Long Flax Poems
Long Flax Poems. Below are the most popular long Flax by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Flax poems by poem length and keyword.
How I Got Rich and What Happened ThenWritten in summer of 1976.
I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.
We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed with hay
And talked of pending corporate plans
And willow-haired orangutans.
I spent...
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Categories:
flax, business, humor, humorous, money, nonsense, satire,
Form:
Couplet
When I Was TenNow in my decline from a time back then
I remember the days in a life when I was ten,
when we lived in a shadow much greater
at the foot of the mount...
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Categories:
flax, memory, youth,
Form:
Couplet
My Winter's WishesIn the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed
swaddled in the purity of security
for what seemed like eternity...
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Categories:
flax, age, god, hope, introspection, life, lost, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru ZingLima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...
thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting from selfishness, I feel quite aghast.
Yes practically every word
needs be...
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Categories:
flax, absence, conflict, emotions, family, heartbroken, horror, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
The Essence of Me
Born in the Goshen ghetto,
bound by an Ashkenaz forged umbilical chain
Beloved mother was Jim Crow lynch poor,
adored father was the Uncle Sam same
Third-generation slaves,
pauper freed allegedly
But royal blood their ancestors
sweaty tears did bleed
From...
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Categories:
flax, identity, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Bio
Lines Written In Albany
On white lines on valiant wheels
I head north leaving behind the City of Sails
with its humourless streets,
its casino steel and glass Sky...
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Categories:
flax, how i feel, places,
Form:
Free verse
A Burst of Blarneyyes, this daft punk pink animal from farm ville will newt axe
any thank u mooch positive word does not rick choir whet backs
now i hold out virtual fig leaf tub buffer
end...
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Categories:
flax, 11th grade, 12th grade, desire, funny love,
Form:
Light Verse
Men: a Wife of Noble CharacterMen: A Wife of Noble Character
Proverbs 12:4
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown.
United as one, a vow husband and wife, declare to the town.
And to...
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Categories:
flax, husband, marriage, wife,
Form:
Rhyme
How I Got RichHow I Got Rich and What Happened Then
I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessman from Campbell's Soups.
We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed with hay
And talked of pending corporate plans
And...
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Categories:
flax, business, humor, humorous, money, satire,
Form:
Couplet
I Seek the Uncensored Inside ScoopAkin to a journalist (hoofing
NOT huffing on the beat)
heedful, mindful, and pain fully aware, bleat
me, asper caveats help me set sights
tacking within parameters of lawfulness,
when questing without sparking browbeat
upon my person, or worse...proceeding toward
said abstract...
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Categories:
flax, addiction, adventure, anger, care, environment, journey, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
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CharlaXFabels
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Eye the fabulist fabelist maker of dreams for ewe still remember the poem eye
wrote where eye mentioned the fact that eye think they are liners...
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Categories:
flax, computer-internet, fantasy, introspection, on work and working,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Rahab the HarlotWho would have thought that scarlet thread would save you,
hung from your window ledge close by our harlot bed.
You own that Inn, built into Jericho’s thick and stone built wall.
Who would have thought...
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Categories:
flax, bible, christian, faith, fear, forgiveness, religion, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
The Famine Ship - a Smile Born At Last-
Terence a Griffiths of Tyrone or Leitrim!
Did he know but later of 1820 he would be there born
A Flax Grower a renter from landlords of Lord Leitrim's domain
To thresh and sack and cloth and sow...
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Categories:
flax, familyfamily, home, family, food, green, home, money,
Form:
I do not know?
Curtain Pulled Back12/26/21
Time I make a splash
Got to fulfill important tasks
Can't rely on hiding behind masks
It won't always be what you asked
Staying intact or full of bug splats
Broken and cracked windshield glass
The wings of bats
Continuing to flap
Before...
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Categories:
flax, dark, deep, life, poetry, rap, sad, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Wardrobe Color SchemeBlest with garments of varied hues and shades’ assortment
I practice an organized monthly color-scheme adornment…
January is greeted with vibrant green’s life-oozing zest
along moss, emerald and mint scarfs’ accenting best.
With blue motif of azure or cerulean...
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Categories:
flax, appreciation, blessing, christian, color, faith, god, uplifting,
Form:
Couplet
The Senior CenterThe Senior Center was a beehive of active waiting
to die.
Bingo
but not ballroom dancing.
Knitting
but not garden expansions.
Physical therapy
but not yoga
and not chi gong,
much less mindful meditations
sung in four part harmony.
The new guy,
just growing into sixty-five,
asked them
How...
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Categories:
flax, age, earth, faith, health, hope, integrity, loss,
Form:
Political Verse
Moon In AuburnMoon In Auburn
As the stars were heaped upon a mantles Shangri-La
The miniature toy town beneath its cape
Quiet hung in yellow golden windows lit
So silent in the dales and woods blanket
The dog fox cry echoed...
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Categories:
flax, love, mystery, naturedog, cry, dog, moon, silver,
Form:
Free verse
Stadacona: An Ode To Quebec CityStadacona
An ode to Quebec City
1
On the green bank of a mighty stream -
A lofty aerie - a fair city beam
With stately air a queen, she stands -
A gem - over these most forest...
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Categories:
flax, adventure, city, courage, devotion, french, history, voyage,
Form:
Ballade
And Zenith Is Its NameAmong tall weeds are waving tulips, with satin pearls of dew
Blowing trumpets, and brushing grasses, with shades of cheerful tunes
Creating carpets soft and fair, where every eye can rest,
Dancing petals kiss the breezes, in...
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Categories:
flax, happiness, spring,
Form:
Abecedarian
The Wicker BasketsThe Wicker baskets
Rooster crackled, fresh new day!
Sun arose planting gentle kiss
on the Earth's fore-head....
A cottage in the woods stood elegant
Lilted the cool breeze outside so pleasant!
Woke her child this mother, filled with zest
A long embroidered...
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Categories:
flax, art, baby, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Telling About a Perfect WifeHer son asked her about finding
A perfect woman for him.
She said to him,
“It is very hard to find the perfect woman
But she is worth much more than Jewels.
Her husband depends on her.
He will...
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Categories:
flax, beautiful, encouraging, husband, i love you, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
Farrio Onis FerratusRanted I in fiery dance
Upon the rushed floor.
It plyeth mosaicate from out my thought.
Lucid it creels through battlement and prepapace.
Upon this tower, I cleveth Erin’s loved lorne lore.
It’s marshed earth with braided stench of wilded...
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Categories:
flax, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Q Is For QuinoaA is for Avocado, the creamy, green nutritious fat.
B is for Berries, the fruit that keeps your tummy flat.
C is for Chia, most nutrient-dense of all the seeds.
D is for Dandelion - it's more...
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Categories:
flax, food, health,
Form:
Couplet
Jewels of AfricaJewels of Africa.
The saffron Queen spins the lilac sky,
her rays flick crimson cinders into Royal Blue Oceans.
Submerge, sizzle, frizzle...going, going, gone! ...But Not.
Cumulus clouds drizzle pepper fog over pink Flamingos, homeward bound.
Tea-green Botswana bush,
teeny, tiny...
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Categories:
flax, africa, appreciation, culture, nature, paradise, poems,
Form:
Free verse
More Than a WomanMORE THAN A WOMAN
She selects wool and flax
And works with earge hands,
She is like the merchant ships
Bringing her food from afar.
She gets up while it is still dark;
She provides food for her family
And portions for...
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Categories:
flax, africa, age, angel, art, beautiful,
Form:
Ballad