Long Picker Poems
Long Picker Poems. Below are the most popular long Picker by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Picker poems by poem length and keyword.
Engraved in stone
She watched the demolition team enter her old school. In the next few days it would be raised to the ground. The end of an era she thought, Christ, it was depressing.
Suddenly a thought entered...
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Categories:
picker, baby, death, love,
Form:
Free verse
Biography Mark Hurlin Shelton
Mark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton...
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Categories:
picker,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Conversations at the Areopagus
(The Apostle Paul is waiting at Athens, and some of the Epicureans and Stoics engaged him in conversation.)
Agon, Aidos, Apate, Bia, Corus and Dysnomia (talking amongst themselves) say “What will this seed picker say?”
(A seed...
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Categories:
picker, atheist, bible, jesus, philosophy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
As an easy pushover and soft touch lamenting my demise
As an easy pushover and soft touch lamenting my demise
Vultures swooped overhead
and preyed on my vulnerabilities
forcing me to carrion camping
as fine young cannibals
sharpened their knives
and licked their lips
while eyeing me as their naked lunch
bound and...
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Categories:
picker, 12th grade, 1st grade, anger, fate, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Hunger Pangs
The sign actually said ‘Universal Disposal’ but the haggard squalid creature
Had no time for such ephemeral discourse he could just about spell his name
Kanja meaning water born and his parents had hoped he would...
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Categories:
picker, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
The Colorful Rose
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.
A single rose can be my garden.a single friend, my world.
Beauty without virtue...
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Categories:
picker, anniversary, children, cute love, engagement, family, roses
Form:
Romanticism
Picking Lemons
I’ve sorted spuds at Cora Lynn, picked asparagus at Vervale,
Cherries in the Dandenong’s, beans on the Thompson close to Sale,
I’ve picked apples out at Labertouche and made a tidy quid,
But I’ve never picked an...
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Categories:
picker, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Alphabet 5-0
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Right, Poetry Soup check it, before you wreck it,
...
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Categories:
picker, earth, international, peace, rap, religious, slavery, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Melvin of the Dweeb World
he sits in back of the class
...
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Categories:
picker, childhood, introspection, life,
Form:
I do not know?
Slavery Or Exploitation
This poem is not meant to be a speech nor is it written to offend or give anyone blame.
It just a mere observation of how today leaders choose to bring civilasation back into the slave...
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Categories:
picker, abuse, africa, betrayal, black african american, columbus
Form:
Free verse
Pray and Then Take Out the Trash
there's some praying going on right now
and it's time for you to get on down
down on your knees and to God just pray
that He'll remove all the trash standing in your way
how many time...
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Categories:
picker, angst, forgiveness, hope, inspirational, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Perfect Crime
There is a boy, who I spill all my secrets to.
Someone that I look forward to seeing everyday.
A person who I think about all night.
Who dances through my dreams.
Who's smile is...
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Categories:
picker, girlfriend-boyfriendme, me, smile, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Far and Below
far and below you will find-
my favorite poem written in
free verse it is not just the theme
but the style of eecummings
...
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Categories:
picker, beauty, bullying, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Black Bird On a Wire Edited Version
Black Bird on a Wire
Black Bird
sitting on a wire
back turned towards me
Do you wish to hide the intelligence of your eyes
I see here at this old dump
picking through the unwanted wanted things
I wish I could...
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Categories:
picker, abuse, angst, anxiety, bird, blessing, conflict, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Bread Basket of the World
the quiet of the spring day was broken
by the noise and shouts in the fields
belching smoke the great iron beast
dropping its sharp blades into the soil
took large bites into the soft belly of the...
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Categories:
picker, food, on work and working, workworld, green,
Form:
Narrative
A Black Woman's Ambition
A black stone with diamonds inside
She shines but you would never know
They hit her but she never falls
They whip her but she never breaks
Speed in her step even though they try to slow...
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Categories:
picker, color, discrimination, slavery,
Form:
Narrative
Black Bird On a Wire
Black Bird
Sitting on a wire
Why is your back turned towards me?
Do you wish to hide the intelligence of your eyes,
or do you wish to create some mystery?
I have seen you
Here at this old dump
Picking through...
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Categories:
picker, angst, bird, child, clothes, family,
Form:
Free verse
17 Sweet Briar Road - Port of Spain
Wistful is the heart, silent the walls
where the gambols of youth echoed.
A return tale’s sentimental journey
inside the gates of Sweet Briar Road
Long it behoves me my thanksgiving
...
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Categories:
picker, journey, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Time Stands Still
a Walk in-
the woods with debussy's
prelude to the afternoon
in my ears
time stands still
the warmth of the sun
music echoing amongst trees
the chant
of songbirds
oh peace and tranquility embrace
the...
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Categories:
picker, music, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Rag-Picker :: Ladan
Rag-picker (Poetic Form :: LaDán )
Initial days of journalism, I got one
task to cover the rag-picker's life.
Met one boy in street, to learn what's being done.
As he talks, felt how life turns so...
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Categories:
picker, poverty,
Form:
Verse
Table For Two
It was a Sunday cherry picker
Saints were coming not to bicker
We will take a few
Then on cue
Change them to
A special wine
And have a nice time
Mr. Bourne he did listen
Dreaming...
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Categories:
picker, england, games, london, red, soccer, sports, wine,
Form:
Rhyme
My Cloud
on my-
diaphanous gossamer filmy cloud-
sumptuous I float woebegone
flowers far and below
and bluebirds come
fluttering in the azure sky
twittering and its
beautiful
gossamer filmy cloud-sumptuous
the gobbledygooks with their nonsense
far and...
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Categories:
picker, bird, garden, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Last Night With Gucci
Dark serene
Alone and together
My world in chaos
Vocational anxiety
Financial sobriety
Yet all matters not
As I look to my right
Gaze at my Gucci
Amazed by her will
Her zest for life
Amidst physical turmoil
A ruthless journey
Made tolerable and enjoyable
By quintessential Alpha...
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Categories:
picker, dog, eulogy, farewell, goodbye, love, pets,
Form:
Free verse
A Rag Picker
Sometime after midnight, it had rained
Putting out summer’s sultry heat
The sky had its face washed clean
And wiped the grime off Earth’s soiled feet
The dawn is quietly breaking
Night lights still glimmer here and there
The blue firmament...
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Categories:
picker, appreciation, career, encouraging, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Pickle Pickers Convention
A Passel of People Participated from all Portions of the nation.
The Purpose - To Promulgate the Pickle Pickers and Packers Association!
Parsimonious President Dill Presented a Pretty Powerful oration,
To Pitch a Passionate Plan for their Prestigiious...
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Categories:
picker, people,
Form:
Rhyme