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Best Long Time No See Poems

Below are the all-time best Long Time No See poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of long time no see poems written by PoetrySoup members


Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: long time no see, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Premium Member If I Had Money
if I had all the money that I ever wanted,
               ...

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Categories: long time no see, drug, introspection, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Thunder Without Lightning
Lightning rarely strikes without thunder,
causing havoc in gloomy skies.
Humans can't control their plunder,
seeking shelter until the storm dies.

Once, I was your prince - full of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: long time no see, absence, angst, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: long time no see, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Snow -A Sleep
Snow -
a sleep
descending on the twilight streets;
Snow, in silent fields you lie pristine
beneath moon’s glow, a blanket shimmering.
Oblivion serene!
Tranquilly envelop me in
Sleep -
a snow;
the more...

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Categories: long time no see, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: long time no see, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Winter
You entered my room
a long time ago
across many summers,
now when this winter looks
at the trees shedding the leaves
you are by the closed window
leaning on the...

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Categories: long time no see, inspirational, lost love,
Form: Free verse
So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: long time no see, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Poems Are Children To Me
My poems are conceived, not within the womb,
which long time now has been devoid of seed.
My poems are born from a need to be heard:
my...

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Categories: long time no see, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poet's Adoration of Nature
As dusk's misty tones awake from silence,
darkness fades, as birds gather to rejoice.
A beautiful reminder of patience,
their sweet melodies give nature her voice.

Darkness fades, as...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: long time no see, analogy, nature, poetry,
Form: Pantoum
Horse Named Pride
I rode high up in the saddle,
on a prancing horse known as Pride.
Outside beaming with confidence,
but empty and shaken inside.

An old wise man once told...

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Categories: long time no see, horse, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Missionary and the Bum
There once was a bum. He was the neighborhood drunk. He had an unkempt demeanor. His salt and pepper hair had not been washed in...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: long time no see, faith, friendship, love,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Prince For Roseanne
A long long time ago there lived a king.
His lovely daughter he’d give anything.

She walked about, jewels dripping from each hand,
talking down to all, thinking...

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Categories: long time no see, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Paper Boats
(Dedicated to one of my childhood friends)

You were one of those charming lilies
that bloomed, so fresh, in my springtime pond;
when my homesick wings of longings...

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Categories: long time no see, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Good Cry
i wait at the river for the cry of the loon
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Categories: long time no see, introspection,
Form: Free verse

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