Short Surface Poems

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


Magenta Year

Perpetual glowing 
Purple colors drown 

Your eyes sink down
Down below

Below the surface
Of the 
Thoughtful sea


Premium Member Pond - Haiku

bull's-eye ripples spread
liquid glass surface shattered -
pond catches boy's stone.


Susan Ashley
August 28, 2017
Form: Haiku

Echoes

Echoes of water
Screeching through the ears
A child in the hands of a lake,
then surface,
Only to hear echoes of life.

Premium Member Heaven's Reflection

HAIKU 7/12/2016

heavens reflection
captured in surface calmness
nature’s glass ceiling


John G. Lawless
7/12/2016
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Stone Skimming

the sun threw a sidearm ray
that bounced off the surface many-times~
sank before making the bay


7-9-7 syllable count
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
sun
Form: Haiku


Premium Member At the Pond-

rainy afternoon
so, clever pond looks soaks
surface pebbles floats


6/7/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2021
Form: Haiku

Premium Member The Cave

sunlight streams in,
 revealing the beauty
 of the cave,
 through clear waters I surface
  to breathe in a passing cloud
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

People Can Be

I've learned
people
can be quite
beautiful

or otherwise

sometimes
gleaming 
on the surface
but rank
underneath.
art

I Wonder Why

If my siluohette is a part of mine
reflecting from my body
why is it seen 
in a window,
on a surface 
as a different body
fun

Premium Member Clerihew Smith

Ex architect Tony Smith loved space
especially with  black surface
Romantic rather than minimal
engineered on a large scale
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member BA-RELIFISTA desirio

delicate
 low
   relievo
but
   scarcely
       scratched
inversely
sunk
   surface
        deep
in
half
    relief
art
Form: Didactic

Premium Member No Disguise

A mind highly organized
    wears no disguise

  Its desk, on the surface, squeaky clean
    thus illumined ~ What's it mean
Form: Couplet

Approaching Storm 3

Invisible in nature
it simmers within
To rise to the surface
when conflict begins

(Poem To End Chapter 32: February, 2023)
war
Form: Rhyme

Frost Bubble

The bubble trembled
Frost dressed the surface in white
Winter porcelain
Glistened brightly in the sun
Now comparable to none
Form: Tanka

Ripples

Disturbing water,
Calming surface awakens;
Absorbed by shoreline. 

By: Nathan Bane Leccese
© All Rights Reserved 09/08/2009
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Van Gogh a Tribute

DIAGONALS
Slashed
across
the surface-
diagonals
in 
a
curtain
of black,white
and violet
strokes

Rain,Auvres Van Gogh
art
Form: Ekphrasis

Fault Lines

Justification
of illusion
the surface
unsure

Each step
poorly taken
new death
— to allure

(Dreamsleep: January, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Shape of Water

liquid fluidity flowing with transparency surface water droplets seeking to mirror what shapes them
Form: Verse

Narcissus and the Carp, a Tanka

narcissus, the pond
across the surface ripples
disillusionment
dead in the water, floating
not so koi now, bloated carp

by gail
Form: Tanka

Well

flakes surface frozen melting changing form into reborn droplets waves water tears flowing
dew developing snowing flakes piling growing

Premium Member Dolphins

Watching the dolphins.

Leaping ahead of the boat.

Teasing as they go.

Running below the surface,

Hiding, then leaping again.
Form: Tanka

Fishing Hole

water flows near surface bubbles -- old fishing hole *Picture of "The Old Fishing Hole" by Thomas Kincade
Form: Haiku

Moonlight

In this drop of dew
There is the light of the moon
In this forest pond
The surface glows with moonlight
On your face and in your eyes
© Jim Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Melodramatic Reenactments

melodramatic
dramatizations 
reenactments
of past scenes 
brought to the 
surface by the 
unearthing of 
the graves of 
past ghost
Form: Lyric

Premium Member FROTTISTA ernst

conscious
             acts
to
   stimulate
              impresions
surface

textures
   waxed
in
crayoned
         creativity
art
Form: Didactic

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