Long Bounce Poems
Long Bounce Poems. Below are the most popular long Bounce by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Bounce poems by poem length and keyword.
Rum N Raisin 3 - the Cat Who Fell To EarthRaisin liked to make her bed upon a shelf up high
She said she likes the feeling that she’s almost in the sky
One day she fell and bonked her head and Rum could only stare
And wondered...
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Categories:
bounce, cat, fantasy, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Narrative
The Bone Idol[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...
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Categories:
bounce, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Slots poker machines unsolved murders IllinoisLake county music company filled with
slots carney folk real carny folk the little
pete's illegal gambling road show throughout
the Midwest gaming like your idol Frank Peter
Balistreiri the mad bomber stops Metropolis...
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Categories:
bounce, america, beautiful, blessing, integrity, march,
Form:
Free verse
Where Do We Come InWhere do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what...
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Categories:
bounce, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership, people, rights, sports,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Backhand
"Backhand"
You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall
To make sense of it all
as a child, the grief stolen
all too swiftly and replaced...
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Categories:
bounce, child abuse, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
SPECIAL AGENT ALAN KING FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOISYOU ARRIVED ON CUE I SUPPOSE RIGHT AFTER THE CHRISTMAS DAY ARSONS MURDERS PROCLAIMING MY LIFE WAS IN GRAVE DANGER WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ARSON MURDER 8 ELDERLY PERSONS PARISHES PROCLAIMED MY EX HUSBAND...
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Categories:
bounce, chicago, city, i love you,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Crow Ghost of Haunting FootstepsBreak my neck; snap it in two, snap it in half
don't give me that incredulous, frightened look as I ask
don't hesitate in front of me, please just do me this favor
so I gain a halo,...
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Categories:
bounce, i love you, i miss you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing EpigramsUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers
The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.
« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must...
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Categories:
bounce, art, humor, irony, women, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Chapter 75 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Let the Game BeginDJ and the Damian squad rushed
The house. "Dad we're gonna
Play CRUEL BALL!" Amadeus
Gave notice. Damian said, "Oh
Yeah." He put his hands on both
His sons shoulders and said.
"Fellows first of all it's...
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Categories:
bounce, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
MeI was born to be a survivor and a fighter.
That's why I became a writer.
As a child the physical abuse I endured.
Being a baby it was pretty absurd.
The child of recovering addicts.
Even one that still...
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Categories:
bounce, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, depression, drug, how
Form:
Rhyme
A Mom, Three Girls, Two Cigarettes, and a SparrowPart I.
Harvest time was winding down,
I was taking lunch in town,
After spending six long hours plowing stubble.
Washing up I met a man,
Guessed he was a harvest hand,
His combine crew, he said,...
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Categories:
bounce, faith, loss, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Windstorms of NeglectDearest Sons
and dearest Cinderella StepSister,
I regret ways I have failed each of you.
From today's view of memory clips,
frames as farms of teaching-learning times,
my Great Lover Eldest, yet perpetually unfulfilled,
AfricanAmerican urban male Thug,
driver of van repurposing...
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Categories:
bounce, culture, family, happiness, health, humor, love, nature,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Moment of Hope the Invisible Man 30Sometimes I have the courage to think of the things that made me what I am today,
My memory takes me back to terrible things far away far off into my bitter past,
My mind like a...
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Categories:
bounce, depression, happy, beautiful, me, world, old, dream,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part TwoUnquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
II
The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...
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Categories:
bounce, august, autumn, farewell, lost love, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 2 FinalNightmare 8. To Lose the Gift of Feeling Heard
Is each person not poet when he spills his heart?
Has your verse lost its edge if it’s true no one listens,
Or does God mean that no one...
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Categories:
bounce, anxiety, christian, fun, humor, life,
Form:
Quatrain
DIARY OF DIONDRA POSHMarch 10, 2051 Monday
So diary today Monday I woke late
For work. I thought no problem I just
Call in. I called Mister Idris Moorah.
He said, Diondra I'll be brief. We're
Downsizing, you're laid off....
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Categories:
bounce, africa, allusion,
Form:
Prose
SplatSplat
Explosions do not always signify combustion but often combustion arrives after many years of layering the layers and tightly packing. Thus meaning that a fried piece of fat could slip and burst out of the...
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Categories:
bounce, africa, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part OneUnquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
Part One ...
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Categories:
bounce, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
God's Kind of PoetryThe finite contemplating the infinite
The stardust male and female still flush with light
From exploding stars, seeding new possibilities, our true progenitors.
So that even God Himself must take note of our passing (in its season),
Such elemental...
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Categories:
bounce, god, poetry, universe,
Form:
Blank verse
KiloForever is only a moment lost without champion the cause Anderson mister burnette blossom barachatta Barbara Streisand globally Hussein ghost minnows shady lane candles blue stay real vanderbuilts vaults of favored few points topless blunt...
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Categories:
bounce, 11th grade,
Form:
Alexandrine
OkOK
It’s ok to think I'm disabled, it’s not ok to ignore my atheism;
It’s ok to know I'm firstly an atheist, it’s not ok to assume this has always been obvious;
It’s ok to understand that...
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Categories:
bounce, discrimination, education, life, people, rights, smile, society,
Form:
Free verse
At a CrossroadAt a Crossroad **
Treading down the I ...
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Categories:
bounce, faith, god, inspirational, life, light, spiritual,
Form:
Concrete
Sacred Falling StarsOnce upon a time a gymnast teacher told a girl,
and all her classmates,
to gather round
to spot the student currently bouncing
on the trampoline.
They circled
to volunteer a ring of imperfectly rhythmed
but...
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Categories:
bounce, allegory, analogy, caregiving, health, passion, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Seasonal Walks In the Parkbaseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
“Seasonal Walks in the Park!”
A walk in the park after a springtime morning rainfall
Is to hear the droplets fall from bent branches overhead
That can shock and moisten one’s...
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Categories:
bounce, baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 30 -- Delilah Damian and Damian Junior Mallory Friends and FamilyBlocking the Doorway Dolly
Demanded, "What boys are you
Going with?" Damian Tried to
Be understanding. "Baby, just
Friends from School. Malcolm,
Shakespeare and Shannon."
She grabbed his hand "Damian
Rub my belly. This boy is
Doing somersaults in me."
"Don't go."...
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Categories:
bounce, creation, dream, father son, mother,
Form:
Alliteration