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Short Twenty First Poems

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


Where's the Cure
it’s hard to believe
the twenty-first century
no cure for Cancer...

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Categories: twenty first, health,
Form: Haiku



Crawling Children
Dark lanes shadowed streets,
Twenty-first century blackout,
Silhouette nations....

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Categories: twenty first, africa, confusion, corruption, pain,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Twenty-First Century American Pastoral
Stock-still statues
  Bucolic totem-poles
    Munching fly-swatters 
      Lazily grazing ... 

Invisible to driverless cars...

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Categories: twenty first, animal, car, farm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Wife Ernestine
My Wife Ernestine 12/21/1944 Miracle Man 12/1/2023 Today is “Ern’s” day December the twenty First Happy Birthday Ern
...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: twenty first, birthday, wife,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Nineteenth Century Meets Twenty-first
 Tom Sawyer did three somersaults, a back flip, stood on his head

   Becky Thatcher scrolled up and down her device ~ said, 'Go soak your head'...

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Categories: twenty first, boyfriend, fantasy, girlfriend, literature,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member O, For a Plenipotentiary
Would that we had a plenipotentiary
    (Would that we knew what that was)

  Perhaps we'd empty the enemy's penitentiaries
    ~ by the end of the twenty-first century...

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Categories: twenty first, fantasy, giggle, word play, words,
Form: Rubai
A Twenty-First Century Nursery Rhyme
The cantankerous old Mr. Muffet
spoke nonsense and lies from his tuffet.
When you think that I may  
wax apophatic to say
I would never insult him, go stuff it!
       ~...

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Categories: twenty first, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Eat Red Meat
we eat red meat, fish, eggs 
and plants for food

we cut down trees to build our homes

in the twenty first century
history may look upon us 
as murders, cannibals, 
and a savage brood...

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Categories: twenty first, conflict, earth, earth day, environment, fish, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forgiven 21
A conscience; telling me to walk not;
But, temptation over powered.
Not listening to my mind,
sin took its course again.
Father, "FORGIVE me,
for this is the 
twenty-first
time with
her."


Pace, G
04-25-2012...

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Categories: twenty first, forgiveness, life,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member Modern Convenience

We are never alone 
if we have a cell phone. 
When we ride or walk, 
just pick up the phone and talk. 
In the twenty-first century, 
it's a convenience for you and me.

inspired by another member's poem.
...

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Categories: twenty first, people,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Political Intelligence
All over the world 
Innocent men
Women and children 
By the tens of thousands
Being put down

News ratings 
Poverty
Unemployment 
Rhetoric
Way up

Political intelligence
In the twenty first century
So far
Flat...

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Categories: twenty first, abuse, betrayal, business, life, murder, political,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Construction
The shortest distance between two points Is under construction it doesn't matter your choice Just like a drive in the country Cept fumes make your eyes runny It's the twenty-first century, it's time to rejoice
...

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Categories: twenty first, future,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Construction
The shortest distance between two points Is under construction it doesn't matter your choice Just like a drive in the country Cept fumes make your eyes runny It's the twenty-first century, it's time to rejoice
...

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Categories: twenty first, fun,
Form: Limerick
Heavenly and Impressive
H-eavenly and impressive, 
E-ach name implements quote; 
L-ovely lines of message
E-mploy phrases of
N-ote.

S-cribe's natal acrostics
A-re truly nice and creative; 
D-ecember twenty-first
D-ay is heavenly and
I-mpressive....

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Categories: twenty first, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Morning Sun Is Shining
M-orning sun is shining, 
E-vening chill fades away; 
L-onely twilight has passed, 
O-ctober twenty-first day. 
D-ark shadows disappear, as the new day is dawning; 
Y-our birth brings much mirth, for the morning sun is shining....

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Categories: twenty first, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
After the Long Cold Night
L-ight on windy Wednesday 
I-s brought to the day; 
N-o more mist and haze, 
D-ark shadows fade 
A-way. 

D-ecember twenty-first morn 
E-vades the Tuesday twilight; 
J-ust let the new dawn break, 
A-fter the long cold 
N-ight....

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Categories: twenty first, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
An American Songbird
Lovely Cardinal, Sitting on mail box in snow. Brilliant red feathers aglow. Sings winters solstice In time for Merry Christmas. Sun is far from equator. Giving solitude For the first day of winter, December the twenty first!
...

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Categories: twenty first, animals, holiday, nature, seasons
Form: Choka
Premium Member A Day a Year, But Do We Fear
It's December, the ~~ Twenty First, in twenty twelve The Mayans declared ~~~~¬ Their calender has ~~ Spoken, telling of pending Doom, for planet earth ~~~~¬ Is it internal ~~ Or will it be, external The bell tolls for we ~~~¬
...

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Categories: twenty first, history, people, places
Form: Senryu
Rapture
I obey and do as I am told
But poor Nigels now bought n sold

Awaiting me death on the twenty first O May
Harry Camping let me down not much to say

With re-calculation now its October twenty one
Let us prepare ready again to be finally gone...

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© Nigel Fox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: twenty first, devotionme,
Form: Couplet
Fountain of Water
O-n twenty-first January, 
S-aturday greets the blue lane; 
C-oal clouds have vanished, 
A-s well as the cold
R-ain.

S-ent graces from above
U-se the river near the plateau; 
L-et not the blessings run dry
I-n the fountain of water
T-oo....

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Categories: twenty first, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Just Let the Day Shine
J-ust let the light shine, 
A-s the dark passes from view; 
N-ovember twenty-first day 
E-arly morn leaves the blue. 

M-ake the clouds become white, 
A-s the sun brightens the skyline; 
E-arly dawn denies the gray, just let the light shine....

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Categories: twenty first, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
As the Dark Departs From You
As The Dark Departs From You
A-s the dark departs from you, 
I-t's a beautiful Tuesday; 
Z-enith has just cast 
A-ll shadows into the gray. 

S-unny morn March twenty-first 
U-ses the sky so blue; 
G-et up from the bed, 
A-s the dark departs from 
Y-ou....

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Categories: twenty first, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Why Do the Nations Rage As Plot a Vain Thing
Finding his world seeping amid turmoil where everyone....
Can view at the drop of one's hat; in her twenty-first century
Latter day rains hi-tech whirlpool million miles an hour vortex cruel ?
Reading another article it's grain be sand atop, cyclone shores: their abyss....

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Categories: twenty first, art, baby, cancer, love,
Form: I do not know?
An Ode To Love
A-n ode to love
N-ever ever brings anger; 
N-or it carries hatred
A-nd animosity anywhere.

R-egardless of the weather, 
E-arly twenty-first of June; 
P-urity fills the heart
U-sing the whole season.
Y-ears just roll on by, neath the heaven above; 
A-n acrostic has made an ode to love....

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Categories: twenty first, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Stink Bomb
Wherever you may be 
Let the wind go free
For the keeping of it in
Was the death of me!

A stink bomb deadly slow
Released on the twenty-first floor
Shifty eyes looking about
Open door to let it out!

3.8.2021
Sponsor: Charles Messina
Contest Name: When I Let one Loose in the Elevator....

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Categories: twenty first, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme

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