Long Metres Poems
Long Metres Poems. Below are the most popular long Metres by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Metres poems by poem length and keyword.
Oncle Albert - Part 1
Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats,
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple...
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Categories:
metres, flying, history,
Form:
Narrative
Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...
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Categories:
metres, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
Depression Or Anxiety
(Seems that these days a whole lot of people suffer from anxiety and depression. Now whether that's a reflection on our world and society, whether there's actually greater incidence of it or if we just...
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Categories:
metres, absence, angst, depression, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945
Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945
About fourteen and a half years
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle
in the eyes of his then
young father and mother
the former born April...
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Categories:
metres, age, angst, anniversary, august, conflict, grave, history,
Form:
Free verse
A Week In Life
It is Monday, today is pay the bills and light shop.
All this after we have been for the morning run.
The dogs are always keen, they trot beside me
as at ten miles an hour we cover...
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Categories:
metres, life,
Form:
Epic
Rum N Raisin 2 - the Hunt For Tim Bucktoo
Rum and Raisin, on the mat, were playing with their toys
Their humans had the tv on to give some background noise
Rum said, “Raisin, there is something that I want to do,
To meet a man from...
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Categories:
metres, animal, cat, nursery rhyme, ocean, sea,
Form:
Narrative
Sequel Swear It Was the Moon
An entire week I handled it-
The teasing and the taunting and
Every night the moon shone down-
Was really very daunting.
Judge John squinted his eyes at me,
T'was approximately mid morning.
Cleaned his ear with his finger-
"Am giving you...
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Categories:
metres, humorous, moon, sun, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
Leaking Pen
Opening
Fourth street and the divide meet
Near the stream where it's waters Impede
Five metres walk from the wooden bridge
A little further away from the deserted car park
Underneath the third tree with...
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Categories:
metres, fate, hope, life, love, metaphor, passion,
Form:
Free verse
The Welkin - and - the Influences
1. The Welkin
Wind blows / clouds race / vast blue sky
Breeze tugs / trees sway / great green hills
Sun scourged / sand glares / small white beach
Skip stones / thoughts nag / mind fug stills
2....
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Categories:
metres, analogy, nature,
Form:
Jueju
Captain Leslie Holden, Australian Flying Corps 1st Aif, the Other Red Baron
Leslie Holden came from East Adelaide a South Australia town
When on 26 May 1915 he enlisted in the 4th Light Horse of the AIF renown
He was a driver when the 4th left for Egypt...
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Categories:
metres, war, , western,
Form:
Epic
The old fart alter cocker shuffle
The old fart (alter cocker) shuffle
as one fairly long run on sentence
unwittingly made locally famous
courtesy residents here at
Highland Manor Apartments
as first one foot and then the other
painstakingly, and agonizingly dragged
across the cement...
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Categories:
metres, age, courage, death, grave, humorous, life, recovery
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Olympic Antics - Xxxiii
Unquotable quotes: Olympic Antics – XXXIII
Why do Judo-kas bother to wear anything at all since all they do is to try their very best to undress one another before hugging themselves on the mat?
Wrestlers at...
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Categories:
metres, character, dedication, humorous, international, sports, strength, word
Form:
Epigram
Hiroshima Seventy Seven Years Since August 6th 1945
Hiroshima – seventy seven years since August 6th, 1945
Given the nuclear weaponry arsenal today
August 6th, 2022, our collective ability
to lay waste major metropolitan areas
would make unleashing atomic warfare
synonymous with the ways and means
to annihilate, decimate,...
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Categories:
metres, angst, anniversary, anxiety, august, dark, death, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Rap Slam Your Mothers A Man
The elements that feed
gave me special needs,
I can’t write or read or do my abc’s,
I can’t count to 3 but you had best believe,
I receive the signals from your body,
that’s...
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Categories:
metres, hip hop, rap, slam,
Form:
Rhyme
Saga
Saga (1)
Seeing the lives of saga saints
I wanted to pass life reclusively
Nothing hoarding for further life
Holding only covering body
Two metres of clothe dwindled
From shoulders to leg
One water holder for quenching...
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Categories:
metres, encouraging, inspirational, introspection, judgement, lonely, paradise, prayer,
Form:
Concrete
Lighthouse Keeper
Lighthouse keeper vacancy announced
Envelope delivered; contents read aloud
A smile turned into laughter, then into a shout
Parents and Son hugged before he set off.
Applicants sitting quietly, Into the room strides a man
Age etched on his...
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Categories:
metres, adventure, career, death,
Form:
Free verse
Alpha Pistols
Alpha Pistols
It’s a nice warm summer’s evening in 2004
The cool man was on top of the Manchester tower block
He fires down with various guns at his lower targets
There is a builders yard two hundred metres...
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Categories:
metres, anxiety, satire, sleep, violence,
Form:
Verse
10k Or Bust
we gather together, a hundred or so
stetching, warming cold muscles, just waiting to go
nervous anticipation, just wanting to start,
we collect our numbers, have a piss, have a fart
as our tummies stir with butterflies and angst
we...
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Categories:
metres, angst, fun, health, sports,
Form:
Free verse
Firehouse Blues
When Mortimer Manders collapsed in the street,
his daughter, Muriel, was with him.
Though now seventy-five,
he’d continued to thrive,
in spite of the irregular rhythm
his heart was now keeping. But this was quite grave.
He hit the hard...
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Categories:
metres, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Morning Has Broken - 1
Morning has broken as it has done for many years
Day to day we continue without the fear of fears
Then out of the blue their comes thoughts from long ago
Prophecies of a past, that could halt...
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Categories:
metres, day, fantasy, fear, me, planet,
Form:
Quatrain
The Train
She’s walking past the tombstones,
Just came from her mothers grave.
As she passes the last stone,
her hand graces the top,
A chill shoots down her spine.
The wind is blowing her hair in every direction,
While the...
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Categories:
metres, death, loss, sad, teenmother, kindergarten,
Form:
Free verse
An Awful Harvest
An Awful Harvest
I went a hike up to Wawa in Montalban and up the mountain roads. Here I was to go past the peaks of Mt Parawagan, Susong Dalaga and Mt Lagyo plus others. The...
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Categories:
metres, adventure, military, nature,
Form:
Verse
Seven Metres
If you approach anyone
Remember always
There is seven metres
To be safe
From a blade
He was a violent offender
Who beat his girlfriend often
And he broke the law
Acts his community would always defend
He caused the Medical...
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Categories:
metres, death, life, murder,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Laughing Into 2023 -Part 3
Comedians have a skill of cracking people's ribs:
Can you imagine, I went for Police recruitment. They ordered us to run 200 metres. I ran and took the first place, later to be arrested by Police...
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Categories:
metres, assonance, character, class,
Form:
Blank verse
The Figure a Poem Makes By Robert Frost
Abstraction is an old story with the philosophers, but it has been like a new toy in the hands of the artists of our day. Why can't we have any one quality of poetry we...
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Categories:
metres, art, education,
Form:
Madah