Short Flimsy Poems

flimsy violet
purple with yellow center
perking up forest...

Read More

Listen to poem:

flimsy fig leaf blade
belies the belittlement
of hiding under...

Read More

the tulips whisper

their flimsy silky petals

listening with care...

Read More

A flimsy mouse-trap
   rat gnawing on lump of cheese 
        to a  crunching Snap....

Read More

A
flimsy
negligee
betrays her
shape-
an 
honest 
innocence
in becalmed deep
sleep....

Read More

flimsy leaves
of a winter tree
fall one over the other

-- Souvenirs of Silence, Soman Gouda...

Read More

A
flimsy
negligee
betrays her
shape-
an
honest
innocence
in becalmed deep
sleep.

Ekprasis after Leighton...

Read More

Dodo has wings but can't fly.
Flimflam wings flip flop flutter,
Flapping flimsy flight feathers
Fails to get lift off...

Read More

A door unopened
the knock
makes almost
no sound
so subliminal
is
the flimsy veil
of steel
that guards the answer....

Read More

A
flimsy
negligee
betrays her round
shape-
an
honest
innocnce
in becalmed deep
sleep.

After Frederick Leighton...

Read More

BITTER BLOOD
I'M TORN
INTO FLIMSY FRAGMENTS
PULLING ME APART
YELLOWING
WITH MISUSE
THIS STATE OF ENTROPY
BLACKENED....

Read More

A
flimsy
negligee
betrays her
shape-
an 
honest 
innocence
in becalmed deep
sleep.

After Frederick Leighton's painting...

Read More

Fit In Masque

It's as
Flimsy
As that
Film
You
Wear:

FEAR

All 
the
Time.

[STOP.]

-Gray Squirrel

05-03-2024...

Read More

Lace
Flimsy
Floats on air
Like yesterday’s
Dreams

Sad
Broken
Mourning love
Alone bereft
Lost

Jack Horne for Nette's Turn on the Lanterne contest...

Read More

from my cupboard fall
all the stripey flimsy bright
things I used to wear

some dull dreary mourning tide 
hath made me drab as ashes

© Gail Foster 2016...

Read More

Little golden cups of sunlight nod,
Swirling flimsy butter-yellow skirts in the wind
Dipping deeply in a curtsey
To an unseen God
A rippling rush
Of whispering gold....

Read More

The scissors are beaten by the rock
Man made steel has been left in shock
Now the rock has been beat
By a flimsy light sheet
The winning paper is where our words talk...

Read More

re post inspired by my latest contest

A
flimsy
negligee
betrays her
shape-
an 
honest 
innocence
in becalmed deep
sleep.

After Frederick Leighton's famous  painting...

Read More

A
flimsy
negligee
betrays her round
shape-
an
honest
innocnce
in becalmed deep
sleep.

After Frederick Leighton Flaming June https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_June...

Read More

Number 5:

EGO




Funny is the absurd man
Whose big ego fits the small
In the flimsy, awkward plan
To walk the talk with the tall




Leon Enriquez
18 December 2014
Singapore...

Read More

My initials are M F, of course, given by my parents. I don't use nicknames in any of my writings.

Maiden’s flimsy faking made mystique meaningless making me fade from fantasy friend;...

Read More

There was once a funny old-man,
Who wore for a hat, a flimsy pan,
Every Christmas he'd turn blue--
Out of cold, cough and flu--
And eat his beans from a can!




*My first attempt at a Limerick*...

Read More

FLAMING JUNE an ekphrasis
A
flimsy
negligee
betrays her round
shape-
an
honest
innocence
in becalmed deep
sleep.

After Frederick Leighton
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007...

Read More

reindeer poop
in my yard
get a bag

too little
too flimsy
heavy stuff

come on now
let’s be real
reindeer poop



Written 12-15-2018
Contest: CharlieKu 3-3-3
Sponsor: Charles Messina...

Read More

Warning! Flimsy, fickle Heather 
Flips and frolics like wild weather, 
Her demeanour doesn’t last -
Storms in quick and blows up fast -
Hot and cold is fickle Heather. 

December 29, 2021...

Read More