Long Pick out Poems
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More Pickles Than OneFor ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple, so there can be no excuse,
that the pickles in this...
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Categories:
pick out, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night Before Christmas EveThe night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
pick out, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am My Father's SonThey were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
pick out, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Poetically Pathetic CrowJust enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad excuse for an apology, epilogue
But I've already messed up the...
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Categories:
pick out, lonely, longing, loss, lost, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Love's DialogueUnique: I need someone to hold me and tell
me it's alright.
I need someone to hold my hands and feel
my pain.
I need someone to kiss away my pain.
I need someone to look into my eyes and...
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Categories:
pick out, allusion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
I Can'T Just Change Overnight Part 1(Inspired by my sister, Laura Breidenthal’s poem called “The Dream in His Eyes” and also, inspired by Disturbed’s song “Forsaken”. Special thanks to my sister for such an awesome poem and the writer that wrote...
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Categories:
pick out, angst, dark, deep, depression, desire, loneliness, words,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
pick out, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Salat DaysSalat Days
by Michael R. Burch
(dedicated to my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch Sr.)
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the front porch swing,
dangling his long...
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Categories:
pick out, age, america, appreciation, depression, endurance, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
My Love My AllWorld's Longest Love Poem (second edition)
Title: My love my all
Edited by Izunna Okafor
Editor's Note:
Out of their ardency, eighteen poets and poetry lovers identified with the need to give the 2020 Valentine celebration a poetic taste...
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Categories:
pick out, love,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 71-- Damian Delilah Mallory and Polly: Cascades the Triple DateA good time was had by all at
Mother Daughtry's. The next
Day Damian was in his usual
Mood with Molly in her cozy
But large room. He layed on her
Bed she layed on top of him.
"Hmm,"...
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Categories:
pick out, confidence, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
The Thc OrdinanceI am fairly new to this Norwick community.
If I recall correctly
we have about forty thousand households here
where the Connecticut River
conjoins the Mohegan and Iroquois Rivers;
originally deep rich virgin eco-forest
of and for harmonic rhythm and...
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Categories:
pick out, community, earth, family, growth, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Millie's Christmas WishMillie's Christmas Wish
Winter Vacation was coming
The kids were all set
They were thinking of Christmas
And the gifts they would get
But, Millie sat waiting
Thinking of nothing but snow
Watching the class clock
That was moving so slow
They did arts...
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Categories:
pick out, 5th grade, adventure, america, childhood, christmas,
Form:
Epic
Poems About Children IvPoems about Children IV
Salat Days
by Michael R. Burch
Dedicated to the memory of my grandfather, Paul Ray Burch, Sr.
I remember how my grandfather used to pick poke salat ...
though first, usually, he’d stretch back in the...
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Categories:
pick out, child, childhood, children, dad, father son, grandfather,
Form:
Rhyme
To Be a Friend PleaserI heavily recall two times when I had made you cry,
Both of which bewildered and moved me
My response was that of disbelief, and regret
And never, upon recalling,
Have I felt more of the need to...
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Categories:
pick out, change, character, confusion, devotion, friendship, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
The JourneyOnce upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.
It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I...
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Categories:
pick out, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form:
Rhyme
Yvonne's Swan SongYvonne was very, very, very happy.
She loved her mother.
She loved her brother Phillip.
And she loved swans.
Oh, did she ever love swans!
She loved the way they looked
With their smooth, fluffy feathers,
And colorful beaks of orange, yellow...
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Categories:
pick out, anti bullying, bullying, children, courage, mother daughter,
Form:
Narrative
Prose PoemsProse Poems
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...
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Categories:
pick out, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form:
Prose
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 89The magic disappeared. The lead Troll's hand fell through the air where the magic was released and he lost his balance almost falling to the ground. He hesitated feeling the emptiness in front...
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Categories:
pick out, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
How I Got Richer and What I Did NextHow I Got Richer and What I Did Next
I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they got me back (those post-empty-nesters)
by making fake deals I couldn't...
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Categories:
pick out, allegory, funny, heaven, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
God's Return TicketGod's Return Ticket
Did you ever wonder about the Almighty’s criteria or selection process for reincarnation of souls back on Earth? Just think some famous politician, movie star, sports figure,criminal, dictator, and so on could use...
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Categories:
pick out, beauty, creation, earth, emotions, god, heaven, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
Teachable MomentumToday
we left off yesterday
to pick up
where speaking non-violent principles
too often neglect to listen
to liberally artistic,
green and active
yet non-reactive
compassionate healers
may need to co-invest more
in co-operating democratic research
of
and for
WholeEarth DiaLogical Matriotism.
Excuse me,
but co-passioned listening
to silence
speaks not...
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Categories:
pick out, caregiving, green, health, light, nature, passion, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Strangers In PeoriaI met a proper woman in a proper pub on a Monday in Peoria. It was noon, time for lunch, and we were sitting stool to stool over very large burgers at a long mahogany...
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Categories:
pick out, break up,
Form:
Prose
My Corporate Life and How It All EndedI met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits –
a cure-all for things that ail your back.
I served 'em...
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Categories:
pick out, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Heroic Crown of Sonnets - Part Two
(continued from A Year Of Months (January-June)
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/heroic_crown_of_sonnets_-_part_one_772928
A Year Of Months (July-December)
8. July
July now follows summer's song of June;
with sun ablaze, her days are humid, warm.
Great time to languish in the afternoon,
and later, watch an evening...
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Categories:
pick out, earth, seasons, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian TakeBack Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*
In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Comparative Literature
.................at the prestigious...
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Categories:
pick out, books, eulogy, french, poems, son, tribute,
Form:
Elegy