Short Unraveling Poems

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


Premium Member Seeds Unraveling

seeds unraveling into branches
branches spawning into flowers
flowers dispensing their fruit
fruit distributing their seeds
© ... Gigno  Create an image from this poem.


Echo of Him

He said he loved me,

yet still left me.

If he loved me, how could he hurt me?

Forever, I will love him

the way he could never love me.
© Adan Noor  Create an image from this poem.

Cobblestone

Wounds once buried beneath soft steps,
now echo through me, stone by stone undone.

Contest: Crystalline Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Date: June 14, 2025

Premium Member SHAPE OF BALANCE

Chaos unruly, shifting spinning, scattering, unraveling whirlwind, motion, stillness, symmetry aligning, settling, forming steady, intentional Order
Form: Diamante

Gentle Frustration Slowly Unraveling

in silence
i declare violence 
a warm chill rises from the former latter
yet i am just another person in search of something better beautiful
in noise
i perfect my poise
© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member trees in the wind

tree branches are ruffling and rustling
shimmering, shaking, talking among themselves
unraveling their secrets
flowing in a natural rhythmic way
manipulated by the north wind

Premium Member Sad Thoughts While Smoking

Smoking all while it is heavily but gently snowing.
Smiling through thoughts that are so saddening and so unraveling. 
Staying strong as usual through all of what is separating.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Denouement

The sun awakes each early morn
Bright sky glows its colors adorn

Nothing but jeans tattered and torn
Wit unraveling and voilà... a poem born
	


AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Exhale

Soft fingers drift like waves along the shore  
Unraveling the days tight knots once more  
A hush blooms deep where quiet starts to pour  
And every breath sinks lighter than before
Form: Quatrain

Time

Time is such an unforgiving *****
She is always unraveling you
Stitch by stitch.
She is constantly riding you
Taunting you along the way
She is testing your faith
And refusing to stay.
age
Form: Lyric

Anymore

]The letter
To the 
Battle scared 
Soldier
Unfolding,
Speaking of
Home
Voices weeping 
In the dark
Hands ringing and
Unraveling,
The letter
From home
We don't
Hear from
You anymore

Premium Member Unraveling Maigc 9

Cosmic chrysalis,
chaotic change;
Pure and positively poisonous, 
play with that potential;
Sting or stay a succubus,
stylish and succinct;
Cocoon of ceremonious
unraveling
contemplative chrysalis.
Form: Other

Unraveling

Grasping at straws
In hopes to cope
Collecting flaws
A heavy cloak

One by one
She picks apart
Goals, undone
Bleeding heart

A homely sight
She has become
Though options bright
She’s come undone
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Home

Home is where
your heart is suppose to be
Mine feels so very far away
I am missing something in life
What??
I don't know....
My heart is unraveling
into broken pieces
that no one will ever
put together

Nature At the Theater

Rays of the sun shift thru the trees
warming  flora at dawn’s awakening, 
The stillness will loosen its harness 
unraveling sounds in the making,
which will summon the day to yawn
and nature will take the stage
Form: Rhyme

Day of the Dead

i do bleed
i do 
As when life is
fighting to 
bruise me
i do bleed
i do
AND
i express 
 m y s e l f 
in a slow
unraveling roll
of energetic
stress /and\
i love you
forever &
always.

:: 02-09-2017 ::

Premium Member Soft Smiles

Soft smiles 
creeping, hesitating; 

Mending, 
I keep slowly unraveling; 

Soft smiles 
continually calling my bluff;

Mending, 
You’re slowly stitching my heart;

Mending soft smiles;
I think I want to smile back.

Premium Member Dear Cheryl

Dear Cheryl

My time here – in here – is rapidly unraveling.
It will be soon – when I begin travelling
back to the place and space I call home.
From this adventure- possibly never more to roam.

B. J. “A” 2
September 23rd 2005
Form: Rhyme

Fall Flowers

The flowers have died back, back into the darkening sun. I did not see them wither they fell between the light the way dead things do when not being watched. I only saw a last unraveling of the no longer there.

Premium Member Reaching

You humble me, undoubtedly, 

Unraveling my sweater at the seam,

Denying my flesh its covering,

Exposing my shameful nakedness,

Every unexpressed weakness.

You tear even deeper,

Lacerating my skin,

Reaching for my soul to let You in.
Form: Rhyme

Unraveling Faith

I
Tangles
Life in bang - les and jangles
One angle
Unravels the tangles
One bang - le at a time

II
My only angle 
Of untying any tangle
Is to hop on Faith - plane
Even if time made it a debris jungle
Faith rescues me every time
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Scatter'D Over Her Robes


Pizzoulini--

Unraveling  dreams, she spreads her wings
Child of earth leaves her peaceful bowers
Hailed by the golden rays of sun
Kissed by the morning air
That scatters o'er her vestal robes
Rich tints of beauty rare.



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Unraveling

(this actually a rondolet, a shortened form of rondeau)

Unraveling 
Stitches from our wedding quilt
Unraveling
Your so-called “business traveling"
Anniversary streamers of guilt
25 years - the life we built
Unraveling


12/1/11
Received 1st place
Form: Rondeau

Untitled 4

Overtired,
Tears streaming down my face,
Gentle snoring,
Thinking and hoping about the next day,
Wondering and wishing about the future,
Trying to discover myself,
Unraveling my emotions,
Overtired,
Tears streaming,
Gentle snoring,
Thinking of life.

New True Beginnings.....

Blue
Up to My Shoulders....
I remember him
Would he want me to remember?
What he left behind...
my world still unraveling...
in ribbons...
catching them...
as they fall in perfect seasons....
and half of me
knows the truth...
the other half...
asleep......
Form: ABC

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