Long Scalp Poems
Long Scalp Poems. Below are the most popular long Scalp by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Scalp poems by poem length and keyword.
Caregiving Stories Reprise
Wounded Sacred Dementia: Part Two
Dementia's derelict WinLose SocialWorker
suboptimizingly hesitates
when I tell her
I have not changed my mind
about not adopting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
into my vulnerable home
with a seven-year-old AfricanAmerican boy
blind
and unable to defend himself,
or even run...
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Categories:
scalp, caregiving, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Tozzath
Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
scalp, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
Allah and Buddha Were Talking
You know what I think sometimes?
said Allah to Buddha,
Of course you do
and yet you don't.
I think I gave this gift of language
because you have a uniquely humanurtured gift
of comprehending
and transposing
and translating languages thru-out each and...
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Categories:
scalp, body, health, mentor, political, psychological, religion, rights,
Form:
Political Verse
The Whips of History - 1
This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education,
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simple fright,
I use jasmine...
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Categories:
scalp, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Michael Joseph Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural...
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Categories:
scalp, abuse, addiction, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part Two
Unquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
II
The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...
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Categories:
scalp, august, autumn, farewell, lost love, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
August 13th, 2025 twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
August 13th, 2025 – twenty six plus years since awful series of unfortunate events
The following poem posted about a half hour before the bewitching hour that spelled calamity (which though a freaky Friday the thirteenth)...
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Categories:
scalp, abuse, adventure, anger, angst, animal, anniversary, august,
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:
scalp, august, autumn, farewell, september, society,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
One More Rosey Trip
I'm off on the beaten path
with Little Rosey in my grasp
There's palm fronds like a giant clock,
twenty hands instead of two
And there's the honeysuckle bush
that suddenly broke through
the gap in my neighbor's greenhouse
"Bonnie!" she insists
"Bonnie...
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Categories:
scalp, child, childhood, cute love, dedication, family, fun,
Form:
Narrative
Riding Sixties Shotgun
I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...
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Categories:
scalp, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form:
Political Verse
Gangster disciples home invasions survivor
As I lay on my sofa after returning from
traumatic brain injury pain management
NEUROLOGISTS my therapist drove me
to my appointments today was the day
they installed over 60 wires probes glued
to my...
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Categories:
scalp, allah,
Form:
Haibun
August 13th 2021 Twenty Two Years Since
August 13th, 2021 – twenty two years since...
Wicked bad designed day poem originally crafted
then alternately titled for no particular rhyme nor reason:
courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia.
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and...
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Categories:
scalp, abuse, adventure, animal, confusion, fate, grave, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Stance River - 36 - Final
" Damn you, let go my gun! "
The morning hasn't even yawned yet
and a terrible tussle is in my sight,
Drouillard is wrestling his rifle from the hands of this Indian thief
and the Field brothers are...
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Categories:
scalp, adventure, culture, dedication, desire, heart, history,
Form:
Epic
The Figurative Nail Hit On the Hirsute Covered Head
The figurative nail hit on the hirsute covered head!
Eventually vices will witness me crow king
cough'n affliction caw hearse courtesy
smok'n since me yay high,
hence appellation (mountain) wheezer
natural set of adult teeth (rotten to the...
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Categories:
scalp, 12th grade, absence, animal, appreciation, father son,
Form:
Rhyme
Wicked Bad Designed Day
(alternately titled: courtesy Doctor Donald Dossey
who coined paraskevidekatriaphobia
August thirteenth nineteen hundred and ninety nine
forever etched in annals of my personal infamy
as one still sending hair raising shivers down my spine
which following unpleasant...
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Categories:
scalp, abuse, adventure, angst, good friday, grave, mom,
Form:
Free verse
Green Hell
As I fall into the buzzing altar of heavy
metal shifting sand, maw, swirling sheets,
illness drools plus plus halcyon?
drawn too many wrinkles...
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Categories:
scalp, art,
Form:
Rhyme
My First Ever Mistake
The mistake I had never expected,
I did it without getting into awareness
Of how it would react.
Lacking that girl in me is like lacking
Of soul in my lonely body
Honestly speaking, she is my helm,
Stark, she is...
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Categories:
scalp, 10th grade,
Form:
Ode
My Hair
My hair has always
had a mind of its own
Stays doing whatever
it wants whenever
it pleases
Just never bothers to do
any of it, at my convenience
Will take its sweet time
to grow
When I'm most...
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Categories:
scalp, africa, beauty, culture, hair, nature, race,
Form:
I do not know?
Courtesy Severely Receding Hair Line
Courtesy severely receding hair line...,
yours truly enveloped within morose mood
I (Samson incarnate)
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.
Now in doddering dotage scant wisps...
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Categories:
scalp, absence, anger, crush, cry, fate, heartbroken, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
I Loathe Feeling Under the Weather
I loathe feeling under the weather...,
especially when nasty elephant
(named Thomas the pachyderm)
stomping to break loose courtesy tether,
where antibodies of mine
struggle to band together
loosely analogous to voters
standing in a queue
waiting to cast their vote
(while...
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Categories:
scalp, 12th grade, adventure, animal, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised April 19th, 2023
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised April 19th, 2023
IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and cathartic
warming me body electric
courtesy an outsize
warm brimful...
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Categories:
scalp, absence, adventure, april, farewell, fate, heartbroken, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Weird Fake News
Weird "fake" news
This pencil necked geek
did hair thru the long grapevine
actually following false tidbit
originated within imagination i.e. mine,
while stationed at Macbook Pro
laptop - time already inching close
to hour of rise and shine
yikes still no bloody...
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Categories:
scalp, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum
Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum
With a title deeply rooted
in subject matter iterated above
invariably makes for hair raising poem,
though I immediately attest said material
constitutes atypical topic
the writing process (with intent
to...
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Categories:
scalp, 12th grade, 9th grade, age, anger, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024...
(Any resemblance between the following humorous account and real life circumstance tis purely coincidental).
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager...
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Categories:
scalp, absence, adventure, confusion, humorous, march, missing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night Soil Man - Part One
The Night Soil Man
I
Nothing sticks to-get-her like turds
...
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Categories:
scalp, abuse, discrimination, night, racism, rights, slavery,
Form:
Free verse