Slight Poems | Examples

Premium MemberA Slight Kerfluffle

     testimony that disrupts
       proceedings it interrupts
     in a courtroom liable to erupt… 

       from a recess abrupt
       order is anon plucked
Categories: slight, confusion, sound, spoken word,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberLubricious Kind Of Potion -- slight typo corrected


The curved fondle of an embrace
within the moistened kindle
of an evening's oiled lamp...
 the splendor of your  lubricious mouth
gathering all that's aflame and gentle

and I will find the slippery blue of eyes
dressed in your lavish kiss---
never knowing  this potion of alchemy:

Dare I blink bewitched by 
a caress of such pleasure
drip by drip , my being drawn
to relish that glide
of a nape pulsing  through starlit glow
waxed by sweet grease of our shadows--

that nothing else will fulfill me

-but your ardor  under all dew.
Categories: slight, for her, for him,
Form: Romanticism


Premium MemberBlackbird -- slight typo corrected


What is that, 'midst gray silhouette
A night-winged creature slips, beset?
Fluttering through pampas and ground
Mellow the dulcet trails of sound

O blackbird, my breaths awaken
By soft chimes...this angst forsaken
Glimmering 'neath still of moonlight ,
I find peace in warlber's hymned flight !
Categories: slight, bird, song,
Form: Lay

He Tied My Hands

I shook my head as I walked away 
Rebuking my demons, keeping them at bay 
My mind wandered back to a time before 
When such a slight would have been cause for war
Categories: slight, anger, change, character, endurance,
Form: Rhyme

Slight


I was sad today
Never gave it away
Every smile more fake than the last
Every interaction so fast
I want to be alone
in my depression zone
Face aches from muscle strain
My search for happy in vain
Stop my tears with coughs and giggles
Stuck in sad so far from the middle
Born to be sad
I won’t get mad
Nothing good
in life I understood
No one to share
None who care
I was sad today 
Never gave it away
Categories: slight, poems,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberSlight Humility

Written: September 25, 2023
No 1244 New Poem Only Contest            Sponsored by: Brian Strand   
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We must follow your rules, all I can say.
Every poet is a fool, but I excel someday.
No justification needed—view my book
Not everyone who writes poetry is a kook.

 (Only my humility transcends my modesty:... smile)
Categories: slight, analogy, appreciation, smile,
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberShakespearean Slight

Shakespearean Slight


Doth have five children father of three, the other two belong to me.


By
Josehf Lloyd Murchison
Categories: slight, humor, humorous,
Form: Other

Premium MemberSlight Purple Blossom

Violets rising a garden-friendly placid flower,
Purple iris kaleidoscope eyes stain the grass,
They bud in fall and spring, but not in summer,
Stir in the yarn breaks amid fresh Narcissus. 

Purple iris kaleidoscope eyes stain the grass,
Choir of home fowl peep to the sparkly leaf,
Stir in the yarn breaks amid fresh Narcissus,
Cerise dahlia swings in the east wind in brief.

Choir of home fowl peep to the sparkly leaf,
Raindrops dribbling from a soft purple bloom, 
Cerise dahlia swings in the east wind in brief,
In calm tint arrayed, they shed a ritzy perfume.

Raindrops dribbling from a soft purple bloom,
Allow me to stroll to the valley's mute shadow, 
In calm tint arrayed, they shed ritzy perfume,
This flower is one I'd cherish to retain and grow. 
 
Allow me to stroll to the valley's mute shadow, 
They bud in fall and spring, but not in summer,
This flower is one I'd cherish to retain and grow,
Violets rising a garden-friendly placid flower.

3rd  Place Contest Winner

Written: June 3, 2022

Purple Flowers Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Nayda Ivette Negron Flores
Categories: slight, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Pantoum

Premium MemberIn My Trance I Had a Slight Chance a Dance With Ants-

I have no shoes shall we dance;
 I don't gamble shall we play a game of chance;
 I have a pet aardvark should I feed him ants;
I have vertigo am I  in a  trance;



3/4/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022
Categories: slight, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Slight Light of the Moon

The Slight Light of the Moon
David J Walker

Everyone is in 
Everyone is done
Everyone 
under the sun 
is in the same boat

It’s a big boat
It’s a tugboat
It’s a lifeboat 
That won’t float  
On Solipsism’s alone 

It’s an 
Oceanliner the color of 
October with a canoe 
And an outboard motorboat 
Lost on an ocean stretching
As far across the Milky Way as
The naked eye … 

Oh say, can you see, anything 
Beyond vituperate inflictions 
Fired from the big guns 
From the map of a compendiums instructions

The first-rate illustrations are
Lost in Space and Time 
The Big Boat is mine
The small boat is fine 
But it’s yours

Everyone on the dreamboat
Will slowly float 
Into the slight light of
The moon
Categories: slight, allegory, allusion, life,
Form: Rhyme

A Slight Delay

The brakes squeak
and the car hisses…..
a puncture

The spare tyre replaced
the engine revs again
the journey continues.


Bite Size Poem #31 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
Categories: slight, image, imagery,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberThe Light of Slight Sensibilities

The Light of Slight Sensibilities
David J Walker

I see the slight variation of 
Light illuminating translucent 
Patterns pressed from the etching 

Of each and every today
Time fades away
It is the Mise-en-scène 
of predictabilities 

It is the delicate film flying 
across the jagged
Lens lighted by frail fallibilities 

It is the Alpha and Omega looped in
Small chains of DNA on a stage of
Our own making

Sorrows laid out for the taking
I see the light of slight sensibilities
Categories: slight, allegory,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAn Unnamed Journey Slight Change

I sense it is impossible to rhyme 
in this journey and that even
with a poem searching for words
something is lost
Is it found in the breath
slowly with the slightest force
should we name it the Force 
or is it a lightness that joins
with the smallest molecules
atoms is that what I am
and you and the us
anything else if false is dust
am I trying to form something that
cannot be formed or is the Form
something we cannot know 
with its infinite reach
A form that is what the
Universe is and we are of
that form, briefly solid but unending
I feel at times a cold heaviness
in my chest and I am frightened
But if I inhale and see the stars
in the silence for that instance
forever seems real and unending
and a Force that we experience
as we search even pray for 
as we try to define ourselves 
and the Infinite that is forever
Categories: slight, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSlight Spirit Glimpse

Adversity was thus proven to be unusually anomalous. 

I went out of my way to watch the stunning sunrise. 

spirit had not worn, or body had gone to a sarcophagus

Adversity was thus proven to be unusually anomalous.
 
I've lost my ability to analyze insights, but I can still visualize. 

My spirit recognizes that it will yearn for autogenous. 

Adversity was thus proven to be unusually anomalous.
 
I opted to approve, but I would not stop the snooze.


Written: July 17, 2021

A Brian Strand July 20 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Categories: slight, 12th grade, analogy, character,
Form: Triolet

Premium MemberSnow's Slight

After a downpour
  a cheerful rainbow
After a snowfall
  nary a snow-bow

  Snow's slight ~
Nature's oversight
Categories: slight, rain, rainbow, snow,
Form: Rhyme

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