Long Ploy Poems
Long Ploy Poems. Below are the most popular long Ploy by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Ploy poems by poem length and keyword.
Please Consider Those Who - Not By Choice - Are Living Alone - 2nd ThirdThis is the 2nd THIRD of my 3-part poem - see Mark Stellinga on Poetry Soup for the other 2 THIRDS - couldn't be helped.
“What about neighbors,” I carefully pried...“do any of them check on...
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Categories:
ploy, love, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
ploy, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Missed By a MileHaving been avid antiques collectors for nearly 4 decades, my wife and I met our share of rascals like this sneaky dealer -
Damp and chilly winds were blowing, leaves would paint the ground,
As me...
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Categories:
ploy, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - XxviUnquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI
Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-continental warfares, even catastrophes, natural disasters, tsunamis, irruptions, conflagrations, inundations, landslides, typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes,...
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Categories:
ploy, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
LegendLook up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...
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Categories:
ploy, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Why I Don'T Trust Psychics - 3rd ThirdNOTE: This is the final THIRD of a funny 3-part poem. You'll find the 1st and 2nd parts on my homepage, of course. I hope you'll take the time to read the whole thing, it's...
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Categories:
ploy, funny, humor, , western,
Form:
Narrative
Gingerbread Cottage FrightAt the edge of a wood, in days of summertime,
Lived Hansel and Gretel, once upon a time;
Whose dear father, a poor woodcutter,
Could no longer earn their bread and butter.
Late one night, a conversation overheard--
As from...
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Categories:
ploy, children, family, fantasy, happy,
Form:
Rhyme
Shame On Me -- In Both Audio and TextEvery day, ‘round 8 am, I climb up from the subway and pass a guy - a blind guy - who is there to beg for change.
But one day, as I paused to watch...
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Categories:
ploy, heartbreak,
Form:
Narrative
50th Class Reunion - Class of 1935All the guys and gals that I had graduated with, from Jimmy Dorsey High School, back in 1935,
Half a century later were dispersing all around us, surprising me with whom among my class was still...
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Categories:
ploy, high school,
Form:
Narrative
Michelangelo: Modern English TranslationsMICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English translations of his poems and epigrams by Michael R. Burch.
SONNET:...
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Categories:
ploy, art, beauty, light, love,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
De'Ja Vu - Wuthering Heights - 2nd HalfHere's the deal...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
The 1st...
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Categories:
ploy, betrayal, funny, humor, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
I Wait With Bated Breath For C Cure T ClarenceI wait with bated breath for... C. Cure T. Clarence
The following crafted
approximately midway
into the administration
of forty fifth president,
whose crass, gutsy, lewd,
repulsive yawping finds
him squarely poised to
nab the nomination as
Republican front runner
come the...
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Categories:
ploy, america, anxiety, appreciation, character, confidence, fate, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
I Was Framed - Both Audio and Text‘Twere me an’ Ol’ Dan, on a cold winter night - whilst ridin’ the streets o’ McGiven
Who noticed a couple o’ fellas ride off from the house where the preacher was livin’!
Far as...
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Categories:
ploy, betrayal,
Form:
Narrative
Letter To Taeljejohnuncomfortableness, and hesitation arose that you might reassess a possibility for friendship or.... whatever with me.
A disappointment set in place in the event that based on some facet of my being (inexplicable flaws within this...
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Categories:
ploy, angel, beauty, devotion, friendship, history, introspection, life,
Form:
Narrative
Life's Fading Light-Part 1-Heroic Crown of SonnetsYouth
When orchids bloom in beauty life's aglow
to hold emotions locked in deep repose
in young desire and love warm thoughts will show.
Affection holds its ardor as it grows
to burn inside young hearts in evening tide.
In darkest...
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Categories:
ploy, age, death, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Doppler Radar Killed Our Classic Car - 2nd Half As Text Plus Full AudioHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
...
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Categories:
ploy, car,
Form:
Narrative
The JourneyI
It all began so many years ago,
his journey down the narrow winding path,
and where it was to lead just fate could know
as it would take him through life’s aftermath.
The journey long and hard that he...
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Categories:
ploy, destiny, journey, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
King of Kings: 1-901 A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky;
The hellish slug of gas does creep along.
It casts an orb three hundred stories high
Over the Sun and ends his morning song.
The birds and trees now stand a...
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Categories:
ploy, metaphor, , western,
Form:
Epic
Two Lovers Iii - First Valentine's DayShe took some care making her choice
A Valentine's Day card
It is a silly little thing
"It shouldn't be this hard"
But she still feels indecision
Selecting the right one
To set the proper tone for them
"With just a touch...
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Categories:
ploy, happy, lost love, love, relationship, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
My HeroMY HERO
This is a brand new truth so give me focus attention,
in spite of all I've been through life keep challenging me,
just realizing am on a sinking ship,
following folks in friendship hoping...
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Categories:
ploy, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
The Longest Dawn Part 3 Hc SonnetsTHE LONGEST DAWN PART 3 H.C.SONNETS
There is nothing, everything, pain and joy
We can’t go back, struggle on for their sakes
A blank sheet to fill, take heed of the ploy
Think twice move once keep an...
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Categories:
ploy, life, drug,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Ballad of Freddie and FloThis is a story about Freddie and Flo,
They lived in Baltimore a long time ago.
It might be called a May-September romance
And shows how love can blossom if it's given a chance.
Flo taught Sunday School, her...
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Categories:
ploy, humor,
Form:
Ballad
A Prodigy In PiecesA boy and board in Brooklyn
bedeviled by the breath of baroque battles
bemused with a belligerent brain beauty
and befriended by battlefield bravado,
the chessmen championed his ego
wickedly warring to a visionary's voodoo,
those soldiers of black and...
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Categories:
ploy, america, heart, history,
Form:
Epic
Not Seemingly SimulatedThough virtual reality wasn't new, I hadn't ever once tried it,
Yet the concept fascinated me, like beauty's mysterious secret.
It seemed that the new experience, would be one I would enjoy,
So in eagerness I scheduled a...
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Categories:
ploy, adventure, color, fantasy, friend, fun, imagery, nature,
Form:
Couplet
Ego, Games, and MisunderstandingEgo Games, and Misunderstanding.
(The Death of A Friendship.)
Abandon ship and run away...
Abandon this and come away...
Clean. Unscathed, or so you choose
to perceive.
But believe, with knowledge of your
history,
one question rises in priority:
When...
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Categories:
ploy, friendshipme, love, me,
Form:
Rhyme