Long Procured Poems
Long Procured Poems. Below are the most popular long Procured by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Procured poems by poem length and keyword.
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had...
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Categories:
procured, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct,
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means...
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Categories:
procured, america, sports, war,
Form:
Epic
The Twilight Zone
“We may think of freedom, not as the right thing to do, but as the opportunity to do what is right.” ...
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Categories:
procured, granddaughter, grave, prison,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
procured, god, life, light, love, spiritual,
Form:
Couplet
Poor Pandora
We ponder Pandora as the person preordained
to unleash a plethora of plagues upon our persons.
But here's what I heard:
Pandora had two sisters,
Persephone and Proserpina.
Pandora perused poetry
while Persephone practiced petite-point.
But Proserpina possessed the predilection
for picking...
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Categories:
procured, allegory, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Make America Great Again Huh
"Let's Make America Great Again!" *Sigh*
Great catch phrase! But...It's a ruse!...It's a lie!
Let's put the cards on the table! Shall we...Why?
(Your Brothers and Sisters will probably die!)
The words are the shallows of a deeper intent
Meant...
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Categories:
procured, america, conflict, corruption, humanity, leadership, rights, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Brine of the Anxious Marinator
Come sit and I will serenade
A sad, colossal flub,
A tale about a marinade.
(Well, truthfully a rub)
It is a long and sordid tale;
Not sure where to begin.
My sensibilities assailed,
Yet I must jump on in.
The task at...
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Categories:
procured, anxiety, silly,
Form:
Ballad
Dragonslaying 101 For Carol Brown's "story Time" Contest
Why are you here? To learn, of course!
This is THE ultimate resource!
This is the Dragonslaying class.
You must work hard or you won't pass.
Dragon's are quite hard to slay
They're challenging in every way.
Not all your armour...
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Categories:
procured, adventure, fantasyfairy, hero,
Form:
Narrative
Outlaw?
I knew his face from a poster,
That said he was wanted by the law,
It had little affect on me,
For I went by what I saw.
Two eyes of blue looked up at...
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Categories:
procured, cowboy-western, forgiveness, introspection, life, me, prayer, life,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Odyssey of Oddities
Loving life hid beneath rim of cool ceramic bowl
Tree frog claimed proud place, toilet's homely hole
Enamoured by his simple palace making stance
I bend to peer at his green grip toe stick, entranced
My ordinary admonished by...
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Categories:
procured, adventure, appreciation, change, journey, spiritual,
Form:
Couplet
Inimitable Intelligible Invaluable Benjamin Franklin
notification of fire evacuation
slated to occur
April 12th, 2018 (between the hours
of 9:00 am and 12 pm) did spur
me to validate Google asper,
that direct object heave ving,
pro noun sub bull,...
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Categories:
procured, 10th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, class,
Form:
Light Verse
Burning Man Part2
You refuse, refusing the salvant call,
laying there in fetal position,
enthralled by my hex of vinegar and scrawl of liquids release that just seem to pour out of me organically.
Hissing in Wormwood's frequency dwelling, Hollywood "your...
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Categories:
procured, anxiety, atheist, betrayal, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night Glenfell
The Night Glenfell
A summer solstice candle breezing midst the twilight air
...
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Categories:
procured, natural disasters,
Form:
Blank verse
Jungle Drums
Jungle Drums
Well known was Molly by gossips
Words fell so easy from her lips
They always found ready ears
Revered was she amongst her peers
A casual meeting Molly made
Good conversation she displayed
Invited then to mothers meeting
Where received a...
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Categories:
procured, life,
Form:
Couplet
A Small Journey
Smokey hillside, offers flavors
of privacy bared open.
Reading like futuristic three,
maybe fourth dimensional sign
that says "open".
The neighbors business blabbed
all around by "Miss social, "the "original", organic-loving and down to earth hippie.
She corrals Betty's...
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Categories:
procured, beautiful, creation,
Form:
Narrative
My Nikon
Like my innate need for eating
Walking, sleeping, and waking
Photography seemed inborn in me.
My heart and mind could make it free.
Clicking photographs of black and white
With a Click-III, a camera, very light.
I found Isoly II cheap...
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Categories:
procured, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Smut Pt2
The man lept from our balcony row and landed directly on Tebow and K'Vnulash, who began to tongue kiss passionately, realizing their final moments were at hand. It was not a gory explosion, but one...
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Categories:
procured, angst,
Form:
Free verse
The Reluctant Bootscooter
I s’pose you've heard of Tamworth and the shindig there each year,
where country music reigns supreme and all its stars appear.
They’re in the pubs and all the clubs and arcades 'round the...
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Categories:
procured, funny, people, music, music, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Kamikaze
A true advantage
Is to be angry with your head
And not your heart.
This is how good men win wars,
And smart women win arguments.
And this is the story
Of how I finally learned the difference.
Darkness lit by...
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Categories:
procured, adventure, school, sorry, me, green, me,
Form:
Free verse
Campers Grandeur
Fearless flames licking the night
as the glow flickers fire in their eyes
ah the tales round campfires light
of Sasquatch shadows and cougars demise
When sleepily those embers to ash burn down
like marshmallows slipping to the ground
lanterns cast...
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Categories:
procured, fire, holiday, nature, stars,
Form:
Quatrain
James Blackwell
Sometimes if you have mild Cerebral Palsy,
You don't ever need to admit that you have it,
‘Cos it's not obvious, only you feel the tension,
In your arm, your hand or face, so you...
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Categories:
procured, football, sports, strength,
Form:
Rhyme
Olivia Breen
Olivia, or Livvy, is a Sky Academy Sports Scholar,
Competes in sprint T38 and long jump events F38.
She was born in Guildford, England, to a mother,
Who is Welsh and to a father who is...
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Categories:
procured, body, desire, growth, health, race, sports, strength,
Form:
Quatrain
Hobble Hubby
My hubby let the dogs out and sprained his ankle on the step.
Then for days he hobbled around on that foot, stubborn yet.
Definitely not getting better I got him a crutch at the store.
For twelve...
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Categories:
procured, family, funny, husband,
Form:
Free verse
Splinters and Beams
Splinters and Beams
Stream of consciousness gleams under stark cover
...
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Categories:
procured, abuse, addiction, brother, drug, gospel, peace,
Form:
Free verse
For My Dear - Easy as ABC
A ton of hugs is for my dear for whom I care.
Barrels of fun together we both share.
Cookies (mostly chocolate chip) I make or buy,
Donuts too, for he is a sweet-tooth kind of guy.
Encouragement he...
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Categories:
procured, marriage,
Form:
Abecedarian