Best Shrunken Poems
Below are the all-time best Shrunken poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of shrunken poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Vanilla DoveCypress 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 DaverDo 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
IronbarHe 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
The Old Dark HouseThe 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
- 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
The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and HorrorThe 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 ServiceDiscarded 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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Categories:
shrunken, change, nostalgia,
Form:
Sonnet
On the Way To the BalletThe 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
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
The Camp of the Dead ChildrenEmily 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
- 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
The Old Dark HouseThis 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 SoldiersHe 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
The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and HorrorThis 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 FareI 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