Long Gags Poems
Long Gags Poems. Below are the most popular long Gags by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Gags poems by poem length and keyword.
The World Around Us
Awaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and curled,
stray stars and stripes adorning,
sent from the netherworld.
I wander through...
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Categories:
gags, earth, environment, war,
Form:
Rhyme
April Fools' Occurs First Day of Fourth Month
April fools' occurs first day of fourth month
Ordinarily all manner
of tomfoolery doth abound,
celebrated for countless centuries
by different cultures,
though exact origins remain
shrouded in mystery,
nevertheless quasi holiday of sorts
begat courtesy primitive precursor...
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Categories:
gags, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, april,
Form:
Rhyme
Fifty Shades of Death
When nights are dark you’ll never see
the depths of our humanity,
but in the light of desert days
the shades of death will quite amaze.
So if you’ve time to take the trouble
sift just once through wreck and...
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Categories:
gags, conflict, death, humanity, war,
Form:
Rhyme
April fools day ordinarily all manner of tomfoolery abounds
April fools' day - ordinarily all manner of tomfoolery abounds
Written/updated since last year
unlike any other
when out of this world
outlandish accouterments
people did wear
hermetically sealed
of even faintest tear
to avoid contamination
against coronavirus pandemic
air supply difficult to...
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Categories:
gags, appreciation, april, day, easter, games, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet Lucy Part-1
I was in the coffee house, sipping from that old cup.
I was in New York; winter had never felt so cold,
Yet fitting for such a cold hearted city as this
It was at mid-night, just me...
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Categories:
gags, animals, life, love, old, sweet, dark, city,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Poetic Theme
So, what is the best theme for
a poem? No guarded secret, all themes --
Freely to Roam! And what, the prescribed
destination or direction? Wherever the poet,
himself, deems worthy of fond or...
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Categories:
gags, perspective, philosophy, poetry, poets, truth, wisdom, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Fictional Paintbrush: Mind of a Madman
Something's in the
air tonight, my spirit
is amiss, the
atmosphere
caresses like a
mother's gentle kiss,
the wind blows like
a garden tool to
keep my language
clean, the
moonlight hits the
chrome 380, makes...
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Categories:
gags, mysteryme, love, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Nick Knock
I was in between jobs at the time and running short of cash,
so without a need to now explain my future don’t look flash.
I tramped from door to door to plead my unemployment case
in a...
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Categories:
gags, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
April Fools Day Ordinarily All Manner of Tomfoolery Abounds
April fools' day - (ordinarily) all manner of tomfoolery abounds
(written last year
unlike any other
when out of this world
outlandish accouterments
people did wear
hermetically sealed
of even faintest tear
to avoid contamination
against coronavirus
when wing and prayer
soul saving amazing grace).
Pandemic...
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Categories:
gags, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, april,
Form:
Rhyme
Fictional Paintbrush: Mind of a Madman
Something's in the air tonight, my spirit is amiss, the
atmosphere caresses like a dead grandmother's
kiss,
the wind blows like a garden tool to keep my
language clean, the moonlight hits the chrome 380,
makes...
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Categories:
gags, imaginationme, love, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Not Enough Gags
(On the morning of February 25, 1983, the great dramatist
Tennessee Williams was found dead in a New York hotel suite.
He had choked on the plastic cap of his eyedrops bottle, which
he habitually held...
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Categories:
gags,
Form:
Blank verse
Assassination of Love
A fertile wind lures a petting call
from the bull who will swim the Lough.
Immortality lurks within its perfume
of dynasty and a future king.
The scent of tomorrow makes love extinct
for our genes are...
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Categories:
gags, love,
Form:
Free verse
Shakespeare Versus the Spanish
I once knew a poet called William,
Of renown was this Stratford lad.
A writer of plays and sonnets was he
And his gags, they weren’t half bad.
Now Queen Liz wanted him to join t’ army
Cos she’d ...
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Categories:
gags, adventure, england, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Devil Water
to tell the truth i have to tell the tale of a dangerous drunk...drowning in devil water...soon to get sunk
menacing stares from demons all around...laughing as he stumbles and staggers in the
lounge
another sip of...
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Categories:
gags, deathwater, dark, dark, truth, water,
Form:
Narrative
Jump
JUMP!
In a panic she jumps out of bed, awakened by the popping of fire.
Trapped in her house quickly burning, the flames grow hotter and higher.
It engulfs her home with fury, destroying all she had...
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Categories:
gags, abuse, change, courage, divorce, encouraging, hope, moving
Form:
Rhyme
Cauldron Bubbles
The cauldron bubbles
With blackest of black
Boiling over the rim
Thick and tar-like liquid
As putrid fumes fill the air
It gags you, chokes you
Making you wonder
What is IN that
And you look around to find
A rotted, termite infested...
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Categories:
gags, hope, life
Form:
Free verse
April Fools Day Ordinarily All Manner of Tomfoolery Abounds
April fools' day - (ordinarily) all manner of tomfoolery abounds
Pandemic straps tightly plied girded beltway
unlike any other All fools day
in annals of recorded ("fake") history
western civilization tapestry doth fray
April first two thousand and twenty
neigh, no...
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Categories:
gags, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Road More Traveled
Her hands were happy,
she fluttered them against
a cliché sense of blue in the air
and laughed when the allure of
the flowers further on trilled against
her skin. She submerges herself in light,
filtering through veined...
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Categories:
gags, allegorygreen,
Form:
Narrative
Mother, Father and the Birthing of the Angel
You have led my course through fractured lanes.
Your groaning ballad my only light.
Kill blessings from stained lips safely float our steps.
Where would I be without you Michael?
Crow mother lies broken at our hand.
Eyes, lips and...
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Categories:
gags, angel, death, fear, horror, london, murder, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Meaning of Life
People surround until they stop expecting……...the upright stands alone…an intelligent walks alone……moral and ethics struggle to prove themselves right……friends and relatives are born disguised competitors…smiling faces burn inside……money is all that allures, attracts, builds and...
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Categories:
gags, love, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Squirm the Germ
Squirm the Germ
Vs.1
There’s a germ, his name is Squirm, he lives inside our head, and when we cough or sneeze or wheeze, he jumps right out instead! So…..
(Point to your head, then use both...
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Categories:
gags, caregiving, child, education, health, humor, music, sick,
Form:
Ballad
Ragas - Part 1
Love in my life, flashes like a comet.
Still, memorable moments of forelsket.
I call...
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Categories:
gags, 12th grade, boyfriend, break up, cute love,
Form:
Narrative
Ashamed
I am tired
I am weak
I am fragile
I sit in the corner
My weary head rests on bent bruised knees
The dark and musty room reflects how I feel inside
My bloodstained clothes are torn
I sob into my dress
As...
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Categories:
gags, abuse, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
Behind Closed Doors
I am tired
I am weak
I am fragile
I sit in the corner
My weary head rests on bent bruised knees
The dark and musty room reflects how I feel inside
My bloodstained clothes are torn
I sob into my dress
As...
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Categories:
gags, abuse, anger, angst, deep, violence, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Crossing Through the Red Sea Undivided
The calm and quiet serenity
embracing a string of fine buildings
and a hypocritical weather
which seems as if a quarrel manifested
between the day and the night
say it all as we enjoy the romantic stroll.
Our aim is highly...
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Categories:
gags, death, dog, fear, stress,
Form:
Prose Poetry