Best Slight Poems
Below are the all-time best Slight poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of slight 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:
slight, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried...
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Categories:
slight, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Old ManSilently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...
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Categories:
slight, angst, dark, life,
Form:
Prose
BrokenI wonder about her
as I shave suet and place thistle seed down -
once again
she reveals herself to the corner of my eye
a slight movement caught...
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Categories:
slight, bird, emotions, fate, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Moonlight SerenadeBlindfolded, he takes me from the car through the humid air of August. He holds my hand, and then surrounds me with his arms, when...
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Categories:
slight, sensual,
Form:
Haibun
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...
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Categories:
slight, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Roses Roses Roses PotdIn all her glory, dawn has burst forth,
With a slight glow of early morning brightness
I sit in the bower, listening to birds in concert
And admire...
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Categories:
slight, red, rose,
Form:
Free verse
SlowlySlowly
ever so slowly
overcome with emotion
building up ever so effortlessly
inside
passions burning ever so swiftly
reside
deep in my heart
sweet smells of your...
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Categories:
slight, love,
Form:
Free verse
Forgotten Soul
I turn my head, and there she is once more
in her disheveled, worn, and tattered dress,
one pew behind me near the exit door-
she sits head...
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Categories:
slight, emotions, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
The Flower -Part One-“A Flowers Wilt”
Witness the small existence
that abides the beauty of-----------
Freelancers all around,
Just to get a good look.
A baneful abrasion, the flower took
It captivates you...
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Categories:
slight, art, beauty, birth, care,
Form:
Free verse
Ashen SnowAn innocence we used to know
As morning dourly turns to night
Entombed beneath an ashen snow
A cell phone yearning for hello
With hopes of answer growing...
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Categories:
slight, sad, september,
Form:
Villanelle
Have You EverHave You Ever
Stood in a field of ripened gold grain
Lifted your face to be kissed by the rain
Felt in your heart the anguish of pain?
*
Held...
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Categories:
slight, life, lost, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
Tease For Two
"Tease for Two"
“Ein bisschen Zucker
mit Ihrer Sahne, Sir?“
German accent
smoky toned
she purred
Periwinkles suavely winked,
then played with his -
cufflinks
“Not now Schvee Tart”
he...
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Categories:
slight, adventure, humor, romance, word
Form:
Romanticism
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:
slight, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
That's Some TrickBewitched again by autumn's laggard spell
Like alchemy, green leaves are turned to gold
Although the summer still has dreams to sell
I watch fall's silent sorcery unfold
Brisk...
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Categories:
slight, autumn, fun, magic,
Form:
Sonnet