Long Deck Poems
Long Deck Poems. Below are the most popular long Deck by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Deck poems by poem length and keyword.
The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
deck, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
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Categories:
deck, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
deck, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
Zen Death Haiku IiToday, catching sight of the mallards
crying over Lake Iware:
Must I too vanish into the clouds?
—Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch
This world—
to what may we compare it?
To autumn fields
lying darkening at dusk
illuminated by...
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Categories:
deck, death, imagery, life, nature, symbolism, visionary, world,
Form:
Haiku
Chapter 119 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Damali Desharah DJ: Desharah's and Sedanah's New DigsDesharah woke early morning 8 am.
She wanted to check out her new
House. But she waited for Sedanah
To come out of her dreams.
"WAKE UP SEDA." They roomed
Together. That's what her mother
Wanted....
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Categories:
deck, absence, confidence, voyage,
Form:
Alliteration
Chaucer Translation: Merciless BeautyMerciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...
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Categories:
deck, beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 2
"The Swoon Hypothesis" - Part 2
Arimathea stands next to you and I on the deck, soon we are back in Nazareth, you press into my palm,
“A very rare Dubunni coin” you say - on...
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Categories:
deck, imagery, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
Lifeboat the SinkingAs to the this and the that and the how and the why,
I pass no judgement on the tale at hand.
And leave it to scribes to much later decide
...
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Categories:
deck, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
You Are Precious - the Sonnet Style~ You Are Precious ~
( Sonnet )
~O~
In His eyes you are always precious you know.
God made you unique in every way, you see.
His love for us in every thing...
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Categories:
deck, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.
But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always has a Fact at hand;
with him, who needs...
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Categories:
deck, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
On Fam'Ly Traditions - Final ThirdOn Fam'ly Traditions - 3rd third -
With 2 dinky bedrooms...and only 3 beds...the one time I'd been here I'd slept on a cot! And tossin' a coin for the one with 2 beds...the-odd-man the...
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Categories:
deck, family, together,
Form:
Narrative
Watch That Gas Gauge - 1st HalfThis is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way I could manage to make it...
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Categories:
deck, humor,
Form:
Narrative
MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART IMY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980
The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane, won't replace that particular memory of Mr. Rick Nelson's hearty...
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Categories:
deck, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Autumn AtonementFace to the sky,
Breath of the Caribbean
Woven with earthy Autumn,
Saturates the alveoli of my lungs,
Pouring raw impulses into the neurons of
My pleasure centers, so triggering a myriad of
Memories ... the demurring requiem to summer tide...
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Categories:
deck, autumn, heartbreak, metaphor, october, solitude, soulmate, true
Form:
Free verse
On Fam'Ly Traditions - 2nd ThirdOn Fam’ly Traditions - 2nd third -
“Might as well grab us some food an' some beer...some ice...and some bundles o' wood, an' prob'ly some charcoal....there ain't nothin' better than walleye from right off a...
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Categories:
deck, family, together,
Form:
Narrative
Epilogueif you have taken the time to browse through this eclectic collection of self-indulgent foolishness, I hope you’ve been entertained by the quirkiness of its content, or at the very least, annoyed by the pervasiveness...
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Categories:
deck, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 1SHE was my wife, once ...
long ago, so very long ago ...
we met on the showboat, up-river,
almost fifty years back now ...
I was a young officer for the Confederacy,
working for the Yanks after The Turn,
supplying...
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Categories:
deck, history, sad love, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Free verse
MonofilamaniaIt is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.
It sharks,
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy inches
in and out:
casting,
winding in and playing out,
hardly fishing, rarely catching
anything
from...
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Categories:
deck, allegory, passion, woman, memory, sea, fish, lust,
Form:
Free verse
Traditional Solitaire potential combinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win today
February 20th, 2024
(eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago
since June 13th, 2021)
original crafting date of following poem,
when yours truly
single handedly trumped computer,
for umpteenth time,
which saw...
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Categories:
deck, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Roses Are Red Collab-26These Limericks were written by many different PS poets who are all remaining anonymous. If you would like to add one of your own and remain anonymous send it to my soup mail. Enjoy!
Roses...
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Categories:
deck, anti bullying,
Form:
Limerick
Henry Hustle's Dead -- On Really Obnoxious Used Car Dealers“Good morning, folks,” the guy began…“my name’s Henry Hustle. Got yourselves a real nice car there. Love them fancy wheels!
Today I’m gonna prove to you why so darn many people come to us...
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Categories:
deck, car,
Form:
Narrative
Rum n Raisin 14 Pt 2 - The Flight Before Christmas Pt 2Soon, the sun was lying low, a bright full moon was now on show
Santa switched on Walnut’s glow… “Ho Ho Ho and away we go.”
Walnut played along and led the team of reindeer and their...
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Categories:
deck, cat, christmas, dog,
Form:
Narrative
Traditional Solitaire Potential CombinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (yahoo)
jimmied today August 15th, 2022 single handedly
just before the crack of dawn
with both hands tied behind my back,
and a blindfold worn over my eyes.
While in the midst of...
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Categories:
deck, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, birth, computer,
Form:
Free verse
Traditional Solitaire Potential CombinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (today June 13th, 2021) single handedly
While in the midst of playing solitaire
(with losing outcome foreordained
after a couple moves), I became gripped
with combinations predicated on thirteen...
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Categories:
deck, adventure, america, fun, heart, history, imagination, literature,
Form:
Free verse
At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2PART 1: THE MEETING
Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met...
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Categories:
deck, fantasy,
Form:
Ballad