Long Parentheses Poems
Long Parentheses Poems. Below are the most popular long Parentheses by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Parentheses poems by poem length and keyword.
Ali's Song
Ali's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...
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Categories:
parentheses, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form:
Verse
A Suicide Note
scared of falling
ghosts are calling
the pavements getting close
wind rushing through my hair as if being played by ghosts.
i hit the ground
giving a bone cracking sound and people start to gather
they draw my body's outline on...
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Categories:
parentheses, depressionme, life, me, perspective, drug,
Form:
I do not know?
I Plus U Theory
I took advantage to contemplate the equation of I+U
And I thought I +U = US which always =’s just 2
At least that’s what I thought to be true
Now, I know for fact...
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Categories:
parentheses, love, love, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Mindful
Mindful
Startled out of nonchalant light,
Wakefulness stands at attention
Ignited flame from the eternal candle,
Energized vigil of the watchman
At the soul’s dawning daybreak
Tingling in the presence
Of every dappled infinite breath.
Rotating eye of illumination
Watchful, like a...
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Categories:
parentheses, blessing, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
A Reflective Ploy
A Reflective Ploy...
it is a reflective ploy;
on the part of me,
when proofreading
all this work of mine;
and do I really care?
that a full stop.
don’t!
or that commas;
are often too many
or misplaced.
now semi-colons
are useful dudes
to slam!
two slightly related...
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Categories:
parentheses, word play,
Form:
Free verse
The Wild and Wacky Humour of Stephen Wright
I wanted to build a skylight in my place.
My friends thought it was spurious.
So I went and built it anyway.
Now the neighbors above me are furious.
I got a dog a few months ago,
but he doesn't...
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Categories:
parentheses, hilarious, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
An English Major Explains the Beauty of the Dirac Equation With No Success Whatsoever
An English Major Explains the Beauty of The Dirac Equation with No Success Whatsoever
Schrodinger, mostly famous for playing the piano
in the well-known comic strip by Schulz,
was not related to Vince Guaraldi.
It would be irrational to...
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Categories:
parentheses, math,
Form:
Blank verse
My Insignificant Snack
Read letters to the left of the word (red) from "a" down to "y" then repeat for the word (blue)!
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With very little knowing and harmless intention, a(red) s(blue)nack will tide me over til’ dinner
You should...
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Categories:
parentheses, faith
Form:
I do not know?
Knees
Pursuing springtime walking sprees
beside our dog, beneath the trees,
I oft detected some unease
amongst the birds and buzzing bees
as echoed by flat monodies
of clicking, clacking, knocking knees
(forsooth, reversed parentheses)
resounding pained discordant keys,
confusing triplets’ twos and threes
as...
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Categories:
parentheses, body, health,
Form:
Rhyme
Wistful Aging
Age gracefully…that’s what I’ll do
Going to ignore the lines, how about you?
Inner beauty is what really counts
I happen to love my drooping mounts
Absolutely no Botox or fillers for me
Another varicose vein, Yipee
I’ll learn to love...
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Categories:
parentheses, passion, visionary, beauty, beauty, love, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
A Home With Two Cats
These are two etherees that will be put together side by side to form ONE complete poem having 11 syllables per line, so I thought i would show how it is done. It's like fitting...
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Categories:
parentheses, baby, cat, , cute,
Form:
Etheree
Poppies
I am small among fields of red flowers.
They look toward me and watch as time presses
its skeletal fingers into my limbs.
Yes, this is my body now: a startling
mosaic of death-colored discoloration.
Thumbprints corrode me like an...
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Categories:
parentheses, anxiety, autumn, body, conflict, death, deep, flower,
Form:
Blank verse
Ontology of the Unwitnessed
Her laughter startles the morning air -
a flock of starlings scattering
from power lines into
the cathedral of her collarbones.
She moves through rooms
unaware of how doorframes
arch like...
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Categories:
parentheses, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Dirty windows and broken hearts, like books left open on the table
Dirty windows and broken hearts, like books left open on the table,
On silent streets where morning and night share their last pages,
A generation of brave souls, seeking light between the lines of the day,
Heavy judgments...
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Categories:
parentheses, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
In the Jungle
There’s a forest bizarre neither nearby nor far,
full of sights somewhat scary to spook a soul wary.
The deep, darkened jungle, I think you’ll agree
is never a safe place for you or for me...
The vicious...
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Categories:
parentheses, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
Gratitude
Gratitude
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desperate madness, and aching sadness once held me tight
now, unexplainable memories, NOT unendurable, that's right
time went on, and beautiful love shone through
between quivering me, and radiant you
now, these eyes see quite a bit clearer
shadows faded...
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Categories:
parentheses, recovery from...people, people,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Silence Knows the Fairest Reason
I attended three sermons in a row
In the neighborhood church on Jackson.
Tear dropped there too, on the quran of mine, sky-blue colored
And on the cover of the hymn prayer book, it strangely rhymed.
Sermon,
On...
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Categories:
parentheses, april,
Form:
Free verse
Exclamation Point
The landmark was given the name
"Exclamation Point," and indeed it became
the most exciting place I'd ever known!
The "parentheses" between us shone
of sun "dashes" splashing
on the "comma" aquamarine.
My fashion "square bracket" charms swayed...
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Categories:
parentheses, blessing, engagement, innocence, love, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
The Stage
The Stage
We are often alone when we write.
We use ink, or blood, depending.
The color often defining the mood.
A quill, a feather a plume,
a sharp PIN indeed, to prick…the imagination.
8.5 x 11...
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Categories:
parentheses, 12th grade, allah, anxiety, atheist, cinderella, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Three of My Favorites
So many more. Just a sampling of favorites, per contest instructions.
For each poet I have included a sampling of titles in parentheses.
THREE OF MY FAVORITES
Gershon Wolf
Gershon lands me in stitches.
In his wise and funny hands,
I...
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Categories:
parentheses, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Dichotomous, Duplicitous Man
Besides the hallowed covenant of The Way
There is only one other univocal tenet I obey
The human spirit is insuperable and indomitable
Though it can wield an evil that is so...
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Categories:
parentheses, celebration, destiny, dream, forgiveness, future, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poem For the Haters
They're all in this together, some sort of (machination)
This hatred is gratuitous, or is it just my imagination?
I may not be rich, at times a bit frugal,
I (envisage) in my head insults thrown at me-...
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Categories:
parentheses, 8th grade, 9th grade, angst, bullying, hate,
Form:
Rhyme
Coming of Age
Awakened by cops, I am frightened and confused. My parents arrested, I was removed. From house to house, I am placed with mannequins who “love” in parentheses. “Mommy, when will you come?” Her face plastered...
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Categories:
parentheses, america, confusion, growing up, loneliness, lost, mom,
Form:
Haibun
My Hero
My Spirit is having a human experience:
hushed and silent
I become a Witness
in the parentheses enfolding
D-Day through to the slow-motion collapse
of big-box skyscrapers in a terrorist's plan.
Softly, slowly I walk past
endless tombs of televised murders
or flower...
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Categories:
parentheses, introspection, life, time, age, age, drug,
Form:
Narrative
Liturgies of the Flesh
You arrived like dusk—
not falling, but folding the sky inward,
your body a benediction
I knelt to translate.
No prayer passed my lips,
only the hush of devotion,
tongue pressed to the scripture
written in your trembling.
And when you opened—
not like...
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Categories:
parentheses, sensual,
Form:
Free verse