Long Enlist Poems

Long Enlist Poems. Below are the most popular long Enlist by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Enlist poems by poem length and keyword.


Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa

“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”

Spurred by mother dearest 
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.

Back in the day 
quaint...

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Categories: enlist, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form: Rhyme


Sonnets X-Xvi

Sonnets X-XVI


Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...

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Categories: enlist, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form: Sonnet
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Quest of the Heart: Chapter Two

Brave Shadow Mane


Falling free at a tremendous velocity
Cursing my decision for acting in haste
Through clouds and frozen rain I could not see the ground
Losing consciousness, in my mouth blood I could taste

Now this was indeed...

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Categories: enlist, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme

Defecation accidentally clogged

Defecation accidentally clogged...

for the umpteenth time 
during spate to sit scrawny buttucks 
on porcelain throne id est 
videre licet toilet bowl...
with toxic water brew threatening
to overflow onto the floor,
and hence found yours truly (me)
immersing himself...

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Categories: enlist, adventure, analogy, angel, blessing, december, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
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MY JAN 6TH NEIGHBORS MORE HOME INVASIONS

THIS IS QUITE INTRIGUING TO SAY THE LEAST MY JAN 6TH NEIGHBORS ARE FIXATED ON BREAKING IN MY HOME FIR SPORT NOW USUALLY RIPPING MEDICAL RECORDS OR JUST TAMPERING WITH MY COMFORT SUPPORT POODLES CUTTING...

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Categories: enlist, allah,
Form: Lento


August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events

The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a freaky Friday the thirteenth)...

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Categories: enlist, abuse, adventure, anger, angst, animal, anniversary, august,
Form: Free verse
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Chapter 38 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: the Master Plan Ii

One year Passed Damian Junior 
Was 15 months old. Damian 
Graduated from West Virginia 
University institute of Technology 
With honors and an
Associate of Applied Science 
Degree. His whole family 
Attended the graduation and
Congratulated him with...

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Categories: enlist, allusion, appreciation, business, emotions, father son, graduate,
Form: Alliteration

A civil war ferociously raged

A civil war ferociously raged...

within complex edifice...
derelict hulking corpse delineated courtesy
seared, singed, smoldered smithereens
formerly robust warrior
slain during prime of his life
heavenly corporeal outstanding entity
subjected to fateful foragers
courtesy camping buzzfeeding carrion -
fancy feast for famished
uber twittering,...

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Categories: enlist, age, america, angst, anxiety, april, grave, slavery,
Form: Free verse
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Blarney Stone Collab-MORE ADDITIONS

If anyone would like to have some community fun, 
please send me a limerick(s) in a comment or soup mail.  



The famous Blarney Stone, some can't resist
When in Ireland, it's on tourist's checklist
But do...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enlist, humor,
Form: Limerick
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The Things Never Said

The Things Never Said
The terror…
The only things ever said about my daddy’s WWII service were that he’d been to New Guinea where he’d ridden on a truck full of soldiers by a river without a...

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Categories: enlist, christian, fear, may, political, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
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An Old Fashioned Blackberry

weird as it sounds when my thoughts wield their all mighty hold

cast inflictions twist meaning and imply the truth of whats told


I resorted to reason which seems to be a contradiction of terms

of engagement with...

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Categories: enlist, appreciation,
Form: Couplet

Silent Majority

Secrets are anxiously being kept with a behavioral struggle, as one of the special few enters the room; obviously preoccupied with his thoughts. Bottom teeth are nipping his upper lip tucked tight, rope acting as...

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Categories: enlist, betrayal, fear, metaphor, power, silence, society, integrity,
Form: Prose Poetry
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The Last Good Days of Innocence

We were a generation free of super-technology.
Yes, we had our records and tv
and the airlines for speedy travel. And yes, 
there had been wars throughout history,
but we had never lived ourselves through wars’ horrors.
WWI, WWII,...

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Categories: enlist, people,
Form: Free verse

War Horse

Brumby.

A strong gale cuts its path across the snow laden mountain tops,
light and tough the timor, thoroughbred mix, leads his mob at a trot.
A day spend grazing the valley below they now ascend the range...

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Categories: enlist, horse, world war i,
Form: Ballad
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Jan and the Sheriff - Collaboration

The new sheriff of Poetry Soup
 Rode into town on a horse named Snoop
 Jan was on his wanted list
 And the gang she did enlist
 In writing lim'ricks about poop
   He found...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enlist, fun, poetry,
Form: Limerick

The Fans view Bless you Jaddu

In Test cricket…we talk quite a bit about the assumption to be a hit…need gumption and grit…another platitude about the right attitude at any latitude…selectors gratitude for vigour..rigour..fortitude..with a cheeky sneaky touch of turpitude.

Not just...

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Categories: enlist, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Were I Forced To Do So This Is the Way I Would Do It

I’d sit and say “son, it’s just you and me now kid
So if you enlist do you know what you will be warring for
HITLER tried to claim other’s land and sea
And that was the same...

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Categories: enlist, angstme, war, me, men, war,
Form: Monorhyme

Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?

Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?

The following extrapolated 
thought thread exercised,
NOT utilized to intimate 
how Fats Domino belied,
and wowed a crowded house ass-sized.

As a former ace procrastinator, I abhor
putting off doing...

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Categories: enlist, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Home

Cosmopolitan suburbs take shape
Seem to form alone, not far from the metropolis
Streets bustle, enlist design by men                  ...

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Categories: enlist, business, community, creation, home, image, life, work,
Form: Free verse

Power of Love - Part 1 of 2

(Rom. 8: 37, 38, 39  /  1 Cor. 13: 4 – 8, 13  /  Col. 3: 14)


If You Run, I Will Chase You
If You Hide, I Will Find You
If You Escape,...

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Categories: enlist, love, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse
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AND SO, IT BEGAN


England had joined WW II,
War declared against Germany
All men and women of the age
Required for conscription, joined,
Bravery had to be shown,
Even cowards could not decline.
Trembling they stood in line.
Excitement, fear, yet only teenagers,
Adrenaline, anxiety, eagerness,
These...

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Categories: enlist, war,
Form: Free verse
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At Least Show Me Your a Elegant President Part 1

At Least Show Me Your a Elegant President part 1

Weather your good or bad perception is everything
I rather look, speak, walk, with integrity
Repent before my God openly
I am a  of the populist
Now the scripture...

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Categories: enlist, america, anxiety, appreciation, assonance, dedication, political,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Phd In Redneck

I have go not advanced degree
from a fancy eastern school.
I’ve no idea who Beckett is,
so you declare that I’m a fool.
Yet yesterday I restored to life
an old engine from the thirties,
I’ve got a PhD in...

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Categories: enlist, america, anger, how i feel, i am,
Form: Rhyme

A Second Letter To John Cayton

It has came to my attention John that there was an illegal system in the area, it even wiped out my PC temporarily. I had to do a report.
at first I thought it was you...

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© Cindy Lu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enlist, beautiful, , atheist,
Form: Bio

God Is....

"Color me red" this he did say 
                           ...

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© Penn Kname  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: enlist, devotion, faith, time, visionary, words, me, me,
Form: I do not know?
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