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Shortness Poems - Poems about Shortness

Shortness Poems - Examples of all types of poems about shortness to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for shortness.
Premium Member The Sweetest of Kisses
...My tongue tastes the sweetness of your kiss Both heart and spirit are awake The long languid suppleness of this Is almost too much for me to take My body trembles from your light touch ......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, kiss, lust,
Form: Rhyme



Pressure
...Do you ever feel like you are dying Like someone is sitting on your chest Constricting the flow of oxygen feeling the shortness of breath Pressure that threatens to steal your last breath I'm no......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, child abuse, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
As Snow Falls
...Gentle flakes dance gracefully to the ground Each one made with perfectly unique crystals They blow and swirl, going around and around Until reaching their destination, frosting the world below ......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, analogy, deep, nature, snow,
Form: Rhyme
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...Anxiety. Breathing heavily, heart fluttering, shortness of breath. Still environment surrounding me. Overly piercing voices of others. Pounding head. Worry creeps in. Will it be ......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Autumn
...The Autumn crocuses sway amongst the shadows of the pine trees The air is resonant with smoke As the buddleia dies down August as thick as musk Blackbird came a calling about Autumns shortnes......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Plaything of Time
...I live like a cancer - quick, unplanned growth unheeding of greater designs. I devour information like a starving wolf - never sated, never tasting the goodness I consume. I throw myself into activ......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, time,
Form: Free verse
A Weightloss Journey - a Life Changing Dream
...Shortness of breath, the struggle with stairs The paranoid thoughts, of judgemental stares Tomorrow I'll start, next week I will too. The person you're fooling can be only you. You carry on,......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, self,
Form: Rhyme
The Queens of Stirling Castle
...The Stirling Castle flowers speak To those who stop their feet and mind walking And declares in honesty the verity of the corporeal soul Among the insects who fill the air. The Queens of the Ca......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, art, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
A Rhyming a Random
...Celebrity deaths can be bizarre someone so close yet so far the realisation hits you hard yet they have no clue who you are Meat Loaf sang to my youthful years Sarah Harding sang with my ......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, joy, nonsense, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Being a Care Taker
...It happening again I see it Even with me eyes closed I talking about my sister Brenda you know. I wanted it many times. Jerry first than mom. The shortness of breath. That feeling of w......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, caregiving,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The First Kiss
...I love all the ladies, No matter the size. That sultry first kiss, Is the ultimate prize. Walking hand in hand, Under a silver moon. The romance in the air, Can make your head swoon. The ......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, beauty, kiss, lust,
Form: Rhyme
A Noisy Heart
...In the center of my chest sounds; A pestle and mortar that pound, With the rhythm of tudu-tudu-tudu; In a manner that flows, one and two and three;- breathe; The ratio of three to one, Three be......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Thus Passes By the Glory of the World
...Relics, relics sad and lone, Cromwell's head and a single bone that William the Conqueror left on earth prove today of petty worth. Oh that now those proud in power knew the shortness of their ......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, death, power, vanity,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Storm Shelters
...I left at sixteen slamming the front door, I returned at seventy-four, gently pushing against rusted hinges. I won't say I took a long road. I'll not wail of the shortness of it. It was just a......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Some Pictures, Some Words
...A sleeking sharp knife Piercing an apple color morning of impeccable beauty Running fast in the noise of the colony Someone calls out from the roof- Oh, vile fox gang, release the immovable hum......Read the rest...
Categories: shortness, allegory, emotions, surreal,
Form: Free verse

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