Short Suspense Poems

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


Premium Member Spacious

immense
intense 
absence 
suspense 

Beyond skies lies immense, intense space. 
Absence, suspense adds unknown to face.
Form: Tyburn


Suspense

Suspense by any other name
Would not hold the hold it does
It would not stop my beating heart
Or cause it to beat faster still
Form: List

Goodness

everyone has good in them, 
time is what makes the difference, 
like a flower, we all blossom at our own time.  
so? enjoy the suspense.
me

Georgia Cracker Who Was a Hacker

a Georgia cracker
who really had been hacker
also some slacker

Jim Horn

Where is your sense of humor
in suspense and very dense?
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Cracking Good Yarn

More twists in some tales,
peak and trough, allied suspense, 
layers of intrigue,
which kept one fixed to the page,
gotcha end plot a bonus.
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Living Alone

So this time
I’ve spent
Living alone
Paying the rent
I’ve been dreaming
That you’re by
My side
Will you 
Keep me
In suspense
Until I die
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Waiting Waiting Waiting

Impossible to catch my breath
waiting for the other shoe to drop
~ the suspense claiming another victim



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 3rd place 2025
Form: Other

Read a Psalm

Each  time when I will  read a psalm,
Receive much peace and also calm;
So  much  silence,
And no suspense;
God us He will always overwhelm.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Suspense

Ghostly choir of sounds
rattle frames in haunted house
on the edge of cliff!

Date : 28th December 2020

Contest : ‘Hi-Ku(4)’

Sponsor : Brian Strand
Form: Haiku

It Makes Sense

Right or pretense
It makes sense
To see and suspense
what Socrates says:
"in number, there are views
as the number of human heads
their words are immense".

A Theater of Skin

Foxy pumps

Visually inviting

Stimulus


Leather jeans

Objectively elevating

Yield


Indie jazz

Naturally circuits

Relish


Vivid suspense

Intellectually appeasing
Form: Imagism

Premium Member cracks

cracks heard through ceiling suspense for squirrels awaiting fall of acorns and so much rain that they’ll float sans news they’ll only gather
Form: Tanka

From Trump Did Sense

From Trump Did Sense

From Trump as usual  we did sense,
A lie was formed as false pre-tense;
Time consuming,
While looming;
With much suspense were very tense.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

My Collapse

Pleading for a moment of silence
I remember.
Even if it was filled with the suspense of another blow,
even if all I felt was throbbing
just one quiet second.

I let it consume me.

False Ecstacy

I am company to the serpent,
a dazzling chariot of defiance.

sword of omens,a beast of suspense
delivers it's cocktail.
all harbingers of flesh dipped crosses
in cages for the watchers.

Give Me Hints That Make Sense

Give Me Hints That Make Sense

Give me some hints that do make sense;
Things have been separated by a fence;
Poetry writing,
Is inviting;
Suspense resulted in making you tense.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Suspense

In stillness a few leaves still hang chromatic colours soon to die as if their suspense makes this peace but a pause... – while waiting for the wild of winter.

Suspense Dates

Suspense Dates  

Am sure to meet dates that are suspense's,
When I finally had came back to my senses;
For office run;
Not any fun,
So did not and must suffer the consequences.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Meaning

Is life meaningless or full of sense? Can we tell? Or perhaps we're too dense. But I'd rather not know. It's a good status quo. I prefer existential suspense.
Form: Limerick

The Silly favorite

There once was a boy from Port-au-Prince 
Who wanted a girl, he was feeling immense 
He tripped on a chair 
Fell flat on the floor there 
But she laughed and said, “You’re my favorite suspense!”
Form: Limerick

Coast Guard Suspicious Officer

Coast Guard Suspicious Officer

Plot about officer seemed to be intense;
For years he had been held in suspense;
Ammo and arms,
Always alarms;
Now there is a prevalence of evidence.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Scary Moments

It's not nightly shadows that induce fear and suspense,
but most of us are frightened by their eeriness,
and by constantly staring at them with zeal 
we can imagine anything that's not quite real.
Form: Rhyme

Scary Moments

It's not nightly shadows that induce fear and suspense,
but most of us are frightened by their eeriness,
and by constantly staring at them with zeal 
we can imagine anything that's not quite real.
Form: Rhyme

Some Semblance of Order

Some Semblance of Order

Order always has some sort of semblance,
To insure expected  without any suspense;
When will appear,
Seems so sincere;
Unless are being confused and also dense.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Summertime

silk thread hangs from leaf
     caterpillar in suspense 
        bird flies off agape 



Summer Nature Themed Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin 
How many syllables 5/7/5
06/24/22
Form: Haiku

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