Long Found poetry Poems

Dear Novice Poet,
Welcome to the wide open wonderful world of poetry!  Today more than ever before, a poem can easily be whatever you want it to be.  The rules are simple.  There...

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Tribute Poem, Dedicated To Memory Of Our Loving Father
( 1901- 1968 )

A man of great courage and iron nerve 
as a youth into trouble he would swerve
some had called him, brute, rascal or knave
yet none...

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Dear New Poet,
Don't you just love modern poetry! So free to be ourselves in so many fun forms. Never mind the sonnet or finding a rhyme for bonnet. Just ideas flowing to express what one...

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Be nearby me, get close to me,
my dear goddess
I want your tender mind
and spicy body next to mine.
Hold me close in a warm hug,
kiss my tears and  sorrows
While our two bodies tangle.
You touch my...

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A testament to Prince


Prince, I saw your vision in the purple rain
And in that moment, I knew you were in no more pain
You graced us with your presence and filled our hearts with love
With your...

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You shall not chase my gloom away!
There's such a charm in melancholy.
(Samuel Rogers, 1814)

I think, I was born under the shadow of melancholy.  I was a woebegone girl
since birth. My mother said she...

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You shall not chase my gloom away!
There's such a charm in melancholy.
(Samuel Rogers, 1814)

I think, I was born under the shadow of melancholy.  I was a woebegone girl
since birth. My mother said she...

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along came a flood of ebullient emotions,
                when an unexpected letter arrived in the mail,
     ...

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Inspection report 
meeting went well
 met with him 
only at age six 

G P silver in the damage 
is shown her
 the news from the rear 
and as well as shown 
for the termite damage....

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The painting went very well
 it looks much better

 it was a very hot day 
will vote by 

Microsoft trials dictation from: 
and submitted it to two journals 
and micro soft 

don’t expect a response...

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Land.
neural storm potential
a sky day
Earth's eyes
so fortune

Land.
the noble time
my Earth split
invited misfortune
in whirlwind

Land.
calm is pale Sun
have its way
Being proceeds

Land.
a solstice knows sorrows
so its hell
so feathers toward summer
will tell

Land.
is outside
being and southern hemisphere
source beneficial

Land.
a master of...

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i 
Have you seen Poetry? 
 
Because I have heard that she looks like 'beauty', to the blind. 
 
I heard that she is like unto the ear, as colour is to the eye. 
I...

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microsoft dictation poem part two 

When to the house
 and your lunch
 had a good lunch 
when the two D. Meyer 

we are only eight at the red cross 
to the I had a BLT...

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Labyrinth paths, winding and twisting, a serpentine meandering,
otherworldly, ethereal, much too dreamy, lost and wandering;
saturnine, long raven sparkling hair that I hide behind, woefully,
tangled in the branches and thorns of life, lost hopelessly.

And then I...

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Flava flav, Run DMC,
Digital Underground.
The early 90's I found hip hop.
I found poetry..
Langston Hughes, led to 
Tupac Shakur.
Do you remember "Jada"
and "When ure hero falls"

Flamboyant, charismatic,
scholastic, 
a ghetto philosopher..
"Thug Life", "2Pacolipse"
I heard you, I felt...

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Writing poetry is my passion
It always has been
Right from my school days
Back then, it was just a hobby
Pursued after school time and study time
Back then, I never dreamt of anything bigger
I was content with writing...

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When I was a broken little girl 
my  grandma gave me a journal and pen
write your sorrow, write it for the world she said 
and I did and I do and will never...

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Encyclopaedia Of The World


While excavating information 
One website lead to another
And Whoa! I found Poetry Soup
Curiosity led me to register my name
I sent my first shweet verse for a competition
I sent some more for further...

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1.cinquain.- love at first sght

Adeaide Crapsey cinquain form first motivated my interest in poetry


2.imagist- viduage

Capturing an enigmatic  image into words upon my page my continuing inspiration


3.shortform. footle bonie&clyde


creating the footle form encapsulated my initial...

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"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words,
after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost,
something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry."
— Mary Oliver

I neither...

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Reflection
By Beverly Stock

Wise and grave was the reflected face,
A youth-grown man in a mirrored space;

 While the wayworn face now quite shy, 
 Grew gentler-lipped and shadowy-eyed;

 He heard a low whisper naming him.
 That...

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There are a lot of word Smiths on this site
Who pen good poems that are out of sight  

Its likened to attending a beautiful  feast
Or eating good bread with just enough yeast

However, I...

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My poems can be written straight from my heart
So I ensure my notepad and pen are never far apart

I’ll write humourous lines on a fun situation
Or on disastrous events, which affect a whole nation

I get...

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A Requiem for the Dovekeepers

We went walking through the orchard, toward terraces where ancient olive trees and huge, twisted grapevines grew.
The birds were cooing. I felt a pulse in my throat, remembering how I had...

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I found poetry soup several years ago,
And it has been a wonderful journey;
Sharing poems of sadness and eternity,
Only here, can I let go of all my emotion.
But treat me with respect so I can grow,
Reponse's...

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