Long Cut across Poems
Long Cut across Poems. Below are the most popular long Cut across by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Cut across poems by poem length and keyword.
Sunday Morning JoggersGoodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some...
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Categories:
cut across, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form:
Prose
I Know What I'M Doing"go on" I dared myself
So I did
Booked an extra ticket for my Mum
"She'll love it" said my brain
"What if people break bones, you crash on the way, you forget the tickets, someone wears the wrong...
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Categories:
cut across, anxiety,
Form:
Narrative
The Boy Who Writes Aloneneeds no introduction
nor permission
to be anything.
He does not request
to spread his arms wide
and reach the heavens.
His words are unmoored.
They flow and change, ...
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Categories:
cut across, introspection, journey, poetry, youth,
Form:
Free verse
On the Road To Recovery - An Echo PoemAn Echo Poem by Neethu Panicker and Brian Johnston
WHY DOES IT HURT?
Why does it hurt,
When you whisper “Good-bye Love?”
Why does it hurt,
When you don’t sigh “Oh Hi Love?”
Why does it hurt,
When you say...
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Categories:
cut across, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
Odyssey From Africa 8aCHAPTER 8 Two Paths
North they travelled through the jungle
Aiming to escape from forest
Seeking an itinerary
Near the coast in open country
So they climbed a wooded hilltop;
Han attained the top-most branches
Of a mighty towering ironwood
To survey the...
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Categories:
cut across, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature,
Form:
Narrative
The School of LifeAs you walk through the corridors of life, its highways and by-lanes, the
back-alleys and well-beaten trails, through lush jungles or the arid scorching wilderness you pickup tidbits or sometimes gems of wisdom at the...
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Categories:
cut across, life,
Form:
Haibun
The Siren That Never WentWas just another BAU day
at Duesseldorf Uni
Lads in the IT room
playing minesweeper and internet spades
A few emails here and there
RE: IT Support Needed
I can't access my files
Something's wrong with Citrix
George stroke his beard
Screw...
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Categories:
cut across, computer, internet, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
Dark Eyed TravellerStanding at the tavern door,eyes dark and brooding
Neath his floppy hat, stared into the crowded room,
A Raven flew from his shoulder settling in rafters high,
He smiled a sardonic smile and ordered a mug of ale.
All...
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Categories:
cut across, adventure, analogy, beach, drink, mystery, sea, wine,
Form:
Ballad
I Am Hiv - AidsI AM HIV/AIDS
Saint Luke predicted me long time ago,
While the Book of Revelation warned you about me.
I am raging like a wild fire,
I am growling like a lion,
I have...
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Categories:
cut across, fear, hope, sad, me, me, sun,
Form:
Narrative
Ghost ShipThey said she sails forever the seas off Cape Horn:
See her and wish to God you never was born.
Laugh if you wish but there’s countless bones
And hulls been sent to...
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Categories:
cut across, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
DeathPain shows no stain.
The only stain that is there,
Is one of his blood.
It all started a sad day in
July.
He saved my life.
Now, I'm nothing but a simple
Hunter. It's not animals I hunt,
but...
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Categories:
cut across, angst, husband, sad, me, me,
Form:
I do not know?
What a World, For Chinua AchebeWhat a World!
By Izunna Okafor
Tears roll down my cheeks
Beholding the palm tree I tapped
From his knowledge of blue ink
With a bow, lofting off a huge gap
What a World !
Our intellectuals have all died
And the...
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Categories:
cut across, death,
Form:
Elegy
The AcornWhat story should I tell?
This is the tale of how the lonely acorn fell
far from where the mighty oak had stood
cut by the hands of man, felled for its wood.
The mother-father tree lay...
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Categories:
cut across, environment, life,
Form:
Personification
The Legend of Screamin' Bill WilcoxScreamin’ Bill Wilcox was quite a man,
Carved from a block of stone
With a face of leather, deeply tanned
And a voice you could hear in Rome.
A cow hand he was, best with a rop
Could ride both...
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Categories:
cut across, adventure, death of a friend, funeral, hero,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Friendship: Just Like a Palm TreeFriendship: Just Like a Palm Tree
By Izunna Okafor
From the crusts of lonely loams
It gently roots inner and outer
And softly pullulates harder and taller
To register its purpose to mankind.
Like the trunk, the bond glues harder
To...
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Categories:
cut across, 8th grade, best friend, friendship love, poetry,
Form:
Epic
A Sojourn Through Times
Mind often makes a circuitous pilgrimage
Sliding down and going up the banisters of time
As I hear the grating sound of worn stairs behind
Memories come darting in and out of shadows
From childhood’s flamboyant days
Mind scuttles between...
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Categories:
cut across, cheer up, desire, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Change the World - Change It RightWhy oh why have we become so woke
To the point of companies going near broke,
All for the sake of garnering support
From vocal fringes, then quietly rushing to abort.
Is the effort worth the prize
Pandering to an...
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Categories:
cut across, christian, perspective, political, prejudice, rights, society, wisdom,
Form:
Quatrain
For the One I KnowFor the One I Know
In the ray of the rising sky
Will I raise my voice to the Most High
To glorify His Gracious name
The one that is never the same
With anything or bear by lords or...
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Categories:
cut across, faith, god, power, strength, voice, words, world,
Form:
Couplet
Reflections of a Summer DayHere I sit on a summer day among the pine trees along a mountain side.
Looking out across the valley below.
I see the colors of summer landscape spread across the valley.
In all shapes and sizes, like...
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Categories:
cut across, beautiful, inspiration, introspection, places, summer, sunshine,
Form:
Free verse
The Woman With the Whiskey Bottle As Her TombstoneLearning to distinguish between and having a compassion for-silence that protects pain and silence that protects injustice has been a difficult important lesson-Julie Buckner Armstrong
...
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Categories:
cut across, death, murder, riddle,
Form:
Narrative
AlooterSolidarity is forever
Solidarity is forever
Solidarity is forever
We shall always fight for our right
What a great chorus they always sing!
Yet in their hearts
Their belly they tend to save
Not for those they guise to help
If not,...
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Categories:
cut across, abuse, allegory, allusion, corruption, deep, evil, feelings,
Form:
Lyric
The Path Most TakenOn the gurgling remains of Winter
as she seeps back into the earth
on a path around a lake
flanked by the casualties of winter's breath
cattails...
brown and bent with broken heads
backs turned...
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Categories:
cut across, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Legend Between the LinesThe drum beats were heard from far
The music filled the air, everybody sang
In the household of kimunyi a son was born
Indication of a stronghold in the society
That he was the heir and supreme shareholder of...
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Categories:
cut across, adventure, africa, culture, dedication, leadership,
Form:
Free verse
Adventures In a Blue FiatI owned a FIAT,or in truth.did it own me?
It did break down with a remarkable, clock like
regularity.
My thin finances, this car did hungrily eat.
As I was sent from being adriver, to walk the street.
But...
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Categories:
cut across, adventure, car, heartbroken, money,
Form:
Rhyme
An Unsheathed DaggerThe tear cut across the page
It's cry pierced the silence
Then another
Bitterness in each hand, finger
Finally
Parts left of a veiled note, about me
contents opened for me, for me
Anger lacing the uneven edges
Betrayal had danced upon the...
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Categories:
cut across, friendship, loss, people, sad, words, girl,
Form:
Free verse