Long Pretender Poems
Long Pretender Poems. Below are the most popular long Pretender by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Pretender poems by poem length and keyword.
The Messenger
"The Messenger"
Love is rich with
venom and honey.
there was a female ...
snake,
it watched
with green-eyed
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest
the dove,
was white as snow,
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey
the dove
alone,...
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Categories:
pretender, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Lilith Waits
Lilith Waits
Lilith waits as she surveys, all her brutal yesterdays
She cruelly paved with stepping-stones of broken hearts and human bones.
Her lips turned up at their red corners, she grins at all the...
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Categories:
pretender, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Unquotable Quotes: Teachers - Xxi
Unquotable quotes: Teachers – XXI
The pupil, the bitch and the walnut tree, the more the teacher beats them, the better they be.
In the old days, teachers were born to the métier like poets; today softwares...
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Categories:
pretender, children, humor, parents, student, teacher,
Form:
Epigram
Worthwhile
Worthwhile
Your smile is a sonic boom, it blows me away.
I didn’t have a wow moment,
There is no word that can say,
How amazed I was,
I was lost,
I was gone.
I ceased to exist and I was reborn...
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Categories:
pretender, beauty, desire, love, romantic love, rose, smile,
Form:
Bio
Obama Poem
Political Poetry
Obama: what bard, what griot, what poet wouldn't want to tell -the miracles of our times in tales.
What courage, what evidence that man can endure; fulfilling the destiny for which he was bore.
Stones were...
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Categories:
pretender, betrayal, emotions, encouraging,
Form:
Verse
Platitudes of Exactitude
Platitudes of Exactitude
Platitudes of exactitude redefining my whole attitude
Don’t want to seem rude but I can’t help but conclude
That the truth will protrude
From a form that just wants to be misconstrued
Everything...
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Categories:
pretender, international, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tear
“The Tear”
How many oceans of salt
does it take to form a tear?
Unrelenting waves of sorrow
pounding a broken heart
hears the howl of sharp beaked foolish flying monkeys
ignorant feeding frenzies swallow whole lost families
swept...
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Categories:
pretender, dark, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Losing Anastasia
Detrimental, this situation...so detrimental
Why, why do I even persist; why do I even bother to contend
to be a contender, the defender in this pointless game
Am I the pretender, pretending nothing affects me
like a contagious infectious...
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Categories:
pretender, anger, anxiety, betrayal, heartbreak, how i feel,
Form:
Bio
Symposium
"Symposium"
where do you go
when you try to
dream your place
in my life
gone now
from your
quicksand shores
once I rolled over
placed my mouth
against your throat
what used to be
as if you
could transfer
some...
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Categories:
pretender, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Small Words of Wisdom From the Tea-Time Traveler
The following words are of wisdom in prose
I tried to be careful in what words I chose
They are my own interpretations
With some small poetic alterations
When you look upon another human being
Don’t be fooled by what...
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Categories:
pretender, allegory, allusion, analogy, memory, metaphor, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
True Story
True Story
We were there in the beginning with the Father and His son, His Spirit all around us… in a world all of our own.The other angels, spiritual beings, created just like you and...
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Categories:
pretender, bible, christian, creation, faith, gospel, history, truth,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Silent Wars - Pay the Price
I have to pay the price…
There’s more hope in store
Come on, man – roll the dice
Debt piles up in my mind…what am I fighting for?
I’m an infatuated boy…awfully blind
You burned me with your lies
*chorus*
Don’t...
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Categories:
pretender, appreciation, best friend, deep, devotion, emotions, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Endless Chorus of Tears - Diana Ross Tribute
Her life turned upside down, endless chorus of tears,
jilted she hoped he would stop in the name of love.
What was once endless love was now songs full of fears.
Her baby love left her lost like...
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Categories:
pretender, loneliness, lost love,
Form:
Pantoum
The Circus Is In Town
Come join the unraveling circus
quite soon to be passing our way,
with the clowns in a clamor to twerk us -
line up as they lead us astray!
Arriving, the elephant trumpets
agendas of aberrant acts
while the donkeys drool,...
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Categories:
pretender, humor,
Form:
Quatrain
Golden Age of Music
Two decades of music were known as the golden age.
It was all the rage, the era from the 50s through the 70s
Motown, Rock and Roll, and Blues that touched my heart.
Listening to them always start...
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Categories:
pretender, music,
Form:
Free verse
The Lonely Angler
He was there in the beginning
and through the eternal ending.
He'd scattered his seed 'cross numerous worlds.
They flourished.
They perished.
Flora, fauna, innumerable forms,
aeons of evolutionary warfare.
Extermination of the unfit
without the mercy of design.
Quadrillions of cadavers
paving a road...
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Categories:
pretender, endurance, fishing, humanity, loneliness, philosophy, spiritual, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Illusion of Knowledge
This quaint perspective
Is quite selective,
Quite often,
Giving anger and hatred the directive.
Habitual surrender
To a pretender;
In certain circles an offender.
These days, too few of these circles exist,
However, those that understand have to persist,
Faith in humanity;
Most...
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Categories:
pretender, beautiful, community, confusion, crazy, education, hope, lost,
Form:
Free verse
The Id, the Ego and the Super-Ego
The id, the ego and the super-ego.
You and I, we have a connection.
Let us be joined at the hip; my hearts resurrection.
I rise once more to beg, to implore!
For a chance to be loved by...
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Categories:
pretender, cute love, desire, heartbroken, love, me, proposal,
Form:
Bio
When I Was Twentysomething 1980s
I saw a man die who took a stance
I saw he just wanted to give peace a chance
I saw the boycotts and the embargoes
I saw trafficking in human cargos
I saw hedge funds, junk bonds, oil...
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Categories:
pretender, history, world,
Form:
Couplet
The Chalice of Murdered Crows
"The Chalice of Murdered Crows"
How many moonbeams
would it take to overflow
my chalice bathe me naked
dew kissed diamond glistening
bare skin freedom feet seeking
my missing, slow dancing lover’s athamé
How many sunbeams
would it take to burn
your...
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Categories:
pretender, dark, destiny, fate, love, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Jofra vs Burmrah the crown jewel duel
Is there any other sort of sport.. that can hold a candle to having to handle
Getting caught in the ripsnort onslaught scandal…as speedsters hold court
Fraught as they face a serious deleterious imperious express pace ace
At...
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Categories:
pretender, sports,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Pretense Lover
Pretense Lover
Why do you choose to pretend about your feelings?
and you act as if you have no feelings for your beloved
whereas shyness is killing you softly and slowly
and you are dying silently in envious for...
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Categories:
pretender, friendship, love, desire, feelings, love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Survival of the Fittest Or the Holy Bible Part 1 of 4
' The Survival of The Fittest '
(The Holy Bible)
(2 Tim. 3: 16, 17/ Matt. 4: 4)
Down Thru The Ages of Our Histories
The Survivor Stands Thru Time, Victoriously
The Survivor Stands Triumphant Over...
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Categories:
pretender, bible,
Form:
Epic
Nauseating Buzz Feeding Frenzy At Local Atm
Nauseating buzz feeding frenzy at local ATM
Fraught traumatized wordsmith
telephonic grand slam rent psyche asunder
witnessing helpless cannibalization,
hospitalization, victimization
concerning writer of these words,
and riders on the storm
namely robbing me third eye blind
of legal tender
under the convincing guise...
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Categories:
pretender, abuse, age, america, anger, angst, anxiety, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
No Ego Joe Show
On every outing…no touting or fostering of pouty louty shouty postering…
No flouting of the definition of classical ebb and flow rendition…
Yet boundaries scouting…Rooty sedition routing the opposition…
Echo the past…poetic…the ship’s mast and fillip for the...
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Categories:
pretender, spoken word, sports,
Form:
Ballad