Long Blistered Poems
Long Blistered Poems. Below are the most popular long Blistered by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Blistered poems by poem length and keyword.
Blue Sky, Why
"Blue Sky, Why?"
stories speak to us.
inside our heart
is crying.
Blue Sky, Why?
why do children
holding sunflowers
watch their parents die
why do sweet children,
now war torn,
some the battle's orphans,
daily lose their lives
lying in their sick beds
bombed in...
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Categories:
blistered, courage, humanity, leadership, light, peace, truth, war,
Form:
Narrative
Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
blistered, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at its heels
Their acid blistered paint work but it...
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Categories:
blistered, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Travel Light* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
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Categories:
blistered, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
travel light -Her small angelic face ...
Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...
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Categories:
blistered, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
Desert, Wilderness, StormTHE DESERT THE WILDERNESS THE STORM
I am parched, my back is arched,
my body racked with pain,
Nothing green in sight,
my thirst, my plight,
eyes playing tricks on me again.
An illusion of rest beside...
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Categories:
blistered, christian, destiny, god, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
War Is a War CrimeOnce wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...
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Categories:
blistered, war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
“Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
ghost gums
shed their bark
the min-min
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to
imprint and write
thoughts, like the
ripening welts of
green ants
small bites sting
subcutaneous and
meridional,
terra...
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Categories:
blistered, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form:
Free verse
Midnight To 3:33 Morning Kills
"Midnight to 3.33, Morning Kills"
He said,
“Go to where the poets go
Love rolls wet and sways
Intensity wraps itself inside out
and somersaults its legs backward
to open a way
Out
It’s kind of burning hot
like Summer burns
bare...
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Categories:
blistered, feelings, freedom, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Twice Told Toilet Tale a Cheeky Execrable Gross FableTwice told toilet tale – a cheeky execrable gross fable
which poetic product best be affixed
with hashtag STINKY label.
As a young whippersnapper
and one precocious lad to boot,
I discovered common combustible materials
found in the bathroom.
At opportune...
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Categories:
blistered, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, blessing, father,
Form:
Rhyme
UpsurgeFar beyond the horizon we gazed at sunlit skies
glowing from gigantic mountains, thick blue clouds
hang peacefully over our heads, painting hopes and
aspirations as we journey relentlessly to recapture
our dreams.
We have been climbing this...
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Categories:
blistered, celebration, faith, success,
Form:
Narrative
The Apocrypha of Familiars
“The Apocrypha of Familiars”
Wings hover
light luminescent
revelling sprites dark pearls
Corvidae shades
of a family
highly functioning
dysfunctional plural
morphing unobserved
perceived non-unique
spiralling into shape
more black and grey
than white spills
from their eyes
light from their shining
hidden away
intelligence...
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Categories:
blistered, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Real WordsMy false reality is a normal man,
owned by financial security, slave to
the essentials and more, much
more.
My desired existence is that of an
artist,
a wordsmith, a bard, a writer with
potential
beyond measure and degrading
limitations.
Lately,...
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Categories:
blistered, introspectionlife, words, me, longing, life, me,
Form:
Prose
Sane Sexagenarian Scribe Seeks Asylum In CanadaSane sexagenarian scribe seeks asylum in Canada...
should Trump swindle electorate by hook or crook,
(1003 days, 9 hours, and
32 minutes until 2024 election),
yours truly steels, girds, braces... himself,
and plots serious outlook
pondering exiting United States
(stage door left)
while...
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Categories:
blistered, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, freedom, loss, november,
Form:
Rhyme
I'M Patient With KimmyI’m Patient with Kimmy (1), Have Patience for Paul (2)
Our political differences ring in my ear
with fake “Fire!” calls in theaters marketing fear!
‘Right’ won’t honor opinions of others, hate facts,
they are traumatized truants, Trump’s turncoats’...
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Categories:
blistered, america, loss, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Chicago's SinAnother body dropped as the evil ran through the night
He was on a spree to start a war
The screams blistered the silence
As the metal hit the floor,
As the metal hit the...
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Categories:
blistered, america, chicago, corruption, evil, fire, loss, violence,
Form:
Ballad
Ladder2heavenThe ladder is cold steel and past its days, dulled to a natural grey
Yet its rungs still stand strong, stretched over the battered frame
See over time, a ravished age, the world has grasped the ladders...
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Categories:
blistered, confusion, god, myth, voyage,
Form:
I do not know?
The Land ContinuedWhen I was a youth the earth was our friend, as it was our means of escape. We would run and chase each other across great distances, far away from the confines of home...
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Categories:
blistered, age, childhood, earth, growing up, imagination, loss,
Form:
Narrative
The Invisible Man Returns 2 21I wrote the Invisible man poems many years ago. These poems, and I have not submitted them all, was for a little girl who died in a road accident. They are a tribute to her...
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Categories:
blistered, depression, me, old, change, me, old, poems,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Smoking Gun
“Smoking Gun”
Twisted Blistered dance with me
Come on Brother Snow get off your genuflection mojo knees
The World’s about to turn and merge
Vibrating dimensions souls that turn 4th and 5th must be better than 3rd
The World’s a...
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Categories:
blistered, humanity, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Remember Us As SmokeIt’s a highway nightmare, or it should be,
but no one’s afraid (too much)
and the road just thunders and hummmms
on and on and on and on
under that greedy summer sun.
All of their guns are cocked and...
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Categories:
blistered, life, love, passion, people, romance, visionarywar, love,
Form:
Narrative
Death's KissA cold dark night, whispers muttered, I fought for light, and then I uttered,
"Awake me from this nightmare, a black haunting I CANNOT BARE!"
opened my eyes jumped out of my bed, caught my breath, and...
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Categories:
blistered, deathlife, death, me, pain, peace, dark, dark,
Form:
Narrative
A Titanic EpisodeSo the ship will sail
For those who have the price to pay
And I have a tale
To leave here if I pass away
This journal will speak
To the journey I now shall take
From life here so bleak
To...
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Categories:
blistered, adventure, imagination, love, day, life, me, heart,
Form:
Ballad
Season of SilenceWhen nature wilts into
a colorless haven,
metaphors of death sprout
...
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Categories:
blistered, life,
Form:
Free verse
ElementsShe is fire
Raging red and hot through all that surrounds her.
She entices you, drawing you in,
Like a moth to her flame,
Just to singe your wings.
She does not discriminate,
Nobody is safe from her unyielding heat.
She promises...
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Categories:
blistered, fear, people, satire, autumn, body, love, may,
Form:
Free verse