Long Plonked Poems
Long Plonked Poems. Below are the most popular long Plonked by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Plonked poems by poem length and keyword.
Somewhere On Foot Part Two
“Oh please don’t worry.
I haven’t a heightened sixth sense… about the mint infused lilt here.”
There must be a compass without a point surrounding me
“Looking for directions.
The town you’re seeking is a few winding roads and...
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Categories:
plonked, beautiful, character, deep, environment, growth, immigration, philosophy,
Form:
Prose
It's a Mad World- In a Lancashire Accent
IT’S A MAD WORLD In a Lancashire Accent.
I went to the Confectioners today, there was a long queue outside, a metre apart, and it had started to rain.
The assistant behind the counter had shiny...
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Categories:
plonked, crazy, food, funny, hilarious, humor, humorous, life,
Form:
Free verse
An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle
Of beer, ...
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Categories:
plonked, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase
twelve of us he choose to paint
sons of Jacob in an earthen
jar so sturdy
plonked us with vehemence
directed by neuronal cells
skull protecting scrambled
delicacy
...
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Categories:
plonked, allegory, art, character, color, extended metaphor, light,
Form:
Ekphrasis
A LANCASHIRE LIASON
A LANCASHIRE LIASON
“Laugh an world laughs with yer” she said, as she cum in.
I said,“ Do you live in a barn?”
She grimaced an with er large left arm she swung out...
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Categories:
plonked, age, best friend, character, culture, friendship love,
Form:
Free verse
Plumpyflumpy and Friends - Contest
Plumpyflumpy was a sort of hippo/giraffe
Its rump was huge like a hippo
With a neck sooooooo long, that’s where the raffe bit was.
Plumpy loved to wallow in a muddy pool
oops I forgot to say that...
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Categories:
plonked, children,
Form:
Verse
Mrs Grundy and the Butcher
Ted Cogger is our local butcher and he’s been here seven years;
full forward for the footy team and drinks a nightly seven beers.
He played one season for the cricket club, but he was just a...
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Categories:
plonked, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Men of Honor In the Mist
Men of Honor in the mist Kokoda 1942......
Men of Honor in the mist,...
Sometimes by a bullet kissed,...
Shoot the buggers they'd insist,...
Threeo plonked, ...
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Categories:
plonked, adventuregreen,
Form:
Rhyme
Norm Duel N Johnno
.....Norm Duel and Johnno of the Second Twenty Fifth.....
Were in Syria in 1941.....
They were surrounded by the French Foreign legion with....
75mm cannon and machine gun ....
Their mortar position was in a hundred gallon pit.....
They'd plonk...
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Categories:
plonked, adventure
Form:
Rhyme
My Christmas Roast
There was Turkey and sausage meat, gammon ham too,
Four pigs in blankets for me, you and you
I did Yorkshire puddings and parsnips well glazed
Sprouts, roast potatoes: I’m thus far unfazed…
But then there was broccoli, cauli...
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Categories:
plonked, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Malmsbury and Sacred Heart Catheral
2025.05.18
Today, I had a morning started quite roughly.
I almost missed the bus,
Then actually missed the stop at the train station,
That costed me one hour moving and waiting around.
Finally, I reached my destination.
I climbed up...
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Categories:
plonked, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Ennui
Ennui
...inspired by 'A Cooking Egg' by T.S. Eliot
Ronaldo sprawled in luxury
across from where the spaniel lay,
pretending to read Mallarme
and yawning, stuck in Chapter One.
The Grandfather ticked ponderously,
there was no other sound in...
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Categories:
plonked, nostalgia
Form:
Quatrain
Ennui
Ronaldo sprawled in luxury
across from where the spaniel lay,
pretending to read Mallarme
and yawning, stuck in Chapter One.
The Grandfather ticked heavily,
there was no other sound in sight
except dear Josephine who...
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Categories:
plonked, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Ennui
In the style of T.S. Eliot.
*******
Ronaldo sprawled in luxury
across from where the spaniel lay,
pretending to read Mallarme
and yawning, stuck in Chapter One....
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Categories:
plonked, tribute, writing,
Form:
Verse
Ennui
In the style of T.S. Eliot.
*******
Ronaldo sprawled in luxury
across from where the spaniel lay,
pretending to read Mallarme
and yawning, stuck in Chapter One....
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Categories:
plonked, tribute, writing,
Form:
Verse
Ennui (Repost)
...inspired by 'A Cooking Egg' by T.S. Eliot
Ronaldo sprawled in luxury
across from where the spaniel lay,
pretending to read Mallarme
and yawning, stuck in Chapter One.
The Grandfather ticked ponderously,
there was no other sound in sight
except dear...
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Categories:
plonked, on writing and words
Form:
Quatrain
Abducted Worker
Abducted Worker
He was riding his moped to the office to work
The alien craft hovered over him and took him
It left his moped by the roadside needing the rider
In a blast of silent light he...
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Categories:
plonked, absence, leaving, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Purple and I Learn To Spit
A poem penned in '61; loved by all, a favourite of mine
Performed by Bella, my sweetest grandchild, when at the tender age of nine
Draped head to toe in a purple shawl, with a...
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Categories:
plonked, grandchild, humorous, old, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Ennui
...inspired by 'A Cooking Egg' by T.S. Eliot
Ronaldo sprawled in luxury
across from where the spaniel lay,
he soldiered on with Mallarme
and, yawning, re-read Chapter One.
The Grandfather ticked ponderously,
there was no other sound in sight
except dear...
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Categories:
plonked, dedication, writing,
Form:
Verse
Ennui
...inspired by 'A Cooking Egg' by T.S. Eliot
Ronaldo sprawled in luxury
across from where the spaniel lay,
he soldiered on with Mallarme
and, yawning, re-read Chapter One.
The Grandfather ticked ponderously,
there was no other sound in sight
except dear...
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Categories:
plonked, on writing and words,
Form:
Quatrain
A Porters Approach To Coronavirus
Since that shutdown thing
Things have been quite quiet here at work
Im a porter in a hospital
Moving people for transport and some other things now
My hospital has stayed the same,
But everyone is looking like surgeons and...
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Categories:
plonked, appreciation, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
THREE MINUTES TO DONE
THREE MINUTES TO DONE
Do I first bring water to boiling point
To time the egg from that moment on
Or from cold, to then be soft not hard
That one might be tempted to discard
But plonked in a...
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Categories:
plonked, food, time,
Form:
Rhyme
The Visitor
The woman sits silently
on the edge of the bed
A thin shaft of afternoon sun
from a tear in faded curtains
slices the murky room,
landing on the man's damp body
half-covered with draggled sheets
She had completed her dressing.
Now slipping...
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Categories:
plonked, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Mind-Body Enigma
Here we are, in this feeble mind-body
Afflicted by amnesia, plonked upon earth
We are this here now, not everybody
Limited, yet vibrant with childlike mirth
Maya veils; lets us feel life’s sharp contrast
Soul encased in this organic vessel
The...
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Categories:
plonked, spiritual,
Form:
Sonnet
Stuffing In the Corner
In the corner dark and glum,
Extant off-casts lie plonked there,
To fill in the space
Knick-knacks, old wedding presents,
ornaments and filler-inners
Round and globular, bits and pieces,
Hide the harsh mangles and tangles
When walls at...
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Categories:
plonked, home,
Form:
Free verse