Long Epilog Poems
Long Epilog Poems. Below are the most popular long Epilog by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Epilog poems by poem length and keyword.
Letters From Batman
Playing Batman and Robin is a lot different
When the Riddler is your Stepfather
And simultaneously an alcoholic and pedophile
When your secret mission is to keep him
From bringing heroin and pornography
To Gotham city
Your mother wanted to...
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Categories:
epilog, abuse, adventure, courage, death, hero, introspection, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Knowledge Is a Genie Once Let Out of the Bottle It Cant Be Put Back
1
Profound insight climbing the mountain
The higher you go the more beautiful view
Opens up wide spread in front of you
You see the world under your feet
Overwhelmingly liberating experience
Shocking overpowering, and scary
You play walking on...
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Categories:
epilog, allusion, deep, humanity, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Me and Me First
That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick,
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First"
(To mesmerise people He needed...
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Categories:
epilog, political, society, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Daddy's Little Girl
She was eighteen
Graduation Day
Valedictorian
The Girl got Straight A’s
Mother says, 'I’m proud of you.
Your hard work is gonna pay.
I know it's been a long road
But you've carried your load."
The girl looks over her shoulders
And scans through...
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Categories:
epilog, abuse, child abuse, conflict, education, encouraging, growing
Form:
Free verse
Threat of Extinction
Words hanging from parched branches confused and betrayed
Under a canopy of shadows in the recess of belittled thoughts
A prison of speechlessness bereft of expression and meaning
Letters motionless in disarray fighting lost battles lonely at heart
Starved...
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Categories:
epilog, poems,
Form:
Free verse
The Poe
after The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
(Is this microphone turned on? Testing one two, Poe was a dip, Poe was a dip, testing.)
Once upon a daydream, faintly
whilst I watched the boob tube, quaintly
Jerry Springer 'bout...
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Categories:
epilog, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Mandy
An expedition back into the dark jungle,
a rain forest shrouded in the haze of history,
brought about by hidden enterprises.
Lost and Found
Mandy
Battle weary am I, war warn.
To shreds has my heart been, torn.
From my middle Daughter,...
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Categories:
epilog, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Just Do Not Be
Just Do Not Be
Waves of sadness overflow my heart
I tumble, no care at all for a new start
Buried under autumn leaves
I hug the soil, knowing deeper so much the sweeter to be
I hear a voice...
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Categories:
epilog, allusion, angst, anxiety, death, depression, pain, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Autumn Irks Waltzing Sunlight
Mists show vaporous idiosyncrasies
emotionless crying
over the essence of the dull sky,
same as a gentle walking unsophisticated...
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Categories:
epilog, analogy, autumn, change, dream, endurance, garden, sky,
Form:
Free verse
Whispers
First Whisper
As we embraced on our first date
you whispered softly in my ear
those gentle words that did endear,
and led me to exhilarate.
Into my ear your words rang true,
“I think that I could fall for you.”
Second...
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Categories:
epilog, love, marriage, tribute, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
The Shadow Knows Too
Sparring with demons, and dragons and deadheads
It bobs and weaves like a drunken sailor.
Omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient
I'm quite attached to it - joined at the psyche.
Image of an incubus twirling as I do.
Patron Saint of...
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Categories:
epilog, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Epilog To Reconnaissance
EPILOG TO
RECONNAISSANCE PATROL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Survived again, back to CP, a successful patrol
Brought back some intel, lost nary a soul
Exhausted, safe, suddenly my hands are shaking
Continued patrols is madness in the making
Fear enemy patrols, running into...
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Categories:
epilog, angst, courage, emotions, fear, leadership, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Epilog To Vic's Place
EPILOG TO VIC’S PLACE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I’m an alcoholic and no one seems to care
My woman enables me due to her own despair
If she really loved me, she would take up the fight
To keep me from...
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Categories:
epilog, abuse, addiction, character, drink, heartbreak, introspection, wine,
Form:
Rhyme
Epilog To Island Hopping
EPILOG
to
ISLAND HOPPING
By
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I’ll meet my old fellow travelers soon, any day
They may not recognize me now that I’m aged and gray
They are still...
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Categories:
epilog, war, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme