Long Handbook Poems
Long Handbook Poems. Below are the most popular long Handbook by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Handbook poems by poem length and keyword.
No Part of the World
NO PART OF THE WORLD (Part 1)
Have you read Jesus words at John 17:16?
Referring to his disciples he said
"They are no part of THE WORLD, just as I am no part of THE WORLD"
What could...
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Categories:
handbook, bible, christian, god, gospel, hate, humanity, truth,
Form:
Didactic
The Beginding
(Door bell rings)
— The damn dog barks and a voice is heard. Arms stretch, forming a letter Y. A head shakes. Dimples become this smooth cheek; lips form a letter O... Exhaled respiration sighs; the break of...
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Categories:
handbook, adventure, allusion, analogy, animal, appreciation, art, assonance,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sonnet 18 and me!
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake and darling buds of May and summer's lease hath all too short a day. Sometimes too hot the...
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Categories:
handbook, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, bible, blessing, future,
Form:
Rhyme
Miracle Ova Fertilized Cell
Miracle ova fertilized cell...
Yielded pink bundle of joy
self determined autonomous millennial
relocated University of Pennsylvania
Engineering graduate class of 2019
calls Oakland, California home
(employed at Certified B Corporation)
lives with her lovely beau,
and two beautiful tortoiseshell cats.
December twenty second
two...
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Categories:
handbook, adventure, angel, anniversary, anxiety, beautiful, birthday, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
You Want To and Can Write Poetry
Dear budding poet,
Regarding modern poetry this is a result of poets such as you redesigning forms of poetry written through the ages by different nationalities, famous and just ordinary people like you and me.
When composing...
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Categories:
handbook, age, devotion, imagination, me, poetry,
Form:
Prose
How Will They Remember Us
How will they remember us
Those born after the war.
What will they say about us.
Will they fully grasp the level of our sell out
Our denial of simple pleasures to our children,
Not letting them know...
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Categories:
handbook, allusion, anger, anxiety, bereavement, betrayal, bullying, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Litany of Cat Complaints
LITANY OF CAT COMPLAINTS
Why so glum Rusty? Offered Max as a tentative
One-no-trump opener.
Well, it’s all down to you guys ...
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Categories:
handbook, cat, good night,
Form:
Free verse
An Uncanny Truth
A few also rented words by David Archuletta:
"A Writing style technique that hides with an evasiveness, while still long steeped in confusion."
The above Copyrighted and Trademarked sentence shouts of compound meaning. Both of which,...
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Categories:
handbook, allegory, allusion,
Form:
Prose
Satire and the Soul
I've been a bit free with the vitriol with a couple of poems recently, and need to check myself. Some months ago I met a bard, Kevan Manwaring. In his book, the Bardic...
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Categories:
handbook, judgement, mystery, poets, psychological, satire, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
A Very Rude Awakening
My dream was such that I just didn’t want to be awake
When an unexpected change in tone caused my good mood to break
As my Buena Vista faded ‘neath a penetrating...
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Categories:
handbook, funny,
Form:
Quatrain
The Merchant Handbook
When in Spring with leaves turned to green
Eyes, hands & face
There lived one man with a thirst
To live in the moment between space & time
Selling his pots and pans to get by
Although the years would...
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Categories:
handbook, art,
Form:
Free verse
I Am Here To Serve
I walked into my school at noon one day, straight from a bland boring counseling meeting and no one was there.
No receptionist, no secretary, no nurse, no vice principal, no custodian, oh, where were they,...
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Categories:
handbook, school, teacher, teachers day,
Form:
Free verse
Complicated
Is all relationships complicated or is it just mine? Or is complicated even the word I'm looking for that's unknown just like my thoughts n questions I torture myself wit!! Am I good enough will...
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Categories:
handbook, anxiety, change, confusion, pain, relationship, sad love,
Form:
Bio
Pain As a Hobby Iv
You went off the screen
Never to be seen
Can’t find you on google
You don’t even tweet
Like Tweet
I feel like smoking cigarettes
No, I’d rather scream
But who will hear me
Because it makes a...
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Categories:
handbook, life, satire, words, hope, me,
Form:
I do not know?
December 22nd 1996 Second Half
an irrevocable positive transformation occurred
within and without
the world according to Matthew Scott Harris
got mussed and stirred.
No longer central focus of mein kampf,
NON...
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Categories:
handbook, absence, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful, birthday, daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Communication
I feel your always mad at me, Nothing I say ever feels ok. Nothing I do, is ever suffice for you. I always feel like your putting me down, never once are you proud of...
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Categories:
handbook, family, husband, marriage, truth, wife,
Form:
ABC
GNRT DAY 37 MONTREAL AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE FRENCH
How can you not love the language, the accent…
they way they form their words in France?
How French words flow so easily…linger in the air…and dance
Luckily we didn’t have to go to France…
to hear their language...
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Categories:
handbook, language, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Code Blue
I get a severe case of ghetto epilepsy
when it goes skin dark at night
Get a bad reaction ... very violently,
to any rearview flashing lights
Hear the loud siren behind,
see the shiny badges moving towards...
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Categories:
handbook, dark, discrimination, metaphor, truth, violence,
Form:
Ode
The Bible
Since I began reading God's word
I've come to a definite conclusion
It doesn't matter what I've heard
It puts and end to all confusion
Everyone reads every now and then
For current events or...
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Categories:
handbook, bible,
Form:
Verse
As I Walk This Graveyard Somber
As I walk this graveyard somber
Of a country shorn of life
Its gravestone reads, in the distance yonder
Stabbed by debt’s dagger knife
Our Founding Fathers, like demigods
Of a past enlightened age
Founded this nation, with musket rods ...
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Categories:
handbook, america, patriotic,
Form:
Quatrain
This Is Just a Test
just in case
ever comes
a day they
decide to
warm up
the cold
war for
that's
what
it
seems so
today for
i'm practicing
retirement in
preparation
last night i
stayed up
as late as
i liked
having
in mind to not
set an alarm
clock just
wake when
it felt like
it's time
never
mind
ing
to
call the first
food...
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Categories:
handbook, muse,
Form:
I do not know?
Probably Whining
Whining, it happens when blizzards come calling
Grabbing a jacket I walk down the stairs
Beside the window where winter is lurking
Waiting about as if nobody cares
Coating the trees with a cottony fabric
Not quite as warm as...
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Categories:
handbook, fun, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
The Phone Number In the Big Book
I think it’s funny when in the thrift store I see
An Alcoholics Anonymous handbook donated to charity
With the former owner’s full name on the front, page sides, and spine
And even a return address label on...
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Categories:
handbook, addiction, books, cute, drink, giggle, humorous, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Duplicity
Duplicity
Is there a person present beyond the plastic shell?
The AI generation exemplifies artificiality
The same plastic makeup that is prevalent in humans.
Are we people, or are we robots with artificial intelligence?
Devoid of real feeling and emotion,...
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Categories:
handbook, adventure, africa, allegory, allusion, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
He Supposed He Was a Self-Made Man
He often thought to himself
that he has been too quickly assembled
that he should have taken more time
for the busy hands of his constructing mind
to fill-in the flaws, smooth-out the cracks,
properly tightened the loosely screwed together
parts...
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Categories:
handbook, poetry,
Form:
Free verse