Best Thin Poems

Held unyielding in your narrow mind
is the ignorance which keeps you blind.
Building dams will only hold you back
from accepting that white is not black.
Like a slow moving, barricaded stream,
your thoughts clot like curdled cream.
Thin skin has need to slough rejection,
Your rigid stance in mirrored reflection.

Break...

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Well tickle me bum and call me Lucy
Got really great news, pay attention, it's juicy
Seems to lose weight
All you need do is wait
Eventually you'll be skeleton thin, quite spooky...

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Looking back at the Earth, I can't really describe how beautiful it is from 300 miles up. Looking down, you can tell it's a planet. The sky is black. There's just a thin blue ribbon, what we see as blue sky on Earth. You realize...

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a small child
crouches
quiet
eyes taken
curious sight
brow creases
in question
 
it a new thing
these pink shapes
on earthy brown
face
fingers
backs of hands
throat
breasts
half covered
the same
familiar
patterned dress

she child
soft traces
them
on toes
tops of feet
calves
where flame's flowers
seared skin
pink thin

knees 
knelt down 
in plea
in prayer
kept brown

strange
new tattoos
alien
yet not unearthly

she
small
prods
lashless lids
pats
proud cheekbones
insistent
bows her head
dark hair 
falls forward
silk...

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the heart is always right
unless this time it’s wrong
and this time is not like all the others

this game he must not lose
too much at risk
no room for error

is it worth the risk
has he hit the point of no return
is it really worth the venture

if it’s...

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Dark slide grind

Skating around issues
Breaking ice around in spheres 
Wearing gaudy skirts that sparkle
In the wind
People never believe things until 
It’s the end

What will it take to convince?
Social issues don’t mean a thing if there is no world to have them in
Politics and latest fashions...

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I love you; I hate you
Jealousy is not the cause
Killing you wouldn’t justify
Lustfully breaking the laws

The third line is not an option...

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A rabbit in a magic hat
The moons silvery sliver, slides behind the veil of dotted light, as the man on it, hides his face from our sight
Flowers from their stems
Leaves , which once were green and full of life, become dry, and fall off as...

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There is a thin line between the laugh and the cry.
The laugh is often perfected by one who has silenced her crying.
The laugh is sometimes a ruse, a ready weapon to camouflage pain.
When the laugh is hearty, loud, disturbing even, it can be masking a...

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Slice ham so thin, your in-laws will never come back

This pearl of wisdom came my way
So many years ago
A TV ad that to this day,
The funniest I know

It sliced and diced, did everything
A kitchen chef could seek
In fact, it claimed that it could make
ONE tomato...

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Wake not the passions you cannot tame:
A thin line there is between love and madness;
Lest you soon have yourself to blame,
Dear beautiful but an impatient mistress.
Even when in his fine eyes appear the sparks
Which at your sight seem like some magic,
Fall not too flatly for...

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brittle
ice crust forms
old snow...

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I'm just sitting here waiting for the ladle
To pass along to me, those tasty things
I'm anxious for what's lying in its cradle
Letters forming words that often sing
But I'm looking in my bowl and it's half empty
The pot looks like it's barren to the bone
There's no...

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There once was a lad named Dick
He was tremendously thin like a stick
Fell through a crack
And never came back
Probably met up with some thin chick


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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"The Thin Blue Line"

Cobalt blue, on a field of black
Creates not one, but three
Acknowledged lines within a pact
To squelch all anarchy. 

The Public is the line on top;
The bottom line is Crime. 
What separates us, is the cop...
Knight of "The Thin Blue Line". 


1.28.2017©deborah burch...

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