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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
The Seven Churches In Revelation In The BibleMany years ago, I was reading the Revelation and came
across the seven churches and thought where were they
then and now for civilizations and some countries changed.
I didn’t have a clue and didn’t bother to do...
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Categories:
booked, adventure, appreciation, bible, christian, history, places, religion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Box OfficeRun to the box office and pick up the musical score, run to the box office the patrons are flooding the floors; you need more chairs to fill the open space, you need extra security...
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Categories:
booked, america, beauty, business, care, confidence, courage, dance,
Form:
Narrative
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
Fine, WhateverWho do you think you are?
I said it so many times to my old friend
too many times
until I said it loudly one last time
and that was the end
I had enough- and banged down...
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Categories:
booked, anger, friend, humor,
Form:
Narrative
A Blanket MarriageScreaming from his office was loud enough to wake the dead
by our trucking company foreman who was livid when he said,
“That useless bloody mongrel, that scum of the flamin’ earth,
has loaded up a truck with...
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Categories:
booked, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Big StageHere I am standing on the empty stage looking at all the shadows around me, shadows of the past, shadows of the present and shadows of the future. They appear from all corner of the...
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Categories:
booked, appreciation, celebration, community, environment, funeral, gender, immigration,
Form:
Narrative