Long Pinpricks Poems
Long Pinpricks Poems. Below are the most popular long Pinpricks by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Pinpricks poems by poem length and keyword.
An Important Man
Lisa’s dad has a visitor from out of town - a “very important man.” He came early. He was dressed casually, in slacks, and a jacket over a mock-turtleneck. He was genial, behind tortoiseshell glasses,...
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Categories:
pinpricks, business, family, feelings, grandfather, humor, mother, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Thou Art a Witch
Thou Art a Witch!
By Elton Camp
In the 1690s, a horrible, warning example we find,
Of the danger when church and state are intertwined.
Number convicted as witches was twenty-nine
Though many more the Puritans came to malign.
Cotton...
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Categories:
pinpricks, historywomen, old, evil, old, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Letter From a Map To a Diary
It’s no wonder you like secrets.
It’s not that your thoughts are secretive in nature.
It’s more that they are themselves a secret, penned on pages locked from view.
Hidden thoughts intrigue me because my...
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Categories:
pinpricks, change, inspiration, lonely, love, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Dreamscape
Must be a false awakening this cannot be. ...
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Categories:
pinpricks, allusion, anger, depression, grief, heartbroken, hope, lost
Form:
Free verse
A Winters Night
There is no thing so peaceful
As a winters night in the woods--
A canopy as black as pitch,
Spangled with the pinpricks of a billion stars--
Shimmering.
The banks of snow and downy flake,
Turned to diamonds by the...
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Categories:
pinpricks, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
After the Storm
The storm has blown itself away; there is a lighting of the sky.
The monstrous waves start to recede, and the ripples just pass on by.
The rocks find a new home from the pounding they have...
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Categories:
pinpricks, fantasy, me, heart, sound, voice, heart, me,
Form:
Light Verse
ARRIVING AT EL PASO
submitted into "Premier VII Open Poetry Contest," Rob Carmack, Sponsor
ARRIVING AT EL PASO © Sara Etgen-Baker 2025
Some 20+ years ago, hubby and I took up roots, moving across the entire state of Texas for the...
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Categories:
pinpricks, 12th grade, future, travel,
Form:
Free verse
50 Shades 0f Blood
1..A rusty door-nail leaks a drying crust.
2..The taint of copper pennies.
3.Salt licking the scars of the unhealed.
4..A sunset burning dry corn.
5.Eyes bruised by anger.
6.Lips cut by stinging words.
7.Money burning holes in red letter days.
8.A fledglings...
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Categories:
pinpricks, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
In the mystical realms where shadows waltz with whispers of yesteryear
In the mystical realms where shadows waltz with whispers of yesteryear,
Where the moon's silver tendrils weave through the fabric of the night,
The man, the mad ape, traverses, a spectral echo of humanity lost,
Chasing the phantoms...
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Categories:
pinpricks, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
A Night In a Winter Wood
The clamor of an ordered life;
The ticking of a clock—
The babble of ambition;
The clatter of the day.
So for the sake of quietude
Traveled I alone, and far...
Spent I a winter’s night in the woods
To hear the...
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Categories:
pinpricks, imagery, nature, snow, winter,
Form:
Free verse
The Millionaire's Club
Down past the meadow is the grand old hotel.
Where statues of marble encircle the ponds
Tall cypress line up like soldiers at arms,
saluting each limo that comes down the hill
Limousines arrive daily, like vultures of prey,...
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Categories:
pinpricks, culture, happiness, introspection, money,
Form:
Free verse
Of the Coming Fire
the skelton of the watch
a vigil for the passing dead
things left unfed
wraiths wander on
watching wanting waiting
guiding the blind in to the light
the instruments of time to mark mortality
counting the seconds, minutes, hours...
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Categories:
pinpricks, age, allegory, allusion, analogy, art, corruption, dark,
Form:
Free verse
My Confession
I sit in the dark on so many nights,
your words flooding over me.
You vocalize emotions that soothe my tortured soul.
We are sharing a balance of being,
knowing all is well in the world.
Humor being...
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Categories:
pinpricks, angst, love, passion, time, love,
Form:
Free verse
Before the Moon
in the chilling crisp night
with out a stirring trace of breeze
tingling fear of unseen eyes
as my hackles begin to rise
Ebony skies with bright jewels scattered
pinpricks of rain bowls that quickly glitter
pale moon like watching eye
baleful...
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Categories:
pinpricks, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Dancing Cells
You come to me through breathing nuances of your soul
Pinpricks of laughter, tears, and excitement
Memories buried deep within
Trickles of blood
Moments of loss
My body warms
My heart expands
I am a conduit
To receive the gifts you bring
Dancing cells...
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Categories:
pinpricks, appreciation, butterfly, community, dream, fantasy, love, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
In Imitation of the Bard
Soliloquy to Love
To be loved or not to be loved; restatement of existential indecision.
No less a question to the universe, no less unanswered, no less
Turned aside by fear of the unknown.
Not to be loved; a...
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Categories:
pinpricks, introspection, love, universe,
Form:
Blank verse
In The Stars Above
"Love is a star that comes unbidden."
...
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Categories:
pinpricks, stars,
Form:
Verse
In Stars Above
"Love is a star that comes unbidden."
...
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Categories:
pinpricks, star,
Form:
Verse
Swamp Witch
In the heart of the swamp where the shadows creep,
Lives a witch in the mist, secrets buried deep.
With eyes like embers and hair like night,
She conjures her magic by...
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Categories:
pinpricks, magic, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Splinters and Beams
Splinters and Beams
Stream of consciousness gleams under stark cover
...
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Categories:
pinpricks, abuse, addiction, brother, drug, gospel, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Becoming Serendipity ~ One Veil Falls Part 2
iv.
within genesis,
a silent monk chanted
at a perpetual window,
thin cracks of canticle’s
completed my insanity,
at astonishing heights
invisible feet walked on air,
free of psychosis
the water rippled as I slipped,
silently screaming
into this dazzling stream
called...
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Categories:
pinpricks, lifelife,
Form:
Blank verse
A Harvest Palette For the Inauguration's America
Perhaps the "We" in a poem about young "America" can thread the plural pronoun
into a universal tapestry:
"We" seek the Sunrise- fiery golden streams, threads of expectancy, not simply of hope. Rarely realized.
Almost always...
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Categories:
pinpricks, allusion, america, anti bullying, appreciation, betrayal, blessing,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Death To the Mockingbird
Death to the mockingbird with one shot to the heart,
Crushing wings with desperation sings sorrow worlds apart.
Concrete tears from wasted eyes fall on a mossy burial ground,
Taste the regret as it is yet to expel...
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Categories:
pinpricks, dark, jealousy,
Form:
Rhyme
Forgotten Stars
How lonely distant stars must be
Unnoticed by people looking down
Waiting for blue skies to turn dark
Waiting for stars gazers to show
I wait for Venus to comfort me
I wait for Orion's glow to gird me
For constellations...
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Categories:
pinpricks, earth, life, light, loneliness, lost love, night,
Form:
Free verse
Swimming With Sharks
walking the plank on a pirate ship
one slip,point blank,i'm in deep dark sh..
shadows they curse me with torments and taunts
am i better off dead just swimming with sharks?
fins start to rise from black waters of...
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Categories:
pinpricks, faithme, me,
Form:
Rhyme