Short Slumps Poems

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


Premium Member 007 over-the-edge

Brit's spy guy from Ian Fleming
Is Bond who goes chaos stemming!
When the web of life slumps
See how quickly he jumps 
Sadly to die like a lemming
Form: Limerick


Premium Member Returning Home

Born
         Baby
     Raises head
 Crawls everywhere
 Starts to walk 'n talk...
   ...Old age sets in
   Wheelchair-bound
     Slumps down
          Dies...
Form: Ninette

Premium Member Flowing By Me

Shrub with birds Ponder what they say. Sun slumps down. As temp drops,  We might have a clone, they claim. Cool hunch, wonder where.
Written: January 24, 2022
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Shadorma

Premium Member Lazy

My
bask in
July sun,
turns into yawns,
slumps in a long nap,
I wake up half asleep,
I want to blame someone else,
Is it the shade under the sun?
Is it my retired life and old age?
Why blame anyone, I had lots of fun.
© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Etheree

Ballet Not The Tango

It is no dance, sensual.
Plays around, hip to hip
With romantic love, too forceful.
Nigh whose pretence does rip!

Innocent-shaped as clothed.
Hangs poised which theme upon
Of love, as highly descriptive.
Till slumps its woeful 'swan'.
Form: Rhyme


Suicide of the Devil

A dagger to the heart.
Warmred oozes down his chest.
He slumps.
No pain, pleasure instead,
His heart now a hollow shell,
He is man.
Capable of Love or Hate,
He chooses neither.
The embodiment of devil may care.
This is how the devil died and I was born.
Form: Epic

Premium Member Old Man Forest Tanka

old man forest slumps time is the savage victor upright days long since insolent, new growth moves in forgotten, absorbed, lives on ————— for the Bite Size Poem no.39 Poetry Contest sponsored by Line Gauthier written on 02/14/2022, updated 03/07/2022
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
age
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Father's Day - Any Year

Excursions, picnics, get-togethers, ballgames
  An exhausted father slumps into his favorite armchair, leans back --
Ah, the pot of gold at the end of ‘his special day’
  
…Dad hobbles outside – bad knees and all – to set up
     the sprinklers and haul in the gear from the van

Love And Know God - 1john 4:16

This quest for God, and His peace
Journeying life through
By all accounts does not involve
Steersmen, ships or stars
Hydra of myth bars.

Love's one word, to whom this close
Slumps, for lack of, by
All that's needed to, genie-like
Free whose wish-granting
Bottled your heart in.
Form: Rhyme

Cat In the Sun

Between the sun and the top of a garden wall, drapes a marmalade rug, now momentarily stiff legged as it stretches. Sparrow gossip twitches ears, neck rises, eyes squint under half-closed lids. The drowsy head slumps. Paws dangle as fluent as light, as heavy as contentment.

Trigger Point

A missile in the home,
what they have done ?
You are on flames.

A red smoke rises
from bottomless hole.
Memory slumps.

A glow in pain washed
cells, calls the mirror.
Instead, grave diggers arrive.

This was the manufactured truth
of the eternal kiss
of death. I stretch my arms

to feel the terror.
The walls start crying.
There was no roof.


SATISH VERMA
Form:

Sisyphus Silence

Sisyphus’ Silence

I sit, a silent, carved-out zone,

A soul entrapped, unlit, unwhole,

The majority’s tide grinds flesh to bone,

While others’ feelings wallow, roll

In mud that clings, a river’s drone.

Sisyphus slumps at mountain’s base,

Scowls at the stone, then dares a smile,

“Nevermore” hums through empty space,

The gods, once loud, now mute, exiled.
© Sy Roth  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Funny

to be in her arms is the only thing keeping me here to exist, her hair flowing in the wind, she slowly spins around, moving so elegantly not with the slightest sound, looking in my eyes hers suddenly spark, stumbling back and trip over bark, closing in closer i see shes sober, traveling to the bar eating mars candy bars, sniffing the air and pulls back, she slumps near the rack, nothing much to see then she has to pee

Premium Member My Name Is Tom

My Name is Tom Written: by Tom Wright 10-7-2019 My given name is Tom, And I’m some past eighty. For the past fifty four years, I’ve been married to the same lady. It has taken extreme effort, to negotiate some slumps This old dog has faced, Some serious health speed bumps. For longevity I take no credit, God made me no boy wonder. “But what God has joined together, let no MAN put asunder"
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Lyric

orange ginger twirl


atop
a garden wall

striped marmalade throw

feline
lazy time
under sunshine

interlaced visions
a weaving

paws dangle in indolent ease
reach
underlay deep

whiskers sense sparrows
muscles tense in their plush
carpet shag
then
drowsy textile head slumps

sun-drying kitty-mat
basking

2 textured images twilled
to fade together forever

later

cat-rug carried away ~

sun settles in a deckchair

Drive In

Pale blue and pink hooded tumbleweeds
Roll down the concrete corridor
Orange sodium vapor half lights
Half lit yellow tagged parking lot
Illuminated fake plastic trees all in a row
While acetylene fires stroke an ultramarine sky
Under stars
Corner homeless stumps and slumps and dumps
Warmed by desolation desert asphalt steam pumps
Electronic red laser reader
Smiling chain link razor wire jerk off greeter
“How are you today, Mr. Jones?”

What Ending

In your limpid eyes
a pacifism slumps.
All I could say was, wrong sex
was ending in ice. 

Dark energy : we were not expanding
Lies galore   : we were casting
off our skins. I will not seek
afterlife. The hand carries the old coat.

Retrodiction. Don’t want to shed
the charm. Waited for the change
which never came. Chicken ,
wearing love, no bones.

Latest navel show. Walking on
ramp. Aphrodiasiac for the dangling
egos. Let us go for a
collective suicide. 


Satish Verma
art
Form: ABC

Teke Teke a Japanese Myth

It still hurts from the cutting train
And I can’t find my bleeding legs
I hate this unbearable pain
So I pass it on to my “friends”

My blood seeps out with cold hatred
As I draw out my crimson scythe
Their slow, brutal deaths awaited
In the same way I lost my life

My victim’s eyes grow wide in fear
When I swing my starving weapon
He bleeds a single unseen tear
The cloth on his stomach reddens

Half his body slumps to the ground
And my next victim has been found
© Sil Ng  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Sonnet

Trumped and Thumped



Tangerine tan man masterplan such chumps

Plumps to rain down bombs on Iranian clumps

Logic stumps as facts and pacts again dumps 


Throat lumps as fossil fool fuel prices jumps 

Getting trumped and thumped at the pumps

Oil barons gloat gazumps.. economy slumps


No cargo due to embargo everything flumps

Even a MAGA fan is now down in the dumps

Grumps got the hump with Mar a Lago frumps 

Thicker than Forrest Gump deadlier than mumps
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member The First Hug

My glorious three -year-old grandson 
hugs me as if I am his lifeline.
Pleasing me to my core.
He is the king here.
I am his servant.
We both live for this mighty hug.
I get it almost every weekend,
and yet...
It feels like the first hug, every time.
As his mommy pops him into his car seat
His head slumps forward, and his eyes close.
We played so hard!
We are both exhausted.
But it was so worth it!
When the car clears the driveway
I lie down,
to dream of next weekend.

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