Best Slumped Poems
Below are the all-time best Slumped poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of slumped poems written by PoetrySoup members
My Darling Little One, You Carried MeA hardened and disciplined man drove to the grocery store lost in thought,
with setting of sun, the long day's work almost found it's end.
Hoisting...
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Categories:
slumped, child, dad, daughter, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Feathered EnchantmentIn a room that once commanded great respect,
stage lights began to hiss with heated anticipation.
There were sounds of alcohol infused rumblings
and laughter rolling through the...
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Categories:
slumped, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
Mad Molly ShawThis is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the...
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Categories:
slumped, western,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cuddling CricketIt’s not enough to have a Dragon plus his penguins and pigeons, too?
Darn it! I had a limit, until a cute Cuddling Cricket found my...
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Categories:
slumped, baby, fantasy, funny, growing
Form:
Light Verse
FerdinandFerdinand the frog was as mute as a swan
as his friends hopped to school one by one
he would sit on the rocks and silently...
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Categories:
slumped, children, , Lullaby,
Form:
Rhyme
The PuppetSlowly the curtains parted a head peeps out
Dressed as a small child so lifelike
Can see the strings working the arms
In a disjointed fashion
But the eyes.....
the...
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Categories:
slumped, imagination, drug,
Form:
Verse
An Empty Throne - Part 2 of 9An Empty Kingdom
The news did spread, a kingdom’s will
For sorrow placed its shadowed hand
‘Pon castle steps the crowd did fill
As heart break took a...
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Categories:
slumped, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Mr JamesHis wise council and kind patience bolstered my resolve
to overcome my youthful woes and nightmarish troubles solve.
His humanity may have saved my life. His memory...
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Categories:
slumped, education, encouraging, feelings,
Form:
Prose
The Old WomanShawled against
the damp night chill,
she waits
slumped low,
crumbled
in her favorite chair.
Old and tired
she waits.
Eyes, once bright,
cast a milky stare
blind to all...
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Categories:
slumped, age, death, old, woman,
Form:
Free verse
On a BenchI was sitting on a bench, by the sunshine being drenched
When a strange situation took place
Someone sat next to me; from where he came I...
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Categories:
slumped, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Perpetual GiftYou have given me a gift
It is always wrapped
I perpetually open it with a smile
It is a never empty tin of freshly baked cookies
It...
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Categories:
slumped, poems,
Form:
Free verse
2018 - Nothing New Here2018 - nothing new here
He sits
slumped in his corner
weary, battered, bruised,
but not beaten.
He has survived,
studied this craft,
this art of living,
these cycles of change.
He has tasted...
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Categories:
slumped, life, metaphor, new year,
Form:
Free verse
Write Your OwnThe talentless, envious, plagiarist’s dream
Was to find someone’s ‘Works’ on a shelf or a beam
In a Pub, in a folder, alone and ignored
As the author...
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Categories:
slumped, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Cowboys In the BadlandsRather lost, they stare over the divide,
how best to circumnavigate this obstacle?
They can see a path gently sloping down
but it is far off to the...
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Categories:
slumped, horse, life,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
A Lion Looms ListlessA cold lion roams, doctrinaire and sterile,
The expanse of Africa offers him no sanctuary, the Saringehti no salvation,
He can only smell the scent of his...
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Categories:
slumped, character,
Form:
Epic