Long Berth Poems
Long Berth Poems. Below are the most popular long Berth by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Berth poems by poem length and keyword.
The Verdict. NOW
Well, GI Jack is welcome back, he left his...
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Categories:
berth, society, war,
Form:
Ballad
A Moment of Hope the Invisible Man 30Sometimes I have the courage to think of the things that made me what I am today,
My memory takes me back to terrible things far away far off into my bitter past,
My mind like a...
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Categories:
berth, depression, happy, beautiful, me, world, old, dream,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Three Ways of Swiping the World CupTHREE WAYS of Swiping the World Cup
"It is sweet and fitting/glorious to lay your life down for your country » - from a poem by HORACE
(See my story selected to represent France in the 2006...
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Categories:
berth, football, games, humor, sports, stress, woman, women,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Letter To My Father*LETTER TO MY FATHER*
Dearest Father
With heart ripped into rags and shreds I write ? to you tonight
Trembling hands and ink made of tears and blood
Teary ?? eyes and bloody heels like a defeated soldier
Lost...
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Categories:
berth, betrayal, depression, emotions, fairy, father son, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
Easter as interpreted by oneEaster as interpreted by one...
rebated, rebelled, rebirthed, rebooted,
and rebuked courtesy
one ill shod Unitarian atheist,
who means NOT to affect
any sacrilegious fallout
nor offend devoutly religious
man, woman, or child,
when the most important
Christian holiday notated,...
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Categories:
berth, adventure, bible, celebration, christian, easter, family, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Words and PoetryAbout Bill Posters and Bill Greenwell
Words not to use in poems
In 1993, I (Bill Greenwell) went on a three-day workshop with the poet Peter Sansom, who co-edits The North, and runs the Smith/Doorstop imprint. He’s...
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Categories:
berth, education, poetry,
Form:
I do not know?
How Jay-Bird Got His NameYoung James Pruitt was an ordinary boy;
he grew up in an ordinary town.
But set a spell, and I’ll tell a tale
of how some not-so-ordinary things went down.
See, James was a good boy; he did his...
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Categories:
berth, boy,
Form:
Ballad
That Is Your JobThat is your job, the mama tells us at school.
We feed her child breakfast, lunch, and an after school snack free of charge.
We give her child a safe place to be, while she has seven...
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Categories:
berth, children, mother, mother daughter, mother son, philosophy,
Form:
Prose
Lifeboat Adrift At SeaPart 2
The passengers were a well-heeled lot who
Had no experience to the rigors at sea.
And their disillusionment grew... on seeing the crew
Entirely encrusted with earwigs and fleas.
But...
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Categories:
berth, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Easter As Interpreted By OneEaster as interpreted by one...
rebated, rebirthed rebooted, and rebuked
ill shod Unitarian atheist
Though avast percentage
of stonehenge temple piloted ghosts,
harking back millennia
constantly zip unseen thru aerospace,
they unwittingly espy
woolly sheep hush fleeced herd
profoundly religious peep pulls
plodding fast as...
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Categories:
berth, allegory, angel, appreciation, body, celebration, creation, easter,
Form:
Free verse
TitanicThe most famous luxurious passenger liner built by man on this Earth
Upon completion South Hampton
It was berth
Built between 1909 & 1911
It was a display of grace
A picture of Heaven
Powered by pressurised steam from
Burning coals
In a...
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Categories:
berth, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Speechless Part 3*
I found a way to gracefully depart
for I could not respond to her request.
I held my breath and waited for my heart
to once again start beating in my chest.
And as I coaxed my senses to...
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Categories:
berth, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
A Blanket MarriageScreaming from his office was loud enough to wake the dead
by our trucking company foreman who was livid when he said,
“That useless bloody mongrel, that scum of the flamin’ earth,
has loaded up a truck with...
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Categories:
berth, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Bittersweet JourneyNine years a stranger in a strange land
travelling to my island in the sun.
A native son returning a native strand
...
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Categories:
berth, journey, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Boa's Ark - Part 11. MORNING HAS BROKEN
The men, in lines, tramp two by two,
forgetting all the women who
indulged them through a night of tricks
(their lips designed with crimson sticks,
their eyes a wild mascara mix)
and think instead on...
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Categories:
berth, death, fantasy, philosophy, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Dabble DactylsI have invented a nonce nonsense form: the "dabble dactyl." A dabble dactyl starts out like a double dactyl, but forgets the rules and changes horses midstream. Anyone who prefers order to chaos should give...
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Categories:
berth, giggle, hilarious, humor, humorous, joy, light, nonsense,
Form:
Double Dactyl
Celtic Grace - 1 - Valentine's Collection(Valentine's Collection)
(Historic Crown Of Sonnets)
11.
1.
Love sings its song, a lover’s lullabye,
so softly it sings right into our hearts.
Lifting our hearts too the midst of love’s sky,
a gentle song heard as our soft...
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Categories:
berth, desire, dream, joy, passion,
Form:
Sonnet
Spider's RiggingSpider’s Rigging
“I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind
on the morning of April 24, 1895 was fair, at noon I weighed
anchor, set sail, and filled away from Boston, where the...
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Categories:
berth, adventure, boat, environment, voyage,
Form:
Blank verse
Homelands====================
Homelands
Arabic poem by: Adel Said*
Translated into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
=====================
At the end of the line I stand
As should a professional homeless do
Exactly at the end of the line
Before the committee on homelands distribution
Among...
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Categories:
berth, arabic, deep, depression, international, lost, metaphor, sad,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Tilted Nation the Oxymoron of a LeaderehipTilted nation (the oxymoron of a leadership)
We have heard great news
Of a land with pleasant views
Where no stranger will refuse
Now lost like Cinderella's shoes
Its now an Open secret
The extreme degree of unspoken...
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Categories:
berth, anger, betrayal, character, cinderella, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Ascent To Heaven Or Heaven's DescentThey had measured on close counts,
Before they began his dismount,
All flowers and scents were left behind,
It was only mud that came to mind,
He was a log of wood that had no use,
They were about to...
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Categories:
berth, inspirational, life, philosophy, peace, water, peace, water,
Form:
Free verse
Current Events CommentaryDo you think I care
For your phony Arab spring
And dead trees and hot wind
I have never seen a spring without seed popping from the soil
I should know I am made from the dust of...
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Categories:
berth, history, places, political, death, old, people, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Easter As Interpreted By This Atheistthough avast percentage
of Stone Temple Pilots, she push peep pulls
viz vernacular speaking population
to most pious take as gospel...
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Categories:
berth, 11th grade, 12th grade, bible, celebration, chocolate,
Form:
Free verse
The Merchant ShipDeep ocean of azure blue
Overhead seagulls circling flew
In constant motion, heaving sides
The old merchant ship upon it rides
Rust scorched it's barnacled coat
Salt encrusted railings forever afloat
On the horizon's sinking sun's amber glow
Beckons enticingly along the...
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Categories:
berth, adventure, sea, travel,
Form:
Free verse
The Shipstartled to sudden wakefulness
by the sudden lurch of the ship,
fear rose in my soul
cold, damp hull next to my berth,
I'd give 10 years of my life
to have my feet on solid earth
dark, quiet inboard
only the...
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Categories:
berth, angst, death, natural disasters, nature, sea, sound,
Form:
Ballad