Long Boxed Poems
Long Boxed Poems. Below are the most popular long Boxed by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Boxed poems by poem length and keyword.
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
boxed, memory,
Form:
Prose
Grand Priorities
What fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
Let me ask again:
Noticing you are concerned about long-winded
and -winding
and...
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Categories:
boxed, black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To Entropy
Salvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
boxed, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Time, Friend Or Foe
"Time is the thief you cannot banish." ...
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Categories:
boxed, life, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Part 1: Confusion of the Muse
The large, bright Winter moon shone it's heavenly light over and out amongst the snow-covered city. The city was large, the city was noisy. It was midnight and the bustling still urged on. People ached...
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Categories:
boxed,
Form:
I do not know?
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot.
President...
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Categories:
boxed, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, age, america,
Form:
Rhyme
THE GLASS JAW OF MY UNCLE BOB SATTERFIELD
MY UNCLE BOB SATTERFIELD WAS QUITE FAMOUS FOR HIS POWERFUL PUNCH BUT ALSO FOR HAVING A GLASS JAW ACCORDING TO ALEX RAMOS THE DIGNITY FOUNDATION RETIRED BOXING ASSOCIATION I ADORED WATCHING BOB AND EZZARD CHARLES...
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Categories:
boxed, allah,
Form:
Naat
Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael Neumann
Universal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent void of false containment
Enlightenment modern postmodern retro visionary futuristic aspirations
Resound...
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Categories:
boxed, adventure, community, universe,
Form:
Sestina
Transformational Curiosity
That's queer!
said transculturing Curiosity,
peering out Her sacred big-boxed window
panes of misty white fog
gently covering her view
of upstream tiding River's
mysterious grey
reverse time flow
Sometimes,
OK, really too often,
I could use more courageous exercise
But, Other times
I'm more content, inviting...
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Categories:
boxed, culture, earth, health, peace, senses, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Political Verse
Upon Waking
“Upon Waking”
Slumber has its upsides
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard,
cacophonous
pecking at each other
and at the ground…
Elsewhere,
like dull background noise
through the fog of dream
the sound of the gamble...
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Categories:
boxed, gothic, muse, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Regenerate Intelligence
I often fail to notice
nuanced distinctions
between ethics of punishment,
retribution, on right hand
and boycott,
shunning revenge, on my left;
Between reigning down further abuse
and more quietly raining temporary neglect,
social
economic
political distancing.
Punishment is a tool
for privileged narcissists,
win/lose competitors,
colonizers,
for fake-righteously...
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Categories:
boxed, earth, extended metaphor, health, heart, integrity, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Secret Lives of Shame
We could speak together,
Decry rabid violence of chronically stressed kids
and young adults acting like kids,
apparently regardless of income or race;
perhaps not of enculturation.
Feeling claustrophobic,
anxious about an unpromising competitive future,
drowning in inch-deep and narrow boxed-in mentoring...
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Categories:
boxed, abortion, caregiving, earth, happiness, health, integrity, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Telling Stories
While there is no story at all
unless it has at least two sides,
when it comes to ego's narrative lines
and epic paragraphs,
we have great difficulty in casting ourselves
as other than a one-sided protagonist story,
which others might...
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Categories:
boxed, betrayal, christian, earth, integrity, love, native american,
Form:
Political Verse
The Tear
“The Tear”
How many oceans of salt
does it take to form a tear?
Unrelenting waves of sorrow
pounding a broken heart
hears the howl of sharp beaked foolish flying monkeys
ignorant feeding frenzies swallow whole lost families
swept...
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Categories:
boxed, dark, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Deciphering Crossword Puzzles, Cryptograms and Scrabblegrams Once Favorite Pastimes
Deciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes
Livingsocial at 324 Level Road
circa post high school graduation
found yours truly voluntarily holed up
for an inordinate amount of time
within familiar four walls of his bedroom.
He preferred solitude versus
interacting...
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Categories:
boxed, 12th grade, angel, anxiety, books, boy, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Scars in Heaven, Casting Crowns
Three has ruled the roost for so long...
Four, boxed in so, has forgotten its role.
So picture five lingering outside, waiting
Thinking itself only a star
None seeing what keys are needed
To open the legendary Time of Times.
Oh......
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Categories:
boxed, america, destiny, future, life, philosophy, symbolism, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Primal Questions
Do I want to only look at new ones,
never been used,
or is that a too restrictive market,
too competitively priced
for virginity of place and relationship on Earth?
And, is such redemptively-intended virginity
an asset or a deficit,
in which...
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Categories:
boxed, career, change, destiny, humor, jobs, relationship, work,
Form:
Narrative
Argh Daylight Savings Time Ends Two Am November 6th 2022
Argh daylight savings time ends – 2:00 AM November 6th 2022
Hour hands of o'clock get set back
sixty minutes gaining extra hour of Autumn
round about this same day of November
every year, what a bum
er,...
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Categories:
boxed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, america,
Form:
Rhyme
My Parents Were Illegal Immigrants In the United States
In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans.
One day he and seven...
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Categories:
boxed, america, immigration,
Form:
Prose
Daylight Savings Time Ends November 5th 2023 Means
Daylight Savings Time Ends – November 5th 2023 means...
discombobulated, harried, and lobotomized
state of body, mind, and spirit triage.
Onset of dark shadows signalling edge of night
occurs earlier as the world turns
beckoning, hinting, robbing passage...
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Categories:
boxed, autumn, business, confusion, dark, father, light, november,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Xlix - Tongue Teasers
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: Tongue-Teasers - XLIX
« Third Degree » is when you add « Insult to injury ».
If you take everything everybody says with a « pinch of salt », we’ll soon be able to drink...
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Categories:
boxed, humor, irony, race, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Argh Daylight Savings Time March 13th 2022
Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 13th, 2022
Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil curse,
butta I avoid tempting him
courtesy fanged...
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Categories:
boxed, america, change, confusion, history, light, march, morning,
Form:
Rhyme
Choices of Hope
His mean bulging eyes stare at me from behind the screen, and from the look on his face you could see that he has been meddling with my midnight dreams, for twelve long hours he...
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Categories:
boxed, america, betrayal, business, care, career, city, culture,
Form:
Narrative
Gigantic Adventure of Rumblevoice and Samuel P
Sixteen hundred full moons ago, RumbleVoice, a giant with a mission, and his mighty spy hawk, Samuel P. were up in the Butter Cup Mountains hunting for a young wild bobcat to bring home to...
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Categories:
boxed, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
Argh Daylight Savings Time March 14th 2021
Argh Daylight Savings Time – March 14th, 2021
Once again, yours truly
dishes out his regular dose
of literary gobbledygook
even Count Dracula
would not even bat an eye
nor give me his evil,
(albeit harmless) look
regarding feeble effort I undertook.
Don't forget...
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Categories:
boxed, adventure, confusion, evil, good night, hello, husband,
Form:
Rhyme