Long Picket Poems
Long Picket Poems. Below are the most popular long Picket by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Picket poems by poem length and keyword.
Various Heresies
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch
*
Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it silly, Willy...
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Categories:
picket, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Willy Nilly
Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it...
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Categories:
picket, christian, creation, faith, god, spiritual, truth, world,
Form:
Verse
Beckoning
Beckoning
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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Categories:
picket, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a freaky Friday the thirteenth)...
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Categories:
picket, abuse, adventure, anger, angst, animal, anniversary, august,
Form:
Free verse
RED
RED
One hundred years ago in Pollockshaws
A man was laid to rest,
From humble beginnings to a martyr
They buried Scotland’s best.
A man who stood for the people
A man unshaken and proud,
Till the imperialist and capitalist murderers
Connived...
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Categories:
picket, anger, appreciation, community, education, history, memory, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Yuliya's Father's Cottage Part 1
The ride to the country is uneventful
Except that I feel a little like
A man riding inside a cannon ball.
Yuliya's father Igor drives
I'm also up front (the honored guest) ...
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Categories:
picket, love, integrity, , memorial,
Form:
Blank verse
My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed
swaddled in the purity of security
for what seemed like eternity...
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Categories:
picket, age, god, hope, introspection, life, lost, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Hubs Of Heaven
Catalytic cascade of mirror gleam relish on sleep encrusted eyes,
such sylvan surreal therapy aligned to dulcet bird lilt,
garnish to the willow weave wayfarer of iridescent poetic inkling,
vernal vivid verse drought a derelict damnation for...
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Categories:
picket, beautiful, beauty, celebration, city, deep, engagement, environment,
Form:
Free verse
A Good Outlook
I was once something of a pessimist, and that fact did not concern me,
As violet birds are content, to spend their nights in different trees.
Still I had a happy and quiet existence, or at least...
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Categories:
picket, dream, faith, fantasy, garden, growth, home, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Race-Ism
Race-Ism
What makes one man or woman better than another?
Should we think differently of those who adapted
to another environment and adapted another color?
If our differences are only skin deep as a tone
why do we unto our...
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Categories:
picket, black african american, immigration, native american, prejudice,
Form:
Rhyme
What Would You Do If
What if you were born in the 1800's?
...
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Categories:
picket, abuse, america, analogy, black african american, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
The Toilet Paper Revolution
Date June 2024
A large group picketed outside
Of the toilet paper factory.
People held picket
Signs marching in a circular line.
The Group chanted:
Revolters deserve better bottom
Paper on this caper! The group
Became bigger...
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Categories:
picket, anger, history,
Form:
Alliteration
A House That Was Never Built
There is a house on a tree-lined street with beautiful pink roses blooming over a white picket fence, there are children playing in the yard and laughing almost as if they exist
There is a stone...
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Categories:
picket, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
My Home Town
MY HOME TOWN
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Time moves on never stands still
It changes the outcome no matter the will
Of the dreamers who hold on to and then
Each moment happens once then never again
I had a feeling this...
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Categories:
picket, america, community, emotions, feelings, future, loss, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Meet Me At the Cemetery
Meet at the Cemetery
This is where I live
Meet me at the cemetery to make your final bid
One suitcase and one long gown
This is where I am bound
Bones and bones meet with bones
Dead bones, dried...
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Categories:
picket, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, character, community, confusion,
Form:
Narrative
Barren Page
this barren page, screaming, crying
yelling through the winds,
inviting me to begin again,
always, to just begin
again and again, tempting my pen
tempting me to just begin, begin
A G A I N
this infertile soil, empty page – white...
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Categories:
picket, light, muse, poems, poetry, words, write, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Jacket and Ties
Summer is lingering on and autumn is secretly chiming in
wild marigolds are blooming everywhere
and the earth is soaking up my sordid tears
The full moon is watching over me and predicting my destiny
Bright...
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Categories:
picket, adventure, anxiety, betrayal, break up, butterfly, encouraging,
Form:
Narrative
another voyeur -
open …
I keep my eyes open
to watch you as you kiss me
to think on all that you are thinking
all the carnal thoughts that
might be stirring behind those lids
our lashes so close …
like little feathers that...
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Categories:
picket, kiss, metaphor, passion, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Santa Breaks the Union
*This was written as a novelty Christmas song, so feel free to sing along.
Santa Claus is trying to break our Union
but we won't go down without a fight.
So we've called a...
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Categories:
picket, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Defenses
These are poems about war and defenses.
Defenses
by Michael R. Burch
Beyond the silhouettes of trees
stark, naked and defenseless
there stand long rows of sentinels:
these pert white picket fences.
Now whom they guard and how they guard,
the good Lord...
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Categories:
picket, conflict, evil, fear, prejudice, race, violence, war,
Form:
Quatrain
Dis Dada's Dutiful Toothfairy Daze
(dirty dental deeds done dirt cheap,
yet...aye value, treasure, revere...those
loosely fading cutting edge com man
dubble size memories.)
(Witch role an
unavoidable mandatory phase),
that nowadays breaks the piggybank
like a dropped...
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Categories:
picket, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, absence,
Form:
Epic
At First Glance
Dancing at the disco I espy the woman of my dreams
Wearing a lavender basque top and painted on jeans
Her smile is so dazzling there is nothing to compare
I can’t help feeling I know her from...
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Categories:
picket, dance, romance, mum,
Form:
Rhyme
They'Re All For You
those two months that i pretended you were dead
i was too
now we sit
like our bodies do not need to play each others
you are just the kind of boy that breathes beautiful
like it's easy
you shove...
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Categories:
picket, boy, girl, goodbye, journey, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
She Never Got Paid Either
tell them the one thing you might not say, the words you could hush, say it loud, quiet too,
rhyme if you have to, skip a line, maybe two, a pattern of words, to see...
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Categories:
picket, musicme, me, truth,
Form:
I do not know?
My Parents
Memories of My Parents
Memories of my father
Bring forth the autumn walks.
Shades of nature on the crunchy leaves
At the man-made lake down the hill
From the little white house
With the green picket fence,
Which our large family lived...
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Categories:
picket, autumn, brother, childhood, christmas, dad, family, mother,
Form:
Free verse