Long Roost Poems
Long Roost Poems. Below are the most popular long Roost by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Roost poems by poem length and keyword.
Limericks Ii - Nature and Animals
Limericks II - Nature Poems and Animal Poems
Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot!"
Clyde Lied!
by...
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Categories:
roost, animal, humor, humorous, light, nature, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Limerick
Poems About Dogs
Poems about Dogs
This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently caressing his head,
I acknowledge his company.
This simple recognition gives my...
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Categories:
roost, animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Animal Poems
Dot Spotted
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a leopardess, Dot,
who indignantly answered: "I’ll not!
The gents are impressed
with the way that I’m dressed.
I wouldn’t change even one spot."
Stage Craft-y
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a dromedary
who...
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Categories:
roost, animal, cat, dog, friend, friendship, friendship love,
Form:
Limerick
Doggerel Ii
Doggerel II: Doggerel about Doggerel, or, More Nonsense Verse
The Board
by Michael R. Burch
Accessible rhyme is never good.
The penalty is understood:
soft titters from dark board rooms where
the businessmen paste on their hair
and, Walter Mitties, woo the...
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Categories:
roost, animal, dog, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
Dog Daze I: Poems About Dogs
Dog Daze
by Michael R. Burch
Sweet Oz is a soulful snuggler;
he really is one of the best.
Sometimes in bed
he snuggles my head,
though he mostly just plops on my chest.
I think Oz was made to love
from the...
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Categories:
roost, dog, family, friend, friendship, friendship love, love,
Form:
Verse
Epilogue
if you have taken the time to browse through this eclectic collection of self-indulgent foolishness, I hope you’ve been entertained by the quirkiness of its content, or at the very least, annoyed by the pervasiveness...
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Categories:
roost, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Unforgettable Places - Acts
I have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!
Tell me...
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Categories:
roost, appreciation, blessing, family, life, love,
Form:
Quatrain
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit forms,
Whilst our unsuspecting mortal Earth...
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Categories:
roost, dark, evil, fantasy, god, horror, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Seven Last Words of Jesus
I.Jesus Spoke to His Father
Jesus spoke to His Heavenly Father
Raising up to heaven His ardent pray’r
With deep bleeding wounds that he’d all endured,
Still hang on the cross to make our soul pure.
Words He uttered were...
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Categories:
roost, celebration,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades
during...
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Categories:
roost, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd
Form:
Rhyme
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit...
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Categories:
roost, dark, evil, fantasy, god, horror, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit forms,
Whilst our unsuspecting mortal...
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Categories:
roost, creation, dark, evil, god, heaven, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
Ah Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Ah...Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Aye sandman, I surrender to yar supreme governance
surreal spectacular soiree gifts subconscious sphere
soothing (analogous to natural palliative), ah...REM
member nought, asper exquisite entertaining cerebral
kaleidoscope replete with nonpareil visual trappings
aesthetically tantalizing unforgettable..., but...
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Categories:
roost, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dance, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve - Xxxv Part One
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV
Part One ...
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Categories:
roost, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
From blank screen to logorrhea, I write with confused adumbrations
Methinks hmm, perhaps
I admittedly self plagiarize and quite aware
aforementioned amalgamated, conglomerated,
fabricated, jerry rigged, and organized
eye gripping titled
poem already aired a year plus ago,
though revisiting...
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Categories:
roost, absence, adventure, business, endurance, fish, grief, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
Scars in Heaven, Casting Crowns
Three has ruled the roost for so long...
Four, boxed in so, has forgotten its role.
So picture five lingering outside, waiting
Thinking itself only a star
None seeing what keys are needed
To open the legendary Time of Times.
Oh......
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Categories:
roost, america, destiny, future, life, philosophy, symbolism, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Ghostly Spirits From Deadly Arsenal Spell Haunting Annihilation
Ghostly spirits from deadly arsenal spell haunting annihilation
With mighty mouse and Hercules height
tried to retrieve sanity spread loose;
a faded unpleasant memory - even enlisting
decades old cartoon characters:
Natasha squirrel and Bullwinkle moose
flow of electrons...
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Categories:
roost, absence, adventure, angst, anxiety, atheist, body, crazy,
Form:
Rhyme
Burden of Broken Ties
Written: December 31, 2024, Contest: Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
...
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Categories:
roost, analogy, god,
Form:
Free verse
The Zone
You have breached the zone; tell me where else can the children roam? You have planted landmines on every corner and you have disrupted the social order. I hear sirens going off in my dreams...
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Categories:
roost, bereavement, business, childhood, community, creation, emotions, freedom,
Form:
Narrative
Robbie - Ham Guilty For Gobbledygook
I, A. Robbie - Ham guilty for gobbledygook...
and ruffling turkey feathers!
An innocent A1 miss steak kin kith
once, a former main lion resident
living social where Tigress and Euphrates
converge and pool into Lake Wobegone ...
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Categories:
roost, 12th grade, 9th grade, adventure, allusion, america,
Form:
Rhyme
CYPRESS LAKES
THE BEAUTY OF CYPRESS LAKES CAPTURED MY WONDERING SENSES THE MANY CYPRESS TREES SURROUNDING MY HOME WRAPPED AROUND A SOFT GOLF COURSE GREAT VEIWS OVER SEVERAL LAKES THAT HOUSE THE MOST INTERESTING NEIGHBORS LIKE THE...
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Categories:
roost, allah,
Form:
Naat
A Danse Macabre
Along a winding country road
one autumn’s day of late,
I chanced upon an aged abode,
up a hill beyond a gate.
The house was old and quiet,
not a person 'neath its roof
but in a tree close by it
perched...
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Categories:
roost, allusion, confusion, dark, dream, gothic, house, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
Snow, Snake, Snow, Birds, Sickness, Sitting
So many, maybe millions
No, billions. Trillions?
Of stars, a quiet, hot snowfall
of white stars; sandal season squall.
Each birch tree here outdoing
January's record accumulation.
Weeks of hour after hour after hour
upon day upon day upon day of
birches'...
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Categories:
roost, death, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Concepts Phantasmagorical
When the cows come home to roost,
or the crows are grazing grass,
It’s time I wrote a rhyme,
until yesterday returns to pass!
If bats in the belfry stay sleeping,
until the clock strikes the noon of day,
Tis then...
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Categories:
roost, fantasy, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Journey To the Cosmic Beyond
The Journey to the Cosmic Beyond
Life
God’s divine spark heralds our mortal presence on this Earth,
Whilst angels sing their mystic paeans to our cosmic rebirth.
The soul’s constant transformation transcends all mortality,
As it brings each of us...
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Categories:
roost, allegory, death, god, heaven, life, religious, symbolism,
Form:
Canzone