Long Checks Poems
Long Checks Poems. Below are the most popular long Checks by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Checks poems by poem length and keyword.
Limericks Vii - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, AbsurdLimericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:
There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...
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Categories:
checks, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, sexy, smile,
Form:
Limerick
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
checks, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
checks, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Reveren' Carlton Whitney - Both Audio and TextReveren’ Carlton Whitney was the pastor of our church, and someone I looked up to as a child.
Six foot six, with piercing eyes, a booming voice, and yet…his disposition, thankfully - was mild.
The very...
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Categories:
checks, character, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Beary Tales Episodes 15-24, More Poet's NotesNote to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...
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Categories:
checks, adventure, beauty, friendship, innocence, love, mentor,
Form:
Quatrain
Just -- Trust Me - 1st Half Text Plus Full AudioHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
...
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Categories:
checks, car, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Ecocitizens CoariseEcoMinisters of Earth Rights
CoArise!
EcoLogicians of sustainable tribal might
CoArise!
EcoLegislators of bicameral balancing disposition
CoArise!
What is our highest and best Commons Sense
of currently elected policy-choosers?
Where are our optimal outcomes of Commons Sense?
What does this vast emptiness of positive...
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Categories:
checks, addiction, community, creation, culture, health, political, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART IMY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980
The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane, won't replace that particular memory of Mr. Rick Nelson's hearty...
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Categories:
checks, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Rescue-Zoo-ComRescue-Zoo.com
I was sitting in their studio with a gal from cable news, taking part in my first and only ever interview,
Fielding friendly questions that pertained to how and why I’d wound up, at the age...
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Categories:
checks, animal,
Form:
Narrative
The Dilettante Diaries: the Divine Feminine - a Tale of Seduction
“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
–“He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” by W.B. Yeats
“I love you...
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Categories:
checks, friendship, fun, happiness, journey, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
The Game of HockeyThe Game of Hockey
By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed by Canadians since 1875,
When the game was first played, on...
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Categories:
checks, hockey, sports,
Form:
Verse
Hooked On a FeelingThat "FEELING" ...
The one that makes you believe
That everything in your life,
No matter how messed up or negative,
Is actually wonderful ...
The feeling that, for a few hours,
Chases every bad thing in your life away ...
The...
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Categories:
checks, drug, irony,
Form:
Free verse
Children Are Why We Need Higher TaxesSteven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for improvements.
Some of...
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Categories:
checks, child, education, school, , 9th grade,
Form:
Prose
Diary Notes: Another Day Sets In ParisDIARY NOTES : Mad-House Maths
March 30th., 2018 - Another day sets in Paris
The home-bound Octogenarian trundles from the Mall's town centre
Back laden with the day's shopping
His hands numb from clutching load-packed plastic bags during the...
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Categories:
checks, abuse, french, inspirational, judgement, life, violence,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Limericks Iv - Donald TrumpLimericks IV - Donald Trump
The Hair Flap
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"
The hair flap was truly a scare:
Trump’s bald as a billiard back there!
The whole nation laughed
At the state of his graft;
Now the...
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Categories:
checks, america, humor, humorous, leadership, light, nonsense, political,
Form:
Limerick
Old and New Halloween PoemsNo Halloween Candy
I can't get no Halloween candy.
I can't get no Halloween candy.
But I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
I can't get no. I can't get no.
Well I'm walking door...
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Categories:
checks, fear, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's 1922 Section 1 In Earth Raids 1976 By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s 1922 Section 1 by T. Wignesan
for David Attoe
Notre devise pourrait être: ‘que nous nous ne soyons pas envoûtés’
Wittgenstein in Zettel
laissez pendre la graisse sans cou
où la tête...
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Categories:
checks, america, culture, earth, word play, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
The WallWinnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain,
while she washed away her bloody pain.
Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings it loud, she sings it strong,
walled in where she does...
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Categories:
checks, birthday, character, child, child abuse, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
On Property ManagementMy wife and I were apartment managers for 18 grueling years that rented exclusively to college students, and - though everything I claim here is either disgusting or scary - or BOTH....it’s all true!
Well, it’s...
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Categories:
checks, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
The Grim ReaperTHE GRIM REAPER (JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE)
The Grim Reaper; again awakens from another well-earned day of sleep
From within the bowels of this cavernous earth, from his cave, so deep
His cloak and scythe;...
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Categories:
checks, death, humorous, tribute, write,
Form:
Epic
The Grime ReaperTHE GRIM REAPER (JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE)
This Grim Reaper stirs from another well-earned day of heavenly sleep
From within the bowels of this cavernous earth, from his cave, so deep
His cloak and scythe, been...
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Categories:
checks, humorous, inspirational, write,
Form:
Narrative
Reversals of Fortune - 6 SharingsReversals of Fortune
I. Most think luck’s just what happens, though love groks luck’s seized
by each seed that sticks (somehow) in less stone-filled ground
(which its siblings blow off or press past). That’s less luck
to my brain...
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Categories:
checks, fun, life, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 69Chroí awoke early the next morning, disoriented and a bit frightened. This was not her bed . It was so big. She was tired and felt drained. Closing her eyes, thoughts...
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Categories:
checks, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Log Cabin By the Railway TrackHilda my partner turned in her bed as the early morning train hurtled by at breakneck speed sending tremors round our dwelling.
Those long flowing tresses embrace the shafts of first light so enthusiastically.
An otherworldly spot...
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Categories:
checks, adventure, change, cool, creation, destiny, environment, imagination,
Form:
Prose
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:
checks, beauty, children, christmas, love, snow,
Form:
Narrative