Short Words Poems

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


Premium Member How

I’m thinking about how to write the way I feel heavy in body and eye:
	quiet
	quiet
	breath
	clear
	quiet
	quiet

	There.


When I Don'T Read Poem Because It Has Not Catchy Title Enough

it's a shame
because it can be very good
though I might not be as good at titling
as at writing 
and so can anyone be
Form: Lyric

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

Premium Member The Witness

Placed
as
a son,
elect and
chosen for a task-
a future destiny in view

Read more of my paraphrase @  Ep 1:5 et al
Form: Fibonacci

A Welcome Note

Words that have been,
from deep within,
rhymed with time,
in joy or sorrow,
today or tomorrow,
I treasure them here.
Form:


The Written Words

Anida Mann could dance Can-Can
And bare it all behind a fan
She never wed
But took to bed
Harry Potter and Peter Pan!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Two Words

Disquiet alarm
Sleepless unhappiness
Bored disaffection
Fearful agitation
Despondent hostility
Hysterical loneliness

Premium Member When Words Fail

Times may come when words will fail ~~
          Emotions will run high, and tears prevail.

written December 21, 2021
Form: Epigram

' Doctor Poet ... ' 55th Senryu

‘ Doctor Poet … ’      55th  Senryu


     Written Prescription
‘ Take 2 Aspiring – Rhyming
       With Poet Signing
Form: Senryu

Paper Tomb

Scholars squander sunny days
Coffined in their cloistered nooks,
Where a wise man never stays
Buried, bored, by books.
© Steve Eng  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Creative Core

poetry magic
profound words in harmony
presenting a theme ...
vibrant verses tell a tale,
liquid line emerge, exhale.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member I Need a Line

I need a line~ make me feel fine ~ take your time~ penetrate the walls of my mind... Lay
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Paint My Way

Passion pen

Paint my way

Cover my flaws

Create my fate

Let His lines

Live in me

Lay my path

Lead me to thee… 

Lay

Euphoria

a passion for words
lost in thought with pen in hand
feeling euphoric
vibrant colors in my mind
observations to be shared
Form: Tanka

Premium Member some real eyes say

a concepts wording should
reflect...
the realization opposites
that...
some real-eyes-say-shun

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

Premium Member I know what I know

This cannot 

Be known

Nor that..

No I to know..

Yet

I know what

I know..and I

Am sticking with it...

Premium Member Rejigging dis-membered memories

can't re-assemble
what the forgotten has lost
for to re-member,
memories you must firstly
dis-member them carefully
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Elasticity

     she sees
     becoming
     the thing
     she sees
     elasticity
     she sees
     becoming
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Graveyard Scene - Six Words

Derelict tombstones lying at death’s door. Contest: Six words Sponsor: John Lawless 02~22~16

Heavenly Words

Say seven words
to send me heavenwards
heavy holiness heats
as the heavens turn
I hope in hell
that you horribly burn

A Woman's Beauty

A woman's beauty
Lies not in her nudity
But in the functionality of her brain
And the direction of her thought's train.
Form: Quatrain

Women of Tahrir Square

So why did they lose?
Is it because
of the broke goose!
Or what goes
Or man with big nose
Just some words
You choose

Premium Member Frozen

the cold frozen ice
       distant silence without words
          needs warmth to be heard


Heidi Sands

11/28/17
Form: Haiku

Breaking the Ice

anecdotes and jokes
are a way to loosen up.
they change a person's
visage in moments to joy
or flashing consternation.
Form: Tanka

To My Pals

try "confused poetic travel,1,2,3," some of my better humor- chech with poetry 
forms...well at least I think it's funny.
© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Burlesque

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