Long Honed Poems
Long Honed Poems. Below are the most popular long Honed by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Honed poems by poem length and keyword.
Fairer, IndeedWOMEN ...
Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of end-
urance known to our species - yet they have the
self-confidence...
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Categories:
honed, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poems ViPoems about Poems VI
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood?
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the Muse
with reprimands of Dr. Seuss.
The...
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Categories:
honed, extended metaphor, heaven, muse, passion, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Verse IiiSalve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
sometimes we still touch,
laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...
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Categories:
honed, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part OneRosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz
Prologue
This is a rather grim epic poetic tale of Rosalia, a 16th century German witch who terrorized villages, destroyed the lives and corrupted the souls of many...
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Categories:
honed, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl KovalovichAce colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich
revisited January 23rd, 2024
on the evening before yours truly
(the one and only Matthew Scott Harris),
a stand up comic wannabe, who
historically heartily hales
from Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
undergoes oh joy rapture colonoscopy.
Three days...
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Categories:
honed, angel, anxiety, appreciation, birthday, blessing, death, health,
Form:
Free verse
Crop Failure - Bitter HarvestThe past can’t tell the future; I'd almost forgotten this,
The past six years had brought me higher yields than average,
Though expectations soared, now nada, nothing, zilch.
Our wheat fields decimated from the lack of rain.
And those...
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Categories:
honed, anti bullying, bible, faith, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Jeni and Her Army Trigger Warning AbuseThis is the story of Jeni Haynes, whose father inflicted horrific physical and sexual abuse on her from the age of four years old. As a result she created over 2000 alter egos to get...
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Categories:
honed, abuse, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Richard Mcgeehan PoemRichard Mcgeehan Poem
Poetic license I employ
to match inventive
wisdom and witticism
regarding (brother in law of mine
husband of eldest sister of same)
interspersing, initiating, incorporating
fabrication whenever possible,
and only the subject himself
can discern fact from fiction
and get a...
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Categories:
honed, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation, birthday, celebration, confidence,
Form:
Free verse
Each Day of Our LivesEach day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minerals,
‘cheap’s’ turned to ‘gold,’ not by Chemistry’s...
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Categories:
honed, humor, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Ace Colonoscopy Doctors Kellen Karl Kovalovich and Larry BorowskyAce colonoscopy doctors Kellen Karl Kovalovich
and Larry Borowsky
Though necessary to down:
four Dulcolax laxative tablets,
quaff half 238 gram bottle of Miralax
over span of eight hours,
and if necessary even one Fleets Enema,
I...
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Categories:
honed, adventure, age, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, care, death,
Form:
Free verse
What I'Ve Gone ThroughDon’t you ever feel insecure?
Don’t you ever feel like your worthless?
Will I ever find some sort of cure?
Will I survive this feeling of hopelessness?
There are ghosts in the shadows
You got me with your many blows
Felt...
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Categories:
honed, deep, depression, desire, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 32“What concerns you,” he asked?
“This one looks much like his kin, has he inherited other aspects of his father as well?”
“Do you mean magic?”
The guard...
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Categories:
honed, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
With Eternal Sent Bliss Two Hearts Reborn - a Collaboration With Susan AshleyWith Eternal Sent Bliss Two Hearts Reborn - a collaboration with Susan Ashley
Under the midnight moon, romance waited
its true heart and beauty, with love baited
for dawning gleam across powdered snow
and she her handsome soldier to...
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Categories:
honed, art, creation, destiny, devotion, heart, inspirational, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
A Harlem Hoodlum Albeit RespectableA Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)...
ready for night time in bedlam
after swallowing me favorite dram,
cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam.
Whiling away his time playing solitaire...
initially prepped, honed, and crafted
November second two thousand and twenty
slightly tweaked February nineteenth
two...
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Categories:
honed, anger, city, corruption, education, february, freedom, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Bring On the Rejection SlipsBring on the rejection slips...
and/or try distilling my spirits
at losing gamble
if curious (by George) proceed
reading reasonable rhyme,
I guarantee the following words ramble.
Though flush with good humor
pun one mock two yields negligible
true cash equivalent value won
dirt...
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Categories:
honed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
To See Or Not To SeeTO SEE OR NOT TO SEE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I’ve an important story that I need to share today
There are several endings, you’ll have the final say
It’s about a young man born without his sight
Living every moment...
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Categories:
honed, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, future, introspection, self,
Form:
Rhyme
Shape of the Perfect OneWhen a little girl, ...
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Categories:
honed, character, destiny, fantasy, love, true love, truth,
Form:
Shape
Veil of Evil - Jimmy SavileOh, if only ...
If only monsters ...
LOOKED like monsters.
If they lurked ONLY in the dark,
Glowing red eyes and chiseled teeth ...
Claws and horns and forked tails,
...
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Categories:
honed, abuse, anger, child abuse, evil, horror,
Form:
Free verse
Peripeteia PersonifiedWhat mountain’s top holds truth’s last stand,
its vista viewed as life’s specific grandeur;
promised above earth’s horizon,
soon home to you, this present era’s raconteur;
prized perch upon and soon so manned,
spirits to...
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Categories:
honed, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Her Story of WhyThese are her stories of why; the sad excuses of mother's life;
Her oft-honed chip, accented with her mother's old mink stole,
Tears most lovely in her eyes as she spoke of the beautiful farm;
Telling of the...
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Categories:
honed, historyday, beautiful, old, summer, beautiful, day, farm,
Form:
Free verse
Have Done With ItHave you ever played with it?
Even if just a bit.
Or thrown it.
Because you were in a snit.
Did you ever eat it?
Then throw out the pit.
Or caught it.
In your mitt.
Would you yell at it?
In a momentary...
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Categories:
honed, fun,
Form:
Free verse
I Wax Poetic As Lifeblood Imperceptibly Doth WaneI wax poetic as lifeblood imperceptibly doth wane
Mine body electric analogous
to Google map pronounced
with arteries and countless varicose vein
visible popping blood vessels
leeches haven grand old time
at expense of poor sucker...
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Categories:
honed, adventure, anxiety, body, character, december, farewell, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Skill DevelopmentJack and his friends, impressed by personalities
wanted to get there and enjoy name and fame
They stood gaping at their accolades and victories
And made gross assumptions about what it took to succeed
They tried to attempt the...
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Categories:
honed, art, confidence, dream, friend, leadership, poetry, success,
Form:
Free verse
In Memory of My DadIt’s already been three years now since you passed away,
Yet, those mem’ries of you are alive, in my heart you’ll forever stay;
Every time I think of you, I smile with pain,
And wish that I can...
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Categories:
honed, fathers day, memorial day,
Form:
Rhyme
The Last Word 3Sitting in the predawn chill I replayed our last conversation.He had gotten home shortly before midnight saying he was staking out a pot lot on his turf.Hidden along the forests border tucked here and there...
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Categories:
honed, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse