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Best Shrunken Poems

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Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

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Categories: shrunken, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse



An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To Daver
Do not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a 
Small part of me;         ...

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Categories: shrunken, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: shrunken, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Old Dark House
The Old Dark House

This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is...

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Categories: shrunken, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member - the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: shrunken, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth...

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Categories: shrunken, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
No Service
Discarded cotton t-shirt shrunken and stained
on the side of a street pot-holed and veined
pants sagging low with no shoes on his feet
headphones blaring to the...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shrunken, change, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet
On the Way To the Ballet
The old ladies 
march onto the elevator,
steadied by their canes, 
each a shrunken frailty
wrapping an unending soul-- 
they are going to watch 
young people dance...

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Categories: shrunken, allusion, analogy, appreciation, dance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soft
“Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold.” ~Victoria Erickson

Tonight the moon sanctioned...

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Categories: shrunken, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Camp of the Dead Children
Emily of three years
Leukemia eating her soul
Her bald head, made her smile wider
Please mummy do not cry
I will hug you even after I die

Tommy of...

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Categories: shrunken, beauty, introspection, love, sad,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member - the Old Dark House -
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each...

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Categories: shrunken, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each...

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Categories: shrunken, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Old Soldiers
He sits in a wheelchair pushed to the curb.  The people around him move aside to assure he is able to see.  His...

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Categories: shrunken, inspirational, war, old, old,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth Tor in the outlying 
region of the...

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Categories: shrunken, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Dragon Fare
I invited a dragon to dinner
(That was almost the wrong thing to do!)
Have you ever seen what a dragon
can do to a bowl of beef...

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Categories: shrunken, children, courage, fantasy, food,
Form: Rhyme

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