Long Makeshift Poems
Long Makeshift Poems. Below are the most popular long Makeshift by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Makeshift poems by poem length and keyword.
The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
makeshift, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
In the Middle of the NightI woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...
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Categories:
makeshift, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
makeshift, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 37The cold air seemed to help clear his head but the lullaby was persistent and
he could not get it out of his mind. He walked for just a few moments
before passing the the...
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Categories:
makeshift, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Ghost Dance Part IiiWovoka in the Feverland
In the Dying-Grass Moon came another winter to claim the old and sick.
This was when the first messengers came
To the desolation known as Pine Ridge.
They came riding in at the end of...
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Categories:
makeshift, emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Spring Festival
Symbols cry in dry ice theater -
the expanse of aesthetic visa-
drawn-
from the romance of the silvery eye -
as it golden advances the lid of covenance
in dynamic enzyme.
Open faced type interpreted-
interpreter-embossed embol-
in...
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Categories:
makeshift, beautiful, god, love,
Form:
Epic
The Crow Ghost of Haunting FootstepsBreak my neck; snap it in two, snap it in half
don't give me that incredulous, frightened look as I ask
don't hesitate in front of me, please just do me this favor
so I gain a halo,...
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Categories:
makeshift, i love you, i miss you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
In My Room(His version of Room 123)
I’ve laid here on this bed dreaming of being with her for many days and nights, and tonight she agreed to meet me here, the stars finally aligned
Either I was too...
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Categories:
makeshift, angst, conflict, heartbroken,
Form:
Rhyme
GenieUsGenusPlan
In the darkness of the night,
a ruby gleams
to contrast a slumbered eye awakened
to feeling,
reflection, light,
Lady "Genie", eyes aglow
like a beast, in mid-stride,
lost in her midnight dreams is clothed in a...
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Categories:
makeshift, april, art, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Recluse By Dint of CircumstanceRecluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark...
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Categories:
makeshift, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
Skeletons In the ClosetLet your skeletons out of the closet and let them dance with mine, the way that our bodies once moved together in an unspoken of time
I am one of these skeletons, maybe your biggest one...
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Categories:
makeshift, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Fork Git About Spooner Hiz HamFork git about spooner hiz ham
And join (singing the words
in the next paragraph) whether alone
in a traffic jam
basting, cooking, then eating a lamb
prepared by thee missus
a superb culinary madam.
“A Ram Sam Sam” Lyrics
A ram...
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Categories:
makeshift, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Road TripRoad Trip
The country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few...
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Categories:
makeshift, adventure, allegory, childhood, grandfather, meaningful, nostalgia, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 4His reverie ended as he was brought back to reality when he stepped into a patch of deep fresh snow and promptly fell face down in a hollow on the leeward side of a boulder....
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Categories:
makeshift, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Botched and Bungled Interpersonal Opportunities ViewedBotched and bungled interpersonal opportunities viewed...
tonight October 25th, 2022
terrifically summarily requoting
poetic outdated iteration,
I share the following lines
echoing in the valley
of love and delight.
courtesy 20/20 hindsight
October twenty fifth
two thousand and twenty two
admirable,...
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Categories:
makeshift, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Down a Piece and ThereThe country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few more...
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Categories:
makeshift, allegory, beach, childhood, grandfather, nostalgia, remember, travel,
Form:
Narrative
King of Kings: 1-901 A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky;
The hellish slug of gas does creep along.
It casts an orb three hundred stories high
Over the Sun and ends his morning song.
The birds and trees now stand a...
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Categories:
makeshift, metaphor, , western,
Form:
Epic
I Could Never Be the RainMy life started with rain,
the steady stream of drops,
hitting the trees gently
and ending its descent to our world
on the wet pavement.
I am on the sidewalk,
sheltered by a makeshift roof and
a border of trees.
The...
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Categories:
makeshift, body, loneliness, longing, passion, rain, symbolism, voice,
Form:
Free verse
While Daydreaming About Timepiece InventorsWhile daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022
How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
and I would be hard pressed
to differentiate one moment
from the next without the...
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Categories:
makeshift, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, creation, december,
Form:
Free verse
Gitter Dunn - 1st Half In Text - Plus Full Audio VersionThis is the 1st Half - sorry, this is the only way to get my long pieces posted - 2nd HALF is posted
Times were hard when I was young, and - tryin’ to help...
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Categories:
makeshift, dad, father, father son, inspirational, love,
Form:
Narrative
Letters For People Part 6Dear people,
A true Voice speaks pure truth in two tones.
Real Ears can only hear one.
Get one half of two true whole truths,
...
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Categories:
makeshift, america, angel, anxiety, confidence, fire, heart, humor,
Form:
Epic
Unknown CrowDeep in the dark depths of disaster, disassociated disaster
distracting distraction distracted
Bleh, bahumbug!
Why should I care how I start this
this will just be tossed to the wayside all over again
Forgive me, my swift carelessness of...
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Categories:
makeshift, nonsense,
Form:
Free verse
Heaven's Lost Property: a Movie of My EmotionsA voice, a silky sweet voice i my ear
a whisper, a whispering question hanging in the air
but there's a conflict of interest
I'm no master nor hero
not even a zero, I'm just a boy
a boy craving...
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Categories:
makeshift, anxiety, best friend, corruption, fear, feelings, first
Form:
Narrative
Trifolium Pollinated Courtesy BombusTrifolium pollinated courtesy bombus
Before landscapers mow swaths
across undulating waves of clover
(the father/daughter team
usually cut grass every Tuesday)
bumblebees alight from one to another flower.
Meanwhile, I lie splayed
mid morning June 28th, 2022
with stomach upon natural carpeting
quietly basking...
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Categories:
makeshift, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, color, creation, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
My Parents Were Illegal Immigrants In the United StatesIn 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans.
One day he and seven...
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Categories:
makeshift, america, immigration,
Form:
Prose