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Best Slinked Poems

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


Premium Member 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: slinked, adventure, humor, romance, word
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Tom and Jerry Nursery Rhyme
Hickory, dickory, dock.
Jerry the mouse ran up the clock
Tom smelled him from afar
Jumped up on top like a star.

Jerry as always was quite wise.
And with...

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Categories: slinked, cat, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Miss Priscilla
Disheveled hair, wiry and gray
 an old lady hovered past my house each day.
I ignored her when she passed by
 wondering what possessed her as...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slinked, animal, cat,
Form: Rhyme
The Snake's Complaint
You may wonder why I went after Eve.
Let’s face it: That was a big mistake.
At nun-time, attuned to the earth,
paradise on earth was mine…still I...

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Categories: slinked, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Memoirs of a Cat Lady
“The Memoirs of a Cat Lady” 



you slinked onto my sunny windowsill
winked with your one good eye
a no-brainer, all in your face, head

saucy marmalade pants...

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Categories: slinked, love, magic, muse,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member The Showdown
'Twas an ominous moment when rode into town
To its marshal defy and outdraw and gun down
A notorious, murderous varmint named Slade 
Who had widows and...

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Categories: slinked, adventure, history, humor, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Funny Now, But Not Then
I dashed off to the ladies' room
just after Sunday School was through.
The service that would soon begin,
I'd relish from my favorite pew.

As I sailed down...

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Categories: slinked, clothes,
Form: Quatrain
There Was a Time
~There Was a Time~

There was a time when I would look
out over the azure glory of a Michigan lake,
or tear up from the umber-brown beauty
of...

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Categories: slinked, nostalgiatime, time,
Form: Free verse
Lion Without a Mane
Leo, the Lion was so sad
He wanted a mane just like his dad.
But he never grew one about his face,
So he slinked around in dismal...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slinked, animal,
Form: Rhyme
The Cougar and the Deer
When I was just a little boy
we picnicked under alpine skies,
one time a mule deer strolled out
and fed in the meadow nearby.
Tall, curving antlers rising...

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Categories: slinked, age, fear, growing up,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Dark Side of Love
She was the nadir of affection
like a scorned lover, hell-bent on revenge.
She was still like a fresh flower, a sight for sore eyes.
David was told...

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Categories: slinked, addiction, dark, longing, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zippitys Playground
The playground I chose to write about,
Is open twenty four seven, night or day,
It is beyond any expectable doubt, dangerous
Paradise to young animals, some human
Children...

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Categories: slinked, animal,
Form: Free verse
A Good Father, Part I
Harper Lukowski paced down the sidewalk,
the day was done, he was on his way home.
His fried Jaquan, twenty years his junior,
chattered with him as the...

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Categories: slinked, growth, motivation, parents, prayer,
Form: Narrative
The Girl Who Said Hello
If I wasn't sure
Of all the nostalgia I'd endure,
I would wish to explore
Some of those moments again.

How your mummy, she knew mine,
They'd been friends for...

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Categories: slinked, childhood, hello, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice Adventure
Continued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure


When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what...

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Categories: slinked, adventure,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs