Long Closes Poems
Long Closes Poems. Below are the most popular long Closes by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Closes poems by poem length and keyword.
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s dreams
rust crumbles to dust
Virulent apathy spreads
Betrayal’s destruction
hand...
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Categories:
closes, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xvii-XxivSonnets XVII-XXIV
Discrimination
by Michael R. Burch
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed,
was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose.
I found it in sheet music, in long rows
of hologramic CDs, in sad wrecks
of long-forgotten...
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Categories:
closes, books, poems, poetry, poets, voice, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Brain InjuryPain settles in quite instantly your senses
are totally unprepared for this graveness
the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic
twilight phase the injury abruptly strangles
thought my ears are always ringing with this...
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Categories:
closes, america, anxiety, beautiful, lonely, mental illness, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Random Excerpts From Ice In My Eyes, Smoke In Yours - a Novel"Hey, you philosophysing Hindu. Give me a break, Buddy. I was just pulling your leg. [...] I want the rest of the story. Really, I mean it.” Theson said nothing. [...] “I can see you’re...
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Categories:
closes, fantasy, growing up, lost, nature, religion,
Form:
Free verse
My Eyes the Painting Photograph In the Sky- -"I am a painter and my eyes are the paint brushes I had if I look up with my open eye I see the Horizon I see the clouds to be continued
Oh shutter as I...
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Categories:
closes, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Chapter 72 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: the Date ClosesThe Cascades congregation came
To an end. Dashing Damian and
His crew were out of the vicinity.
On their way home. Polly spoke
"I had me a good time tonight!
Thanks for the invitation."
She said, "I'm hungry."
Damian...
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Categories:
closes, devotion, emotions, family, house, universe,
Form:
Alliteration
Taken By the WindI was out one day walking, along the glad sounding shore,
Gathering pretty seashells, and watching the seagulls soar.
To the left were lofty mountains, touching the azure skies,
To the right, sparkling ocean, and ahead the butterflies!
In...
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Categories:
closes, beach, fantasy, mountains, nature, sea, weather, wind,
Form:
Couplet
The Whiskey Bottle WishThe Whiskey Bottle Wish
One late summer night outside a saloon in the mid-west, an intoxicated Dusty Rogers, stumbles out of the Bar nearly taking one of the revolving doors with him. As he flutters...
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Categories:
closes, bible, drink, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
Always Love Your BrotherSister
Love your brother ALWAYS
If you are older, hold your brother’s hand;
If you’re the same age as he;
Stay within his and God’s plans
Allow him a hand to hold,
a shoulder to lean on,
And an ear...
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Categories:
closes, analogy, appreciation, boy, brother, devotion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Come and GoHer back never faces the door
“I’ll only need you on certain days”
she says
(absently)
“I’ll have to write them down
my memory doesn’t work so well
especially when I am caught up”
she’s thinking
(a lovely stare)
“Who is that in the...
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Categories:
closes, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
As a Kid and BeyondAS A KID AND BEYOND
did I ever wonder?
what my upbringing brought for me;
and did it disappoint
or just bring feelings to resurface,
but never sensitivities
of deep down and personal,
and did I really care
of what there was...
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Categories:
closes, childhood, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
The Lewis Trap
“The Lewis Trap”
Well, of course he's misanthropic
He’s a Misanthropic Man
The Devil’s in the details
Buried deep under the covers
Of bedtime stories, slithers ‘neath loose sand
A Liddell bit of cake
A Liddell bit of julip
Sweets for a sweet...
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Categories:
closes, abuse, addiction, child abuse, imagery, judgement, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Asking the Way Part Two"Well to a certain degree yes I really don’t want to impose.
I’m getting used to my deprivation." As...
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Categories:
closes, age, art, creation, death, deep, imagination, mystery,
Form:
Prose
Dreams I Translation of Etiemble S Poem Reves I By T WignesanThe Deception of Free Verse: Dreams I, Translation of Etiemble’s L’imposture du vers libre by T. Wignesan
(From René Etiemble’s only poetry collection: le Coeur et la cendre: soixante ans de poésie (the heart and...
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Categories:
closes, creation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Paul Valery Translation of the Graveyard By the SeaThis is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery evoked in his best-known poem. From the vantage of the...
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Categories:
closes, death, french, grave, obituary, ocean, paris, sea,
Form:
Free verse
Making TeaIt's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quaintness
Encountering myself at a passionate spring
oozing its life gliding o'er its rocky...
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Categories:
closes, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration, dad, daughter, mother,
Form:
Concrete
Buck N For GloryYour searching for something you can touch;
Looking for the same things to love, with no results;
and it's hard to believe;
Hard to receive;
Your shucking and jiving;
ducking and diving;
wondering and why ing. . . your trying to
Buck...
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Categories:
closes, analogy, appreciation, celebration, celebrity, character, farewell,
Form:
Ballad
November 13th 2021 Happy Eighty Sixth BirthdayNovember 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday
to my long deceased mom...
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky
My mother succumbed to a terminal illness
two score minus three orbitz passed away
no matter she fought tooth and nail
to keep ovarian/uterine...
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Categories:
closes, absence, age, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, creation, death,
Form:
Rhyme
White the Lowest Sky
"White the Lowest Sky"
Cries the Lowest Sky
tear drops fed as manna
o’er the littlest warrior
face raised to ultra Light
The 3
that sit in Ultra Gamma
there cries the lowest Sky
the voice that ever hears you
Cries the...
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Categories:
closes, freedom, love, trust,
Form:
Free verse
Learning To Let GoWhen you hear your past calling
And you know better than to answer
But you answer them anyways
You can try to justify the who and the why
And yet you know that nothing good can come of this
It...
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Categories:
closes, growing up, moving on,
Form:
Free verse
That Was a HumanAllow me to be disgusted at the jest
and your halfway happy surprise at the end result
of the missile timed precisely:
Did he just splatter?
And allow me to feel the brunt of the bruising
upon my saddened heart,...
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Categories:
closes, abuse, angst, bereavement, corruption, horror, humanity, war,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
While Daydreaming About Timepiece InventorsWhile daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022
How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
and I would be hard pressed
to differentiate one moment
from the next without the...
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Categories:
closes, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, creation, december,
Form:
Free verse
The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes On the Sensate Slip Stream : the Silent War In 3 Acts: Pt1
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip Stream : The Silent War in 3 Acts
(Part 1)
Starlings singing...
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Categories:
closes, bible, bird, evil, god, love, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Pandora's Temptation
For the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its intricate patterns - so ancient- so old
Her Creator’s mandate she...
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Categories:
closes, desire, hope, love,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Our Favorite Antiques Shop - 2nd Half Text - Plus Full AudioThis 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.
The 1st HALF can be...
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Categories:
closes, travel,
Form:
Narrative