Long Pinking Poems
Long Pinking Poems. Below are the most popular long Pinking by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Pinking poems by poem length and keyword.
Potpourri of new verse - some could be better, some could be worseI always wanted to be a medieval jester,
the one who sneaks up behind the queen
and makes her guess who caressed her.
I always wanted to be the Lord of Misrule,
King Lear's sad fool,
and the one who...
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Categories:
pinking, angst, dark, i am, identity, psychological, self,
Form:
Rhyme
PALEO PAIRPALEO PAIR
Hands rapturously
slashing satori
Bang !
Light released filter down
bats brushed skin to
fly knowingly low
then water gushed
through cracks
snakes spiders scorpions
were our toes
stones spoke in bugle
sound as Sun set in
whirlwinds
the cave was nowhere
yet everywhere
Beethoven’s symphonies...
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Categories:
pinking, age, allegory, birth, creation, imagery, mythology, planet,
Form:
Free verse
HitchcockI remember reading a short story by Hitchcock. Three friends walk and converse as they make their trek home from work. Huddled in mind,
independently fearless, the cold air or hot night baring their souls.
crows on...
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Categories:
pinking, fear,
Form:
Haibun
THOSE WE LOVEPoem submitted to "Those We Love Poetry Contest," Mystic Rose, sponsor
ECHOES
I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the scissors, the darning egg, the pinking shears, the...
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Categories:
pinking, 12th grade, love, mother, mother daughter,
Form:
Haibun
Untitled 8Appearing from nowhere, a red stain in my colourless
vision, I found them cold in the whiteness of the first
snowfall. They lay there in the misty haze, stunned to silence,
smothered in their white blanket;...
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Categories:
pinking, life, suicide, red,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Memories On BranchesHow did a cherry kiss? Bitter flower petals with sweet pistils.
So laden they act as halos while we breathe the love
in a pink hollow, silence sounding like taste, acting like epistle
to hold this moment in...
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Categories:
pinking, age, autumn, home, love, seasons, time, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
If I Were a ManIf I Were a Man, I'd:
Never purchase another dress,
chop the heels off my stilettos,
burn every pantyhose in the house,
...
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Categories:
pinking, humor, woman,
Form:
Free verse
AbsolutesAbsolutes
1
Darkness dominates
the earthly cycle at year’s end.
This is true
no matter how many fools
legislate otherwise.
2
Dogs have unerring internal clocks
and finite bladders.
Taken together,
these absolutes of nature
guarantee that I’ll witness
every dawn from November...
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Categories:
pinking, dog, nature,
Form:
Free verse
A Reverence In the CloudsAirplane strolls on, above the clouds that look like whitest snow
Unknown if this black shark has passengers or is a ghost ship though.
Blaze of the sun sparkles out in the form of an angels’ wings.
This...
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Categories:
pinking, sky,
Form:
Rhyme
An Empty BoxAn Empty Box
My oldest daughter got her diamond ring.
Brother Bob’s daughters choose next
Each reaching into the box
choosing some memento.
Grandchildren next.
I looked away
Telling myself it’s part of the process.
I don’t remember most of those...
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Categories:
pinking, death, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Than-Bauk variation
Here are a few more Than-Bauk, where I have used a particular letter-sound instead of a rhyme on the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd syllables (lines 1,2,3) I find this to be a fun alternative to...
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Categories:
pinking, autumn, beauty, death, political, words,
Form:
Than-Bauk
She Is Not Ugly In An Ugly SweaterLa’Donna was a beauty, and most were jealous of her daily.
She can’t be all that! Argued my devil’s advocate cousin, Bailey.
Then he met her, and he knew what we were all thinking.
I noticed when he...
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Categories:
pinking, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme