Long Hard to tell Poems
Long Hard to tell Poems. Below are the most popular long Hard to tell by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Hard to tell poems by poem length and keyword.
Caregiving Stories ContinuedWounded Sacred Dementia
My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.
My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...
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Categories:
hard to tell, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
America Wasn'T So Bad Back ThenWe have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when...
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Categories:
hard to tell, america,
Form:
Prose
On Fam'Ly Traditions - 2nd ThirdOn Fam’ly Traditions - 2nd third -
“Might as well grab us some food an' some beer...some ice...and some bundles o' wood, an' prob'ly some charcoal....there ain't nothin' better than walleye from right off a...
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Categories:
hard to tell, family, together,
Form:
Narrative
Epilogueif you have taken the time to browse through this eclectic collection of self-indulgent foolishness, I hope you’ve been entertained by the quirkiness of its content, or at the very least, annoyed by the pervasiveness...
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Categories:
hard to tell, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
50th Class Reunion - Class of 1935All the guys and gals that I had graduated with, from Jimmy Dorsey High School, back in 1935,
Half a century later were dispersing all around us, surprising me with whom among my class was still...
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Categories:
hard to tell, high school,
Form:
Narrative
My CompilationMany of my favorite poems
How About This for Veterans Day
A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past successes and prices they had to...
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Categories:
hard to tell, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
Isadore Lemaster - Both Audio and TextIsadore LeMaster was a kind and friendly person, who never spoke in haste or told a lie.
The finest vet that Oxford ever had - the guy was special - and if you’ve got the time…I’ll...
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Categories:
hard to tell, inspirational, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Many of My Favorite PoemsHow About This for Veterans Day
A monthly Monday morning military meeting
Would be great for them as way of greeting
Talking about things happening another day
Of past successes and prices they had to pay.
Enlisted Term of Service...
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Categories:
hard to tell, allegory, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
False Alarm - Both Audio and TextOn a cold and misty morning…cloudy…dark…and gray, I woke up very early…couldn’t sleep.
I’d lain awake much longer than I usually did that night…I’d even tried that good old counting sheep.
As I read the nearby clock...
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Categories:
hard to tell, humor,
Form:
Verse
In Touch With My SoulI feel the aftermath of sadness written upon my heart
It's the feeling you get when no one is communicating with you
And you have to read the signs and wonders to know what is happening around...
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Categories:
hard to tell, 3rd grade, endurance, england, loneliness, power, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Its Always the MoneyITS ALWAYS THE MONEY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
It’s always the money I’m saddened to say
Put your hand in someone’s pocket its time to pay
When it’s not the money, it’s a crusade
Or revenge for a crime that was...
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Categories:
hard to tell, allegory, corruption, evil, humanity, introspection, money,
Form:
Rhyme
A Punny DeathA Coffee Merchant was the first man to find,
The corpse as he started off on his daily grind!
What he saw filtered through, so he had grounds
To send for the Police, to investigate what he'd found!
He’d...
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Categories:
hard to tell, allegory,
Form:
Narrative
A Well-Known Stranger'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst my heartbeat halted, quavered,
At my window I was favoured by...
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Categories:
hard to tell, absence, assonance, feelings, miss you, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Quy Nhon and the Tet OffensiveQuy Nhon and The Tet Offensive
By Franklin Price
9/2/2018
Quy Nhon and the Tet offensive, more than fifty years ago
That Chinese New Year changed our world and most its ebb and flow
Until that day the boonies were...
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Categories:
hard to tell, memory, new year, war,
Form:
Couplet
The Equalizer - Both Audio and TextThe “Equalizer”
Late last night, at Billy-Bob’s, this little dude...
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Categories:
hard to tell, humor,
Form:
Verse
The WaitressWe came walking blind bends at dusk,
An overhanging fig picked fresh.
No pavements, just a nervous trust
that drivers would skirt our single line.
Hugging the roadside with torches lit,
Phones swung glowing to the ground...
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Categories:
hard to tell, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Canto Xxiv Dante's Hell Translation Part1In the early part of the novel year
When in Aquarium sun anneals hair
And nights already at noon disappear,
When the hoarfrost makes ground a cover wear
Creating image of her sister white,
But it then short...
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Categories:
hard to tell, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Mean In GreenI stood on the corner this morning
Absorbing the fresh morning air
listening attentively to the morning news
That has everyone so upset and confused
The morning sun is just peeping out
with its orange and yellowish color
Stirring lazy bodies...
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Categories:
hard to tell, confidence, emotions, encouraging, endurance, green, humanity, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Friends You'Ve Never Mentioned Before - Both Audio and Text“Who was that?” my wife inquired, as I hung up the phone. “And what was that you said about a bar?”
“That was Duncan Taylor, hon. A darn good friend of mine. ...
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Categories:
hard to tell, humor,
Form:
Verse
The Adventures of Captain MorganWell, it all started when
Jim Beam bet Jack Daniels
that Captain Morgan
couldn't go out
and get himself
some Wild Turkey.
Old Fashioned, like Old Granddad,
Captain Morgan like some of you,
really enjoys his Southern Comfort.
But mostly in the form of...
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Categories:
hard to tell, drink, fantasy, friendship, humor, irony, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
The Sun is Shining AgainThe sun is shining in the east with petals opening bright, spreading its fragrance into the light and an epiphany of hope resting on the branches swinging from limb to limb while my heart entertains...
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Categories:
hard to tell, america, body, change, community, deep, environment, loss,
Form:
Narrative
Passing the BatonDespite how much a man adores his folks before they pass...there sometimes is... among the other folks that man survives...
The sort who - without needing to be asked, becomes involved, and simply out of kindness...
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Categories:
hard to tell, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Girl On the HillThe Girl On The Hill
I know of a girl who sits on a hill
Her skin is pale and her hair is silk
I walk past her everyday and almost every night
And sometimes I stop...
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Categories:
hard to tell, crazy, dark, death, deep, evil, murder, sick,
Form:
Rhyme
Charity and SorrowEverywhere "Charity" goes he brings his friend along" Sorrow ".
No good deed goes unpunished so it seems;
Between friends and enemies Its hard to tell the difference these days. ...
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Categories:
hard to tell, relationship, universe,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Tracing Lines of FrostAt the onset,
A profound peace.
In chastity to silence,
Our days of joy were born.
The lines were clear-
Or so it seemed.
We chose redundancy,
One voice, one choice.
Like a bouquet of flowers,
We were held together,
Our hands, our...
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Categories:
hard to tell, love,
Form:
Free verse