Long Charcoal Poems
Long Charcoal Poems. Below are the most popular long Charcoal by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Charcoal poems by poem length and keyword.
The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
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Categories:
charcoal, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Classified Part FourI was hungry and headed to one of the tents that had been set up as a field kitchen and noticed Tim who came over to talk to me , he said that he was...
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Categories:
charcoal, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
On Fam'Ly Traditions - 2nd ThirdOn Fam’ly Traditions - 2nd third -
“Might as well grab us some food an' some beer...some ice...and some bundles o' wood, an' prob'ly some charcoal....there ain't nothin' better than walleye from right off a...
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Categories:
charcoal, family, together,
Form:
Narrative
Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part IiHEROES
Near somber guards, units of children heap
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.
Firefighters bow heads in silent paean,
while polished trucks stand...
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Categories:
charcoal, friend, hero, places, poetry, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Sonnet
Hold the PhoneHold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean,...
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Categories:
charcoal, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money, student,
Form:
Free verse
Heroic Crown of Sonnets 28.Reading
I see them all rise to an endless sky.
Tumbling burnt pages from raging fire,
To leave ash of closer, to pacify.
A single deep breath near flaming pyre.
To see destruction with a silent face.
My eyes will cry...
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Categories:
charcoal, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Having Enough-Remembering ThanksgivingI awoke to the familiar sound of dishes rattling in Mother’s kitchen and to the thick scent of coffee wafting through the air. I glanced out my bedroom window; the neighborhood was lit by the...
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Categories:
charcoal, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Free verse
Small Mutinies
"Small Mutinies"
So what if my point of view
is not that which wraps
you in comfortably warm
fluffed-up silky
cashmere blankets
of insecure insincerity
simple scribbles
bleating from the
chirping crickets
and frog croaking
symphonies
muddying waters
cutting pristine lines...
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Categories:
charcoal, halloween, muse, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
No Love LostFor several years I'd worked as a life coach, assisting clients day by day,
Like blazing colors in the shank of the evening, chases deep blues away.
It was an occupation that I enjoyed, as helping others...
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Categories:
charcoal, best friend, break up, fantasy, imagery, love,
Form:
Couplet
Harvest InfernoTake me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf thunder,
What happened to your breath baby brother,
what happened in...
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Categories:
charcoal, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic
Norwegian Bachelor Farmer Days I Never LivedNorwegian bachelor farmer days I never lived
Woebegone and egg foo young on you
meaning me of course
sidestepping a crucial positive
electric kool aid battery acid test
prior to pledging troth,
and tying Gordian knot
to strangulation point,
never fending for myself,
nor...
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Categories:
charcoal, adventure, america, appreciation, atheist, blessing, courage, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Haunting Greeting From Lady KatieI learned so much last time I went too
The shore casino near the ocean blue
Conjuring up honesty and words that were true
Looking for tranquil sanctuary to think and talk ...
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Categories:
charcoal, cheer up, children, death, goodbye, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Birth of Healthy Newborn Greater Than CumulativeYuletide pageants vis a vis merry go round revisited
healthy progeny regaled being alive
analogous to children ecstatic twenty-five
on December exhaling joie de vivre at dive
in into neat stack of wrapped gifts, when...
what! out of thin...
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Categories:
charcoal, 10th grade, 11th grade, appreciation, creation, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Men, Do Not Give Up Your Dreams For These Girls, Keep SleepingMen, do not give up your dreams for these girls, keep sleeping.
My cousin had read this phrase to me in August, when my wife left me for a harvard graduate that moved in our...
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Categories:
charcoal, desire, feelings, future, good morning, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Duhhh DepressionI'm determined to get better
Intent on improving
If you saw where I was
You would shriek and gasp what are you doing
At 7 countries counseling clinic
This process
I'm ready to begin it
Cause the longer...
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Categories:
charcoal, deep, depression, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Last Night's Freestyle Battle In FullMy 1st round:
I know we just met and you seem like you're cool but there's a whole bunch of s**t that I don't know about you. Now I don't care about your race, what kind...
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Categories:
charcoal, angst, crazy, death, evil, grave, mental illness,
Form:
Rhyme
The UndertowThe Undertow
The two could feel the undertow
Pull at them both - then let them go
He wondered if she could know
Or sense it too and let it flow
The undertow in the fast-running tide
Ebbed and flowed at...
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Categories:
charcoal, anxiety, conflict, confusion, desire, emotions,
Form:
Verse
Yuletide pageant merry go roundYuletide pageant merry go round
Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two plus seventeen carousel rides resonated
veritable pantheon of pagan rituals
and...
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Categories:
charcoal, angel, appreciation, birth, celebration, chanukah, christmas, december,
Form:
Free verse
Bunyip Forest RevisitedAlong the road called forestry, the silver ash weeps over me
as I meander 'round the dell and glade.
Pass scars of sand pits long disused, where gullies, washes speak ‘abused!’
Reclamation offers now a new facade.
Need for...
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Categories:
charcoal, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
When Vivid Clouds DescendedAfter hiking on the trail one day, I was making my way back,
Immersed in balmy thrills of summer, and the sunshine attack!
Birdsong was in my ears, and fragrance of beauty all around;
And greenness like a...
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Categories:
charcoal, beauty, color, fantasy, flower, green, nature, sky,
Form:
Couplet
Lock and KeyTimothy 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:
charcoal, future,
Form:
Free verse
What Do I SeeWhat do I see when I drive through my old neighborhood?
Not the familiar cookie cutter houses or the elementary school I attended with my friends. Instead…
I see my ten-year-old self clad in saddle oxford shoes...
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Categories:
charcoal, 12th grade, childhood, friend, friendship, memory, youth,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The HamburgerFor thirty years I’ve been a truckie who has driven far and wide,
Carting goods through day and night all across the countryside…
But hours spent upon the road, do not permit a set routine,
When it comes...
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Categories:
charcoal, food, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
JewelsI lived a quiet but active life, packed with brilliant sparkle and warm shine,
Like devoted lovers strolling under the captive moon, sometime after nine.
I was the manager of a jewelry store, with a number of...
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Categories:
charcoal, beautiful, cheer up, color, fantasy, happiness, light,
Form:
Couplet
DarkIt is dark! I could not see
I grasp on the night and I held on to objects that I know not of so tight
Dark! I hear strange voices from afar
but I see not their faces
Because...
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Categories:
charcoal, africa, earth, horror, planet,
Form:
Classicism