Long Dispatches Poems
Long Dispatches Poems. Below are the most popular long Dispatches by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Dispatches poems by poem length and keyword.
Tapora
Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed
the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills)
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
From out of the Valley of Mizpah
to...
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Categories:
dispatches, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and that's clear where he'd spent his life.
Downstairs had been quite...
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Categories:
dispatches, heartbreak,
Form:
Sonnet
The News Seller
Callum is an old-fashioned man on the verge of becoming history’s memory
Ancient even in that he holds only one job but that is for privation of another
Sort of a whiz kid at what he...
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Categories:
dispatches, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Massacre At William Henry, Part Iii
...Outside the French guns continued to screech,
a blast rocked them all, and opened a breach,
morale was fading, beginning to sag,
the next day the French sent out a truce flag.
Ned watched from afar, he could not...
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Categories:
dispatches, america, conflict, courage, history, native american, power,
Form:
Epic
War Horse
War Horse by Steven Cooke
Taken from Cloven fields,
Where skylark and Grouse Linger.
Into the bowels of a troopship,
No scent of Morning Dew, No Bird song
Only sweat and urine,
And the distant sounds of war.
No light,...
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Categories:
dispatches, wardeath, war, death, morning, war, , memorial,
Form:
I do not know?
The Selfish Knight and His Lady
The Selfish Knight and His Lady
Sixteen pieces for me
Allotted the same for you
But, it always begins with Me first
Unless the 'me' is you...
Whereupon, like Alice in her checkerboard world,
It's up to me to find our...
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Categories:
dispatches, romance,
Form:
Blank verse
There Is No Where Heavenly Angels Fear To Go
Oh! There is nowhere heavenly angels fear to go.
Sometimes they have descended into the fiery depts.
of hell fire's bottomless pit. Dispatched there on a
angelic angel rescue," calling upon angels 911."
Some of those rescued had...
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Categories:
dispatches, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Dry Dispatches
The Dry Dispatches
To the sullen cemetery in the sun we trudge,
No better place indeed to find memory’s heartbeat,
and a plate of forgiveness inside its eating green gardens,
as human bones hypnotize the dry dispatches.
No,...
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Categories:
dispatches, death,
Form:
Free verse
Tongue-Tied Dispatches
In the realm of self-interest, a curious soul,
Could not adhere stamps, sans wit owning a role.
His tongue, like a rover in arid terrain,
Lingered on whimsy, a scoffing refrain.
Precision eluded, in blindfolded dance,
Tongue...
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Categories:
dispatches, fun, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
'you Heard'
How can you draw when your thoughts are adrift?
Maybe it is at that time when ideas are ready to lead the pencil across its conduit
Thoughts are so free; they get to fly with no red...
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Categories:
dispatches, allegory, faith, life, timetime,
Form:
Free verse
The Man Without, a Child Within
I want to cry sometimes
Because the world has grown cold
No amount of sunshine dispatches the growth of shade
The tears of mine eyes won’t even touch the pain.
Outside mouths gift expensive lies
Selling young when so...
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Categories:
dispatches, absence, age, anger, angst, anxiety, betrayal, character,
Form:
Bio
Angel Sightings
Anticipation of heaven gives me satisfaction to wait.
Night or day, I have no personal interest in seeing an Angel.
God may choose and I will obey; but I would rather wait.
Encounters with an angel in Scripture...
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Categories:
dispatches, angel,
Form:
Acrostic
An Army Officer In Falkland
Army officer.
His name was Jones, was not Welsh
perhaps his grandfather was
He spoke a peculiar upper-class English
sounded like a monologue directed
at people with low intelligence.
Jones was depressed his career had stalled
usually, a lieutenant was in...
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Categories:
dispatches, anger, death, heart,
Form:
Sonnet
A Spoonful of Sugar
"A Spoonful of Sugar"
Upon waking
the green hangover
hangs low waiting
for the weeding
the alarm sounds
like thunder
the cats on the prowl
they’re hungry
the words
spill out of my mouth
like a spoonful of sugar
stirred into a deep cup...
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Categories:
dispatches, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Henry Iv: Prerogative and Piety
Enterprising Henry IV declares suzerainty over state
Xenophobic princes seek the royal prerogative to abate
Cautious king uses diplomacy, threats his minions to subjugate
Old rivals in Saxony Henry's consolidation with tyranny equate
Morose princes in the hinterland seek...
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Categories:
dispatches, history, peoplespiritual,
Form:
Sonnet
The Aftermath
Benevolent touch,
Beautiful dispatch,
Blossoming bosoms,
Provoking
contortions,
A drink here another
There……
Long; laughs, chats
Short talks ,
moments
Big names, faces,
Titles, cars.
Small groups, braces
More and more
Drinks…
Touches…
...
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Categories:
dispatches, romance
Form:
ABC
Still To Fluid Life
Drapes surround the sturdy length of vase
With width reflecting devious inside,
Distorted do arrangements, super stars
Become the surging curvatures each side.
Tint from shadows smooth botanic length,
Like Chinese lanterns mimicking the light,
Cerise like tissue papers,...
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Categories:
dispatches, time, visionary,
Form:
Verse
Writing a Poem
A single stroke
dispatches emptiness,
in one ambitious line
gives backbone to
my limp attention.
Rigid fingers tighten
on the brush.
The bristles slash again
and incorruptible reality
is neatly tailored
to my artifice....
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Categories:
dispatches, muse, poems, poetry, writing,
Form:
Blank verse
My Hero
Here is a man you all should know
A fighter a poet,a war hero
He's fought extreme battles
And never gave in
Whatever the danger, whatever the pain
He gave it his all, fought again and again
He dealt with depression,...
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Categories:
dispatches, love, courage, hero,
Form:
Lyric
The Sound of Meaning
The sound of Meaning
Wailing emotions
Whimpers with grief
At Logic’s intentions
The sound of Purpose
Whistling to dance
Spits in the face
Of theorized Chance
The sound of Judgment
Thunders with treason
Struggles to balance
Logic and Reason
The sound of Fate
Laughs and cries
Gets to decide
Truth...
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Categories:
dispatches, philosophysound, sound,
Form:
Rhyme
The World is Bleeding
God dispatches two angels
for each missile sent in war
to recover the souls of those perished
He then lets nature clean up the blood
with insects and bacteria
so the war-torn scenario is blessed
It’s too common a sight
men, women...
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Categories:
dispatches, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Closing the War Room
Dear wife when I leave my red-light-lit
war room behind me
can you tidy up my love.
Sorry about the mess,
I was a befuddled general,
I led far too many
into my own dark fears.
Can you put way my cluttered
battle...
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Categories:
dispatches, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
An Unknown Post
The space between us could be infinity,
vast and timeless,
a black void, a burned out star.
Oceans seethe,
spawning storms within their depths,
casting torturous waves upon a thousand shores
pulverizing land with their demonic power,
a dark, watery chasm to...
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Categories:
dispatches, absence, longing, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
A Dawn Duet
Her breathing moves a strand of golden hair
that lays upon her pillow, next to mine,
yet in this evening birdsongs on the air
awaken me to listen and recline.
This errant bird, whose song dispatches sleep,
is...
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Categories:
dispatches, life, love, nature, wife, song, song,
Form:
Sonnet
The Dispatcher
Foggy mists slither through the highlands
As downdrafts force them to the riverbanks
To the naked eye ethereal warm icicles
Among tow’ring long-needle pines piercing sky
From the other side near the rustic cabin
The yawning night watchman waits the...
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Categories:
dispatches, nature, night, work,
Form:
Free verse