Get Your Premium Membership

Best Minnow Poems

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


Premium Member A Minnow In My Soup
Waiter waiter!
look!

	but monsieur
	you ordered a minnow soup, n'est pas?

Waiter waiter
Not one swimming 
around in my soup
a brown minnow full of brown poop


I don't want minnow...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, art, drink, friendship, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Minnow Skies
You never see an old minnow
They’re just bait
Something for another creature to eat
Farther up the food chain
I would love to catch a five-pound minnow
Catch and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, fish,
Form: Free verse
The Billabong
There’s an old river course with beginning and end,
now the river runs straight without this river bend,
where the water is still and the reeds do...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, nature,
Form: Rhyme
All In the Family

Daughter crime
hooking up with felon Father time
Both got incestuous, crooked desires in mind
Two thieves in a thug hug, 
secrecy intertwine conspiracy vine bind 
Mother brood...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, allegory, family, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Sea Inside Me


"The Sea Inside Me"

The sea inside me, 
hides a Kraken 
in its depths, 
The Fathomless
lives there beside it,
some strange god
feeding on my 
minnow soul

I am...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, muse,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Untouched By Man
Deep in the wilderness lies a hidden lake
Fed by a stream from high on the mountain
Water cold, deep and crystal clear…
Untouched by man
Here lives the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, nature,
Form: Free verse
Unbalanced Hypocrisy

Sell the kinetic death metal,
see the swivel profits 
zooming to the stratosphere
Bloody schoolyard body count
is the cost of doing armed ant-farm business
Collateral damage is the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, corruption, death, grief, political,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Adventureland
Are you searching for a dragon, oh wee one on the sand,


          In amidst those grainy...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, appreciation, child, childhood, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is a Jungle
One person, you think may equal one mind 
but in each personality, there is much more to find.
*****sapiens and the animal kingdom are separated...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, animals, imagination, people, visionary,
Form: Rhyme
Underdogs Have Their Days
Well, well, well!
The whole world knows by now, impossible dreams can come true,
In the game of professional soccer, it has just been proven at Leicester,
Starting...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, appreciation, community, encouraging, football,
Form: Free verse
Big Fish
There’s a fish that lives inside my head,
The bigger he grows the more he gets fed.
 
And when anglers come to take a look,
They dangle...

Read more of this work...
© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: minnow, funny, fish,
Form: Light Verse
Blueberry Hill
Poem about Sudbury, Ontario, Canada


Where's Blueberry Hill?
Is it north; is it west?
All the people are talking
and they say it's the best.

Little fingers are picking.
All the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, adventure, community, kids, fun,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Chilling On the Coast
Life is pleasant on the Atlantic coast
Fishing is surely what I enjoy most
     Songs of gulls surrounding me
   ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, happiness, sea,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dreaming of a Perfect World
A habitation hanging on a pole of love
circled by an orbit
of calm and tenderness.
Unto its walls;
purity and goodwill stick.

Floats on water and edged by the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: minnow, desire, dream, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Imagism
A Stream After Rain
The bottom is a mottled 
healthy brown
A city of roots from 
overhanging trees
Minnow flit from light to shade 
to shadow
The surface dappled an 
intricate faux...

Read more of this work...
© Joe Murphy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: minnow, appreciation
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things