Long Plough Poems
Long Plough Poems. Below are the most popular long Plough by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Plough poems by poem length and keyword.
A Love's DialogueUnique: I need someone to hold me and tell
me it's alright.
I need someone to hold my hands and feel
my pain.
I need someone to kiss away my pain.
I need someone to look into my eyes and...
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Categories:
plough, allusion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Reveren' Carlton Whitney - Both Audio and TextReveren’ Carlton Whitney was the pastor of our church, and someone I looked up to as a child.
Six foot six, with piercing eyes, a booming voice, and yet…his disposition, thankfully - was mild.
The very...
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Categories:
plough, character, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Stop the Hate Unity In These TimesBruh, I know your up but it’s getting late
I got to make peace with you
Hommie I have bitten off more then I could chew
I’m sweating from the new day’s sun
now I know your in for...
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Categories:
plough, angst, anxiety, art,
Form:
Free verse
Angel Eyes
"Angel Eyes"
that dark angel
standing in the corner
observing the shadows of man
pass him by -
he has angel eyes
that shine high beam
bright bushfires that light
the entire transparent
padded room parade
dance cards lit
he’s biding...
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Categories:
plough, art, muse, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Young and StrongYoung and Strong
She was young, she was strong
Working cleaning all the day long
So much to do, but she carried that load
So concerned about everyone, at Kenmore road.
Then we moved, to Strandfontein we came
A new challenge...
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Categories:
plough, bereavement,
Form:
ABC
The LetterThe Letter
A young man strolled along the waterfront,
His mind and heart at ease.
Said an old man, sitting on an upturned punt,
Gazing out towards the sea.
“Come...
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Categories:
plough, boy, happiness, irony, loneliness, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
In These Times of Warwithin these times of war
Within these times of war
Within the times of war
Silence of its terrors calling
Children play within their laughter
Now recedes in cries of torture
Screeching whistles scrap metal clusters
In murderous heat of summers day
rage...
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Categories:
plough, war,
Form:
ABC
Robert Burns Translation: To a MouseTo a Mouse
by Robert Burns
translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Sleek, tiny, timorous, cowering beast,
Why’s such panic in your breast?
Why dash away, so quick, so rash,
In a frenzied flash
When I would be loath to run after you
With...
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Categories:
plough, animal, farm, home, house, life, nature, sympathy,
Form:
Verse
Confused I And Stressed In Londonis everyone from Barking Barking mad?
Does everyone In Lambeth do the Lambeth walk?
Is Leicester Square In Leicester?
Is The Elephant And Castle a place where they hide Elephants?
Is Oxford Street in Oxford?
And Paddington a bear?
Highgate...
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Categories:
plough, city, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Heavencatapulted by a magic trampoline I pass the gates of heaven
no border control
...
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Categories:
plough, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Sweet Little Marigold
She was a dairymaid, oh so sweet;
many a year ago.
Her figure was trim, her hair was neat,
with ringlets tied up in a bow.
And many a farmer would leave his plough,
the turkeys and chickens, and even...
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Categories:
plough, beauty, devotion, song-
Form:
Lyric
Old Styles Old SmilesOne fine blustering autumn day an old man puts on his boots pulls up his trousers off he goes,
If anyone wondered where he was going it was to a forest a good long walk it...
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Categories:
plough, nature, day, old, autumn, day, fish, horse,
Form:
Prose Poetry
When I Was Fortysomething 2000sI saw the great con that was Y2K
I saw all the scaremongering go away
I saw in my arms a child I love so
I saw that I did not want to let him go
I saw that...
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Categories:
plough, history, life,
Form:
Couplet
Lines More Lunatic Than the Sun 4 - 6Lines more lunatic than the sun – 4
your body
that’s fond of tv-soap
with its un-worldly moonlight and worldly tricks and posterings
as if it wants to plough
a thin winter that is attached firmly with a mermaid...
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Categories:
plough, allegorybody, sun,
Form:
I do not know?
Stuck in the Middle with YouWhen you are alone,
you look at the others
and think
that one had too much ...
time to think
and that one …
well, you surmise,
they are on the brink
of some precipitous ...
evaluation,
about to take a big...
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Categories:
plough, muse, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Manufactured RomanceA magical chemical infatuation
to disregard the tradition
of natures connectivity and diversity
dragged to the will of its subjugation
to dig into the complex cells intimacy
its mass increments of the yields
killing off the birds and the insects
for the...
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Categories:
plough, food, nature, science,
Form:
Free verse
StuffStuff your rock stars, your heros, your christs,
your anti-christs and anarchiests.
Stuff your false idols up your arse.
Stuff your regenerative ramblings;
the spiel of a million others
spilt in diluted misunderstanding.
The generic rhetoric of another blank generation.
Born under...
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Categories:
plough, angst, art, confusion, life, peace, philosophy, social,
Form:
I do not know?
Under the Tree In AfricaUnder the tree in Africa, we sap strength
from the songs of the sparrows before sunlight.
as we walk to the farm, the
morning breeze brush our
body from the billowing branches.
We pick up our hoes and...
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Categories:
plough, africa, children, tree, water, women,
Form:
Narrative
Thank You For Loving My WorkMy soul is alive in giving!
My heart quenched through sharing!
I often questioned why or
when this all decided and
the prayers that confided?
How did life, through love
me bring. Hear,
outside the gates of paradise,
my talents
my thoughts
my...
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Categories:
plough, prayer, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
The Ballad of Edward KenwayEdward Kenway was a pirate
He sailed the Spanish Main
He plundered British merchant ships
And the Galleons of Spain
Once he was a farmer
He walked behind the plough
But now he ploughed the oceans deep
He was a pirate now
He...
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Categories:
plough, adventure, courage, leadership, war,
Form:
Ballad
LockdownWe can’t go out so what to do?
How do we spend our time?
Imagination, racing thoughts
My brain on overtime.
There’s gardening, painting, DIY
Non urgent jobs to do,
They’re boring and predictable,
I need stimulus, tried and true.
That lazy dog...
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Categories:
plough, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
ImagineImagine the most successful version of you.
Imagine something that can actually come true.
Imagine all that success and what it would do.
Imagine all the failure that you plough through.
Imagine that dream job or successful career.
Imagine a...
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Categories:
plough, life, philosophy, success,
Form:
Rhyme
The Southern RainThe dry cracked earth moan under its crust while the languishing trees hold firmly beneath its grit absorbing little moisture within its root sending memory of hard time way back to its youth. The grass...
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Categories:
plough, america, blessing, courage, earth day, power, sunshine,
Form:
Narrative
ImagineImagine all the people
who trade in human life,
imagine all the reasons
given to this particular vice.
I visualize the rivers
that run with coagulated blood,
I visualize the tyrant
that stir the waters good!
Imagine all the evil
where nightmares are conceived,
imagine...
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Categories:
plough, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Shell Shocked and Choked‘Turn swords into ploughshares and nightmares to dreams’
I have not one plough and no shares in the market
Insomnia has...
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Categories:
plough, courage, depression, hope,
Form:
Free verse