Long Layover Poems
Long Layover Poems. Below are the most popular long Layover by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Layover poems by poem length and keyword.
Memorable VacationSEVEN years after 911, ...
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Categories:
layover, vacation,
Form:
Rhyme
Tokyo Disneyland AdventureLong ago, a long layover in Tokyo persuaded
my flying partner and I to venture out to
visit Disneylando, as the locals called it.
We started out early in the fog about 8 a.m.
We had our map...
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Categories:
layover, adventure, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Humongous Amount of Horn Humanistic HaikuHumongous Amount of Horn Humanistic Haiku
we have heard in spring
beautiful birds when they sing
happiness will bring
animals all crawl
from late spring into the fall
heard birds when they call
a propensity
as well as intensity
exist in ministry
did find that...
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Categories:
layover, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Haiku
The House of SpiritsIt looks like a simple brownstone building,
Not much different then any other but it’s residents,
Are of the haunted kind, not made of flesh and bone.
In every window a wind chime stirs, gently caressed by
A chilling...
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Categories:
layover, evil, fantasy, fear, god, gothic, halloween, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Whats In the Box
While working in Seattle for Boeing
Had duty in Florida for six weeks
Just before it was time to be going
Drove from town to town looking at antiques
In St. Augustine, day before my flight
I was sightseeing the...
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Categories:
layover, adventure, animals, me, me, time,
Form:
Quatrain
Are You At Your Wits Endthey've been moments in life when you've felt that you were at your wits end
be it spiritually, financially or physically be it in a relationship with family or friends
tired of whenever you've been blessed the...
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Categories:
layover, angst, faith, hope, inspirationalgod, god,
Form:
Didactic
Around the Us On a Greyhound Bus - Part OneI once traveled around the U. S. on a Greyhound bus,
My wife thought I was crazy, but she made little fuss,
It was, by far, the most awesome adventure I ever took
Three changes of clothes, lots...
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Categories:
layover, adventure, america, places, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Daylight Shouts On Market StreetDaylight swerves around the road
Shouting from corner to corner
Morning comes alive
The traffic starts rolling
And people start flowing
I walk briskly up the road
And walk along Market Street
The layover vendors are just waking up
And some of...
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Categories:
layover, anger, appreciation, character, conflict, courage, emotions, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Run AwayRun Away
Ticket counter still open but
no planes departing
Ticket plus dog scheduled for 7:10 AM
(Twelve Hours to nowhere)
Bag packed with who knows what.
Sidearm.38 snub-nose holstered on hip and loaded,
permit signed by Sheriff himself.
Boarding pass left on...
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Categories:
layover, absence, addiction,
Form:
Prose Poetry
One Night In Venice'twas 'pon a Venice 24-hour layover, when two male members of our airline crew had quite the separate, yet different, adventure.
Flight attendant Number One, who speaks Italian, thought it would be fun to fly his...
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Categories:
layover, humorous, sleep, woman,
Form:
Narrative
Leaving ChicagoAbove the roller-coaster rain clouds,
there's a moment when the wing tip of the plane
cuts seamlessly into serene blue as it banks
over Chicago. It's a layover in the sunlit limbo
of the hope...
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Categories:
layover, places
Form:
Free verse
Mystery At MidnightMidnight hour was approaching. . .
New Jersey forests hugged each
Side of the lonely highway.
Tired feet and tired bodies
Rested upon worn leather seats
In the black stretch limousine
Containing three sage pilots
And eight stewardesses,...
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Categories:
layover, adventure, angst, life, mystery, people, places
Form:
Free verse
HOLOGRAPHIC JAZZ(Snaps fingers, adjusts imaginary beret) Alright, listen up/ hitching a ride on the infinite subway/ strapped in tight/ destinations unknown/ no layover/LSD boosting, pushing past the earthly zone/
unlocking doors to realms yet to be shown/...
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Categories:
layover, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word
On a Bus From NorfolkOn a bus leaving Norfolk late Friday night, I was in the last seat in the back
A young and pretty woman boarded with hair so long and black
She was a sailor's dream sitting across from...
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Categories:
layover, happiness, life, body, me,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The View From CeresA big blue marble, floating in the middle of nowhere like a tiny attractive spark.
Its shimmering light penetrates the darkness of space like a candle in the dark.
How perfectly it has been placed in...
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Categories:
layover, adventure, appreciation, birth, emotions, growth, proposal, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Cloud's LayoverReality is a bitch of a mistress
everyday feels like a negotiation,
should be like a babbling brook
over silken-like pebbles instead of
sucking acrid marrow's gritty pith,
hardly expecting...
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Categories:
layover, allusion, fantasy, flower, heaven, life, morning, poetry,
Form:
Imagism
Society as few know itVeracious vanity about victories over
veils shows vain values corrupted by
vicious volatile villains in hopes for
votive to vindicate,
Grossly gluttons gain grains over
gloomy groups of ghastly greiven gulls,
Foreign fighting by ferocious foes...
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Categories:
layover, allusion, political, society,
Form:
Alliteration
A Mordacious WindThe wizened hunter had but one cartridge
remaining this was no trifle matter.
For he’d been attacked by a hungry horde
of rats when he took shelter in this cave.
And now a mordacious wind was morphing
into a severe...
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Categories:
layover, angst, emotions, fear, feelings, hurt, imagery, storm,
Form:
Blank verse
Try AgainSo many times said no to
never among the chosen few
weary yet moving ahead
rejection a feeling I dread
So I will try again
many a time have I wept
silently feeling inept
thought sooner I shall be great
never believing in...
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Categories:
layover, courage, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme