Long Macon Poems
Long Macon Poems. Below are the most popular long Macon by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Macon poems by poem length and keyword.
Reg Everson
Kitted out with a uniform, I felt the part,
But the deesire inside is always the art;
I was enlisted as a pilot under training,
And inoculated, vaccinated in yearning.
The medical exam asserted no divinity,
And...
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Categories:
macon, courage, death, history, tribute, truth, veterans day,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
The Story of Boxcar Jack
THE STORY OF BOXCAR JACK
NOT MANY KNOW OF BOXCAR JACK
WHO LIVES ON A TRAIN GOING WAY BACK
HEARING THE SOUND OF THE CLITITY CLACK
THAT COMES FROM BEAT OF A NORTHBOUND TRACK
WELL BOXCAR WAS A MUSIC...
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Categories:
macon, journey, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Luck of the Devil
At a Greyhound station in Macon, Georgia I gambled my soul with the Devil.
He strolled in after midnight and told me he was on the level
and asked if I was a gambling man and I...
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Categories:
macon, dark, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Po-Mo Remix
That's not MY elephant!
A spiteful conceited elephant that ran away from the circus
MY elephant provides copies of the Bill Of Rights to all 2nd graders in Macon County
Considers fund-raising possibilities of selling elephant ears at...
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Categories:
macon, animals, on writing and words, parody, philosophy,
Form:
Narrative
My Softest Light
Wherever we lived, summer meant
riding in the car ~
red clay, Georgia bound
My excitement grew with each state
trapped in Daddy’s rearview mirror.
Macon was relative love ground
where smiles were not lost but found.
I always sat in...
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Categories:
macon, absence, childhood, emotions, grandmother, i miss you,
Form:
Verse
Macon Bacon
So Willy Wonka’s gone and now I’ve got
his factory. Though chocolate is great,
there’s something else to which I’ve given thought!
Because of Covid, livestock’s gone to waste.
Please, Farmers, do not throw your pigs away!
Although it’s getting...
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Categories:
macon, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Where the Lights Were Low
(verse 1)
Oh, she met him by the river
In a place where the lights were low
And the music made her shiver
For there were things she could not know
He asked her if she were taken
She said someday...
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Categories:
macon, war,
Form:
Lyric
What I Have Kicked Off My Bucket List
WHAT I’VE KICKED OFF MY BUCKET LIST.
Kicked off to do’s before I knew,
the term called,” Bucket List.”.
What we teens termed, “chasing our star”
”our dream” or … our heart’s “wish.”
With twenty -five bucks chased dream,...
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Categories:
macon, adventure, blessing, courage, new york, passion, success,
Form:
Rhyme
Now You Know the Rest of the Story
Outline of a figure in the clouds
Evil eagle on right shoulder
Angel archer behind aiming at the evil bird...
When we are unaware, an angel is always there
Following to protect from harm
How many times a day does...
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Categories:
macon, introspection, life
Form:
Narrative
Ohoopee Bound
Ohoopee Bound
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She played a six string guitar
With a lowdown Georgia flair
She played it in a tavern
In the sultry Summer air
She played it for the locals
When they came each Friday night
She played it for her lover
In...
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Categories:
macon, music,
Form:
Rhyme
Philosophy 1
Philosophy 1
Our side-by-side desks were acquainted. Sadly, we were not.
Sassy and blond, Tammy Sue was a philosophy freak.
Afforded by Macon, Georgia she idolized Julia Kristeva.
I idolized Tammy Sue.
Near the end of the semester at NYU,...
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Categories:
macon, romance, words, philosophy,
Form:
Blank verse
When You Ain'T Got Nothin
Chasing my thirst into the
desert at night,
Otis Redding was right….
“You don’t miss the water till the well runs dry”
And marrying the wrong woman
for the second time,
...
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Categories:
macon, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Georgia Girl
Gonna see my to Georgia girl
Hanging up my weary blues
Nothing but a yearning heart
A dollar and my walking shoes
Georgia Girl, Georgia Girl ...
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Categories:
macon, loneliness, lonely, longing, love, travel,
Form:
Lyric