Long Come across Poems
Long Come across Poems. Below are the most popular long Come across by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Come across poems by poem length and keyword.
Answers Without Questions
Why do questions hope to end with answers
while answers seem to never end
without yet more questions?
As a case in point...
How are the Case Studies of economic and political history
different than Einstein's Thought Experiments?
Wait a...
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Categories:
come across, feelings, health, humor, integrity, language, relationship, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Wellful of Wails
'You've thrown me over the edge of the highest peaked cliff imaginable
As I spiral further down, my outer shell gets roughed up
by sticks and stones
until my body is disfigured beyond recognition
as if I'd been torn...
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Categories:
come across, friendship, love, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Uninviting Feeling
I'm not at all innocent...when you make
me hurt inside
I'm getting over you...but I'm not giving up
completely, though you are not present in
my life
It rips my high hopes into shreds of
worthlessness
I will...
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Categories:
come across, beautiful
Form:
Free verse
Things We Should Start Romanticizing
• rainfall - the blue summer sky making up her mind/you riding your bike from your university to your dorm/wind in your hair, you smile as it plants kisses on your cheek/there has been always...
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Categories:
come across, art, betrayal, death, deep, emotions, heartbreak, pain,
Form:
Free verse
April Fools For Bobby Lee
“Just when he thought he’d had all he could take,
April arrived like a careless mistake.”
From DRIVING DIXIE DOWN by Anonymous Brown
Smithstonian Folkways Recordings catalogue # 317-704-1106
When something is broken, it’s no longer of any...
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Categories:
come across, allegory, break up, history,
Form:
Blank verse
My Auntie Winter
My auntie winter's icy breath wacked my bare face hard, when I step out earlier on
She gave me the cold shoulder and iced me out with a frosty glare for no reason at all
it's...
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Categories:
come across, beautiful, beauty, blessing, environment, growth, nostalgia, weather,
Form:
I do not know?
An Interview With a Tree
As I walked through the forest, ...
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Categories:
come across, bird, family, friend, life, love, summer, weather,
Form:
Free verse
The Journey
light
surrounds me
green field, stretching
lasting forever
i run free
free of torment
free of guilt
free of judgement
the wind
seems to flow through me
I've never felt this before
im convinced it's a dream
but i can't wake up
i come across...
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Categories:
come across, dream, emotions, life, strength,
Form:
Free verse
I Implore You
I’m drenched in farewells…
I don’t know why
You’re on my mind tonight…
Forever,
I feel that my mind is giving in to
Grief’s gravity
I saw the sun,
Ascending from its resting haven,
Hoping that it will...
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Categories:
come across, appreciation, beauty, dedication, deep, encouraging, faith, hope,
Form:
Verse
Poetic Art Pieces I
Ever so often you come across a composition that leads one to take flight.
In the distance their are corridors that lead to places of resistance,
transformed we will glow such as these writings have taken you.
to...
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Categories:
come across, anxiety, art,
Form:
Free verse
A Lonely-Child Stranger Dancing Near The River
{"I want to be at arm's length of people because I have met you. You reflect on what I believe and disbelieve.
You introduce me to a sacred hollow shallow cage you call your childhood...
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Categories:
come across, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, child abuse, deep,
Form:
Free verse
When It Comes To Me
I often sit for long periods of time
hoping the perfect beginning will come to me.
To write a poem that starts with a pristine Capital
leaving readers with great expectations.
But after much torment, with not a fleck...
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Categories:
come across, adventure, celebration, change, identity, passion, poetry, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Like Falling Snowflakes
Dear Budding Poet . . .
My view on modern poetry is that one must read the poets of old, to grasp
the concept of poetic form, word use, tone, imagery. Then,...
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Categories:
come across, poetry, writing,
Form:
Prose
Breakfast At Tiffanys
I watched “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” last night - we’re going to be reading Truman Capote’s book after the break and I wanted to start thinking about it. The movie rewrites Truman Capote’s story, turning it...
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Categories:
come across, class, school, society, student, teen, women, write,
Form:
Free verse
The Proof Is In the Pudding 2
I crossed into Vienna, VIA courthouse road still trying to figure want it was all about
Then I see where courthouse road ends right at church street den
The road continue from court house road and...
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Categories:
come across, america, angel, betrayal, break up, conflict, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
The Stone Unturned
There are three little words on tiny stones strewn along the floor
of a never-ending stream which runs through a misty moor.
A marvelous moor of uncertainty where mysteriously all are led
to cross a flowing water all...
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Categories:
come across, love, metaphor, , extended metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
My Bi-Polar Disorder Part 2
I let this misery and dreariness grow because I was left without a single tulip-beauty trace
I didn't mean to take advantage of you...next time, I will a changed man
Spiraling down all day and night...
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Categories:
come across, change, deep, depression, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
The Other Side
To those people who spend most of their life
surrounded with worldliness its cares and strife
this piece is dedicated it is my duty to convey
without any effort not to I'd be left in dismay.
One should always...
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Categories:
come across, dedication, education, extended metaphor, home, journey, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Your Death Would Be My Own
{Your death would be my own
{"I barricaded my heart,
After your death, So that nobody could strip away and clutch at the light,
That was left over after you deliberately left me,
Shattered into the pieces nobody,
Could pick...
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Categories:
come across, absence, abuse, addiction, corruption, death, deep, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Dogs and Discourse
My metaphor came to me this morning , used his tail to smash my face thrice to tell me that it's 8:30 nd I can't avoid my class , to tell me it's 8:30 nd...
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Categories:
come across, dog, love,
Form:
Blank verse
21 Women
When the American flag waved bravely, for women it did not FURL.
However, many bold and determined women have changed the WORLD.
I am a proud bother of 8 sisters;
Two of whom are older and 6 are...
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Categories:
come across, women,
Form:
Ode
Doorway
As I stood there looking at the old wooden doorway,
Thinking how long it could’ve been locked,
Years concealed with overgrown weeds,
Unnoticeable out of sight and locked tight,
Somebody wanted this door keeping shut,
Intriguing and for what reason....
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Categories:
come across, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Sonrise
I used to never want children.
See,
I grew up in a home that housed tornadoes.
where yelling was the norm and the storms would cause chaos every single day.
My father,
Never stayed around.
My tears,
created oceans at my mother’s...
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Categories:
come across, abuse, age, growing up, growth, loneliness, parents,
Form:
Free verse
The Greatest of All
somber thoughts in disarray
broken moments of a jaded day
under siege of firing brigades
the bed you lay in is the bed you made
tattered talons from battles fought
a mind full of colorful forgetmenots
fragmented pieces of what...
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Categories:
come across, angel, blessing, deep, faith, hope, love, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
si tu t'appelles melancolie - oui
si tu t'appelles melancolie - oui
if your name is melancholy,
the scant tidbits I know of French.
perfect cold day to down
a cup of hot chocolate, java or joe
in tandem with an intelligent conversation
that easily doth flow
twould...
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Categories:
come across, adventure, angel, appreciation, creation, friendship, happiness, husband,
Form:
Rhyme