Long Legged Poems
Long Legged Poems. Below are the most popular long Legged by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Legged poems by poem length and keyword.
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
legged, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Various Heresies 4Various Heresies 4
I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch
I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.
But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...
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Categories:
legged, america, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, usa,
Form:
Verse
Salvage
"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping
dissolved...
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Categories:
legged, muse, paradise, poets,
Form:
Romanticism
The Badly Drawn GoatThe pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
legged, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
And Still I Drive - Part OneStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
legged, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
The GiftFrom the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...
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Categories:
legged, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form:
Prose
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 26From that day on and forward,
I began to see the wretchedness my God had warned me of
He cursed the Lord wholeheartedly, for inflicting yet another agony on him,
In his well he called The Prison of...
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Categories:
legged, adventure, anger, beautiful, corruption, dark, inspirational, nature,
Form:
Epic
If All of the Weird Ones Were CroppedThis piece has a fairly tricky rhyme scheme = a-a-B /c-c-B
If All of the Weird Ones Were Cropped
I was sittin’ alone in a booth in a deli in Cody, Wyoming one day,
When a...
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Categories:
legged, animal, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
SplatSplat
Explosions do not always signify combustion but often combustion arrives after many years of layering the layers and tightly packing. Thus meaning that a fried piece of fat could slip and burst out of the...
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Categories:
legged, africa, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Snail Trails and Rat TailsMy transportive
awesome Muse
speaks of a hiking trail
for an aging snail.
My communicative
wondrous music
is dancing choreography
for an ageless bee
coming.
I ask if I might speak
with the Editor in Chief
of my town's daily GoodNews Bulletin...
No.
I do not have...
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Categories:
legged, community, health, humanity, nature, peace, school, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Katie Osprey and Her Best FriendsKatie Osprey looked up from the ground
And she knew this was no way to end a night on the town
“Why did you dump me onto the Garden floor”
Which made her four-legged love...
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Categories:
legged, appreciation, christmas, class, dream, feelings, friendship, horse,
Form:
Rhyme
Row HousesNewfoundlanders can row, you should see some of'em go,
when they puts a punt on a pond.
But I don't like this mess, all this Race foolishness,
I'd never seen so much goings on.
If you wants to...
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Categories:
legged, courage, funny, hero, uplifting,
Form:
Ballad
Dramatic Dreams Dare DingosMalnourishment is the song from the pans whose empty hold could offer no more products to be boiled and whirled. They were quite sad having been bought then hung. Hung. Sparkly signalling stale sales. Stale...
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Categories:
legged, appreciation, art, bangla,
Form:
I do not know?
Incomplete Metamorphosis of Distilled AdolescentIncomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...
therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?
Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered,
and mortally wounded prepubescent,
I consider myself
analogously buttressed, cocooned,
garrisoned (for bing keeler),
hardened, insulated,
where cell baited jumping frog
o'...
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Categories:
legged, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Rhyme
The Formidable Gambit
"The Formidable Gambit"
Silence
calculated and distinct
conspiring with rules
plays within the
confined squares
of a strict and
ruthless mind
preying on all moves
untraceable
unpredictable
irretrievable
in the opening move
the long-legged fly
is caught in the web
silvery and slippery
life remains...
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Categories:
legged, courage, dark, faith, love, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Silent GodI don't know,
S/He said,
(right winged left
exhaled downstream
past everyone's egopaled head)
If God is dead
and also much too Capitalistic,
LeftBrain dominant hegemonalistic
(like water to a philosophical shark)
If God is straight
and white
and a patriarchal supremacist accountant
calculating monoculturally ambitious values
Then...
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Categories:
legged, earth, health, humor, integrity, power, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Inferno Yawnrise and shine deflect common sense while white dilapidated guts spawn oppossing beats an treats that are not so daring as uncommon feats and relativity clings to gravity and in spite of everything nothingness has...
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Categories:
legged, beauty, desire, dream, hope, life, love, sun,
Form:
I do not know?
An Omen of the Taste of TwilightVanished
the wild magic of this place;
this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps
into
Afterlife
..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I long to join again
in my brethren’s song..
fading sunlight falls in...
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Categories:
legged, animal, death, fate, grief, howl, longing, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Booth Made Famous On April 15th MdccclxvBooth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV...
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").
Ever since early forerunners
of twenty first century
mankind (sprinted
across trackless expanse extant
upon planet Earth),
modern Homo Sapiens...
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Categories:
legged, animal, confusion, family, fear, hate, history, men,
Form:
Free verse
The Village On the Water IvThump-thump of stiffening fish contorting
In the bilge beneath the gunwale;
Lidless, bulging, reddened eyes, swivelling upwards,
Protruding horribly from the straining sockets,
Express stupefied amazement at inconceivable
...
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Categories:
legged, appreciation, culture, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
Thrilla In Manila - Philippines Coliseum
Well, here we are in the Araneta Coliseum
In Cubao, Quezon City in the Philippines
To witness two modern boxing Gladiators
Their prowess, stature, about to be seen
This will be the third between the WBC, WBA
Stepping into the...
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Categories:
legged, character, history, men, places, sports, usa, world,
Form:
Rhyme
A Long Poem About Cyberspace and the People Who Live There/by Vicki Acquah
Before, when we were young;
We were together all of us..
Awhile back when you were young,
I was youthfully older-We were
together back then as space and time
had arranged.
As some of us were...
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Categories:
legged, community, computer, together, planet, universe,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Espousing Irreverent GreedEspousing irreverent greed
Crafted one year ago today
yours truly – hopefully self plagiarism okay
worse case scenario,
I would meet ill fate re: kenway
named after Assassin Creed
Black Flag's protagonist.
"Yo, I totally Kenwayed that guy."
by...
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Categories:
legged, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, conflict, divorce,
Form:
Rhyme
Vjckie Said ItRemember I know you,
you're not innocent,
you're not returning back to innocence.
Even with dirt on your hands,
a bad seed doesn't grow anything,
a rotten tomato will never be eaten.
No one ever,
believes in little white lies,
no matter how...
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Categories:
legged, character, funny, how i feel, inspiration, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Two Cultural FeetDavid Holmgren
a seminal PermaCultural Designer,
if there ever has become one,
suggests most people throughout Earth
in this age of globally interdependent communication
feel we have one foot planted
in our original local community/family culture,
and the other foot planted in...
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Categories:
legged, culture, earth, health, humanity, humor, integrity, mental
Form:
Political Verse