Short Tragedy Poems

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


Living In Tragedy

Killing reality,
I'm living in tragedy,
Whimpers of cries,
Catches my eyes,
Fog up my vision,
I had made my decision.
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Sad

In the learning of the world and it’s pain, it’s rules and it’s sadness
I’ve unlearnt myself 
And that is the true tragedy.

Premium Member Neck

I ain't gonna walk no more, no more
I ain't gonna walk no more
Got in a wreck and broke my neck
I ain't gonna walk no more.
Form: Lyric

The Double Edge

The tragedy of accident,
the wonderment of fate
imprisoning destiny
—on whose steps we wait

(Dreamsleep: September, 2021)
Form: Rhyme

Transcience

lightning thunder peals
laughter flashing smiles vanish
in a blink of eye
illusions fleeting binders
what is what was, tragedy
Form: Tanka


Tragedy

Thought this was a fairy tale, 
Thought you were my happy ending, 
But this is a tragedy, an epic fail,
I'm broken and bending.
Form: Rhyme

Calendar

In it, the calendar, every day,
           tragedy, celebration,  gains, losses...
           it's fête, fiesta, always party ...
Form: Epigram

--Two New Lines--

God rest ye
       merry Gentlemen
     Let nothing you dismay
     the tragedy and Harshness
     We'll face on a brand new Day.

Change

Car crash train wreck tragedy 
far has pain trekked after me 
scar gash stain trick catastrophe 
discard mash drain reject strategy
© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Christmas Day Tragedy

Christmas day--
as neighbors celebrate
he lays in the bath,lifeless!




CONTEST:"NOT SO HAPPY HOLIDAYS" sponsored by Andrea Dietrich.
Form: Senryu

The Shape of My Heart

Loneliness, leave your mark
Though, tragedy keeps us apart
World, come out of the dark
Baby, let me show you
The shape of my heart
Form: Lyric

Reverse Polarity

It's a tragedy
When you make friends with shadows
By switching your fears,
And turning hours of darkness
Into havens from the light
Form: Tanka

Premium Member When the Time Comes

When the time comes

Stand-in waits in the wings
Practicing lines, murmuring inaudibly
For time to become
Born off a tragedy
Form: Verse

Toffee Apple Tragedy

A little boy had a big lick
Of a toffee apple on a stick,
His tongue got stuck
When he had a huge suck,
Poor little red-tongued Rick.
Form: Limerick

Empty Abundance

Empty,
A tragedy of darkness,

Abundance,
A catastrophe of light,

How do they expect you to sleep,
When the sun burns through the night,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member From Tragedy

(another really nice thing I saw on the news the other day)

waiting periods waived
adoptees meet new families
blessings from tragedy
Form: Senryu

The Tragedy

Steve just wanted to go and mow.
He had just stubbed his toe.
He was in bad pain
It was in his brain.
For him it was his all time low.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The Lighter Side of Tragedy

   Where were you when JFK was shot
      Who were you suing

   A lawyer who can't remember that
      ~ his amygdala needs re-cuing
Form: Rhyme

Growing Pain's.......

Tragedy of human affairs
        fledgling...a comedy of errors
             incidental....accidental
    awkward,as we clumsily stumble

Premium Member Clerihew Haydon

Benjamin Robert Haydon of hgh endeavour
a comic-tragedy in days of yoreda
He used State patronage you see
then a socially desirable policy
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Beyond the Borders

Folks eat and sleep and go to work 
     unaware that danger lurks

   Beyond the border of acceptability
     lies self-inflicted tragedy
Form: Couplet

Tragedy

I have had my share of happy endings
But I would be lying if I said
That I wasnt truly, madly, deeply, 
Hopelessly in love with tragedies

Towords My Expressions

"Do you mirror my thoughts,
In all what I express inside,
Transfers my tragedy of life,
the way i found safety within my own mind."

-Ds-
Form: ABC

Premium Member The Tragedy of Christmas

The time approaches,Advent is nigh
That innocent child, sent from on high,
Will to our sinful earth descend
And for our sad sins meet his end
Form: Kyrielle

Premium Member Sequence-Symbol Signs

Daisy
and nettle,
poppy petal,
willow weeds..symbol
life's deeds-
pain and
innocence,
forsaken love-
tragedy lies beneath
death's sheaf
Form: Cinqku

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