Long Shooting Poems
Long Shooting Poems. Below are the most popular long Shooting by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Shooting poems by poem length and keyword.
Cymbric ValeI believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
shooting, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Be of Good, Compassionate CourageDandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown
I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...
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Categories:
shooting, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
An Uppercut I RememberDad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
shooting, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Sunday Evening SpreeI see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
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Categories:
shooting, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
The Back BurnerI heard you calling my name in an echoing whisper
I saw a bird take wing in the whirling wind of disaster
I put my weary head on your broad shoulders
The moment we touched, I...
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Categories:
shooting, deep, depression,
Form:
Lyric
THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
shooting, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
The BartenderTwenty two years had passed by
She blinked, and a lifetime had passed
She started this job as a lark
She never thought it would last
Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar
The husbands...her clients all...
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Categories:
shooting, america, community, family, heart, society, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
A Taste of My Varied GenresA Sample of some of the genres I write it...Nature, family, depression...just a taste...just a taste. These are all reposts and can be found along with these titles:
The Sound of His Breathing (Written about my...
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Categories:
shooting, poetry, , cute, , Lullaby,
Form:
Epic
Visit To AntietamAlone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
shooting, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
My Spirit AnimalThe soul of the earth is wrapped up inside
And the spirit of God is walking beside me
The universe rests upon my shoulder
And I can feel its power moving all over
embracing the soul of man
And causing...
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Categories:
shooting, 8th grade, blessing, character, encouraging, environment, faith,
Form:
Narrative
One DayOne day not so long ago
I walked
Never alone
For the world
Is always my home
It was a late
Spring snow
Yet I felt
Invisible red roses
Offering sweetest perfume
To my nose and soul
There’s such warmth
In snow-filled winter
No bitterness
No...
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Categories:
shooting, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs
“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and...
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Categories:
shooting, dark, destiny, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"
He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.
She met him on the upswing from the abyss of a dismally closed final chapter....
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Categories:
shooting, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form:
Narrative
Be Embarrased By ArmsBe Embarrased by Arms
The right of a person to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon when in a
well-regulated militia necessary for the security of a free state. In other words, if
you...
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Categories:
shooting, encouraging,
Form:
Blank verse
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOISCRISIS SESSION FBI HUMAN RESOURCE DIVISION NON-REDACTED
FBI: HELLO WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY
AGENT BROWN: HELLO THIS IS AGANT BROWN AND THAT DARK PLACE IS RETURNING AGAIN I AM IN CRISIS AGAIN
FBI: OKAY WE ARE HERE...
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Categories:
shooting, america, analogy, anxiety, mental illness, military, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Breakfast Program and MeIt was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold
civil rights riots plagued my little...
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Categories:
shooting, america, beautiful, black african american, chicago, memory,
Form:
Free verse
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
shooting, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
SPECIAL AGENT GONE BADSPECIAL AGENT ALAN KING FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE I ALWAYS KNEW SOMETHING WAS OFF WITH ALAN I MEAN AFTER ALL HE WAS ACTUALLY WORKING FOR WANNABE MOBSTERS CIRO GARGANO WHO TRULY BELIEVED...
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Categories:
shooting, america, anxiety, military, thank you, write,
Form:
Free verse
Growing Up, La - Part 2- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,
Although I did have cash to spend,
I felt my...
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Categories:
shooting, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Forever Forgive MeForever forgive me
For my one and only iniquity
Please forgive me
With forbearance eternally
Lots of anger and lust
Got a hold of me…
So, I must...oh, I must…
Set my soul free
Forever forgive me
Determine my footsteps to the light
Emotionally unhappy
Intervene...
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Categories:
shooting, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, longing, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Sandy Hook Poems 1Sandy Hook Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch
Our hearts are broken today
for our children's small bodies lie broken;
let us gather them up, as we may,
that the truth of our Love may be spoken;
then, when...
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Categories:
shooting, children, school, student, usa, violence, war, youth,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Eros and CupidPOEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
shooting, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
The Adverse WorldI sing my songs with rageful joy in mind,
Forgetting the past struggles, aches and sorrows
That intertwine with my mind’s eye, leaving all of me behind
Forgiving others of their wrongs for better tomorrows
You know who comforts...
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Categories:
shooting, angst, emotions, endurance, feelings, pain, passion, strength,
Form:
Free verse
A Perfect World From a To ZA perfect world
From A-Z…
Actually addicted attitude apologetic they assume while I'm angst in my room
Bold not blameless but blame shooting out like bullets
Critics just quit it, calculated moves, claim to have your back until you...
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Categories:
shooting, addiction, adventure, beauty, perspective,
Form:
ABC
Ending In a Deadly Minor KeySo here's my question for this dawning day,
like a WinWin ruminating message in a bottle
floating through a LoseLose climate sea
felt still foggy from last night,
some mysterious how now;
One of many
health related strategic WinLose issues
tuning out...
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Categories:
shooting, anger, anti bullying, dark, fear, green, grief,
Form:
Political Verse