Long Oscar Poems
Long Oscar Poems. Below are the most popular long Oscar by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Oscar poems by poem length and keyword.
An Uppercut I RememberDad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
oscar, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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Categories:
oscar, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Epigrams VEpigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
oscar, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
The Interview - for ContestThis situation has no basis in reality; in fact, it is ludicrously unreal. However, the likes and dislikes shown of its author are completely true!
Scene: A comfortable office where Andrea Dietrich is finishing up with...
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Categories:
oscar, fantasy,
Form:
Prose
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had...
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Categories:
oscar, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Dance of SalomeThe Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,
for tonight we revel in kindred friendship."
Herod strolled onto the terrace, nearly stumbled in...
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Categories:
oscar, dance, daughter, moon, mother daughter, night, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Random Excerpts - 2: Ice in My Eyes Smoke in Yours, A Novel
May 29, 1957: …have to think about getting a thesis director…know no professor yet in the department…someone suggested i get hold of Derek Fogg for an intro to the big guns in the philosophisches Seminar…can't...
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Categories:
oscar, growing up, international, student, universe, world war
Form:
Free verse
X-Ray Oscar(Pentagon E-ring office—executive officer knocks & enters—General motions him in)
XO,
Explain
examinees...
...
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Categories:
oscar, military, poetry,
Form:
Alliteration
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...
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Categories:
oscar, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form:
List
Who Said That
Two old friends
(who haven’t seen each other
in quite some time)
running into each other on the
corner of Linwood and Clairmount
— A Detroit westside encounter
Man, it’s good seeing you Joe,
how is ...
Aw, Moms doing just fine....
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Categories:
oscar, friend, humorous, philosophy, satire,
Form:
Light Verse
Hide the Details
Everybody got a Hollywood life story
to tell
More meat on the bone
give juicier bites
to sell
Nobody ever turns in a tarnished silver screenplay
Those warts and mistakes
get Photoshop casting couch edited away
Baby Jane rude attitude don’t make...
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Categories:
oscar, allegory, fun, metaphor, word play,
Form:
Vogon Poetry
The Lemon Type Garden
THE LEMON TYPE GARDEN
The Players. (in order of appearance)
Freddie Fastfoot (The Rabbit)
Felicity Flutterby. (The Butterfly)
Joshua Jumpahop (The Grasshopper)
Chloe Crafteneye (The Fox)
Benjamin Buzzenbee (The Bumble Bee)
Oscar Oakenut (The Squirrel)
Molly Maggenprop (The Magpie)
Christopher Croakalot (The...
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Categories:
oscar, fantasy, myth, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems about Poets IIIPoems about Poets
Long Division
by Michael R. Burch
for Laura Riding Jackson
All things become one
Through death’s long division
And perfect precision.
Nod to the Master
by Michael R. Burch
If every witty thing that’s said were true,
Oscar Wilde, the world would...
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Categories:
oscar, earth, inspiration, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Called Me A Player So I Played YaJust now I took a minute to myself
reflecting it's going well
re-step well if I'm a belt
I'm holding up but my former self
in stealth hiding in my shadow so now I'm mystealth
a worn version like an...
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Categories:
oscar, conflict, corruption, crazy, smart, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Is There No Place for UsIs there no place for us ?
In this world of work and fuss ?
We came to fulfil our dreams
Leaving our noble motherland with goodbye tear streams
We are prisoners of a dark dank cell...
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Categories:
oscar, race, racism,
Form:
I do not know?
You Would Laugh But, I Hope You Read ThisI can’t count the wrongs I’ve committed
The people I’ve hurt
The friends I’ve lost, but, the hardest part was losing
You
The only one I could see myself with
Even now
Especially since you’re gone
Oscar Wilde once...
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Categories:
oscar, depression, loss, lost love, love, nostalgia, passion,
Form:
Free verse
I was a Will Smith fan onceI love the way the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences let Will Smith sit there, for 40 minutes, preening in the front row, in plain sight, after he assaulted a black man at...
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Categories:
oscar, success, teen, violence,
Form:
Free verse
For Jack so loved the whiskyFor Jack so loved the whisky
That he spent all his hard earned money
Buzzing like a bee, in a hive full of honey
Painting the town red, every club, pub and bar
Mingling among strangers, feeling like a...
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Categories:
oscar, addiction,
Form:
Rhyme
Died in 2014 - Part 1Joe Cocker: Born: 1944-05-20 - Died: 2014-12-22
A Woodstock discover
While singing a cover
With a Little Help from My Friends
And it was a shocker
To find that Joe Cocker
Gravelly voice finally ends
Ken Weatherwax: Born 1955-9-29Died:2014-12-7
Pugsley Adams was my...
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Categories:
oscar, death, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Am I, by Daykia ClarkI am Emmett Till.
I was beaten to death, so how dare you go through everyday life complaining that it's "pure hell".
I'd rather be locked up in a jail cell.
Or sitting in a...
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Categories:
oscar, america, black african american, deep, freedom, inspirational,
Form:
I do not know?
EXERPTS FROM HITLER'S DIARY 1941EXERPTS FROM HITLER’S DIARY 1941
"I never travel without my diary, one should always have something sensational to read . .
. " Oscar Wilde, 1891
Tues ...
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Categories:
oscar, funnywar, crazy, june, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Double FeatureDouble Feature
Flashback! Three friends of childhood featuring a blond, brunette and red-head
Sharing the script of summer days and rain soaked winter afternoon
Unfolding documentary of roads ocean journey to California, Colorado and Norway.
Zoom in on a...
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Categories:
oscar, friendship, life,
Form:
Verse
hunter safter riding
with the
hell’s angels,
running for
sheriff of
pitkin county
in colorado
(speaking on
the “freak power”
platform---from
which he swore
that if he won---he
would
tear up all the
streets, replacing
them with newly
sodden, “never
take mescaline
whilst on duty,”
and legalize all
drugs to...
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Categories:
oscar, lifedrug,
Form:
Free verse
A tide of jus on a plateA baby gorilla's bedtime is a harmonic period when the bananas line up with little leaf rattles to softly croon to slumber the furry ball. Priceless is the process of pacification and pacifications are not...
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Categories:
oscar, bangla, beach,
Form:
I do not know?
Alphabet SoupEating alphabet soup with a straw so you can play Scrabble with the leftovers
Lyrics from an obscure band is music to your ears
Shaving off the November scruff that was plastered on your face
Nightmares are less...
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Categories:
oscar, creation, dream, games, how i feel, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse