Short Vignette Poems

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


Premium Member Vignette-Heartbreak Hotel

A choirboy from Tupelo
Soon saw his fame grow,
From a gospel sound
To world-wide renown-
Ends suddenly in Memphis town.
Form: Narrative


Premium Member My Choice Vignette

Showdown

The hand
ticks toward noon,
main street quiets,
a voice call out  -
make my day....

Clint makes his play

Premium Member NATIVITY a VERSE vignette

a maiden from Nazareth
fully human,never divine
in a stable did confine
brought forth a child-
human,Jesus,saviour..mine
Form: Rhyme

First Bite

Literary vignette,
snippet of truth

A little bit pregnant
—baby’s first tooth

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Vignette-All of a Zither

Across Vienna's old town
In a sewer underground,
They tracked down..Harry LIme,
A Third Man in a crime-
To music so sublime.
Form: Narrative


First Bite

Literary vignette,
  snippet of truth

A little bit pregnant,
—baby’s first tooth

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Vignette-The Plot Thickens

The lieutenant & his woman
An actress & her leading man,
A boy meets girl tale,
It happens every day-
In a play within a play.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Vignette-Magnificat

a maiden from Nazareth
fully human,never divine
in a stable did confine
brought forth a child-
divine+human,Jesus,saviour..mine

Scrapbook


Fingers
turn yesterday—
paper sighs low,
pressed petals, crooked keys,
laughter fading into hush
slowly.





Vignette
Form: Verse

Premium Member A Paradox Vignette

His music was to cause a riot
As Stravinsky lost the plot,
Beethoven ...it was not-
This rite of Spring
Soon made the critics sing.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member A Keats Vignette

In our poetic firmanent
Keats is a brightest star;
he died,he thought a failure-
history judges otherwise,
true poetics ,never dies
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member The Bride - VIGNETTE

wind whispers secrets so sweet
his dark figure casting a shadow
as he looms gently over her
tracing the curve of her lips real slow
Form: Other

Premium Member Vignette-Sound Bite

The sun was high
Throats were burning dry,
The wagons circled round,
Hearts began to pound-
It's too quiet....was the prophetic sound.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Vignette-Tom Boy

Jane could ride
Jane could shoot and fire,
Dressing in men's attire,
Through her glass ceiling broke free-
Labelled..then..a calamity.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Vignette-A Kiss Too Far

As his menage a trois shows
For Rodin,Camille & his Rose
And the old adage goes-
Two's company,they say
But three was a crowd,everyday.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Vignette -As Time Goes By

Night club lights dimming low
The pianist  taking his bow
Play it again....Sam -
Across the smoke-filled room
A haunting ,tinkling tune.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Vignette-Pseudonyms

Simon and Garfunkel
Guitar ready and in hand
Made hit as a sixties band-
The Tom & Jerry duo change of name
Bringing forth popular fame.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Vignette-Currer Ellis and Acton

Emily,Charlotte +Anne
using pseudonym of a man,
their writing soon rang a bell-
with talent so secure
their literature still sells well.
Form: Verse

Silkworm


Hidden
among the green,
its mouth hums low—
a thread starts, slow and soft,
dreaming a world it never
witnesses





Vignette
Form: Verse

THE BRIDE’S DREAMS - VIGNETTE

sweet smell of her envy perfume
drowned that stench of betrayal play
stygian smile blurred by church-white veil
her heart habitually astray
Form: Other

Premium Member Vignette-Great Escape

They couldn't stay the course
So they built a wooden horse-
Out from tunnels in the ground
Freedom,was their cry,
But ,so many were to die.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member A Song of Solomon-Vignette-Love's Song

A song of songs
Of a love so strong,
A serenade of love-
The inexpressible,now heard
Spelt out ,in passion's word.

Full story @Song Of Solomon
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Vignette -On the Beach

Prone,lying side by side
Lapped by an ebbing tide,
Together upon passion's ride-
In love's embrace enlocked
This watershed,no longer shocks.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Vignette-Without Words

In his twenties band
Louis ' music fell from his hand,
The lyrics left his head
He used his voice instead-
Scat-singing then,baked his bread.
Form: Narrative

Staircase


Shadows
clinging to steps,
grain worn by years~
voice drifts between each tread,
pausing where the past often
hesitates




Vignette
Form: Verse

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