Long Matches Poems
Long Matches Poems. Below are the most popular long Matches by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Matches poems by poem length and keyword.
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
matches, memory,
Form:
Prose
Empathy As Green DemocracyI don't think it's just me.
I find myself challenged to change LeftBrain cognitive beliefs,
languaged abstractions of personal knowledge,
perhaps because it is not possible to change Right Brain's
Elder feelings of co-empathic trust
where dipolar co-arising mutual immunity
raises...
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Categories:
matches, education, health, history, integrity, political, racism,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Where Do We Come InWhere do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what...
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Categories:
matches, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership, people, rights, sports,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Car Club Meeting Lament - Text - Part 2 of 2Note: This is the 2nd half of one of my MANY long story works, and the 1st half can be accessed, of course, at "poems by Mark Stellinga" on the soup.
My wife and I were...
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Categories:
matches, car,
Form:
Narrative
An Epic Love For WomenI know you're not here
but you are in my heart
so
you are always with me
i'll just slip into you
with these words.
I know
there are mountains
dwarf the cities below
peaks that stride above the...
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Categories:
matches, beauty, celebration, dream, heart, love, magic,
Form:
Epic
There Comes That MomentFortunately, when I was young, what I perceived - 'my kingdom' -
spanned - and I'm not kidding you...seven - city - blocks!
But being neither worried about - nor having fully mastered -
the tricky...
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Categories:
matches, childhood, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
Beary Tales Episodes 7-14, Poet's Notes7. Playing With Fire
My mom IS quite clear on the dangers of fire,
But if boy'S hooked on flame, then it'S hard to obey,
There'S a longing for “MATCH GUN” (6) that most boys acquire,
Small'S the chance...
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Categories:
matches, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over
amber gold wild bush...
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Categories:
matches, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Winter, 1948WINTER, 1948 [40 Saxton Street]
for W.W
The winter nights that pass now
are so unlike the winter nights
that passed before, that I often
struggle back in those suspended moments
when sleep grapples for a hold,
to once again hear the...
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Categories:
matches, age, childhood, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Our Baby Girl Turns 21OUR BABY GIRL TURNS 21
ON 1ST JULY 1990~ THE ANGELS DID SOMETHING ALMIGHTY
FROM HEAVEN THEY SENT US OUR LIFE-LONG DESIRE-A PRECIOUS DAUGHTER TO LOVE AND ADMIRE.
TRUE TO YOUR NATURE YOU ARRIVED WITHOUT FUSS OR PAIN--THE...
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Categories:
matches, daughter, daughter, school, baby, nature, beautiful, age,
Form:
Rhyme
The eye of the stormHuge fluffy clouds began to form over
Sanibel Island as the salted gulf splashed
against the rocks around the lighthouse
coastal waters rose up as a calming coolness
carried this gentle warm breeze over to...
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Categories:
matches, beach, beautiful, creation, rainbow, sunshine,
Form:
Free verse
Feeling Small, Broken EnigmaLet my ears deceive me but I hear it, can't bother to drown it out
the taunting laughter at my misery
Fictional should they be but the reality has cleared the camouflage
which hath once shrouded me
Exposed and...
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Categories:
matches, how i feel, nonsense,
Form:
Free verse
Having Enough-Remembering ThanksgivingI awoke to the familiar sound of dishes rattling in Mother’s kitchen and to the thick scent of coffee wafting through the air. I glanced out my bedroom window; the neighborhood was lit by the...
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Categories:
matches, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Free verse
Loveshine - Chapter 2 - From Sunset To SunriseYou’re my Phoenix from the start in flight
You stole my only melody
Made it stronger, baby
Loveshine, I still love you
I love you true
I love you, I do…
What about you?
Only His time tells…
Will you free me like...
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Categories:
matches, devotion, emotions, endurance, fear, feelings, hope, lost
Form:
Lyric
My Conversation With GodI have been praying to God ever since I first understood the concept of a deity. Although I have struggled through life with my acceptance of and belief in the religion I was force...
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Categories:
matches, inspirational, introspection, god, me, time, prayer, children,
Form:
Narrative
SnowThe very fact of being alive, often causes one to seek adventure;
And sometimes it is no deterrent, when it carries traces of danger.
I was not a seasoned survivalist, but very much loved the outdoors,
Like varicolored...
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Categories:
matches, adventure, fantasy, friendship love, magic, mountains, snow,
Form:
Couplet
Interview With the Most Beautiful SuicideInterview with The Most Beautiful Suicide -Evelyn Francis McHale - May 1, 1947
So Evelyn, yours is one of the most famous of suicides, since you chose to jump from the Empire State Building in 1947,...
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Categories:
matches, suicide,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Game of Cricket Is a Game of LifeLife is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is simply...
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Categories:
matches, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy, games, image, inspiration,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Bad Boy Gone GoodYour life is a sandwich with many layers
Your knife slaughtered me as you bewitch my mind with thought-slayers
Coming undone by this bleeding hate-love relationship
You tease me with insults that make me wanna cry, but...
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Categories:
matches, deep, depression, happiness, boy,
Form:
Free verse
Whistling In the Dark(A Rave By A Poet)
Remember when you were a child?
Adults seemed then to be in control,
Almost like Gods, with special powers
That almost always knew
When you'd been up...
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Categories:
matches, childhood, education, fun, games, humor, universe,
Form:
Blank verse
The Particular Methods To Creating Swtor Credits In the GameSlicing is among the most gathering capacity through Swtor and also is wonderful for carrying out credits. With this gather approach you are able to exposed centered pots along with access international airport terminals in...
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Categories:
matches, computer-internet, write, work, may, time, work, write,
Form:
Free verse
Never Trust a TwinYukon, Oklahoma was a small rambunctious mining town a hard days ride from Dallas in the days before the car,
Back when genuine doctors were as scarce as honest men - and every other building was...
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Categories:
matches, humor,
Form:
Narrative
UntitledOut of my dreams and into my life..
Unbelievable.
You stole the matches from my book.
Put out the fire in my eyes.
I need you to leave me alone..
We ran our courses, going no where.
I close my eyes,...
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Categories:
matches, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Xlix - Tongue TeasersUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: Tongue-Teasers - XLIX
« Third Degree » is when you add « Insult to injury ».
If you take everything everybody says with a « pinch of salt », we’ll soon be able to drink...
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Categories:
matches, humor, irony, race, word play,
Form:
Epigram
And Speaking ofThis isn't the way we should walk into this
And my SOS signal didn’t seem to bring God into it
Just like shaking people's hands doesn't gift us world peace
And speaking of shaking hands,
You're in a...
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Categories:
matches, best friend, emotions, how i feel, introspection,
Form:
Free verse