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Short Vanity Poems. These are the most popular short poems on or about Vanity by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for Vanity short poems by poem length and keyword.

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Short Vanity poem by Olusegun Ojo| Details |


Between vanity
and task for leading
waits - lay wisdom

Short Vanity poem by Robb A. Kopp| Details |


Pure or the guilty 
seeing what they want to see…
Shallow vanity

Short Vanity poem by Oluwaseun Ogunbiyi| Details |

Life is vanity

Hustling and bustling
Vain struggle for survival
Life is vanity.

Short Vanity poem by AiyaH De Torres| Details |

Love At First Sight

One evening of vanity fair ;met the glimmering eyes, blinded by emotion.

Short Vanity poem by Patricia Sawyer| Details |

Tales Around the Fire

nightmares incubate
as vanity chokes on fear~
I roast marshmallows

Short Vanity poem by ned flanders| Details |


A little vanity
can be seen
with a big ego

Would this be classed as a Haiku?

Short Vanity poem by romeo naces| Details |

Vain Vanity

flexes his biceps,

       tucks his flabby tummy in,

              vanity in vain.

Short Vanity poem by Paul Baracani| Details |

If Your Thoughts Are Ugly So Is The WOrld

turned concrete
vanity is 
very discreate

Short Vanity poem by Stephen Parker| Details |


cadaver bled
lifeline spread
posthumously read
endearing stead
perpetuity fed
vanity shed

Short Vanity poem by Steve Eng| Details |

A Reflection on Pride

The value of  Vanity’s this;
It offers bliss
In front of the looking-glass
Until years pass.

Short Vanity poem by Sharon Bell| Details |

Hair Dye

Please tell me why I dye my hair,
And get red stuff everywhere.

Some people call it vanity,
I’d plum for insanity.

Short Vanity poem by John Heck| Details |

Unwanted Ads

Ego between stints -
narcissistic derelicts
scope the classifieds.
Vanity cracks masked mirrors -
Arrogance need not apply.

Short Vanity poem by Brian Strand| Details |

Cinqku seq-Embers

of vanities-
fragile egos will ride
the wind
brief moments
that die in tomorrow's

Short Vanity poem by Joshua Lacey| Details |

Negative Focusing?

Did God damn me?
Am I crazy?
Too often comes the fear
Which I will not hold dear!
Reality and Sanity
Hope they aren't but vanity!

Short Vanity poem by Aron Jacob| Details |

Pith II

Writing is vanity,
except in the bathroom,
where vanity lies beneath,
and is replaced up top
by a truth-telling device
called a mirror.

Short Vanity poem by Joshua Lacey| Details |

Growing Pains

Wha'ts wrong with Mom - then me?
Distorted reality
Is everything just vanity?
About to lose sanity!
Focus on the cross
He will heal loss!

Short Vanity poem by Skyy Allen| Details |

leave me be

Leave me be, leave me be--

Why can't you see?

Depravity taints my sanity--

Vanity corrupts our fantasy--

Of a life without strife--

Short Vanity poem by kash poet| Details |

Your emerald eyes

your emerald eyes
still today mysterious,
sea-green vanity
carelessly ignores my ship
to anchor there just for once.

Date:20th March 2012

Short Vanity poem by Dawn Gordon| Details |

Fake vanity hogs with no LIFE


deceiving so many on fake profiles, jamming up an entire section
the only ones being searched for ALL YOURS
repulsive vanity hog
block block block

Short Vanity poem by Robb A. Kopp| Details |

Sarah's Bath Time

Altering her worldly reflection
Vanity clouding her perception
Sarah bathes in self deception

By Robb A. Kopp

For Constance La Frances contest: Reflection

Short Vanity poem by Michael Perritano| Details |


Flowering empathy
Run my beautiful one, 
Have you not heard?
(Jealousy raped Vanity)
Their child
That child Envy!
She searches for you
…With scissors

Short Vanity poem by Ian D. Campbell| Details |

Nudist Colony from Space

An androgynous 


Suckling babes and
Adonis no longer
Feed from the same

I exhale, 
Smooth and 


Short Vanity poem by Steve Eng| Details |


Is vanity,
The narcissistic cry
Of “I, I, I, I, I, I, I.

And happiness
Consists of less
Analysis, and more of trust
In Him Who fashioned us from dust.

Short Vanity poem by Steve Eng| Details |


Is vanity,
The narcissistic cry

And happiness
Consists of less
Analysis, and more of trust
In Him Who fashioned us from dust.

Short Vanity poem by Adeleke Adeite| Details |

Den of dreams

I wondered! Why wisdom wastes away
In the valley of vanity, void and voiceless.
I often pondered on how poor predators play
Away with the lives of the wealthy and worthless 

Short Vanity poem by Andrea Dietrich| Details |

The Trade-in

my old sports car’s
fun, eye-catching plates

tossed in the trunk of
my new sedan

part of my joy
unrenewed. . . . like
those vanity plates

For  Joann Grisetti's
 Shanzi Poetry Contest

Short Vanity poem by DON JOHNSON| Details |

how deep

how deep the cut, the pain is but, camoflague for the sanity, be strong and just, don't look nonplussed, as it bruises of the vanity.... re "Salts of Insanity" Russell Sivey Don

Short Vanity poem by Samir Georges| Details |

Cherish your pockets

Crimson king of freedom
Wise men, fill your coffers with gold
Decorate your crucifixion with diamonds
The sight of sacrifice ordained with sin
Vanity raging rampant

© Samir Georges

Short Vanity poem by Liza Britton| Details |


My valiant efforts are pushed to vanity

When the expression of love and desire are forced to the surface,

I cannot begin to explain what I want from him

And he will never understand my frustrations.

Short Vanity poem by Eugene Harvey| Details |






© Eugene Harvey

Short Vanity poem by Glenn McCrary| Details |

Laser Lover

Bedroom barriers


Vintage idolatry

Pining protoplasms



Nimble fusion peaks

Passion howls

Velvet vanity

In unison we touch

Multilateral we twine

A fluorescent collage


Short Vanity poem by Abdulhafeez Oyewole| Details |


Vanity Upon Vanity

Morning arrives...
Evening takes over
Can't the day stops changing?

Mother born you...
You gave birth to us
Where are your ancestors?

Graveyard here calls...
Your family now run
Why do they stop to love?

Short Vanity poem by Ovidiu Bocsa| Details |

Chastushka with balalaika and nagaika

Sweet  horizon ,don`t lock , don`t taste the pale bitter moon !
I`ll whip my Fancy`s Fairy with your whip-nagaika:
Incense times of vanity unscrewing a camphor afternoon. ..
Let`s live together in poem,with  our balalaika !

Short Vanity poem by Judith Angell Meyer| Details |


Any bold cloud dancing 
enjoys flirting gallantly,
hoisting; inspiring; jousting;
knowing laughter makes nice orchestrations
particularly quenching raw spirits
teaching unabashed vanity

While Xylophones yammer zanily.

Short Vanity poem by Anthony Slausen| Details |

to the streets

people break things,
then toss them to the streets
things once loved-now abused
were held in high esteem
chairs and lamps
a vanity
a spotted rug
chipped bowl
of insanity
yo yo hearts on a yellowed string
 toss them to the streets

Short Vanity poem by inya richard| Details |


Behold we toiled
Soiling our skins
expending our strength
Breaking our bones
Sweating like covers of hot pots
Toiling, soiling, expending,breaking and sweating
Yet all was vanity and yet would be
Where God toils not with us

Short Vanity poem by Rachel St.Cross| Details |

Late Last Night

Squeezing gently her breast, afore the vanity
Arousing their nipples; soft moist kisses; She
Sitting atop perfumed in Violet's satin sheets
White lace stockings; Chanel No. 5 sixty-nine
Bows black silk traces; Carmine, lipstick sighs.

Short Vanity poem by jan oskar hansen| Details |

wind turbines

Wind Turbines. 

I see a bank palace 
lit up like a planet of excesses, 
the glory of the powerful.
I also see a landscape 
littered by a thousand wind turbines 
wasted by its wonder and peace
to keep the palace in
the vanity of power  

Short Vanity poem by Hope Ballard| Details |

Never Die

Pain in my heart,
Vanity turned into art,
A flasch of light before my eyes,
But, i will not die
Because i never want to say goodbye.
Tears fill my eyes
As your hand drifts to mine,
You say those words 
That will never mean goodbye.

Short Vanity poem by Dawn Gordon| Details |


block block block
only popular ones searched for 
most of them written by a vanity hog
with 25 accounts
block block block
just a poet robber to have so many disgusting accounts
jamming up the entire section

Short Vanity poem by Amanda Moore| Details |



Short Vanity poem by Joe Maverick| Details |


Oh! vagrant life, your motive unknown,
for what do you acknowledge me? 
and why am i a pawn?
why fix un-broken entity's?
why lead to deep desire?
and overpowering uncertainty
through all vanity,  yet to be..' 
immolated in eternity's fire.."

Short Vanity poem by Richard Palmer| Details |

After Life

Ashes to ashes,
Dust to dust,

While you were alive,
Who did you trust,

Did you trust the One,
That did so much,

Or were you blinded,
By vanity,the evil touch,

The choice was yours,
Who did you choose,

God,you have won,
The devil ,you loose......

Short Vanity poem by Demetrios Trifiatis| Details |



Oh, my LORD 
Let not my soul be lured by vanity’s charms into 
The quicksand of ephemeral glory

But rather 

Guide her onto the path of righteousness for the
Exaltation of Thy love to attain!

© Demetrios Trifiatis
    22 OCTOBER 2013 

Short Vanity poem by Johnette Loefgren| Details |


The Frost poems 
try to wake 
us to the thread
of  our humanity,
to ask us
 to divest ourselves 
of all the fear and
to see
 through someone else's eyes
 the flower
or the sky.
Why does that seem so hard to do?
But somehow we must try.

Short Vanity poem by Gerald Webb| Details |

nine eleven

from twisted metal singed and charred an empire falls, with many scarred time of uncertainty looms life of austerity booms left unconnected. slain-ed on the banks of insanity, uncertainty and unprotected solely for the riches of vanity.

Short Vanity poem by DON JOHNSON| Details |

ups n downs

yes p.d. ups n downs and ins n outs, of personality, love n hate and inward shouts, of fires that burn with no one about, though love be pure insanity, discolored be the vanity, shut up johnson its your shout:) don't tango with humanity... Don

Short Vanity poem by jai Garg| Details |

Param Gati

Temptation in lust cravings, 
Anger I do not seek,
Dispelled by avarice fears,
In vanity I fell.

True action with devotion,
Destroys every misdeed, 
Kill my burning desires, 
Beyond the gates of hell:

Mokesh in  divinity;
Atmas' ultimate plea.

Short Vanity poem by Joe Maverick| Details |

Forgot the knots

In your error there is a'way making 
Whilst striving in your searches collating,

Are they blackly scrawled your inky walls.?
Truly "A vice" this undertaking...

Explain peruse or buying extra shoes
True vanity versus inspiration.

Copyright Joe Maverick 2011

Short Vanity poem by Paula Swanson| Details |


You are vanity 
No one can compare to you 
Men grovel and sway 
Women want to be like you 
Sad, the mirror is one way 

If it were two way 
you might know how you are seen 
from the other side 
Yours shows not your inner self 
that your outer mask does hide 

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