Long Matchbook Poems

Long Matchbook Poems. Below are the most popular long Matchbook by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Matchbook poems by poem length and keyword.


Fortunes Re Told

FORTUNES READ the sign displayed
TRINKETS, CHARMS AND SPELLS
The store had not been here yesterday
shades of candles, books and bell
Drapes were hung from side to side
The windows all were dark
Where was this place a day ago?
Just...

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Categories: matchbook, surreal,
Form: Epic


Fractured

My grandfather on my father’s side, was a pecker-toothed sidle who raped his 
daughter when she was just ten. He threw down vodka from an eternal well and took my father out to buy prostitutes...

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Categories: matchbook, childhoodfather, father, grandfather, mother,
Form: Narrative

Paper Gangster

I can't handle pretenders.
Something someone is not.
No 'spect for a paper gangster.
Living a fake life until caught.

A lawyer watching Son's of Anarchy.
Blue jeans with vest, will be looking phat.
Uber delivers him to a Harley shop,
wearing...

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Categories: matchbook, image, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Pj Sandwich


Pretty double dipping fingers,
smooth peanut butter skin quality
Jelly coated lies that lip lingers ... 
has a heart so sticky and slippery

Welcoming the curious to come take a bite of guise,
lust smeared desire tasted between white...

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Categories: matchbook, allusion, betrayal, metaphor, word play,
Form: Quatrain

Math

I am a master of the Arts University of Only One.
If you having problems my words can solve them.
My voice can direct others, better yet they call me a prima donna.
My words turn into a...

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Categories: matchbook, emotions, identity, wisdom,
Form: Light Verse


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The Tides Motel Palm Beach Blvd

My bus finally pulled in late 
you were there as promised 
although I  tried not to notice 
the blonde bimbo adjusting 
her skirt a cross between 
pat benatar and Melanie griffith 
puffing on a...

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Categories: matchbook, allah, sea,
Form: Roundel
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To the Brim- For My Contest

 'He fills his glass up to the brim'
 She knows what happens when he drinks
 He's in an ocean and cant swim
 The more he drinks the more he sinks

 She watches sadly as...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: matchbook, lost, sad,
Form: Quatern
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Hurricane

Hurricane

You crash ashore like a savage one-eyed lion attacking its prey. Hunger gnaws at your belly, the trip from Africa has been long. Wind like claws slashing and ripping, roofs torn from their moorings and...

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Categories: matchbook, storm,
Form: Haibun

Pointers Point: Jokes On Me

I laughed with balls yesterday
I’m not sure why, or what it
was

That was, to cause convulsive
chuckles, I think my eyes
tear-ed

was queer, about toe nails I’m
Sure, but she said something
sharp

from dark she throws, the subtle
wit, moves swift...

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Categories: matchbook, funny, love,
Form: I do not know?

Of the Same Soul

Flushed and frothing in the late July heat
of a slow motion Texas afternoon,
I ventured a call home
and found you
there.

Still of the same soul
and still the same
half of my whole.

It took almost an hour
to remind you...

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Categories: matchbook, brother, family, friendship, life, nostalgia, places, seasons,
Form: Free verse
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Moonshine Shuffle - Moderate Country Waltz

Moonshine, diesel fumes, and chicken wire. 
Laundry hangin’ on the line. 
Bible open to the Book of Job. 
Backyard thick with prickly pine.

Jacket pocket full of Red Man dip. 
Work boots laced with leather thongs.
Wedding...

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Categories: matchbook, allegory, marriage,
Form: Lyric

The Box

I keep a box of memories
it’s safely tucked away
but now and then and then again 
I bring it out to play

a marble here a matchbook there
and pictures one or two
of things I’ve done and wars...

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© Mike Bross  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: matchbook, pets
Form: Rhyme

Fault Line Breaking

Today marks a continuation of
my blazing accent of enlightenment.
With a tedious eye I vanquish
the demon taunting my peripheral
of lamentable memories and efforts
torn asunder before grateful fruition.

The path that leads to your door
fills me more than...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: matchbook, devotionme,
Form: Free verse

No Hotter Dance

It’s hot and it’s fiery, it’s better shared by two
The Matchbook Mambo is the dance step for you
You ignite with your footsteps, so wild and free
And burn up the dance floor, that’s what you do

Put...

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Categories: matchbook, passion, peopledance, dance,
Form: Rhyme

Downside of a Writer

They say Im a lover but I know I can also be a fighter/ 
Im living in darkness today knowing tomorrow ain't going to get any brighter/ 
Im so heavy in the pain I don't...

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Categories: matchbook, on writing and words, lost, life, lost,
Form: Alliteration
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