Long Prairie Poems
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The Boys Get In Trouble Again - the Narrative Style~The Boys Get In Trouble Again~Part 1-
(A Narrative poem)
Beth! Beth! Almanzo called out aloud for Laura upon entering their home., very late that afternoon, after so many long hours of work, since...
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Categories:
prairie, beautiful, books, family, love,
Form:
Free verse
Jean-Louis Barrault As I Lay DyingHeavy storm was sweeping dark Paris streets
Lit with dim lights that dreary November night
With ghostly shadows lurking in the corners
Cold wind dancing with dirty wet leaves fallen
In the water pools in the middle...
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Categories:
prairie, allusion, art, death, french, imagery, life, philosophy,
Form:
Ballad
Dusty Ryder - Both Audio and TextWhat I’m going to tell you now might make you think I’m loco. I hope that you’ll believe me, but I don’t care if you do.
You asked me what - in all my life’s -...
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Categories:
prairie, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The Cowboy Way - Final ThirdThis is, as indicated, the final THIRD of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 3 parts.
The 1st and 2nd thirds...
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Categories:
prairie, crush, first love, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
Limericks
Johnny and Amber
To get my mind off war and inflation
I’ve watched the trial for defamation.
But from what I’ve heard
that scorned Amber...
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Categories:
prairie, fun, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
The Cowboy Way - 1st ThirdThis is, as indicated, the 1st THIRD of this lengthy poem. The 2nd and final thirds had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way I could manage to make...
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Categories:
prairie, crush, first love,
Form:
Narrative
Me, Dreams, RealityOne bright night
In the Twilight of day
I awoken to a dream
With in a world of worlds
Not my self, but still the same
What was it? Never more
What year was it? Forgotten
One must be careful...
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Categories:
prairie, adventure, age, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Perspectives MiscellaneousGood new,good news He said to me
'I have the power to set you free'
'Come ,along this path we'll walk',
I listened closely as He talked;
Eternal life and 'new life' within
upon Him I place my sin,
peace,wholeness and...
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Categories:
prairie, life, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Fibonacci
Hands Down Unto the FloorOpening the Drawer
Letting out my there's-my-phone Roar
Destined to live life to the fullest
Relevant determination of the writer flows in my good blood
Envy not, competition - so be it
Amphibious animals corner me as if I'm...
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Categories:
prairie, crazy, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, how
Form:
Free verse
Perpetual Quandries of DischordPerpetual Quandries of Dischord
Permanent irreversible Attatchment disorder
A lemonade stand at the Mexican Border
A traumatised disorganised old lady hoarder
The incriminating evidence on an old tape recorder
Elements of discontent shivering through a crowd
Firmaments of promises...
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Categories:
prairie, international,
Form:
Rhyme
Frog In a WellFrog in a Well
By: Joanne Jin
1.
The Frog
I am the frog in a well:
I do not speak; I do not move–
I think of sundaes and sunshine and all the euphoria,
But I can’t help but carry...
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Categories:
prairie, 9th grade, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Variations On a ThemeVariations On A Theme...
of hodgepodge strewn helter skelter
wonky inviting reader to mentally swelter.
Ach'n (ache Ken and burn'n)
kickstarting existential and proverbial struggle
me species classified as generic muggle
analogous to entertainer
with namesake of yours truly
starring an...
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Categories:
prairie, abortion, absence, abuse, age, allusion, appreciation, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
Espousing Irreverent GreedEspousing irreverent greed
Crafted one year ago today
yours truly – hopefully self plagiarism okay
worse case scenario,
I would meet ill fate re: kenway
named after Assassin Creed
Black Flag's protagonist.
"Yo, I totally Kenwayed that guy."
by...
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Categories:
prairie, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, conflict, divorce,
Form:
Rhyme
PreludeTonight the act of naming fell through the floor.
We speak permeable solids inflect’d by light.
Things move indistinctly: a pine palette floats
momentarily from semi truck’s bed, crosses
its body with windshield; ovidian shift from a
Forest to an...
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Categories:
prairie, angel, art, assonance, beauty, myth,
Form:
Blank verse
Espousing Irreverent GreedEspousing irreverent greed
Passive stance, but aye agreed
and did promise to pledge troth
faster than greased lightning airspeed
once the missus temporarily
ceased menarche regarding monthly bleed
became in family way with child
thee eldest, whom one day may breed,
when permanently...
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Categories:
prairie, adventure, age, animal, beautiful, birth, child, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
The Genocide At Wounded KneeOn December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians from the Lakota nation
And told them they'd be escorted to...
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Categories:
prairie, america, death, military, murder, native american,
Form:
Narrative
It's Never Too LateI thought to myself. What an
Odd feeling? Looking out at the
Crowd and thinking... they're
Here to see me. I could certainly
Pack a house. As a prairie boy
From Saskatoon... it doesn't get
Any better....
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Categories:
prairie, love,
Form:
Narrative
As a Resident of Schwenksville Boro For Five Plus YearsAs a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years...
Intersection upon adventitious
encounter, when first seed of genocide planted
unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation
quickly eradicated rightful breed
of what coalesced into thee Americas.
I experience stir of echoes haunting
Perkiomen...
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Categories:
prairie, abuse, adventure, age, america, anger, betrayal, crush,
Form:
Free verse
Epitaph Eulogy By Linda Blair News Flash ObituaryEpitaph – Eulogy
BY
Linda Blair
This man, lying here in state – DEAD – lives.
His aged soul - but not his heart – he gives
to me – for me - this is such a shame,
so on him...
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Categories:
prairie, friendship, funeral,
Form:
Rhyme
Animal Chain AtocitiesAnimal Chain Atrocities
No longer a bucolic photo op
bedecking a cover of Life magazine
Free grazing
pastoral images
now but bewildered enslavement
Animal commodities
factory farms and feedlots
CAFO habitats raising
sixty billion a year for dinner tables
Chickens
Hi-Tech slaughter
football fields long
alethic poor
four walled...
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Categories:
prairie, animal,
Form:
Free verse
Filled Up To the CoreI feel empty inside
Don't know exactly why
I just want to hide
Somehow close my eyes and die
Somehow let go and die
I wonder to myself, why?
I feel like a worthless fly
I just feel the need to cry
Sweet,...
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Categories:
prairie, grief, growing up, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Jack, Dare to BelieveJack Allen was a serious, shy schoolboy, who worked hard at school lessons;
Like mottled skies working hard each day, to convey many color obsessions.
Jack was a little small for his age, and had begun to...
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Categories:
prairie, beauty, bullying, confidence, fantasy, hero, nature, sister,
Form:
Couplet
Canoeing the Mississippi - Part 13Chapter 13: Leaving the River
Our leaving the river I think surprised us both,
But the seeds were sown early in our preparations,
And shared philosophy of following our bliss,
Simply stated, the trip stopped being fun,
Prairie du Chien,...
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Categories:
prairie, boat, dream, journey, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
Reckoning With Lifelong DespairWhich late afternoon/ early evening
today adventuristic, edenic, and idyllic
April 13th, 2021
pitch perfect weather
serves as temporary tonic
to balm away blues.
Like a tumbleweed
aimlessly blowing in the wind
across infinitely wobegon open wide
prairie home companion land
(which wasteland famously
epitomized by...
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Categories:
prairie, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 2nd
Form:
Free verse
Legacy of a Farm. It mars the sage, erect and proud
Beneath a hood of purple clouds... ...
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Categories:
prairie, life, nostalgia,
Form:
Shape