Mini Poems | Examples

Premium MemberMinnie

Minnie mini horse
no taller than a poodle
~ won't rock a saddle
Categories: mini, animal, horse,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberAnimal 'Mini-Limericks'

     Zebras are clever little horses with stripes
       They know how to discharge without having to wipe

     They say pigs roll in the mud so as to get clean
        My wife keeps trying mudpacks if you know what I mean 

     A cow’s tail is a very effective fly-swatter
        Remember to first ask the butcher to slaught-her

     When I saw in the kitchen-sink a whale of a snail
        I called the Doc – Never mind our daughter looks pale

      “Honey, you promised to kill that June-bug, remember?”
        “Oh, yeah… You asked me last June, and now it’s December”

      Dog rhymes with hog, which in turn rhymes with frog
         But only one lives on a lily in a swamp called a bog       

      My vet told me my new cat would have up to nine lives 
         A Queen Bee snatched ‘em all when she flew out of her hive
Categories: mini, animal, cat, dog, humor,
Form: Couplet


Premium MemberClever Cat and Mini Mouse

  Twist on Grimms’ Fairy Tale ‘Cat and Mouse in Partenership’

   Clever cat in guise of a friend
   seduced a timid mouse ,
   inviting her to live in his house
   pretending to be her spouse
   with aim to kill her at end.
   
  Cat gave her assurance 
  ‘ Good food I have managed
  It is my skill and challenge.
  Have dinner as I have arranged.
  Mouse smelt no bad essence.

  At nook of church in outskirt
  mouse came to stay with cat.
  From church cat stole a pot of fat.
  Fat was full of energy : instant.
  Cat offered mouse to eat first.

  Mouse started to take fat in joy
  Cat was getting ready to attack
  He was lifting paw from back.
  By mistake he hit the pot to crack.
  Mouse finished full fat to enjoy.

  What a wonder ! Magic to play.
  Mini mouse growing big and bigger
  turning to Macro mouse with vigour.
  casting cruel scary glances in rigour.
  Cat comparable as Mini, fled away.
Categories: mini, animal, cat,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMINI UNIVERSE OF STARS

Our friends and family form stars in a mini-universe…
A universe where joy and sorrow are shared.
Their stars are constantly orbiting our star
while our star orbits theirs.

Some of the stars are bright
while others have a softer hue.
Some of the stars have been orbiting a long time
while other stars are new.

Some of the stars are gone now
their light we can no longer see…
shooting stars who have landed
in our hearts periphery.

One of the beauties of our life
that keeps our star aglow
is knowing every day there is a chance
for our universe to grow.

And knowing there is something
that will always make us smile…
when the orbits of our stars come together
If only for a little while.
Categories: mini, stars,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFlared Pants, Mini Skirts and Mr Eliot

How like Eliot it is in tone.
Even the landscape has the grime
of London in each line. I must have been
no more than nineteen when I wrote 
the poem caught in the spell of his hypnotic 
rhythm and rhymes.
The bright, clean air of my home 
was seen through the filter
of a foreign fog, his soulful exhaustion 
washed a gray tide across my youth.
He stood as a monument in whose shadow 
nothing could grow.
Prufrock haunted the back alleys
of my mind, a rebel almost in the guise
of a comic. He was hardly me
in a world of pub rock and cold beers
on lazy, sun drenched Aussie afternoons -  
no rolled up trousers but instead,
reefers, flared pants and mini skirts 
and a future balanced on the whim
of a conscription ballot
hanging over my head.
Categories: mini, nostalgia, poetry,
Form: Free verse


Premium Membera mini pygmy Wow

I have a mini pygmy now
Oh wow, I said. Oh Wow, oh Wow.
I had no idea what a pygmy is.
A pig? A puppy? A snake with whiz?
It looks like a mini donkey he said.
He must have gotten inside my head.
Categories: mini, animal,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMini me

Every second of 
every day you remind 
me of myself
Categories: mini, children,
Form: Senryu

Designer Mini Dog People

Are you one of them, that never fails
to disgust me, sitting across from me
on public transportation, talking trash
to a dog's head, sticking out of a
knock off over-sized Louis Vuitton.

Are you one of those people,
parked on a  park bench, on a sunny afternoon,
crowded eatery, or maybe walking the mall
looking for bargains, sipping a six dollar latte
from Starbucks? 

I see you with your designer mini mutts,
heads sticking out of those carriers,
bows in their sometimes dyed hair, rhinestone
or diamond studded collars, polished nails.
You talking to them as if they understand.

Sometimes I wish I had a gun, others
a knife would easily do.
Categories: mini, dog,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDaddy and His Mini Me

At the doctor’s office
I spend time observing the others
They have no idea I am doing it
For I am staring at my phone, instead of them
Taking sneak peek glances.
no one sees me anyway.
At seventy-one-years-young I am invisible now
a daddy walks in carrying his three-year-old son
they are wearing similar attire
blue shirts, kaki cargo cutoff shorts, Nike flip flops
Child sings a dah-dah song in a joyful way.
They got called to see the doctor.
I see they run the same way too.
Categories: mini, dad,
Form: Prose Poetry

Test Eye of the Needle Mini Tale

- He passed by the needle... !
-because he was skinny...!
- No, because he had no sin...
But, but, he was a sinner...
-not at the time ... he had received pardon ...
 he was on parole...
Categories: mini, allusion, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose

Mini-Skirt To Mirror Gown

Clearly blind is the mini-skirt
Of faint or no trace to drawer
unveiling blunt's veil's view afar
To wandering eyes' wishes bail
If it could be to its presence

Clearly blind is the mini-skirt
That the shinning sun ray dare not
Unveil its secret to eyes choice
Tracing out on mind worksheet's theme
What it expresses to spark minds

Mirror gown is barely naked
Renting many to daydreaming
Drawing patterns of various styles
To seize door openly secured 
And return to its pursuit's acts

Mirror gown is barely naked
Inspiring drives to chase and wait
For turn up with gladdened whisper
Of yes having seen evidence 
Of its desired wish over love

Mini-skirt or Mirror gown's voice,
Which one is better off cum choice?
Categories: mini, abuse, clothes, discrimination, hilarious,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMini-Sonnet On Poetry

The thing I like 'bout poetry
       Not metaphor or simile
  
     Nor metered foot nor probity
       I like it when it smiles at me



        ~ Iambic Tetrameter ~
Categories: mini, metaphor, poetry, simile, smile,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Jolly Man Unwisely - a Mini Parody

Parody of The Holly And The Ivy. I ran out of
steam after verse two, but I felt it still worked

                   *

The jolly man unwisely
for he was full grown
Of all the cheese that was in the fridge
Old Jolly wolfed it down

Then Mrs Clause said, ‘Santa
O how your breath does stink
If it’s a promise that you think you’re on
Then have another think’
Categories: mini, christmas, humorous,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberMini Me

mini me moment
pits petite poem ~ inchworm
‘finitesimal

10/1/2021
Categories: mini, writing,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberMini Bites

When I was young and handy,                                            my dad would give me a piece of candy.                              He would then ask me                                                        how do you make it last so long before I ran off to pee.         My answer would sound like a chime,                                   one small bite at a time. 

Date Written: 5/25/2021                                                                            
Bite Size Poem 2 Poetry Contest                                          Sponsored by: Line
Categories: mini, candy, child, dad, time,
Form: Rhyme

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