Long Ledgers Poems
Long Ledgers Poems. Below are the most popular long Ledgers by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Ledgers poems by poem length and keyword.
Laundering Her Accounts
New England's late May sun was long up,
and yet her laundry began to unfold
and clip onto the droopy clothesline,
while yet to warm into 8 AM.
She wore a light spring jacket
and need not think long
about why...
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Categories:
ledgers, analogy, destiny, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Brains and Guts: The Write, Right, Rite of Revolution
Brains and guts orbit the soul—
that polar star searing in the marrow of being.
I was born somewhere between Einstein’s neurons
Ginsburg beat poetry, the birth of rock and roll, revolution marches,
and the calloused hands of a...
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Categories:
ledgers, courage, destiny, history, imagery, metaphor, philosophy, social,
Form:
Spoken Word
G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
A rising sun in the east does appear
from St. Augustine to St. Clair,
to loose me from sleep’s tranquil hold
and dreams of serendipities of old -
to rise again the boy I was...
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Categories:
ledgers, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
Jacob's Ladder
The news out Armageddon is upon us and it’s time for all of us to go
The world's armies have all gathered and they are putting on a show
Heaven is calling and everyone wants to...
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Categories:
ledgers, humorous, write,
Form:
Epic
Fearing Father
There in the corner of the living room
on a loveseat meant for two
now only resides one
there he sits, by a warm fireplace
its occupant a man
a man have I known only as a...
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Categories:
ledgers, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst, art, conflict, death,
Form:
Free verse
Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy
We came not for conquest,
but for containment—
though conquest is what happens
when containment itches beneath the skin
like sulfur spores in a sealed lung.
They had the secret.
Not gold, not weapons, not prophecy—
but language that healed.
Real language—
not poetry,...
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Categories:
ledgers, death, fear, horror, myth, science fiction, technology,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Freethinker
In the still of the night,
spectro-gramming the hot utter of air,
filtered by laser strainer-
it has become a scale for judgment scaled by tier
a black hole of sin...
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Categories:
ledgers, art,
Form:
Rhyme
As Time Seeps By Part One
Once upon a Midnight dreary
Sank my heart weak and weary
Patience for Life growing thin
The Shadow of Death slips in
Cloaked in black robe, with hands of bone
A skull face, eyes of glass stone
He paced across the...
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Categories:
ledgers, death, life, lost love, time,
Form:
Rhyme
War Horse
War Horse by Steven Cooke
Taken from Cloven fields,
Where skylark and Grouse Linger.
Into the bowels of a troopship,
No scent of Morning Dew, No Bird song
Only sweat and urine,
And the distant sounds of war.
No light,...
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Categories:
ledgers, wardeath, war, death, morning, war, , memorial,
Form:
I do not know?
SEED OF FEAR Hansel and Grethel A Fractured Folk Tale
HANSEL AND GRETHEL*—A FRACTURED FAIRY TALE
Poem written for and submitted to “The Seed of Fear Poetry Contest,” Jami Patterson, sponsor, August 5, 2025.
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In the great city where towers scraped the sky,
lived an accountant...
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Categories:
ledgers, 12th grade, fear, political,
Form:
Other
Johannesburg, the City of Gold
Johannesburg—
city of lights, city of hunger,
city where the pavements gleam with promise
yet the shadows whisper of broken men.
I have walked your streets,
robbed three times beneath your crumbling towers,
and I asked myself—
Why does crime sing so...
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Categories:
ledgers, africa, america, black love, child, confusion, evil,
Form:
Free verse
A Journey To Zenith
Written: June 25, 2023
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We evolved toward the Zenith Ringers.
While no daylight is expected, I am thrilled.
With Banana Cakes, Cheez Whiz, and Zingers.
At Family Dollar's end, our hearts are tilled.
Maybe with Viagra or Valium to help...
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Categories:
ledgers, analogy, anger, bereavement, depression, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh Dystopia a Tree 4 a Carpark
The long hard journey through
past to progress
These day's has far few many stops to make along it's tried and tested daily route to commute
As cutting costs has so many
uneconomic station laid bare
in it's path
Deemed unsustainable...
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Categories:
ledgers, slam,
Form:
Free verse
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 1
The curtain rises. Steve Merkin, the unscrupulous accountant, and John Travailleur, Esq. just another John, are seated at a bar in a seedy looking inn. Mitchell Hollywood, the adulterous innkeeper, is behind the bar. He...
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Categories:
ledgers, allegory, society,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Flamboyant Swashes
Flamboyant swashes; flaming crimson,
could be my face, as the flyswatter-hand
could impress such lettering upon my cheek.
so I
severed the crescent-angel of my imagination,
dashed my dreamy cursive, expunged the end;
held my breath as I curtailed the honey-alphabet.
Nun...
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Categories:
ledgers, 4th grade, angst, school,
Form:
Free verse
Fur Trader
Pantoum about Ernie Petersen,
Trader At Rose Prairie
Fur Trader
The buyer and trapper jawed trade
“What’s fur fetching at the Winnipeg auction?”
At Rose Prairie the deals was made
At the wood burning stove with caution
“What’s fur fetching at the...
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Categories:
ledgers, adventure, history, memory,
Form:
Pantoum
THE CATHEDRAL OF THE DEVIL
I walk through mass graves blessed by complicit priests.
Their chalices vomit oceans of bones.
Every psalm they chant tolls like a hangman’s rope.
Their angels, vultures, feast on the scorched flesh of the defeated.
They branded my ancestors...
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Categories:
ledgers, 12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
January Through December
10/17/16
Year round January through December
The weather
Taking turns for the worse or better
More or lesser
Among ancient and modern architecture
Made of similar and different textures
Near or far away from plants that do or don't have nectar
As well...
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Categories:
ledgers, poetry, rap, word play, words, work, write,
Form:
Rhyme
My Cynical Career - Insider Cherry
I spilled my seventh cup of coffee
While shuffling through the papers on my desk.
It was a ham and cheese performance,
A little bit of business-like burlesque.
I sort through tax returns and spreadsheets,
Deciding what...
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Categories:
ledgers, business, career,
Form:
Lyric
The Polling Place
The November skies darken early
Citizens walk in
To vote
Nationwide elections
High school gym
Opened just for them
Voices echo in the large hall
Clerks check names and addresses
Pointing to names in musty ledgers
As lines get longer.
The ones I...
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Categories:
ledgers, life
Form:
Narrative
The Gristmill Wheel
Deep in the overgrown hollow of the woods
the gristmill wheel still turns where memories once stood,
splashing water lightly on each rung some worn and gone
as it circles the breeze...
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Categories:
ledgers, perspective, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Honest Lies
Begins with an appreciation of ledgers,
Clear, true and definite in appearance,
While a long journey through the never evers,
Finding fallacy in every reverence.
As much As I can I try to never,
Subdue that darkness within, such pain...
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Categories:
ledgers, self,
Form:
I do not know?
At the End of the Day
The voice within, a whisper bruised,
Fights the noise the world has used
To carve a man from primal bone
To cage the beast, to leash the lone.
The mind, a mat where wars unfold,
Instincts wild, but nurtured cold.
They...
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Categories:
ledgers, angst, beautiful, conflict, emotions, metaphor, symbolism, voyage,
Form:
Rhyme
We Want An Orchestra
The organization makes a package
With questions and answers forms
And videos to be used at
Engament parties.
My cousin Madder told me
He and one of the actors
In involved with one movie
Said some sciences looked
Like thong commercials
While others were...
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Categories:
ledgers, celebration, creation, film, love, music,
Form:
Ballade
Your Signature Part 2 of 2
" YOUR Signature ... "
( Genesis 1: 1 / Rev. 4: 11 )
(Part 2 of 2)
YOUR Signature ...
Signs On All Existence's Account Ledgers
... Is A Literary, Moniker-Masterpiece
A Singularly, Most Stentorious-Stenography
As...
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Categories:
ledgers, allegory, creation, god, inspiration, love, metaphor, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry