Long Limelight Poems
Long Limelight Poems. Below are the most popular long Limelight by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Limelight poems by poem length and keyword.
Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - XxviUnquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI
Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-continental warfares, even catastrophes, natural disasters, tsunamis, irruptions, conflagrations, inundations, landslides, typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes,...
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Categories:
limelight, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Unquotable Quotes Writers - XxxviiiUnquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII
for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski
who let not even hope sustain them and who used their...
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Categories:
limelight, creation, england, imagination, inspiration, judgement, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Three Ways of Swiping the World CupTHREE WAYS of Swiping the World Cup
"It is sweet and fitting/glorious to lay your life down for your country » - from a poem by HORACE
(See my story selected to represent France in the 2006...
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Categories:
limelight, football, games, humor, sports, stress, woman, women,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Doomsday Clock Minute HandDoomsday Clock minute hand...
hovers over 100 seconds to midnight
as of January 2022,
which apocalyptic prognostication
established by the Bulletin
of Atomic Scientists
maintained since 1947,
the clock quantifies a metaphor
for threats to humanity
from unchecked...
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Categories:
limelight, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
So Many Yet So Few?Writing poetry, to me is like a form of catharsis. You are exposing all of your feelings and letting it all hang out. We often are exhibiting extrovert tendencies to cover up our introvert ones....
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Categories:
limelight, analogy, encouraging,
Form:
Blank verse
Maybe It Was EleanorEver wonder where big ideas come from?
Memories of FDR
from newsreel clips -
a lion-headed striking man
with rakish grin,
jaw jutting proudly,
signature cigarette holder
clenched in his teeth
tilted ever upward...
soaring to the heavens
as he cruises by
waving to admirers
in...
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Categories:
limelight, feelings, history, international, philosophy, political, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
Up At Ryder CupReservations are made years in advance of the event.
Provisions from suppliers worldwide are globally sent.
Sponsors enthusiastically devote their resources spent.
Attendees eager to share stories of when they went.
Seeing the epic golf rivalry as...
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Categories:
limelight, appreciation, business, golf, society, sports, success, together,
Form:
Rhyme
Rule of Threes FivePride negatory
Better to share His glory
God writes your story
Special kind of gain
We can only learn through pain
God may not explain
Treasure has a source
Wisdom is treasure, of course
God stores His resource
When God sends trouble
And we climb...
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Categories:
limelight, bible, christian, muse, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
My Sweet Susan(9th grade love affair with a blind cream boy and a sweet voice finger stroke magic girl in the 60's,
unfettered with a keen process of kissing vertical in the Clark hall, hoping to go...
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Categories:
limelight, emotions, funny love, girlfriend, humorous, thanks, ,
Form:
Free verse
Judging Me Without My InfluenceI was friends with a selfish liar
pathological habit of desire
lying when there was no reason
low on friends he chose treason
A football team our social scene
players, friends & every family
including...
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Categories:
limelight, abuse, confusion, corruption, hip hop, life, me,
Form:
Rhyme
European ArroganceWe're living in the limelight of empires
As European states become smaller
As the European Union threatens to disintegrate
Due to an influx of refugees and bitter disagreements
It makes me wonder how they're spending their time
A look through...
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Categories:
limelight, anger, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Underdogs Have Their DaysWell, well, well!
The whole world knows by now, impossible dreams can come true,
In the game of professional soccer, it has just been proven at Leicester,
Starting the season with a laughable 5,000 to 1 odds of...
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Categories:
limelight, appreciation, community, encouraging, football, inspiration, sports,
Form:
Free verse
Wicked GenerationThe word makes sense to those who see sense
senseless to those who senseless so see it
so in the beginning there was the word and with the word was God and God was the word
With...
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Categories:
limelight, christian, devotion, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Smooth As Key-Lime PieRainbow Surplus suppressing it’s limelight on the wonders of thy guillotine. Eat a planet with betadine. Horoscopes orders. The empire shines bright on double d’s. Who’s to say Peter hasn’t squandered his own stability? It’s...
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Categories:
limelight, cat, child abuse, conflict, dark, deep, irony,
Form:
Free verse
Better To AssimilateI see on the news that some wish
not to teach their children English,
and this, to me, makes little sense,
makes me wonder about the parents.
Why, if you came here to live life,
would you not speak like...
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Categories:
limelight, america, culture, how i feel, immigration, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Doomsday Clock January 2022Doomsday Clock January 2022...
the most recent tabulation
signaled one hundred seconds to midnight
A couple years ago
similarly titled poem I did write,
yet looms as harbinger unless
Homo sapiens can unite
one non Yiddish speaking
Ongematert wishing ye
fare thee well tonight
before...
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Categories:
limelight, absence, age, anxiety, conflict, creation, death, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
On the CatwalkIn numerous locales countrywide, they hold sway
Pirouetting at intervals like ballerinas from Bolshoi
Beauteous, feline and very feminine
Slender to the point of emaciation, not quite
Cultivating the undernourished look on a frugal diet
Decidedly austere for a longer...
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Categories:
limelight, tribute, men,
Form:
Free verse
Iron LadyShe’s dead
But will always stay alive
A beacon for everyone with a gripe
Thatcher snatcher was their war cry
When with apparent vigour
She tore asunder all society held dear
A divisive strong willed fighter
With femininity covering a steely frame
She...
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Categories:
limelight, political,
Form:
Free verse
The Sea We Will Not TameWondering upon our almost forgotten smiles
and twinkling eyes hidden,
we have spun this world
in smoke and mirrors,
reflecting light in curving waves.
We have wandering
into the misty fog
as it marched
out of clear air
on...
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Categories:
limelight, friendship, life, love, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Ejecting the MonologueI love how twilight transforms
My curtains currently are an art work
Of light, shade and mystery
Where the growing light creeps in
Producing patterns and pictures
Giving places unnoticed previously
The limelight, a moment in time
Imperfections add character
Ever changing as...
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Categories:
limelight, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
The Truth Can HurtIt all comes down to peer pressure when you’re still in your teens.
You want to keep up with the Jones’ and you’ll go to any means
to put yourself into the limelight and be a member...
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Categories:
limelight, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Trimendous Rhyme SkillsI’m out to reel in the limelight
as I rhyme tight with sublime might,
filling each line each time without decline
as I climb to a blinding height,
a magical skill of a mastermind shining bright
with dynamite scaling up...
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Categories:
limelight, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Another PlaceAnother place
There is another place, where all things are possible,
All words may be said, all thoughts brought into the limelight.
A place where emotion is welcomed and judgment takes no sides.
It is a place where...
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Categories:
limelight, work,
Form:
Blank verse
Be Wise, Do Not PlagiariseYou've ignited a fire beyond what you know,
my smooth hand glides providing the flow,
striking lightening that makes the mind blow,
you stole my rhymes and put them on show.
I followed the trail and look where it...
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Categories:
limelight, corruption, poetry, slam,
Form:
Rhyme
Blue In Centerstage*Image of Blues by Google.com.
Blue In Centerstage
Fondly, instants our measure of blue ... a boost or flat bring on,
Promptly, sea and sky are limelight ... point of view as quite concise,
Nonchalantly, unconcern and clamminess ......
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Categories:
limelight, blue, meaningful,
Form:
Lento