Long Drapery Poems
Long Drapery Poems. Below are the most popular long Drapery by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Drapery poems by poem length and keyword.
King of Kings: 1-901 A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky;
The hellish slug of gas does creep along.
It casts an orb three hundred stories high
Over the Sun and ends his morning song.
The birds and trees now stand a...
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Categories:
drapery, metaphor, , western,
Form:
Epic
A Grand American TraditionVoting day at long last has arrived.
Scrambling through closet,
a cavernous space in accumulation.
In the deepest darkest corner,
purpose achieved,
garnering my three by five inch American flag,
glorious yet demure.
This my opportunity to come out of...
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Categories:
drapery, poetry, political,
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:
drapery, art, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Blue MoonTHE BLUE MOON
Shimmer does it not this inspirational ivory opal,
Lightly dinted with a thin sheen of aquatic blue,
Illuminations elliptical transparent veil, a drapery
Suspended by heavens orbiting web called gravity!
Shingles tacked in by star nails, fastened...
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Categories:
drapery, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagery, inspiration, visionary, voyage,
Form:
Free verse
Ocean Sky Book In ProgressFlying airships battling in the open sky,
the sailors trying to save their own lives,
and all the panoplies of war revealed in broad daylight
unto the human psyche.
The cosmos composed wholly of oceans with...
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Categories:
drapery, adventure, animals, life, loss, war, green,
Form:
Epic
Just a Purple Wall
I am a wall painted purple, oh, I remember that day well,
a girl of raven hair, standing on a ladder painting me;
I was laughing because her hair had streaks...
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Categories:
drapery, nostalgia,
Form:
Personification
As Days Go ByInspired by Opeth – The Drapery Falls and this entire year…
I sip on Super Mario Brothers hot cocoa cup
Filled with convictions’ drop
From streams of consciousness
Ready to skinny dip into a new plateau
No
Holds
Barred
Ferocity’s grip
Looking upon...
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Categories:
drapery, friendship, life,
Form:
Free verse
Viva Cataloniahis heraldic crest
a donger and yarbles rampant
upon a field of clover
it was a stone slab of course
donated by a few eggheads in exile
his best friends were his orgasms
shall we redefine the human condition
my...
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Categories:
drapery, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
I Stink of RegretThe stench crawls up the mossy drapery in a
house reeking with death. The sad part is
no one died here, just my soul. A mirror on
the wall is a remnant of the God forsaken...
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Categories:
drapery, analogy, hurt, sad, self,
Form:
Free verse
TravestationalThe nucleus of a pin cushion is akin to the internal mechanisms of a sausage. A big massive drama but don't tell Dalai Lamar and the turtle doves will sing and swing in the breeze....
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Categories:
drapery, best friend,
Form:
I do not know?
The Day I Swear I Saw An AngelPebbles plucked from the sole
of my foot
driven deep into wounds
cut from a path
a path leading me to nowhere
trying to escape troubles
quell worries
worries that haunt
shamelessly searching
for answers to life's questions
I come...
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Categories:
drapery, angel, love, sunset,
Form:
Free verse
Exile In Ptolemy's HouseSafe, at long last,
behind closed, locked doors and windows,
behind heavy, hanging, purple drapery:
plush, pellucid, subterranean refuge.
Far from the proverbial maddening crowd,
out of sight: a dimly lit room, bathed in
soft, golden reflections. In the centre...
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Categories:
drapery, philosophy, religion, symbolism,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Cosmic SevenWithout kabbalah, simply
and so...
...
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Categories:
drapery, allegory, allusion, creation, extended metaphor, literature, poetry,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Cemetery IiThe Cemetery
battered in a rat infested caged existence
blood soaked rat with visious hanging teeth on side dripping blood
enclosed in the memory of a torn uterus to let go of any inhabition
eyes with spots having holes...
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Categories:
drapery, art,
Form:
Free verse
Walls of Years
I am but four walls painted purple, I remember that day,
the girl of raven hair, standing on a ladder painting me.
I was laughing because her hair had streaks of purple,
and she was dappled all...
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Categories:
drapery, dance, girl, hair, life,
Form:
Personification
Summer Has Gone AwayWinter steals its unwanted self upon us and the sultry heat of forgotten summer is past,
Torrents of rain painful hail have battered away our fond warm memories of a summer day,
The pasture now cloying feted...
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Categories:
drapery, nature, rain, beauty, summer, beauty, day, rain,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Summer Has GoneWinter steals its unwanted self upon us and the sultry heat of forgotten summer is past,
Torrents of rain painful hail have battered away our fond warm memories of a summer day,
The pasture now cloying feted...
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Categories:
drapery, nature, rain, beauty, summer, beauty, day, rain,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The FountainEthereal hands craft silv’ry cradle,
To petal lips, elixir of life ladle,
The enchanted entrance, that garden clothed in snow,
How within chamber o’ life a soul doth grow,
The winter of life shall fall to eternal sleep.
Sacred fountain...
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Categories:
drapery, life, life, life,
Form:
Romanticism
Wood Sprites Merry Ancient RitualSweet-scented lupins , foxgloves , violas , giant lillies ,damasks ,
mosses and china roses rich in a variety of perfumes and colours
Circular herb beds, rare , exotic climbers on the Elizabethan wall.
Overhanging...
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Categories:
drapery, adventure, imagination, life, mystery, people, light, dark,
Form:
Verse
Church Lady CatChurch Lady Cat was a formidable, skinny, ugly wrinkly old crazy thing.
Never showed a smile, and certainly did not cheerfully hymn-sing.
We saw her at church, and knew she would come and get the money.
No man...
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Categories:
drapery, cat,
Form:
Rhyme
BLACK MONA LISABLACK MONA LISA
Art renaissance, a masterpiece did appear,
A captivating portrait, both bold and sincere.
Splintering ebony grace, a figure so rare,
The Black Mona Lisa, with brown eyes and flair.
Her visage, a canvas of shadows silent...
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Categories:
drapery, 1st grade, art,
Form:
Rhyme
They Read Aloud To Each OtherWe are in Lexington and it is 1847
Emilie laughs, and we smile,
and still we read aloud together.
Mr. Lincoln likes the Niles
Weekly Rigister--especially
and of course the poetry. Especially
"Thanatopsis"
He bracketed this:
But, Ah! What wish can prosper, or...
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Categories:
drapery, people,
Form:
I do not know?
The Diary of Lord Kellington (6)I waited in one of the cities dark and dangerous alleyways. The vile odors. The Gads
knows what forming puddles around my best leather boots. The ones with the shine to
blind...
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Categories:
drapery, death
Form:
Narrative
Africa AriseThe past has painted a dreary history
with emblems of bittersweet memories,
Benign soaring deeds in almost everything,
but generations to come will be a surprise.
When worlds far apart ceremoniously unite,
to leave the...
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Categories:
drapery, africa, blessing, destiny, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Celebrity-Celebrity
On that day my soul grew star struck
the astonished all-star abashing, such luck
And so I screamed, 'Is that a tree?'
I felt compelled to sniff the personalities
Eagerly, I looked for the fashionista
Engaging Ah, distinctly I was...
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Categories:
drapery, adventure, analogy, celebration, celebrity,
Form:
Rhyme