Long Line in the sand Poems
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Speaker, Subject, and Theme In Edna St Vincent Millay's ''I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed''“I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed” (Sonnet XLI)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair,...
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Categories:
line in the sand, america, anger, love, passion, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Prose
Spring Break V - Russians On Miami BeachI.
The Fish Crow is an outcast amongst the seagulls
Standing on the hot Miami sand
At the end
Of our rose-colored beach towel
Nodding and blabbing half-heartedly
Nuh-uh nuh-uh
To the lack of crumbs
From us
The stingy blue collar visitors
From freezing old...
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Categories:
line in the sand, spring, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
To the Dandelion In the ConcreteYou probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn
(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those kinds of things)
And yet here I am,
standing out like a...
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line in the sand, character, endurance, flower, humorous, nature, spring, summer,
Form:
Personification
A Man-child's weekTo me, a Man-child is an adult male who acts like a child: immature, lazy, unkempt, idiotic, silly, annoying etc. Usually it is someone you either work with or live with. This poem is a...
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Categories:
line in the sand, anxiety, depression, encouraging, lost, men, mental health,
Form:
Rhyme
We Dream of Rain IiiWe dream of rain...
And the mystery of the gun
We bold hold and driven apart
Kill the king when lovers depart
We dream of rain and the dark arts
Upon an endless sea, across an infinite A’merican...
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Categories:
line in the sand, adventure, allah, allegory, angst, animal, art, cool,
Form:
Free verse
Bidding For BrandsBoohoo is bidding for Boo-Boo
But Yogi’s not seeking a deal,
He’s scanning the park for a picnic
Looking forward to his evening meal.
Warner Brothers deny their involvement
So investors are kept in the dark,
But rumours are spreading ’round...
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Categories:
line in the sand, angst, bullying, business, clothes, emotions, nonsense, rights,
Form:
Rhyme
I'Ve a Simple Solution At HandBack in 2013 the President 'resetting,' drew a line in the sand
Syria sprinted across it; faced no response from our end
So, Bashir Assad killed his own countrymen with chemical gas
hundreds...
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line in the sand, america, death, future, life, military, political, war,
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Political Verse
LinesLINES
We LINE up in traffic, or clear out the door,
And there are BEELINES we make, to the seashore.
Get mad and we're "DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND,"
He USES A LINE when he asks...
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line in the sand, allusion, angst, humor, spoken word, symbolism,
Form:
List
Lines Lines LinesYou can line up at the bank
Or you can line up at the mall
If you in a real big rush, you can line up in your autocar
Coffee lines and fast food lines
Even I, have some...
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Categories:
line in the sand, funny, humorous,
Form:
Light Verse
Border-lieA border is a line drawn in the sand
Constantly shifting if you have time to see
A personality is a borderline ebbing
Time ceaselessly flowing us away
One side unreachable as the far shore
The other, all that...
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Categories:
line in the sand, extended metaphor, planet, space, universe, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Elul EvidencedOnce, an old man sat at a bar
Seemingly, alone in the woods
The Falls were just over there
Above all of his shunned shoulds of good
Too great to enter into regret
He suckered anger instead
Justifying all his words...
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Categories:
line in the sand, love,
Form:
Rhyme
SexismSexism
Growing up we’ve always thought people were born with a disgusted look on their faces
Because that’s how they have always looked at us
Boxes
check 1 check other
People don’t know we hid between people like...
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Categories:
line in the sand, age,
Form:
Rhyme
A RequestO Lord I ask one thing of thee, that I might know this mystery.
Proceed my child and we shall see, if you shall get thy wish from me.
I want to hold in my hand, from...
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Categories:
line in the sand, bible, christian, god, spiritual, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Preoccupied With the Faults of Others: Stay In Your LaneSome people come to church just to be seen
No Holy nor any Ghost in them can be gleaned
Now Jesus was in the temple
Teaching a class
Until some Pharisees came to Him
Acting like an ass
They presented...
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Categories:
line in the sand, inspirational, wisdom,
Form:
Didactic
Sea of Broken DreamsSea of Broken Dreams
By Kevin Robey
July 1, 2013
He felt the surge of a soul compromised
Seeing the way out of this insanity
Found the razor to unveil his disguise
Pierced his heart that she once set free
The...
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line in the sand, depression, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Trump Shields the Us From Becoming a Carcass Filled With AntsTrump Shields The US From Becoming A Carcass Full With Ants
Trumps draws a line in the sand
He's shaken all the trees in the land
Call him whatever, okay an ass
Yet keep in mind his motto...
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Categories:
line in the sand, perspective, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Baby Jesus's Stuffed AnimalBaby Jesus lay away in a manger
The three wise brothers brought him gold
Have you ever heard of the story of the stranger?
That brought the young pip an animal of cold
This stuffed animal was made with...
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Categories:
line in the sand, adventure, faith, visionary, animal, animal, jesus,
Form:
I do not know?
A Texas ShrineIn the winter of eighteen thirty-six the historic siege began.
The Mexicans went three thousand strong with Santa Anna in command.
The Texians defending the mission numbered one hundred eighty-two
lead by Travis, Bowie, and Crockett, they vowed...
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Categories:
line in the sand, freedom, history, patriotic,
Form:
Rhyme
Hallelujah GustsHere I stand with outstretched hand
Waiting for your next command
Drawing a line in the sand
" Hallelujah" my King is Grand
Considered being in a band
Where I could praise him from the stand
My father's gift was in...
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Categories:
line in the sand, blessing, faith,
Form:
Lyric
A Line Being Drawn In the SandA Line Is Being Drawn In The Sand
Through the mockery of sin where do I begin
A tug at the heart should light the spark to what I'm waiting for
Jesus drew a line in...
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Categories:
line in the sand, basketball, beach, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Jesus ChristJesus Christ
Awake
a pause to meditate on the pay
a humble need to bow the knee to pray
you came to open our hearts
to turn us from Satan onto God
that we may have...
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Categories:
line in the sand, baptism, beautiful, beauty, bible,
Form:
Free verse
Responsibility For Your CrimesDecompression like amphetamine retrievals,
you dive into a sacred pool littered with ritual remain.
This is no cancellation of your vows,
this is no redemption for your sins.
Nor is this a place you go to without...
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Categories:
line in the sand, life, me,
Form:
Free verse
The Neighborhood GrouchI suppose in every neighborhood there is bound to be,
An old grouch who with everything tends to disagree.
It matters not whether it happens to be a her or him;
He or she will zoom into orbit...
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Categories:
line in the sand, funnyold, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Beached WhaleIm like a whale
Beached on your sand
I was too stupid to know
I wasn’t meant for land
That evolution doenst happened
As fast as you planned
That when you saw me out of water
I was too big...
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Categories:
line in the sand, allegory, life, me, me,
Form:
Rhyme
TodayToday, I loathe you. Today, I leave you, the sum total of all I won’t hang on to. Not an inch I sway, not a word I say.
Strong. I stand. I am. You are not.
Today,...
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Categories:
line in the sand, courage, growth,
Form:
Free verse