Short Word Poems

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


What Makes Me Tick

The empty page of an old sage is what needs to be filled.
To instill peace and then engage in what should not be killed.
Form: Couplet


A Peach and a Speech

The bigger/the richer/the faster the peach, 
the better the chance to catch up someone's speech.

Volodymyr Knyr
2014
Form: Couplet

Sunken Sailor

Tie one on
Yesterday I went to port
Today I'm going to court
I'm just a sad sailor
And I'm in jail
That's all I know
© Jim Bowron  Create an image from this poem.

Bad Rhyming Muse

I never wanted she
trimming my words

I always wanted muse
icon not to be blues





so much Tuesday 14.06.2016

My Ten-Word Poem

Hello To you, fellow
Please, open your
Heart's window.

Rita Solis Radius. My ten-word poem! Tuesday, June 3 rd 2014.
Form: Couplet


Premium Member Movement of Sound

PIACEVOLE

It rolls from
the tongue this
agreeable
word
like music
from heaven

See my recent blog on this topic
Form: Verse

Premium Member God

Even if you’re just a concept,
or a guy named Ralph from Andromeda,
thanks for all your help, and
Word to your muthuh.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Cannonball

round metal object
placed inside long cylinders
drop shoot cannon ball

3/29/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018
Form: Haiku

Increasing the Weight

Poetry…
barbell of the written word

Resistance exercise
—for the status-quo

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

Late To Supper

Ed said he was a cannibal
How could he be any bolder?
Even so, when he got home late
All he got was the cold shoulder!
© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Rhetoric the Form

a question that needs no answer  this example after Shelley's 'Wind'

O mist
If Autumn comes can Winter be far behind?
Form: Didactic

Premium Member Malice In Blunderland

no more splitting hares white rabbit's clock is ticking ... stop passing the buck 03/03/20
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Rose Aurora-

in the perfect clouds 
a larger, thorny bird stalks
roses aurora

8/9/20
written word by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020 ©
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Verse Freed To Opinionate

MARS&VENUS
Side
 by side-
she'd listen
missing true love's
gaze
Face
to face-
he'd listen
only hearing 
praise.
Form: Lanterne

Premium Member Monoku Neo Impression

dots before the eyes*


*the most famous example https://www.artic.edu/artworks/27992/a-sunday-on-la-grande-jatte-1884
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Parse-Lee Say-G, Rose-Marie 'N Time

Sigh-man 'n Garf-uncle
      A Luv-Lee Pear
         Whir they a bit 'u-no-what'
            ~ Wood you 'of dared dare

Premium Member Swallowed Sounds

bitter cold voices lost behind woolen mufflers definition blurred
written December 7, 2021
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Ups and Downs

What goes up
     must come down
   But can it go back up again?

   Hope so, when --
     your jaw drops, my friend
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Compliments and Condiments

Much like compliments, so do condiments  
                                              ~ bring forth sweet temperaments
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Don'T Let This Freak You Out

Spelling's such a stupid thing
    to get freaked out about

  Of this, I am very shure
    ~ In fact, I have no dout
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Can Knot

a po-at-tree
can knot one's
toil...letting...

when

th(e)-oughts go
directly to paper
as any po am

stans sand
© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member THANKFUL FOR THE OWL

Today I’m thankful for the owl…
A truly wonderful bird….
who reminds us we can be wise
without ever saying a word.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member January Elfchen

             January 
      encourages gains;
      The clock strikes 
      you hear the word
              ‘new.’
Form: Other

Premium Member On Translating Turbulent Tulips

    ‘Turbulent Tulips’ 
     cannot be translated to Vietnamese
 
     Neither can
       ~ ‘Peripatetic Peonies’
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member WHO KNEW

I do believe there are too many
Or maybe just a few…too many
To many a few is too many
And to a few too many too few

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