Long Finest Poems
Long Finest Poems. Below are the most popular long Finest by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Finest poems by poem length and keyword.
More Pickles Than OneFor ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple, so there can be no excuse,
that the pickles in this...
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Categories:
finest, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Back BurnerI heard you calling my name in an echoing whisper
I saw a bird take wing in the whirling wind of disaster
I put my weary head on your broad shoulders
The moment we touched, I...
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Categories:
finest, deep, depression,
Form:
Lyric
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
finest, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
- Au Revoir - Goodbye -- 2016 -
- JANUARY -
A freezing cold evening
Where the stars shining bright
With frost blade flanks
From mouth and nose steam
In the clear silence
White untrodden snows
Nature's frozen pulse
Sleep like a little baby
One gracious moon
After the night the...
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Categories:
finest, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Old Man Crabb - Both Audio and TextSixty some odd years ago, when I was just a kid, our home was on the very edge of town.
The man that lived next door to us - a Mr. - O. M. Crabb -...
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Categories:
finest, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
finest, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Thelma Lou - Both Audio and TextThe biggest funeral I've ever attended...
Thelma was a waitress at the diner on the corner of 4th and Oak, across from Ron’s DX, in Abilene.
They had an old brass register that rang when it was...
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Categories:
finest, heart, love, memory,
Form:
Narrative
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
finest, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
Sophisticated Lady - Small Town Girl - Both Audio and Text Versions“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
finest, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Reunited -- Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationMany of us have a favorite possession from when we were young, and this
93-year old gentleman is no exception.
...
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Categories:
finest, childhood, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
MemorabiliaMy wife and I met more than a few of this type of “shifty wheeler-dealer” during our many years dealing in antiques and collectibles.
...
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Categories:
finest, sports,
Form:
Narrative
Sophisticated Lady, Small Town Girl“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
finest, loneliness, sorry,
Form:
Rhyme
Of Winks and Wings - Part 1I have a little story to tell you ... it's absolutely true, of course, at least as far as I'm concerned, but you can take it as you wish - as a tale, a fact,...
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Categories:
finest, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
finest, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
On My Mother PassingON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...
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Categories:
finest, cheer up, mother, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
Nowhere ManNowhere Man
Star dust, the stuff of a fool’s dreams.
Oh !!!, to travel upon star dust streams
- that glorious, never ending journey -
into the realms, the space of many.
This old spirit, seems, not to fit into...
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Categories:
finest, history,
Form:
Rhyme
TozzathPellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
finest, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
A Poem of RuthThe tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a distant, unknown land:
Once so secure, yet now compelled to roam;
Once...
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Categories:
finest, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
finest, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Hubert Might Go Upstairs But Not To RomeTea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it.
"I'm going upstairs," Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself out...
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Categories:
finest, marriage,
Form:
Prose
The Twins, Part 1In the dark of night a wind took hold,
With powers charged to shake the sky,
By moody swings of gods up high,
Their breath alone enraged and bold.
In the dark of night history spoke,
Of a world alive...
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Categories:
finest, brother, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, , cute,
Form:
Prose
To the Manor Born - 3rd Third - W-IllustrationHere's the deal, friends...
This is, as indicated, the THIRD 1/3 of this very lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 3 parts!
...
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Categories:
finest, humor,
Form:
Narrative
The White Tomb Trembles* For J.K. Rowling *
~
now, deliberate your hearing
to bring back the pages...
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Categories:
finest, evil, fantasy, magic,
Form:
Epic
C T Myers - Both Audio and TextC. T. Myers
Just a couple weeks ago the boss called in an ad, hoping we could find a guy to fill Bill Daly’s shoes.
Bill had fallen victim to the same thing that his dad had,...
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Categories:
finest, anger, car,
Form:
Verse
Appear My Queen At the PierAs the life of the day nears its last breath,
With a glow of crimson, forewarning its death,
Upon its cresting, the reflection, daunting,
The sea sets free a beauty, haunting
The depths of its treasures of unknown span,
The...
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Categories:
finest, beauty, desire, dream, fantasy, inspiration, love, romantic
Form:
Rhyme