Long Pawn Poems
Long Pawn Poems. Below are the most popular long Pawn by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Pawn poems by poem length and keyword.
Hitchhiker From Another World 4“Come on, let's get introduced to my play mate in a palm.
Linda, these are Joshua’s true other selfs.”
Lelia emitting a peculiar chuckle.
A comic situation arose where I changed my voice for each of my...
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Categories:
pawn, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration, character, emotions, environment,
Form:
Prose
Letters For People Part 4Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
pawn, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Sonnets Xxv-XxxiiSonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
pawn, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets X-XviSonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
pawn, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rilke Translations IiCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
pawn, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Magic Bagpipes and the Five Jelly TykesA Bagpipe am I,
My drones point to the sky!
I am magic they say, since the wizard ‘spelled’ on me that day.
He gave me the gift of immortal time,
I could travel through centuries,
T’was a gift.
It was...
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Categories:
pawn, 5th grade, children, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My MemoirEach year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already have everything, I find myself remembering that Christmas of 1954.
Dad had joined...
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Categories:
pawn, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
I'Ve Been So Lucky In Life 1,2I’ve Been So Lucky in Life! (1&2)
(Only Raped 5 Times Metaphorically)
Poem’s Introduction
My poetry has always been about transparency. It’s about letting go of an effort to be liked by others, and allowing others to gravitate...
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Categories:
pawn, abuse, angst, faith, humor, love, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
I Could Not Do It BeforeI Could Not Do It Before
By Dr. Tina Medina
I could not do it before
I dare not shut the door
My heart yearned for something more
I loved you to the core
Even though I did not keep...
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Categories:
pawn, adventure, betrayal, conflict, inspirational, integrity, motivation, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Pawn a TimeOnce pawn a time...
About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philadelphia attorney general)
unable to recoup forfeited funds.
While holed up in castle keep,
(albeit fetchodit...
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Categories:
pawn, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Feeling Small, Broken EnigmaLet my ears deceive me but I hear it, can't bother to drown it out
the taunting laughter at my misery
Fictional should they be but the reality has cleared the camouflage
which hath once shrouded me
Exposed and...
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Categories:
pawn, how i feel, nonsense,
Form:
Free verse
Once a Pawn a Time Within Castellated BishopricOnce a pawn a time within castellated bishopric
We purchased 2020 Hyundai Elantra
at Enterprise Car Rental
1207 West Ridge Pike
Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428
April thirteenth two thousand twenty three
witnessed greatest amount of money
I spent at one time.
The following day...
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Categories:
pawn, appreciation, april, bible, black love, dark, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Make Do and MendMake Do and Mend,
Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And never ever lock it
But still so many struggled
To buy food...
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Categories:
pawn, community,
Form:
Verse
Rilke Translations IArchaischer Torso Apollos ("Archaic Torso of Apollo")
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
pawn, art, life, love, tribute, visionary, voice, wine,
Form:
Verse
The Old ManAn old man arose as most often do
in a state of tension and stress.
To the bathroom he ran... or was it the loo,
his bladder he had to...
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Categories:
pawn, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Warlord Wars No More -4We've been taught the terror of triumph from where the heart looks...
General Caesar Sir, 9th Recon reports that Pompeius Magnus has fled by sea to Egypt,
also, the body of Captain Crastinus has been laid on...
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Categories:
pawn, history,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Whore and the Sea Part 1The moon was neither full, nor was it not
She shone down radiant lighting the misty ole night
The waves lapped the shore
As a gentle breeze streaked my face
Alone by the sea, clouds, the moon and me
The...
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Categories:
pawn, allegory, angel, french, imagination, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Surrender Your FearHear my poem announce, then refine and restate
its life lesson suggestion Surrender YOUR Fear!
Yes, Surrender Your FEAR, watch stick rafters release
(note: I’m ‘Missing, Roof’ too, and I still love my life)
see life’s cobbled roofs fly,...
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Categories:
pawn, faith, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Heavens's Poker GameIn the beginning after God had finished creating this land.
Satan boldly challenged the heavens for the absolute control of man.
Gods’ architectural blueprint stretched for ages across the sky
He watered the...
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Categories:
pawn, bible, christian, conflict, emotions, encouraging, god, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
This Thought, This TimeTHIS THOUGHT THIS TIME
This is the time. To put forth in writing the words that plague my mind. An inevitable forthcoming of thoughts internally suppressed, I have thoughts that beg to be told from a...
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Categories:
pawn, deep, humanity, social, time,
Form:
Rhyme
And Miles To Go Before I Sleep For Miles DavisKind Of Blue (For Miles Davis)
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx Ny 1991
Before they could lower Miles
into the damp, dark ground
Two of the PALL BEARERS
Thought they heard musical sounds
Before the Preacher could say
Turn your BiblesTo Acts,
The...
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Categories:
pawn, bird, celebrity, death, guitar, i miss you,
Form:
Rhyme
The Formidable Gambit
"The Formidable Gambit"
Silence
calculated and distinct
conspiring with rules
plays within the
confined squares
of a strict and
ruthless mind
preying on all moves
untraceable
unpredictable
irretrievable
in the opening move
the long-legged fly
is caught in the web
silvery and slippery
life remains...
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Categories:
pawn, courage, dark, faith, love, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Whar Art Thou Dame of My DreamWhar art thou dame of my dream?
Eagerness readily overtakes me prior
to succumbing to nightly slumber.
Tis boot a blink when eyelids become relaxed
adrift abed invariably occurs counting backwards
from one hundred –...
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Categories:
pawn, absence, addiction, allusion, angel, appreciation, celebration, red,
Form:
Rhyme
Life Is Like a Chess Match"Life is like a chess match
To win you must be swift and able to maneuver
Yes, life and the chess match are very much the same
Once the king dies, no others continue the...
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Categories:
pawn, evil, god, life, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
A Prodigy In PiecesA boy and board in Brooklyn
bedeviled by the breath of baroque battles
bemused with a belligerent brain beauty
and befriended by battlefield bravado,
the chessmen championed his ego
wickedly warring to a visionary's voodoo,
those soldiers of black and...
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Categories:
pawn, america, heart, history,
Form:
Epic