Get Your Premium Membership

Slinked Poems - Poems about Slinked

Premium MemberTrick Of The Night

...It’s an optical illusion
Has my brain had a contusion
I look on in rapt confusion
It’s a trick of the night

There’s a shadow in the doorway
Coming my way going your way
It’s as slippery as a ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, destiny, fate, fear, horror,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Membersomething black and low to the ground

...something black and low to the ground slinked out of the woods today
I barely caught glimpses of it because it slid from bush to bush
was it a miniature puma? a tiny ebony black-beauty-like horse?
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Dance of Jealousy

...I saw them dance the Second Waltz, so lovely, so fine,
Oh my Lord, how my jealous heart did despair and pine.
On the terrace, in the dark of night, moonbeams shone bright.
Curse them, a perfect co...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, anger, dance, jealousy,
Form: Sonnet

Unbearable Heartbreak

...The pain in my heart threatens to be my end,
I sought to show the 'me' that God did intend.
Yet, silenced I stand, to the skies, I relent,
"Your will, not mine," my whispered consent.

Hunger ig...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, break up, desire, fate,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Showdown

...'Twas an ominous moment when rode into town
To its marshal defy and outdraw and gun down
A notorious, murderous varmint named Slade 
Who had widows and orphans throughout the west made.

The ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, adventure, history, humor, parody,
Form: Quatrain



Premium MemberToo Much Darkness, Too Much Light

...(His Version of Darkness and Lightness)

Oh, before you I never dreamed of venturing into the light, but you intrigued me with your celestial colors always shining out of your soul so bright 
I al...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Dark Side of Love

...She was the nadir of affection
like a scorned lover, hell-bent on revenge.
She was still like a fresh flower, a sight for sore eyes.
David was told she was once jilted
by the beau of the town,
n...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, addiction, dark, longing, love
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCatonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice Adventure

...Continued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure


When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the da...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, adventure,
Form: Narrative

A Mountain Man's Tale, Part Vi

...VI.
When his pa had died, Reid had just felt fear,
he’d been a child, the pain overwhelming,
but to see Eagle Vision lying dead…
he felt a blind rage that left him seething.

“Who did this?”he ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, adventure, family, history, loss,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberGhost

...[A very recent and true story]


She arrived like a ghost in the night
Her light blue eyes showing no fear or fright
She didn’t scratch and she didn’t bite
So I knew we would get on all right
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, cat,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSteampunk Cat Named Charlie Boo

...Steampunk Cat name of Charlie Boo
Thought his vices were mystery to Sue
Brought her violets in hue of blue
For it was she that Charlie wanted to woo

Sue was a savvy feline, with a keen open min...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFunny Now, But Not Then

...I dashed off to the ladies' room
just after Sunday School was through.
The service that would soon begin,
I'd relish from my favorite pew.

As I sailed down the lengthy hall,
I felt the cool, c...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, clothes,
Form: Quatrain

Shotgun Law, Part I

...Lefty Jacobs pushed through the doors,
he wanted a drink, nothing more,
after long days out on the trail,
a ride so hard his horse had failed.

He’d had to get out of Roystown,
to many lawmen g...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, adventure, confidence, history, strength,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

The Memoirs of a Cat Lady

...
“The Memoirs of a Cat Lady” 



you slinked onto my sunny windowsill
winked with your one good eye
a no-brainer, all in your face, head

saucy marmalade pants 
bittersw...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, love, magic, muse,
Form: Romanticism

Premium MemberZippitys Playground

...The playground I chose to write about,
Is open twenty four seven, night or day,
It is beyond any expectable doubt, dangerous
Paradise to young animals, some human
Children perhaps even envious!
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: slinked, animal,
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Reflection on the Important Things