Short Substance Poems

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


No World Of My Dreams!

The substance, this world, maybe
Of our collective thought.
As for my own dreams there's nought
Gives form to that theory.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Water

Our ubiquitous Chemical substance, water Essential to life http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/nature-5.php
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Neutrality

Poles
apart are
the opposites
all words 
express~
suggesting a
neutrality
as the absence
and substance
of the 
Poles~~

Premium Member Empty

Epigram #32:

EMPTY


Noise is empty
Filling more empty
Void of substance




Leon Enriquez
10 March 2015
Singapore
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Poles Apart

Poles
apart are
the opposites
all words 
express~
suggesting a
neutral zone
as the absence
and substance
of the 
Poles~~


Crossing the Equator

Granting myself latitude,
I stretched every word
In substance and context
—the truth to be heard

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)
Form: Rhyme

Live and Grow

A Drop fell
from the tree.
It flew a black bird
to the green grass.
A white substance takes
in by an animal
to live and grow.
Form:

Aurora

See it now; that veil of mist;
What behind, does entrance.
Brightening, to Earth's bright-hued dream
That gives renewed substance.
mom
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Hopeless Substance

Hopeless hope, 
 overcomes with faith,
 is beyond trust 
being substance




9/3/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020

Ode To a Cup

How cunning you are trapping liquids
Hold life giving substance or refreshment
How I beseech you after a hard day
Without you I might die!
Form:

Volcanic Substance

Emotional turmoil
Sudden surges of recoil
Bursting flames of rage

Black chunks of coal
Purged from the soul
Embers of grief and regret
Form: Imagism

Premium Member My True Self 1-

The substance of myself is my soul  and the beginning of God's image were both spirits~


11/12/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr ©2020
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Substance of the Universe

In the year of 1953 on the day of March first
I became a minuscule substance of the universe.
In more simpler terms, that's the date of my birth.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Changes

Fall changes erase
the cheap substance of summer
with holiday joys.

Multicolor leaves,
multicolor lights with turkey
delights and kinship.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member True Life More Spirit-

All the world lovers of good,  gold and gains give me less substance I'll take more spirit

11/8/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Exquisite Splendor

summer's  windswept day 
tread in silence sentiment
through flower garden 
of mingle fragrance substance
of all beauty, welcome me


7/22/2019
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Before the Storm

The wildness of nobility,
the fire before the storm

The question with many answers
—the substance within the form

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Can'T Touch the Spirit But I Feel the Physical-

substance I can touch and yet spiritually so we can't hold as such
1/13/22 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2022
Form: Haiku

Ruthless

ruthless are
the powers that be
controlling
the substance
withholding
the cure
growing
the means
feeding
the addiction

saving none

burying all

Premium Member Airplanes

You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes for recordings? 
Why can't they make the whole airplane out of that very same substance?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Escape

Some escape through the bottle, some with a needle, 
some with a substance smoked in a pipe,
but whenever I feel the need to escape
I pick up my pen and write.
Form: Rhyme

21st

my vertical delirium
pass by 21st dimension
where vibrates the substance
pure layer of the infinity
who hides the God
and his absolute lights
for my astral soul

Summit Without Substance

Summit Without Substance

Recently happened;
A summit without substance;
Perfectly worthless.

Jim Horn

Grand Total of summit between
America and North Korea.
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Calling Card

of joy’s single tear the substance of a lifetime spurring eyes upward as a body freezes cold God’s servant leaves calling card 9/3/2021
Form: Tanka

Substance of Righteousness

L-iterary
I-dea
A-bout
N-ame
H-as

S-ubstance
O-f
R-ighteousness
I-n
T-errific
A-crostic

Topic: Birthday of Lianh Sorita (June 21) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

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