Long Mckay Poems
Long Mckay Poems. Below are the most popular long Mckay by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Mckay poems by poem length and keyword.
To Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize WinnerAs soon as I heard
You were the First African American Male
To win the Pulitzer prize for Poetry
I wanted to run out and celebrate
I wanted to wake up Hughes and Dunbar
And Baraka and say we...
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Categories:
mckay, assonance, black african american, books, muse, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Northern Territory BoresThere is a large cattle property in the Northern Territory of Australia
where the bores are named after Famous cricketers and that prompted
this piece.
...
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Categories:
mckay, sports, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Damned Girl, Part IIn Skagway town, eighteen ninety-eight
Lived a young man, Elliot McKay.
He worked with his father selling dry goods,
To the miners heading Klondike-way,
They made some good coin in a day.
Elliot he, like most younger men,
Had an eye...
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Categories:
mckay, adventure, anger, betrayal, dark, death, heartbroken, history,
Form:
Narrative
If We Must DieIf We Must Die: (Dedicated to the Memory of Claude McKay, Harlem Renaissance Poet and Jamaican Born)
If we must die:
Let it not result from, being unable to serve the cause for the betterment of...
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Categories:
mckay, courage, devotion, faith, god, spiritual, uplifting, visionary,
Form:
Pastoral
Fox and the Grouse"The Quad City Spoils"
...
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Categories:
mckay, analogy, art, symbolism,
Form:
Bio
Ancient Art of Almond MilkingDear friend,
I am trying to master the ancient art of Almond Milking. It's quite difficult and my sweetie hasn't had a drink of almond milk in months. I started with cats to improve my...
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Categories:
mckay, adventure,
Form:
Prose
Dirranbandi PlonkingDirranbandi plonking
27Australians and a shearer came to bash Bronco Don in 1945
He was just back from Kokoda killing Japs to stay alive
Some carried beer bottles and others 2 handed sticks
I was in hospital being...
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Categories:
mckay, adventureold, old,
Form:
Rhyme
To SharonThese days I see you in so much pain
And I want so much to help you
To bring and release the healing rain
And show you that you’re not a fool
I looked up to you every day
At...
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Categories:
mckay, dedication, devotion, family, forgiveness, friendship, happiness, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Two Exits Up AheadTwo exits up ahead.
One to the left could go west,
One to the right could go east,
I could drive straight past
Continuing down the predictable path.
The exit on the right provides a return
route to beginnings — attempts...
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Categories:
mckay, inspirational, life, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
For Claude MckayBoots pavements pounding,
Brass buttons becoming stars
Where fear was astounding
The heart; and in all their wars
We were but a margin, you
I and expendable like small talk
Before the mold infected dew.
I from car to car with you...
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Categories:
mckay, black african american, dedication, on writing and
Form:
Rhyme
InterruptionDeath has come
Falling softly like snowflakes
On flowerbeds
The winds blows the dead sheet of leaves
Every time I see greatness rising from the earth
Like a new pea growing
The locust comes like a flash of lightning
Will nothing endure...
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Categories:
mckay, on writing and words
Form:
Free verse
Skating In the CloudsSkating in the Clouds
She ice skates, now in the clouds.
Her figure eights wow, all the heavenly crowds.
She is amazed as the crowd continues to grow.
New, to heaven, God pleases them all with additional,
sparkling...
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Categories:
mckay, cousin, dedication, fantasy, imagery, love,
Form:
Rhyme
You Shall Not Return(Answer to Claude McKay I shall return)
YOU shall not come again
You won’t come back
You shall not turn up, you shan’t
To chuckle and care for the ones you want to see
To wristwatch with wonder surprised eyes
For...
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Categories:
mckay, losslife,
Form:
Free verse
To Miss MckayThe day was glorious, sun splitting the sky,
Sat down in utter bewilderment I asked myself why,
It started round with one miss Mckay around 5 years ago or so,
When i think of you i wonder...
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Categories:
mckay, angst, lost love, lovelove, me,
Form:
Verse
Fire Ant Mind ControlEveryone says the government will be the first to develop mind control, (or that they already have) but it seems as if a species of fire ant (Solenopsis geminate) has beaten them to it. Entomologist...
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Categories:
mckay, fantasy,
Form:
Prose
Bum Named William PrologueI met a bum named William. I sit with him today. We're on the corner of Quincy and a street called McKay. He'd been there for some years now and no that's not OK. He...
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Categories:
mckay, america, culture, depression, giving, heartbroken, humanity, poverty,
Form:
Blank verse
My First KissHe held my hand all the way home that night.
Crossing through the graveyard gave me a fright.
That was where he first kissed me,
In the graveyard, so misty.
That was my first kiss in the pale moonlight.
He...
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Categories:
mckay, nostalgia, romanceme, home, home, kiss, me,
Form:
Limerick
For Claude MckayLetter me with lines that I may distil
The sovereign sweetness of your flaming will
Teach me to sing of dusty flowers pure
And maiden's savaged innocence no more
To scorn, for you in all emotions soar
Though self-exiled from...
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Categories:
mckay, dedication, on writing and words, me, ,
Form:
Sonnet
For CmCluade, here I am, where your feet have stood
Far from the mountain flung across the sea
Where the poincianna is aglitter, and wood doves brood
On things less tedious than our dark history
O poet laureate, if your...
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Categories:
mckay, dedication
Form:
Verse
Claude MckayCountee Cullen knew you, and you nectared him
Lambent voice when Harlem was wrapped in night
Artist and rebel, African singer of Grecian hymn
Umbilical to Jamaica, nightingale in Nietzschean flight
Deny not the laurels I lay at your...
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Categories:
mckay, art
Form:
Acrostic