Long On the lookout Poems
Long On the lookout Poems. Below are the most popular long On the lookout by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long On the lookout poems by poem length and keyword.
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part OneUnquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI Part One
Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form:
Quatrain
Vinny Lou - Both Audio and TextLavinnia Lewellyn Canasta…my great, great grandpa’s sister…
and only childless woman on my mother’s family’s side…
Moved to town to live with us when she was eighty-five
to help her great, great nephew raise us kids...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, family,
Form:
Rhyme
When All That's Left Are PhotographsI’m sitting here, at ninety-six, alert an’ fairly healthy,
wondering what the ones I loved in days gone by would think
To see me now, the last there is of all of my relations,
with only...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, inspirational, memory,
Form:
Verse
My Clear WindowThe world outside my window
I view with one eye open
while laying on my pillow
Birds are chirping and singing their songs
perched upon their tree of choice
they know where they belong
I smell the coffee brewing...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, appreciation, blessing, community, encouraging, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
Heaven's Lost Property: a Movie of My EmotionsA voice, a silky sweet voice i my ear
a whisper, a whispering question hanging in the air
but there's a conflict of interest
I'm no master nor hero
not even a zero, I'm just a boy
a boy craving...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, anxiety, best friend, corruption, fear, feelings, first
Form:
Narrative
The Snowflake That Sank the TitanicThe Snowflake That Sank The Titanic
It all begins with a single snowflake
(Each one in itself is unique)
Brought about through evaporation,
And returned by the force of gravity
In the form of snow to the planet,
To rest on...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, education, fate, history, remember, western, world,
Form:
Verse
My Clear WindowThe world outside my window
I view with one eye open
while laying on my pillow
Birds are chirping and singing their songs
perched upon their tree of choice
they know where they belong
I smell the coffee brewing...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Humus Me My Vegetated Chokes IngestHumus me? My vegetated chokes ingest!
(jokes all in jest)
Hard to believe, I orange in a lee
started life as barely visible speck!
Just in the course of healthy growing
season, this former minute nearly
microscopic entity developed into
quite pleasing...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, 11th grade, 12th grade, animal, beautiful, crazy,
Form:
Bio
You Are Who You AreYou are who you are ...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, beautiful, hurt, life, power, wisdom, words, youth,
Form:
Lyric
Rolling StonesOnce upon a time in the lands from the north, south, east to west
Navigating on the cold white sands formed of sugar and ice ...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, funny, mountains, ocean, river, silly,
Form:
I do not know?
The Sheep Before Christmas'Twas the night before Christmas and all were asleep,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a sheep.
The cattle were snoozing, the pigs were at rest
And the chickens were settled asleep on the nest.
Apart from some...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, adventure, animal, christmas, december, fantasy, farm, night,
Form:
Quatrain
Lonely Days Are Over - Chapter 4 - Fighting Back TearsWriting…Fighting Back Tears…
Hiding…away from my endless fears
Biting my lips,
Trying to will it all away –
The pain’s having its way –
I go on my knees and pray
Leaving bite marks…
I Gottah get a grip…
Your...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, angst, appreciation, betrayal, confusion, deep, encouraging, hope,
Form:
Free verse
When Does Phenomenal Moment of Existence OccurWhen does phenomenal moment of existence occur...?
Otherwise titled: Regaling eldest sibling
delineating her sixty third successful orbit
around the sun December first 2021.
About consciousness who can tell
After haploid gametes
able, eager, and ready
to yield eukaryotic (diploid) cell?
What triggers...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, age, appreciation, beautiful, birthday, blessing, endurance, family,
Form:
Rhyme
The Day I Saw That Fate Exists"The Day(s) I Saw That Fate Exists"
6/17/19
"What Makes You Flinch" poetry contest
Sponsored By: Julie Leigh Rodeheaver
Today began as most of many days do
Today I woke, a tad bit hungover
Opened my eyes, rubbed my head
Said...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, addiction, anxiety, brother, confidence, conflict, confusion, fate,
Form:
Free verse
The End of the Flying Dutchman, Part IYou’ve heard of the Flying Dutchman,
the ghost-ship that travels the seas,
there’s countless legends about it,
a great deal of variety.
Some say it’s just cursed to wander,
a result of some ancient sin,
a crew long dead yet still...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, confusion, history, myth, ocean, sea, surreal, water,
Form:
Narrative
The Eye of the Sea - Part 3Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 2
The heaving swell and the waves from hell
Soon swamped our valiant vessel,
With the holds in flood: tattered sails above,
We were in the direst of peril.
In a meet...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, adventure, boat, sea, sin, travel,
Form:
Epic
Stops Along An American Dream - Part 2(Historical train-ride on the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1870 from Omaha to Ogden aboard the Union Pacific Railroad) © 2009 (Jim Sularz)
Wyoming winds blow like a hurricane,
the flimsy bridge sways to...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, america, history, travel,
Form:
Quatrain
Ghosts of South Dakota Part 1The location of the Spring Creek School was on a flat, nestled
between the cliff on the north and the Little White River on the south. The river
flowed in from the northwest, circled...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, inspirational, life, love, school, spring, day, leaving,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Zen Death Haiku IvZEN DEATH HAIKU IV
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
The moon
hovering above the snow-capped mountains
rained down hailstones
—Sekitei Hara, loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, dreamlike winter butterfly:
a puff of...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, age, analogy, angst, animal, death, life, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Tor House, Hearst CastleBack then, I’d never heard of Robinson Jeffers. My friend told us he was a famous poet and Tor House was where he lived with his family for much of his life. Definitely a stop...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, happiness, home, life, poets, simple, travel,
Form:
Prose
Just Another Day In My Man CaveI always arise
at break of dawn,
when curtained solar
radiance openly drawn
upon a vast
wasteland, though thankfully
most (boot...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, 5th grade, age, art, culture, home, memory,
Form:
Free verse
A Peasant's Revenge, Part IThe story begins when I was a young man,
personal chirurgeon for Prince Malistare,
when the Kingdom of Blenum faced rebellion
in the west, among the peasants out there.
The king sent an army, led by his first-born,
I was...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, class, death, evil, fantasy, loss, lost love,
Form:
Epic
Outback TruckersWheels turning, churning, fighting for a grip
mud oozing, clinging, sucking for purchase
rivers flooding their banks, water everywhere
trucks fighting trying to get through and deliver
their precious cargos that are desperately awaited
sometimes gasoline or much...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, adventure, water, weather,
Form:
Epic
The Survivor's CurseWrath
Here I stand, upon
This hill, this hell of gunshots,
Pouring blood, whiskey,
Cadavers made into walls;
Unashamed generals lead
Color-adorned men
To untimely demises,
No food, no water,
But you must not leave The Cause,
For you have been called to fight
On the...
Read More
Categories:
on the lookout, death, farewell, innocence, soldier, truth, violence, war,
Form:
Tanka