Long Cargo Poems
Long Cargo Poems. Below are the most popular long Cargo by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Cargo poems by poem length and keyword.
The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
cargo, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal MomentImpossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
cargo, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems VPoems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
cargo, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Why I Don'T Trust Psychics - 1st ThirdHere's the scoop, friends...
This is, as indicated, the 1st THIRD of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd and 3rd parts had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No...
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Categories:
cargo, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Plane Crashes Fate Takes OverIt was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps if I got on a plane, I would see Santa...
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Categories:
cargo, love,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
cargo, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
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:
cargo, august, autumn, farewell, lost love, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Margins of PandoraTim’s father had been a refugee once he put down his fight and his gun
The story is that he embarked on the very last ship leaving East Prussia
Under siege tanks and bombs from above fireworks...
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Categories:
cargo, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 1-- Damian Hakim: the Making of the Man- Damian's Early DaysDate 2008 these are Damian's
Formative days. Damian Hakim
Was born 2001 August 10th.
8lbs 7oz. Big baby boy! Damian
Lived in west Virginia with his
Mother Lucinda, father Carter
Hakim and his siblings. Now 2008
Young Damian...
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Categories:
cargo, black love, color, confidence, mental health,
Form:
Prose
Letter To Grandpa RalphAs I thought upon the coming of February, the month designated as Black History Month, I began to think upon potential ancestors of long long ago. My imagination got the best of me, and this...
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Categories:
cargo, christian, family, grandfather, history,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
cargo, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Whips of History - 4Injustice is just an inconvenience until it is proven...
When the sun hit their helmets it startled the very souls of the natives
a signal upon their eyes that spoke like a siren of ill prophecy to...
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Categories:
cargo, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Letter From a Son To His Late MotherMa,
Why do I need to apostrophize you? Why did you flew away into the celestial regions so earlier? Is it because you are from a land where ‘twenty is plenty’ for women? And hence, ignoring...
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Categories:
cargo, emotions, family, loss, mother son,
Form:
Prose
Of Unknown OriginNylon waste is often akin to a brushed out stable, manger, or stall. But brushing the carpet is often a resemblance of a swirling cloud of dust and tobacco shards and tobacco shards are not...
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Categories:
cargo, beach, beautiful,
Form:
I do not know?
A Ghetto Conversation
Hey bruh,
haven’t you heard,
ain’t you read the news?
The White House is gonna eradicate
the fear infested inner city blues
That Trump fella says,
he’s got his poison pen ready to use
He says black folks got nothing...
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Categories:
cargo, culture, prejudice, truth, word play,
Form:
Verse
UtopiaOur lives and our time
Fired useless
Into the air
Toy cap gun shots
Those winter palaces unstormed
No tax offices ransacked
Where is utopia I asked
And no-one knew
They looked at me with pity
As if I still talked
To an imaginary friend
At...
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Categories:
cargo, political,
Form:
Blank verse
A Most Irish Fairy Tale - Merry Christmas To AllIt is not just Santa Claus who we meet in cold December—
There is “Carolina,” and she’s the beauty of a winter picture perfect
With luscious long coal black curly hair far down on her...
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Categories:
cargo, beauty, children, christmas, love, snow,
Form:
Narrative
The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class wooden lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
Launched from Penlee lifeboat station in...
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Categories:
cargo, boat, death, people, rain, sad, sea, storm,
Form:
Narrative
South Africa 2019A country of dreams has burst its rainbow at all ragged seams
In a state of affairs illusion of fusion and widespread delusion
The constitution hallucinates as night settles scores of deceit
Bereavement takes its toll in anger...
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Categories:
cargo, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
All AboardWho suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El." We hurdle head-long above asphalt blanketed streets that are determined...
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Categories:
cargo, city, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Prose
Sonnets V-IxSonnets V-IX
Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch
The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel their pulse... warm, palpable and slow...
once...
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Categories:
cargo, love, moon, night, star, time, universe, world,
Form:
Sonnet
In Case You Didn'T KnowI understand that my values have changed. In ways to frame a point we can't help complain. Distract a conscience with tasks to entertain. As well as moments uncaptured to drive insane.
Now sorry I know...
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Categories:
cargo, deep, devotion, feelings, i love you, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Junk Mail AgainWow, look, we can save $500!
I wonder how much we must invest
to generate this savings.
Oh, I see.
We need only buy a new or used car,
which, of course, as everyone knows,
is something that we truly truly...
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Categories:
cargo, beauty, culture, health, humor, political, psychological, visionary,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Pepperman and the Quantum Dot ProgramI OPENED A DOOR TO THE QUANTUM DOT WORLD
OF INORGANIC ORGANIC MATERIALS.
ALSO KNOWN AS SYNTHETIC BEINGS. PART HUMAN
PART MACHINE. ONE MIGHT EVEN SAY CYBORG.
CONTROLLED BY FREQUENCIES RADIATING FROM
WHAT APPEARS TO BE 6G...
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Categories:
cargo, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Son of Amittai - 1 of 2commissioning and attempted escape
“Son of Amittai, to Nineveh, go
And tell them of their great impending woe;
Their evil, like a stench, has come to me.”
But Jonah ran; he traveled down to Joppa.
(Wait, Jonah who? Oh, Amittai’s...
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Categories:
cargo, bible, fish,
Form:
Tail-rhyme