Short Yin Yang Poems

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


Soft Shadows

There’s no shadow without a light
No shallow without a height
No love without a fight
No wrong without a right
No Yin Yang without black and white
In the essence of soft shadows in hindsight
Form: Rhyme


Yin-Yang

Walking around,
looking down and see a pool of Light.
Getting a closer look,
and notice a little piece of Darkness.
Turn around,
and see a pool of Darkness.
Getting a closer look,
and notice a piece of Light.
Stuck in the middle,
nowhere to run.

Premium Member Yin, Yang, Big Bang

  Where my yin meets my yang
    I hear a dissonant clang

  My physician traced it back 
    all the way to the ‘Big Bang’

  Seems I hopped aboard an asteroid
    went for a wild ride

  Hit my head on a comet
    blasphemed, ‘God damn it!’
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Transient Huitain

More than a little bit transient 
except when I look in your eyes; 
My soul frozen by your cement
grounded by faith my spirit flies; 
Balance is what you emphasize 
without a ‘you’ there is no ‘me’;
Our lows are the flip side of highs, 
the yin yang of apostrophe.
Form: Rhyme

Pete

Pete

The family dog is a yin yang
Two faced in black and white

Lives his life on a log chain
Likes to play with his bite

Pearly, ivory, toothy fangs
Partial faced in the moonlight

His Pyrenean bark is like a big bang
His bark is worse than his bite

~ Leonard Napierskie
Form: Couplet


Premium Member Bongo Board

One doesn’t stand on the Bongo
With roller affixed to the floor,
But sway as a reed in the wind
Or risk finding oneself thrown o’er.

A lesson from this childhood game:
Our center is found only with change.
The path to an equilib life
Is balancing our yin and our yang.

Colored By the Numbers

Diametric …
art and commerce
Twining symbols
colors adverse
 Yin & Yang
divergent segues 
Each stigmatic
 bloddy payday
Fraternal image
Louvre / Montmartre
Black tie bidding
cobbled heart
A poor man sings
a rich man vies 
On bartered canvas
 —truth defies

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)
Form: Rhyme

Sun and Moon

SUN/MOON Enraged flaming sun, engulfing all he can see, throughout our toil. Passive the moon glows, chilling all she can caress, so softly we sleep. Sun and Moon live on, destined by the hand of time, Yin-yang forever. Contest: HAIKU HODGEPODGE ... TRIO ... 24/1/2012 M.Mahauariki © 2012
Form: Haiku

Nature's Angel

Dearest angel of the winds
Better part of the yin yang twins
Light of another day
I wish you wouldn't wonder away
Soul of the sea
Forever blissful in sanity
With me for now
In heaven forever
Loving heart pounds in thy chest
Cheating nature's test
Forever beautiful
Eternally young
Your love is forever
Mine has only just begun

Premium Member legend of Pan Gu

Chinese myth is about Pan Gu
First god who kept Yin-Yang true
Earth was made of Pa Gu’s prone corpse
His eyes became the sun and moon of course

His blood formed the rivers, all thousand and three
Sparse hair grew into China’s plants and trees
This god as much a legend as Greeks and Romans claim
Chinese god, Pan Gu is his mighty name
Form: Rhyme

Gray

Reflecting on times, ones perfectly certain,
Without shadows of doubt on the mind,
As though shining, waiting by black or white curtains,
As though truth were so easy to find,
So clear now it seems, contrary to say,
Such clarity is not in the slightest,
As black, surely, but one dark shade of grey,
And pure white, just another, the lightest.
Form: Rhyme

Yin and Yang

Only in darkness
I see light
I see stars 
Twinkling in the sky
I see
The moon
Gracing the firmament

In sickness
I see health

In hunger
I see food

When downtrodden
I see joy

When alone
I seek companion

When hated
I seek love

Yin and Yang
That’s the way life is.

Thank, God
Humanity is moving
More toward Yang
The Light

Premium Member Now and Then, Again

Listen to poem:
How often a story ends, amen 
but embers get revived.
Just when attention shifts
and talk wanes and subsides
Up pops a little 'and then'
An off we go again.

How often 'then' marks a turnabout
A sneaky unexpected kiss
A spiel for some new deal
A U-turn or swing around
So beware and prepare
For yin yang, flips and flops
Now and then, again.

Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity! 

There is no complete
Dark or light, we have twilight
Holy Trinity!

Crucified Jesus
In the middle of two thieves
Holy Trinity!

Yin - Yang Complement 
each other, moving as one 
Holy Trinity! 

There is Heaven - hell
We live in the perfect mist
Holy Trinity! 

Not Two, there is Three 
Balancing polarities
Holy Trinity!
Form: Haiku

Senryu Series 20200407 April7

I
digits through nine
faith came easy
enter zero - infinity

II
God had to go
God would fill all space
creation is born

III
space is his disguise
like zero, it's No-thing:
No thing, not nothing!

IV
Euclid gave us wins, loss -
Curves have no points
Logic boxes us all

V
Oceanic thinking, now
More needed than ever
yin-yang, not in and out
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Yin Yang's Dream

When we are dreaming here - we are awake there; 
When we are awake here, we are dreaming there... 
When we vanish here, we appear there; 
When we appear here, we vanish there. 
The cycle is balanced, the Yin Yang is fair.
 It's all a Mirage.. cant grasp it - thin air.
The only thing real is dreamless deep sleep;
Parcel delivered! - It's yours now to keep.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Yin - Yang

the silence that listens -
the stillness that anticipates

what is one
becomes the other

   Earth spins
from yin to yang
- dark to light
- death to growth

what is one
becomes the other

infinite duality
less than grains of sand
in a mirror that reflects nothing
but a fleeting conscience 
- seeds from death
that grow in the light

  black is white and...

Premium Member The World Is a Dichotomy

The world is a dichotomy,
The Yin Yang of life’s experience,
It is simultaneously banal,
And mysterious,
Happy and sad,
Exciting and bland,
Without small,
There would be no tall,
If there is no up,
There can be no down,
With no us,
There is no them
If you can’t be right
You will never be wrong,
So, stop being obsessed singing the notes,
While forgetting to sing the song.
Form: Narrative

Dong Zhongshu, 179-104 BC

If you've a yen (it's not zen) you may bet your bottom dollar while integrating yin yang cosmology Chinese philosopher and scholar Dong Zhongshu (good old you know who) favoured heaven worship results over and above traditional cults altho' a man well-read he often wrote instead yet to avoid confusion knowingly said, 'Jump to assumption, arrive wrong conclusion.'
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Lonely Together

Morning delight
Fiery sunburst;
Elegant conversation



This paradox
Black upon white;
Yin-Yang contrast



Busy street corner
Each person alone;
Crowded solitude



Mall spectators
Browsing and looking;
Yet not seeing



I style a smile
To greet a stranger;
Sparkling sunburst



Valentine shoppers
Seeking to buy;
Love now barters



Leon Enriquez
13 Feb 2014
Singapore
Form: Haiku

Tai One On

I wasn't long in Hong Kong, before I saw my first tai chi, and it gave me the strangest notion, the exercisers, advancing all in a row, were line dancing in slow motion. They put their left hand in, right hand out, in, out, in, out, waved them all about and, set to soothing, soulful music, the male practitioners suggestively sang, "If you show me your yin, I'll show you my yang."
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Copla Sesenta Y Cuatro This Bad Guy World

COPLA SESENTA Y CUATRO: This Bad Guy World

No one denies Life’s stunning rich
What we all have to put up with:
Stark sacrifice

Spite of beast in Man or the Witch
Brains soar limitless heights or width:
As gods we rise

Bad Guys drag us down ugly depths
Role Good Guys must accept as fun:
Who stands to blame

Yin-Yang conflicts not shibboleths
From dying bored stiff keeps Man:
The crying shame

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Copla Veintitres This Bad Guy World

COPLA VEINTITRES : This Bad Guy World

For the sake of the argument
Let’s admit Good-Bad thrives in self
Does it matter

Without Yin-Yang predicament:
Conflict bound in the self-same self
Makes life matter

Yet in this Day-Night lantern show
Light and dark flit through like shadows
Who plays the roles

The pain is real when laid low
Good Guys stung by banderilleros
What hurts in souls

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.

Picture 3 Black and White

Yin Yang,
  black white,
  draped with,
  dark light.
Glad sad,
  so hue, 
  souls spews,
  true blue. 
Death life, 
  in tune,
  rise up,
  new moon.
Sun rain;
  heals pain.
War peace;
  sweet grief.
Love hate,
  that too,
  off sets,
  me you.
Two thoughts,
  twins part 
  as one, 
  in heart.
             The End.





March 6, 2016.

For contest "United Colours: Black and White"
sponsored by, Silent One.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Great Un-Manifest

An awesome power without form
In silent atoms slowly drawn
Sometimes pure and innocent
Or total evil, malcontent,

Its opposition holds it fast
Like Yin & Yang
Or Light and Dark

This presence in a sunrise felt 
In friendship's smile or anger's wrath
In mountain's height or oceans depth
The in and out of every breath

In every wind that stirs a leaf 
And every life, however brief
The constant earth, the shifting sand
All feel this mighty, gentle hand.

Suzanne Delaney
Form: Rhyme

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