Long Bolted Poems
Long Bolted Poems. Below are the most popular long Bolted by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Bolted poems by poem length and keyword.
Of Winks and Wings - Part 2"Oh, indeed she was, young man ... I mean Greg. It IS Greg, if I recall correctly?"
"Yes. Or you can call me True Friend if you like." I turned to...
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Categories:
bolted, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part OneUnquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI Part One
Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...
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Categories:
bolted, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form:
Quatrain
The Giant of LisbellawStood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
bolted, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Legacy of HiphopAnd that is why... this platform is here for answers they can't deny...
It's a truth within a complexity that is standing high...
Let us follow the roots and explore the depths of its grand design...
Cause every...
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Categories:
bolted, deep,
Form:
I do not know?
Having Enough-Remembering ThanksgivingI awoke to the familiar sound of dishes rattling in Mother’s kitchen and to the thick scent of coffee wafting through the air. I glanced out my bedroom window; the neighborhood was lit by the...
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Categories:
bolted, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Free verse
New Year's Eve 2022New Year's Eve 2022
Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd
entertains reckons partition of time
into...
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Categories:
bolted, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form:
Free verse
Black BodyI. Imagine a stack
Of razor blades
Bolted together
Polished edges
Forming a blunt mass…
Who would guess the
Blackness of that face?
II. Picture Pandoran box
Harboring atom pulse;
No less a voyeur
The scientist peering
Through revealing keyhole
Finds an interior
Darker than any light.
III. Such...
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Categories:
bolted, science, universe,
Form:
Blank verse
That Nasty Lactose - Forgive Me - This One's Just Too Hilarious Not To PostThis embarrassingly irreverent piece is loosely based on a true story for which I've paid the price for pretty much causing it to happen more than once...PLEASE, no hate mail! PS: "Bonnie" is...
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Categories:
bolted, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
The Bodie LynchingsFive strangers rode into Bodie, a small gold mining town
They didn't look at anybody and kept their heads down
At the Citizens bank they halted, it had been a long ride
Four then entered the bank and...
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Categories:
bolted, america, death, horse, judgement, violence,
Form:
Narrative
Beautiful HalvesYou rock me wildly
To the black rhythms of juju music from the radio;
Drinking horn in hand.
Not too drunk to tread
The course of blue, warmth
And moaning shadows behind batiste curtain.
Waves...
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Categories:
bolted, romance, romantic, romantic love, sensual, silly, smart,
Form:
Free verse
In the Far Off Land of China - Edit 1In the Far Off Land of China
(To the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic)
Edit 1
By Franklin Price
03/28/2020
In the Far off land of China many thousand miles away
The Coronavirus came to its first human...
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Categories:
bolted, america, confusion, health, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly knights; encased Great-Helm:
Thus maketh the pale maidens meek pulse
To so...
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Categories:
bolted, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
The Executioner - Both Audio and TextThis piece was inspired, many years ago, by the magnificent poem - "The Highwayman" -
‘Neath an ivory moon in a cobalt sky, on a clear and silky night,
On ebon steed, with pistol drawn, I...
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Categories:
bolted, father son, son,
Form:
Narrative
Halloween NightA Hallows Eve of trick or treating, elaborate costumes, candy eating,
Lantern’s dimming upon nightfall, locked doors marks next year’s meeting.
My recalling of my day and for the next...
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Categories:
bolted, death, evil, fear, halloween, october, psychological, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
The VigilanteThis is based on a truly sad story from the late 1930s -
Late one August afternoon - the year was nineteen ten - a hero - from my point of view - was quietly...
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Categories:
bolted, violence,
Form:
Narrative
Land of LiesThe shades are drawn, and the paint is peeling on the façade, the door is cracked open as though the person inside is ready to run
He lies there positioning himself into a relaxed state, wondering...
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Categories:
bolted, betrayal, hurt,
Form:
Rhyme
Ugly Boy>center>Jaime was such a lonely boy and this he couldn't understand?
He didn't possess one harmful...
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Categories:
bolted, boy, bullying, feelings, growing up, hope,
Form:
Free verse
There Is a Subtle DifferenceThere IS a Subtle Difference!
A friend of mine, of mixed descent - Nadia Bugerelli - called me on the phone last night and told me right straight out
That Juan Kazenski planned to beat me up...
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Categories:
bolted, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
FourLike an allspice incensed quartet chorus,
the spirit of the living Word unveils before us.
Holy foundational page corners turn
in cardinal winds as red letters churn,
proclaiming the Gospel to each earthly corner,
through bolted borders, even reaching the...
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Categories:
bolted, bible, creation, deep, earth, music, spiritual, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Evacuation and LossThe night shone for the full moon,
Sky brewing a coarse monsoon,
Bolted were windows, locked were doors,
The frequency of death frighteningly soared.
But who was this infant high upon the hill?
He denied the storm and just stood...
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Categories:
bolted, bereavement, child, depression, family, fear, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
MoonMoon
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Once night Gretta Foster sat in the backyard,
building a rocket ship that ought to take her a-far,
she had been working day and night - tirelessly,
hammering, programming, all so...
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Categories:
bolted, adventure, allegory, beauty, fantasy, children, imagination, journey,
Form:
Narrative
Don'T Mess With My HouseA child, crippled by a tragic accident
Learned how to excel in sorrow
Never listening to words
That would encumber his bright tomorrow
Who cares if he's a paralytic
It has nothing to do with his mind
A ray of...
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Categories:
bolted, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Give the Bride AwayWe often hear of hardship with single motherhood,
how tough it is to raise a family on her own.
How a drunkard and a basher never makes life good.
Winning the gambling debts; losing the family home.
But there's...
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Categories:
bolted, hope,
Form:
Ballad
The ZealI have counted to ten a hundred times but I cannot get this thing off my mind, it has consumed my space and has taken over every aspect of the human race. It started out...
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Categories:
bolted, betrayal, change, community, courage, emotions, endurance, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
Valueship hip hurrah, herc shot hera
sick sad era, tri city terror
dirty land lover, lips hit terra
karma bent over, messenger error
never say neva, davin say better
no pain no gain, accept the rainy weather
paint a pic...
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Categories:
bolted, allegory, imagination, metaphor, philosophy, song-spiritual, visionary, life,
Form:
Rhyme