Get Your Premium Membership

Long Flapping Poems

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


Poems About Things That Break Ii
Poems about Things that Break II
 
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
 
 
 
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
 
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...

Read More
Categories: flapping, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme



Some Poems
A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth 


We surrounded him 
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin 
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...

Read More
© Sy Roth  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flapping, dream, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
 A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
                         ...

Read More
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flapping, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1
Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...

Read More
© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flapping, history, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Week 3 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Richard Wilbur Part 1'
Imitation! Creative Compliment, Lacking in Originality, or Plagiarism? 

This week takes me back to college days. I was taking a graduate course (as a Physics major)   in 'Modern Poets' at the University of...

Read More
Categories: flapping, love, poetry, poets, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...

Read More
Categories: flapping, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Literary Feud Among - Pt 2
Step Forward McCarthy vs. Hellman 

What is this The Digital Crucible of Truth?

On a stage of scrutiny,  
          titans c l a s h— ...

Read More
Categories: flapping, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
Geese, Goslings and the Bridge

Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous.  Such was the time recently as I was returning from a friend’s home...

Read More
Categories: flapping, bird, family,
Form: Metrical Tale
The Mulberry Tree and Its Birds Part Two


A GIFT FOR EVERYONE 
ESPECIALLY 
FOR  CHILDREN
 


The Mulberry Tree & its Birds


IMPORTANT NOTE:
Now watch a short Video film made by me (placed on my Music Channel on You Tube) based on this Poetic...

Read More
Categories: flapping, bird, tree,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Prologue
Whether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be nothing more...

Read More
Categories: flapping, allegory, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand." 

(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)

The muskiness...

Read More
© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flapping, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”

Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its existence,
a kind of deactivation, fuzzy borderline hanging, 
backing the art...

Read More
Categories: flapping, muse,
Form: Narrative
Number forty seven White House occupant against all odds
Number forty seven - White House occupant against all odds...

regarding President elect 
Donald John Trump.

As a cruel joke to self,
I imagined myself as a Republican
for that one glorious day
voting for the candidate
who clinched the nomination
as...

Read More
Categories: flapping, abuse, america, anger, anxiety, betrayal, depression, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Secret Love - 2nd Place Contest Win
If you spill your secrets to the breeze,
Don't blame the wind for laying them to light.
Once said, words are disclosed, even to trees.
And claim peace in the leaves that rustle and fight.
Whispered tales of a...

Read More
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flapping, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
As a mortal man of threescore and five years
As a mortal man of threescore and five years...

I bore witness and/or assimilated, gleaned,
and nursed implacable thirst for knowledge
courtesy reading factual narratives,
historical fiction, or biography
that since the advent of Homo sapiens
avast number of civilizations
and their...

Read More
Categories: flapping, age, america, anger, angst, anxiety, humorous, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zeitgeist
competing cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens
  hominins humming mostly human song
  altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways
  opportunistic, never staying long

  self-aware, inquisitive, enlarging brains, empathising
  real representative intelligence
  modelling...

Read More
© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: flapping, destiny, earth, hope, humanity, philosophy, power,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Ghost Dance Part IV
IV
                                  ...

Read More
Categories: flapping, conflict, dance, history, native american, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Theatre of the Absurd - Fusion
Godot has arrived
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Alive and well thanks!

...said the haiku poster
Crudely pasted to the fence
Who was too busy selling stolen goods
To notice he was a notice
Announcing a brand new play
A fusion of two classics

Waiting for...

Read More
Categories: flapping, funny, humor, humorous, nonsense, silly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Strange Ways, Here We Come
“Strange Ways, Here We Come”




the devil’s advocate
came waltzing 
through my doors

“I had no choice”
the supercilious harbinger said,
“to intervene, to parlay away

something 
not 
mine

now 
you're 
doing time 

not the criminal recidivist
nor usurping interloper
and their profound lies

every...

Read More
Categories: flapping, dark, death, grief, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Seasonal Walks In the Park
baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,

“Seasonal Walks in the Park!”

A walk in the park after a springtime morning rainfall 
Is to hear the droplets fall from bent branches overhead
That can shock and moisten one’s...

Read More
Categories: flapping, baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member New Neighbors
I am just finishing my morning meditation when I hear my doorbell ring. It actually sounds more like that buzzing sound you hear if you fry a fat fly on one of those electronic bug...

Read More
Categories: flapping, depression, family, funny love, humor, husband, lonely,
Form: Narrative
Race the Finals Spoken Word
I wish to
Relay
To all of my people the importance of sticking together as a 
team

And that
Because we have run 
through the preliminary trials as selfish individual, goal seekers
we have barely made it to the finals,...

Read More
Categories: flapping, africa, black african american, change, courage, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
A Long, Long Time Ago On a Cold Winter's Night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter's night

A long, long time ago on a cold winter’s night
Two hearts were broken the crest of the eve
This is the story of how it all happened
How...

Read More
Categories: flapping, fantasy, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pandora's Temptation
For the third time Pandora stands before the box
Inlaid with jewels ivory and gold
In her hand is the key – she closely examines
Intrigued by its intricate patterns - so ancient- so old

Her Creator’s mandate she...

Read More
Categories: flapping, desire, hope, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 30
A whirl, a gust, and a thunderous boom commenced,
Heartened by the latter soreness of silent night,
Shackled through the chill blows above,
A tempest, a storm,
Threshing the world,
Shaking the Prison of Plot,

The waters of the Holy Spirit...

Read More
Categories: flapping, art, destiny, endurance, gospel, inspiration, truth, wisdom,
Form: Epic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry