Long Blacked Poems
Long Blacked Poems. Below are the most popular long Blacked by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Blacked poems by poem length and keyword.
Before the Day Ends
I saw a girl at the museum. I had to take her number
It was like my heart woke up from a long slumber
She was admiring a Picasso painting.
I knew nothing about art so I...
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Categories:
blacked, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The number that died
I used to slit my arms open like I was peeling fruit—careful, slow, watching the skin give way like wet paper. The box cutter blade was dull, sticky from God knows what—maybe dried glue, maybe...
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Categories:
blacked, anger, depression, emotions, for teens, gothic, hate,
Form:
Free verse
Found and Safe
Close your eyes
Explicit shame sheds rage in my eyes
I’ll be alright in the morning light and the night’s so bright
Open up your eyes
Sharpen me like your pensive pencil……
Begin with me, thinking I’m not thin
Paper thin,...
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Categories:
blacked, words,
Form:
Free verse
REMEMBERING FLORIDA COVID GUIDELINES JULY 2020 IDENTITY FRUAD UPON MY FAMILY
2020 COVID GUIDELINES WERE IN PLACE AFTER I SUFFERED A STROKE OCTOBER 6 2019 IN MY HUSBANDS ARMS DEVESTATING HE CARRIED ME TO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL VERY INTENSE MY HUSBAND TAUGHT ME TO WALK AGAIN MY...
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Categories:
blacked, allah,
Form:
Naat
The Mask of Black Spinel
Frice the week along with night had fallen to sleepless slumber,
Trapped again 'tween times when thirds are three in number.
I sense a grimace gurgle in these halls of boned wall,
The aching whims and shaking limbs:...
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Categories:
blacked, angst, dream, evil, horror, imagination, mental health,
Form:
Couplet
Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation
Pariah heap - savagely subjecting myself to humiliation
Outward slovenly appearance bespeaks volumes
wordsworth their weight in gold
(exhumed from the pith
of these lovely bones -
beclothed with mottled skin)
presages afterlife of hellish horror
(think Dante's inferno),
nevertheless a respite from...
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Categories:
blacked, 12th grade, absence, age, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse
Bright Eyes Potd
I so adored late hours. I was what you would call a night owl,
As fireflies seldom appear, until creamy moon is on the prowl.
I loved the quiet and peacefulness, and staring at a big moon,
Just...
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Categories:
blacked, fantasy, imagery, nature, night, sick, sleep,
Form:
Couplet
Brideshead Revisited
I lay awake in that dark hour and was reflecting on my life
From all the travelling I had done to the breakup with my wife
I was an architectural painter and was very successful too
And after...
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Categories:
blacked, england, memory, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
She Was Alone
She Was Alone
My brother Joseph told me one day:
I ran to the beach in the need to be alone,
Resting my head on the soft sand giving my
Thoughts the permission to be free, even...
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Categories:
blacked, poetry,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Atheist
A married man inside a hospital suite is in comatose after a car accident. He is being attended by his wife and daughter.
After two weeks of darkness in his sight, a beam...
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Categories:
blacked, death, life,
Form:
Prose
Gone - Vanished
When I was young, my father wrote poems, lovely poems, in Yiddish.
In one poem, he called me, his only son, his 'kadish'l, the one who would recite the Kaddish, the Prayer for the Deceased, for...
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Categories:
blacked, death, father, grief, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Safe and Sound Part 1
Close your eyes
Explicit shame sheds rage in my eyes
I’ll be alright in the morning light and the night’s so bright
Open up your eyes
Sharpen me like your pensive pencil……
Begin with me, thinking I’m not thin
Paper thin,...
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Categories:
blacked, deep,
Form:
Free verse
History Repeats Itself
I was an accomplished librarian, who took pleasure from written words,
As opera singers find their pleasure, in the halls where music is heard.
I was well matched to such absorbing work, knowing it was worthwhile,
Like stars...
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Categories:
blacked, books, fantasy, history, imagery, life, magic, nature,
Form:
Couplet
The Story of a Man That Won'T Be Named
First year, it was Mary,Bola and Rose
Each of them called upon my ministry of offspring-making
Ofcourse I yielded. I was like, no one knows.
All of them are good girls and none of them had snoring issues
Not...
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Categories:
blacked, betrayal, feelings, heartbroken,
Form:
Narrative
My Story, So Far
This has more similarities to a story than a poem.
November 2010 - I was in second grade when I started feeling drowsy and weak. I would come home with unexplained bruises, and neither me nor...
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Categories:
blacked, america, cancer, childhood, confusion, courage, deep, sick,
Form:
Free verse
A Dog and the Black Umbrella
On a rainy day, I decided to read in the hotel’s lobby
There, I found no one, but I heard deep breathes
I thought it was my imagination, so I sat on a cozy red chair as...
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Categories:
blacked, allegory, friendship, pets, sympathy, upliftingme, heart, old,
Form:
Lyric
Our Love
Our Love (written in the style of spoken word)
My world eclipsed itself in the shadow of your moon
In the fading of your breath, the gasp of your final death
blacked out to me was the image...
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Categories:
blacked, childhood, confusion, daughter, death, devotion, faith, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Lunar Love Ii
Can this ever stop
The world is blacked by the lunar love of my heart
By the vapor of my mind
All the tides have gone undone
The mist covers my sight
The beast comes out tonight
-- The Storm Comes...
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Categories:
blacked, allegory, angst, confusion, death, dedication, depression, devotion,
Form:
Ballade
Out of the Shadows - Time For Justice
(first you must Read Out of the Shadows - P1 and Out of the Shadow - Hit Man)
You wont be disappointed!!!!!
As his wife resigned from the garden pool that summers morning
Joe smiled then left...
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Categories:
blacked, adventureheart, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
Female Fire
Female Fire
She said remove your glasses and turn your head this way
Little did I know my brain she would soon lay
I looked directly at her face and then blacked out
My untimely Female Obsession was about...
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Categories:
blacked, passiongod, me, night, beauty, beauty, god, me,
Form:
Couplet
Memories of My Dad Pt 1
I remember standing on your feet to dance with you, when I was a little girl,
I remember how you taught me to waltz, around the dancefloor we would twirl.
I remember watching you dance with Mum...
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Categories:
blacked, bereavement, dad, daughter, father daughter, grief, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
My First Life - Part 1
Outside was Cold,
But I was Bold,
I wanted to get out,
So I started kick and shout.
Once I did,
I was terrified,
Conveniently,
I started to cry.
One day,
On some weird way,
I wanted to talk
So I learned to walk.
And point fingers.
When...
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Categories:
blacked, growing up, life, time, me, life, me,
Form:
Free verse
Jeremiah Is His Name
An empty room was the scenery to his death
Not a single living soul was present to witness the events that took place
A sliding door covered with a mirror spoke back to him with his own...
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Categories:
blacked, faith, fatherwords, heart, lost, heart, jesus, life,
Form:
Quatrain
Homeward Bound
Homeward Bound
Land of mango and avocado
Sweet , mild and refreshing
Cassava bread with tea, coffee and hot cocoa
Fresh meaty young coconut
It’s water crisp and refreshing
Glazed peanut, cashew and coconut for a...
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Categories:
blacked, childhood, class, community, culture, grandparents, hair, school,
Form:
Narrative
When We Met Second Part
I took the weight off my checks
He said he couldn’t hug me because of my hips
I wore waistbands to get an hourglass shape
Then he said he couldn’t see the red tint on my lips
I did...
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Categories:
blacked, abuse, age, anger,
Form:
Rhyme