Short Truth Poems

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


Premium Member Idols

idols become gods
 leaving churches desolate
 like ancient ruins
 rising without glory
 but still reaching for heaven
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka


Premium Member Reality's Dawn

My dreams I followed 

Up imaginations' stairs

Reality dawned!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
     28 July 2017
Form: Haiku

Truth

Am no athiest but...
truth be told, it is,
infact,
TORMENTING...
how shallow religion,
can, may or is,
sometimes...
© Ray Write  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Premium Member A Bad Hair Day

What's the big deal? Once combed, all is right in the world again, am I right?




Date written: 10/28/2019
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Decisions

Decisions Haiku: by Tom 12/28/2020 Today’s decisions, determine eternity, for our later life.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku


Out of My Mouth

Slander like ivy,
Grows out of my mouth,
Maybe I shouldn't even if it grows anew.
Who am I to judge even if it's true.
© Mu Di  Create an image from this poem.

Absolutely Sure

No one can silence the clamor
of freedom...
Just as we can't stop
the morning light,
and the darkness of the night...
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Paper Fortune Teller

Unfold, now behold
The truth of how all answers
Are hidden within
Every folded, small facet;
Every fibre part of you.
Form: Tanka

Through the Maelstrom

The deeper you dig
the simpler it gets
Each question supplanted
—the truth in your debt

(Dreamsleep: October, 2022)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Embrace What Comes

look on, dear girl
your future lies ahead

dream big and dare
and don't look back


AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Polar Fraternity

The vagaries within
truth and falsity …
are greater than
 the differences between them

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

Premium Member Who Am I

to know truth
disappear
become it

he who seeks
exists not
save in dreams

mind of heart
when awake
is the Self
Form: Other

Premium Member On Translating Turbulent Tulips

    ‘Turbulent Tulips’ 
     cannot be translated to Vietnamese
 
     Neither can
       ~ ‘Peripatetic Peonies’
Form: Rhyme

Perfect Honesty

Doing the right thing,
Maybe I'm complicating
But I care too much;
What is perfect honesty
When everything has a price
Form: Tanka

Premium Member At the Core of Things

At the core of each existing thing, God's truth is hidden!








(c) Demetrios Trifiatis
          13 May 2016
Form: Monoku

I Wonder,

Jesus was said to have TWELVE disciples,
but did he have any friends?
Maybe if he did, they may have helped him instead.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Honesty

Honesty’s fair hand

Hypocrisy’s mask removes

Truth's revelation!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
  13 MARCH 2015
Form: Haiku

Between the Lines

Is reason the straightest road
to percipience 
Or is truth intuition
—memory’s black hole

(Dreamsleep: August, 2021)

Premium Member No More Than Human

why do believers 
           when facing moments of doubt 
                 just blame temptation

By 
David Kavanagh
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Condom Spoiler Alert

contraception dearth
                overpopulated earth 
                 kills infants at birth 

By
David Kavanagh
Form: Senryu

The Truth Hurts

Why does the truth hurt?
Because we lie
That’s no lie
Even, I lie

And That's the truth

That's why the truth hurts
© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.

Misunderstanding :: Reverse Cinquain

Failure to comprehend what's intended. miss-interpreted right made one infer wrongly. ~x~x~
© Pratap Roy  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Cinquain

Premium Member Warrior Spirit

bloody but unbowed
no retreat or surrender ~
faith unwavering



Date written: 09/10/2020
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Ignorance and Folly

Listening to the words of ignorance prisoner one becomes of folly!






© Demetrios Trifiatis
   19 November 2018
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Give and Take

life and death; adversaries since the first heartbeat ~ 
     are one with the Earth


Susan Ashley
February 16, 2018
Form: Monoku

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