Short What If Poems

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


Premium Member Risk

Stretch
Be bold
Adventurous
Dare
Consider options
Put yourself out there
What if...



AP: Honorable Mention 2021


What If

if I was king
there be many things
more love from above
more dreams
over power the mean
for all  share weather
WHAT IF

Alone

What if i woke up
before the day had started,
before there was life;
Loneliness is a poison,
Only the dead should endure
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Sunshine as Coffee

What if I drink a cup of sunshine 
Would that illuminate my mind
Would I be full of mystery 
Enlightened free from misery
Form: Rhyme

first date

boy nervous first date
what if she wants to kiss me
I never learn how
anxious checking the mirror 
hoping girl won’t show
Form: Tanka


Colors One

What if darkness was a color
And black the shade of day
Would we see the light at night
Or would we all still lose our way
Form: Rhyme

' Ask Yourself ... ' 72nd Senryu

‘Ask Yourself … ’  72nd   Senryu


 Have You Ask Yourself ? …
Just What If It’s Really True ...
GOD … His Son … and You ?
Form: Senryu

Mums Know Everything

OK,
what if 
my Mom was
right and I won’t 
be happy ‘til someone 
actually does lose an eye.
Is that what’s been missing?
Form: Shape

Premium Member Just Daydreams

They are just daydreams you say.
But what if daydreams come true?
Can we merely discount them?
Would this be the thing to do?

Premium Member Mad Money

MAD MONEY

what if gold were blue
how $ad monetary ' 
if it were still green

11/6/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018
Form: Haiku

Colors Two

What if truth was a color
Would it be your favorite one to wear
Would it fit you or hang loose
And would you wear it everywhere
Form: Rhyme

growing up

girl waiting for date
what if he tries to kiss me
she wore pink lipstick 
ringing doorbell time is here
hope he kisses me today
Form: Tanka

What If

What if ___'s dreaming all of us,
all the birds, trees, life and love,
all the stars and sky above
- trying to wake his self up.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Question

‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’
(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)
by Shakespeare


the scary part-what if there is no answer
Form: Monoku

Premium Member As If Waiting

a pallid pool
  leaves and flotsam
lethargic, desiccated
  as if waiting for 
a giant spoon to stir them
  what if it all freezes
Form: Imagism

The Concept

What if conception
Bore the concept
Of what had already been 
The conception
Would that mean
We are simply here for 
The concept

Ode To Bingo

Play some bingo - have some fun
So what if a bit of gamboling is done!
Maybe win the big blackout
Then "bingo" you will have to shout!
Form: Quatrain

What If

Take a breath

what if that was your last breath

Would you matter

Would you be remembered 

Now exhale

Go and be unforgettable

Premium Member What If

What if it’s all happening in a raindrop that is about to hit the window of a ’57 Chevy?


©11/13/2018

for The Raindrop Poetry Contest
Form: Monoku

Premium Member One of Us Mice

[for Joan Osborne]

What if god was a little mouse
Just a mouse in a little house
Just a stranger and a louse
Tryin' to get the cheese.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Heavenly Paradise-

What if paradise were in heaven it is it is paradise this heaven is? 4/4/22 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022
Form: Monoku

Premium Member so what if it smells

She could in the chamber resume
Her role holding off pending doom
Dianne Feinstein is fit
In the Senate to sit
If her body we’d only exhume
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Look deeper

take formless to be form invisible 
go beyond body mind and senses five
so what if space is imperceptible 
know the entire universe is alive
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member predicting next babys name

baby’s name is Earth
her brother is Fire
I can predict their next two sibling’s names
But what if they have five children?
What happens then?

If

If

By Nathan Hannen

If I could be just for you I would
If you said yes I know we could
The question remains what If we should

The End.
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