Long Draft Poems
Long Draft Poems. Below are the most popular long Draft by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Draft poems by poem length and keyword.
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
Read More
Categories:
draft, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
144 - Shedeur SandersLet’s talk about it.
The projected disrespected was selected! Yes selected, not by man, but by God.
144, yes, that’s the number it took for Shedeur Sanders to be drafted.
Let’s talk about these NFL owners from the...
Read More
Categories:
draft, america, betrayal, confidence, evil, football, god, race,
Form:
Narrative
The Alaskan Oil PipelineThe Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
Read More
Categories:
draft, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Happy Fourth of July, Or Happy Independence DayHappy Fourth Of July, Or Happy Independence Day
On this day we celebrate and commemorate the birth of our nation, The United States of America's Independence from Great Britain's monarchical hold and liberty's triumph
Congress voting in...
Read More
Categories:
draft, america, birthday, celebration, firework, food, freedom, fun,
Form:
List
Thomas JeffersonIt interests me to peer past the drafting
and rewriting shoulder
of Thomas Jefferson,
unhappy slave-owner,
and John Adams,
with domestic slave-owner nuisance issues,
and other principle writing minds
of original democratic declaration and constitution shaping times,
as they listened to their...
Read More
Categories:
draft, culture, happiness, health, humor, independence day, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Inxs of Poison From Iron Maiden Scorpion Mamma and Ac Dc Charged Aries PapaInxs of poison from iron maiden scorpion mamma and ac/dc charged aries papa
Although gainfully unemployed
(fate now finds me receiving
social security disability –
for approximately
the last baker's dozen years -
the yeast divine intercession...
Read More
Categories:
draft, 12th grade, abuse, anger, anxiety, atheist, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Pronoia Happiness FinalsBrezsny in quotes:
"Bestow a blessing on a person you've considered to be beneath you
or alien to you."
Donald, may your future communications involve both deeper listening
and comprehensively ecological learning
about our cooperative potential as individually evolving parents,
and...
Read More
Categories:
draft, blessing, earth, health, humanity, humor, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
I'Ve Been So Lucky In Life 1,2I’ve Been So Lucky in Life! (1&2)
(Only Raped 5 Times Metaphorically)
Poem’s Introduction
My poetry has always been about transparency. It’s about letting go of an effort to be liked by others, and allowing others to gravitate...
Read More
Categories:
draft, abuse, angst, faith, humor, love, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
Unforgettable Places - ActsI have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!
Tell me...
Read More
Categories:
draft, appreciation, blessing, family, life, love,
Form:
Quatrain
A Mom, Three Girls, Two Cigarettes, and a SparrowPart I.
Harvest time was winding down,
I was taking lunch in town,
After spending six long hours plowing stubble.
Washing up I met a man,
Guessed he was a harvest hand,
His combine crew, he said,...
Read More
Categories:
draft, faith, loss, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
I Wait With Bated Breath For C Cure T ClarenceI wait with bated breath for... C. Cure T. Clarence
The following crafted
approximately midway
into the administration
of forty fifth president,
whose crass, gutsy, lewd,
repulsive yawping finds
him squarely poised to
nab the nomination as
Republican front runner
come the...
Read More
Categories:
draft, america, anxiety, appreciation, character, confidence, fate, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"
“She fits the bill”,
they say it
insouciantly
visions of being
carried in the beak
of a bilious pelican
where it builds
its rudimentary nest,
it uses sticks and debris
no stones, yet,
from irreverence
thrown at it
no higher...
Read More
Categories:
draft, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Excerpt From Fake Encomium Given Years AgoExcerpt from “fake” encomium given years ago...
at Lake Wobegone High School (my alma mater),
and recently discovered ridiculous rough draft
amidst plethora of junk emails
while practice reading some lines
regarding Midsummer Night's Dream
upcoming performance.
Arch...
Read More
Categories:
draft, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, america, angel,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 37 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Polly: the Master Plan the Family HakimPolly's jaw dropped. "The baby?
Damian's son. Well we're is he?"
Molly laughed. She had it bad for
Damian and she was engaged
To James.
"He's in the room. Damian and
Dolly are on a date so he
Dropped him...
Read More
Categories:
draft, best friend, birth, home,
Form:
Alliteration
Road TripRoad Trip
The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few...
Read More
Categories:
draft, adventure, allegory, childhood, grandfather, meaningful, nostalgia, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Down a Piece and ThereThe country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few more...
Read More
Categories:
draft, allegory, beach, childhood, grandfather, nostalgia, remember, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Translation of Eric Mottram's Homage To Paul Eluard By T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s HOMAGE TO PAUL ELUARD by T. Wignesan
(Note: Here, I retain EM’s translations into English from Paul Eluard’s poems and his source language quotations from “this vital spirits…” onwards, for, according...
Read More
Categories:
draft, devotion, eulogy, french, relationship, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
for luck(a university-life vignette)
It’s a Friday night, Leong and I are at a small restaurant close to the dorm called “Ordinary.” We’re in a cozy, pleasantly dark, little red booth—waiting for Lisa—who’s running late. This is...
Read More
Categories:
draft, celebration, drink, humor, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
All the Worlds There AreJust watching raindrops slapping leaves
is better than anything requiring electricity
including fame and posterity. Monday
morning I walk over to the art museum
stand before Homer. I'm imagining
life in ancient Greece, the land largely
deforested to build a navy,...
Read More
Categories:
draft, art, change, god, life, old, rain, world,
Form:
Verse
1970 ReduxLAST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL
As I was finishing my senior year in high school
I knew I wanted out.
I wasn’t going to college. No desire or grades.
I was 18 after all, almost 19
Everyone asked, “what...
Read More
Categories:
draft, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
BurnBurn
by Michael R. Burch
for Trump
Sunbathe,
ozone baby,
till your parched skin cracks
in the white-hot flash
of radiation.
Incantation
from your pale parched lips
shall not avail;
you made this hell.
Now burn.
Keywords/Tags: burn, earth, environment, fire, future, nature, natural, planet, climate, pollution,...
Read More
Categories:
draft, earth, environment, fire, future, natural disasters, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Tribute Documentary Zimbabwes Forgotten ChildrenNew draft Zimbabwe’s
Tribute Documentary Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children
Mama will be left behind when I die
I’m too sick to survive
My education was put to an end
When papa had no more to spend
We walk over sewage water
And...
Read More
Categories:
draft, death, education, health, hope, leadership, poverty, tribute,
Form:
Narrative
Land Is a LoomLand Is A Loom
I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet.
The land itself spoke from mountains, torents, islet
From bird song and bear splashing fishers
From rutting moose and cougars sharp incisors.
The...
Read More
Categories:
draft, adventure, environment, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
Like Falling SnowflakesDear Budding Poet . . .
My view on modern poetry is that one must read the poets of old, to grasp
the concept of poetic form, word use, tone, imagery. Then,...
Read More
Categories:
draft, poetry, writing,
Form:
Prose
It Started With A Blank Canvas
Empty sheet a blank canvas
and a wall hanging a screen arras
listen to me—share your journey
why didn't you earn to draft a guernsey?
Igniting the flame
...
Read More
Categories:
draft, analogy, appreciation, beauty, character, dream, muse,
Form:
Free verse