Long Gripped Poems
Long Gripped Poems. Below are the most popular long Gripped by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Gripped poems by poem length and keyword.
An Adverse World Uncurled“I am NOT like my father!!!
You say that again, I’m going to kill you!”
I shrivel up in shame
For, I am not to blame
For the shenanigans you put me through so many times
Sometimes, I wish I...
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Categories:
gripped, addiction, anger, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Malkavian ThreeHis glowing golden eyes glistened with a comprehension beyond the mortal condition
A well-toned, tall, and tanned man, who most, not all, would call handsome
A brightly bleached stalactite overbite gleaned between the mean features of an...
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Categories:
gripped, dark, psychological,
Form:
Bio
Longing For the StarsMy mind is always a million miles away
I long for a better time...I long for a better day
There’s nothing in this life that turns me on
If it weren’t for Mondo, I’d pass and be gone
I...
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Categories:
gripped, beautiful, conflict, confusion, death,
Form:
I do not know?
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
gripped, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Canto Xvii Hell Translation“Here the fierce with the thin pointed tail,
Who passes mountains and breaks arms and walls!
Here who with stench can the world assail!”
So my duke started to talk with his calls;
And hinted then it to get...
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Categories:
gripped, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Girl With Eyes As Black As CrowsOn that night the moon seemed hidden from her starry brothers
The kind of night not suited for the fighters nor the lovers
I ventured out only to put out the low burning lamp
When there I saw...
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Categories:
gripped, dark, death, fantasy, murder, mythology, night, scary,
Form:
Narrative
My Holy Bible - the Quatrain Style~ My Holy Bible ~
( Quatrain )
~O~
My Holy Bible is very nice.
It tells me that God is true.
It fills my soul with Love Divine
And shows that God loves...
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Categories:
gripped, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Anticipation of RealitySo cramped ...
Strain to move,
Flex and budge in tiny increments ...
That's the limit.
Constantly testing, trying,
Pushing, pressing ...
Constrict, exert, constrict, struggle,
Spin slowly, push ...
That's it. That's all.
Nothing more.
But it helps ... relief,
A body sigh ...
But only...
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Categories:
gripped, birth, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Appear My Queen At the PierAs the life of the day nears its last breath,
With a glow of crimson, forewarning its death,
Upon its cresting, the reflection, daunting,
The sea sets free a beauty, haunting
The depths of its treasures of unknown span,
The...
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Categories:
gripped, beauty, desire, dream, fantasy, inspiration, love, romantic
Form:
Rhyme
My Last Las Vegas CesMy Last Las Vegas C.E.S. (1)
(A Memorial Poem)
I long counted Steve Bristow a friend (1) and we'd fly off to lunch
some days (Steve would get 'hours in' he needed for license - small planes).
It was...
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Categories:
gripped, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Brownian Motion Writ LargeBrownian motion writ large...
within small medium
as light brainstorm doth
hail forth the following poem.
Across the realm of gray matter
slowly percolating within tissue
composed of neuronal, glial
and endothelial cells, and although
there must be biological...
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Categories:
gripped, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, appreciation, business,
Form:
Free verse
Traditional Solitaire potential combinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win today
February 20th, 2024
(eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago
since June 13th, 2021)
original crafting date of following poem,
when yours truly
single handedly trumped computer,
for umpteenth time,
which saw...
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Categories:
gripped, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Traditional Solitaire Potential CombinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (yahoo)
jimmied today August 15th, 2022 single handedly
just before the crack of dawn
with both hands tied behind my back,
and a blindfold worn over my eyes.
While in the midst of...
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Categories:
gripped, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, birth, computer,
Form:
Free verse
How I Became a Street BoyCan a lioness tender care
Cease towards the child she bare
Yes she may be forgetful
Yet I shall never forget you
Words of mom on that fateful day
As she lay there in the most pitiable way
She drew me...
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Categories:
gripped, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Traditional Solitaire Potential CombinationsTraditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (today June 13th, 2021) single handedly
While in the midst of playing solitaire
(with losing outcome foreordained
after a couple moves), I became gripped
with combinations predicated on thirteen...
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Categories:
gripped, adventure, america, fun, heart, history, imagination, literature,
Form:
Free verse
It Appears I'Ve DisappearedA lot of acquaintances deemed me lucky, and I knew I was,
For I had a successful life, when all could have been chaos.
I had a wonderful job that I loved, making plenty of money,
And a...
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Categories:
gripped, art, confusion, fantasy, happiness, imagery, peace, work,
Form:
Couplet
The WallWinnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain,
while she washed away her bloody pain.
Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings it loud, she sings it strong,
walled in where she does...
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Categories:
gripped, birthday, character, child, child abuse, loneliness, lonely,
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:
gripped, heartbreak,
Form:
Sonnet
Our glorious destiny1 Where are we
The path appears as we walk upon it,
crystallising right before our soul’s eye,
enabled for those with resolve and grit,
who to attain God, are ready to die.
If the God-search task seems like...
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Categories:
gripped, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
My Kundalini AwakeningPart-1: Preamble
God loves us, so He split Himself in two
Motionless as space, kinetic as time
Shiva and Shakti; truth known to but few
As the word of God - Om sounded life's chime
God's vibration caused a ripple...
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Categories:
gripped, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Pride and Prejudice: the Lacking MarginsPride and Prejudice: The Lacking Margins
Pride and Prejudice, a passionate novel by Jane Austen, published anonymously in three volumes in 1813. A masterpiece of English literature, composed with penetrating wittiness and exquisite character delineation, it...
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Categories:
gripped, marriage, meaningful, men, muse, sister,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Chapter 162-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: FamilY ActiVitIeS 2Date: July 2051
11 morning time. Party plans in demand
Molly and Dolly birthday was soon to be.
Holly Molly and Dolly was ambitiously
Planning all upcoming birthdays.
Every adult convened in the dining room.
CJ...
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Categories:
gripped, allusion, beautiful, birth, black love, business, child,
Form:
Alliteration
Stressors*last winter break*
I woke up abruptly, my chest gripped and tight. My face felt hot but my arms stung as if frostbitten. I gasped for air that wouldn’t come, as if I had a plastic...
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Categories:
gripped, brother, christmas, dream, growing up, sister, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Immutable Beliefs Upholding My BeingThis Current Life of Mine
Created by the Supreme Almighty for His pleasure, I bear His image with body, soul, and spirit --- fashioned through His...
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Categories:
gripped, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, perspective, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Not a Ballpoint To SleepTHIS IS ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES...
VERSE 1:
Not a Ballpoint To Sleep
I dare blame them for any detriment,
As I care more to rubbish these bait flip men.
So simple having their downfall predistined,
Can sense struggles thrown from their...
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Categories:
gripped, abortion, adventure, judgement,
Form:
Lyric