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Best Oblong Poems

Below are the all-time best Oblong poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of oblong poems written by PoetrySoup members


Had Hoped To Find
Had Hoped to Find

While searching, seemed so hard to tell,
Which would be our most favorite shell; 
Had to constantly, consistently compare,
As they laid on seashore...

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Categories: oblong, beach, spiritual,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Mother -- Come Home
Sitting with her now
       Watching 
How did she get so old?
       How did...

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Categories: oblong, car, fear, love, mother,
Form: I do not know?
I Heard I Might Find a Poet Here
I was just sitting there writing when I saw her stroll in,  
I wasn’t alone, all eyes followed those curves sashaying 
as if she...

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Categories: oblong, beauty, poetry,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Mask of Alabaster
Once the night had fallen upon a sleepless slumber,
Whence the winter woke me when the third was three in number.

I sense that a wince doth...

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Categories: oblong, anxiety, confusion, deep, dream,
Form: Couplet
The Mad Hatter
Multiple choices with one last try, amid this myriads maze

Someone very dear unto myself asked me the other day

"Is the sun shining where you are?"

So...

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Categories: oblong, art, baby, cancer, love,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member With Wasted Time On Decks Dark
When todays yield where tomorrows have too
And forests now instead are skylines then,
At gatherings held to contemplate who
No longer walks amongst more lively men;
Where angels...

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Categories: oblong, time,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Lost In Britain and Lost In The USA
I: LOST IN BRITAIN

Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop, 
Matching Tye and Droop

Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown, 
Westward Ho! and Throop.

Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Frome, Cat's Ash

North Piddle,...

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Categories: oblong, america, england, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In a Dark Dark Room
The moon is full and white, and chill, this night, 
it cascades past my open window sill, 
and all the color fades to dark from...

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Categories: oblong, fear,
Form: Sonnet
He Wore a Tie
She was an artist
And he wore a tie
He was established 
She needed to fly

She loved the sensations
Danced to vibrations
She wasn't wired 
For logical thinking
She learned...

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Categories: oblong, art, betrayal, business,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mask of Labradorite
Thrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number. 

I sense a wince remind...

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Categories: oblong, corruption, imagination, judgement, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Scream - Ekphrasis On An Edvard Munch Piece of Art
Oblong outlines of a soul
Stretched in elliptical misery
Redefines the perfect circle
To a breakable volatile tautness

Loosely cloaked in sheaths of epitonic blue
Draped upon the shrinking body...

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Categories: oblong, fear,
Form: Ekphrasis
Going Down
Can a man go down among the dead?
	Can he lie in his oblong box – his long house forever,
	and be satisfied with never holding his...

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Categories: oblong, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Distorted View On Main Street
Looking at my reflection
In a pool of water,
my face appeared oblong
as the quivering breeze
created ripples across the surface,
for a moment as I pondered
I spy a...

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Categories: oblong, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Horsefly's Sonnet
Once I saw a purplish oblong tangerine,
Standing near the hydrant on Sixty-first
I wondered what it could possibly mean, 
Then, I was overcome with dreadful thirst
When...

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Categories: oblong, fantasy, fun, imagination, insect,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sweet Memories
Nose pressed flat upto the glass,
Pockets tinkling full of brass;
Oblong jars,row on row
Candy -filled,to over flow.

Mintoes,chews and Pontefract cakes,
Limes and milk chocolate flakes;
Jelly beans and...

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Categories: oblong, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

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