Long Overs Poems
Long Overs Poems. Below are the most popular long Overs by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Overs poems by poem length and keyword.
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:
overs, friend, friendship, hate, heartbreak, irony, jealousy, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: The Hawaiian Church in KalapanaI stood at the top of our dirt driveway looking back at our two-story house. It's kind of a long house where, from our second-floor windows, you can see cars driving on the lane road...
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Categories:
overs, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, christian, family, happiness, religion,
Form:
Narrative
Our Baby Girl Turns 21OUR BABY GIRL TURNS 21
ON 1ST JULY 1990~ THE ANGELS DID SOMETHING ALMIGHTY
FROM HEAVEN THEY SENT US OUR LIFE-LONG DESIRE-A PRECIOUS DAUGHTER TO LOVE AND ADMIRE.
TRUE TO YOUR NATURE YOU ARRIVED WITHOUT FUSS OR PAIN--THE...
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Categories:
overs, daughter, daughter, school, baby, nature, beautiful, age,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 64“They look good,” he said to Joulupukki as he stepped out of the sleigh. “Flying in, they looked like a totally different team, but I thought you were going to run them, test...
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Categories:
overs, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Slow-Cooked Conversion StoriesI was raised in one of those white nationalist churches,
passing itself off as a Christian evangelical Bible church,
where "evangelical" meant fundamental
and "fundamental" meant we did not interpret scripture
but accepted it as God's literal trans-historical Word
of...
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Categories:
overs, childhood, christian, earth, faith, health, integrity, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Dramatic Dreams Dare DingosMalnourishment is the song from the pans whose empty hold could offer no more products to be boiled and whirled. They were quite sad having been bought then hung. Hung. Sparkly signalling stale sales. Stale...
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Categories:
overs, appreciation, art, bangla,
Form:
I do not know?
Game of Cricket Is a Game of LifeLife is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is simply...
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Categories:
overs, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy, games, image, inspiration,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Traumatic brain injury headachesI shan't try and be witty an engage in the norm
peeking through such pain my eyes see dim
as crushing temporal lesion push against
soft tissue endings pounding my optic nerves
from my forehead...
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Categories:
overs, allah, angel, car, care, dedication, depression, home,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Greatest AfflictionAddictions, restrictions, afflictions, decisions,
A needle, a bottle, step down hard on that throttle!
Disaster, no more laughter, destruction for years after.
Placate, eradicate, fornicate, masturbate,
Addiction. Restriction. Addiction.
No more art, no more heart, another false start.
No...
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Categories:
overs, addiction, body, corruption, health, humanity, life, lost
Form:
Prose Poetry
Funny Do's Funny Don'T'sI will only write funny poems
as I don't feel like I want to do anything else
Why are we so lazy at times?
Is it something that we ate
Or are we just natural born lazy?
I like...
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Categories:
overs, faith, fun, funny,
Form:
Free verse
Life In ActsTime is a cheeky bastard.
You can't rewind it.
There are no do overs.
Depending where your time starts,
Decides your memories, you don't decide.
Your surroundings create how you feel about yourself and others.
Love, trust, feelings, emotions ingrained in...
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Categories:
overs, age, childhood, humanity, life,
Form:
Free verse
Becoming a Tea-Bag DadBoth of my daughters
have married and moved on
both now have lives
and homes of their own
both their “old” bedrooms
now empty of them
their laughter
and music
still harbour their presence
their energy and love
and...
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Categories:
overs, father daughter,
Form:
Free verse
That KissThat kiss
tasted like warm sunlight
toasting the tongue
with honeyed sun
and promises
on a blue sky day
That kiss
reached far into one
seeking to open words
locked inside let out
like crysallis butterflies
wet and warm, shaking, fluttering...
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Categories:
overs, romance, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
What a Kind World TodayI have friends in low places,
Creative as created in our Creator's image,
No two exactly alike,
But more alike then different,
If one could pull back the curtain,
Title reads 'kind' when it need read 'hateful',
I'm not a...
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Categories:
overs, age, america, anxiety, encouraging, introspection, leadership,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Candy WarsWithin the pillow case universe, on the sacred night of Halloween,
There was a disturbance in the natural force of the candy zone,
And this is what began the legendary saga, of the goodie treats
Positive sweetness vs....
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Categories:
overs, adventure, fantasy, fun, halloween, holiday, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Legs Still RunningI am so called the eastern kingdom
who’s not exposed to the great waters
but guided by surrounding civil allies
and a onetime powerful authority
whose staff has been completely crushed
after the first global disaster
caused by a twin fatal...
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Categories:
overs, community, education, environment, nature, society,
Form:
Ode
African ChildIt was hard before but now am used
I remember when i first came here
Dad had slept forever
Mum was hidden in the grave
Enjoying sleep as uncle chose
To rape me daily
Aunt would force me to feed...
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Categories:
overs, abuse, africa, mum,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Infidelity Is My SisterI missed you, you were here then gone, no one saw you go, you didn’t wave, I just didn’t see those eyes anymore, and yes it's lonely, wondering what it was like to have someone...
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Categories:
overs, father daughter, i love you, self, spiritual,
Form:
Light Verse
The Slave's Tale: Across the Atlantic, 1793Exracted from Gerald Nforche's Epic, The Slave's Tale
-Across the Atlantic, 1793-
We cry out cursing to our very gods
Whilst mokala and plotters lead us in lots.
And slaves we have become, slaves we are groomed
And setting in...
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Categories:
overs, abuse, africa, anger, betrayal, confusion, corruption,
Form:
Narrative
The Good Things Life Has To Offer If You Are 1 of the LuckyThere are only a certain amount of
the truly good things life has to offer
1 single person can expect to experience in one's lifetime given our human limitations
Like a cancer patient hearing a doctor tell...
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Categories:
overs, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Orphaned SlabOrphaned Slab
by Odin Roark
They call me a foundation
once supporting siding and stone
wire
plumbing
shingles
Through the doors of my house
trailed family and friends
across kitchen floor
slanted slightly
letting Benny’s agate...
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Categories:
overs, space, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Greedy and JealousyGREEDY AND JEALOUSY
The haves and the have not, they all stand at equal pulverized
Stretching their hands for arms giving, yes we are all vulnerable and vagabonds
Having money is valueless in the absence of helping hand,...
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Categories:
overs, art, jealousy,
Form:
Acrostic
Memories, Long Sad Journey, Revised VersionMemories, Long Sad Journey,
Bitter cold that Saturday morning, late in November 1969, I could see my breath parading before me. No breakfast as I had quietly left the house and...
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Categories:
overs, art, death, loss, pain, solitude, sorrow, youth,
Form:
Haibun
Thanks CoachWhenever I make a mistake my mind drifts to my little league coach back when I played the game…I’m sorry to say as the years have passed I have forgotten his name.
You see I loved...
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Categories:
overs, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Lend Me Your Heart Oh ChildWorth and numbers rarely go hand in hand.
Producing seeds which will rot and be eaten by the locust
makes barrenness a special kind of blessing.
So pay attention and lend me your mind oh child
b'cos from...
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Categories:
overs, adventure, growing up, growth, my child, my
Form:
Light Verse