Long Paragraphs Poems
Long Paragraphs Poems. Below are the most popular long Paragraphs by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Paragraphs poems by poem length and keyword.
A Poem For My History Teacher
I wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
paragraphs, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-Kural
On the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary
[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic boundaries, but I wouldn't be wrong, I dare say, ...
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Categories:
paragraphs, evil, hate, jealousy, racism, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
The Ambiguous Apprentice
When does ambiguously free verse
also become emphatically political verbing verse?
I was emphatically reading pieces
ambiguously written
about my sons,
to my oldest son's girlfriend.
The longer I read
the more she cried.
Now it had been my hope
and passion
to become...
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Categories:
paragraphs, art, humor, joy, poetry, political, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
The Girl of Light and the Fly People
a collaborative work with Alfred Vassalo
The Stars sparkled in her eyes
As light interlaced with her shadow
Causing her to question her senses
Even though she closed her eyes
light continued to seep out
Her brilliance, competed with the sun...
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Categories:
paragraphs, beautiful, depression, desire, dream, fantasy, fire, loneliness,
Form:
Epic
Someone To Love-Part 1
Book in hand, I strode the path
in awesome Autumn splendor.
The warmth of the sun caressing my cheek,
while the cool breeze gently tickled
goose bumps across my warm skin.
All around me the crepe paper litter
piled brilliance...
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Categories:
paragraphs, loss, love, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Telling Stories
While there is no story at all
unless it has at least two sides,
when it comes to ego's narrative lines
and epic paragraphs,
we have great difficulty in casting ourselves
as other than a one-sided protagonist story,
which others might...
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Categories:
paragraphs, betrayal, christian, earth, integrity, love, native american,
Form:
Political Verse
Poetry Anthology Part 1
Woven are these pages in poetic verse,
With bare threads of our deepest feelings,
You will find laughter, tears and remorse,
and words of wisdom, prayer and healings.
Krish Radhakrishna
The words herein form an anthology of love
From the...
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Categories:
paragraphs, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Inspection Took Place February 17th, 2023
Inspection took place February 17th, 2023...
At 1330 hours (indicated
courtesy notification slipped under door
less than twenty four hours)
hence foretold ill fate
by property (crooks and quade) management
the head honcho zaftig, wanker,
(who replaced the warden)
and Rich (BOLD FACE...
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Categories:
paragraphs, adventure, america, anger, anniversary, anxiety, crush, fate,
Form:
Free verse
25
It’s Monday afternoon, the first day after Fall Break. Several of my suitemates are here, relaxing a bit before we hit the dining hall and then scatter, like debris from a bomb. There are a...
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Categories:
paragraphs, friendship, humor, perspective, school,
Form:
Free verse
Struggle To Write
Struggle to write
Witnessed courtesy the following poetic sight
especially when dark shadows foretell edge of night
twilight zone expanding
into outer limits of width and height
obscuring webbed wide world
subsequently where black tentacles alight.
This poetic prologue feeble exercise to...
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Categories:
paragraphs, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Primrose Hill Remembered
On reflection, I find myself within these walls for having played the game of mans false testimony, I chose to take the blame. I asked a great teacher, one of so many, to share with...
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Categories:
paragraphs, dream, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Breaking
*letters and numbers tearing at my mind,
Words decending upon my curled body.
Sentences wrap around my neck.
Paragraphs drown my lungs
withering, and wailing, laying upon the floor.
Music pounding in my ears,
I cant hear.
But they still speak.
HELP...
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Categories:
paragraphs, conflict, crazy, evil, girl, identity, lost, mental
Form:
Free verse
The Strict Machine
"The Strict Machine"
Take a note
pick up your sharpened quill
tap dance your screen
your mind like
a Magpie's beak
a Silent Epiphany
One,
Two and
Three
a Silent Jackhammer
pneumatic drill
Blackbirds fly off the page
they're swooping for the...
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Categories:
paragraphs, freedom, psychological, symbolism, truth, wisdom, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Autumn Library
dawn blinks—
saffron spilling
over ridge-lines marigold
plaiting the first veins...
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Categories:
paragraphs, autumn, beauty, imagery, morning, nature, river, seasons,
Form:
Imagism
Please Just Keep All of Your Writings and All of Your Poetry Both Plain and Also Simple
Why should both writers and/or poets just keep their writings and/or their
poetry just plain and simply easy to understand? What if you try to be so
creative and poetic but your readers do not understand a...
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Categories:
paragraphs, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Narrative
I Never Knew a Love Before - Warning, It's a Long One
I never knew a love before
Of you my proudest moments stand
For only I can see
This life was once a jumbled mess
Much more than it should be
I gaze upon the history
Of what has come and...
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Categories:
paragraphs, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Tongue
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell,
Your tongue is the enemy of your soul
Death and life are in the control of the tongue
Your tongue can be sharp, ugly...
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Categories:
paragraphs, abuse, angst, betrayal, bible, character, corruption, crazy,
Form:
ABC
Amazing America
Dear America,
You have been deservedly deemed ‘the beautiful’;
and without a doubt, you have been bountifully blessed.
This July 4, 2016, we gladly celebrate your 240th birthday.
From sea to shining sea; from Canadian to Mexican border;
From the...
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Categories:
paragraphs, america, anniversary, beautiful, birth, courage, freedom, history,
Form:
Prose
My Computer Might Daydream About
My Computer Might Daydream About…
My computer may daydream about,
The Twilight films and the meaning of The Matrix,
The thought behind Star Trek and the point of Star Wars,
Which I repeatedly watch on its DVD Player,
And it...
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Categories:
paragraphs, computer, dream, poetry, science, self, society, technology,
Form:
Free verse
Cold and Alone
One can only imagine what Linda must have thought and felt. ...
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Categories:
paragraphs, care, love, mental illness,
Form:
Couplet
The Thought Splinters
What's in writing?
What makes one to author something from the absolute scratch?
What is the science of this art?
Is it just the perceptible version of the human thought or something-deep lies within this solemn form of...
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Categories:
paragraphs, spiritual,
Form:
Ballad
Love of Literature
Love of Literature
Upon the nightstand rests my favorite book,
I beckon her to bed to have a look.
Anxious anticipation flutters in my chest,
As the day's worries and woes, are laid...
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Categories:
paragraphs, appreciation, beauty, books, cute, love, muse, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Living In the Middle
We are living in the middle, you and I,
between butterfly beginnings - ethereal endings.
Despite Natural Law, I'm persuaded to pause;
if possible, dear, let chrysalis continue ...
Timothy Levi Hicks
Living in the Middle
Rules of life restrict us...
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Categories:
paragraphs, destiny, dream, happiness, love, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
Turn The Page
I can feel the light shining in my soul and my spirit is getting bold a new chapter is about to unfold and the grey clouds have faded away and clouds of love is coming...
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Categories:
paragraphs, age, america, birth, butterfly, change, creation, dream,
Form:
Narrative
A Story
There is a hidden story here,
wordings in the lines of a book that openly appear
well-worn images cleared
along paths and byways out of stagnation,
birth life experiences out of the shadows...
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Categories:
paragraphs, endurance, innocence, life,
Form:
Narrative