Long Compact Poems
Long Compact Poems. Below are the most popular long Compact by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Compact poems by poem length and keyword.
SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
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Categories:
compact, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems IiCompleting the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch
Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...
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Categories:
compact, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupingsyou were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you
'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey
there's not really two
the child in the mirror
is only
an image
of...
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Categories:
compact, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter, encouraging, faith, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice AdventureContinued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure
When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the day might bring
Their guns were charged and ready and...
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Categories:
compact, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
The Whips of History - 1This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education,
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simple fright,
I use jasmine...
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Categories:
compact, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Raid Versus WoeRaid versus woe
Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.
Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...
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Categories:
compact, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Rhyme
Neigh say being corralled and cult shodNeigh say being corralled & cult shod
"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I
bring death to tyrants.”
Above the fray of twittering,
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified,
yet vilified...
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Categories:
compact, 12th grade, age, allusion, america, fate, history,
Form:
Free verse
Choices and VoicesChoices my dear one,
So many choices,
So few voices,
Some near,
Some far,
Some to fear.
A path.
Clear and chosen.
The erasure of a closing.
The logos of math.
The trajectory of wrath.
The conciliatory legislation blindly ruling the cosmos of...
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Categories:
compact, courage, inspirational, life, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
KismatOver yonder pastoral realms, with heaving mounds of green
Birds of variegated colors shine, where.streamlets gleam with opal sheen.
In circles round, fleetfooted Zephyr sweeps the laurelled ground
With footfalls that loom, a sweet scented voluptuous sound
Which gently strike...
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Categories:
compact, beautiful, encouraging,
Form:
Verse
GraveyardAll on a sudden getting awake in the morning, I got stunned seeing, the whole earth had become a great graveyard. Each house was, as it were, a grave. In that grave, all were whispering...
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Categories:
compact, allegory,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Hyperbolic Quasi Autobiographical PrevaricationHyperbolic quasi autobiographical prevarication...
caricature sketch of person best known to yours truly
What began as an honest
to goodness attempt
to craft personal truthful profile
evolved into a fictional poem
manifested into the following.
Despite the onslaught of paparazzi,
I...
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Categories:
compact, adventure, appreciation, best friend, celebration, character, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
The Pepperman and the Ancient World of Wisdom Part IiiI LIFTED MY HANDS ABOVE MY HEAD.
LOOKED INTO THE HEAVENS
AND THANKED MY CREATOR.
AS I WAS LOOKING INTO THE HEAVENS.
I NOTICED SOMETHING,
DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT.
I REALLY HAD TO THINK ABOUT THIS.
I LAID DOWN ON THE ROAD...
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Categories:
compact, imagery, perspective, philosophy, spiritual, universe, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Amelie Beth Harris McgeehanAmélie Beth Harris -McGeehan
Acknowledgment of birthday gal,
whose invaluable priceless worth
exceeds more'n a bajillion dollars.
First born of Boyce and Harriet
(both long since deceased,
albeit cremated whereby their ashes
- cremains scattered to the four winds)
in Paterson,...
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Categories:
compact, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation, brother, december, sister,
Form:
Free verse
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised April 19th, 2023Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised April 19th, 2023
IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and cathartic
warming me body electric
courtesy an outsize
warm brimful...
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Categories:
compact, absence, adventure, april, farewell, fate, heartbroken, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
American Thanksgiving, 1621American Thanksgiving (1621)
Passengers in England boarded the Mayflower
To sail across the Atlantic to the New World,
And escape religious persecution for their faith
In worshiping God, which they believed to be righteous,
With separation of God and King,...
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Categories:
compact, america, autumn, culture, history, holiday, november, thanksgiving
Form:
Verse
The Snail Will Get To Easter Just As SoonFaulkner's comment, I imagine him
tossing it off like Yogi Berra between games
of a doubleheader. The hero, the expert, the virtuoso
has no real control, is going to feel
unmitigated, unsparing forces, a mighty sun
swallowed by a black...
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Categories:
compact, community, death, easter, games, god, war,
Form:
Verse
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024...
(Any resemblance between the following humorous account and real life circumstance tis purely coincidental).
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager...
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Categories:
compact, absence, adventure, confusion, humorous, march, missing,
Form:
Rhyme
Bioware Pinning Fantastic Expectation In SwtorSWTOR replicated regarding Warcraft?
Superstar Battles followers have got plenty of assure following your newest creation from your BioWare MMOG, SWTOR. Nonetheless, in the event you give to be able to Cowen & Business expert Doug...
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Categories:
compact, computer-internet, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Barnstorming Heart49 years past; a puppy was bought, picked up out of his pen on a pet shop floor;
he had honey brown eyes & an inquisitive way. He grew to be so loyal and true, how...
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Categories:
compact, adventure, memory, pets,
Form:
Rhyme
Who's Got TroubleI’ve never put a candidate’s bumper sticker on my car before—
why not take sides—what are you waiting for?
Death puts a stop to daily low intensity warfare but in the meantime—
...
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Categories:
compact, america, art, city, dog, science, war, water,
Form:
Verse
I Still Believe In You, a Letter To AmericaI still believe in you.
No, I'm not saying that I always believe in the people that make up America. ...
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Categories:
compact, america,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised March 10th, 2022Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2022...
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager in Nigg
(historic county of Ross-shire,
historic region of Ross
and Cromarty, northeast
coast of Scotland).
Somehow postiche...
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Categories:
compact, absence, america, appreciation, beauty, character, england, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
Shogun Collab Bill's Side 9 Richard Pickett SeriesWhen the bus first got there, the Medic was tending to Brick and it took
all of five minutes for that to turn around. Brick was tending to the nurse.
No surprise, Bill thought...
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Categories:
compact, adventurecar, work, car, work,
Form:
Narrative
This Is MeHabitants of the wilderness;
Identify their beauty and acknowledge it-
They wear neither clothes nor makeup.
Yet,they still appreciate their differences;
Each of them in their innocent making.
I am a resident of the human kingdom,
I am a descendant of...
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Categories:
compact, africa, culture, fashion,
Form:
Free verse
To Richard Dawkins and His Imp***Richard Dawkins is a leading scientific-atheist who claims
that the universe was created from 'nothing'; he also snubs
belief in God and is an activist against spirituality and religion.
This man is funded and hired by the NWO...
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Categories:
compact, creation, god, science, science fiction, truth, ,
Form:
Free verse