Long Raynes Poems

Long Raynes Poems. Below are the most popular long Raynes by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Raynes poems by poem length and keyword.


A Sexy Salacious Steam

A Sexy Salacious Steam
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Categories: raynes, fantasy, lust, sexy,
Form: Rhyme


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I Hate It That I Love Your Poem- An Echo Poem

I Hate It That I Love Your Poem - An Echo Poem

By Lewis Raynes and Brian Johnston

Original Poem by Lewis Raynes of PoetrySoup.com
Reprinted here with the permission of Lewis Raynes

Fake me is better than real...

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Categories: raynes, life,
Form: Quatrain
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I Hate It That I Love Your Poem - An Echo Poem

By Lewis Raynes and Brian Johnston

Original Poem by Lewis Raynes of PoetrySoup.com
Reprinted here with the permission of Lewis Raynes

Fake me is better than real me

It’s odd how we all have a persona,
An image we’d like...

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Categories: raynes, beauty, blessing, life, poetry, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
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He Was My Everything

I was a kid in love, in deep adoration, oh the worship,
    The longing affection that I breathed a thousand times;
I wrote his name in my notebook, David, Dave, Mrs. David,
 ...

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Categories: raynes, beautiful, lust,
Form: Narrative

A Good Man

What do I opine of a good man?
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Categories: raynes, appreciation, care, love,
Form: Free verse


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P S Its Poetry Write On Write On Congrats To My Fellow Poetry Soupers Part 13

P S its POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 13

 Many thanks to you selected poets; Of sharing your whispers from God, tho you didn’t know it; Each letters...

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Categories: raynes, analogy, poems, poets, writing,
Form: Free verse
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Just a Purple Wall

I am a wall painted purple, oh, I remember that day well,
      a girl of raven hair, standing on a ladder painting me;
I was laughing because her hair had streaks...

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Categories: raynes, nostalgia,
Form: Personification
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Dark Hope, Weeping Sky

Lost, to the darkness, deep ...

This bleak sojourn I have made times on end,
dipping my eyes to the dreadful forms that mock me,
a maelstrom of words spinning my mind,
to pinch off the oppressive stench of...

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Categories: raynes, dark, deep, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse

A Good Man

What makes a man a man?
What makes him special?
What makes him stand out?
What makes him good?

Floating through my youth I had dreams of being a wife,
One day having children and living the perfect life.
Loving me...

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Categories: raynes, courage, giving, men,
Form: Couplet
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Still Waiting

(For Contest: Foreign War)

There you are...face to face with me...on Skype...
thousands of miles away.  A soldier, but still my son;
Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, Iraq War, February 2004.
   
You tell me you are...

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Categories: raynes, heartbreak, repetition, war,
Form: Free verse
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At the Mountains of Madness

My ordinary life -
like the plain stretching across the region of my birth,
has been for the most part
 rather smooth.
Though sometimes on my path, I’d encounter hills,
    they were few and were...

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Categories: raynes, lost love,
Form: Free verse
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The Pursuit of Marital Chastity

Though many have lost the battle, can I go forward in a worthy pursuit?
For those whose pursuit of chastity in marriage grinds to an unhappy halt,
could it not be due in part to being pulled...

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Categories: raynes, courage, devotion, husband, love, passion, sin, wife,
Form: Prose Poetry
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Prescription Drug Addiction



     A few years ago I got sick.  Real sick. Hospital sick.  Near death sick.  But I

survived or I would not be writing this.  I had several...

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Categories: raynes, addiction, drug,
Form: Haibun
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Anxiety, Not a Death Warrant

Anxiety                                  ...

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Categories: raynes, adventure, anxiety, change, christian, destiny, visionary,
Form: Prose
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'a Top Secret, Secret'

I have been keeping secrets since I was a small girl
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Categories: raynes, fun,
Form: Free verse
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Ad Infinitum, Forever, For Ever and Ever

this story will be told and
retold
eternally, endlessly, ad infinitum, forever, for    ever
about school yard politics, or should I say school yard bullying

it started for me in elementary school    
I...

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Categories: raynes, abuse, bullying, childhood,
Form: Free verse

That Colorful Drug

THAT COLORFUL DRUG CONTEST
Sponsor: Lewis Raynes

There may have been some pink or red…but mostly loneliness and black…
My head couldn’t tell the difference between right and wrong…good and bad…here or there…Now all I see is the...

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Categories: raynes, addiction, anxiety, deep, drug,
Form: Prose

Touched By Suicide

DIFFICULTY: -noun
a trouble or struggle; something that is hard to understand or surmount

I’ve felt hell’s fire and dealt with many circumstances I may confide-
But the most difficult thing I have to live with is being...

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Categories: raynes, death, grief, suicide,
Form: Couplet
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The Vietnam War

I finished high school four months prior to my 18th birthday. By this time, my country was heavily engaged in the Vietnam war.  I was very much subject to being drafted into the service...

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Categories: raynes, america, loss, memorial day, patriotic, usa, war,
Form: Narrative

On a Maniac

I’m a maniac.
So is everyone  
Or they are just dull—by default.
I’ve always been excited 
About something or the other—all my life.

I was, for instance, a cricket maniac once,
Swinging the bat,
Though I didn’t swing well...

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Categories: raynes, character, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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Flirting

According to the dictionary flirting is not used for serious intentions,
but to amorously show superficial or casual interest, really?
Can someone tell me why it cannot be serious, please?
Does one have to take a course to...

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Categories: raynes, fun,
Form: Abecedarian

How I Saved My Best Friend

Loyalty is my middle name as I wait for her all day,
oh, and when that door opens I bark and start nagging!
Slobbery wet kisses I give saying “I love you” in my own way,
I’m so...

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Categories: raynes, blessing, dog, heartbreak,
Form: Personification
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Buy It, Try It

A completely new product, not even on the market.                          ...

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Categories: raynes, appreciation, beauty, blessing, character, god,
Form: Rhyme
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My Introspective Thoughts

Since a girl-
I have been sensitive
      hiding behind mother was my place to be
my eyes were deep pools of sadness
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Categories: raynes, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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Points and Poles

Sometimes it’s like pulling teeth in pain, even with Novocain
Or climbing a San Francisco hill in a Chevy Chevette
Or trying to fly a kite on a none windy day

Words I say, from my heart to...

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Categories: raynes, love, western, words,
Form: Prose Poetry
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