Long Coil Poems
Long Coil Poems. Below are the most popular long Coil by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Coil poems by poem length and keyword.
Cocoon
"Cocoon"
They say...
a New World
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind
the old unaware,
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect
strings of silk
in the air
glistening diamond nets
slick and sticky...
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Categories:
coil, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Brave New World(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...
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Categories:
coil, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
The Raven and The BardThe 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:
coil, philosophy, poets, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Lord of Long Shadows, Master Poe and ILord Of Long Shadows, Master Poe And I
Lord of long shadows had invaded hearth and home
sauntered in amidst cracklings of hot fireplace flames
Saying, " I like this sad place, may I freely roam
you know...
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Categories:
coil, art, fantasy, imagination, judgement, surreal, symbolism, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Waters and SkiesI.
You can always tell by the eyes
When they’re starting to go
You’ll fall for a few of their lies
Before you begin to know
And you will just defy it
(But they know you will never go)
They’ll glide through...
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Categories:
coil, addiction, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Then and NowTo this day, the breath labours on still
Marrow birthing blood same as ever
to keep this battered carriage oiled
The soul wills the flesh to hobble on
and prays the spirit keeps aflame
The game...
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Categories:
coil, africa, betrayal, culture, endurance, england, journey,
Form:
I do not know?
4:32amShe stirs first..restless..looking longingly over..senses awakened.
Their feet shuffle slowly under warm covers. The moonlight shines thru the window catching her face. .illuminating it…her tousled hair frames her face.
She looks up, hopefully for his eyes to...
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Categories:
coil, passion,
Form:
ABC
In the Time When the Heart Beat Slows
“In the time when the heart beat slows”
In the time when
the heart beat slows
I close my eyes
and meet you there
that place of aether
the either or,
the conversation
takes a turn,
all the trees holding
creatures...
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Categories:
coil, dream, heart, muse, mystery, myth, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
TetheredMy umbilical scar is hollowed out
Now it's like a tiny wormhole on my belly
Its a cherished remnant of the coil that nourished me into existence
I still feel a little tug through my bell...
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Categories:
coil, africa, confidence, courage, earth, identity, integrity,
Form:
I do not know?
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly knights; encased Great-Helm:
Thus maketh the pale maidens meek pulse
To so...
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Categories:
coil, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
April To Thrill MeAPRIL TO THRILL ME
My Birth-Month April appears in mirth.
...
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Categories:
coil, appreciation, april,
Form:
Free verse
A Modest Proposal To the Universal Dilemma of Human MelancholyWhat is it to dwell in the realm of melancholy? Is it merely a cloak of desolation that we wear, or rather a wave of sorrow that engulfs us, rendering us incapable of envisioning a...
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Categories:
coil, depression, encouraging, hope, motivation, perspective, philosophy, proposal,
Form:
Prose
Sometimes ISometimes I...sometimes I wish I could combust
burst into flames, spontaneously erupt; magma
Sometimes I...
sometimes I just wish emptily, heavily
I was someone else, something better
but all the wishing I do
there's not a single one that will bother...
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Categories:
coil, imagery, lost, sorrow, , 8th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Shadows In Hiding - Collaboration With Jake PonceWritten by: David William Breidenthal and Jake Ponce
D: Blessed breeze sweeps over us
J: Whenever I leave the door ajar at night,
J: I felt myself grow pale from the humid howls
D: Gravity...
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Categories:
coil, angst, conflict, confusion, courage, depression, emotions, vanity,
Form:
Free verse
I Wish I Didn'T Know Now, What I Didn'T Know Then(1.)
(*I wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then.*)
Bob Seger, song lyric, from, " Against The Wind"...
I Wish I Didn't Know Now, What I Didn't Know Then
I recall rambunctious racing boy of a...
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Categories:
coil, appreciation, art, creation, inspiration, poetry, song, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Graphic Grapes OohOoh a scented grape graphic. Now that's wisdom. Contained a logical pattern in a juice cup. Heron haven heaping. Wisdomstic of a Judas flaw. Consealed in Sanskrit. Heavenly heaping cream on a very large bun....
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Categories:
coil, baby,
Form:
I do not know?
To Be, To Feel, To Love, To Live, To DieTO BE, TO FEEL, TO LOVE, TO LIVE, TO DIE
TO BE is that existential moment that defines each of us on our
respective life paths as we each individually acknowledge the
reality of our human existence on...
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Categories:
coil, courage, destiny, devotion, emotions, feelings, heaven, hope,
Form:
Didactic
RouseSaturday, Saturday
'Why'd you do this to me'
was my first question, my first reaction
a reflex to point myself the victim
point myself an inquiry I had no response for
I wanted once to see her
to know her face...
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Categories:
coil, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Snow, Snake, Snow, Birds, Sickness, SittingSo many, maybe millions
No, billions. Trillions?
Of stars, a quiet, hot snowfall
of white stars; sandal season squall.
Each birch tree here outdoing
January's record accumulation.
Weeks of hour after hour after hour
upon day upon day upon day of
birches'...
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Categories:
coil, death, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
The Journey To the Cosmic BeyondThe Journey to the Cosmic Beyond
Life
God’s divine spark heralds our mortal presence on this Earth,
Whilst angels sing their mystic paeans to our cosmic rebirth.
The soul’s constant transformation transcends all mortality,
As it brings each of us...
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Categories:
coil, allegory, death, god, heaven, life, religious, symbolism,
Form:
Canzone
Green Spanish Eyes - Part 1Ah Consuela! Invoking vast vistas for visions of green Spanish eyes,
I discern them again where she left me back then,
as we kissed when she parted, my friend.
Through those ruins I tread towards the footlights,...
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Categories:
coil, bird, dark, green, lost love, me, night,
Form:
Rhyme
Intriguing OdourMe cars down at the doctors ‘cause there’s trouble with the coil,
and somewhere I’m losing water so once or twice I’ve had it boil.
It needs another set of spark plugs and me mufflers had the...
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Categories:
coil, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Snakes Alive a Boa ConstrictorSnakes alive a boa constrictor
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned Poet
I spend my days in a coil curled.
Like a rope you could say.
Never get my full-length stretched so.
As there...
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Categories:
coil, adventure,
Form:
I do not know?
SorrowShe sits alone
She draws her knees up to her shoulders, hugging them tightly
She shivers in the icy wind
Her teeth chatter and the stream of tears from her eyes, sting her cheeks
As she...
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Categories:
coil, death, depression, loss, sadheart, pain, body, heart,
Form:
Narrative
EntrapmentI am dressed in Scarlet , upon my head a crown
parade myself like royalty in an embroidered gown
but my insides are hollow am emptiness within
my bones are dry and...
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Categories:
coil, bible, judgement, nature, philosophy, self, sin, truth,
Form:
Verse