Long Bluff Poems
Long Bluff Poems. Below are the most popular long Bluff by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Bluff poems by poem length and keyword.
Cymbric ValeI believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
bluff, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
bluff, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
bluff, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CONFIDENTIAL HUMANS SOURCE CRISIS TEAMCRISIS TEAM:HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: HELLO I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT BETWEEN THREE OR FOUR AM I CANNOT BREATHE PANTING HEARING MY FETUS HEARTBEAT SO LOUDLY
CRISIS TEAM: YOU ARE...
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Categories:
bluff, america, analogy, anxiety, art, career, inspirational,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
MemorabiliaMy wife and I met more than a few of this type of “shifty wheeler-dealer” during our many years dealing in antiques and collectibles.
...
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Categories:
bluff, sports,
Form:
Narrative
The OutlanderI am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...
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Categories:
bluff, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
To the Manor Born - 3rd Third - W-IllustrationHere's the deal, friends...
This is, as indicated, the THIRD 1/3 of this very lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 3 parts!
...
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Categories:
bluff, humor,
Form:
Narrative
I Dodged a BulletHalf a dozen girls, at least, were on my list of ‘maybes’, as I was on the prowl to find a date for junior prom,
When I was coaxed to think about a girl who lived...
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Categories:
bluff, high school,
Form:
Narrative
The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's LamentOne day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.
'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause they buy from China (treats workers like sheep
(So farmers left...
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Categories:
bluff, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Shame On Me -- In Both Audio and TextEvery day, ‘round 8 am, I climb up from the subway and pass a guy - a blind guy - who is there to beg for change.
But one day, as I paused to watch...
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Categories:
bluff, heartbreak,
Form:
Narrative
Come post presidential election 2024Come post presidential election 2024...
heil to the Wharton chief firebrand -
more worrisome than an ovarian cyst
every race, religion, nationality,
gender, creed, et cetera with impunity dissed
brigand able, eager, ready and willing
to punch contenders throwing...
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Categories:
bluff, 11th grade, 12th grade, america, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 17-- Molly and Dolly and Polly: DamianFirst week of March 2025
Last week of March
Melancholy Molly and her sister
Dolly stopped by for a chat with
Eat some pizza Polly
(nick name due to her Appetite for...
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Categories:
bluff, character, confidence, growth, house, identity, imagery, romance,
Form:
Prose
doof-doof“22½ euros for a Martini,” Peter remarked, when he first scanned the menu.
“It’s not like we aren’t going to get them,” I said, “we’re not going to cheap our way to abstinence." The waiter came...
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Categories:
bluff, humor, mom, paris, student, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
The Bell In the BushThe Bell in the Bush
Down woodland paths the wolf did roam
Far away from his packs home
For game he’d wandered off to seek
The sick, the helpless and the weak
When happened he across a fawn
Tied amid, a...
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Categories:
bluff, animal, imagination, mother son,
Form:
Epic
Free Falling
"Free Falling"
You have to believe in Magic
to believe in the poetry of You
If you don’t believe in Magic
you are nothing but a black line
bleeding to the right creative,
without left margin
for logical analysis,
you’re fixed...
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Categories:
bluff, christmas, family, journey, life, loss, love, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Im PossiblePoetically impressive
Mentally progressive
Addicted to my writing
it’s becoming a bit obsessive
But this is the medicine
A therapy for my depression
Post traumatic disorder
Is the cause for my aggression
My heart gets heavy
My mind...
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Categories:
bluff, beautiful, blessing, character, dedication, deep, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Tell Her You Saw MeTell her you saw me ...
Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud...
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Categories:
bluff, allegory, heartbreak, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
The Truth Is Here Somewhere :2: Echo PoemAn Echo Poem
Original: If I Kissed It - Poem by Brian Johnston
If I kissed it, would that make it better?
Are you needing much more than a friend?
Would it help if I held you...
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Categories:
bluff, forgiveness, friendship, fun, games, life, love,
Form:
Bio
Tyranny Counts the Ballots“Never forget
everything Hitler did
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious
verboten spins askew
“We can and we must
write in the...
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Categories:
bluff, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To a Wretched Robot“You meddling mechanical moron,
you’ve ruined everything,
the thingamabob is running amok,
can’t you hear the alarm bells ring?
You clinking, clanking cretin,
you demented digital dunce,
you never do what I tell you,
and I’ve warned you more than once.
You’re a...
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Categories:
bluff, humor, science fiction,
Form:
Light Verse
When All That's Left Are PhotographsI’m sitting here, at ninety-six, alert an’ fairly healthy,
wondering what the ones I loved in days gone by would think
To see me now, the last there is of all of my relations,
with only...
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Categories:
bluff, inspirational, memory,
Form:
Verse
Farewell, PhantomsI, heart on sleeve ... proudly? I suppose, in a contrite way ...
but it's beyond my breadth to control, so it is what it IS.
...
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Categories:
bluff, hope, lost love, relationship, true love, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential winStrong suspicion a 2024 presidential win...
for the trumpeting don
spells loss for democracy
after inauguration day
witnesses his swearing-in
nepotism will run rampant
lawlessness the name of the game
of thrones breaking apart ramparts
of inalienable rightful
freedoms rent sunder, whereby nothin
can stop...
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Categories:
bluff, america, angst, anxiety, business, conflict, culture, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Black SwanI saw you …
high …
atop the promontory
spinning with manic madness
pirouettes et fouetté
lost in yourself -
in movement …
your upper back split, low
and, I swear -
feathers … peeking …
tucked under your shoulder blades
splayed and black as black
(obsidian...
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Categories:
bluff, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
What Have I Seen?1
Sunrise, late winter
skunk smell
turkey flock
playful otter, too.
The white heron
a great blue,
white phase,
in the abandoned beaver pond.
Purple clematis
its long-awned achenes
in globose heads
spidery, fiery, extravagant fruit!
To identify or classify
birds by
the complexity or beauty
of their songs.
And so
what is...
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Categories:
bluff, allah, girl, nature, peace, prayer, war, writing,
Form:
Verse