Short Troughs Poems

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


Life's troughs

no more time
to shed
tears

no more lies
to feel
truth

no reason
to be
nice

nothing left
to fear
loss

no vision
to see
God
Categories: troughs, life,
Form: Tristich


Return To the Stars

If we remember to look at horizon and sky
The Universe draws us higher, whispers a reply
We all are stardust yet somehow so earthy
Humans eschew solid troughs, for color & crest (the showy)
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: troughs, allusion, analogy, beach, creation, culture, education, water,
Form: Epigram

Every Word

for any second of her happiness
yeah Shakespeare up here
Take this
What tea is the tee in the tea hee
i twirled a twine of twisted tendril
troughs of would trace tree face nots and knots to be
wood i notice
Categories: troughs, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Snakebite

I was listening to electronic music,
And i could see peaks and troughs of the beats,
With my mind hand i reached out and caught it,
A real live wire,
Then i recoiled in shock,
An electric bite from the thousand year snake.
Categories: troughs, imagination
Form: I do not know?

Thinking About Waves

I ought to wave at a wave
Not the third or fourth Covid wave
But that about which a surfer might rave
A wave is one of a set
Molecules of water ripples, more ripples yet
Until a wave is but 
Part of a series
Of waves of crests
and troughs
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: troughs, analogy, water, wind, world,
Form: Rhyme


Winter Love

WINTER LOVE

You were a ghost among brown leaves;
I followed you
through troughs driven by the wind– 
you were a ghost,
and as you passed, the flowers
died by the roadside, the willows ceased,
and the cranes in the brake
cried once and rose.
Categories: troughs, love, youth,
Form: Imagism
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Power

Power is an intoxicating spice
Oily politicians line the public troughs with it
Wealthy corporations dress it up in lofty mission statements
Erotic mistresses ooze it to extract favors from lovers
Reformers inevitably glom onto it to achieve dubious ends
Categories: troughs, business, money, political, power, sexy,
Form: Name

My Wake

Sails upon my planet
A ship of cooling granite
Across the depths of time and space
Barely do I leave a trace

White caps and troughs erase my wake
Time will heal my neighbors ache 
I leave no crease upon earth’s shoal
Sails affixed to my soul

11/11/2019
Categories: troughs, absence, boat, death,
Form: Rhyme

Wild World

waves as tall as a building
with troughs as deep as a lake
many sail in this wild world
the atlantic waits






Natural Dodoitsu Free Poetry Contest 

Penned by Seren Roberts    on 3rd December 2012






Natural Dodoitsu Free Poetry Contest Details

Penned by Seren Roberts
Dated 3rd December 2012
Categories: troughs, nature, ocean, december, poetry,
Form: Dodoitsu

Breath Gold

" BREATH GOLD " There were the crests , There were the troughs , With every breathe that grows . Your matter as attire , Concatenate the souls on fire . For now and forever . To just breath gold , And let hold .
S•R• @thatoneshe_
Categories: troughs, change, destiny, emotions, encouraging, poetry, power, strength,
Form: Light Verse

In Spring

In Spring

In spring water troughs 
fart all the 
musical notes, butterflies go to 
Collage school, four-leaf clovers babysit 
bulldogs, placemats collect bits of 
string to 
make balls, lichen await letters from 
royalty all over 
the world, sticks go for 
runs, not to 
lose weight, but just for 
fun.
Categories: troughs, humor,
Form: Free verse

Crest

Among such smog-soaked folk
As curdle-coil in cloud-spun smoke

Along the grain-cut naves
Which, God-heavy, lie stiff as staves

On sad-strung ouds, yet creep
In concrete-crumbled static sleep

Over cambered cities.
Whose peaks and troughs ebb with pities;

A ring-road tidal flow
With human crest now sunk below...
© Dan Keir  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: troughs, city, identity, innocence, life, people, urban, work,
Form: Verse
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STRANDED

A gentle surf ruffles cold sand
They sit reveling in its scent
Shivering in its distant breezes

Sharing a memory of valor
Pummeled by an angry sea
Riding the curling troughs

Crabs plays hide and seek
Beneath their weathered forms
Seagulls shriek in frustration

They sit
Preserved by an ocean’s need
To remember
Categories: troughs, age, love, sea,
Form: Verse

A New Year Wish - Intrinsic Motivation

Intrinsic motivation 
The cogs to elevation
To tick over and over
Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock 
To persevere, persist and permeate 
Whatever life may throw 
To ride the peaks & troughs
Till a perfect storm of dastardly acts
A kangaroo short of a circus
Came home to roost
An existential crisis…
Begone…asap
To begin anew
Intrinsically motivated
Categories: troughs, adventure, destiny,
Form: Free verse

Hourglassed Symphony

Sands streaming through my identity
Who I was and what’s to come
     The pinnacle and troughs spinning 
Invisible in speeds slow and fast
     Above trials now and forgotten

     Existence cycles with imagination
Ever dispersing thinly
     As the midnight sands crest and fall
The wind tolling flat chimes
     Death reads the last stanza
Categories: troughs, imagination, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
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Lack of Reason

Many miles traveled
Many lessons learned
Many thing unraveled
Many times, burned

Patching up pain
Healing day by day
Lies leave a stain
I go on my way

Through troughs so narrow
I can barely fit
So, I listen to the sparrow
As I watch it flit 

Lack of reason
Swirls with a cyclone
In winds of the season
I stand alone

Heidi Sands

11/5/17
Categories: troughs, angst, bird, change, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
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The Sprinkler

THE SPRINKLER  

Moving hoses
           Of flowing,
                   Flowering,
                             Movement.
Running in rills to troughs of sand,
Pressing passages through the stones.
Pools well with
         gurgles
                  splashes,
Thundering falls with mist skirts
            of pearls strung
                     on summer breezes.
© Wm Paul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: troughs, life,
Form: Free verse

Travelin'

Keep it on the road,
Keep truckin', keep shakin' the load

Keep ridin' the troughs and crests,
Keep floatin', keep sailin' toward your best

Now chug, chug on down the tracks,
Getaway, far away from lack

And oh, keep lookin' up toward the sky,
Flex your wings; now get out and fly

Just move, keep movin' intently, 
Keep travelin' toward your beautiful destiny
Categories: troughs, confidence, courage, destiny, devotion, dream, moving on,
Form: Rhyme
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Trident of Living

Yesterday is wrapped loosely
in the barbs and silky vapor of memory
Tomorrow is a Mahogony wall of steep hope 
slippery anxiety -
the what if ascensions and virtual vertical falls
the Present is a awkward roll on an ocean
of crimson crests and sable troughs
perfumed sails and bow crushing sirens
flashes of flippers and fins-
sudden slashes and clicks
the tapestry of grand sudden sorrow.
Categories: troughs, life,
Form: Free verse

Plaster Fell From Corner Making Me a Mourner

say you are master
of what became disaster
problems with plaster

Small piece fell from corner
making me become mourner
need plaster adorner

Pine straw in eaves troughs 

water on my deck
so oh well and what the heck
caused wreck on my deck

ite in wreck

plaster fell from ceiling
which really sent me reeling
never appealing 

what was revealing
my fanatical feeling
from me were stealing
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: troughs, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Seagulls

The gulls are low, not skimming, but surfing spray just above the rise and fall of crests. Beaks scythe and catch tracking troughs. They seek the in-between fish thrown between tumbling parapets of ocean. Trawling gullets scoop, gulp the spew. Swigging necks do not glance back but plow circles of light upon the water, then they dive upwards into the wings of the wind.
Categories: troughs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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Green Water Avalanche

T -shirt man took his cell phone for a walk
his mutt, was just a four-legged after-thought
sniffing out an angel from the wildflower troughs...
but T-shirt man jerked him by the neck
over and over and over again.

I was trapped by T-shirt man's
underwater tuba cell phone drone
and the mutt's giant wiggly anus.
I slowed down to gain them distance.
They soon disappeared 
beneath a green water 
dream avalanche.
Categories: troughs, dog,
Form: Free verse

The Indian Ocean -Sonnetina Due

The Indian Ocean is mean and deep
And careless sailing often death doth reap
It’s wild and vast a lonesome place to be
Needing to ply these waters has no glee
Angry relentless waves tall meters high
And troughs below seem to hide sails from sky
There’s no release from swirling spay and foam
Steersman needs lion’s heart to bring us home
Course is set by compass, not by sextant
Person who sent us here has a hellish bent.
Categories: troughs, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Glimpses

The grass waved hello
the birds called back.
Telegraph poles stood still 
like tall slender trees.
the birds liked that.
the crickets a constant tickle in the ear,
swathes of brown grass bouncing back after drought,
three troughs haphazard on a patch without
any grass. Bare dark earth.
the raven makes its cry
under a bright grey sky,
on a swampy, sweaty day .
my dog companion at my feet

"Come on then, let's go home."
Categories: troughs, appreciation, beauty, dog, earth, nature, senses,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member

Musings On Poetic Metre, Rhythm, and Song

Rhythm’s a trick of deft poets,
     who know the pulses of their feet
give lines their tempo. And so it’s
     like a poem’s pulsating heartbeat;
it’s hypnotic (and you know it’s
     metric),—so drink in its potent beat!

When one hears a song’s rich measure
     (the crests and troughs of its music,
the ebb and flow of its leisure),
     it tunes like a score symphonic, 
an orchestra of paced pleasure  
     with a sound and style that’s epic!
Categories: troughs, drink, magic, music, poems, poets, stress,
Form: Rhyme
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