Long Frayed Poems
Long Frayed Poems. Below are the most popular long Frayed by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Frayed poems by poem length and keyword.
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
frayed, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
frayed, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Whats Behind the CurtainI used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
frayed, anxiety, dark, dream, imagery, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
BehindI used to dream of a dark hall. Dim. Empty with thick cheap navy curtains.
The breeze. It felt hot and old. It shivered in the curtains that lined the walls on both sides.
The breeze....
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Categories:
frayed, anxiety, depression, emo, suicide,
Form:
Blank verse
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
frayed, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Fortunes Re ToldFORTUNES READ the sign displayed
TRINKETS, CHARMS AND SPELLS
The store had not been here yesterday
shades of candles, books and bell
Drapes were hung from side to side
The windows all were dark
Where was this place a day ago?
Just...
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Categories:
frayed, surreal,
Form:
Epic
Winter, 1948WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...
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Categories:
frayed, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
The Visitation - Both Audio and Text VersionsForty-seven years ago I went abroad for college, then - after graduation - chose to live across the sea.
I called my parents often, and I mailed them many cards, but rarely made the trip back...
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Categories:
frayed, family, memory,
Form:
Verse
Letter To Taeljejohnuncomfortableness, and hesitation arose that you might reassess a possibility for friendship or.... whatever with me.
A disappointment set in place in the event that based on some facet of my being (inexplicable flaws within this...
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Categories:
frayed, angel, beauty, devotion, friendship, history, introspection, life,
Form:
Narrative
Temporal incarnation of AphroditeTemporal incarnation of Aphrodite...
induces idyllic reverie
delight evoking similar surge,
when skirting, and eluding
fidelity defining the marital law
on par with courting in flagrante delicto.
After reading about
Greek goddess of love
fancy notion woke whereof
warmth suffused me
snug as...
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Categories:
frayed, absence, adventure, angel, april, beautiful, blessing, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Rough Roads To RoamThe flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned)
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves through the night,
when the lightning...
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Categories:
frayed, culture, earth, humanity, planet, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Held AloftWe'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and that's clear where he'd spent his life.
Downstairs had been quite...
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Categories:
frayed, heartbreak,
Form:
Sonnet
Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announcesGalley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces...
Fore score minus xv orbitz ago
from being centenarian
strong contractions forced me
to pass thru cervix,
buck naked bare lady,
I ranked as only grandson sharing
same surname as Aaron,
(mine paternal grandfather)
me the...
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Categories:
frayed, 6th grade, 7th grade, abuse, age, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
Common ColdAchooo!
It begins, almost always, with a sneeze,
Which, in some cultures,
Invites blessings,
But, in some others, a curse,
As it’s held to be ominous!
Blessing or curse, soon the frequency
And the decibels increase—
Incredibly, irritatingly, inconveniently, and...
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Categories:
frayed, funny, irony, philosophy, psychological, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
The Catch and the TrembleLady dearest, fair Romeo, is this the name
the title you wish to bestow upon me
or is it one shared among multiple hearts shot at by multiple nets
I ask only in truth, in search of truth,...
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Categories:
frayed, beautiful, imagery, love, metaphor, teenage,
Form:
Narrative
Keep Me Good CompanyKeep Me Good Company…
TODAY MY MATE SAVES MY DAY...
From spiraling into unconstructive decay,
Plugging my volcano of negative gossip & hearsay,
Planting productive advice to direct my way,
Removes pokey cacti from under my feet,...
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Categories:
frayed, best friend, destiny, environment, faith, friendship, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
My Dear Sweet Lost Child Daughter of My Wasted Youth a Confession Part 2I wonder ?, have pondered ?, have analyzed the boxes,
the cages, the walls my little Girl, my young Woman,
finds herself packaged in, trapped in, stuck behind,
believing that they have come into being...
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Categories:
frayed, daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Seeds
"Seeds"
Blue reaches reflections
touching ripples
tears in time ephemeral
caresses fragrant Green my canopy
opens the light
inside me
cracked eggshell
golden-yoked sunshine
pale turquoise kintsugi
splintered paths inside my mind
in the smallness
of me
something
quietly blooms
ragged yet refined
a gecko...
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Categories:
frayed, muse, romance, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Beggars - XxxUnquotable quotes: Beggars - XXX
Who said beggars cannot be choosers?
Who chooses for them the place, the moment or the people they choose to beg from; the hours of the begging day; the alms they refuse;...
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Categories:
frayed, august, french, holiday, leadership, power, sun,
Form:
Epigram
A Tale of Ancient TimesThis is a tale of ancient times
And a knight of valiant heraldry
Who followed true his knightly code,
The weight of righteousness his load,
All sheathed in heaven's grace he rode,
And practiced naught save chivalry.
From the Pope a...
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Categories:
frayed, faith, history, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
The WindowShe stares at the paper not a word comes to write
Surrounded by peace on a dark rainy night.
Like the page in her notebook her mind remains clear.
Not a word to be written, her pen she...
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Categories:
frayed, childhood, father daughter, memory, together,
Form:
Free verse
The Harkness Greasy Pig CompetitionThere's an event in the country that few city people ever know,
It's called the Greasy Pig Competition held at the local show,
It's a novelty event put on when the riding's been all done,
A greased up...
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Categories:
frayed, humorous,
Form:
Verse
NomadThe wails that disturb very few in their bed
Reach only the ears of the psychic… or dead
...
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Categories:
frayed, death, devotion, love, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
MelanieShe killed me…she killed me…
I’m drifting into darkness
Melanie…Melanie…Melanie…
Did she ever really know how sorry I am
how I meant every word of my bleeding apology
what I meant when I said things were never to go this...
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Categories:
frayed, girl,
Form:
Free verse
I Am PrometheusOne day in my shop, as many before,
there appeared a beggar at my back door.
His dirty old hand held...
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Categories:
frayed, mythology, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme