Get Your Premium Membership

Long Skinny Poems

Long Skinny Poems. Below are the most popular long Skinny by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Skinny poems by poem length and keyword.


Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slips 3

Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch

Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)

When editors reject my poems, did I slip...

Read More
Categories: skinny, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme



Ancient Haiku
These are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku. 

While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...

Read More
Categories: skinny, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Haiku Translations of the Oriental Masters
Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch

Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch

The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...

Read More
Categories: skinny, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form: Haiku
Juvenilia: Early Poems Iv
Juvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.



Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch

If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.

I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten chapters per day, at the suggestion...

Read More
Categories: skinny, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"



Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly grazed, then held long

slow, deep, warm and wet

The story is...

Read More
Categories: skinny, dream, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism



No Umbrella
There is always something to write about
I don’t know what you are talking about
There is always something to write about
So take out your pen and spell it out
I was trying to book a ticket for...

Read More
Categories: skinny, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, business, creation, rain, seasons,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Canto Xx Hell Translation
Of new pains new verses must be composed 
To give matter for the canto twenty
Of the canticle first, treating sunk posed.

I just was inclined with desires many
To thoroughly look at the open deep,
Which was moisten...

Read More
Categories: skinny, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Youth's Sweet Friendship Fragments
"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"

                    John Ruskin, 1853


I think of youth’s sweet...

Read More
Categories: skinny, friendship,
Form: Prose
FICTIONAL BIO:
FICTIONAL BIO:

The missus asked me
(hitherto known as her bozo)
just mere moments ago
to craft humorous poem to glow
nsync with the shiny nose of Rudolph
keeping syncopated metrical flow
thus methought to crow
about being equally as foolish
streaking naked outside...

Read More
Categories: skinny, adventure, allegory, courage, cute, hair, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
July Bride
I was so anxious to get away but I did not realize what was on the way
I got a standing ticket because all the tickets have been sold out some on the black market, others...

Read More
Categories: skinny, betrayal, endurance, environment, friendship love, happiness, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris

date of conception:?  ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem, 
where earth, wind, and fire...

Read More
Categories: skinny, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration, dad, humorous, january,
Form: Free verse
Bear Creek '98
_ a symphonic, folk rock, blues song
1.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm looking in the places
Where the people say love...

Read More
Categories: skinny, change, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep
Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep...

versus being alive 
predicated victory videre licet lunatic
if Trump trumped Kamala Harris
and stole 2024 presidential election,  
(whereat Musk bribed 
significant number of voters
handing out wads of cash)
courtesy underhanded modus operandi
and...

Read More
Categories: skinny, absence, america, angst, beautiful, courage, death, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
My Pentagram Poppet Pt 1
You're so far away from me and I suck trying to go slow when I know
I wanna snatch you up, bail you out, and take us to our new home
It's hard when I'm alone in...

Read More
Categories: skinny, girlfriend, magic, women,
Form: Rhyme
Happy Lxiv Birthday Matthew Scott Harris
Happy Lxiv birthday Matthew Scott Harris

date of conception:?  ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem.

A gangly, measly, and scraggly bundle
of lovely bones even as...

Read More
Categories: skinny, appreciation, birthday, boy, celebrity, creation, happy birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult

Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades

during...

Read More
Categories: skinny, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd
Form: Rhyme
After drenching biblical rainfall
After drenching biblical rainfall...
verdant green acres covered the planet of the apes
like a petticoat junction
donning barrel of skinny dipping monkeys.

Once drought stricken vast landscape
far as the eye could see
suddenly flush with promise
of budding new shoots
and...

Read More
Categories: skinny, adventure, africa, august, earth, environment, history, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Random Excerpts - 2: Ice In My Eyes Smoke In Yours, a Novel
May 29, 1957: …have to think about getting a thesis director…know no professor yet in the department…someone suggested i get hold of Derek Fogg for an intro to the big guns in the philosophisches Seminar…can't...

Read More
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skinny, growing up, international, student, universe, world war
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetic Psychoanalyst
Plant the seeds you wish to reap.
I have planted my seed in the soil of my people.
I have no home, no earthly land,
I have no food sometimes, sometimes,
I must find the white spot in my...

Read More
Categories: skinny, america, analogy, confusion, hate, jealousy,
Form: Political Verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.

I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...

Read More
Categories: skinny, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form: Rhyme
Self Help Addict Needles Unsuspecting Reader
Self help addict needles unsuspecting reader 

Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow 
scouting about for carrion 
scavenging for dead animals 
and rooting about...

Read More
Categories: skinny, 12th grade, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety, april,
Form: Rhyme
Big Fish Calling Me To the Sea Part 1
My spirit has been calling to get up and go to the sea
My spirit has been telling me that there is something for me to see
My spirit is calling me to fly over the big...

Read More
Categories: skinny, abuse, adventure, devotion, encouraging, environment, fish, fishing,
Form: Narrative
As a Kid and Beyond
AS A KID AND BEYOND

did I ever wonder?
what my upbringing brought for me;
and did it disappoint
or just bring feelings to resurface,
but never sensitivities 
of deep down and personal,
and did I really care
of what there was...

Read More
Categories: skinny, childhood, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Camellia - Part 1 Translation From Tagore
This is a translation from the poem "Camellia", by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel laureate Poet from India (1861 -1941) Understandably the story took place in late nineteenth century - early twentieth century Bengal. 



Her name is...

Read More
Categories: skinny, life, love,
Form: Narrative
Twice Told Toilet Tale a Cheeky Execrable Gross Fable
Twice told toilet tale – a cheeky execrable gross fable

which poetic product best be affixed 
with hashtag STINKY label.

As a young whippersnapper
and one precocious lad to boot,
I discovered common combustible materials
found in the bathroom.

At opportune...

Read More
Categories: skinny, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, blessing, father,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things