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Short Taut Poems

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


Premium Member Maruu Speakks
Beskum relibrum
libratul patronium
casamine twi taut...

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Categories: taut, age, change, fantasy, metaphor, science fiction, surreal,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Shadowed Thoughts
taut eyes...

thought eyes
saw...a subtle cat


stan sand...

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© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taut, imagination, nature, universe,
Form: Free verse
Grand Canyon
barren escarpment
taut narrow chiseled canyon
free flowing channel...

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Categories: taut, nature, places
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Thought of the day
a gift we could give but did not ~
reflect why heart’s frigid and taut...

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Categories: taut, heart, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Paratrooper
nerves fiddle-string taut
heavy pack upon his back
free fall into fray...

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Categories: taut, adventure, confusion, life, peace, war
Form: Haiku



Tight Taut But One Verb
Tight taut but one verb 
and ample e.e. cummings....
steal a foreign form....

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Categories: taut, on writing and words
Form: Haiku
Topless Shoreline
Glowing with distended buds her taut convex bare the chilly morning tide's touch...

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Categories: taut, muse,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Invisible Tension As the Jaw Snaps Shut
teeth aligned, jaw held tight
preventing collapse into self
taut, bite, tumble, end...

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Categories: taut, anxiety,
Form: Senryu
Angel Dance
We dance
We dance with grace
We dance uner the moon
We dance like angels with taut wings
We dance...

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Categories: taut, art, happiness, imagination, dance, dance,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Haiku 65
Haiku 65
	
	
	taut threads of pain
	darkness behind my eyes
	clouds cry
	
	
	
	(Written for a friend.)...

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Categories: taut, depression, pain,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Haiku 1-26-2018
Haiku 1-26-2018

whimsical winds
tease taut tree limbs
vagrant vibrations

John G. Lawless
1/27/2018...

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Categories: taut, music, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Clerihew Montagu
A fine lady was Lady Montagu
wrote a poem or two
Technically forceful&taut
usually in couplets quite short...

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Categories: taut, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Honeysuckle Dew
fragrant cup opens
taut stem brims with sweet delight
suck loves frothy dew





Stephen Parker
November 9, 2012...

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Categories: taut, allegory,
Form: Haiku
Fragile Love
shimmering surface
taut beams supporting body
spanning cavity
filled with insecurity
hollow bridge in current sways...

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Categories: taut, love
Form: Tanka
Not Taut
I love not
That I ought
For I sought
What I had fought.

I hate aught
That I should not
For I forgot
What I besot....

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Categories: taut, confusion, girlfriend-boyfriend, husband, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Monorhyme
My Attempt At Haiku
peace before a battle taut for the trample in the breeze petals shudder
*thanks Debbie for the revision*...

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Categories: taut, nature,
Form: Haiku
Black Widow
Heed the red hour glass 
Not her taut, tightly-spun web 
A widow maker 
Recluses in dark spaces 
Lingering for love-lost prey...

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© Alan Reed  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taut, animals, nature
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Frost Smoke
deer step through frost smoke
  forage, taut skin over ribs
       ice falling splashes

Previously published by Poetry Pea 2020...

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Categories: taut, animal, cool, nature, seasons, snow, water, winter,
Form: Free verse
Trade a Trick
Trick a toad to tread a taut rope, A hippo to hop a hula hoop!
"Haiku#1" contest by Poet Destroyer A...

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Categories: taut, funny,
Form: Haiku
Feel the Drum
Listen to the dark
The silence of the drum calls
Feel the soft caress
Taut skin brushed my fingertips
Worship gathered on my lips...

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Categories: taut, life,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member tension
rope taut - moving between the ground and skyline,
                                                     up and down, left and right
...

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Categories: taut, imagery,
Form: Monoku
The Ptsd Beat
thin skin and taut thought

                                            cowering

                                  drumsticks everywhere...

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Categories: taut, anxiety, mental illness, sound,
Form: Senryu
Vain Glory
In vain,
The entire body had taut veins,
For vain glory,
Brought immense pressures,
To cut them down to size,
One looked for a good thresher....

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Categories: taut, inspirational, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Damocles Condemned
Swords
Drawn
Swiftly
From tarnished
Sheaths of bulbous flesh
Transforms pain into audible
Snippets of abhorrent venom sired by taut tongues....

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taut, inspirational
Form: Fibonacci
A Little Touch of Rubaiyat
Our black, firm, waists, so taut and thin,
the preferred drink was Saphire gin,
and in the dreamy cool black night,
beating hearts, living skin!...

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Categories: taut, sexy,
Form: Rubaiyat

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