Long Chafed Poems
Long Chafed Poems. Below are the most popular long Chafed by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Chafed poems by poem length and keyword.
The Raven and The Bard
The Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers
The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard's natural lines, like "Evangeline's" fair hair,
Shed history's warm light to chase away all care...
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Categories:
chafed, philosophy, poets, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS
MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS
She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner Jewel
soft it lay cradled
rhapsodic rubicon...
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Categories:
chafed, character, courage, death, emotions, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form:
Epic
The Bell In the Bush
The Bell in the Bush
Down woodland paths the wolf did roam
Far away from his packs home
For game he’d wandered off to seek
The sick, the helpless and the weak
When happened he across a fawn
Tied amid, a...
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Categories:
chafed, animal, imagination, mother son,
Form:
Epic
Gateway Town
Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within the lawn-jockey, pink flamingo neighborhoods of moral decay.
T.S, Eliot,...
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Categories:
chafed, allusion, city, class, longing, racism, slavery, urban,
Form:
Rhyme
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber
Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine avoidable alliteration.
Because...? Basically bonafide belching,
bobbing, bumbling, bohemian beastie boy,
bereft bummer, bleeds blasé blues, begetting
bloviated boilerplate bildungsroman,
boasting...
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Categories:
chafed, 1st grade, 2nd grade, adventure, age, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
How exciting; first appreciable healthy snowfall 2024
How exciting; first appreciable (healthy) snowfall 2024...
within hinterlands of
Perkiomen Valley Pennsylvania
occurred January 6th promptly at noon.
Virgin whiteness blankets terrestrial realm
bajillion snowflakes tumble out of sky
atavistic fascination awakened
agog at ice crystals stinging each eye
while...
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Categories:
chafed, adventure, animal, appreciation, beautiful, environment, january, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Lock and Key
Timothy had always been a man of laughing joy and conversation
-Friendship dialogue communication -
But now there was silence but for...
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Categories:
chafed, future,
Form:
Free verse
No Roof For Reindeer
No Roof For Reindeer
The celebrated sailing frog
from Montgomery County
went a courtin, or so the tale iz toad
to a grand ole mansion built around 1910,
and e'en 'pon
being razed ~2012 ah
no foo fighting crash test dummy
(sea...
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Categories:
chafed, absence, adventure, animal, childhood, christmas, crush, december,
Form:
Rhyme
First Appreciable Healthy Snowfall 2022 Occurred January 28th
First appreciable (healthy) snowfall 2022 occurred January 28th
Virgin whiteness blankets terrestrial realm
bajillion snowflakes tumble out of sky
atavistic fascination awakened
agog at ice crystals stinging each eye
while I strike open mouthed stance
relishing tasting frozen water molecules.
No matter...
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Categories:
chafed, adventure, environment, hair, husband, january, miracle, paradise,
Form:
Rhyme
Trawl Tale of a Fictitious Seaman Told To Ye
While on the topic
of blood kith and kin,
I relate another
fabricated poem about
blimey bloke of a fisherman.
Trawl tale of a fictitious seaman told to ye...
Courtesy webbed whirled wide net wit
cursing thwarted life,...
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Categories:
chafed, 8th grade, adventure, animal, appreciation, destiny, fish,
Form:
Rhyme
Cowpoke
Cowpoke
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 16
Sleep, old man...
your day has long since passed.
The endless plains,
cool midnight rains
and changeless ragged cows
alone remain
of what once was.
You cannot know
just how the Change
will rape the windswept plains
that you...
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Categories:
chafed, evil, heart, home, poems, usa, war, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Chinese Translations Iii
Chinese Translations III
Quiet Night Thoughts
by Li Bai aka Li Po
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Moonlight illuminates my bed
as frost brightens the ground.
Lifting my eyes, the moon allures.
Lowering my eyes, I long for home.
The Solitude of Night
by...
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Categories:
chafed, animal, loneliness, lonely, mountains, nature, sound, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Raconteur Prevaricator De Jure
This chap iz a life
long student – groan fizzy
(from being protean entity
at least sustained along minimally
cerebral Mohorovicic continuity
till...post mortality
reincarnating one carbon peculiarity
enigmatic existence eternally
into maternity of wives eternity)
at The University
of Adversity, accruing excessive
Kirkovian priceline...
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Categories:
chafed, 9th grade, education, encouraging, freedom, life, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Tale of a Fictitious Seaman
My grandfather Hymie
spent his entire life at sea
his thick calloused hands
and ruddy complexion re
enforced non verbal body language...
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Categories:
chafed, adventure, art, character, deep, god, memory, solitude,
Form:
Ode
Sobering a Happy Addict
I was born married to the master of subservience,
fell in love with the master of somnolence.
I dissolved Reality,...
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Categories:
chafed, death, imagination, life, sleep,
Form:
Free verse
Trawl Tale of a Fictitious Seaman
(scoured from dregs of me muss held head)
I shore up a vignette to free
my ("FAKE") grandfather Hymie,
whose scrunched countenanced
evinced beetle that of browed monkey
he spent his entire life at sea
his thick calloused hands
and...
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Categories:
chafed, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form:
Narrative
Anticlimactic Mood After February 18th 2021 Snow Storm Subsided
Anticlimactic mood after February 18th, 2021 snow storm subsided
I hate spoiler alert
regarding weather forecasters prediction,
especially when meteorologist
wannabe spouse doth blurt
out impending blizzard
which never materializes.
Yours truly humbled and enamored
when Mother Nature
singly and/or nsync with old man...
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Categories:
chafed, 12th grade, america, angel, deep, february, image,
Form:
Free verse
In a Nowhere Land
IN A NOWHERE LAND
I feel like a crazy, mad woman,
chafed and losing my patience.
Feeling so bad, ready to explode
or needing desperately to explore
and get lost to point of no return
or to find a nowhere land.
The...
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Categories:
chafed, adventure, fantasy, freedom, humanity, imagination, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Freedom
Dissolved in salts, sprits and holy water
Stings my wide opened eyes to a deep red
The visible failures of a man of faith
Fear sealed lips purple blue
Because I believed that for my sin the son of...
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Categories:
chafed, freedom, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Manu and the Fish
Manu strolled to his stainless sink
To wash his hands and have a think.
He reached for soap, a bar was handy,
A square pink cake that looked like candy.
He ran the water, fresh and cool,
And in his...
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Categories:
chafed, animal, fish, friendship, hindi, humanity, mythology, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior Jobber Part 1
Jinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - I)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine avoidable alliteration.
Because...? Basically bonafide belching,
bobbing, bumbling, bohemian beastie boy,
bereft bummer, bleeds blasé blues, begetting
bloviated boilerplate bildungsroman,
boasting...
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Categories:
chafed, dance, hello, imagery, motivation, political, smart, visionary,
Form:
Alliteration
Nothing More Frustrating Trying Damndest To Kindle Memory
(buzzfeeding, kickstarting, needling darn noggin)
An effort to recall word, phrase,
musician... indigenous tribe...
most frustrating literary
endeavor to das scribe
aggravating enough to sub
bourbon spur teetotaler to imbibe
and/or nsync, whereby soul searching
devil's advocate demands bribe.
Lil brokeback Engelbert Humperdinck
(born Arnold...
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Categories:
chafed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Lolek
we were taken again beyond the gates of katyn
I'd begun to challenge morale feelings over a sudden
stench bellowing from under the chartered tanks
silence abroad Auschwitz my knees chattered
while facing the cold...
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Categories:
chafed, adventure, grandmother,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Reed For a Lonely Sax
Sitting by a bookshelf
covered with thick dust
I shower my eyes
with other hands words
written in this book's chafed skin.
Skin that my hands have the only feel of others thoughts
cause actual immobile flesh with a mouth to...
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Categories:
chafed, lifeme, me,
Form:
Free verse
Dear John
DEAR JOHN
We heard the wolves’ howls shredding the night
while the pines showered their needles on the snow,
And in the fogged morning I didn’t want to face you
(I was too bitchy; I didn’t have my...
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Categories:
chafed, marriage,
Form:
Blank verse