Long Iowa Poems
Long Iowa Poems. Below are the most popular long Iowa by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Iowa poems by poem length and keyword.
Visit To AntietamAlone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
iowa, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
Children Are Why We Need Higher TaxesSteven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren’t perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for improvements.
Some of...
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Categories:
iowa, child, education, school, , 9th grade,
Form:
Prose
The ParatotallynormalThe problem with trying to prove clairaudience, clairsentince, out-of-body, and Near Death Experiences to a Mudblood is not as simple
as it could have been.
Is it because Para-science is totally unsubstantiated?
Not in MY family.
Scientifically un-sound?
Sure, by...
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Categories:
iowa, adventure, cute, emotions, encouraging, fantasy, feelings, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The Havasu of HopesGo, go, go ahead,
Yeah, go right ahead
Give me your all-in-your-head dread
While I keep living…keep living…
I will remember to start believing and giving
This life here, I’ll keep reliving…
Yeah, keep living longevity in a lifetime
This tranquil time,...
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Categories:
iowa, confidence, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Winter Weary - a Seasonal TaleWinter Weary
A rhyme that sends a winters “chill’.
With snow, not knowing where to start.
But as he’s had some time to “chill”.
A fellow with a changing heart.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~...
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Categories:
iowa, poetry, snow,
Form:
Rhyme
I Can Clean, I Can DrivePlenty of sleep, no more tv, the wars in the Middle East
are resource wars, disguised as religious debates.
So Dad would say.
A beautiful winter day, hunting
season. A Gun In Every Home, in light of U.S. mass...
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Categories:
iowa, home, magic, poetry, religion, sleep, war, winter,
Form:
Verse
My Bucket ListMY BUCKET LIST
Years and years ago, I made a bucket list.
I looked everywhere and could not find it.
I don’t remember everything I listed,
so it’s time for a new one to be created
or just to go...
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Categories:
iowa, adventure, journey, places, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Shut Up It Is a SecretThis was accidentally written as a comment to my buddy, Line.
Yes, THAT Line.
The famous Line.
The one who wins all the contests, and
we all love Line, anyway, I do.
And it's her birthday month!
Come on, Muse.
STICK...
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Categories:
iowa, 9th grade, family, fantasy, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Inspiration From Marlee BeeInspiration comes disguised in a variety of ways. News stories. Flash floods. A crying child in a grocery store. A person sitting along the highway holding a ‘will work for food’ sign. ...
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Categories:
iowa, inspiration, inspirational,
Form:
Prose Poetry
In the Middle of the NightIn the early 70’s my husband and our first baby, Angela, moved to Muscatine, Iowa, in the middle of the night, in the summer time. At 7:00 a.m. the next door neighbor rang the...
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Categories:
iowa, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade, funny,
Form:
Narrative
Muscatine,Iowa Was My Kind of TownIn the early 70’s my husband and our first baby, Angela, moved to Muscatine, Iowa, in the middle of the night, in the summer time. At 7:00 a.m. the next door neighbor rang the...
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Categories:
iowa, animal, community, fun, funny, humanity, humorous, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
Canoeing the Mississippi - Part 13Chapter 13: Leaving the River
Our leaving the river I think surprised us both,
But the seeds were sown early in our preparations,
And shared philosophy of following our bliss,
Simply stated, the trip stopped being fun,
Prairie du Chien,...
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Categories:
iowa, boat, dream, journey, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
A Thanksgiving Memory - ThanksBack in Iowa, where my mother and several of my siblings still live,
my big family gets together for a reunion at Mom’s apartment,
using the reception area of the little place where she now resides.
Mom cooks...
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Categories:
iowa, thanksgiving day, together,
Form:
Prose
Tribute To Our Mother From CarenOur mother was the prettiest mom in the room. Creative, multi-talented, always doing much more than what was average. We never had a store bought dress and ours were gorgeous with ribbons, lace, and rickrack....
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Categories:
iowa, mother, mother daughter,
Form:
Narrative
Then and NowOn a park bench one sunny afternoon, a teenager sat next to a stranger, ...
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Categories:
iowa, courage, god, growing up, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Dan the Hero, Part Iv...His eyes narrowed, and he got to his feet,
said, “When did you fall to nihilist urge?
When did you decide that good in itself
was just to be laughed at? Cast as absurd?
“You’re not the first...
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Categories:
iowa, appreciation, character, conflict, hero, hope, perspective, uplifting,
Form:
Epic
Thoughts on Iowa and My Childhood City
“And I remember Muscatine -still more pleasantly - for its summer sunset. I have never seen any on either side of the ocean that equaled them.” Samuel Clemens in his younger years when...
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Categories:
iowa, places, youth,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Dear Memories of Youthkickball and biking
swinging on swings at the park . . .
youth’s sweet vibrant spark
Memories of my childhood and teenage years are probably the strongest of all my memories. I don’t quite know why that is....
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Categories:
iowa, family,
Form:
Haibun
If You Don'T View This a Little Ten Year Old Boy In Iowa Will DieSUDDENLY SOMETHING
Have you ever spent a night in a six by ten foot cell?
Well that’s where my FESTERING fears dwell
And no one with a prescription pad will write for a junkie born and bred
Did you...
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Categories:
iowa, angstgirl, me, prayer, girl, may, me, boy,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Justice For Mollie TibbetsPreface:
Earlier today May 28th, 2021,
the 12-member jury unanimously
found Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty
of first-degree murder in brutal stabbing death
sentenced to life in prison
without the possibility of parole
of Mollie Tibbetts remembered as then friendly
20-year-old who was...
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Categories:
iowa, absence, anniversary, body, daughter, death, goodbye, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
The Thousand StepsThe rule of a legend is, that it is possibly true but there is not ever enough proof, yet I heard from...
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Categories:
iowa, adventure, boy, fantasy, fear, imagination, irony, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
The Long First DateWhen I was around 14, I attended a church youth conference that summer,
sleeping in a dorm at a college campus and attending fun events with kids of my
same religion. The group I was...
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Categories:
iowa, girlfriend-boyfriendme, me, together, , cute,
Form:
Bio
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Eye the fabulist fabelist maker of dreams for ewe still remember the poem eye
wrote where eye mentioned the fact that eye think they are liners...
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Categories:
iowa, computer-internet, fantasy, introspection, on work and working,
Form:
Prose Poetry
1960It was the start of a decade not to be forgotten.
It was my growing up period. A very bad year for me
in many ways. My last year of Jr. High I was kicked...
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Categories:
iowa, nostalgia, school, football, life, school,
Form:
Free verse
Another Senseless KillingAnother Senseless Killing...
IOWA CITY, Iowa
(killingly, jarringly inexplicable,
horribly, gruesomely, and forlornly),
the found exhumed decayed corpse
belonging to...
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Categories:
iowa, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, absence,
Form:
Elegy