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Best Longish Poems

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Premium Member Plane Crashes Fate Takes Over
It was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps...

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Categories: longish, love,
Form: Free verse



For Here We Die
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Rejoice, unknown of waking fall
Apart this longish bramble path
For lest we stand ‘bove lowered feel
And lone of echo’s loudest call
Of whisperings we shan’t conceal
Despised this...

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Categories: longish, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rosalind
He stands atop the ancient towers, both grey and cold as skies 
Which howl about and bow the trees, and blow his longish hair— 
His...

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Categories: longish, absence, devotion, heartbreak, missing
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Double Knotted Culture
I could be less positive of time's resolving karma
without not(not) as negative
binomially defining
what is not polynomial not
and what must be more positive
you see, or not.

This...

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Categories: longish, confusion, culture, math, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Dialect Tickle Matt Arial Hiz Im
Courtesy of Marx (albeit Zeppo, Harpo, Groucho, and Chico) 
whose acts brought generations of laughter to Vaudeville and 
then the Silver Screen adlibbed, linkedin, and...

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Categories: longish, adventure, celebrity, class, day,
Form: Free verse



Champa
Brimming with memories old
In its light golden look
What a scent, please behold
There beside the rippling brook

We call it golden champa
The smell relaxing and inspiring
Champa-necklace would...

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Categories: longish, beauty, emotions, flower, image,
Form: Rhyme
High Purr Billy Biography Sketch Back
My somewhat outsize ears and longish neck 
(I swear exist, which contrary to popular myth 
never seen by living persons) support this egg shaped 
(fried...

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Categories: longish, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
In Streetlight, His Wet Hair
On the sidewalk standing in the rain
the old man is a wounded dove.
Longish white hair: wet feathers
grounded in a storm. The rain is heavy
and repeats...

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Categories: longish, age,
Form: Free verse
The Writers Tail Liat Sretirw Eht
The Writers Tail liaT sretirW ehT
by Charles Robert Hice on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 12:22pm ·
The Writers Tail
the poor writer can not post a...

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Categories: longish, computer-internet, friendship, funny, imagination,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Cowboy From Tulsa
I once knew a young cowboy in Tulsa.
He was broad shouldered with longish blonde hair.
He rodeo’d with the best of that breed,
And he was champion...

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Categories: longish,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Greenpower Dreams
Last night I dreamed.

I dream--

sometimes too athletically,
fertile regeneratively,
viral, positive and negatively 
and in-between sub-climax performing 
some wins and some perpetual losses 
more ambiguously back and...

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Categories: longish, culture, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Nemesis Bastards
the heavens had fallen 
woe coiled about the earth
excuse my very own tangent world of merriment
you never know what you're going to dream about
one foot...

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Categories: longish, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Complaint
The Complaint 


Sir we have a complaint against you. It seems you stink you wear your shoes 
twice longer than most people do. Tell us...

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Categories: longish, social, sorry, sympathy, me,
Form: Free verse
Highlights From Highland Manor
since becoming housed here since this year
july first two thousand and seventeen, 
   tubby more precise where
with thee missus, amidst bucolic environs, 
...

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Categories: longish, america, autumn, environment, future,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Lovely Lily
Time laughs as she looks luminously red
In my longish love-pot looking gorgeous
Rich nature has so fondly invested
Her with marine beauty so infectious

At morning she beautified...

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Categories: longish, allusion, art, bird, desire,
Form: Sonnet

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