Best Shrinking Poems

I am shrinking,
I am shrinking,
I am dwindling away,
And i hardly need to tell you this is not a normal day.
Now i'm smaller than a pickle,
Than a pencil,
Than a prune,
And it's patently apparent i will vanish very soon.
I am shrinking,
I am shrinking,
I am smaller than a...

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Death masks
the intrusive
images of past thoughts
being burned.  The soul's dark night dreams
lynched hearts....

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I feel for gentle hearts in this loud world, 
Ever suspect, dismissed and derided, 
For long has been the shy a songless bird,
That Darwin dismissed as ‘odd state of head’, 
Jane Austin gave shyness a broader scope, 
Calling it a ‘moral, mental disease’, 
And Freud,...

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Shrinking dollars
Unpaid bills
Wealth unfolds...

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The list of destinations
Seems to shrink 'most every day
For when planning a vacation,
Fear should not come into play.

From the Zika scare in Rio
To most islands with a beach,
Sounds like tropical escapes
To many will be out of reach.

ISIS is another story,
Bombing airports and cafes.
Who needs travel...

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It's all smoke and mirrors,
Cocooned in magenta mascara and lavender lace,
The ever-elusive ivory stag now backed into a corner,
Delighting in an artificial solitude's icy embrace,
Brandishing a jaw of pearls to sheathe the dagger up her sleeve,
A being without mortal anchors but free as the cosmos,
An...

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Betty was petite most of her life,
lately her doc telling her she was
getting even smaller,
due to osteoporosis and
her getting older,
she was shrinking an average of
5 inches every year,
so by the time she was 65
she was as small as a 
button on a teddy bear,
her husband...

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Something I've always wondered about
A subject near and dear to my heart
Why don't sheep shrink in the rain
It's puzzled me right from the start!

A theory that sometimes is bandied about
Maybe their wool is non-shrinking
Sounds quite a bit far fetched to me
Someone's jazzing me I'm thinking!

Quite...

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For tens of thousands of years man has roamed this planet
By nature a warrior..a conqueror..an explorer
He is a seeker of truth and a lover of grandeur
The Pyrenees, the Alps, the Rockies, the oceans -
Vast planetary wonders that stir a man
To look outward and beyond,
To travel...

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Dollar bills flying out of the air
Trillions for all of us to share
Best send some more
The fast food store
Took a million for my dinner there...

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An interesting form indeed:
this one’s the Shrinking Verse.
The more you let your ink pen bleed,
the more, stanzas get terse.
The opposite, I must concede,
for sure, would be much worse.
I can’t draw forth the words I need,
an older poet’s curse.

From eight to six to four to two,
so...

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Vacuum
Sucks Room



11-21-17...

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Do you hear that
Do you hear the voices
Do you hear the voices calling pressure, pressure
'Pressure, Pressure'
I guess it's only me
It's always been only me
Maybe it's the stress of it all
the stress of what exactly
I guess the stress of failing
failing, never being enough, not measuring up
a...

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Visiting my childhood home
standing on a patch of grass
I called my back yard.

Looked up into a tiny sky 
with an even smaller moon 
and little stars.

Thinking there was a time that 
sky appeared as the vast 
never ending universe, 
The great proliferator of 
this boy's...

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Borneo Pygmy Elephants are listed as, endangered
and they were isolated, about 300 thousand years ago
from their cousins, on mainland Asia and Sumatra
and they are known as, the smallest Asian Elephant

They have shrinking forests, with human settlements
and there’s a lot of logging, with a conveyor belt...

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