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Stretchy Poems - Poems about Stretchy

Would You Like Some Toast
...Would You Like Some Toast? I’m just a guy named Nacho Libra. I work at an orphanage. They gave me cooking duties. And dead guy duty. Would you like some chips on your salad? Where are the......

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Categories: stretchy, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blue cheese and old pickles
... I shudder while peering at sepia photographs, showing visits to my maiden Aunt Hilda’s house. Even though I was very young it was clear she didn’t tolerate children. I was to be ‘Seen and not......

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Categories: stretchy, childhood, memory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Her Name Was Winter
... She danced over my desires like a light footed ballerina tapping into my longings like an intuitive child of the seventies Every drip of icicle sent shivers down my spine and so I wrote her a......

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Categories: stretchy, appreciation, winter,
Form: Free verse
After the Flood
...Stray cats slipped under a waterlogged night only to drift back bedraggled, as if today still pulled at their tails Old Charley Winslow died before the deluge, before the river threw itself o......

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Categories: stretchy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member fashion is over the hill now
...Soft t-shirts, warm flannels, easy to step into Cozy fleece, light cotton, stretchy elastic waistbands Comfy nightgowns, flowered pajamas, and a mumu Retirement encourages a new way to dress Comf......

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Categories: stretchy, age, fashion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ninny Nonny Noose
...ninny nonny noose with a neck inside stretchy stretchy stretch and the witch she died golly, gallows in a gully hanging hung in such a hurry spell a spell a spell did she with ......

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Categories: stretchy, dark, fear, fun, magic,
Form: Light Verse
You Were Feeling Like a Kid
...You toss them to the ground, they don’t beckon or call, They’re a pair of jeans, and to the ground they fall, They stay as long as you threw them, Yet they could stand tall, When they’re on you t......

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Categories: stretchy, beautiful, change, childhood, death
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mister Squeaky Reporting
...This is Mr. Squeaky, mouse reporter, squeaking to you from the Swiss cheese quarter, where the crime bosses will decide the price you'll have to pay for a provolone slice. My modest size lets m......

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Categories: stretchy, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Melted Cheese
...A lunch for me that’s bound to please Is one containing melted cheese, For on a bagel or some bread (The crusty type) or else instead… Inside a quesadilla shell Or anyplace to melt it well, I......

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Categories: stretchy, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Once
...there was a man a small man -a little man -a tiny man a small little tiny man who found a-tiny-small-little-something he pulled on it -and realized it had give he pulled -this stretchy-l......

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Categories: stretchy, conflict, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Packaging
...‘Taties and carrots and onions All have their own natural skin So why do most of the suppliers Use plastic bags to pack them in, Either the fragile brittle type That bursts all over the floo......

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Categories: stretchy, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Stretching Away From Self
...This cyclic-round-wheel-gyre-chakra bound business of humanness - such an unnecessary habit. I have stuffed my mind, I have put on brown leather shoes, and nothing else in the world puts on a......

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Categories: stretchy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Baskets
...Slim elegance, pencil-sharp, dark business skirt, clean contrasts where the black cuts a clear white neckline. Stretchy pants, wide at the beam, rumpled fore and rear, a clear predilection ......

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Categories: stretchy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mr Stretchy Cat
...Mr. Stretchy Cat elongates himself gladly He rarely eats food, but he is depressed, sadly. Unless he stretches out on a pillow of stripes. That is when his mouth stops making up gripes. When I ......

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Categories: stretchy, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Beating Heart and Frail Bone
...17th November 2020 Beating muscle beneath frail skin, Rigid bone beneath strong muscle, A warm full of life fleshy heart, Thumping with feeling and passion, Taking a stand on your sleeve, N......

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Categories: stretchy, 10th grade, body, death,
Form: Free verse

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