Long Mccormick Poems
Long Mccormick Poems. Below are the most popular long Mccormick by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Mccormick poems by poem length and keyword.
Kout Gogga Mogga
we saw nothing
but elbows
and heard the fist pounding
the skin.
their long black and brown
leather coats hide what they
were doing
the cries of the men
on the ground
could be heard all the way
at my room
when I got their
the...
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Categories:
mccormick, culture, guitar, music, slam, sports,
Form:
Ballad
The Chicago Haymarket Riot of 1886
It was in eighteen eighty-six in the streets of Chicago,
where the greatest miscarriage of justice people would know
transpired in an infamous labor-police rendezvous.
Albert Parsons led eighty thousand people on revue.
The strikers marched down Chicago’s Michigan...
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Categories:
mccormick, history, death, men, work, people, death, men,
Form:
Rhyme
The Valley of the Culprits
In the valley of the culprits
be patient.
Remain planted on your legs
to be struck
by the newcomers and leaving them
never look behind you,
so that each one can see
the hairstyle on...
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Categories:
mccormick, people,
Form:
Haiku
My Great Grandma Mccormick
My great grandmother had about 49 children, so she also, probably never slept at night.
They were a large happy-go-lucky farm family, so somebody had to do those great big chores, right?
My own grandpa was the...
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Categories:
mccormick, grandmother, grandparents, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Martial Dances
We live in strange times, my brother
men make money
with war dances
and occupation...
Do you not see the bombardments
and the pillaging?
Under the boot
you are worn out,
these days
the sweat...
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Categories:
mccormick, inspirational, nostalgia, social, war, love, money, war,
Form:
Haiku
I Love Ya, Damn-It
I love your acsent' it makes me want to kiss you!
16 fillet catfish/ or seabass
1/4 cup of McCormick seasoning
2 Tablespoons of garlic powder
2 Tablespoons of onion powder
3 tablespoons of cayenne pepper
mix well and set aside
...
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Categories:
mccormick, food, music,
Form:
Ballade
Why I stopped going to Denny's
It's because of the bacon.
Yeah, it looks good on the menu, sitting there at the rim of the plate. Glistening. Archetypally ridged and ruffled. Positioned perfectly next to the eggs over easy, the pancakes, buxom...
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Categories:
mccormick, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Waiting For a Good One
She cannot keep a job; she has had several. Anger issues.
Cannot spell or write either, or be nice, but those are secondary problems.
Showed up at ten, was supposed to be there at 7:45; always good...
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Categories:
mccormick, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Narrative
The 1970's
In Chicago, my summer of '70 was spent working with a program seeking to rescue drug addicts, alcoholics, and street gangs. The following
summer of '71, found me on the convention floor at the McCormick Place...
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Categories:
mccormick, america, chicago, christian,
Form:
Couplet
I Was In These Pages
Without making you feel at all
In lands very distant from you
I raised flowers which you like
I know
I left you by yourself
With unforgettable memories...
Every so often
You felt uneasy
Because of my badly digested words
You stayed sleepless...
During...
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Categories:
mccormick, love, music,
Form:
Haiku
What Species of Humanity Are You?
What species of humanity are you?
Whatever kind you are, you don't worry us.
According to hearsay
you were willing to lay your hands
on small items
deposited by my mother
to the communal account,
close to a bank.
I know that...
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Categories:
mccormick, people, social,
Form:
Haiku
The Hunter Has Become a Guide For the Birds
The hunter has become a guide for the birds,
his two faces
against two wings.
He has chopped down trees
to make a post
with small dried branches
for the birds to roost.
He has broken off flowers
to decorate this small tree
to...
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Categories:
mccormick, inspirational, nostalgia, people,
Form:
Haiku
First Date
FIRST DATE
Her name was Judy McCormick, she was fourteen - barely
I was also fourteen, but claimed to be fifteen
She was slim, pretty with shortish dark brown hair,
Almond eyes, loveliest I'd ...
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Categories:
mccormick, girlfriend-boyfriendhome, dark, dark, home,
Form:
Narrative
Lyricvixen's Mock Peach Pie Recipe
Lyricvixen's Mock Peach Pie Recipe
1) 375 degrees F - bake - pie crust -
10 to 15 minutes (may vary in oven) read directions - set aside
...
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Categories:
mccormick, best friend, family, food, fruit, nice, nursery
Form:
I do not know?
When You Become My Friend
I pick up the phone and call Debbie
We are twelve years old instantly
Even though that was fifty years ago
We laugh and learn a little bit
Our history is rich with stories and fun
I tell her I...
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Categories:
mccormick, friend, friendship, women,
Form:
Free verse
I Cannot Say To You, Rest In the Night
When you get bored
Go at the edge of the Seine
Be the friend of swans
Divide some bread into pieces
To throw to them!
Don't be in charge of shippers
Letters remain in consciousness
By dancing northward
Consider bottles
Carried away by...
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Categories:
mccormick, love, music, nostalgia,
Form:
Haiku
Are You Ready Children?
Today I shall choose one of you
A child on whom falls a shadow, wedged in a corner between lines...
A daisy bringing us some suffering from his home
Silent in the middle of a blue turning grey,...
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Categories:
mccormick, love, music, nostalgia, child,
Form:
Haiku
Spiteful Minds - Edward Mccormick
"Spiteful Minds"
by~ Edward McCormick
Disdainfully negotiating gain,
The spiteful mind their heart's desire alone.
An obvious destruction they attain
Through dialogue with underlying tone.
A tiny drama brings about an end.
In spite of mind,...
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Categories:
mccormick, confusion,
Form:
Sonnet
Preparing For Bullies
Catha’s hair glistened in the Celtic way
Druids would have worshipped her
A sprinkle of cinnamon on her arms
Her face pixie-like and heart shaped
People fell in love with her
Scottish, Irish and Druids claimed her
We were five when...
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Categories:
mccormick, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
Ole Clammitiens Words
Fee-got sew high I say
Man they tryna hem me so
I can't ah-ford nuttin.
I spent ah day in Allen Acres
Bay'd em breakfast
in e sand anna
I installo de cmaera sercur'ems
for de peep-lez.
I say ya'll use dez thangs...
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Categories:
mccormick, film, insect, music,
Form:
Bio
Mccormick Family Reunion
His eyes were green but no one noticed
Even though he was the only green-eye in the room.
His hair was red, but so were all of ours
We are McCormicks so it makes sense right?
The thing we...
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Categories:
mccormick, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
Is This Ample Enough
none of the McCormicks knew which insect had made the crying sounds
odd since usually every McCormick is an expert about thirty-nine things
I know because my mother and her sixty-two sisters are all McCormicks
Some of the...
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Categories:
mccormick, family,
Form:
Blank verse
Donald a McCormick Boy
Donald was born in a tough family
It was beyond tough love, it was violent
He learned to put up his dukes before he was two
always getting struck down hard by a brother
He had six of them...
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Categories:
mccormick, parents,
Form:
Narrative
Naomi a Virtuous Woman
A woman who told the truth no matter what the consequences,
A woman who kept news, when it was not her confidence to reveal
A woman who studied her religious books, and believed in forgiveness
Virtuous woman who...
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Categories:
mccormick, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
I Wrote My Poems With My Heart
I wrote my poems
with my heart
I strolled abroad
With my manuscripts,
drew my expectations
into my drawings
The avalanche of suffering
crushes me.
I put years
on my back,
stored secrets
in my memory
Often I could not end
trips...
I was annoyed
by the hypocritical
before...
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Categories:
mccormick, inspirational, lost love, love, nostalgia,
Form:
Haiku