Long Plop Poems
Long Plop Poems. Below are the most popular long Plop by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Plop poems by poem length and keyword.
Matsuo Basho Haiku TranslationsThe first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
plop, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations IiDusk-gliding swallow,
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers!
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
plop, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiMy most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
plop, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Ancient HaikuThese are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
plop, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Haiku Translations of the Oriental MastersGrasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
plop, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]
SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...
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Categories:
plop, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
plop, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Coconut MadnessOh Hanna.
The sinking of the USS Stefan wood.
Oh Hanna
I want to take you to Montana.
We can camp out by the springs we will go and see the way oil is founding...
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Categories:
plop, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Femme FataleFemme Fatale By A Wishing Well
(In The Wastelands Of War)
Warm as breath on placid skin,
Soft as gentle summer rains,
Loud as natures angry clouds
That gather in ambushed lanes,
To confer with the wounded boys
Whose...
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Categories:
plop, war,
Form:
Rhyme
KitKit
Before I opened the carton,
I’d chose the name Kit,
Thinking of strong Wild West women.
Our little girl, Gigi, ran to my bedside, barking
Excitedly, “A...
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Categories:
plop, animal, fun, imagery, pets,
Form:
Personification
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised April 19th, 2023Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised April 19th, 2023
IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and cathartic
warming me body electric
courtesy an outsize
warm brimful...
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Categories:
plop, absence, adventure, april, farewell, fate, heartbroken, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Men, Yes, We Became MenWhat have we become?
We who used to sit in my bedroom
listening to Beatles records on headphones.
We spoke...
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Categories:
plop,
Form:
Free verse
Description Deciphering DescriptionsPig plop at eighty degrees is a synonym of doubt but double octave sploosh is a great interjection into the bowl. Wow. Flush flashing fakery freely framing frogs fingerspelling forged formats. And a deliberate rake...
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Categories:
plop, animal, anniversary, appreciation, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024...
(Any resemblance between the following humorous account and real life circumstance tis purely coincidental).
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager...
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Categories:
plop, absence, adventure, confusion, humorous, march, missing,
Form:
Rhyme
Malkavian 4I present unto you
Unsub one and unsub two
Each looks as I do
They think like me too
Unsub one will have some fun
Killing everyone that survived
Unsub two will handle the cops and news
As soon as...
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Categories:
plop, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
World of HaikuSPIDER
Eight furry legs
Approaching black blob
Screeeeeeeeeeeeeech
COCKROACH
Periplaneta americana
Out of planet, preys on women's tuxedo
Blob of fat, smell, monster
JULIA'S HAIR
Chameleon
Gunslinger, sniper
Death,myriologue
O SPACE
A junkyard
Sepulcher of machines
Requiem
CROW
Squawk
Squawk
Gasconade
LIZARD
A baby lizard
Drops on my hand
Check in
TELEPHONE BILL
Krinngggggggggggggg
Krinngggggggggggggg
Pay your bill today...
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Categories:
plop, poems,
Form:
Haiku
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised March 10th, 2022Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2022...
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager in Nigg
(historic county of Ross-shire,
historic region of Ross
and Cromarty, northeast
coast of Scotland).
Somehow postiche...
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Categories:
plop, absence, america, appreciation, beauty, character, england, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
ObliqueOblique!
(The day the gray line Wavered)
It was hot again, for the third straight day, but it was the 3rd of July; the time the place was Gettysburg and the year was sixty-three
The...
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Categories:
plop, war,
Form:
Free verse
I Am a Special ConcoctionAn Icy cold, sweet treat.
Often starts with vanilla, cookie cream,
...
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Categories:
plop, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Concrete
The Very Green Frog and the Odd Bog DogAs told by The "Redoubtable Marmaduke" the fog bog jogging hog
The odd bog dog
Was known as such
Because he lived on a log
By a bog
And everyone thought that was very odd
Now; the odd bog dog who...
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Categories:
plop, childrennight, friend, green, night,
Form:
Free verse
Jihad Donald Trump StyleThe glory of America, now heats up
with agitation poised to strike on the brink
sans legislation incites humiliation,
which goads desecration fete accompli chink
...
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Categories:
plop, bullying, evil, grief, hope, jewish, perspective,
Form:
Concrete
Jihad Donald Trump StyleThe glory of America, now heats up
with agitation poised to strike on the brink
sans legislation incites humiliation,
which goads desecration as fete accompli chink
...
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Categories:
plop, abuse, america, anxiety, dark, grave, hate, power,
Form:
I do not know?
Get What You CanAt nights we’d sit out on the balcony drinkin
Breathin
That thick mug air
Of a New Orleans summer evening.
Livin as easy
As they’d let us
In the bowels of the Irish Channel
Where magnolias bloom all year long
Amidst the cracked...
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Categories:
plop, drink, friendship, humor, poverty, work,
Form:
Free verse
End of Summer Countdown Before School YearEnd of summer countdown before school year...
countless decades graduating
contemptible cum laude
hence same time frame every
August since...the stone
temple pilot age, this beastie
boy flashes back to yahoos
whose rawhide (mine) they
miraculously never whipped!
Uneasy panic...
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Categories:
plop, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, education,
Form:
Epic
I Don'T Feel RightI don't feel right.
Who is this person?
Each gift given to me today is cutting away at my flesh,
Clean deep gashes in the shape of an X right in the middle of my chest.
Over and over...
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Categories:
plop, depression,
Form:
Free verse