Long Punctured Poems
Long Punctured Poems. Below are the most popular long Punctured by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Punctured poems by poem length and keyword.
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
punctured, society,
Form:
Quatrain
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan PoeOn the night before Christmas, alone in my house,
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready to snap if I counted more sheep.
I rose at the...
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Categories:
punctured, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
To Belong Is a Harmonious Bravery A sense of belonging
Is amongst your nobility
Peaceably, truly longing
To give praise to You entirely
Take me all the way with your sway of youth
Give me physical poetry, please, beyond the truth
You are more priceless...
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Categories:
punctured, angst, betrayal, confidence, confusion, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
The Market PlaceI have been trying to pen this verse for the past two weeks but
Someone was standing in my way and my mind went astray
Can’t you see that it is a brand new day?
Winter has subsided...
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Categories:
punctured, change, character, courage, environment, metaphor, money, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Young and StrongYoung and Strong
She was young, she was strong
Working cleaning all the day long
So much to do, but she carried that load
So concerned about everyone, at Kenmore road.
Then we moved, to Strandfontein we came
A new challenge...
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Categories:
punctured, bereavement,
Form:
ABC
Scary Tale Of New YorkIt’s Christmas Eve, Babe
In the car pound
It shouldn’t be this way
Should not have been found
But I’m the lucky one
I am the thirteenth one
And when I got a scare
I hi-tailed out of there
But everywhere I went
It...
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Categories:
punctured, america, horror,
Form:
Lyric
Stranger Than Fiction Part 4I continued down the driveway and then came to a stop, damn, I thought I’ve come down the wrong driveway it must be further up.Then a man appeared from behind some trees with a...
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Categories:
punctured, death, religious, world war ii,
Form:
Prose
TenchThere is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun,
barred by spindle trees and the last
of summer's brindled reeds
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
Damp leaves hide...
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Categories:
punctured, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
Stranger Than Fiction Part 2I told him who I was and explained my predicament and asked would it be possible to use their phone to get help, he said” unfortunately we do not have a telephone.”Strange I thought,...
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Categories:
punctured, death, religious, world war ii,
Form:
Prose
The Night I Fell Like RainYou had that future retro look: two thousand seventeen,
There was a slow and sultry permanence, a little slouchy lean
As you eased out of the taxi before it shot off to the right,
Who could have...
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Categories:
punctured, destiny, water, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Scary Thoughts Plant a Grave In MeI can see you in the reflection of the waters behind closed eyes…
You haven’t won this battle between us – I will not listen to your lies
Deliver us from the licking flames of uncertainty
Fire me...
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Categories:
punctured, betrayal, dark, death, deep, depression, desire, evil,
Form:
Verse
Kindle SpiritThey said that over the years I've killed ten people, and
they said that with conviction as if it was a fact
I think in secrecy and with a conviction that it was more than that.
They...
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Categories:
punctured, violence,
Form:
Prose
Another Better World
"Another Better World"
These little sins
you smoothly skip across the waters of fairweather lives
like darkness hidden underneath deadly white lies,
like throwing pebbles casually across The Lake of Tears
that reflect rippling rings rapidly racing outwards...
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Categories:
punctured, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Whats Your ChoiceWhat is your choice when you don’t know how to roll a dice? What is your choice? when you are still sliding on ice. You don’t have a grip on how to balance...
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Categories:
punctured, absence, abuse, beautiful, career, character, confidence, home,
Form:
Narrative
Apple of My Eye Darling Daughter Numero Deux Gifted MeApple of my eye darling daughter numero deux gifted me...
Twenty four years ago –
February 4th, 2023,
whose existence begat
by this dada and da mama aye
revel in your bursting at figurative
seams viz maturation, and know...
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Categories:
punctured, adventure, age, america, beautiful, birthday, celebration, confidence,
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Gerund Farming, Tilling, and Harvesting Illogical WeltanschauungMine gerund farming, tilling, and harvesting illogical weltanschauung
Twas accursed destiny
since birth (maybe coded in
deoxyribonucleic acid
since time immemorial) alas and alack
nascent emasculation abominable barrack
emergent deus ex machina,
one common Joe biden his time
for no particular
rhyme...
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Categories:
punctured, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd grade, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
This Soothsayer's Warning July 24th 2021This SoothSayer's Warning – July 24th, 2021
Dire prognostications
(terrestrial inhabitants blithely heeded)
with contemporary age
fortune tellers foretell day of (w)reckoning,
sans total mortal kombat annihilation
when human (and many) other innocent species
(stalwart cockroach adept to survive)
pitch headlong toward...
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Categories:
punctured, abortion, abuse, caregiving, conflict, environment, grave, health,
Form:
Free verse
Schizophrenic PortraitWritten: May 09, 2024
...
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Categories:
punctured, analogy, scary, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Dogs That Left Faux Paw Prints Extant Within Me Lifedogs that left faux paw prints extant within me life
lids black out and allow me to write
about a petty issue ye aye in vite
while eyes shut tight
bring back four legged friends sprite
and though many...
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Categories:
punctured, absence, animal, anxiety, beautiful, best friend, care,
Form:
Ballad
Pleasure To Be HerePleasure To Be Here!
I am here at PoetrySoup because I had no voice,
No expression of what was internal and inside;
I used to as a child, three, four, and even two,
Write poems,...
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Categories:
punctured, beautiful, bible, discrimination, freedom, parents, poetry, rights,
Form:
Blank verse
Apple of My EyeShana Aubrey Harris –
whose existence begat by dada and da mama; aye
revel your bursting at figurative seams viz maturation, and know by
chatting over telephone, your aura, charisma,
and persona finds...
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Categories:
punctured, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful, birthday, blessing, daughter,
Form:
Elegy
Unknown SoldierHe stood as he braced himself for the greatest battle he`ll ever known
His entire life`s existence an accolade towards this very moment, this last battle of the gods
His breath slow and measured, steadying himself for...
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Categories:
punctured, death,
Form:
Sonnet
Whispered Words
Written: January 08, 2024
________________________________________
Thin walls allow us to hear whispers
"..you are enough...."
everything fall
and ...
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Categories:
punctured, analogy, appreciation, words,
Form:
Free verse
PauseThe grey clouds roll in from the southeast
like a cumbersome beast
a thick pewter fog smothering all
a hollow silence
menacing but devoid of violence.
Face pales with blood draining
ears straining
The mass hovers almost low enough to touch
I reach...
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Categories:
punctured, angst, death, introspection, life, nature
Form:
Lyric
Inside Awaited a Boonas a cild it hat often been the box that mattered
it gave shelter and comfort...
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Categories:
punctured, celebration,
Form:
Free verse