Long Plainer Poems
Long Plainer Poems. Below are the most popular long Plainer by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Plainer poems by poem length and keyword.
Highland Lassie
Inspired by the painting "Highland Lassie" (1871) by Thomas Faed.
(Verse One; In introduction to Cailin)
Walkin' on the highways, searchin' down the byways,
Tromps a lonely figure on the Highland roads;
Peerin' from the Highdown, breezin' through the...
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Categories:
plainer, girl, mountains, sea, travel, wisdom, youth,
Form:
Lyric
To Mom March 11 1979
To MOM; March 11,1979
This is the story of an animal trainer,
Whose mettle and courage, couldn't be plainer.
A search'd reveal if you'd care to explore,
None greater exists than El Eleanor.
She's faced the very meanest...
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Categories:
plainer, animal, birthday, childhood, family, happy, humorous, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Miss Jill May Find a Way
Miss Jill may find a way.
As I thought about your kindness
And the kids you teach at school.
I pondered how any help can come
From the ink of this old fool.
Is there any value in his work?
Reading...
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Categories:
plainer, poetry, school, teacher, youth, , 9th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
The Mourning After the Night Before
“Knock, knock” “Who’s there?” I haven’t a clue
What day is it? Who’s at my door?
“Here is some breakfast I made just for you”
Says some stranger who slept on my floor
The sight of the eggs...
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Categories:
plainer, drink, friendship, fun, humor, morning, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
What I Do
I was recently voted top three in my field which was a humbling experience I've never been bothered about awards. But being third showed me the appreciation people have for what I do and inspired...
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Categories:
plainer, work,
Form:
I do not know?
The Bartering
And even after night became dawn
After confession tumbled priest and pawn
I still wish, forever, O you did come
Push back the cubicle to your face
What joy there could tell ransome
What opportunity of unfolding grace
Had visions of...
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Categories:
plainer, lost love, joy,
Form:
Verse
James Whitcomb Riley Amuses Me
I suppose it is surprising
And I shouldn't let you know it,
I've a hankering for the poetry
Of that old time Hoosier poet.
Perhaps you think his poems with
Their easy, rustic flavor
Are not poetic offerings
Sophisticates would savor.
"Little Orphant...
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Categories:
plainer, nostalgiame, poems,
Form:
Narrative
Months of Progression
November, I don't want you
I don't want your phrases
I don't want your time
I don't want your care
December, I don't want you
I might enjoy your praises
I might like how you try
I don't want you there
January, I...
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Categories:
plainer, angst, break up, hurt, i love you,
Form:
Free verse
Grains of Salt
GRAINS OF SALT
Events and things have meanings
Meanings to everyone
Within us is beyond what is apparent
Sometimes vague and in unqualified form
But are often called sentiments.
Which of these are within
The ourselves historicity and yearnings
Our thoughts, hopes and...
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Categories:
plainer, introspection, tree, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Birds In the Weather
Male peacock struts his finery all over the yard
Being egotistical is his tiny petard.
The plainer brown females are utterly star struck.
Wanting a little bit of his attention; is that a cluck?
The pristine white hens’ feathers...
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Categories:
plainer, bird,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bard's Babble
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
~William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, Scene I
I weep by a stardust shore where the seraphs sing
Tangerine...
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Categories:
plainer, metaphor, poetry, poets, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Acceptance
Poems – rhyming or
Free verse – straightforward,
Which paint a picture
That make us laugh or cry,
That strike a chord within us!
Not ordinary! Not untaught
Or unlearned! None of those!
I used to think that others
Were on a...
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Categories:
plainer, appreciation, how i feel, introspection, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
My Journey
So much
Once I was so much bolder then I felt my heart break in two
Once I was so much colder then I realised I couldn’t make it through
Once I was so much clearer then colours...
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Categories:
plainer, birth,
Form:
I do not know?
End of Days
How terrible it were hearing his voice
With half-shut eyes asleep in a half-dream
I fought until I could fight no more it seemed
Non suffering is the memory I made my choice
Comforter, where is your comforting?
Sorrow...
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Categories:
plainer, lifelove,
Form:
Free verse
Lions, Tigers and Bears
Lions, tigers and bears alarm me, no-brainer!
Zookeepers seem to like them and circus trainers.
Some blokes put gray in your hair - like Freddy Krueger
but strokes are not funny, I panic 'round cougars.
Pythons, parrots and apes...
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Categories:
plainer, fear, me,
Form:
Rhyme
It's All About Love
It's all about love, whatever we do
It's the reason we get up each day
Everything else is to allow our love
To flourish, to give reason to say
I'll love you till the end of the earth
Until this...
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Categories:
plainer, love,
Form:
Quatrain
It's All About Love
It's all about love, whatever we do
It's the reason we get up each day
Everything else is to allow our love
To flourish, to give reason to say
I'll love you till the end of the earth
Until this...
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Categories:
plainer, passion,
Form:
Quatrain
Love Lesson
LOVE LESSON
I give my lesson for their son.
Room plain, cracked, greyed -
Rubbed away - curtains frayed.
Good furnishing - none,
Except the big photo
Of two lovers long...
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Categories:
plainer,
Form:
Sestina
To All
Being melancholy confusion,
saying seriously that we are who we are,
that mountain of dandruff was what we saw,
they all lose anyways so why not chop it off?
At the sound,
at the towns,
we were liverworts and lackadaisical not?
They...
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Categories:
plainer, creation, dedication, firework, happy, meaningful, muse, myth,
Form:
Free verse
Monorhyme for Our Time
I cannot make it simpler, plainer, flatter:
do not mistake my words for salesman’s patter:
‘direct’ is not the same as ‘idle chatter’.
You own a thing you never ought to shatter –
you got your Constitution on a...
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Categories:
plainer, history,
Form:
Sonnet
My Last Wish
My last wish is simple
To lie beside you dear
In eternity’s arms
There to sleep so soundly
Free from earthly alarms.
My last wish is simple
Told you in a whisper,
Writ in my final will
Just as you remember
My promise to...
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Categories:
plainer, eulogy, husband, love, wife,
Form:
Monchielle Stanza