Short Small Talk Poems

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Premium Member Sober Love

Quiet sober love 
rises with the morning Sun;
Unspoken desire 
lingers from the night before;
Small talk has found the silence.
Form: Tanka


Premium Member I See You

Quick with the small talk;
Surrounded by attention,
still you stand alone;
Your broken heart in your eyes;
Do you see me? I see you.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Predictable

Predictable
Weather or not
Small talk
When the oceans stop
All bets will be off


12/3/2019
Predictable Poetry Contest 
Sponsor Nina Parmenter

Hurting Small Talk

Hurting Small Talk

Sometimes gossip sprouts
Sowing deceptive stories.
Seeming true, but not—

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 16, 2010
Poetic form: Senryu
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Oops And Downs

The man in the elevator, alas! 
Struck a small talk with a lady of class. 
Was dealt a bad card, 
Was sucker-punched hard - 
Dared to ask if she will go down, badass!
Form: Limerick


Laundromat, 9:12 P.M.

Sixteen unique individuals
sit on sixteen washing machines.

As they make small-talk
they stare at sixteen dryers, all in a row
chugging and churning to the same hum.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Frost and Thoreau Go On a Walk

Frost and Thoreau were going for a walk.
Frost said I can make a poem from a sock.
Thoreau laughed hard
At this braggish bard
Published a poem from this crazy small talk.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Clerihew York

A US born painter was Albert York
preferred action to small talk
American vanitas was his style*
small,minimal lacking guile

*http://www.artnet.com/artists/albert-york/
Form: Clerihew

Free Text

F ar from free are we.
R emoved from society.
E ntirely caught up.
E mailing and texting.

T urn off your phone.
E xchange small talk.
X and hug each other.
T ouch reality.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Small Talk

a tender smile
brings rapport,
a seesaw thrill
releases
        a tense tang,
a humorous
             aside
banishes dread,
reminences
     flood memory
         with delight
Form: Verse

Small Talk

I nod my head and smile again
The burning creases brand my skin
A scar I will forever wear
There's nothing left to talk about
Pretend to hear; pretend to care
I fear my words have all run out.
© Mali New  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Small Talk

The truth of life 
Is hidden in your small talks 
Now look at the views 
On the photo how peaceful it is 
For today's running time 
It becomes emotional 
To stay among the loved ones and talk.
Form: Other

Premium Member Never Good at Small Talk

My teeth number thirty-two. 
I use some to bite.  I use some to chew. 
In this way, I specialize.
Don't get me started on my nose and eyes.
Oh dear, this small talk's going south.
How many teeth are in your mouth?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Monoku #16

elephantine small talk - vibrations of  the sole


inspired by Shell Wildlife Photo Comp Great Foot by Kur tJay Bertels

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/photo.do?
photo=2336&category=50&group=1 Bertels
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Sensationalism Or Journalism

Listen to poem:
(Another childhood or teen years poem.)

Newsprint small talk
in Mediocrity's lead pot
rustles and gossips while,
splashed spectacularly across
the speckled page of
Society's intellect,
a murder making column one
hides the hushed massacre
of minds.
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Broken Hearts

A sadistic killer, who enjoys it with relish
A woman desperately in want of love
The age numbers small talk turns to relic
A paedophile never at rest until he gave
A robber on the prowl seeking victims.
Broken hearts need that need mending.
 (Written on the 28th May, 2021)
Form:

Premium Member Introvert

Inside I’m an emerald empath 
Now I can be myself at home
Teal reveals my polite laugh
Ready to red reveal if not alone
Onyx opinions kept close to chest
Violet dimensions personal preference 
Every party is like a pop test
Rendezvous with raspberry reference
Thankful for small talk and concession
Form: Acrostic

Small Talk

I have longed for a visitor, to knock upon my door                                                     
and indulge me with stories,
from another shore.
Someone with whom,I may wile away the hours,                                                     
conversing about life...
not just the rain showers
Form:

Premium Member Small Talk Delayed

Listen to poem:
Small Talk Delayed 
David J Walker

The days dawn falling in 
Uncertain brokenness 

Strangeness 
came in waves 
of multicolored
Cool sunrays 

Nothing would be the same
		He said
But nothing ever is 

Instead 
	Of small talk delayed

The gardener went about 
his business
Pruning the garden
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Seduction

Small talk
Body Talk
Flirtatious glances

Beguiling smiles
Warm electricity
Passion tingling

Eyes that tease
Torment and tantalize
Desire on every breath
On every quiver of the lip

Rhythm of bodies craving
That erotic embrace
The delectably sublime
Act of seduction



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Small Talks on Long Walks

small talks
on long walks
reminds me of love
enjoying the view
with a lover
puts my mind at ease
small talks 
on long walks
taking in 
the summer breeze
writing our names
in the sand
praying they won't wash away
like on a driveway with chalk
if there's one thing 
i enjoy with you
it's small talk
on a long walk
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Gynecologist

GYNECOLOGIST



Grappling to make small talk:

     “Good morning,” he begins.

          “Gee, I like your cute socks”

               Good grief don’t speak to me…

                    Gaining back my pale face

                         Gynecologist gaff!


12/2/2016
Pleiades G Contest
Sponsor – Kim Merryman

True Story!
Form: Verse

Premium Member Border Town: 20 Seconds Small Talk

*Z - Zelensky
*P - Putin


Z - "I've signed mines."
P - "Mines as well."
Z - "Then shall we."

P - "To our dinners."
Z - "Hope it's not Borscht."
P - "Could be, Dim Sum."
Z - "Mayhaps, Sushi"

P - "How was your dinner?"
Z - "The hot water need ..."
P - "... More salt, I agree."
Z - "Oh, you've washed your hands."
P - "Of the whole matter."
Form: Narrative

Vice Versa

oh my, you're splendid
like a fern growing backwards 
„you hack writer“
you're a castellanus at 9 PM
after the dinner rich in miracles
hate re-living the mundane moments
over 
   and over 
           and over 
                   and over

so sick of the everyday small talk.
still magnetized by the oddities.
this is the right way, not vice versa.

Premium Member Small Talk

So much to say,
So little time;
Rush through each day,
No time to rhyme.


So much to do,
So many things;
To win and woo,
No time to sing.


So much to gain,
So put things off;
Bear hurts and pains,
Live with odd cough.


So much to live,
No time for grief;
So give and give,
For life is brief.




Leon Enriquez
19 July 2015
Singapore
Form: Quatrain

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