Long Hatchet Poems
Long Hatchet Poems. Below are the most popular long Hatchet by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Hatchet poems by poem length and keyword.
Death Watch
Death Watch
It was early morning.
The sun was barely above the high hills on the other side of the lake.
I was at the end of the dock slowly reeling in my line.
I could see fish jumping...
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Categories:
hatchet, death, father, poetry, sick, drug,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Heart Made Hatchet -2
Hannah, I haven't seen or heard you cry
not in the gray of winter day
or in the cold silence of our prisoner nights,
the others can hardly keep up with you on the marches
your face is changeless...
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Categories:
hatchet, america,
Form:
Epic
June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago
June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago
The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox Court House,...
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Categories:
hatchet, america, anxiety, crush, evil, humanity, november, racism,
Form:
Free verse
The Day Murphy Came To Town
One day in early summer Murphy the Irishman came to town,
He rode upon a matted mule , his face was burnt and brown,
The corks that hung from his bushman's hat persuaded flies to keep away,
But...
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Categories:
hatchet, humorous,
Form:
Verse
Road Trip ,Short Horror Story
Driving with my best friend is the best. Music all the way up, singing like I'm in my own rock band, no worries, just free with life. Seeing an old abandoned house up the street.
jenny...
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Categories:
hatchet, abuse, death, deep, evil, hate, sin,
Form:
ABC
Give Peace a Chance Part 2
Yet Africa is
expected to fall in
line
With speed and
alacrity
Or be headed back to
Europe
For much deserved
censure
And sanitization in
the heart
Of brutish Europe!
Have we not seen
them in action
At Treblinka and
Auschwitz, brother
With their atomic
bombs in Hiroshima
With their...
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Categories:
hatchet, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Just One More Time Before We Part And Say Goodbye
Sometimes
When we have a loving relationship
Life gets in the way
The pressures of work money worries
Piles of unpaid bills
Not enough time for each other
The relationship erodes and folds
You try but you go separate ways
When we were...
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Categories:
hatchet, absence, conflict, cry, goodbye, heartbreak, sorry,
Form:
Free verse
A Heart Made Hatchet -1
I've never seen a baby so merry as Martha...
They say March newborns are bellwethers for blissful Springs Mary...
Hannah, Haverhill has been a hard place to call home
I'm sorry about Elizabeth's hanging,
Thomas has honored you...
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Categories:
hatchet, america,
Form:
Epic
Birth of the Word Witch
What say you naive with all your poultice,
foolish fervor to your reverie!?”
“Mark me damned...
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Categories:
hatchet, dark, death, evil, gothic, horror, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania Circa Early 1970's
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania circa early 1970'S
(just in time for end of summer reading...
recounting emotionally disastrous campy turbulence)
intended food for thought indulgence.
A boys' life aborted
miscarried golden opportunity
for adolescent romance to be courted.
Amidst a raft of fellow...
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Categories:
hatchet, 7th grade, 8th grade, adventure, age, america,
Form:
Rhyme
An Unholy Christmas Mash Up
The snow lay thick; the snow lay flat
Upon my roof, a pitter pat
A reindeer or an alley cat?
Sure ain’t Santa… can’t be that
For midnight came and midnight went
So, clearly Santa wasn’t sent…
Who pitter patters as...
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Categories:
hatchet, christmas, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
The Branches
Thorns and prickles dangle at the root of the tree and the temperature is shouting at a hundred and seventy degree; destiny is baking a global cake and you have to get your slice before...
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Categories:
hatchet, business, career, color, creation, culture, earth, i
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 8a
CHAPTER 8 Two Paths
North they travelled through the jungle
Aiming to escape from forest
Seeking an itinerary
Near the coast in open country
So they climbed a wooded hilltop;
Han attained the top-most branches
Of a mighty towering ironwood
To survey the...
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Categories:
hatchet, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 3c4a
CHAPTER 3c continued
Till he happened to encounter
A much stronger river hunter
Hideous Jurassic lizard
Pulled him down with no returning
Other crocodiles converging
Made straight lines like silver arrows
Churned and twisted in the water
Then the other three turned...
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Categories:
hatchet, adventure, africa, fantasy, history, mythology, science,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 1b 2
But the mood of celebration
Lasted only for a short time
Very few returned to thank them
Han and Matto found this puzzling
Chapter 2 BLOOD MOON
Through the days and nights that followed
Spread a...
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Categories:
hatchet, adventure, africa, betrayal, history, mythology, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Winter's Edge 13
Centered in the irregular rectangle of the caves entrance the fire popped and danced as the snow fell lazily before the backdrop of pines.Softly the wind moaned above the tree line.Francis sat on their makeshift...
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Categories:
hatchet, winter, words,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 6e 7a
CHAPTER 6 (e, continued)
Though without communication
Spoken in symbolic language
Their gorilla hosts perceived it
And made ready for the parting
In a solemn mood of sadness
All the hominids assembled
In the clearing in the jungle
Where they had repulsed the...
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Categories:
hatchet, adventure, africa, history, identity, mythology, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 6b
CHAPTER 6 b (continued...)
Glowing insects and night-crawlers
Shuffling on the ground below them
Moments later they were sleeping
Near their hominid companions
In our present day, gorillas
Tend to sleep near to ground level
But their Pleistocene forefathers
Nested...
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Categories:
hatchet, adventure, africa, animal, community, history, mythology, science,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 3b
Chapter 3 THE RIVER continued (b)
Carefully they placed the children
In the small canoe amidships;
Pushing out into the current
Han swam alongside to guide them
Kwona, as she stood and waited
On the shore now took the...
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Categories:
hatchet, adventure, africa, fantasy, history, mythology, science,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 10b
CHAPTER 10b, Hiatus, continued
Till a pebble thrown by Matto
Struck the creature on its forehead
And it hissed in indignation
Slinking off into the darkness
When the morning sun resurfaced
In a spectral ocean sunrise...
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Categories:
hatchet, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Skipping Kidney Stones
Did you even want to be found?
I took my shackles off and formed a search and rescue team
But did you even want to be found?
You’ve been running all your life I think you’ve aced...
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Categories:
hatchet, appreciation, best friend, environment, fantasy, freedom, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania Circa Early 1970s
(just in time for summer reading...
recounting emotionally disastrous campy turbulence)
Amidst a raft of fellow (Brandywine Valley
Y.M.C.A) resident campers
who, didst excitedly quiver
donning a "NON FAKE" lifejacket
...
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Categories:
hatchet, 7th grade, 8th grade, 9th grade, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
The Teenage Body After Suicide
The human being
(also referred throughout history
as 'long pig' and 'hairless goat'
in the case of younger specimens)
Observing the anatomy and skeleton,
one can see that the human animal
after death young tender meat.
The large central pelvis and broad...
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Categories:
hatchet, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
hatchet, family, funny,
Form:
Shape
Getting Juried Out
We three teachers were taking a painting class.
Mr.G, the teacher was new, fresh, nervous.
Asked us if we would please let him put our paintings into an art show.
Kitchia was reluctant, but Margo and I handed...
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Categories:
hatchet, art,
Form:
Narrative