Long Gavel Poems
Long Gavel Poems. Below are the most popular long Gavel by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Gavel poems by poem length and keyword.
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are...
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Categories:
gavel, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Loves Trial 5The Trial 5
Workers in the courtroom were making last minute sitting arrangement for Poetry Soup’s poets who have been following the case.
Their comments after reading the transcripts, were seen by Love. She...
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Categories:
gavel, heartbroken, hurt, judgement, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
gavel, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Yet More Than a BrotherMoods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships
Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...
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Categories:
gavel, allusion, analogy, appreciation, brother, character, feelings, friend,
Form:
Bio
Portrait of a Hanging
With the opening of my fortress cell,
solemn-faced men come locust invading in
Their mouths smile not, and eyes neither grin
as ceremonial words pursed lips expel
A deer thought escapes ... my life nears its end!
And I feel...
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Categories:
gavel, dark, death, horror, imagery, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
White Column Ressurrection‘WHITE COLUMN RESSURRECTION’
Even now you stand poised with memories of a corned cobbed pipe in one hand-tight gripped lapel in the other-perched against thick southern charmed columns positioned on a once so powerful veranda .
Peering...
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Categories:
gavel, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
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:
gavel, identity, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Bio
Least We ForgetThey will not forget
to this they swear
neither will we ever
get near the end of
hearing of it all, I fear
So it's with the dedication
Of a sinner to prayer
that they dole out their
perceived...
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Categories:
gavel, africa, confidence, eulogy, humanity, patriotic,
Form:
Free verse
If God Gives Up On UsIF GOD GIVES UP ON US
Open season
the games have begun
We be target practice
Shoot randomly
no penalty
Kill at will
...if you will
Lives don't
matter to the people
you're chanting to
Kill for thrill
new sport
Kill at will
...if you think
Lives matter
watch the gavel...
justice...
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Categories:
gavel, betrayal, conflict, environment, imagination, inspirational,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Bullying 101Step 1:
Inhale an envious mask upon your castrated
skull,
and prompt this necessary illusion to commence.
Bathe yourself in ego-filled waters till you feel superior
to the gavel, and exit without caution from this perfect
prison...
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Categories:
gavel, allegory, anti bullying, bullying, pain, school, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
21st Century21st Century
Tick tock tickety tock
I sit and watch as every second goes by
Waiting for an end to all this madness
Our generation is more ****ed up than any other by a long...
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Categories:
gavel, character, youth,
Form:
I do not know?
DeathseekerI got a story 'bout a boy from the hood
Stayed out of trouble tried as hard as he could
Initiated when he was 12 years old
They gave him a bandana and he did what...
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Categories:
gavel, america, cry, dark, destiny, dream, how i
Form:
Rhyme
If You Were GodWalking a mile in God's shoes,
You’d have the blues,
With humanity, the bad news,
If you were God, from above, writing love,...............................................(1 John 4:8 &16)
To a blinded mind, in time, line,
How would you say a light, to...
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Categories:
gavel, inspirational, loveheart, body, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
Time of DeathTime is your only friend,
That stays with you from beginning to end.
An immortal guide for your immortal life,
On this very short little ride.
From the womb to the tomb,
Just a short put to doom.
Spanning the years,
Flames...
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Categories:
gavel, christian, death, fate, god, grave, jesus, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Judgement"Stand up straight" yelled the judge "Tell the court how
you plead" he enquired of the young man accused
"You are here to be tried of a heinous crime so why are you looking amused".
"Not Guilty!...
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Categories:
gavel, funnyme, may, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Ripple EffectRiding tides since creation
Unfamiliar sensations
Looking back to see my face
All is void black filled future
Ignorant of our true nature
Riding this wave of confusion
Feeling the ripple effect
I cant defect this mold
Thick as...
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Categories:
gavel, absence, angst, change, conflict, desire, how i
Form:
I do not know?
When the Clouds Caved InThere cannot be happiness in the absence of freedom
So before me lie limp my shackled hands
Bruised and battered
Imprints of illustrious patterns
Disguising my fading fingerprints
I hear the sprinkle of rain, see the sparkle of thunder
I wish...
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Categories:
gavel, introspection, lost love, love, nostalgiame, prejudice,
Form:
Free verse
The Witch and the JudgeA Witch must confirm the Powers in her possession
Before performing an anticipated condemnation
The guilty Judge, rendered immobile and speechless
Wets himself, cowering, trussed and helpless
As the Witch intones the Powers’ sacred Creed
That she has sworn to...
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Categories:
gavel, lifeevil,
Form:
Rhyme
What Annoys MeWhat Annoys Me.
The Wedding of Rubbish and Nonsense.
Dearest readers; Please stand, for the big day has arrived
The knot be tied, the vows be said, the promises...
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Categories:
gavel, betrayal,
Form:
Couplet
Loves Trial 4The crowd attending the trial had exceeded the court room’s capacity. some individual were in the halls attempting to listen to the proceedings.
Those who were invited, sat on the front rows. They included...
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Categories:
gavel, fantasy, lost love, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Jealousy“Jealousy”
Jimmy had odds to beat, one he was a black teen and the temptations of big city’s Streets.
But a single black mother’s determination held his attention sternly,
So he had only Minimal interaction with streets.
He...
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Categories:
gavel, abuse, betrayal, celebrity, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
Viva La Elvis - Abridged VersionVIVA LA ELVIS
In Tupelo Mississippi, twin baby boys were born,
To Gladys and Vernon Presley, but sadly one passed on.
They named him Jesse Garon, their hearts so full of pain,
And then came Elvis Aaron, a breath...
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Categories:
gavel, dedicationheart, lost, day, heart, joy, lost,
Form:
Ode
Brick By Bloody Brick"All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others."
—George Orwell
A dozen of chickens and a number of horses, a cat and a raven, a few cows and other hoofed ones—all of which...
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Categories:
gavel, animal, discrimination, horse, proposal,
Form:
Narrative
Epidermal Evidence
It’s skin deep evident,
being black is an inherent crime
It doesn’t matter whether we
peacefully
stand our ground,
or be siren subservient —
Hands in the air,
knees bent
We get shot seven times,
by a six-shooter
In the back of our...
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Categories:
gavel, grief, perspective, truth, violence,
Form:
Elegy
Blue Light Bulbs and a Bottle of Bleach and the Incandescent Must Win -Part 2“Deep, deep, deep. Listen and hear our faint gait.
Sanitation, fluorescent lights, and a PC pillow for smother.
Agree! Agree! Atone! Suck it in and suff-o-cate.
White-ness. Black. Ev’ry creed, faith, and color. Listen to Nanny State and...
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Categories:
gavel, america, farm, political, race, rap, symbolism, war,
Form:
Rhyme