Long Choked Poems
Long Choked Poems. Below are the most popular long Choked by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Choked poems by poem length and keyword.
Tail Spin, RevisedThis page shows my writing process and is part of Poetrysoup's first workshop. The workshop's intent is to reveal how revision strengthens a poem. Constructive feedback can be a gift. Should any journal...
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Categories:
choked, courage, fear, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day
first comes...
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Categories:
choked, age, loneliness, memory,
Form:
Free verse
The Girl With Eyes As Black As CrowsOn that night the moon seemed hidden from her starry brothers
The kind of night not suited for the fighters nor the lovers
I ventured out only to put out the low burning lamp
When there I saw...
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Categories:
choked, dark, death, fantasy, murder, mythology, night, scary,
Form:
Narrative
On Fam'Ly Traditions - Final ThirdOn Fam'ly Traditions - 3rd third -
With 2 dinky bedrooms...and only 3 beds...the one time I'd been here I'd slept on a cot! And tossin' a coin for the one with 2 beds...the-odd-man the...
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Categories:
choked, family, together,
Form:
Narrative
The OutlanderI am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...
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Categories:
choked, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
The Bate's Motel Does Exist - 1st HalfHere's the scoop, friends...like a bunch of my pieces now posted - and coming soon - this is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted...
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Categories:
choked, humor,
Form:
Narrative
The Spirits of CullodenThe Spirits of Culloden.
This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year,
Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear.
Standin on that moor, that once with blood was sodden,
Paying respects...
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Categories:
choked, anniversary, death, dedication, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 5
The appearance of his old friend brought new thoughts of his mother and, Nordgrend, the town in which they spent the last few years. Raðulfr, was a truly kind man and he was...
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Categories:
choked, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Ringer and the CleanskinThe True Story
A Poem of the time, when as a 16 year old young fellow, and fresh from Blighty I spent 7 years as a Ringer in North Queensland, Australia. A Ringer is the Queensland...
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Categories:
choked, nature,
Form:
Ballad
Everything of Yours Must Go Now, Even If It BurnsI write about my ex a lot,
we didn't talk much, but our tongues touched,
we used to have sex a lot and
it was so hot that it set my soul ablaze,
and no, it wasn't...
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Categories:
choked, break up,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 4March 18-27
This time I woke,
He was staring readily,
Smiling, plotting steadily
I lifted my body and gently gazed at his grotesque beauty
He was always at his best in thought…
“You look ravishing…” He began.
“Mouth-parched, crusty-eyed, hair...
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Categories:
choked, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
That's Chuck, He's My FriendWhat's that in your hand?. Let me see.. He said.
It's a picture; that`s Chuck; he is my friend... I said.
You pick your friends kinda young, don't you?... He said.
No, that was a long time ago....
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Categories:
choked, bereavement, death, emotions, friend, friendship, gender, how
Form:
Epitaph
Road TripRoad Trip
The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few...
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Categories:
choked, adventure, allegory, childhood, grandfather, meaningful, nostalgia, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Operating At a LossI
How long have I been doing this
Throwing my time & money
Into a hole
Filling up notebooks
Mining overheard conversation
For lines
Squeezing the sponge
Of my wine soaked
Mind
Into the bucket
Of poetry
And now here we are
Gulping down the
Lead tainted water
Like Romans
Romans
Forced...
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Categories:
choked, anger, destiny, political,
Form:
Free verse
The Doghousewhen I met you, I was dying. for the very first time in my life, but certainly not the last- you made sure of that
when I met you I was dying. I hadn’t eaten in...
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Categories:
choked, for her, love hurts, miss you, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Down a Piece and ThereThe country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few more...
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Categories:
choked, allegory, beach, childhood, grandfather, nostalgia, remember, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Love of Our LifeLOVE Of Our Life
Life’s journey swim links 2 defined moments - birth & death.
To survive its stretch we swim different strokes,
Delivered inner strength combats heavy tides & puncture pokes,
Hidden forces compatibly energize different folks,
Fortifying for...
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Categories:
choked, desire, emotions, god, love, perspective, relationship, wisdom,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
The Homeless PoetA homeless poet
A few days ago, I was walking home with my dollar store notebook in my hand as I walked. I was deep in thought about how I was going to fill these 250...
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Categories:
choked, for him, heartbroken, home, how i feel,
Form:
Narrative
Watts Is BurningPoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Watts Is Burning
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014
Run children run!
Run sister run!
Run brother run!
Run for your guns
We ain't backing down
Not this time -
Run through
the
poisoned
black smoke,
that
permeates
through
Watts -
Run pass
the
looting,
Run down
the
land mine
streets,
Run pass
the house
that's
no longer
your home -
Run...
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Categories:
choked, anger, black african american,
Form:
Light Verse
Watts Is BurningPoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Watts Is Burning
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014
Run children run!
Run sister run!
Run brother run!
Run for your guns
We ain't backing down
Not this time -
Run through
the
poisoned
black smoke,
that
permeates
through
Watts -
Run pass
the
looting,
Run down
the
land mine
streets,
Run pass
the house
that's
no longer
your home -
Run...
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Categories:
choked, anger, black african american,
Form:
Light Verse
Unquotable Quotes: Xlvii - Tongue-Twisting EpigramsUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVII - Tongue Twisters
If you want to « have » your cake and « eat » it at one and the same time, simple enough, just split it into two equal parts like...
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Categories:
choked, england, humor, satire, sensual,
Form:
Epigram
Nature Nurturing QuestionsWhy is misery said to love company
while depression demands solitude?
And
is it always true that nature abhors a vacuum
or
sometimes true nurture adores expansion?
Misery,
depression,
anxiety,
negatively respond to trauma.
Negatives do not look for like company
but can positively appreciate...
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Categories:
choked, health, heartbreak, integrity, loss, mental illness, power,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Mothertree IntegrityHow might Earth's underground narrative
of a sacred Tree
speak most profoundly
of old growth economic
and political
environmental trauma?
A question I forgot to ask
when I was younger
and more disabled
and WhiteMale monotheistic
How might even Republican Red MotherTrees
avoid secularized Self-serving
by Capitalizing...
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Categories:
choked, appreciation, earth, health, humor, integrity, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
A Scraping of ShovelsMy momma was big on naps when I was a girl.
Until I was eight years old, she sent me to my room on summer afternoons.
It was probably because of the heat in the south,
The way...
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Categories:
choked, abuse, childhood, death, grief, growing up, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
A Prodigy In PiecesA boy and board in Brooklyn
bedeviled by the breath of baroque battles
bemused with a belligerent brain beauty
and befriended by battlefield bravado,
the chessmen championed his ego
wickedly warring to a visionary's voodoo,
those soldiers of black and...
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Categories:
choked, america, heart, history,
Form:
Epic