Long Irons Poems
Long Irons Poems. Below are the most popular long Irons by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Irons poems by poem length and keyword.
The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
irons, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Heres Why My CV Needs WorkNAME: Phil Latio.
QUALIFICATIONS: LLB (Law) PhD (Medicine) & FSC (Federation Starfleet
...
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Categories:
irons, humorous,
Form:
List
The Escape"Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking,
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away."
I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...
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Categories:
irons, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Today In Billy the Kid History - April 28, 1881"Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking,
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away."
I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...
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Categories:
irons, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Truth Is All An Act In Government ExposedOne small little country which houses
one of the highest paid governments
in this modern world joke ran upside down
A big part of our life existing reality
when the backbone is gone snakes appear with...
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Categories:
irons, betrayal, ireland, political, rights, society, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Billy the Kid's Great Escape*
Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away.
*
I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...
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Categories:
irons, history, horse, humorous, love, me, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
irons, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
A Flirtation With Love - Parts 1, 2, and 3 FinisA Flirtation With Love (Parts 1, 2, & 3 finis)
#1 Sue's Legacy (Has A Home In My Heart)
Sure, each touch that enjoins us to life has Love's sparks,
one less photon (warms retina), dies but informs
that...
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Categories:
irons, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Is Killing Our NationOur country is full of hypocrites
who stand up against nothing and bend over for everything
the peoples amendments pushing European agendas upon us for change
towards liberal law in our downfall
Unto our sovereignty...
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Categories:
irons, betrayal, patriotic, poverty, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen - Xxv Part TwoUnquotable quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen – XXV (Part Two)
Which Asian “King” would crown himself “Emperor” during an elaborate theatrical ceremony while facing and exhorting the ruins of his Illustrious Ancestor’s capital?
Which commoner army captain...
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Categories:
irons, allegory, bullying, child abuse, humanity, people, truth,
Form:
Epigram
Rwanda's WhyI'm driving through such beauty, this lush rural countryside. I find it hard to believe that my
career has taken me to here. Being where I am is so much different to the Highlands from...
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Categories:
irons, africa, death, people, places, world,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Game of Thrones3Forge on ever foolish
Cucumbers in your relish
Black Smiths and Peasants
get into the darkness, out of the Parish
The Red Horse gallops, polls, bearers, of holes
Get out of its way, as the
rumors gather Communist ships
...
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Categories:
irons, betrayal, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
Foot In Mouth DiseaseAnyone who’s picked up clubs and played out on a golf course,
will know there’s times they lose their cool but later show remorse,
but rarely do when following a wayward group who’s bloody slow,
and forced to...
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Categories:
irons, golf, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Dapper DracDapper Drac had a panic attack, and topping off the dread
His trendy boots clashed with his suit, plus his white shirt was stained red
Sure his hair was right, and dynamite, as seen in the mirror
Yet...
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Categories:
irons, funny, horror,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
The DroveThe trail was long and very dusty
great clouds churned up by hooves
of the vast herd being wrangled on
300 more miles of eating their dust
Bandana's tightly wrapped round faces
cries of "get up there" ringing out
bawling calves...
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Categories:
irons, horse, storm,
Form:
Epic
Why I Keep a Low Profile I E Namely Remain InvisibleWhy I keep a low profile i.e. namely remain invisible
Alternately titled -
dear readers ye each saddled as exegete
to make sense little known excerpt
referencing obscure passage printed
calligraphy style groovy and neat
found scrawled in book of Matthew
which...
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Categories:
irons, 12th grade, adventure, crazy, hair, humorous, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Smoke Signals
"Smoke Signals"
Her wet lips
long slender fingers
flipped the lit cigarette
3
seconds
it glowed
inhaled deep,
hard
and real slow
crushed under
Vermillion
manolo blahnik
killer,
Capital K
long bare legs in
deadly brutal
stilletos
The taste wasn’t sweet
Her last kiss
tasted of Manuka
and violet scented
dom...
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Categories:
irons, freedom, psychological, romance,
Form:
Free verse
MollyI took a rich man’s wallet
So that we would not starve
I’m sure the lord has forgiven me
But the judge he surely did not.
He spared me from the gallows
But sent me across the sea
Away from family...
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Categories:
irons, bereavement, lost love, prison, violence, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Woman In Chainsshe carries the child on tired hips rested on chains ‘round her waist
wasted on freedom designed to serve a white man’s lustful desire
branded inferior as time repeats itself and the pain knows no end
a tattoo...
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Categories:
irons, anger,
Form:
Free verse
The World Inside Smart PhoneEveryone, from children to grownups,
carry the world in their hands, they see the past
and the future simply by the move of their thumbs and fingers;
from their very spot they fly in the...
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Categories:
irons, culture, technology, world,
Form:
Free verse
A Chinese Girl I Took To a NunneryA Chinese girl I took to a nunnery
I
I led her
Her silent leg-irons cutting into my shins
That day when the air stood still
Dry as the day perhaps on the hill
when he spoke standing still
Drier still my...
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Categories:
irons, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Chester Miller's Final Fight, Part IIn the desert waste Chester Miller looked out,
saw the rest of the gang riding back slow,
fresh from the bank job in Copperstone Creek,
a place that Chester could dare not go.
He’d spent his teen years in...
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Categories:
irons, change, conflict, courage, death, family, forgiveness, sad,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
11. Btk Coming Attractions Part 3Continued From:
10. BTK Coming Attractions Part 2
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=195844
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BILLY the Kid's Great Escape.
"Word has it you said that if we ever met again you'd kill me on the spot.
Well here I am...
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Categories:
irons, cowboy-western, historylove, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Opposites In Love CollabarationThe crashing waves hit the bow, as we cut through waters deep.
Clasped in irons that cut the skin; forged in the fires that never sleep.
The desert was dry, the sun beat down, I am free...
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Categories:
irons, life, loss, love, sad, heart, cat, heart,
Form:
Narrative
FinallyFinally
Doctor, it's been 7 months
The MEDs aren't kicking in
My dreams are getting stronger,
The blood remains to run code red
It's getting harder and harder to get out of bed
Dark images keep taking...
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Categories:
irons, dark, deep, evil, horror, murder, sick, voice,
Form:
Dramatic Verse