Short Verbiage Poems

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


Armor Studded

Entrenched behind
his verbiage
Each word 
becomes a shield

Armor studded
hard to pierce
In phrases
— not to yield

(The New Room: August, 2026)
Form: Rhyme


Darkness Blackens

Say it simply
or not at all
The truth uncovered
in brief recall

Too often masked
in verbiage strewn 
Whose darkness blackens
— a sunless noon

(The New Room:  January, 2026)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member No Leaks, No Spewage

A tight-lipped President, Calvin Coolidge
Never prone to very much verbiage
   He kept his interviews brief
   Causing reporters much grief
Now we pine for his kind ~ That's a truage
Form: Limerick

Positivist Reflection

Despite living
supplying myself with cement
, steel and disgust...
Despite building me
daily verbiage walls,
I'm in a light spirit...
always ready to burst
in songs and laughter...!

Minus The Plus

Deficit of
wonder
climbing
the walls

Deficit of
verbiage
the message
forestalled

Deficit of
promise
the future
on hold

Deficit of 
time
eternity
— shoaled

(The New Room: August, 2024)
Form: Rhyme


The First Cut

Avoid needless
complexity
Say it
straight out

Frost and
then Hemingway
Set the rules
down

Between meaning
and verbiage
The idea
is king

Sharpen 
the point
The message
— the thing

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: January, 2024)
Form: Rhyme

Anonymous

I didn’t place my name 
Because I didn’t want the words tethered to me, 
I want no credit,
Hoping that the verbiage gives you sight. 
A prescription of my rose colored glasses. 
Hoping that each string of words are embroidered on your heart.

Water Divine

Have you built
a cathedral
with language
unblessed

Adopting an 
Angel
your spirit 
redressed

Have you
filtered the 
verbiage
with water Divine

The Savior
within
you
— still waiting to find

(The New Room: September, 2024)
Form: Rhyme

If Not Truth

What good is a poem,
if not to incent or inspire

Just flowering verbiage,
growing out of the mire

What comes from our verse,
if not truth yet released

Each word to enlighten
—in beacons of speech

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member QUESTIONING ATTITUDES-:-

QUESTIONING ATTITUDES-:-
conceiving
 anticipated
obduracy

typically
perceived
with AFFECTIONATE EMPATHY
harmonised
 endlessly
gestures

effectively
stated
in IMPARTIAL ANECDOTALS
fascinatingly
  extolled
commonplace

everyday
verbiage
Form: Other

Void

Mere anarchical obstinacy
Is their sad anthem all over;
Stubbornness steeped in lunacy
Is their sole claim to fame. 

Who can stand their inane guises,
Their thoughtless mouthings tolerate?
Verbiage for verbiage’s sake is their vibe;
Sheer affection for baseless hate.
Form: Bio

Wasted Breath

If your verse
is not remembered
Then all that time
was lost

Pretty words
and clever lines
Will melt
like Winter’s frost

If what you say
is subject
To what the wind
will blow

Time better spent
the less you vent
All verbiage
— to forego

(Dreamsleep: January, 2026)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Soupsters Unite And Write-

Soupsters Unite And Write! Life time member Friendly I am poetic graced by words of Elohim Verbiage a custom Soupsters Unite And Write! No English major Superspouper Suprdoper lingusted brewer I come to ya Soupsters Unite And Write!
9/16/24

Tennis With A Net

The thing 
about rhyme
is you can’t help
but read it

The glue
in the verbiage
whose tonic 
is needed

Uniting
each line
with the magic
of sound

Melding the
moment
as phrases
— surround

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024) O/L 9-23-2024


... Famous Quote By Robert Frost
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member PROMPTED RHETORIC REPUTATIONS

PROMPTED RHETORIC REPUTATIONS
orgiastic
 verbiage
 seething
   irresistibly 
then
 pouring 
   forth 
in
extraordinary
    existential 
preoccupations 
of  notable 
now
enlightened
themed
  insights
 mysteriously
 striking 
a
distinction 
utterly 
irrationally
   visual idioms    

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Form: Verse

Cold and Never Hot

Some Poets use big words
  to try and go 
  where they’ve been banned

And wander esoteric
  into notions 
  barred to them

They layer on the verbiage,
  hoping to become 
  what they are not

And bastardize the language,
  running cold 
  and never hot

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Heaven Conducts

Expressions
of spirit
the music
plays on

Beyond any
verbiage
or words
come and gone

At high
elevations
each note
takes you up

To reach 
into heaven
where feelings
conduct

As harp
strumming Angels
with harmony
strong

Play chords
of acceptance 
to guide
— you along

(1st Book Of Prayers: June, 2025)
Form: Rhyme

This Is Not a Poem

This is verbiage
It is not a poem
And I'm not going to use 
the word like, love, desire, entice, 
tempt, enlighten, spirit, or soul
because this is NOT a poem
This is merely some verbiage
So, I'm going to use the words
however, therefore, I think, I 
believe ( well maybe not); 
the time is at...timeout..
Remember this is verbiage

Premium Member Molehills To Mountains

Molehills To Mountains Tom’s Thoughts 3/2/2020 When Politicians dare to interpolate, Using verbiage to change how we relate. All are drinking from a polluted fountain, Trying to produce a “meadow muffin” mountain. Without their utilizing a single steer, They're causing our country's landscape to look drear.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Touch Me Not

Butterfly interrupted.
Fear grips the flowers
eaten by the winds.

I seek the guilt for
not walking on the dunes
to build a sky.

The cracked roof
lets in the rain. I 
drench my driftwood.

One day a god will sit
on my altar to speak
to ailing mother-

earth hauling away
the burden of waste
of human verbiage.


Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC

Viva La Viva

V vaunts verbiage vociferously.
Visage viewed very vacuous                            			
Vacillates varyingly,
Venting valentine versus violence

Vast, versatile, variant,
Vehement vituperations volunteered: 
Voices voice virtuously
Voices voice vulgarly

V very veracious,
Versal vortices visualized,
Versal volages visualized,
V’s  valedictory.
Form: Quintilla

Premium Member Rendering--

undress-- render to me those fault clothing; those appeasers that hinder your pours; unshackle-- unloose those harness; mental verbiage from your past; lock up the presents past being the future tense; unveil the crossings over; over cross the veil; un... -RENDERING
7/2/19 Written words by James Edward Lee. Sr. © 2019

Birthing the Verse

An elusive virtue drives the urge
for a bard’s excessive verbiage purge
The obscure phrase one seems to splurge
begins clear meaning to submerge
and song becomes a funeral dirge
as lovely phrases each diverge

One strives to make them all converge
by adding words to coax the merge
and blend them so they may emerge as
“Wow! Look at that beautiful sunset!”
Form:

A Debt Paid In Prose

Inspiration strikes,
Perspiration rife,
Takes a hold,
Yearning for footing.

Unexpected muse,
Self reflective tools,
She helps bring,
Healing and focus.

Charismatic tongue,
An automatic lunge,
From my minds eye,
To her purt lips.

I forgot a part of her,
Yet,
She knows a part of me,
Connected,
More so now than ever.

Thank you is,
Wasted verbiage,
I owe you though,
Gartered lineage.

Pretentious

I shared my florid words 
about our torrid love 
with an ardent lover, 
who exclaimed propitiously 
that they were astonishing;
then solicitously, 
she asked me to elucidate,
how did this prestidigitation occur;  
from whence did I extricate
these words of exultation,
these harmonic chords of verbiage,
that resonated so intimately
with her psyche.

When the real question is:
how did they find me?

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