Epyllion Poems | Examples

tightly drawn temptress

.
 
                       beauty true
                              up
                             yup
                              up that oak
                              up
                              up
                          az 'most
                             glide

                         excite'n 'tiz
                          her climb
                               az
                     'long hern pique 
                      snug self slidez

                              doth

                          mine think
                      mine devouring 
                              eyne

hern motiving

.
                  in 
              az well 
                 out
              nursing
forgetting fabric festooned
            the wicket
           'twixt ourn
        she passes into  
            mine grip 
        mine remember
           mine thank
        hern 12hourz uv
              require

            at her own
                peril
        she governesses
                mine


make it take it

.

                 yesss
              ourn first
                  met
          i were try'n tuh
           make my new
              basketball 
              in the hoop
            and she were 
        doodling with chalk
            on thuh court
        with hot pants and
                 halter

          i blew that shot

gossip in thuh appalachias

.

                             whispers
                    curve 'round corners
                                 uv
                          mine shanty
                          through thuh
                             bramble
                               softly
                        drip'n speak in
                          thuh depths
                                 uv
                           mine hear

                             "iz she 
                                hiz
                               wife"

                                 ,)

babble'n brook

.

        whilst thuh camber'z uv
              her fundament
            met thuh creek's
                  pebblez
        out mine pen and slip
             express'n mine
                     bold
                 appear'd
           proclaim'n rights
                      to
            thuh gift wrap'd
                   'neath
            her daizy dukes
                  'though
       mine babble 'pon slip
                    were
             for thuh entire 
                 packette


cabin'd fever

.
          she took me by
               surprise
               hern eve

               i query'd 
   thuh green eye'd brunette (cautiously)
           "does ya know
             that bed fits
                   one"
        she spoke not thuh
                  reply
         hern purty spoke

         she scooch'd over 
                  tight 
          'gainst the wall  
                  bare 
neath mine terry bath sheet and
           pat'd thuh down

               hern coy 
                wink'd

look whut they've done to us

.

                               i hear'd
                        you're thuh recluse
                                 alone
                       raising your beauty
                                 in the
                                 hovel

                                    i
                      mar thuh city center 
                 'mongst thuh pigeonz and
                              squirrelz 
                                (I) lie
                                 and
                                  lie
                    'bout the salt streaks
                          shading mine 
                             overcoat
                           each splash
                        thinks uv yourn

                  they strip'd ourn sheath
                       from ourn thewz
                         yet in secret
                            they too

                         (I) miss you
                      (I) only see (you)
                       whence pneuma
                               cry

vernal'd equinox

.

           i pick'd her the 
             hand full uv
          purple crocusez
          such thuh image 
          az she stared at
             spring'z first
                    uv
            many more to
                  come

              pluperfect
                easy to 
               imagine

thuh shuck and jive

.
                       i found hern
                         yes I did
                         sprouting
               from the pretty uv thuh
                           prairie 
                    cross thuh creek
                          and to i
                   hern grant'd mine
                         look see
               and hern pluperfect wuz
                         and still
                              iz

                   she found mine
                      yes she did
                 we argue 'bout it
                         just for
                    shuck and jive
               but 'twuz 'cross thuh 
                          creek
                   and i did peek
            'bout mine duke's digits
                         worth 
                        i smiled
                and ya knowz thuh
                          poet...
                 i shuck and jive'd her 
                     'til her clothez
                           well
                      y'all knowz

imagine the yearz

.
            i were there girlie
            from yourn eager
                 mat 'gainst 
              the sofa'z puffy
            marshmallow arm
           yourn excited thick
                cauze'n mine 
                 flush'd face
                      unto
         yourn tramp az woman
                still concern'd
              'bout mine 'bout
                      yourn

naykid edvard''

.

                        "hi little birdie"
                     I heard thuh slight
                      Uv mine neighbor
                              yesss
                      front mine window
                                bed

                       I peek'd out the 
                          Diaphanous 
                          'twere hern
                            kneez up
                       fundament fast
            'pon uh stump back mine cabin 
                 enjoy'n this morn'z early 
                    creek's cool cursory  

                             "pissst
                                i'm.....

purty excite'n thuh imagin

.
                my journal pic'd on me
                          this morn
                             yeah
                             pic'd

                     i pick'd it up and 
                     out drops purty's
                              pic
                             when 
                         rest assure
                       it wuz all about
                               film
                               yikes
                     and there'z no one
                               hear
                               here

Sequestered look

.

                     "okay
                      okay"
                  I were there
                   mine eyne
                      pop'd
                                  i felt the heavy uv my
                                          lower jaw
                                             drop 
                   he yell'd
      "I won't lower the curtain
                     Quiet" 
             hiz voice sound'd

         the crowded vestibule 
               only breath'd
               and suddenly
            without thuh warn
                     Flop
                   oh
                     my
                my oh my
    there wuz thuh "yuk" in the
                anteroom
           yet the rest uv us
           gasp'd in marvel
                      i
               for my part
      marvel'd when I return'd
                  home
                   and
       spill'd this here vision
          such muse alter'n 
               pluperfect
               lay'd bare 
           for mine fellow'z
            astute critique

and there wuz reality

.

                front uv Macey's at
                         34th
        lean'n az if all too familiar wit 
                 thuh wall uv thuh 
                     'sunglass hut'
                          and i 
                all too familiar with
                       that wink
                      thuh l'il lift 
                  uv her mini skirt
                        with her 
                painted index digit's
                            tap

                       she winks
                  "I take Visa now"

Mine Mayan'd

.

   where oh thuh many
              query
                did
         mine vanish
                 lo

               here
     expel the thought
            "vanish"
                 i
         az the infant
           elephant
           suckling
     under her beauty
            enjoy'n
          hern roam
              rests
          where hern
              sets

           query not

                Lo

Specific Types of Epyllion Poems

Definition | What is Epyllion in Poetry?

Poems Related to Epyllion

mythological, narrative, romantic,

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