Long Bales Poems
Long Bales Poems. Below are the most popular long Bales by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Bales poems by poem length and keyword.
Make Yourself a - Better DealThis piece is based on a true series of events --
First time me an’ Jessie seen him - walkin’ in from nowheres -
couldn’t o’ been a stranger sight - as each of us recalls,
But...
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Categories:
bales, inspirational, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
The Story of HistoryThe Story of History
Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With the resurrected sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps at the pretentious proscenium
A ...
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Categories:
bales, history,
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Hell, Fourth Canto Translation First Part,Fourth canto (first part)
The deep slumber was broken in my head
By a strong thunder, so that I woke up
As person forced to arouse from bed;
My rested eye I moved around then deep,
Erect uprisen, and also...
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Categories:
bales, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Held AloftWe'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and that's clear where he'd spent his life.
Downstairs had been quite...
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Categories:
bales, heartbreak,
Form:
Sonnet
Search For the Hidden SparkThe old man stood;elbows resting on the old stone wall
Wistfully he gazed over the snow laden field,
Watching the sheep nibble on bales of hay,
He thought back remembering his working day.
In his leather like work hardened...
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Categories:
bales, age, allegory, imagery, loss, magic, memory, riddle,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 61In the cottage Dyndoeth spoke with Joulupukki.
“I simply do not see any way that you can accomplish the goals you have set in the amount of time that...
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Categories:
bales, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Where Cardinals FlyWe crept down a meandering country road, gravel crackling underneath our tires. The countryside stretched before us like a great quilt of golden, brown, and green squares held together by the thick green stitching of...
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Categories:
bales, memory,
Form:
Haibun
Without Saying a WordSummer that year was beasty hot and dry. The sidewalks sizzled and roasted my bare feet, and the heat permeated the already parched ground leaving huge cracks and crevices. The grassy lawns—yellow and burnt—smelled like...
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Categories:
bales, kid, mother, mother daughter, summer,
Form:
Haibun
You Never Know Till You Get To KnowOne dark night a saucer crashed;
the military quickly cleaned up the trash.
In the distance, what they didn’t see;
a thin, white face between the trees.
Once all was quiet, little Gili-ok crept,
from the woods where he had...
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Categories:
bales, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Naija LokomotiveThe bespectacled old man
Adjusted his spectacles and his hearing aids,
Positioned his walking stick
Then,
Inched forward as the caravan stuttered
And,
Birthed at Aqua Caliente Station
Unable to make out
The train number and destination,
He turned to me
And asked in a...
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Categories:
bales, leadership, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
My Amazing Week On the FarmMy uncle's farm lay nestled in the central Wisconsin hills
A beautiful location sure to cure this city boy's ills
So imagine my delight when invited to stay a week
During summer vacation, this was certain to be...
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Categories:
bales, animal, cat, dog, farm, summer, teenage, vacation,
Form:
Pastoral
Silas Laughed Lastly.......On "the Death of the Hired Man" By Robert Frost“Poor Silas, so concerned for other folk,
And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope,
So now and never any different”.......Robert Frost
…………………………………………………………………………
Feeling old bones resist the labor of harvest
One last...
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Categories:
bales, introspection, life, on writing and wordsold, may,
Form:
Free verse
Chounds LikeChounds like
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Chounds like
Eye chased mye deer into the rough the golf was tough and leathery the ball
wound up in the gulf near the coarse leather...
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Categories:
bales, imagination, natural disasters, parody, people, places, social,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Rogue Soldierthe “rogue” soldier
one US soldier gets blamed for killing 16 civilians in
Afghanistan,
and the whole world is chattering
like they did when the qu'rans were burned---
this time, after the 16 were shot dead,
they were rounded...
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Categories:
bales, life, world, soldier, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
The Escape RouteDown many of the coalmines in Yorkshire , Safety dictated that an alternative means of escape
had to be found just in case anything ever happened to the shafts that raised and lowered miners to their...
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Categories:
bales, heart,
Form:
Narrative
Gikomba , My Mtumba GirlfriendI know you don’t know Gikomba, Gikosh
It’s where we go to shop
For everything second hand and camera
Shirts, purses, suits, girlfriends, even senators
You must get there early when the sun is in the east
If you want...
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Categories:
bales, appreciation, assonance, humor, love, muse, poverty, word
Form:
Free verse
Intergalactic Love StoryIt was no cosmic coincidence that a persnickety intergalactic wise guy named Hub
with an arrogant swagger morphed into the center of a crowded fast-moving Harlem jazz club
on February 11th, 1933 at dusk, preplanned...
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Categories:
bales, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
All Hat and No CattleThey hung around the beer joint with the finest Western wear
with thumbs tucked in their belt loops and such a studly air.
But those boots weren't made for stirrups and were polished to a sheen,
and on...
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Categories:
bales, humorous, old, time, , western,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
My Idiom Oneliners Part 1Elsie the cow was slower than molasses,
that's why they finally decided to put her out to pasture.
With Stormin' Norman around you'd tremble with fear,
because all around him was lightning and thunder in the atmosphere.
I try...
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Categories:
bales, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Muck Dance Ballet(French terms to know: arabesque (ar-a-besk) stand on one leg, other leg extended back
with knee straight, arms out; pirouette (peer-oo-et) a full turn of the body on the top of
the toe or the ball of...
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Categories:
bales, cowboy-western, funny, nature, work, body, , cute,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Dreams Under Dust 1of2i read and hear online the words
from the other side of the world,
the bearded angst and deeply rutted face
of a soul with far, far too much
sorrow to carry.
my eyes well, as...
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Categories:
bales, family, introspection, life, loss, peace, people, children,
Form:
Narrative
The Village On the WaterHeavily laden boats, rectangular sails billowing
Under seas of low cloud, braving the fierce Yangtze; ...
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Categories:
bales, appreciation, environment, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Scottish Hearts Are SingingI love your heathered highlands,
steep cliffs and rugged islands,
hedges and gardens under
rainclouds of grey.
Old steeples rise above
those small rural towns I love;
your hillsides of sunny yellow,
rolled bales of hay.
Pipers will play their part
stirring each Scottish...
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Categories:
bales, patriotic,
Form:
Lyric
Humble HeartsThe cinnamon red rooster lost
His place in the pecking order
Of the flock where another rooster
Battled him to near death
Leaving him with one eye pecked out
And the other swollen shut
Like a boxer who had gone too...
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Categories:
bales, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Cowboy Hoe DownOn a Sunday in the evening
The old barn becomes a hall
Social place where every weekend
The town folk go for a ball.
The inside is decorated
Lights are lit, the banners sway
By the walls barrels...
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Categories:
bales, dance,
Form:
Rhyme