Read full poem →Cram their insides till they waddle on short legs
Under the drums of bellies, hams of fat.
Kill your hogs with a knife slit under the ear.
Dictionary Entry
The abdomen, especially a fat one.
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Common Phrases
. belliesfull belliesbellies porkbellies emptybellies musclebellies whitebellies fullbellies swollen
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Poetry examples for “bellies”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Here we our slender pipes may safely charm.
PIERS. And, when my goats shall have their bellies laid,
Cuddie shall have a kid to store his farm.
Read full poem →Bear me to the light,
Flat upon your bellies
By the webby window lie,
Read full poem →We raid the Boche; men waiting, stiff and chilled,
Or crawling on their bellies through the wire.
"What? Stretcher-bearers wanted? Some one killed?"
Read full poem →Hanging their blue-green bellies and their wing panes in a Chinese screen.
The honey-feast of the berries has stunned them; they believe in heaven.
Read full poem →Along the garden-wall the bees
With hairy bellies pass between
The staminate and pistilate,
Read full poem →The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the
sun, they do not ask who seizes fast to them,
Read full poem →Arms and hands of love, lips of love, phallic thumb of love, breasts
of love, bellies press’d and glued together with love,
Earth of chaste love, life that is only life after love,
Read full poem →From bearing anything but pink blossoms all the year,
Fixed permanent lest their bellies wax unseemly, and the dear
Innocent days of them be wasted quite.