Long Patting Poems
Long Patting Poems. Below are the most popular long Patting by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Patting poems by poem length and keyword.
Where Do We Come InWhere do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what...
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Categories:
patting, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership, people, rights, sports,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The GiftFrom the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...
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Categories:
patting, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form:
Prose
Hubert Might Go Upstairs But Not To RomeTea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it.
"I'm going upstairs," Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself out...
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Categories:
patting, marriage,
Form:
Prose
No Love LostFor several years I'd worked as a life coach, assisting clients day by day,
Like blazing colors in the shank of the evening, chases deep blues away.
It was an occupation that I enjoyed, as helping others...
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Categories:
patting, best friend, break up, fantasy, imagery, love,
Form:
Couplet
Literate Lettered LatitudinarianLiterate lettered latitudinarian
Presents the following slapdash
higglety-pigglety bupkis, whereby reader
experiences being mentally hogtied
perusing pseudo poetic perambulation
devoid of sense and sensibility
welcoming character assassination
concerning pride of yours truly,
who merely strung together
words sharing "arian"
as their last five letters
for no...
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Categories:
patting, 12th grade, adventure, blessing, community, courage, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Wham BamWham Bam not even a thank you ma’am, was I hit by a Mack truck or slapped in the face where I stand?
The severity of it, but to you a job well done, the patting...
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Categories:
patting, anger, for him, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Cat TrackerI look across the lounge room floor and silently I brood.
Looking back is something smug that’s caused a family feud.
It licks its paws; it grins at me, and knows it is protected,
and every wish it...
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Categories:
patting, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 139 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: The Small House CompromiseDate: May 2050
Damian stood over their large crib
Gazing lovingly at his five infant sons
Thinking of soon to be one girl, Dasheri!"
She was due for July. Full house now.
The addition was now ready for
Habitation. Dolly...
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Categories:
patting, allusion, beautiful, birth, black love, blessing,
Form:
Alliteration
In My Father's HandsA piece of waiting clay adapts
To a sculptor's finite stroke,
Infants heads were shaped by hands
Of older thinking folk.
Eight times a molder in his chair,
A newborn child held near.
Tiny heads-so softly stroked,
By my father's hands so...
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Categories:
patting, fathers day, love, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Honeymoon Blues CollaborationTwo young newlyweds Samantha and Ray
On honeymoon went camping to the Bay
But as they were rocking
Strong winds came a knocking
And left them nude as their tent blew away
Both were red faced and on the ground...
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Categories:
patting, humor,
Form:
Limerick
The Sage of Glasgow ~ I - I Arrive in Glasgow ~
When I arrived in Glasgow town
I knew nary a soul
So tired I's nearly fallin' down
Yet I'd no place to go
I wandered up Buchanan street
In hopes...
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Categories:
patting, friendship, travel, wisdom,
Form:
Lyric
The ImpIt was a simple task, sweep the floors and keep the fire going
whatever his master was brewing the flame must not go out
Tittle thought himself adequate and most confident
out he went into the woods to...
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Categories:
patting, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Silent MajoritySecrets are anxiously being kept with a behavioral struggle, as one of the special few enters the room; obviously preoccupied with his thoughts. Bottom teeth are nipping his upper lip tucked tight, rope acting as...
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Categories:
patting, betrayal, fear, metaphor, power, silence, society, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Theres No Room Left"There's No Room Left"
Im living this thing
That we call life(life)
To the extreme
With new flights(flights)
Living my dreams
Isnt that nice (nice)
Let me rewind it back
Just take a seat(seat)
My life is a real treat(treat)
You...
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Categories:
patting, art, dream,
Form:
Free verse
The Deluge: Decadence and DestructionIn the gilded halls of the lush royal palace,
Portraits and busts of illustrious men,
Adorn the gardens and marble fireplaces,
But those of their wisdom no longer reign.
Withered are the founding principles,
Replaced by the capriciously whimsical,
The lofty...
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Categories:
patting, celebration, conflict, corruption, introspection, philosophy, war, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
An Act of Courage and FaithI nudged my way through the throng of women and positioned myself at the starting line—an archway of variegated pink balloons. It was mid-October, and a stiff autumn breeze swirled around my body numbing...
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Categories:
patting, courage, faith, inspirational,
Form:
Haibun
Your DistanceYou were my delight my only child that I prayed for.
My joy overcrowded all thoughts from that day on
I burped you, changed your diapers, and watched you grow.
Take your first steps, I recall patting you...
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Categories:
patting, daughter, family, life, social, sorry, child, future,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Rememberingentering into the Sea of Words contest by Leighann Anderson 7/3/2011
Remembering...
I was 27 years old, and in my second year of working for my first real "grown
-up"
job. There is something...
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Categories:
patting, losswords, me, work, home, home, me, work,
Form:
Narrative
Don Quixote Golf EastOn one night,
is it because of a bewitched full moon?
while driving my rusty shaking junk car
I became Don Quixote de la Mancha
mounted on Rozinante holding a lance under the arm aslant,
and with a...
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Categories:
patting, allegory, hero, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
Afternoon Engagements Part 1part 1 of 2
Annick (my 28 year old sister) came down to NYC, from Boston, for a day visit. It was one of those warm, cerulean days between Christmas and New Years. Annick’s in a...
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Categories:
patting, boyfriend, engagement, holiday, humor, new york, sister,
Form:
Free verse
Adventures With James My GrandsonAdventures With James My Grandson
by Joan Donnelly 1995
He doesn't walk but runs to his subject on interest,
and upon arrival, leaps into the air.
With bended knees and flattened feet he lands like...
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Categories:
patting, grandson, love,
Form:
Verse
While Crawling Toward the FinishHe had been in a deep dream, searching for a lost puppy
When the clanging alarm startled him to reality
The clear images fading like a burning photograph
Then, a desperate sense of unrecoverable loss
Lying on a couch,...
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Categories:
patting, life, wife, high school,
Form:
Quatrain
Lemonade
"Lemonade"
Agency sent me to
the territory of
Lemonade dreams
where secret rendezvous
were disjointed
and criminally spent
shooting the cool breeze
she blew hot and cold
covertly coquettish
while they waited for
absent common sense
to repent in...
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Categories:
patting, poets, psychological, word play,
Form:
Free verse
While Crawling Toward the FinishI had been in a deep dream, searching for a lost puppy
When the clanging alarm startled me to reality
The clear images fading like a burning photograph
Then, a desperate sense of unrecoverable loss
Lying on a couch,...
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Categories:
patting, lifewife, me, high school,
Form:
Quatrain
Apples, Apples, ApplesIt was a long summer and the bees did their job,
For the trees were filled with apples, hanging like little knobs.
Oh, those orbs, they looked so delicious and red,
I gathered so many, I had...
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Categories:
patting, food, happiness, passionme, me,
Form:
Couplet