Short Tense Poems

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


Premium Member Present Tense

don’t hurry today...surrender to the present tense of thanksgiving!


PD's Contest: Solitude -- Monoku or ONE LINE poem #4
Form: Monoku


Tense

Yesterday,
Today,
Tomorrow,
I love you.

Certainty, not hope,
Knowledge, not belief. 

I,
You,
He, she,
We

Love, present tense.

Sure.

Tense

They never knew how much I cared
I let their kisses sink into my pores
letting them in resulted in many sores
Now I'm just a little girl running away scared

Tense Present

i got caught
thinking
thanking
thinking
in the
past

tense 
blessing
my blessings
and in another
religion religiously
casting a spell for the

future
Form:

Tense From Trump Pestilence

Tense from Trump Pestilence

The thought of Trump  made us tense;
He kept bugging us with his pestilence;
We must tattle;
Losing battle;
For it never received any recompense.

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


Premium Member Our Relationship

Our Relationship

our situation was extremely tense in the past
although in the present it is only slightly tense
why don’t we end our relationship
before it becomes too tense in the future

Up Tight and Tense

Up Tight and Tense

Often have gotten up tight and tense
When things never made any sense
And would end up in the air,
When with me did not share
Ideas or ever give me a few hints.

Jim Horn
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Form: Limerick

Premium Member Present Tense Visions Glance-

Many are the present tense; Mostly humbly passive glance; Morbid finds casual stance; Mainly passing visions glance; 6/21/23 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2023?
Form: Jueju

Tense

Tense

I am in tense
But this is my statment of sentence
Sentence observed my senses
Statment is tense
Tense my life with love vs morality
Is my statment of sentence.

With love all
Jagdish bajantri
Form: ABC

Premium Member A Past-Tense Message

Don't worry now about past tense,
It's gone, passe'~ no longer hence.
Forget all those words left unsaid,
moments still waiting, books unread.
The future will come, enticed or not
Enjoy the days time has brought.
© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Tense

What makes no sense is that which makes no sense Even the word sense makes no sense are you getting tense Even my therapist, Jean Jacques Flipped out in total shock So I attempted to explain but he turned out too dense... sorry!!!
Form: Limerick

In the Tense

Smothering white innocense
Soft as the fur above the paw
And we forssook our defense
To print tracks of joy in the raw
Cold freedom of your sweet pile
Until the sun differently shows
Our fairy fantasy in its hot defile
Emotion melts like sudden snows
Form: Verse

Tense Shoulders

So much pressure weighs 


on the shoulders


 of the oldest child.


She tries to hold it


but can’t grip on


and it all falls apart.


The life she wields


No longer can deal


With all the pressure


Of a family of five.
© Via DeLong  Create an image from this poem.

Day, Year, Time - Tense Free

I
Good day, good year, it's all NOW; there is truly only now, not three tenses.

II
Yesterday was experienced as toDAY, tomorrows only come to us each day, as ToDay. 

III
Tomorrow is a Lie humans conjure; only today is experienced by you and me (not First Cause).
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Didactic

Counting On My Tense

I am being shattered.
“Well, This is passive in parent continuous”
Said my Master, "you are right".

I was right in that occasion;
I will be right in few more –
I know 

Tense never bothered me  --
I will be  good at it anyway .
But master, when I say “I am being shattered”
I don’t mean tense
© Sadat Khan  Create an image from this poem.

Present Tense

Shake me with worry and rattle me with expectations 
As you would under a tree
Rip me open to see what my shell holds
Behold, not what you expected is it?
Cry to your family and explain to them what you were hoping for
Maybe they can exchange me for something else
Or maybe you will learn to love me

Premium Member I Will Be Future Tense-

Sometime tomorrow ; My future will come ; While in tomorrow ; Will I be alone ; Passionate yesterday's ; Have been fulfilled ; Are now gone ; Sometime tomorrow, I will be! Yesterday today I am fire tense;
6/30/21 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021

Tense Like Cactus 3

Have you ever thought
with an iced mind
its worse than swimming
in shallow water.
A coin received in hard days
Is like a cactus plant in the desert
An open mind Is bearable
like the leaves of a tree
useful to man and the soil
The days when you make a mistake
And your achievements sunk
to the existence of a zombie
among the living.
Form: Ballad

Present Tense

It seems
my past
is everything
I failed to be.

I am
a product
of my past
not a prisoner
of it.

I will 
not be
stuck in a labyrinth
thinking I'll
escape one day.

However, the clock ticks
hours pass
the past reverberates
the future recedes.

If the present
changes the past
looking back
I did not find

what I left behind.
~ ~

Premium Member The Forever I Feared

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The Forever I Feared 
David J  Walker

The Forever I feared
would last 
Three years
Before I  knew
The Army wasn’t really 
Meant to be forever 
Or was it?
	Or is it?
As I try and write 
It’s past explanation again
Where I am
		Or have been
In the prose of perfect since  
In the cadence of marching 
	Backward into 
The perfect future tense
Form: Rhyme

Tense Presented

Rolling in whiteline freedom
Tasting the fog's wet kisses
A hawk screams and wheels in explosive joy
Songbirds scatter and disappear
Wind pauses in disarray
Echoes of falcon screams 
Shiver in spines  attune to bagpipes
Life in present tense 
Soaring on highways of free
As surf echoes in a wayfaring mind
Rolling on moon pulled sea
Soaring forever
Free

Tense

Tense

A way to be sure
to leave dirt visible on turned stones
one more chance to make things right

all they can say is...
what they say
what ever is done, can be forgiven

when a voice speaks up
it runs the risk of being over-shouted, shut down
or perhaps, it makes a huge difference

if something is never said,
it festers, burns, spreads
a disease called regret.

Future Tense

The ghost of future past                                                                                                                                                                     lines chiseled upon his face                                                                                                                                                   at least they spelled my name right
© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Grook

Intense Tense

Just tense,
Doing many things,
At once,
Not one of them,
having wee bit sense,
many of them went astray,
tense began turning grey,
now error was the there more,
only a little correct came to fore,
now he was hopping mad,
as the tense became red,
he could have bust,
had he not opted for rest,
no sooner had he cooled,
he did another wrong,
and was again,
sounding loud the tense gong.

Premium Member Present Tense

Ate my favorite cookie
walking to the bathroom,
didn't enjoy it.

Thinking about my upcoming
vacation was better
than living it.

Caught myself rushing
to meditation class,
thought about it.

Clicked my alarm to pause
wanted more time,
I missed it.

Argued with my friend
never happens again,
I did it.

Savoring a chocolate delight
looking for more,
I'd ate it.

Stay present.
Lighten up.
© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.

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