Long Picked Poems
Long Picked Poems. Below are the most popular long Picked by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Picked poems by poem length and keyword.
The Injury of Fury~~**This poem is super long, but it took me hours to write. I hope you all enjoy reading this as I have enjoyed writing it wholeheartedly.**~~
Awful anger expressed in verses
Didn’t give me blessings, but curses
I’m...
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picked, anxiety, courage, deep, depression, desire, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Liquor of Lament: My Glass Is Half FullVerse 6: I've given up love countless times
I needed to pay up for my heartbroken crimes
I already repented for my sins that made my high hopes paper-thin
Don't you feel that envy from deep within?...
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picked, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Lyric
The Tea Party"Go on forth young graduates,
And show us who you are
You're now our future leaders
We know you will go far"
And so commencement ended
Pictures done and people changed
Now, off to private parties
All orderly pre-arranged
But four young girls...
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picked, america, future, graduate, graduation, life, sad, society,
Form:
Epic
Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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picked, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
BeckoningBeckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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picked, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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picked, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Fortunes Re ToldFORTUNES READ the sign displayed
TRINKETS, CHARMS AND SPELLS
The store had not been here yesterday
shades of candles, books and bell
Drapes were hung from side to side
The windows all were dark
Where was this place a day ago?
Just...
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Categories:
picked, surreal,
Form:
Epic
Chapter 126 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Holly: Holly's Orientation Night Pt 2Date: July 2049
The expanse of the sky was darkness.
End of July 11 pm. Dolly Molly
And Holly were keeping an all night
Party pleasant pressureless delight.
Dolly grabbed the remote for the
Plasma 54" TV....
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Categories:
picked, allusion, confidence, courage, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
Please Consider Those Who - Not By Choice - Are Living Alone - 2nd ThirdThis is the 2nd THIRD of my 3-part poem - see Mark Stellinga on Poetry Soup for the other 2 THIRDS - couldn't be helped.
“What about neighbors,” I carefully pried...“do any of them check on...
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picked, love, relationship,
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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picked, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form:
Rhyme
The Badly Drawn GoatThe pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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picked, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Rainy Days, and the Old Red Barn“Allen saw it first
Charlie then later
Allen chased the black raven
Charlie lived his dreams”.
Steady rain had been falling for two straight days
In dimming, muted light.
Striding out from the middle of a weeded field
The two men...
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picked, adventure, bird, dream, horror, imagery, magic, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
I Broke Your Heart and Mine(His Version of Break My Heart)
I have each piece, each shattered part of your heart that I broke in two, I feel every ounce of pain, every emotion, just as you
I would never take this...
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picked, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
One DayOne day not so long ago
I walked
Never alone
For the world
Is always my home
It was a late
Spring snow
Yet I felt
Invisible red roses
Offering sweetest perfume
To my nose and soul
There’s such warmth
In snow-filled winter
No bitterness
No...
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Categories:
picked, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Longing For the StarsMy mind is always a million miles away
I long for a better time...I long for a better day
There’s nothing in this life that turns me on
If it weren’t for Mondo, I’d pass and be gone
I...
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picked, beautiful, conflict, confusion, death,
Form:
I do not know?
The Little Blue FairyThere was a little wind fairy who lived in a meadow near a small town, her name was Estella. Estella had beautiful blue hair like the sky, so her friends called her the little blue...
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picked, blue, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Stepfathers who abducts his own children After my traumatic brain injury witnessing a murder I didn’t think the world could even get any worse my children and I survived 4 major hurricanes I decided to move north to his home town...
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Categories:
picked, angel, anti bullying, anxiety, corruption,
Form:
Free verse
Growing Up, La - Part 2- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,
Although I did have cash to spend,
I felt my...
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Categories:
picked, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Divine Comedy Translation Hell Canto XivBecause the charity of my native place
Obliged me, the broken branches I the picked up
Them giving back him, who was to debase.
Then we finally reached where had to leap
From the second turn to third, and...
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Categories:
picked, fantasy, , cute,
Form:
Terza Rima
Tiny Town Events - 1st Half -- Text With IllustrationNOTE: THIS IS ONLY THE 1st half of this piece-- its 2nd half is posted separately due to Poetry Soup's poem-lengths-limitation. Be sure to check out the balance of this poem = "Tiny Town Events"...
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Categories:
picked, love,
Form:
Narrative
Dante's Divine Comedy Iii Canto Translation“Through me you enter the city of woe
Trough me you enter the eternal pain
Through me you go to people lost below.
Justice inspired my highest factor reign;
I was created by act of divine,
Supreme wisdom and the...
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picked, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Ol' Babe - Both Audio and Text Versions - W-IllustrationHey…did I ever tell you ‘bout the greatest baseball game,
Or should I say…the one that gave “Ol' Babe” his famous name?
Like several other great ones, there were many hits that day,
And if it hadn't...
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picked, baseball,
Form:
Verse
I Want a DoggyOh how I want a doggy,
a bundle of love and fur. ...
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Categories:
picked, dog, friend, love,
Form:
Narrative
Resonating Rightbrain PoliticsSays Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe a dialectical motion
between [Yang-ego-form] differentiation
and [Yin-eco-logical function] integration,
between turning attention...
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Categories:
picked, beauty, environment, health, political, psychological, religion, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
The Ash CanThe Ash Can ©
I got the call on Sunday night. I was traveling on business. When I looked at the caller ID
I wondered why my husband’s boss would be calling me....
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Categories:
picked, bereavement, introspection, lost love, suicide,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue