Best Minimal Poems
Below are the all-time best Minimal poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of minimal poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
minimal, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
A Random Moment--- Matamoros, 2:00p.m., December 6, 2014
I sit at this table
(as I have done many times)
wielding a ball-point pen,
with insufficiencies of
thoughts and words --
out of place.
All...
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Categories:
minimal, age, city, death, dog,
Form:
Free verse
Hey, That's My MoneyWell, I see that Congress is proposin' another trillion dollar spree!
Those inept buffoons must think money grows upon a tree!
The treasury is crankin' out bales...
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Categories:
minimal, funny, political, money,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
minimal, on writing and words
Form:
Monoku
A Thawing of Hearts - For ContestI sat quietly and waited, making the noises he had come to know, calling him in his newly given name. His face would appear,...
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Categories:
minimal, animal, death, friendship,
Form:
Haibun
Update and Poem, To Be MoreYesterday Richard inspired me to write this update. Thank you Richard.
To Be More
3 days of this virus, feels like 3 weeks
Every hour a battle,...
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Categories:
minimal, appreciation, health, life,
Form:
Free verse
MILTON CREEK NEWSSheriff Koplin has ridden East to gather a few other folks who decided to leave the city and head West, hoping to settle in Milton...
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Categories:
minimal, places,
Form:
Narrative
Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and the House of Random Penguins
“Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and The House of Random Penguins”
The womb
is scooped like
an over ripe melon
Time is the incorrigible felon,
the forgotten lost...
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Categories:
minimal, muse,
Form:
Narrative
AlonenessUnlike being alone
Celibacy is a choice
A commitment to oneself
Maybe for a lifetime
Maybe for a growth cycle
Celibacy is a desire
a need to focus
to reevaluate
Celibacy is a...
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Categories:
minimal, desire, inspiration, introspection, journey,
Form:
Free verse
Zinc Adulating
Abominable holiday season greeting to the have-nots me and you
Bombshell tabloid sleigh bells got those ear holes ringing
Cut the tax gift wrap ribbon, only good...
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Categories:
minimal, metaphor, parody, slam, word
Form:
ABC
The Universe Is ImmenseHow many people with foreboding palpitations
have I seen slip from middle age and slide into old age?
They slither into their last refuge, the dirt hole,
and...
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Categories:
minimal, death, life, metaphor, peace,
Form:
Prose
I Believe In AliensA man comes up to me and says: I believe in God
Nice for you! :I say to him, but I feel the urge to jog
What...
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Categories:
minimal, education, funnywords, god, me,
Form:
Rhyme
What Is To Become of MeWhat is to become of me?
I feel the warmth of your pulse
As my blood turns cold and I
Slip the bonds of this Earthly life
Where...
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Categories:
minimal, death, introspection, journey,
Form:
Narrative
Mind the Wet PaintMy brain spots are pastel dots
that always fight with my stripes
over who is left and who styles right.
It’s bad enough that my stripes
also argue with...
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Categories:
minimal, how i feel, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
I Ate a Piece of Toast and Other Tall TalesAttempting imagery after googling it once
This was supposed to be the blurb
But it's becoming the poem
My measure of success
Is getting it right, with minimal...
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Categories:
minimal, writing,
Form:
Free verse