Best Millimeter Poems
Below are the all-time best Millimeter poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of millimeter poems written by PoetrySoup members
MotherlandMotherland…
I am a desert, barren and hot.
Hoping for the rain, which I forgot.
Once, I was green, golden, and bright.
Nightingales singing night after night.
My fresh breeze...
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Categories:
millimeter, emotions, feelings, longing, peace,
Form:
Masnavi
The Breath of LifeDon’t ask, my friend,
How much of His breath our Lord
Has breathed into each of us*
If a cubic millimeter it is
Or
A cubic decimeter,
For it doesn't...
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Categories:
millimeter, bible, faith, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
millimeter, family, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
The Color of Our SkinHere’s an interesting fact about the color of our skin:
the section that holds the color is unusually thin.
I imagine to our creator…it was a snap…a...
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Categories:
millimeter, prejudice,
Form:
Verse
The Deception of the American Public - a SatireThe Deception of the American Public - A Satire
By Elton Camp
I’m so shocked I don’t know what to say
We are shorted out of an inch...
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Categories:
millimeter, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
millimeter, confusionsnow, snow, time,
Form:
Free verse
All About CakeAll About Cake-Alleya Joy Kolar March 2016
She looked at it like it was a masterpiece.
It looked as if someone had spent their lifetime on it.
A...
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Categories:
millimeter, appreciation, creation, cute love,
Form:
Free verse
NostalgiaPouring milk teeth onto a tea cup silence,
rasping over ceramic furroughs -
a harvest of unborn cries -
she shudders into the hollow of a throat
she...
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Categories:
millimeter, life, loss, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Five From LAin a room laced with gloom
his beats boom he dreams of wreckin' the mike
his momma's home she's alone
a sad song she struggles she...
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Categories:
millimeter, society,
Form:
Free verse
ReckoningI sabotaged my eight-millimeter childhood.
I never knew Sartre
But I contorted my latex face,
Burying my nothingness in family films.
My child was scripted to be ugly, skipped...
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Categories:
millimeter, atheist, child abuse, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
Black Widow Love
My love is black widow spun
Got a red hourglass abdomen,
and a deadly sac of emotional poison
Don’t let my eight millimeter eyes
zoom it’s spider focus on...
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Categories:
millimeter, dark, horror, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Personification
The Disastrous Traffic StopThe Disastrous Traffic Stop
By Elton Camp
To pull over quickly Robert didn’t fail
Just as soon as he saw a cop on his tail
“Sir, you exceeded...
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Categories:
millimeter, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Electric Heaters Versus Tabletops Is a Nil DrawAge old wisdom scarred not flamed. A dozen baked bees in an hour glass perturbed. And left undisturbed as a minotaur sunbathing on a single...
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Categories:
millimeter, anniversary, assonance, , western,
Form:
I do not know?
Who Pulls the TriggerWho Pulls The Trigger
The degree of difficulty diminishes
conscience and justice dim
the fog of zealous denial.
A trigger is squeezed
each millimeter
an agony
each millisecond
a lifetime.
Sharp recoil awakens reality
SCAN...
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Categories:
millimeter, death, war,
Form:
Free verse
Military Charity
Babies with empty bellies
go hungry,
every refugee day
While numerical chambers
of alphabet soup weaponry
are fully stocked
War rations
on collateral display
AK-47
50-cal RPG’s
M-16
9 millimeter Beretta,
45-Uzi
1911-380 Browning
Mac-10 semi-auto magazine
Military...
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Categories:
millimeter, horror, pain, sorrow, war,
Form:
Narrative