Short Stunted Poems

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


Grasses

Looking so stunted
Adding a fertilizer
Greenish it grows tall

Cows lean without it
Having been grazed on grasses
They look beautiful

© Chris Ekong
Categories: stunted, nature
Form: Haiku


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Teenage Dreamer

A boy with caged dreams

                  So eager to fly his coop

                                      But has stunted wings



Date written: 08/17/2019
Categories: stunted, boy, future,
Form: Senryu

Counsel To My Son

In all your ways,
Indeed your endeavours,
grow big and tall. 
Not so you look down 
on the short and stunted;
and not so you crush 
the small and fragile
But grow tall and big –
so big, everyone can touch you.
Categories: stunted, allegory, allusion, character, inspirational, motivation, my child,
Form: Lyric

His Ailment

My next-door man was a postman
He stunted gimmicks like Tarzan 
I met a constable
And told him my trouble
He said, “I can’t treat your ailment”. 


Syllable count: 8, 8, 6, 6, 8 (I used howmanysyllbes.com to count syllables.)
Categories: stunted, humor, poetry, simile,
Form: Limerick
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The Snow That May Not Fall Upon

Striking
Shocked
Stunted
The Tsunami came as a dream 
And gone like a nightmare
Never to be forgotten by some
But lives have to go on 
It is snow that may not fall upon
And will soon be lost in memories
Of the next generation
Categories: stunted, dream, memory, snow,
Form: Free verse


Shredded Lives

The flick-flack of the shredded Flag, the bugle marking time

The Soldier laid to rest, midst those that went before

The crosses like snow-white trees, stunted before their Prime

In order, line upon line, do we never learn from War?
Categories: stunted, veterans day, war,
Form: Rhyme
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My Muddled Mind

As a child I used to think

Of all the things I wanted

When I grew I liked to drink

And it left my mind stunted

So now I can't remember

'Cause my memory isn't clear

My birthday's in December

But I don't know in what year
Categories: stunted, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
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Your Black Soul

I live in shadow,
a sweet sunflower 
sown on the dark side 
of your selfish need
to dominate each
spot of joy.

Stunted
and shriveled 
my bloom is thwarted,
your need for nectar 
to keep your black soul
satisfied 
leaves me nearly dead.
Categories: stunted, abuse,
Form: Suzette Prime

The North Cape

the wind of old nails
             broken stones
the sky a gulit of rain
all these stunted trees
             grasp over wet moss
seagulls are unborn children
that cry over the tundra
this is the end of a measured world
this is the e nd ofa mea sured wor ld
Categories: stunted, earth,
Form: Blank verse

Feline

I wonder what would happen if
You took a feline kit
And put it in a dark glass box
And waited till it fit

Before you gently removed it
And let it come outside
I bet it would be quite stunted
But it would be your pride

©Copyright 2015. All rights reserved.
Categories: stunted, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Imprisoned In Life

Fetters,
in letters,
locked,
in speech,
shut,
in mouth,
stunted,
in ideas,
he simply,
was bound,
no one,
was there,
to bring him around,
he simply miffed,
breathed in,
and asyphixated,
he kept quiet for life,
and died leading,
a life mostly free of rife.
Categories: stunted, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
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Reticence To Reclusivity

stunted
     emotions
in
  a troubled maverick

          liberated 
by landscapes
 impassioned
  in pink green & blue

 fixation freedom
in a mountain 
              view 
the provincial peasant 
prevailed 
by
 'art of the askew' 

 still life
     in arrested moments
Categories: stunted, art, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
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Northern Light

Of burning sight, we grow the flora,
From dancing light of my aurora.
A stunted garden, met with showers,
Brought to bloom, bouquet of flowers.

In casting passion, bright the sky,
Of green and blue we share an eye.
The way of stars and trees alike,
Through boreal we join and hike.
Categories: stunted, blue, green, light, love, nature, sky,
Form: Rhyme

Runted Rose

runted rose stunted pose pedals arose medals proposed gold teeth rattle ing catches in the dirt bury me in a bucket lunacy ends nevermind lets lets lets do it again think he cant fly look look look cloud high no there on the bush its a hunted crows runted rose ?
Categories: stunted, art,
Form: Concrete
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Shell of a Man

His growth stunted
Not a mean bone
In his body
Nor a spine
To stand and
Be good to himself 

Beaten since a kid
Into subdued
Submission

Echoes of 
His heart
Beating
Within a 
Vacuum
In the depths of
Sunken shame



AP: 3rd place 2022, Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on November 19, 2018
Categories: stunted, abuse, betrayal, boy, bullying, growing up, pain,
Form: Free verse

Pro Wrestling

Movement up and down the ring
Story lines made for entertainment
Competing for golden belts to display with pride
Stunted choreography happens inside and outside the ring
Wrestler and divas favored by many fans
Fans cheering and booing for who they like or hate
Face or heel is what wrestlers are all about
Categories: stunted, character, hero, men, passion, sports, women,
Form: Free verse
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Roses Gone Missing

   suddenly bare branches
     sway and shiver
   shiver and sway, outstretched
     in vain 
       to December's flares 

   stunted grass shoots 
     deign not wave
   to howling winds
     their lawns daily prowl  

   icy slants of rain
      piercing bare heads
   autumn’s roses gone missing
      color them dead
Categories: stunted, change, death, december, loss, nature,
Form: Free verse
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Slices of Life

A new tomato burst 
beneath a blade, its juice 
streaking my wrist,  
mimicry of something I swore off  
years ago.  
Seeds scatter like liquid mercury 
across the cutting board,  
smallest of reminders that life spreads  
even if it’s cut short, stunted.  
I keep slicing,  
pretending the stains  
will wash off this time.
Categories: stunted, food, grave,
Form: Free verse

Winter's Shroud

The dirty skeleton of March 
Wears a coat of shredded hope of winter's passing
And drags its feet through wind, rain and blackened snow
In ditches and across fields of stunted grain,
Swirling forgotten leaves of November
Still lying in dead and forgotten flower beds
Blowing away traces and thoughts of a gentle April for now,
But not forever..
Categories: stunted, nature,
Form: Narrative

Exposure

Time and distance blinks
in a fit of frustration
static turbulence
retards reception of
your explanation

your sun rises as mine rests
against stunted horizons
purple, yellow bruising of
unexpected allegations

take your fair measure of worth
of what belongs to me
I care not for possessions
that bind me to cavernous delusions

of what I once believed
Categories: stunted, angst,
Form: Free verse
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Glowing By the Moonlight Pallor

Glowing by the moonlight pallor
   Are the circles of coyote eyes
Hovering above ground - pair by pair -
   Wandering like restless sprights
Seeking for one who's lost their way.

Their banter touches my heartbeat;
   My stunted breath rolls out - and I -
I'm glad for their roving company
   Near my small chasm where I hide -
But not lost - just gone astray.
Categories: stunted, animal, loneliness, moon,
Form: Rhyme

Cretinism

The head and face broad and flat,
The eyes set wide apart,
The body-growth stunted,
The tongue protruded,

With squeaky voice,
The child is not wise.
The skin thick, dry and coarse,
The hair rough, sparse and coarse.

The thickened neck small and short,
With supraclavicular pads of fat.
The bulging tummy resembles a pot,
And umbilical hernia resembles a spout.
Categories: stunted, childhood, education, family, health, science,
Form: I do not know?

Mongolism (Down's Syndrome)

Oval lynxed eyes having downward, inward slant,
Present on the sacrum a blue naevus spot.
The flat face and stunted fingers,
With little fingers curved inwards.

Large head with occiput flat,
Present on the iris a ’Brushfield’ spot.
He has fine silky hair
And complexion fair

Right from the birth has a diseased heart,
His tongue is protruded, and he is not smart.
Categories: stunted, childhood, education, family, health, science,
Form: I do not know?

Unreciprocated Adoration

Father’s first love.
Whipped spirit nurtures new life.
Unreciprocated adoration.
100 kisses of a tickling ‘stashe. 
Mother: face down, step forward.
Feel pain, never expose.
Teenage sweetheart.
Stunted growth.
Teenage father.
Juvenile protector.
Baby crying.
Manipulation?
Nothing in focus. Thick smoke.
Another blow-up.
Develops a reflex.
A broken heart still Beats. Beats. Beats.
© Liz Ruddy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stunted, childhood, family, father, growing up, husband, mother,
Form: Free verse

An Act of Man

Stunted Head bowed He shuffles along Scared he might stumble Hesitant Hands twitchy He drags himself Terrified of all around Powerless Eyes nervous He glances erratically Intimidated by people passing Haunted By memories He turns around Glancing back at time Staring at an incident, an act of man That crippled his emotions as only a human can.
Categories: stunted, angst, introspection, life, people
Form: I do not know?
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