Long Paperweight Poems
Long Paperweight Poems. Below are the most popular long Paperweight by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Paperweight poems by poem length and keyword.
How Clever You Are Reducing SaucesReducing sauces is a clever act that is not predetermined
Swimming in tepid waters often relieves tensions but a moose with a migraine prefers an ice cold bath. Bathing rituals signify statuses and this is referred...
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Categories:
paperweight, appreciation,
Form:
I do not know?
Ninety Times a Fish Tail Equals a Spun YarnNine times a fish tail is spun from thin yarn?
Swimming in tepid waters often relieves tensions but a moose with a migraine prefers an ice cold bath. Bathing rituals signify statuses and this is referred...
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Categories:
paperweight, baby, baseball, beach, beautiful,
Form:
I do not know?
Is ThisIS THIS...? Poem 8/17/
Written for Jim Eslinger , 37-year anniversary
What are these specks we must trudge over,
Transplanting ourselves from one wilderness to
Another?...
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Categories:
paperweight, christian, earth, nature, time,
Form:
Free verse
PaperweightDo you know what it feels like to be a paperweight
like you're sitting on someone's chest
They can't move nor do you want to
pinning their arms above their head
screaming in their face to look at you...
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Categories:
paperweight, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
A Study At DawnSkylights warn and warm where acorns drip. The slight angle of acidity in the air can be measured accurately with a ruler or the nib of a ball point pen. Ball point pens are not...
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Categories:
paperweight, age, angel,
Form:
I do not know?
A Pea Is LeapingOne two three pea leap. Wow. A slip knot is neither a sleep nor a striped strap. But stealing from an arsenal area is not a wonderful idea is it really? Well come on....is it?...
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Categories:
paperweight, age, allah,
Form:
I do not know?
GlobetrotterTim had dreamt of magic mountains but was stuck in a snow globe
Luckily there was some antifreeze in the little dome on his desk
Used as a paperweight for discarded inked upon manuscript pages
A complete stark...
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Categories:
paperweight, christmas,
Form:
Free verse
Uppity Darkie
Light minded people say I’m an uppity darkie
They color me bad,
with a black face, felt pen Sharpie
Vanilla voices downright don’t like
the audio sounds of this mouthy darkie
They say I’m way too uppity,
don’t know what...
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Categories:
paperweight, allusion, prejudice, racism, truth,
Form:
Bio
Pen Am Expression Airplane*Image of Make A Paper Airplane by YT.
Pen Am Expression Airplane
Welcome, all writers and riders on board,
Pen Am Expression Toss-N-Throw Jetways,
Piloting, Captain Armstrong Paperweight,
And Co-Pilot Ace Bellwether Coxswain,
Thanks flying this all-expense paid--by you!
All poet and...
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Categories:
paperweight, crazy, creation, fun, kid,
Form:
Free verse
Synonym?As I flicker speedily through the channels on my TV screen,
I pause because a man now lifts and anvil twice my weight above his head,
Which begs the question:
What is strength? And who put Webster in...
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Categories:
paperweight, life, mother, passion, thank you, mother, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
PaperweightNothing’s lost till you stop searching;
it’s still on Earth man
with no reason it couldn’t be yours again.
And if every little moment serves a purpose
forgetting would be a dis- service
no matter how painful it is.
When you long for...
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Categories:
paperweight, song-lyric
Form:
Rhyme
UnavailableWhen i look around the room i see that everything inside
is meant for someone else.
the pictures on the wall
the extra chair meant for a guest
the ashtray sitting there so silently
now just an ugly paperweight
i...
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Categories:
paperweight, anxiety, dark, depression, freedom, life, sorrow, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
My Desk Gives LifeWritten by Paula Swanson
Here at my desk I sit,
with silence all around.
Just the hum of the frig,
a clock in the background.
An old brass lamp with green shade,
sits back, off to the right.
A paperweight of...
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Categories:
paperweight, on writing and wordsinspirational, old, old,
Form:
Lay
PaperweightI made a paper airplane
From the paper heart
You made me.
But it took off
And...
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Categories:
paperweight, cute love, first love, funny love, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
My ShadowA constant reminder of what’s surrounding me
The vacuum of evil that seeks to suck me in
That the light will fade and I too will cease to be
Along with my warped blank paperweight twin
I walk in...
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Categories:
paperweight, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
SconesBaking scones has been
The absolute bane of my life
Fifty-five years I’ve spent
Its caused me nothing but strife
Up and down the country
You’ll find them in any café
Soft, light and beautifully risen
The highlight of any display
I...
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Categories:
paperweight, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
IndulgenceA granite bust statuette of Nefertiti
Bought at Abu Simbel on our Egyptian cruise
Serves us as a solid paperweight
On windy mornings reading the 'Weekly News'.
A cigar on the terrace is my only indulgence
Just one for...
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Categories:
paperweight, inspirational
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
A Good CharadeI have a good charade
I can make a step from a stumble
No need to be afraid
Here in the human jungle
When you’ve a good charade
If you’ve a good charade
The tigers will not pounce on you
If...
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Categories:
paperweight, absence, angst, animal, self, work,
Form:
Lyric
A PaperweightThere was a time upon my youth,
When I was out to show of great,
But years have passed and now in truth,
I seem to be a paperweight.
My job of pride and worthy self,
I stood for what...
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Categories:
paperweight, age, appreciation, character, endurance, grave, missing, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
To Have But Not To HoldI cannot offer a gift for you to hold,
no millefiori paperweight of brightly coloured glasses,
or fancy timepiece cast from golds of yellow and white,
for it could never rest, smooth and heavy, within your open hands,
or...
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Categories:
paperweight, friendship, love
Form:
Free verse
Juicy Tales and TidbitsLying dormant on the desk
objects inanimate
Each with a story it could tell
some quite intimate...
The key that opens the front door
ten thousand times or more
Trusted tool of man and wife
...
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Categories:
paperweight, cry, desire, mystery, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
The Maladroit Teachings of the Human SkulA cracked and empty skull
makes a beautiful flower pot,
desk tidy or paperweight.
Place a nightlight in that osseus cave
and it will become a small table lamp.
Through the ages
monks have harvested skulls;
some sanctuaries and chapels
are built on...
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Categories:
paperweight, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Expensive PaperweightI see you straight tripping
When you see my cell phone still flipping
Yeah, you think you're the shizzle
Drop it in water it still gonna fizzle
How's this for a paycheck paper weight
Its still gotta a two...
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Categories:
paperweight, slam, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
Phase TwoSaw an old friend who moved to St. Pete;
The town and her brand-new apartment are sweet.
She settled right in, learned the lay of the land,
With all of the shops that she needs close at hand.
She...
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Categories:
paperweight, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
Fondly Keptwithin the warmth
within the wall
jubilant echoes
...
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Categories:
paperweight, happiness, hope, love, nice, nice,
Form:
Free verse