Long Digress Poems
Long Digress Poems. Below are the most popular long Digress by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Digress poems by poem length and keyword.
Engaging the Family LaundryPerhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.
That disclaimer said,
I have two incomplete conversations
in mind and heart
and what I...
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Categories:
digress, culture, destiny, games, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Sick Art
"Sick Art"
I walk the streets
still and quiet
I do not lie
I do not betray
what the heart belies
pickled kidneys
I am a ghost
of my former self
ears lent to hear
the sweet music
of the sounds so fraught
caught up...
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Categories:
digress, dark, horror, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
My Eyes the Painting Photograph In the Sky- -"I am a painter and my eyes are the paint brushes I had if I look up with my open eye I see the Horizon I see the clouds to be continued
Oh shutter as I...
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Categories:
digress, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Heart
"Heart"
Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret
through the green
veined blues
protean bit by bit
the flesh disappears
prematurely 6ft under
mulch for rebirth
the subcontinent
conscientious conscience
inward reaching
the divine central tableau...
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Categories:
digress, muse,
Form:
Free verse
ApologyYou spoke of Love in the kingdom to come
Where the works of hatred would be undone
you bid your disciples to follow whats true
to demonstrate its power in the actions they do
But I have seen...
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Categories:
digress, abuse, betrayal, childhood, evil, love hurts, truth,
Form:
Verse
Burning Paper HousesSlowly creeping out of winter
Would it ever be the same
If I showed up at your door
Out of breath, out of line
With a million excuses behind my manic behavior?
A video diary full...
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Categories:
digress, betrayal, extended metaphor, imagery, loss, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Herald
Newsflash:
"Stranger times have never been
As humanity battles forces as yet unseen..
Not just those things beyond our eyes
But hidden troubles that wrestle for our lives.."
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Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Glory to the New Born King
So...
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Categories:
digress, blessing, boxing day , celebration, christian, christmas, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
You Can'T Quite the Soup-"ls this explicit can it be more than just a thought a true story within each letter place. Together in a line in a single line, there's Glory post haste. I just want to tell...
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Categories:
digress, adventure, analogy, encouraging, words,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 5Mitchell: Good sirs, my word was fair. No discrepancy stains the pages of my ledger. The fifth tier is a sub-basement beneath the cellar floor of the temple’s vestibule. Any woman who is not tagged...
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Categories:
digress, allegory, society,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Black Pearl
"Black Pearl"
I was told,
I was like a grain of sand
that found its way in my
mother’s ocean to a strange
home, where there within,
I found an open place,
self contained and
safe for a...
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Categories:
digress, child, dark, light, love, mother, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The Fire, the FloodYou’re the headless horseman running on half a heart
You shouldn’t know where to go but you just do
And you’d lose your head if it wasn’t attached to you
Lost puzzle pieces, collecting dust,...
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Categories:
digress, anger, betrayal, hate, how i feel, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Barbarossa IIIA new command would counter their attack
to stay the storm that harkens at your door.
‘Twould be a feat that stunned the iron pack
for nothing dared defy the wolves before.
And though his pack could see...
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Categories:
digress, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
A Journey To Nowhere"......unknown destination
don't know if I'm livin or dying
a journey to nowhere
Never cut never mowed
And as I wander
As I often wonder
How did I arrive
Undertaking a journey
Unknown destination
Wholly unexpected place
How did I get here
Where am I heaven
My...
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Categories:
digress, 6th grade, adventure, analogy, journey, meaningful,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Life is a Song
*Written using 25 Beatles hit song titles. Revised a bit for 2024
It's been a hard day's night, my love. Tonight, I want to hold your hand and keep you close. Beloved one please, love me,...
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Categories:
digress, appreciation, music, romantic love,
Form:
Narrative
Translate From SpeechLet's dwell a tiny bit on that skill most hanker after,
of mastering a language that especially enthrals,
infused with magic rhythm so fervent,
pulsing music lilt, anthem-rich samba,
think for one ecstatic heady moment,
if...
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Categories:
digress, age, anxiety, art, courage, language, literature, spoken
Form:
Free verse
The Night Grandma Broke WindNow legends tell in History
of events that shook the world.
But nothing compares to the show we had
that caused my toes to curl.
The story grows each...
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Categories:
digress, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Beware the Ides of March 2022 Part IiTen: A New Global Health Scare, 2003
After accumulating reports
of a mysterious respiratory disease
afflicting patients and healthcare workers
in China, Vietnam, Hong Kong,
Singapore and Canada,
the World Health Organization
issues a heightened global...
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Categories:
digress, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, anniversary, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Brine of the Anxious MarinatorCome sit and I will serenade
A sad, colossal flub,
A tale about a marinade.
(Well, truthfully a rub)
It is a long and sordid tale;
Not sure where to begin.
My sensibilities assailed,
Yet I must jump on in.
The task at...
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Categories:
digress, anxiety, silly,
Form:
Ballad
My Mentor Is My FriendMy Mentor is My Friend
There was a time not long ago
Where I felt I had no friend
I thought if I stopped moving
In the trash can I might end
I felt so easily over looked
Disrespected, even mocked.
But...
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Categories:
digress, appreciation, best friend, education, encouraging, feelings, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
The Moment Within the MoodThe aesthetic of the autocratic effigy of directing the positivity of proclivity in the nature, the stir of it , that grit in your teeth this life gives , that digestive hindsight. Almost lost...
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Categories:
digress, courage, emotions, humanity, imagery, integrity, passion, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
FlatnessFlatness
Consider the possibility of becoming
a two-dimensional surface
with no thickness whatsoever.
No, face-down on the floor won’t get it;
at best your nose will be in the way.
You’ve got to get lower, closer,...
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Categories:
digress, art, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Living With WolvesNature versus nurture only men would but these at odds ...
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Categories:
digress, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal, child abuse, children,
Form:
Free verse
Looking BackSearching for mistakes in rich history, I came across the joy I used to feel and the looks that we both used to steal.
What the hell has happened to you anyway, where is the kindness...
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Categories:
digress, adventure, life, lost love, love, wifelife, me,
Form:
Rhyme
For I ExistFor I exist as a vapor only to appear for a little why then I am no more
as a heart explodes with the lotion of laughter to unfold I digress
tapestry on the wall has divisions...
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Categories:
digress, anxiety, art,
Form:
Free verse
An Existential Curiosity*Image of January 14, 2023, by WinCal.
An Existential Curiosity
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Ambitious existent presence to yield,
Hostage that's well endured of a pre-life,
Handcuffed fallible praying to be healed,
Labyrinth attributes drudgery strife.
Redeeming shrilling lob gratis to air,
Longings bounded dreamt outpours...
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Categories:
digress, brother, dad, family, memory, missing you, son,
Form:
Rhyme