Long Booked Poems
Long Booked Poems. Below are the most popular long Booked by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Booked poems by poem length and keyword.
Faded In Xoxo Oxox Fadin' OutA special dedication to Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" song in her album "Beyoncé", which came out in 2013.
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I took a cat nap...yah put on your classic, clever-mini cap
drank that sorrow sap, my companion...
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Categories:
booked, deep,
Form:
Lyric
The Tea Party"Go on forth young graduates,
And show us who you are
You're now our future leaders
We know you will go far"
And so commencement ended
Pictures done and people changed
Now, off to private parties
All orderly pre-arranged
But four young girls...
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Categories:
booked, america, future, graduate, graduation, life, sad, society,
Form:
Epic
Social Privyjustice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
booked, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Territory TrampleHeadlights messaged through midnight windows
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning
Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...
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Categories:
booked, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form:
Bio
It's Not Too LateOne seat back from where I sat in almost every class was where this wimpy, red-haired nerd, I’d hated from the start,
Made a point of sitting, thinking - if he played it right - because...
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Categories:
booked, inspirational, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Drunk Tank ShankI once spent a week in the drunk tank
couldn't handle the spirits that I drank
the cuisine wasn't half bad
we even had a few laughs
but I had to guard my butt with a shank
……………………………………………………………………….
It used to...
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Categories:
booked, drink, joy, tribute,
Form:
Limerick
Letter To Taeljejohnuncomfortableness, and hesitation arose that you might reassess a possibility for friendship or.... whatever with me.
A disappointment set in place in the event that based on some facet of my being (inexplicable flaws within this...
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Categories:
booked, angel, beauty, devotion, friendship, history, introspection, life,
Form:
Narrative
The Mask of LabradoriteThrice the night—the day!—both fell to sleepless slumber,
But now in Spring, though yet again: The third was three in number.
I sense a wince remind itself,
Of what it means to be,
Instead to beg for booked...
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Categories:
booked, corruption, imagination, judgement, life, mystery, myth, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Vacation In New OrleansWalking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves. The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses. My luggage...
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Categories:
booked, dark, evil, scary,
Form:
Haibun
Engraved in stoneShe watched the demolition team enter her old school. In the next few days it would be raised to the ground. The end of an era she thought, Christ, it was depressing.
Suddenly a thought entered...
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Categories:
booked, baby, death, love,
Form:
Free verse
To the Manor Born - 1st Third - W-IllustrationHere's the deal, folks...
This is the 1st THIRD of this quite lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 3 parts. What a pain!
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Categories:
booked, humor,
Form:
Narrative
StubbornnessOriginal poem below...after the definition, found on www.google.com:
"Full Definition of stubborn. 1a (1) : unreasonably or perversely unyielding : mulish (2) : justifiably unyielding : resoluteb : suggestive or typical of a strong stubborn...
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Categories:
booked, character, deep, desire, devotion, sensual, words,
Form:
Verse
Our Favorite Antiques Shop - 1st Half Text - Plus Full AudioHere's the scoop, friends...
This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way...
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Categories:
booked, travel, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
6 Days In LimboAfter boxing day,
What are we going to do,
I look at you ,
And you look at me,
Simultaneously we
Say, we have 6 days free
We look a little lost we have
Not planned a holiday, I know
Let’s go...
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Categories:
booked, christmas,
Form:
Prose
Walking Down Main StreetWalking down Main Street
As the rain pours down and all the people are indoors,
I walk down Main Street, under my umbrella, alone with the world.
The moon is full, the air is cold,
But I am at...
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Categories:
booked, america, family, love, marriage, memory, places, romance,
Form:
I do not know?
She Wrote To MeShe Wrote To Me
My secret lover I left you 5 years ago I could not take it anymore I had
to fill my emptiness without you since I left I would cut out my heart...
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Categories:
booked, dark, emotions, lost, love, , cute,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Day Before the Sale --- 2nd Half“Might you have an opening for an auction fairly soon? If I move, I'm gonna have a ton of stuff to sell.”
“I'm trying to find a building at the moment,” he replied, “a...
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Categories:
booked, humor,
Form:
Verse
What a Huge SurpriseIt was coming up on your thirtieth birthday, ...
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Categories:
booked, food, fun, humor, husband, love, memory, uplifting,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Nicholas Street Jail
The structure is imposing, massive and fearful. Built in 1862 as a jail and
gallows for the worst of humanity. "Living" conditions were sickening and
appalling. The top floor was reserved for death-row...
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Categories:
booked, scary,
Form:
Narrative
I Know What I'M Doing"go on" I dared myself
So I did
Booked an extra ticket for my Mum
"She'll love it" said my brain
"What if people break bones, you crash on the way, you forget the tickets, someone wears the wrong...
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Categories:
booked, anxiety,
Form:
Narrative
Much Ado About No Thing"By definition, a ghost is unable to bonk anybody --
save the believer in ghosts."
-- a Rational exorcist of all no things "supernatural"
* * *
Now, once...
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Categories:
booked, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
A New Queen Is BornI stood at the back of the line and watched nature unfold in front of my weeping eyes. I stood at the back of the line watching them moving in droves from every corner of...
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Categories:
booked, care, celebration, change, death, environment, future, leadership,
Form:
Narrative
Stranger Than Fiction Part 1My name is Tom Cunningham, I’m retired now but thirty six years ago I had a very strange experience that I have never mentioned to anyone until now.
It was November the seventh, nineteen eighty six,...
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Categories:
booked, religious, scary, world war ii,
Form:
Prose
Honeymoon Blues CollaborationTwo young newlyweds Samantha and Ray
On honeymoon went camping to the Bay
But as they were rocking
Strong winds came a knocking
And left them nude as their tent blew away
Both were red faced and on the ground...
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Categories:
booked, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Pearls Beneath the HarborOur bank accounts nearly emptied so we could afford a vacation; two young working girls who'd never been far from home. We were looking forward to finding love on a romantic tropical island. Maybe someone...
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Categories:
booked, people, places, world war ii,
Form:
Haibun