Long Ivor Poems

Long Ivor Poems. Below are the most popular long Ivor by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Ivor poems by poem length and keyword.


Legacy of Penang

Back in 1962 when I was just a lad
my dad gave me a holiday
the best I ever had.
A holiday of every dream
that one lifetime could hold
so listen while this wondrous time 
to you I now...

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Categories: ivor, culture, father, food, friendship, introspection, paradise, travel,
Form: Rhyme


Not In the Job Description

A hive of activity, twenty four hours,
The centre was where they controlled,
All the technicians, in all of our vans,
Delivering the service we sold.

But in the small hours, those there at night,
Would tell a strange story...

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Categories: ivor, anger, care, conflict, heaven, murder, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Budget Flight

The plane looked old and fairly worn,
the sky was grey, about to storm.
They hurried us along the aisles,
in tiny seats we’d sit for miles.

With creak and groan we taxied out,
at runway’s end we turned about.
With...

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Categories: ivor, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Bending Light

When young, in playing out one day
a swinging stick got in my way,
it crushed my eye into my head
another inch and I’d be dead.

Back in 1952
there wasn’t much that they could do,
so when eye surgery...

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Categories: ivor, anxiety, introspection, moving on,
Form: Rhyme

Time Out

Time Out

I'm still around, I’ve not gone far,
I'm sorry but that's how things are.
It's just that now I have no time,
To sit around and voice my rhyme.

But now I'm working ‘twenty-four seven’,
So staff, like me,...

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Categories: ivor, bullying, conflict, dedication, education, muse, work,
Form: Rhyme


Eternity of Life

We wait around to grow our wings
and find our paradise above,
at last fulfilled and wanting nought,
eternity in peace and love.

I’m sorry to disturb this thought
and tell you of the place I’ve seen,
it is the place...

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Categories: ivor, death, life, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Depression

I awoke in a place where I never had been,
where all my life’s years seemed no help to me.
I felt that the stem of my mind had been sheared
as I sunk way down deep into...

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Categories: ivor, depression, drug,
Form: Rhyme

A Load of Bull

While walking my dog in a field one day,
a massive black bull appeared in the way.
It snorted and grunted and pawed at the ground,
I could tell by its face that I couldn’t walk round.

Now here...

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Categories: ivor, analogy, life,
Form: Rhyme

Ivor's Haiku

Aching
aching deep within
reaching out beyond the veil
never forgotten

All Aboard
body and soul combine
for the ride of a lifetime –
no return tickets

Am I me
I think I am me
I think, therefore, I am me
I am me I think

Astral...

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Categories: ivor, bereavement, destiny, friendship, life, poetry, spiritual, time,
Form: Haiku

Language of the Mind

I only speak one language,
So why is it that I find,
I’ve spent my life interpreting,
Thoughts flowing through my mind.

Sometimes I do this writing,
Then in poetry I share.
While other times I sit and talk,.
With friends whilst...

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Categories: ivor, care, death, family, friend, life, love, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Sounds In My Soul

As a young man I was not very smart,
for brain cells they were never my game,
but I did what I could for without any doubt
through hard work I had ample to gain.

The cleverer folk seemed...

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Categories: ivor, friend, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Dear God

Dear God,

I wish to complain,
for the pain I have had in your name,
as the Master of all
it is really your call
to ensure that our life’s not in vain.

We believe you say “don’t live in sin”
but...

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Categories: ivor, analogy, anger, appreciation, devotion, god, religion, writing,
Form: Rhyme

I Used To Be Busy

I used to be busy, no time left for me,
My chosen profession would not set me free.
No time to spend with my family and friends,
I had to keep at it, right up to the end.

I...

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Categories: ivor, dedication, family, feelings, home, introspection, poetry, work,
Form: Rhyme

Those

There are:

Those that’s false
And those that’s real
~
Those who earn 
And those who steal
~
Those who frown
And those who grin
~
Those who lose
And those who win
 ~
Those who love
And those who hate
~
Those what’s early
Those what’s late
~
Those what’s dirty
Those...

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Categories: ivor, people,
Form: Couplet

Black Dog

My uncle said he’d seen a dog,
Come down his path one day.
But not aware who’s dog this was,
He shouted, “Go Away!”

The dog looked up at him, then left,
It ‘faded’ out of sight.
He then knew who...

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Categories: ivor, bereavement, death of a friend, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Love Story

With heritage of dragon lore,
and hills and valleys shore to shore.
From the land of leeks and daffs,
there came a lass born of a Taff.

Roman walls built strong and bold,
surround a fortress very old.
From English city...

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Categories: ivor, child, discrimination, family, love, parents, race, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme

Trip of a Lifetime

We flew through the air on a refurbished plane,
the shakes and the rattles sure gave us some pain.
But we were the ones who fortune had named
to spend years Far East with our dad’s army game.

The...

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Categories: ivor, adventure, flying, military, nostalgia, paradise, places,
Form: Rhyme

Night Train

More scary than things that go bump in the night,
My nerves are now shattered because of my fright.
This left me like jelly and turned my hair white,
I’m lucky I’m living, to tell of my plight.

I...

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Categories: ivor, confusion, horror, mystery, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Up High

They followed screams to where he died
his face showed he’d been terrified.
Though none knew why he’d passed that way,
                ...

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Categories: ivor, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Vacances En France

Vacances en France

Seven hundred miles we travelled,
Across both land and sea.
Because our friends had told us,
France was lovely as could be.

Two caravans we towed there,
To a villa called ‘la Ronce’,
They’d been there, so many times,
But...

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Categories: ivor, holiday,
Form: Rhyme

Up High

They followed screams to where he died
his face showed he’d been terrified.
Though none knew why he’d passed that way,
                ...

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Categories: ivor, judgement, scary,
Form: Rhyme

Mothballs and Lavendar

Mothballs and Lavender

There’s a rug on the hearth and a fire in the grate
and Grandma and Grandad sit with me to wait
while the black-leaded oven is cooking our tea
of ‘tatty-ash’ stew made especially for me.

We’re...

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Categories: ivor, childhood, nostalgiame, fire, fire, me, sleep,
Form: Rhyme

Customer Service

I took on a job I thought that I liked,
a service I have to provide.
Giving customers help with things that go wrong
always makes me feel happy inside .

For many long years I have done really...

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Categories: ivor, introspection, work,
Form: Rhyme

Now I'M Dead

Now I’m dead I’d like to say,
some words to all who passed my way.

I’d like to thank you for the part
you played in texturing my heart.
Yes, now I’ve gone, but not so far,
I’d like to...

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Categories: ivor, death, life,
Form: Rhyme

More Than the Cat

When working in a garage late,
I heard a funny sound.
The workshop lift had just begun,
To rise up from the ground.

Now it was late and only me,
Should still be working here.
To hear the lift ascending up,
Was...

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Categories: ivor, jobs, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
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