Long Colons Poems
Long Colons Poems. Below are the most popular long Colons by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Colons poems by poem length and keyword.
Haiti, Haiti: the Decisive Battle of Vertieres
Haiti, Haiti, Haiti, the Land of Martyrs
Haiti, Haiti, the Land of Great Slaves
Haiti, Haiti, the Land of Ancient Braves
For many, the betrayed Land that matters.
Haiti, Haiti, the volcanic land of Fire
Haiti, Haiti, the land of...
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Categories:
colons, africa, black african american, courage, death, race,
Form:
Free verse
Rambling Poetry
Poetry is tangerine and other potent or poisonous colors.
It is the breath you feel at the nape of your neck and
the strong caress of flesh on flesh, defying death.
It is most certainly Spring with petal...
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Categories:
colons, poetry, writing,
Form:
Prose
A Reflective Ploy
A Reflective Ploy...
it is a reflective ploy;
on the part of me,
when proofreading
all this work of mine;
and do I really care?
that a full stop.
don’t!
or that commas;
are often too many
or misplaced.
now semi-colons
are useful dudes
to slam!
two slightly related...
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Categories:
colons, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Eileen's Language
I hate colons,
Semi-colons,
Commas,
All the dots,
The street’s dashed and bold lines
The formal and informal
Business and love letters,
And what worsens my stomach pain,
The civilized patterns,
Motifs,
And jokes and...
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Categories:
colons, art, lost love, love, passion, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Romanticism
What Punctuation Marks
What Punctuation Marks
————————————————————————
(Dedicated to our Pens)
Commencing with colons saying,
“Look at what follows me”:
Commas go with the need to breathe,
Adding, or between, as...
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Categories:
colons, language, poems, teacher, words, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The boxer brownie bandit
Who pooped my pants?
I ask in vain ...
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Categories:
colons, funny, simple,
Form:
Rhyme
There Is a Storm Brewing
There is a storm brewing and it is in my head,
Words are swirling in a mighty roaring wind;
Like colourful leaves tumbling and twirling,
And then it is raining adjectives and nouns;
The dark clouds are sailing across...
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Categories:
colons, dream, writing,
Form:
Verse
How a Perfunctory Poet Punctuates a Piece
A period here. a question mark there?
A handful of commas,,,tossed in the air
To fall all willy-nilly but he doesn't care.
Then he closes his eyes so he never sees,
And does it again with apostrophe's.
Next colons: and...
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Categories:
colons, humor, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
T H E Obamas and the P a P a S
THE OBAMAS AND THE PAPAS
In this case I ain’t no liar
I know of whence I speak
Allow your children to walk into a fire
And all of you will be left spent and weak
Little Johnnie’s girlfriend had...
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Categories:
colons, angst, drug,
Form:
Quatrain
Repeat Offender (A Gift For Ms. Guzzi)
I have a box with forgotten words
And punctuation seldom used
In this box are synonyms
And grammar I’ve abused
There are commas there and colons too
Apostrophes spilling out the top
But the one thing there that I’ve got most
Are...
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Categories:
colons, on writing and wordspoems,
Form:
Rhyme
Nightmare
By Parizo Van Thulare
You have spooked my eyes
you shocked my nerves
Wrestling my semi colons
Showing no mercy to these protons
Why is this creature obsessed with night ?
Why is he creeping minds...
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Categories:
colons, anger,
Form:
Light Verse
Welcome To the Machine: Part 4
Error Code >
Laid down her arms
relinquished the chair
The challenger had arrived
flashed up onscreen
Repeating the action
She examined its power
Efforts to no avail
It returned to the scene
Our hero was facing
A technical hitch
That unforgiving popup
With the evil...
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Categories:
colons, computer, confusion, funny, stress, technology,
Form:
Light Verse
Special Characters
Don’t use special characters!
In writing I was told,
Next to the title of my poem.
(The letters black and bold.)
“Poems Don’t Have to Rhyme,” is what
I chose to name my piece,
But with this title, what I wrote
The...
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Categories:
colons, how i feel, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Punkchewayshun and Spelling
Such a grammar fiend, is this thing called punctuation.
A huge plethora of mind numbing aggravation.
Commas, periods and parenthesis too;
colons and semicolons; what's a writer to do?
In spelling, I used to make only straight A's.
Now I...
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Categories:
colons, nonsense, teacher,
Form:
Couplet