Short Flanks Poems

Short Flanks Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Flanks by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Flanks by length and keyword.


Premium Member The Truth is Always in the Middle

     The truth is always in the middle
        guarded on both flanks

     It might stun so much should it escape
        we might as well give thanks
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member The War of Words

Listen to poem:
Mine's bigger than yours
I shout louder and longer
Jump-in interuptus
deterent be damned
I'm gonna have my say.
Mutual self-destruction
is on the cards.
Attrition balition,
siege swarming,
your flanks are weak.
You're not listening, are you?
war

Row Your Boat

Life is but a dream, while rowing down the stream
 Better to flow along in life’s mystery, some call it destiny
 The present is a gift, if you catch my drift
 Watch your flanks, as life & death are your banks
 ‘Cause your reserves are vested in your life preserve’s
Form: Haiku

romantic feelings

Romantic feelings

If I were a horse 
with an unsure bloodline
If you, on a summer’s day 
when the field was green 
stroked my flanks, gave me
a slice of bread
I would love you more than
The beautiful nurse
Who helped me with my socks
When I could not bend down
© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member The Eleventh Commandment

Karma lapped me 
for the eighth time
[possibly nine]
slapped me on the 
shady side of life...
Left jagged streaks of black and blue
up and down the flanks of my false pride.

I thought I was playing in a sandbox, but in fact, it was the heart of God...
Time has turned into ticking scars.
god


Refugees

Eastwards  Westwards
we know the direction
Playing tricks with the mind
We thought we knew the best
Down Convents Hill
the stone Angels sing
Desertion is not even an option
open the flanks
play your banjo
In evening we have everything to gain
in the holy calm
the marble passages
past our golden days

"a Knights Renown"

A Knight of no renown was he
who rode a black and heavy steed;
He wore death's steel at his side
and sought the devil's where they hide!

The war-horse knew his master well,
with flanks like wings, they'd run through Hell;
They crushed their foes in bloody ground,
and sealed the fate of a Knight renown!
© Bill Frew  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Ambushed

waterside vigil
buffalo nears water hole
lions crouch low nearby

three-pronged ambuscade
buffalo calf culled from herd
swift pincer attack

quarried prey springs forth
stressed calf serpentines about
lead lion cuts angle

driven toward snare
flanks assaulted from both sides
vise tightened prey clasped
Form: Haiku

The River

I wish I were a river
How beautiful I would be
With a flowing mane of green water cress
To wave so eloquently

To lie upon my back all day
And feel the winds pass by
To see them stirring in the trees
As it billows through the rye

Glorious is the river 
As I sit beside its flanks
Oh, what a perfect picture
This regal river makes

Premium Member Holding Attack

Frag. Order: 
   Advance to contact with the enemy.
   Pin him with fire, then probe his flanks.
   Hold one platoon in reserve to exploit success,
   Or to cover a withdrawal if necessary.

After Action Report:
   Half a league, half a league, half a league nowhere…
   Sustained heavy casualties …
   Intelligence reports… 
   Dear John, I’m sorry, but…
Form: Verse

Hand Bells

One, two, three
He starts it off
A phalanx of bells starts
Rings from posts on a horse-shoe set of tables

Big heavy dongs from one of the flanks
Little light tings from the other
Medium dings from the middle
Exclusive pings when it happens

Dings like falling glass on impact
Madness orchestrated
Chaotic music with perfect control
A river of tune created

Premium Member - January -

A freezing cold evening

Where the stars shining bright

With frost blade flanks

From mouth and nose steam

In the clear silence

White untrodden snows

Nature's frozen pulse

Sleep like a little baby

One gracious moon

After the night the light is shattered into gold

At sunrise raise your heartbeat








03.01.2016 A-L Andresen :)
Copyright © All Rights Reserved
Form: Verse

Premium Member Star Bucking

I could see untamed in her fiery eyes.
But I'm way past prime, no need for a wild ride.
I wrangled one once upon a time.
Tried to make her into a lady.
Taming that bucking star 
was emotional suicide.

If I could do it all over again
I'd toss the saddle, rope and bit.
Spur her hard on the flanks 
Roughly navigate those pouty lips.
Buck her until I spilled my brains, 
jump off and never go back.

Dont Think So Much

A chevron of doves
against an abyss
of deep blue
the synchrony of flight
falters oft
triggering silver waves
passing across the flanks
shimmering
against an abyss
of deep blue
is it an illusion
harmony in individuality?
why must I think
so much
like a feeble human
when instead
with my so called
intellect
imagination
I can 
experience
the feeling of flying
against an abyss
of deep blue.

The Barbarians

A lovely face with a gorgeous height,
Nibbles the straw with its bemused delight,
Chafed palpitation in bewilderment,
Ticks disaster reeking of harassment;

Look away and miss those voluptuous joints,
Fine lingerie upsets the veiled data points,
Tattoo figures in barbarian flanks,
Badgered innocence and I muse for ranks.

In her feline moves watch for the gait;
Never burn fingers when you see her bait.
© Jai Garg  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Star Steed

Writing musical notes with magical hoofs
enchanted, I  ride on a mystical,
jet black dream steed.
Proud head barely constrained by a
pure white bridle and snow white reins,
my pale chiffon gown,
floats near his flanks speaking
of innocence, flounces gathered by 
tiny, pink rosebuds and white gardenias.

Slow motion, dreamlike,
the night sky behind us like a
dark, demonic power as we
become starlight.

Home

My home 
Has a low-rise skies_
Three glazed green stars lived in.

The sun laughs at the flanks,
The wind hits wherever wants-
Transparent as water,
Solid as a mountain,

The lavenders smell, plays within.
From the mouths of windows,
Grunts September, chants,
As a melodious tune 

My home 
Which I coloured by my hands,
Happily holds me, as if I slept
In the heart of a dove 

Written by © Fatima Nusairat

Premium Member Scorpions and Horses

Tonight I'll saddle up the scorpion
kicking to hell its armored flanks
ratchet legs charging straight ahead
poison lance hovering above my head
claws snapping at the cooling desert wind,
hunting for fiery pieces of moon-tinged sin.
I'll romp with a band of glass-blown vamps
in Bosh's tasseled garden of earthly delights-
Come sunrise, I'll dismount my poisonous tank
don a tie and ride a three-piece suited Pegasus.
sin
Form: Rhyme

Enduring, Endearing Love

Endearing love, it flanks your lives - the key?
two hearts with mercy's gift. Your hopes and dreams
o’er flowed offspring’s dry banks to guarantee
success and joy. Your children came to streams
and drank for years devoid of thanks to thee.
Still flowing freely, your water redeems
enduring love long overdue. With grace -
a cruise on us. You pick the time and place.

May 6, 2017, edited June 5, 2017 to an ottava rima

Snake

It surges away accelerating within its length,
a self-winding mind
pumped through muscular hoops.

A sharpshooting tongue flicks, drilling space,
muscular chains shrug along propelling flanks.

Snake slips through its own ribs;
watching that swift cage 
roll over the tractor-prints of its flesh
my pulse also pushes ahead
running to define a matching rhythm,

a pattern etched on the undersurface 
of that unseen belly.

Premium Member Raggedy Sheep

Growing tired of running circles around your eyes.
Time to slow the tempo of the jester's soul tangle.
Breathe-breathe.... breathe
My deep blue raggedy sheep.
Easy-easy-easy
You don't need those happy pills
just these bucking, diamond flanks. 
Chill-chill chill.
Rest your Velcro heart in my sticky mind.
Watch stars climb from frozen naps...
Time to dream...dream ...dream. 
Turn 
each 
other
on.
My deep blue raggedy sheep...
Form:

Premium Member Summer Sky Tableau

The Horse Nebula
rises from flames, forged
from Milky Way core.
Saturn flanks his right,
Jupiter his left --
Gods girded for war.

Lightning bolts whistle
above the red glare
for all to beware.
Dark stallion ascends,
riderless, regal,
through the rarified air.




Photo taken by the author at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, July 29, 2019, showing Saturn, Jupiter, the Milky Way core, and Southern Delta Aquarid meteors.
© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Premium Member Practicing His Craft

Listen to poem:
An herbaceous arbor
flanks the harbor
where he labors
fitting words to spaces -- 
blanks he fills, erases.

He savors bits of meaning, 
sculpting sound to logic's shape, 
annealing word and image, 
polishing a verbal mound
congealing on his pad. 

A bird chirps.
Song distracts. 
A moment's lapse.

He compares the bird's 
with his own work,
considers form and content, 
sees the gaps,
tosses his dead page 
into the water's murk.

Mr Pijin

Mono Aluminum Pijin they called him. A rascal and a sailor. He buys beef jerky by the bucket. He shaved his beard with a hand carved whale bone. They roll the flanks of mutton in braided lamb chitterlings, and roast them fair and square. The sauce is sweet nuff for dipping. As He crosses his legs to raise his pinky in the air. Far to perfect is the evening, might a woman wish to dance.  She'd be greasy if she lean on me, cause I wiped the grease on my pants.

Mr Pijin

Mono Aluminum Pijin they called him. A rascal and a sailor. He buys beef jerky by the bucket. He shaved his beard with a hand carved whale bone. They roll the flanks of mutton in braided lamb chitterlings, and roast them fair and square. The sauce is sweet nuff for dipping. As He crosses his legs to raise his pinky in the air. Far to perfect is the evening, might a woman wish to dance.  She'd be greasy if she lean on me, cause I wiped the grease on my pants.

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