Long Prized Poems
Long Prized Poems. Below are the most popular long Prized by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Prized poems by poem length and keyword.
Gluttonous Connoisseur of Ethnic Culinary Cuisines
Yours truly would never be confused for a gourmand, nevertheless I could enjoy experiencing taste testing select food samples if offered an opportunity of attending a fancy feast viz smörgåsbord, whereby oral indulgence would arouse,...
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Categories:
prized, addiction, appreciation, birthday, blessing, chicago, dream, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa
“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
prized, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Food glorious food
Food glorious food
Asia generic guy gastronomy (and how gourmet foods eat destructively clearly beyond any) excess enthusiasm, the necessity to feed and clothe this lean mean exercising machine gunning corporeal essence christened Matthew Scott Harris...
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Categories:
prized, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
The Only Northern Northern Star
As winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...
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Categories:
prized, africa,
Form:
Ode
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:
prized, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Echoes of the Angel's Fallen
Invocation to the Muse
From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly,
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...
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Categories:
prized, allegory, angel, christian,
Form:
Epic
Jacqueline Trestrail
On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won...
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Categories:
prized, mother, tribute,
Form:
Prose
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
Highlight of Goofus and Gallant
bred within the survival instinct
of hungry hordes of prey,
when Earth in the balance
against an uncomfortable truth
smug smurf like scavengers.
Punishment meted...
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Categories:
prized, absence, adventure, africa, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Home Sweet Hell
"That also has a steep drop off the far side of Home Sweet Hell" said my soulless guide as he pointed in the direction of the nearby screams.
I could see what resembled silhouettes or...
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Categories:
prized, anxiety, death, future, life, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
prized, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Precious Priceless Progeny
Precious priceless progeny
Hands down the most dramatic change ever needed to make the most profound impact awoke from helping beget the first offspring. An internal paradigm shift reshuffled priorities...
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Categories:
prized, absence, adventure, angst, anniversary, beautiful, celebration, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My Memoir
Each year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already have everything, I find myself remembering that Christmas of 1954.
Dad had joined...
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Categories:
prized, christmas, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
Coconut Madness
Oh Hanna.
The sinking of the USS Stefan wood.
Oh Hanna
I want to take you to Montana.
We can camp out by the springs we will go and see the way oil is founding...
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Categories:
prized, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Attitude with latitude
Attitude with latitude
originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic
Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours truly
psyche asper paternal overture
toward aforementioned offspring
smitten with opprobrium
figuratively smacked upside...
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Categories:
prized, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal, family, father daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Kingdom of My Embrace
"Years” and “Distance”, phantoms of the dark that do their evil
in the quietude of the everyday, coming and going without so
much as a footprint or a whisper, and taking the most valuable
possessions of the heart,...
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Categories:
prized, absence, appreciation, children, family, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Lament of a Black Man
Who am I? Am I even human? What is my place in this world?
I am confused, sometimes I do not even feel like a human being.
Like a boat in a stormy sea, I aimlessly drift...
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Categories:
prized, black african american, death, discrimination, hate, power,
Form:
Free verse
When I Was Ten
Now in my time echoes
I remember then
my full days in a life
when I was ten.
We lived in a shadow
much greater
at the gates of...
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Categories:
prized, memory, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie
The remnants of August 2024 Hurricane Debbie
Like a humane huntress, she
(the anthropomorphized storm)
brought a spate of cool Autumn like
temperatures and gentle soothing rain
here within my neck of the woods
for the last couple of days.
No matter...
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Categories:
prized, adventure, appreciation, august, cool, environment, fate, howl,
Form:
Free verse
The Pages
"The Pages"
Missing all those years
like a page you could turn,
a book you could throw casually aside,
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around,
and remembered, what you long...
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Categories:
prized, i am, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Rant
Gone now are the wondrous minds of old,
whose era treasured learning over gold,
And humble were the thoughts and words of these,
who, trothed to truth, would now be left displeased,
by hurried tempers bent on winning wars,
neglectful...
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Categories:
prized, people, philosophy, political, society, truth, universe, wisdom,
Form:
Didactic
A Tale of Dark Angels
Expectations high did not pan out ...
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Categories:
prized, angel, anger, angst, character, god,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital Bed
Impossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...
Oddly enough even
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resembling Indigo Girls,
one foo fighting beastie boy
unable to...
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Categories:
prized, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Please come join me in spirit if not in body
Please come join me in spirit if not in body...
regarding my resumption
of daily/mostly nightly constitutional
I accompany my dark shadow...
(small number of hours
before edge of night,
where twilight zone evokes night gallery -
drawing...
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Categories:
prized, absence, animal, autumn, celebration, friendship, happiness, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Being Weak Is Not Ok
(This is a lyric that is a rap, pop and rock song - 3 in 1. Have fun, reading!)
So, you think that I am weak
Oh no, you let spill the doubt leak
Times like these look...
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Categories:
prized, courage, emotions, inspiration, meaningful, pain, passion, strength,
Form:
Lyric
Waves of Emotions - Swim In Serenity's Safe and Sound Significance
I'm smart when I'm in my shell of solitude
Waiting till you're gone
So I can wear this attitude of gratitude
Bug off, bad attitude
I don't mean to act so rude
I feel ashamed and nude
The day is finally...
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Categories:
prized, angst,
Form:
Free verse