Long Memoir Poems
Long Memoir Poems. Below are the most popular long Memoir by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Memoir poems by poem length and keyword.
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
memoir, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
No Happy EndingBright lights, big city...
bright lights, big city dreams...
please just take me away tonight
Let me rest on your elegance tonight
I have no energy left to spend in reality
so please knock me unconscious
just to be in the...
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Categories:
memoir, friend, friendship, hate, heartbreak, irony, jealousy, loss,
Form:
Free verse
A Parallel EarthIt was the weekend, and I was sleeping late that day,
Alone with the morning, while savoring marvels of May.
As I drowsed luxuriantly, at the outskirts of dreams,
I heard a strange sound, while soaking in gay...
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Categories:
memoir, adventure, earth, fantasy, love, nature, peace, world,
Form:
Couplet
Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My MemoirEach year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already have everything, I find myself remembering that Christmas of 1954.
Dad had joined...
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Categories:
memoir, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
EzraThis is an unfinished Heroic Crown of Sonnets dedicated to a friend's grandchild who was born with serious lower body issues 3 years ago...but he is so perfect and beautiful in every other way that...
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Categories:
memoir, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Part One - a Gunshot Wound To the Heat - a Short Story From My MemoirGUNSHOT WOUND TO THE HEART
From a two-room schoolhouse high on a hill over the Fundy Bay, I sat at an old wooden desk daydreaming. The ink stains and etchings which were dug deep into...
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Categories:
memoir, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
Part Two- Gunshot Wound To the Heart- a Short Story From My Memoir - a Journey of Roses and ThornsIt was a hot summer day. Harry had stopped by Grandma's house and offered to take the two little girls down to the store and treat them to an ice-cream cone. Grandma, thinking...
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Categories:
memoir, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
Angel Eyes
"Angel Eyes"
that dark angel
standing in the corner
observing the shadows of man
pass him by -
he has angel eyes
that shine high beam
bright bushfires that light
the entire transparent
padded room parade
dance cards lit
he’s biding...
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Categories:
memoir, art, muse, truth,
Form:
Free verse
The Hidden LaneThe sun burst out from underneath the clouds
Ploughing through the merry crowd
The impact of nature is closing in
sucking the joy from within
Trucks and cars littered the streets
Adding more pain to the...
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Categories:
memoir, adventure, america, character, community, corruption, pain, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Dear MeDear Me…
Today my thoughts are about you, only you!
...
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Categories:
memoir, life, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Madame Bovary: Come and Take Me If You Can"Madame Bovary", a novel by French novelist Gustave Flaubert, in 1856. Flaubert reconstructed a conventional story of adultery into a lasting work of heartfelt humanity. Madame Bovary is considered Flaubert’s masterpiece, and, according to some,...
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Categories:
memoir, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Eric Clapton InspirationEric Clapton (born March 30, 1945, in Ripley, Surrey, England)
British guitarist who influenced rock.
Later became a famous singer-songwriter.
Clapton was born to a teen mom and a Canadian WWII soldier in England.
His grandparents mostly raised him.
He...
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Categories:
memoir, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form:
Bio
Dear Budding Poet:Dear Budding Poet:
Modern poetry is a sandbox for all who would build, smash, trash, shake up, and take up the art. Poetry is not writ, nor wrote, or written, but is hummed through the nose,...
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Categories:
memoir, poems, poetry, poets, words, work, write, writing,
Form:
Prose
Portrait of Flawed PerfectionWhen the mirror of
life is a gossamer film,
veiling v i n...
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Categories:
memoir, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
A Mentally Ill MemoirMy mind shorts out sometimes
And my judgment goes out the window
That's when I do stupid
& the aftermath makes me feel suicidal.
Sometimes it leads me right into
Temptation
& straight into evil.
Catching...
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Categories:
memoir, abuse, addiction, anxiety, depression, drug, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
Memoir Haikus - Epic Journey of Healing and Mental Well-Being-FIGHTING-
Greek epic poem.
Transcending for permanence.
Battle warrior
No longer around.
Life became complicated.
You are number one.
Life will greatly change.
Think about you all the time.
Never let you go.
Innocence deprived.
Staying positive and strong.
Failed exerting control.
Society danger.
Protective order consent.
Tough situation.
Seems no...
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Categories:
memoir, child, divorce, loss,
Form:
Haiku
Memoir: Crashing Women's Studies- Feminists, Beware LolDon't ask me how it happened; I have no clear recollection. I have always had this brazen habit of coming right out and directly asking for whatever I want; I always figured "no!" was the...
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Categories:
memoir, art, funny, poetry, social, women,
Form:
Narrative
Discarded a True Story of HealingA song by the Allman Brothers, titled Melissa, I was, hearing Sweet Mellisa over and over, while writing this.
The Story begins as a teenaged College student is informed by her Doctor that she is...
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Categories:
memoir, birth, encouraging, feelings, forgiveness, goodbye, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
Memoirs of the Damaged-Part TwoI just want to take you back to that small frail girl,
The girl who sat in the shadows, in the corner of her room,
The girl who’d,
Never dare to cry,
Always wondered why,
Often wished to die.
The girl...
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Categories:
memoir, recovery from..., girl, death, god, me, death,
Form:
Free verse
Memoir of An African-American Man, HopeHope
—An old man and children—
Do you know why I sit here pondering?
I am not sorry...
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Categories:
memoir, africa, child, future, hope,
Form:
Epic
Dahlias In Windowpane
Exactly five years ago I lived in a city
that I named as the city of my struggles
quite an imposing brand you would say
but I found it appropriate in my mid-twenties.
I crawled against my inertia to...
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Categories:
memoir, journey, memorial,
Form:
Free verse
Memoir of An African-American Man, Achievement, IiAchievement, 2 of 2
—Time to share—
I cried and bewailed
while...
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Categories:
memoir, black african american, giving, military,
Form:
Epic
Memoir of An African-American Man, MotherMother
—Statue of Ebony Black—
A woman who cried for freedom,
not for herself but on behalf...
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Categories:
memoir, abuse, africa, evil, slavery, , cute,
Form:
Epic
The Wanderer of Golders GreenI awake each morning
With fresh hope
And tranquility;
I might go for a saunter
Down quiet London backstreets...
Soon my aimlessness
Depresses me,
And I realise
I'd been deceiving myself
As to my ability
To relax as others do.
I decided on a Special B
Before...
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Categories:
memoir, depression, drink, england, friendship, london, lonely, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
On God, Faith, Evolution and the Evil In This World[This excerpt from a memoir I wrote 20 years ago seems sadly apropos given the recent mass murders and bombings]
This then is where my faith lies:that it will all work out in the long run,...
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Categories:
memoir, allah, angst, appreciation, evil, faith, god, spiritual,
Form:
Prose