Short Widow Poems

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


Black Widow

I was caught in her web
of lies, deceit and murder.
For love I played the sap.
Like a fool I was gonna 
take the rap!


Premium Member Black Widow

black widow webbing
intricate labyrinthine
deceptive deathtrap 



AP: Honorable Mention 2022, Honorable Mention 2020
Form: Haiku

Rose Meadow 2

Rose Meadow 
A twenty five years widow 
Always looking by the window 
With her eyes on the street below 

May 11, 2023
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member God Had A Purpose

God's Purpose Miracle Man 8/10/2028 The Widow Maker, Sudden Cardiac Arrest, God had a purpose.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Clerihew Cuyp

Son of a painter Aelbert Cuyp
married a rich widow pretty quick
Art he was no longer a fan
so because a notable politician
Form: Clerihew


Premium Member The Web

mocking
innocence
black widow
hung in her web
teasing paassersby
so curious
that curiosity
became
a webbed experience

The Widow

The widow sits there 
Myriad thoughts passing by 
All of them numb 
Not wanting to cry 
They were a pair 
Now,it is done
Form:

The Widow

The widow sits there 
Myriad thoughts passing by 
All of them numb 
Not wanting to cry 
They were a pair 
Now,it is done
Form:

Premium Member Ashes On a Clock

...
clock
freezes
on ashes,
new bride…widow,
denied of  flowering seasons, untold.


7/13/2016
For Eve Roper
Form: Tetractys

Premium Member Sole Food

meal tray on her lap
dining table set for two
mocking the widow

Competition 'get your Senryu on'.
Submitted 11th April 2015
© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Black Widow

Heed the red hour glass 
Not her taut, tightly-spun web 
A widow maker 
Recluses in dark spaces 
Lingering for love-lost prey
© Alan Reed  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

Sir Prize

A widow would frequently cry
And then snuggle up to a guy
She'd lick her lip
Undo his zip
And shriek, "Not another small fry!"
Form: Limerick

Widow of Zarephath

Flour and oil are running out
So are bread and butter
It’s been one pestilence of drought
Which causes wizened grass to flutter.
Form: Rhyme

Nights Out

Darkness surrounds dusk
Clown beetles saunter about
Sought by desert rats
Moths gather at lit porches
As the black widow gorges
Form: Tanka

Consuela Abuelita Ramirez Meets Little Miss S

The Black Widow Spider meets;
     And by the strength of its teeth,
     And the end of its long leg's feet...
     It defeats.

Premium Member A Kindly Coin

the stranger, orphan, widow poor
  all our means to God's grandeur

a helping hand, a kindly coin
  heaven's partnership is joined
Form: Couplet

Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry
overlapping titanium sails strike some as scary
Bilbao the first
lately the Disney Widow said i just love being coerced.
Form: Clerihew

Inside of the Red Rose

eight legs wide
an array of eyes
a red hourglass
that glows
from her side, but
the black widow spider
lives inside of
the red rose

Pew Poop

The widow of Codswallop House
Was observed not wearing a blouse
It seems our vicar
Succumbed to liquor
And pretended to be her spouse
Form: Limerick

moon dance

dancer of the night
veiling dark unveiling light
widow to sun bride


Eighth Place Winner- Brian Strand-Just Jan 2025 posted-1/31/25
Form: Senryu

Near Widow

the woman with threadbare clothes
takes out the wedding dress
that was never worn--
she still waits for a soldier
after all these years
Form: Tanka

Jeri At Tricks

Saint Patrick blessed the widow Lloyd
Whose talents would have dazzled Freud
She welcomed in
God's randy men
And all of them died overjoyed!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Christmas Joy

A widow with hair white as snow
Decided to give love a go.
So to bring Christmas joy
Santa left her a toy.
Though it wasn't as good as a beau.
Form: Limerick

Cycle Paths

A Black-Widow spider may mate
With her tastiest dinner date
Her children may wonder
If she made a blunder 
Though they cannot wait to test fate!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The Weeping Widow

The weeping widow wept as she tended to his fatal wounds, the winds whispered through the woods, the widows wailing woke the howlings of the wolves.

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