Long Mantelpiece Poems
Long Mantelpiece Poems. Below are the most popular long Mantelpiece by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Mantelpiece poems by poem length and keyword.
Comparatively Speaking
if you’re reading this piece
right now,
you’ve got the world at your
fingertips---
might not feel like it, might
feel like your own life is gonna
come crashing down upon your
head, might have a thousand
skeletons in your closet...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, life, world,
Form:
Free verse
Evil Shadows Any Time and Everywhere
Trains run alight terminate on time like clockwork
never ending endless procession of precision conductors
the conducted walk down the line warped tracks of
cynically divided isles dead ends of ‘labour making free’
Evil strips uniformed...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, evil,
Form:
Free verse
Distressed
Distressed by Rob Barratt
My furniture is all distressed
It's unusually unstable
The oak bookcase is quite depressed
As is the coffee table
The worktop has a thin veneer
It seethes beneath the surface
The taps know how low they can… sink
And...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, stress,
Form:
Rhyme
COLOURFUL LAMENT
I combed cool waters of your baby blue
crystalline Jewel as you waded waterfall
waves washing my stellar rainbow rays
arching it melted into the warm womb
of transducing tangoing Earth
Her Violet Flame devoured...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, allegory, blue, color, deep, desire, humanity, inspirational
Form:
Free verse
The Clock On My Mantelpiece
The Clock on the mantelpiece
Has a story to tell of love
It is a memory left behind
Like that of two turtle doves
My mother was in middle school
My father in her class
They were friends from grade one
How...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, addiction, angst, green, inspiration, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Exodus
The only fear of this stubborn lion heart
is to beat - unheard, without the blessings of your sighs.
In the absence of your affection,
severe silence spins cobwebs upon mossy fences,
you have built across your sky full...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, absence, emotions, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
mantelpiece, home,
Form:
Free verse
Recurrent Ruse
They come to her hungry - hopeful
To be fed facile fantasy, a script he held
Stowed in boyhood through decades
Recessed where sweating shame dwelled
Invisible while he achieved accolades
Gridiron big man outperform boastful
Invited...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, allusion, beautiful, desire,
Form:
Rhyme
Goodbye Halloween
Goodbye Halloween it's Christmas time to tout.
We'll all be getting presents then.
We won't go door to door or dress up anymore.
Here Santa comes at Christmas when...
Midnight strokes of Christmas Eve.
Our stockings by the fire.
Wax candles...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, christmas,
Form:
Quatrain
For Three Straight Years
For three straight
years
I have
looked
into
those
brown
eyes
and
I simply
Can’t look away
For three
straight years
I have
dreams which
are
painted so brilliantly
With
memories
which are
snapshots
of beautiful
sounds and smells
like oil paintings
priceless
for three straight years
that smile
moves me
to
greatness
like
the work of David
my
inspiration
and staring through my camera lens
I...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, love, me,
Form:
I do not know?
What's It About For You, Then
What’s it about for them, then
Loneliness, poverty, pain
Bang of the bailiff at the door
Death in a ditch in the rain
What is it like for the Joneses
Bigger and better you think
Posh port and pigs in blankets
Sick...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, blessing, children, christmas, humanity, poverty, psychological, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Animating Innate Vibrance
Between the pulse of our heartbeat simply present
head- heart linking
dwelling in time with stretched blissful peace
awareness became unblinking.
Between heaven and earth the ethereal pulse of God's creation
sifting through the soul...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, appreciation, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
Tribute To the Back Country Hut
There’s a billy on the open fire
Piles of beech wood by the door
Smokey stains adorn the iron roof
Wax drips on bench and floor.
Old cobwebs drape the windows
Dog-eared cards upon a shelf
The half a dozen Readers...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, beautiful, environment, feelings, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Broken Bleeding Heart
"How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?"
—Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Which moron invented the term joy-riding
tell me... where is...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, child, death, heartbroken, sad,
Form:
Free verse
For Nineteen Years
They are poor…they’re removed, they struggle through life,
Every day is a burden on the edge of a knife,
They’re stuck in the circle, that’s all that they know,
And there’s not work around, and nowhere to go.
...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, bereavement,
Form:
Lyric
Rust
I am a ruined house
With a rusty fence,
So many phantoms reside resting recklessly,
A clock on the mantelpiece that won't work. It's stuck staring at me,
Tick………,
The wallpaper is crumbling and fading away like my...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, heartbreak, heartbroken, love, love hurts, sad, sad
Form:
Free verse
Hip To the Slaughter
when the surroundings of the will
begin to suffocate it &
the hands grasping for some kind of
deus ex machina
slip
slip
slip
like butta’ melting...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, life, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Over Which Cat S Shoulders Is Raised the Lintel
To be left alone
to be a cat
...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, fantasy, cat,
Form:
Imagism
Just a Dream
JUST A DREAM
When I was young and still had dreams,
I dreamt of fame and fortune.
With all the recklessness of youth
I had no doubts.
I knew
I knew I’d be a household name one day.
Perhaps a second Beckham
Or...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Dreaming On a Life-Raft
Dream on a raft
A balsam raft, with a mast and a Latin sail, I built for amusement on summer days on the inner sea,
but I found myself too far from shore, daydreaming is dangerous,...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, absence, adventure,
Form:
Blank verse
Yuletide Gathering
On the oak and iron studded door
There hung a wreath of yuletide
That was so pleasing to the eye
It seemed to welcome you inside
The hallway was lit with candles
Of every shape, size and hue
And tasteful...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, holidaychristmas, son, christmas, son,
Form:
I do not know?
Fruition
X. insects that are impossible to see with the naked eye
crawl through what is left
IX. knocked by accident off the mantelpiece &
spread all over the shag
VIII. burnt in a crematory, stuffed in an urn &...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Recalcitrant Past
His sins, many thousands of them,
Lie buried in the anonymous soil.
Over his mantelpiece a proverb hangs:
"Aus den Augen, aus dem Sinn."
On his shelf "Mein Kampf" is visible.
"It must never happen again,"...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, history, holocaust, identity,
Form:
Free verse
Chris
Surrounded by the glitz and frippery
the ribbons, bells and stars all meant to warm you,
on the mantelpiece, parading with the cards
the one that silently ' regrets to inform you'.
Muffled merriment, jaded joy
from those who...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, bereavement, best friend, in memoriam,
Form:
I do not know?
Silly Old Jester
They call me a silly old jester
A title I'm proud to possess
Love making people titter and giggle
Some dribble all over their dress
Don't mean to cause embarrassment
If some of you can't keep control
Numerous trips to the...
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Categories:
mantelpiece, funny, old, me, old, silly, giggle,
Form:
Quatrain