Long Glib Poems
Long Glib Poems. Below are the most popular long Glib by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Glib poems by poem length and keyword.
Free Verse IiNucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
glib, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
Upon Waking
“Upon Waking”
Slumber has its upsides
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard,
cacophonous
pecking at each other
and at the ground…
Elsewhere,
like dull background noise
through the fog of dream
the sound of the gamble...
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Categories:
glib, gothic, muse, poets,
Form:
Narrative
RevolutionREVOLUTION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
A revolution is much deeper than what the eye can see
An opportunity to rid the land of despotism and tyranny
When any citizen can expose the enemies of the state
Present and judge valid...
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Categories:
glib, betrayal, corruption, evil, fear, irony, power, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Young and StrongYoung and Strong
She was young, she was strong
Working cleaning all the day long
So much to do, but she carried that load
So concerned about everyone, at Kenmore road.
Then we moved, to Strandfontein we came
A new challenge...
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Categories:
glib, bereavement,
Form:
ABC
Lifeboat the EndPart 10
The Sun high above was swiftly given a shove
As the Moon appeared to swallow the night.
And with another miserable day... just hours away,
They all slept to...
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Categories:
glib, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
A Psalm To Solemnize Pure Tin Forefathers MothersA psalm to solemnize pure tin forefathers/mothers...
Who didst unknowingly, unquestionably,
and unwittingly script vitality
and the prologue to Thanksgiving,
(which theme poem initially written)
about three hundred and ninety seven years,
and nine months after February third 1621,
yet...
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Categories:
glib, adventure, africa, age, america, animal, autumn, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Blarney Stone Collab-MORE ADDITIONSIf anyone would like to have some community fun,
please send me a limerick(s) in a comment or soup mail.
The famous Blarney Stone, some can't resist
When in Ireland, it's on tourist's checklist
But do...
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Categories:
glib, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Love BurialThe burial ground, groomed to greet
the gatherers of their love apocalypse
with garlands grown and sown
from the rose fire of Athena's throne,
on this day they come to mourn
the Poet who perished for the passion of...
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Categories:
glib, cute love, endurance, love, universe,
Form:
Epic
Crawling Toward My GraveI'm barely crawling toward my grave
And lucky to have come this far!
A life lived mostly not a knave,
Or specimen in someone's jar.
It's not so easy to stay clear
Of folks who'd label us at...
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Categories:
glib, anti bullying, humor, life, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Lady KathleenShe crossed a wide ocean, during war times, in danger
A life of adventure, of courage, of fear
Yet, nothing reveals the hint of the years
that have chiseled her wrinkles, but not dampened her cheer
She pours me...
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Categories:
glib, friend, history, people,
Form:
Epic
A Conversation With Walter Mitty“Azure blue sky dreamer.
Where you bound today of mystifying days?
Can you hear me through that enigmatic fog?
Your Milky Way incarnate hyper trance phase.”
“Fellow wonderland adventurer.
I’ve been pole vaulting otherworldly golden orb frontiers.
As I...
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Categories:
glib, art, beautiful, celebration, character, fantasy, humor, nice,
Form:
Rhyme
A Rational Ethics With Pickles On the Side"Imagination is as imagination does."
-- a poet of a truly handsome imagination
* * *
On every "Help! Oh, help! I'm in a Pickle!" Pickle Day,
Ms. Superhero Fancy one true super-duper fay
along with...
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Categories:
glib, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
The Drowning Machine
"The Drowning Machine"
Pulled from my mouth
a string of raw gold to build a tower
built from one understanding
a united ziggurat of words sucked
backwards played before broken mirrors
translated anti-clockwise slow speed all that babel
an alter laid down...
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Categories:
glib, dark, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Prevarication Invites Animadversion Plus AggravationAfter beguiling charisma,
damnable excoriations fixedly,
gamely, horribly, insult jesting,
kibitzing, loosely mindless nattering,
outlandish pablum, quintessentially
representing senseless trumpeting,
unswervingly vapid wordy
X-DOUBLE-MINUS
yawping zest.
If ye did not already guess from thee
above blimey claptrap, Das English flap
doodle glib human incorporates jokingly,
kookily,...
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Categories:
glib, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Light Verse
Prayer Solemnizing VitalityWise no adulation, dedication and gratification
not emphasized the other three hundred and sixty four days a year
question their role as consumed end product of taxidermist,
gnome hatter clucks...
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Categories:
glib, adventure, america, boat, courage, endurance, power, religious,
Form:
Epic
Who Are We At Our CoreAn evanescent bouquet of skewed briars,
is how a tinsel laden tawdry essence wickedly unfolds,
scuppered signpost to a fetid human compost,
faint light pendant on soul crushed quantum migrant,
who might chortle at vivid veil flimsy vacuum,
skirt recklessly...
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Categories:
glib, art, beautiful, beauty, care, character, courage, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
A Poetic ConscienceDan Cwiak - Dedicated to *** Constance ***
The Rambling Poet's work titled: Throbbing...
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Categories:
glib, confusion, devotion, friendship, introspection, on writing and
Form:
Acrostic
The Meaning of LifeI might be able to bring an end to all of the world’s turmoil and strife,
Because I think that I have stumbled upon the one true meaning of life.
It seems it all began a long...
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Categories:
glib, funny, life, baby, me, baby, life, me,
Form:
Light Verse
Unknown BirdAs I searched the calm sunless afternoon sky- looking for the humming aeroplane;
piercing the layers of patch sky under the fie-
shade of undense orange sapling,
as the effulge plane became fainter-
the hum louder; and the pale...
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Categories:
glib, best friend, bird,
Form:
Elegy
FeminizedFeminized
“This subversion was accomplished by taking advantage of two kinds of vulnerability that women raised in our society tend to have. The first is the quality of self-sacrifice, a learned willingness to set their own...
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Categories:
glib, angst, men, relationship, society, women,
Form:
Verse
Gibbering Jabbering Gibberish Haint No Recipe To Sound GlibOfttimes yours truly assiduously tries to adlib,
but blubbers like a landlubber
at sea treading water donned with bib
(that doubles as yellow
spongy bobbing life jacket)
furiously doing doggy paddle
riding the next tidal wave
hoop fully washing me ashore to...
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Categories:
glib, addiction, assonance, blessing, confusion, destiny, happiness, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Flag On MountainI guess you're seeing a flag?
Trouble comes and go,
The range of my eyes captures all black
Walk with me if life is without you alone,
Steal an emblem to save a city,
When we don't know where to...
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Categories:
glib, adventure,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Cries From the River NunA glib giant of the river borders
The discerning ears of the ancient Power, we mourn
Where caravans cascade to unseen voices
And the rumbling of avalanche bullets invades our peace
This mind captured it...
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Categories:
glib, analogy, anger, character, chocolate, community, conflict, confusion,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Day of His ExecutionTHE DAY OF HIS EXECUTION
(The Musings Of Doctor H. H. Holmes)
By Roy Merritt
I had the devil in me since the day that I came along
I could no more stop killing than the poet inspired...
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Categories:
glib, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Nuttin Boot Mieskeit GoyimNuttin boot mieskeit goyim...
lives among this nebbish atheist of Jewish ancestry
Tongue in cheek Yiddish
humor to playfully scold
often time sounds
like a compliment
yours truly, (a run
of the mill Shlimazel) behold
only knows a smidgen,
yet grew up within household
where...
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Categories:
glib, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme