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Best Elastic Poems

Below are the all-time best Elastic poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of elastic poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Venus Fly Trap
Imagine my surprise
she was from outer space
I never would have known
by looking at her face

She had that Rocket Body
with those oh so perfect curves
Her voice...

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Categories: elastic, humorous,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Spaces
As my thoughts shrink my mind expands
Growing into the spaces between my words
The words of others
Refreshed within the pauses
Dancing inside possibilities
Filling in the blanks

Words suspended
Within...

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Categories: elastic, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Memento of Motherhood
When silver waves of crystalline crescent
     emanate rhapsodies glazed in
        Jupiter light.. reflections
 ...

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Categories: elastic, emotions, memory,
Form: Free verse
Granny Panty Annie, the Tranny
Lemme tell ya' about a
*ding-bat skit-zo 
bee-hotch* tranny
named Annie...

I met her one night 
under disco lights 
up at Candies

She was 
starin' at me
grittin' her teeth
aimin'...

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Categories: elastic, adventure, black african american,
Form: Narrative
Elicit Illicit Lucid Dreams -Contains Nudity-
~JSLambert does not (currently:) use, or encourage hallucinogenic drug use.

    Telepathic psilocybin prescription erasing elastic depression. Competition 
wanes, just when nocturnal emission...

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Categories: elastic, allegory, allusion, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Carpe Diem



Premium Member For All the Sweet Lovers
Flying Saucers, Flake, Bar Six
Country Style, Gobstoppers, Twix.

Toffee Crisp and Dairy Crunch
Grand Seville and Milky Lunch.

Arrow Bars and Sherbert Dabs
Caramac and Lucky Bags.

Bluebird Toffee slabs...

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Categories: elastic, appreciation, candy, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Freedom of Poetry
An appeal of poetry
is its lack of rules...

though not to be loose
as a plucked goose – 

without bare essentials
for flight

struts of logic,
living words
that excite with...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elastic, addiction, blessing, freedom, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member April Gem's
The Jewels of April
sparkles on the leaves,
reflecting in
the world of the microcosm
the birth of spring
the fleeting blue, blue sky, the brief
busy bee's dawn flight
It spread...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elastic, analogy, appreciation, april,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Odyssey
she shuffles in tattered slippers
held by elastic bands
securing them to her feet
bindings taken for granted

her thoughts settled into routine
to cross the dining room floor
to her...

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Categories: elastic, age, endurance, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Frequency Holders

Frequency Holders 
This phrase was first coined by Eckhart Tolle

Holding space with you in a seemingly fashion 
I allow you to manifest your own reality...

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Categories: elastic, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How To Give a Cat a Pill
1) Pick up the cat and cradle it in the crook of your arm as if holding a baby. Position forefinger and thumb on either...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elastic, cat,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sheila's Silk Knickers
Here’s a bold tale it will have you in titters
It’s about poor Sheila who lost her knickers
She went for a cruise upon the great ocean
Fell...

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Categories: elastic, boat, funny, girl, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Edible - Bawdy
[Advance Apologies: Sat on this for a few months
Concerned that it may be a little OTT for Soup. If
Your gag reflex is sensitive... best skip...

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Categories: elastic, humorous, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bold
Little boy scales the snowbank
          in Spider-Man boots 
       ...

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Categories: elastic, appreciation, boy, childhood, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abandon
I wish to live with true abandon
experiencing things more at random
Just like the first man Adam
drinking clean water
living with nature in tandem

Garden freedom body exposed
Unconcerned...

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Categories: elastic, beach, beautiful, celebration, encouraging,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs