Long Happenstance Poems
Long Happenstance Poems. Below are the most popular long Happenstance by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Happenstance poems by poem length and keyword.
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
happenstance, memory,
Form:
Prose
A Day Under the Sun
Blue Hunter's Moon of the Festival of Lights.
And the day of Vengeance of our Holy One to comfort all those who mourn.
Isaiah 61:3-11
I Proclaim the acceptable Generation or Year and Day of Yehoshua also known...
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Categories:
happenstance, blue, earth day, faith, growth, moon, rainbow,
Form:
Prose
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...
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Categories:
happenstance, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
A Walk On the Beach
I went again today ... to that place, the allurement overwhelming ... the one
we called "ours" so tritely, "mine" before you, "mine" again now, (tho' others
have doubtless staked claimed - ages before and since). I...
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Categories:
happenstance, heartbreak, lost love, ocean, passion, solitude, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
The Dancing: the Last Dance
Was it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
happenstance, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and right alm
seeking succor Out Of Human Bondage
invisibles shackles bind head,
shoulders, knees and...
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Categories:
happenstance, abuse, age, angst, anxiety, city, depression, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Visit to Heaven
I dreamed I went to heaven,
...
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Categories:
happenstance, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Glory To Thermodynamics In General
Glory to thermodynamics in general...
and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly
spoiled with trappings
of Western Civilization.
How ideal I imagine
to dwell in a self sufficient domicile,
where thrum of the central heater...
automatically activated
upon...
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Categories:
happenstance, adventure, appreciation, april, community, courage, desire, light,
Form:
Rhyme
Deprived Of Your Love -When My Life Changed
Glib rhetoric concerned with striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegrating in rapid spasms,
a longing sated and mutually embraced by two compatible persons...
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Categories:
happenstance, break up, courage, cry, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Captivated By the Music
I loved my job as a librarian, and today I was walking to work,
In the warmth of a summer morning, when golden butterflies lurk.
I had some extra time, and it happens I took the scenic...
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Categories:
happenstance, beauty, fantasy, imagery, music, nature, song, summer,
Form:
Couplet
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
Psyche wracked with agony
impossible mission to extricate lovely bones
they wanna remain permanently abed.
I chiefly function to amass knowledge
courtesy assiduously, habitually,
and judiciously reading
an eclectic assortment of written material.
Yours truly woke
with ambition, disposition,
inclination,...
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Categories:
happenstance, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence, age, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
War Is a War Crime
Once wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...
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Categories:
happenstance, war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades of Oblivion, a Trilogy
Predator Antiqua Multis Versus Respiciens Tempus
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades Of Oblivion
Part I
I watched midnight sun fall into dark shades of oblivion
with its dying light screaming in agonizing moans
upon bloody battlefields of...
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Categories:
happenstance, appreciation, art, birth, blessing, time, truth, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
A Mirroring Saga of Being Not You
(Apropos Of A School-Day Happenstance)
There she stood on the edge
of the cliff of loneliness—her
tiny eyes staring out into space.
As I cautiously approached her,
I softly asked if everything was ok.
She replied that everything was fine;
that...
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Categories:
happenstance, allegory, girl, hyperbole, inspirational, loneliness, metaphor, middle
Form:
Prose Poetry
Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th, 2004
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004
Often these days
(closing in on the eighth
anniversary of eighth orbit
around mister sun),
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share
how one and only...
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Categories:
happenstance, absence, anger, atheist, courage, death, fate, may,
Form:
Free verse
A Letter To Future Me
A LETTER TO ‘FUTURE ME’
Dear ‘Future Me’
...
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Categories:
happenstance, how i feel, inspirational, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
My Kundalini Awakening
Part-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:
happenstance, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
dichotomy -
yeah, right ...
do you really think I believe that?
that I'll swallow that pill?
look at the damn lines on this brow ...
do you think they were etched
by happenstance??
not even CLOSE, sweetheart
I earned those ragged rivulets one-by-one
and...
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Categories:
happenstance, analogy, break up, conflict, forgiveness, love, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Advice To the Earthling, From What You Would Call An Alien Being
From all worlds and time’s eternal outer reaches,
Where the Creator is perceived to dwell.
You try to learn what your told He teaches,
Regarding Life, the Universe, Heaven and Hell.
The soul is a precious, beautiful place,
Where you...
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Categories:
happenstance, allusion, analogy, earth, extended metaphor, judgement, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
She Hasn'T Killed Me Yet
She Hasn't Killed me yet
58.
...
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Categories:
happenstance, blessing, humanity, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, nee Kuritsky gave up the ghost May 5th, 2004
Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004
Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz twenty years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal...
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Categories:
happenstance, absence, adventure, appreciation, destiny, journey, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
Cladestine
THE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.
Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined...
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Categories:
happenstance, corruption, death of a friend, depression, emotions,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Glory To Thermodynamics
and spoils of Western Civilization.
Thrum of the central heater...
manually activated upon advent of twilight
(since yours truly not resident within "smart home"),
nevertheless warm cockles and muscles
appreciate basking, and luxuriating,
within climate controlled environment,
whether bone chilling deep freeze...
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Categories:
happenstance, adventure, earth, green, heaven, inspiration, journey, light,
Form:
Free verse
While Daydreaming About Timepiece Inventors
While daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022
How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
and I would be hard pressed
to differentiate one moment
from the next without the...
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Categories:
happenstance, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, creation, december,
Form:
Free verse
I Remember Yesterday, I Remember You
I remember yesterdays
...
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Categories:
happenstance, angst, anti bullying, children, depression, judgement, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme