Long Floorboard Poems
Long Floorboard Poems. Below are the most popular long Floorboard by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Floorboard poems by poem length and keyword.
The Hotel Caretaker
How unparticular the day had particularly been,
On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,
For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,
Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.
‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,
From either...
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Categories:
floorboard, death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
The Fly
NOTE: Some of you seemed to enjoy my stories from the past. Of course, posting this in the story folder is tantamount to burying it six feet under, as you know, so I'm posting it...
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Categories:
floorboard, angst, humor,
Form:
Prose
There Was Trouble Brewin' In Soup Creek
As morning glowed pale light over the town of Soup Creek,
Jenna woke with a start when she heard a floorboard squeak.
She raised her gun and took aim at a shadow near the door,
"Hold it right...
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Categories:
floorboard, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Grandpa the Master Magician
Grandpa the Master Magician
Grandpa was old and creaked
like a well-worn floorboard
but he always carried a smile with him
which generally won the day or the situation.
He had just spent time with his two grandchildren
which had added...
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Categories:
floorboard, fun, grandfather,
Form:
Free verse
The Radio Played
The old Ford truck was dustin’ the gravel roads that day
I was listening to some pounding seventies hits
My second bottle was about empty by my thirst
Nothing much else to do on a hot dry southern...
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Categories:
floorboard, teen, old, old,
Form:
Free verse
Its a Date
I had a date (not a great date but a date)! Could our covid nightmare be ending?
An actual one-on-one date - can you imagine? It was with Noud, a university student (from Holland) I...
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Categories:
floorboard, 12th grade, confidence, confusion, funny love, growing
Form:
Free verse
Polly the Planter
Is a strategy a slam of a door? Or another noise?
Will you just please look over there...
No no not there.....
There......
Right in front of you....
Now come on please calm down
For I am not speaking to you...
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Categories:
floorboard, allusion,
Form:
I do not know?
Hand In Hand
Framed by moonlight,
Neither sunlit consciousness nor death's aegis,
Will come between our union tonight,
For I can no longer deny myself the happiness they promise,
Every creak in the floorboard and fluttering of my heart is talking,
Urging me...
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Categories:
floorboard, girl, inspiration, love, love hurts, moon,
Form:
Rhyme
Two Greatest Commandments
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love...
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Categories:
floorboard, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form:
Limerick
He Is Out There Again
“He is out there again.”
It was said in a menacing way. One check-out woman to another,
In front of me, the customer.
It startled me.
Someone was out there.
But who?
Was he there for a solid reason,
Or was...
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Categories:
floorboard, animal, dog, woman, women,
Form:
Narrative
Resting In Pieces
I sit here,
Surrounded by these four walls,
Staring at this mirror again,
No telling when this madness will end.
I'm allowed to leave at any point,
But at this point they might as well lock...
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Categories:
floorboard, abuse, anger, bullying, dark, death, depression, hate,
Form:
Free verse
A Series of Troubling Times
The black skies poured outside, the walls that kept me in, felt safer than ever. Every day, I stand here and wonder “why is the world like this?” The grueling discrimination over us, just because...
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Categories:
floorboard, holocaust,
Form:
Narrative
The House Our Fathers Built, the Woman and Her Almost Husband
The heirloom, Neo-classical, Palladian, almost as old as light, was mine from conception, so, when the latchkeys were placed over Simian crease,
I put my ears to the hardwood floor, listening for the cacophony of...
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Categories:
floorboard, allegory, america, betrayal,
Form:
Narrative
Wee Hours
Another eve of another day
shrinks to wee hours;
the only light flashes dim
from a distant lamppost.
My mind’s contrarily still charged
with words, chores, lists, sacred places,
mountainous memories,
and then a thought that hasn't visited in awhile…of...
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Categories:
floorboard, abuse, addiction, angst, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
At the Ends of Your Stanzas
be careful
when you
invite new
metaphors
into your
fresh built
box of a poem.
a small
house is
perfect
or a poet
that has
few silver
words left
in their
pocket.
lower case
...
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Categories:
floorboard, adventure, art, cool, fantasy, feelings, flower, giving,
Form:
Free verse
The Ballad of Love Distorted
The Ballad of Love Distorted
The horse’s ears flicker in silent rebuke
His rider is tense, taut, confused.
Raw frost shining in soft silver rhythm
And the cutting cold wind is unforgiving,
A dark house ahead,...
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Categories:
floorboard, bereavement, betrayal, daughter, desire, sad love, violence,
Form:
Ballad
To the Men In Lab Coats
to the men in lab coats with horns like unto goats,
an open confession of a minor isotope:
I -- so -- Hope that a day shall dawn
when men no longer long
for the things that do...
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Categories:
floorboard, allegory, heaven, song, women,
Form:
Free verse
Independence It
cat man had enough forced isolation
sabbatical dreams after quarantine
entered his hermit cage in seclusion
I need time out from lockdown he promised
they told me of the psycho cat’s demise
but cats have nine lives so I can...
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Categories:
floorboard, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
The Phantom Limb
Each night I call your name again,
The floorboard sighs beneath my feet,
A whispered breath, a soft refrain,
Where absence and the shadows meet.
Your laughter melts like molten streams,
A...
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Categories:
floorboard, cute love,
Form:
Quatrain
Albert E Lawrance
You came to give me a slap, your arm bent back,
with the back of your hand poised to 'shut my trap.'
I stood to rebuff you with anger, and schoolboy indignation.
How dare you bring reproach...
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Categories:
floorboard, 12th grade, teacher,
Form:
Rhyme
The Old Jalopys Miraculous Drive
I remember that ‘69’ Chevrolet
dark green and with the spit
of a combat soldier;
a mean green, power machine.
My Great Uncle bought it new,
his pride and joy for years;
when he died, it became my Parent’s car.
without a...
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Categories:
floorboard, adventure, appreciation, car, imagery, poems, poetry,
Form:
Prose
An Unroasted Bean
tonight
cold rain fell as heavy snow
flakes fat with polar dew
roads turned to sideshows
skies black as crows
but the java tastes off
(beans must've turned south)
as I haunt crowded coffee bars...
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Categories:
floorboard, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Bases Covered
I've got a Bobble Head Buddha
That nods on the dash
Some guy named Gideon
Whose Bible rides in the back
Rainbow covered Rosary beads
Hang from my mirror with ease
I've got all the bases covered
As pretty as you please
Have...
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Categories:
floorboard, humorous, religion, sad, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Confronting Shadows
I’m scared of the dark
When it’s dark our minds can wander
Creating objects and people that don’t exist
Anything or anyone could be hiding behind and object that we can’t see behind, waiting
Waiting to creep up to...
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Categories:
floorboard, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Peed Off
Since she passed on I now live on my own
In a new town not just a new street
No more must I listen to that woman moan
But she’s haunting me through the loo seat
In view of...
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Categories:
floorboard, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme