Long Old poetry Poems
Long Old poetry Poems. Below are the most popular long Old poetry by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Old poetry poems by poem length and keyword.
kiss -
your silken skin gleams opaline
bathed in Luna's soft wash of cornflower - like a
porcelain Madonna by Michelangelo
conjured to life by the magic
of moonlight
your eyes open just long enough to
affix mine, and affirm I'm in a...
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old poetry, kiss, passion, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Always copy your work
What if poetry soup just shut down
with all your work before you edited
always copy you work even if you have
to go to the library check your
titles as well sometimes
identity thieves actually rip...
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Categories:
old poetry, angel, blessing, books,
Form:
Free verse
Ruin
Laughter and ruin tells the story, of our first family dinner.
Married just six short months, ...
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Categories:
old poetry, marriage, parents, romance, today, together, wife, words,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
What's Left of You
I tried so hard not to break you
You hide the truth with your lies
The storms I carried you through
Now, all is left is your goodbyes
I need a little time to catch my breath
Please don’t lose...
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Categories:
old poetry, change, deep, desire, friendship, grief, hope, sorrow,
Form:
Lyric
Murky Time
MURKY TIME
My rambling thoughts keep me awake on sleepless nights,
when the present time, I consider murky, sneaks in my mind.
I cannot help comparing the present time with the Dark Ages,
time marked by economic, intellectual and...
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Categories:
old poetry, perspective, time,
Form:
Free verse
My Greatest One-Night Stand, Or How I Met My Wife
My greatest one-night stand occurred
on a drizzly, spring Friday night,
my long-term girlfriend had let me,
I meant to drink her away right.
Went down to a club I knew well,
just to drink, wanted nothing more,
then came this...
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Categories:
old poetry, break up, devotion, drink, life, love, lust,
Form:
Narrative
The Poetry Soup Convention 2011
My name is Gary Fields
And I am at the Poetry Convention
Their are a myriad of Poet's
They are all in contention
There are so many that I may
Want to mention'
So, pay attention
Fore they must do this
In abstention
At...
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Categories:
old poetry, anniversary, on writing and wordsold, old, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
To Have Once Kissed the Monster of Sorrows and Burning Death
To Have Once Kissed The Monster Of Sorrows And Burning Death
I slow-walked hot desert sands,
cacti begging to stick my naked feet
volcano sun searing my white-faced skin
why, why has blindness sent me into this inferno
to wander...
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Categories:
old poetry, dark, death, evil, halloween, horror, judgement, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Life Is
The Life Is …
The Life Is …
When I was young, there was no pain,
The only pain was to complain.
When I was young, I did not care,
Just as long as my love was there.
When I was...
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Categories:
old poetry, allusion, angst, life, old, poetry,
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Masnavi
Categories:
old poetry, food, love, remember, smile, summer, sweet, together,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Dear Whoever You Are Who Spurs Me On
OH BE THIS POEM AS SACRED AS HER NAME
Often I am compelled to hover over her shoulder
Each letter formed, each thought defined
For she has poetry on a leash
And walks it, pray I, at least three...
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Categories:
old poetry, imaginationold, home, day, home, old, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Your Equity Release Plan
>For the umpteenth time I have received in the mail. The post one not email a letter from a company informing me of my equity release plan. They enclosed a prepaid envelope. ...
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Categories:
old poetry, cool, crazy, hello, me, old, poetry, writing,
Form:
Couplet
The Timeline: a Reprise
From the moment I was born I was considered a miracle
One month premature with so many things wrong
Many considered me a fighter, and I suppose I was
What they didn't realise is that the fight...
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Categories:
old poetry, abuse, angst, childhood, depression, growing up, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Immortality
We were miserable and exhausted by the rife.
We leave the severe planet to fight for itself.
Be patient, though! We admit in another life.
Will toss the earth; however, we will not strife.
We...
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Categories:
old poetry, analogy, birth, confusion, death, fantasy, fate, life,
Form:
Rhyme
We'Re Cleaning House
A simple man, I don‘t need much, I use few words; I’m Joe.
I once framed houses, now drive trucks. That’s all you need to know.
I love my wife and think she’s great, but one thing...
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Categories:
old poetry, wife, workold, wife, clothes, old, poetry,
Form:
Couplet
Sun Rose, She Saw Her Dead Lover's Face
Sun Rose, She Saw Her Dead Lover's Face
The sad angel touched her heart then
turned her far away from mortal men
Setting her a course to sleep alone
in dark cavern where no light shown.
Yet she traveled...
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Categories:
old poetry, art, betrayal, death, lost love, sorrow, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
God Is Our Hope Beyond Christmas
"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." Titus 2:13 of the King Jame Bible
Our blessed hope radiates this Christmas and beyond gloriously…
The birth...
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Categories:
old poetry, blessing, christian, christmas, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Neighborhood
The crazy neighbor down the street from me,
always had her multi colored polka dotted curtains open for all to see.
Music is playing very loud,
there was a wonderful beat to...
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Categories:
old poetry, crazy, dog, fun, giggle, humor, music, nonsense,
Form:
Rhyme
A True Love Story
I like to think that Daddy's gold watch chain,
and the way it came about,
was the true story of "The Magi",
that O. Henry had mixed it up a little and changed it,
as sometimes happens.
I remember...
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Categories:
old poetry, father, fire, love,
Form:
Bio
As Winter's Icy Breath This Heart Reminds
As Winter's Icy Breath This Heart Reminds
Icy frost grows thick on dead toads,
winter's breath drapes snow laced airs
great the sorrows upon this road
as looms darkness of such despairs
Yet life demands this walk alone
in...
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Categories:
old poetry, appreciation, deep, grief, life, loss, poetry, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Another Poetry Festival
Another poetry reading.
I arrive late and drop my phone in a workshop.
I capriciously retrieve it and slink to the corner,
My notebook and pen
Poised and ready
For my muse to be resurrected after
A long hibernation.
This is why...
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Categories:
old poetry, introspection, lost love, love, on writing and
Form:
Narrative
Myanmar Poem, Poetry, Poet From Myanmar
For many people outside the Myanmar poetry, it may come as a surprise that there is such a thing as language-oriented poetry contemporary poetry scene in Myanmar. The Poetry of the bourgeoisie and the "art...
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Categories:
old poetry, love, old, writing, education, hair, old, poetry,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Caedmon's Face
Caedmon’s Face
by Michael R. Burch
At the monastery of Whitby,
on a day when the sun sank through the sea,
and the gulls shrieked wildly, jubilant, free,
while the wind and Time blew all around,
I paced that dusk-enamored ground
and...
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Categories:
old poetry, angel, christian, england, old, poetry, poets, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Journey
JOURNEY
I’m approaching seventy next month,
I can say my life journey is not an easy one.
However, I can declare that I did not astray
doing destructive behaviors to keep on going.
I pretty much stayed grounded, principled;
but...
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Categories:
old poetry, journey, life,
Form:
Free verse
Tumultuous Troth
You entered my home, as a new bride, snow-white embellished!
I was in my bride-groom-dress, looked royal and unblemished!
All so, due to crude cultures, where marriage is a system,
Where prestige and status overpowered love and wisdom!
Though,...
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Categories:
old poetry, conflict, life, marriage, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme