Long Proudly Poems
Long Proudly Poems. Below are the most popular long Proudly by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Proudly poems by poem length and keyword.
Pencils In SeptemberI smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags, and nonsense lived.
You stared me in the eyes, since the...
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Categories:
proudly, 3rd grade, america, betrayal, child, child abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Various Heresies 7Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
proudly, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 57 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Polly: the Family Seventeen ViiOne week passed before Polly
Called. Molly and Dolly agreed
To change the meeting
Location. "We'll meet at the
Small Park near by where we
Used to live." Dolly called
Her mother and told
Her...
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Categories:
proudly, birth, brother, business, celebration, culture, desire, family,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 112 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Damian and the Family Go To ChurchEarly morning dawn July
"Mallory" Damian whispered, sliding
Closer to her. "Mallory" he Whispered
Again gently caressing. She wanted
To say stop. It was to late
he moved quite quickly. He spread
Like wild fire. Soon consuming her.
The...
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Categories:
proudly, angst, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Naked Redmeat EmperorsRE: Continuing RedMeat Only,
much less any Green Leafy Salads
Abraham Lincoln thought it politically unhealthy,
and probably economically unwise,
to disinvest his Cabinet,
much less his entire Constitutionally incorporated population,
from ecopolitical diversity.
What is politically healthy,
probably not an all RedMeat...
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Categories:
proudly, anti bullying, body, emotions, health, loss, love,
Form:
Political Verse
The World Is a Small PlaneI have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times.
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...
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Categories:
proudly, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form:
Narrative
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
proudly, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Reveren' Carlton Whitney - Both Audio and TextReveren’ Carlton Whitney was the pastor of our church, and someone I looked up to as a child.
Six foot six, with piercing eyes, a booming voice, and yet…his disposition, thankfully - was mild.
The very...
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Categories:
proudly, character, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
My Sweetest Gift, a Childhood MemoryMy auntie came to visit when I was three, but nearly four.
I proudly and lovingly wore her name gifted to me, a sweet legacy.
I...
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Categories:
proudly, angel, childhood, love,
Form:
Free verse
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
proudly, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
A Night On a WharfA Night On A Wharf
The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...
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Categories:
proudly, blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
4th Generation Soda Jerk -- Both Audio and TextThis is one excited kid and one PROUD father...
I took my son to the lumberyard last Tuesday afternoon. The day itself, though toasty, was the best in quite some time.
And when we’d finished shopping -...
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Categories:
proudly, father son, relationship, youth,
Form:
Narrative
No Happy EndingBright lights, big city...
bright lights, big city dreams...
please just take me away tonight
Let me rest on your elegance tonight
I have no energy left to spend in reality
so please knock me unconscious
just to be in the...
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Categories:
proudly, friend, friendship, hate, heartbreak, irony, jealousy, loss,
Form:
Free verse
America Wasn'T So Bad Back ThenWe have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the diner who think our past lives are interesting. So when...
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Categories:
proudly, america,
Form:
Prose
The Night Nasty Jack Met His Match - Both Audio and TextThis is a tale of one of the orneriest dudes there ever was, and how someone much smaller, but easily more clever than he was, managed to cope with his belligerence.
...
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Categories:
proudly, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Of Winks and Wings - Part 3"You see this here spot on the bench, where it's all worn away?" Clarence asked.
"Yeah, I've noticed that a few times, and wondered why they didn't paint it again." I...
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Categories:
proudly, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Photographic EvidenceThe guy slipped in around 8 p. m....the place was fairly packed...and wearing what they call a ‘hoodie’, quickly took a seat
Just inside the window, and I guessed - by how he looked - having...
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Categories:
proudly, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
A Most Courageous American President For the AgesA Most Courageous American President for the Ages
I thought it would be most appropriate for me to take a moment to
share some of my reflections on the life and distinguished public
service of the late 41st...
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Categories:
proudly, america, celebration, character, inspiration, patriotic, political, tribute,
Form:
Narrative
Harvey Lee Kaneeble - Both Audio and TextThe oldest man I’ve ever known was Harvey Lee Kaneeble. And at the age of
one-o-six…(in nineteen forty-five)…
Some of those who really got around had speculated - Harvey might have actually been the oldest...
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Categories:
proudly, faith, prayer,
Form:
Verse
Rufus and BillNow the sun and the sand were treacherously hot
and not a place for Man or a Beast.
As you must be audaciously quick to find a good spot
or...
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Categories:
proudly, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 14 -- Damian and Polly: First ApartmentDate. August 2023
Damian turned 22 and Moved from his
family's estate Into his own
duplex apartment, 5 bedrooms.
One master bedroom and
1 and a half bathrooms.
Down town West Virginia. One night...
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Categories:
proudly, best friend, confidence, dance, family, home,
Form:
Prose
To Speak of WomenMen ...
Giving advice to OTHER men, on women
That's funny ... ironic "funny", I mean, (though I did chuckle)
As if ANY man ever had...
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Categories:
proudly, appreciation, love, relationship, women,
Form:
Free verse
Now and Then and Now Again1
Though still within our infancy,
we strive to thrive, but woefully
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...
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Categories:
proudly, corruption, culture, environment, money, pollution, racism, religion,
Form:
Monorhyme
50th Class Reunion - Class of 1935All the guys and gals that I had graduated with, from Jimmy Dorsey High School, back in 1935,
Half a century later were dispersing all around us, surprising me with whom among my class was still...
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Categories:
proudly, high school,
Form:
Narrative
New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***
Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests
No blood in his steak, apple pie with sweet cream. Aces cooks that meal
to perfection...
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Categories:
proudly, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme