble to see
And say could you spell that for me
Put laughs on delay
And let their mind stray
Respond T H A and a T
Form: Limerick

To Live a Long Life

Who wants to live long life
       always run from the danger
    aside from stray outsiders bullets
   away  from friendship of strangers
Form: Quatrain

The Piper

Drunk on the fear of our own misgivings,
  we stagger and stray…
     —toward the sound of the piper

(Grantham New Hampshire: March, 2015)

Silence

Where everything I am 
abides,
When I stray away
Seduced by the mind,
It always finds me
Brings me back to itself.

I listen 
I become.
Form: Rhyme

The Red Barn

The stray
kittens
Meeting
At the 
Red barn
Rolling on
Balls of
Green and
Purple yarn
Pouncing on
The tapioca
Scent of
A catnip
Moon

Premium Member Black Cats

Black as the darkest of nights
Haunting beneath city lights
A stray to bring chills
To those who get thrills
From eerie cats causing frights
Form: Limerick

Eunuch

An husband who wanted to stray
Complained to his wife everyday
But she understood
For the common good
There was just one word and its, "Spay!"
Form: Limerick

Idolatry

i picked a stray stone and chiseled myself a god; then I worshiped
~Contest: Stones ~Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Life With Trump I

It's bullies Melania fights
The big one is now in her sights
If Donald should stray
His schlong she will flay
And not even give him last rites
Form: Limerick

Premium Member CLERIHEW ecphrasis II

In the Fresco of Michelangelo Buonarotti 
a touch from God's finger we see
Available now from Holy Spirit each day
if from Him we do not stray
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Dog of the Day

A wise judge at the Kern County Fair—
unbiased and quite debonair
chose a mangy old stray
as the dog of the day
because she had the most savior faire
Form: Limerick

BAD WORD



     A badly spoken, thrown word...
          is not a stray bullet
     that tears the body, the chest,
      but that tears the soul apart...
Form: Epigram

A Spirit's Lullaby

Moonlight beckons the stray souls
   conjured from pain and lost in time
Guided by memories and kins' yowls
   they meld in styx with a blissful chime.
© Linga Siva  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Daily Safety Message

Safety on the bus each and every day, 
Mindfulness of other drivers don't let your attention stray.
Look high and look low 
Safety risk may come and go.
car
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Iceberg

Listen to poem:
Immensely fathomless
It's implausible that
Immersed below unseen
Is 90 percent of ice mass
Inducing any stray
Invincible ship to
Imbibe id on the rocks
Form: Pleiades

Lights Out

We begin the play
I know what to say
Lights out
Music leads the way
Out of sight I pray
Lights out
Lines are oh so gay.
On to stage I stray
Lights out
Form: Rhyme

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