Long Gutted Poems
Long Gutted Poems. Below are the most popular long Gutted by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Gutted poems by poem length and keyword.
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s dreams
rust crumbles to dust
Virulent apathy spreads
Betrayal’s destruction
hand...
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Categories:
gutted, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Fallen
“The Fallen”
Remote,
he sees himself
in the reflection of cold close
yet distant shop windows,
his final journey along the
Hard Time Road
walking alone,
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life
a million knives...
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Categories:
gutted, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
gutted, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
gutted, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
gutted, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Nottingham Girl At The Goose Fair Prt 1Every year In Robin Hood Country Nottingham
There in October, they hold. What is known, as the Goose Fair. It's huge. and goes back centuries, straining the Middle Ages, perhaps even longer.
My pals and I back...
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Categories:
gutted, history, longing,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About RegretRegret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
gutted, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Has a Southern FlavorLove has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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Categories:
gutted, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
Malkavian the SecondThe constant assault of the silence on his senses is intense
Hands clenched in fist he wished for noise and bliss
Buddy stopped talking and drinking he begins pacing as he’s thinking
Tired from walking he...
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Categories:
gutted, dark, drug,
Form:
Alliteration
Small Mutinies
"Small Mutinies"
So what if my point of view
is not that which wraps
you in comfortably warm
fluffed-up silky
cashmere blankets
of insecure insincerity
simple scribbles
bleating from the
chirping crickets
and frog croaking
symphonies
muddying waters
cutting pristine lines...
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Categories:
gutted, halloween, muse, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 8Contemplating on a previous conversation with Job and his wife,
I drew a breath of relief, remembering my humbling purpose
Sin was imminent on my brow, though I was beyond its impetuosity
Suffering dines with long-lived perspective, sharpening...
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Categories:
gutted, adventure, anger, heart, mentor, psychological, romance, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Monochrome Echo Chamber
"The Monochrome Echo Chamber"
How many Roads
to "IT"
Black
as Black & White?
or Unicorns and Rainbows?
Unitarian 1 and only 1
Trinitarian 3 exist in 1
An answer
arrives
unheralded
Reversed in Time
Something
has lit the fuse
Something...
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Categories:
gutted, color, dark, humanity, i am, light, science,
Form:
Narrative
Breath, In Blue
Now watch this video: Planet Earth: Blue Planet II
https://youtu.be/2f9SItUEtJ8
"Breath, in Blue"
Bluebottles broken scattered
shattered legions on the beach of my heart
my blue planet lungs rattle
my breath battered in the honeycomb maze
vanished all my bees belittled forgotten...
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Categories:
gutted, animal, bird, earth, fish, god, humanity, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Opaquest NarrativeIn Michigan, the weather can change for the worst in October.
This particular Halloween came a blizzaring.
The lights went out and in a dark, dark room, candles were lit; therein, the opaquest narrative was captured.
*
With the...
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Categories:
gutted, crazy, dark, deep, fear, grave, halloween, horror,
Form:
Narrative
A Letter To Mother 1918A LETTER TO MOM 1918
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
At Last Dear Mother, this Nightmare Will Cease
In a Few Short Hours There Will Be Lasting Peace
A Full Armistice Will Go into Effect at Eleven
I Loathe These Soiled...
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Categories:
gutted, corruption, grief, horror, leadership, military, mother son,
Form:
Rhyme
Now What Did You DoWhat did you do
once you knew?
We have competition
and cooperation cultures
in dynamic tension
What did you cooperatively do
once you knew?
Green ecosystemic student teachers
asked our healthiest remaining grandparents
How did you consecrate cooperative ownership
and mutually managed
robust water systems?
Aquamarine baptismal...
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Categories:
gutted, caregiving, confusion, corruption, environment, health, journey, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Times getting slower, The worlds getting smaller, The fires slowly burning, Weak knees
Bloody palms, Heat flows past my face, The anger urges Strictness, Wanting deeply to come
out, Hold on, Stop take a breather.
Fake away,
Bring me...
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Categories:
gutted, lifeme, world, pain, people, crazy, day, may,
Form:
I do not know?
SuicideThe day I woke up
I will never forget
Confusion
An enormous pang of guilt hits me in the solar plexus
I curl up into the foetal position
As I remember
The guilt
How can I face it?
Them
Explanations will be expected
I will...
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Categories:
gutted, anxiety, bereavement, deep, depression, obituary, sorry, suicide,
Form:
Sonnet
Cliff JumpingA Fool now stands before me.
He also stands a side a cliff that sprouts dripping orchids and noisy dogs.
My voice has been cut out, like paper Marché dolls, my vocals are laid out in a...
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Categories:
gutted, lifeme, voice, life, me, voice,
Form:
I do not know?
The TownI can remember passing through
this town as a child,
stopping for a pie
on our way north.
Now it’s bypassed – barely more
than a clot lodged
in the spidery veins of a map.
Most of the houses are empty,
the...
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Categories:
gutted, history, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
All For the Love of BetsyThis is a story poem. I call, ALL FOR THE LOVE OF BETSY
ILL start this little story by asking a question,what is love?
They say there is all kinds of love.
This story is about a new...
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Categories:
gutted, love, mystery, nostalgia, wife, heart, night, tree,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Dagger of LifeOh, this life has pierced my soul many times,
thrust me into bottomless pits;
impaled and bleeding- this girl has plummeted down,
falling, tumbling, immersed 'til I am...
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Categories:
gutted, life,
Form:
Verse
Buying CondomsBUYING CONDOMS
I was desperate to buy me some condoms
On a Wednesday morning in June
My girlfriend had made me a promise
And we were meeting up that afternoon
For she'd noticed that in my frustration
My flat....which I kept...
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Categories:
gutted, humor, humorous,
Form:
Quatrain
Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted'Knock, knock' on the door,
But, I won't let you in.
No, no.
The chamber of my heart is closed.
But 'knock, knock' you say.
Oh no!
I am stronger in this position than any other.
A huge 'liquidation' sign hung,
For months...
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Categories:
gutted, funny, lost loveme, heart, heart, me, ,
Form:
Free verse
Reflections ErectionHey you
You that looks like me
I'm supposed to leave you be
And expect the same for me
But the powers that be
Want you to hate me
And for me to hate you
Why is this?
I have no clue
I have...
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Categories:
gutted, america, bullying, conflict, discrimination, future, self, society,
Form:
Rhyme