Long Manikins Poems
Long Manikins Poems. Below are the most popular long Manikins by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Manikins poems by poem length and keyword.
The Grey Man
There were images the grey man could not see
Did not want to see, in all probability
Walking by the glass doors and windows of modern stores
No warmth of being within their cold crisp alloy frames
Where...
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Categories:
manikins, life, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
A Fractured View
Swans row the sky
just feet above the copper water.
Gulls twist their necks to watch
a lone sailor on the prow
of a sludge-decked dredger.
On the slate thatched gambrels
of a lesser known roofs
spotters search for night bombers,
the...
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Categories:
manikins, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Los Angeles
After we met
I thought we really had something,
Really hit it off.
It wasn’t the words we spoke,
The easy fluorescent trail they made.
Maybe it was the Japanese lantern
Glowing over your bare shoulder
Or the smile you threw
To the...
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Categories:
manikins, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
"honorable Project"
“Honorable Project”
`Tis all we manikins that run in this race,
And only one that receives the one prize.
But the awesome truthfulness,...
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Categories:
manikins, inspirational, love
Form:
Rhyme
Antonin Artaud Theater of Cruelty Or Joie De Vivre Part 3
He was sitting alone in the corner
In a little cafe at the painting of Monet
And was talking to imaginary friend
About thinness opaqueness fear
Sensation of heat cold anger despair
Cruelty he claimed is the language of...
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Categories:
manikins, allusion, french, symbolism,
Form:
Ballad
Frenchman Flat
Do I wake or dream?
Another one –
Life is a bowl of cherries.
One more –
Not with a whimper,
but with a bloody big bomb.
The house is ply-struts and particle composite.
Mum is cardboard,
but dad and my little sister...
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Categories:
manikins, poetry,
Form:
Blank verse
The Fear of Growing Older
there are places and people in America
that are scared to death
of looking old and growing older
where a new wrinkle or two when found is a terrible scary thing
a birthday is not celebrated but...
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Categories:
manikins, age, beautiful, birthday, fate, fear, identity, image,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Fear of Getting Older
there are places and people in America that are scared to death
of looking old and growing older
where a new wrinkle or two when found is a terrible scary thing
a birthday is not celebrated...
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Categories:
manikins, age, beauty, birthday, confusion, fear, poetry, youth,
Form:
Verse
Led By Dummies
Headless manikins all in a roe
Which one will end up being the hoe?
If you could stand them out in the snow,
You would be amazed at which way they blow!
Punch them in the gut for they...
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Categories:
manikins, angst, dedication, introspection, loss, visionary
Form:
Free verse
Storm Clouds
In the jumbled backyard of mind
they arrive in dark cowls,
gather behind an inverse eye,
wait there for the eyes themselves
to flip those images over into
a word chewing anger.
Manikins move in those shadows,
tussle in a muted violent...
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Categories:
manikins, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Day They Destroyed a Carboard Family
(Nevada Test Site 1951)
The house is ply-struts
not even particleboard.
Mom is cardboard,
dad and my little sister are manikins,
Older brother is a painted figure
of a younger brother’s imagination.
Just regular folks.
The dog is a real dog
chained to a...
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Categories:
manikins, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Looking Lace
long legs looking
lace & doily,
fit for grandma’s
china cabinet
& just as porcelainesque
in perfectly painted lips
& an inanimate gaze,
but there’s nothing of pre-sexual
purity in those long legs
looking lace.
lascivious my thoughts left
her walking by thw window,
watching my...
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Categories:
manikins, death, life, me, me,
Form:
Blank verse
Barbaric Yawps
My mind is tribal, I hunt in the mud and slurry,
I track the stars in a wooden chariot
made from the ribs of a blood-clan crib.
My thoughts are armored, yet as articulated
as any youthful flesh, they...
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Categories:
manikins, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Ragged People
the homeless people
alive in cracks we avoid.
each displays no grace nor glory.
We turn our backs, are so annoyed.
Worn overcoats over scrim pajamas,
angled hair and leather-ed skin,
bags and bottles are their bangles,
we’ve become loveless manikins.
some...
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Categories:
manikins, abuse, addiction, blessing, environment, humanity, loneliness, sympathy,
Form:
Didactic
A Notice To Our Customers
Valued clients, we have listened,
and have taken on-board
your concerns and suggestions.
From now on, the display manikins will
be of a deep puce green color
so as not to marginalize
any ethnic variants.
In our book section
the...
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Categories:
manikins, poetry,
Form:
Blank verse
Invasion of the Manikins
Can you hear the hypnotic hum of the production line?
Education Rehabilitation factories rolling out images of humans made of plastic and wood.
Minds are erased of parental guidance.
Memory banks programmed with political correctness.
Manikin, manikin
Original thought, personal...
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Categories:
manikins, appreciation, atheist, betrayal, confusion, corruption, grief, war,
Form:
Free verse
How the World Got Colorful
Green was the theme, mainly green and blue
then came you
in your floral dance and open mouths,
red insect-eating lips. snaky tongues
big, bold, and subjectively pretty,
objectively fleshy,
lushly, lustful, lapping at life.
The sun adopted the new
grey turned greyer...
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Categories:
manikins, poetry,
Form:
Free verse