Long Presses Poems
Long Presses Poems. Below are the most popular long Presses by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Presses poems by poem length and keyword.
Flint
Flint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
presses,
Form:
Abecedarian
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes....
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Categories:
presses, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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presses, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot.
President...
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Categories:
presses, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, age, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan
(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms,...
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Categories:
presses, england, poetry, political, power,
Form:
Free verse
The Good Girl
The Good Girl
Penny has always been a good girl, now she is a good wife. She lives in a good neighborhood, drives a nice car, has two perfect children. Her husband is a doctor and...
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presses, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Prose
Wild Flower Love
O’ my dearest love,
I gather the world’s rarest petals for you—
Ghost Orchid fragrance lingers
in the marsh’s quiet air
look, love, it fades
then rises in
the...
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presses, devotion, flower, love, memory, metaphor, valentines day,
Form:
Lyric
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part II
A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: II (699 of 1487 words)
#9: Days of...
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Categories:
presses, analogy,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
In Marked Territory
In the raw expanse of land where rivers sigh,
marked by the shadows of cats and dogs,
with each puddle of yellow reminding us
of lives once lived, hearts bound to the...
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Categories:
presses, analogy, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 2
Their rending cries, when all is still, reecho in the moonlight;
They lie about in fitful slumber on the ground at noonlight,
Their virgin hair spread in the dust; for nothing really matters:
Who then will see their...
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Categories:
presses, assonance, bible, courage, daughter, farewell,
Form:
Narrative
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865
Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...
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Categories:
presses, absence, age, america, anniversary, april, bereavement, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
Portrait of a Hanging
With the opening of my fortress cell,
solemn-faced men come locust invading in
Their mouths smile not, and eyes neither grin
as ceremonial words pursed lips expel
A deer thought escapes ... my life nears its end!
And I feel...
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Categories:
presses, dark, death, horror, imagery, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
To War, From Youth
oh youth in all its callow shades
is from our hope, precisely made
...
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Categories:
presses, war,
Form:
Epic
Elysian Fields Are Beautiful in Spring
Opa John
The caboose sits red—its iron spine cradles the earth like Atlas
rails stretching into nowhere. The stream murmurs softly
its voice threading through Ellie’s laughter like silver wire
"Do you see it?" I ask her my voice...
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Categories:
presses, daughter, father, flower, granddaughter, grandfather, heaven, spring,
Form:
Narrative
Shades
He sits there with defiance in his eyes and listens to the choir as it sings the final chorus before it dies, the room was packed with critics and a mountain of problems was climbing...
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Categories:
presses, america, beautiful, break up, business, career, dance,
Form:
Narrative
Expression of an Impressionist
Expression of an Impressionist
"Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"
The alarming trend of renegade
souper spoons ladling out propaganda
cast a chilling, galvanizing, and spooking trend
many spoons transitioning to sporks
and running off with knaves of knives.
Why, where, and...
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Categories:
presses, allegory, america, angel, appreciation, atheist, destiny, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
Yoga In Poem a Novel Approach Step 4
Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 4
PADMASANA- LOTUS POSE Step 04
Posture - Sit on any flat comfortable ground or carpet/Rug/Durry. Stretch your legs in front of you loosely. Hold your right foot ...
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Categories:
presses, health, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Crime
Is to borrow a quote from a hero plagiarism or is it in honor of his memory
Is to but recite the intelligence of a general man forgotten to forever etch it in history
Is it a...
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Categories:
presses, hero, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
How I Write a Poem
Note: To view the final poem refer to my poem 'We Are So Drawn...'
Here's my work product for this sad, strange poem that I've just completed. I
include the syllable and rhyme scheme notation I...
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Categories:
presses, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
A Slice of Life a Day In the Life Part 2
A slice of life / a day in the life
Out in the elements – almost every day, training,
weather, sunshine, cloudy – B. C. fate – raining.
Seventy five reps, twenty times over my head,
on my back,...
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Categories:
presses, life, planet, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Inferno In the Skies
She has been planning this vacation for more than a year, she has so much love to share, she could not get any of it so she has to give away all of it. Sometimes...
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Categories:
presses, adventure, business, courage, cry, family, fire, happiness,
Form:
Narrative
Consonant Like a Vow El
Consonant Like A Vow (el)
Now ma nada twirly (to early) twittering
condolences to the esprit de corps, qua
(just recently) late John McCain, and his
surviving family suddenly damning original
way word odd did see,...
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Categories:
presses, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, america,
Form:
Free verse
Purr, No Chance To Dream
The worst of the bright-cracks have passed.
The tumultiest of the bucketiest of the rains have proved not to last.
The cat has chirp-purred his way into a damp-fur snuggle.
It’s Price is Right...
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Categories:
presses, cat, morning, rain, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Crow In Love
Stop! Stop the presses! Halt, please listen to me
I have an announcement! I think...I think I'm in love
If only there was a crowd to tell, a mountain to shout from
but all who can hear are...
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Categories:
presses, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Illusions
Dripping darkness, doubt, despair
Melancholy, secrets kept
From the heart who knows only
To breathe and believe, to see
What is good and kind and alive
To give – what is moral, upright, polite
Like the miracle of angels passing by
On...
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Categories:
presses, addiction, angst, anxiety, conflict, depression, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse