Long Shanghai Poems
Long Shanghai Poems. Below are the most popular long Shanghai by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Shanghai poems by poem length and keyword.
My Hero
MY HERO
This is a brand new truth so give me focus attention,
in spite of all I've been through life keep challenging me,
just realizing am on a sinking ship,
following folks in friendship hoping...
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Categories:
shanghai, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
My Home Town
MY HOME TOWN
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Time moves on never stands still
It changes the outcome no matter the will
Of the dreamers who hold on to and then
Each moment happens once then never again
I had a feeling this...
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Categories:
shanghai, america, community, emotions, feelings, future, loss, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Honeymoon Blues Collaboration
Two young newlyweds Samantha and Ray
On honeymoon went camping to the Bay
But as they were rocking
Strong winds came a knocking
And left them nude as their tent blew away
Both were red faced and on the ground...
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Categories:
shanghai, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Me Wan See
Oh, the wonders of China
Far different than those of Carolina.
"Me Wan See", I say to you
Land of the Orient, so vast and true.
Wonders...
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Categories:
shanghai, adventure, hope, life, people, places, travelpeople, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Random Telephone Calls From Shanghai's Red China Etc
Have anyone of you also received a random telephone call
from Shanghai China, not in English but in the Chinese language?
I did today but I did not understand the importance of that phone
call that...
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Categories:
shanghai, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
Comp Sci and Sci-Fi --- a Nonsensical Poem
Computer science is abbreviated as "comp sci."
Comp sci is so hard it gives you a sigh.
Computing is everywhere in the world of sci-fi.
Network is so prevalent these days you can't get by...
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Categories:
shanghai, humor, humorous, , western,
Form:
Rhyme
China Squash Open 2015
The Bund China Squash Open 2015
The Bund China Squash Open 2015 was recently played out in Shanghai…
It was the first squash major as a season’s opener after a summer break…
The unseeded hopefuls...
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Categories:
shanghai, appreciation, celebration, inspirational, magic, sports, tribute,
Form:
Narrative
China Clipper
Listen and you can hear the wind whisper
the name of a lost ship and its skipper.
The wind’s name is Favonius, winged god
His sotto voce is but a whimper.
Gentle breeze doth tell of China Clipper...
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Categories:
shanghai, sorrow,
Form:
Rubaiyat
2009 Hyundai Sonata Funereal Lament
Unaffordable, yet valiant speeding,
tailgating, and zooming Pep Boys, I cannot dodge.
Yours truly grief stricken
(sob... sob... sob)...
wheely hard to bear
this anticipatory anxiety
riddled joker impossible
mission thwarting despair
death knell tolled (told),
woebegone news, I did fear
hears stunned...
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Categories:
shanghai, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Teetotaler
In Ordinary Cups
The blades of winter grind into the ice
like blood on a bitten lip
two lovers spin and twirl
The days pass from teacup to teacup
in the peaceful silence of a solitary nest.
From gentle easy sunrise...
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Categories:
shanghai, memory,
Form:
Terzanelle
New World Order
> There is a new world rising,
Not in thunder, not in fire—
But in a silence so deep,
It echoes across the galaxies.
181 nations, long forgotten by history’s biased pen,
Have gathered—not in conflict, but in covenant.
From the...
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Categories:
shanghai, change, love, new year, sin, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Adventure Part One
The young lad sat in the old school room
To him the place felt like a tomb
He knew that he would be leaving soon
He felt restless
He got a job on the factory floor
This just seemed to...
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Categories:
shanghai, adventurelife, old, life, men, old,
Form:
I do not know?
Drifting Through Time
A veil of mist blankets the river, slowly drifting over its banks as the moon ghosts silently
behind thin dark clouds. A frog croaks and after awhile a cricket answers. A soft ker-plunk
echoes...
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Categories:
shanghai, lifenight, time, dark, dark, night, time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Marco Pulaski
Written for my son Chris as he begins a new chapter in his life...
He left yesterday, the adventure now before him there...
Kids today, sometimes I just don't know...I swear.
He decided that a move from home...
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Categories:
shanghai, family, hope, life, travelson, old, time, adventure,
Form:
Couplet
Diamond Light
"Diamond Light"
Downy soft
Love Light sharply glistens diamond prisms
from rainbow's seven colours, in each colour a meaning
imparts a visitation message from fallen angel off a gosling’s wing
A mother whispers secret stories
A child cries silently and...
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Categories:
shanghai, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Disinformation Governance Board They Are Taking Away Free Speech
Friends our Government are setting up a Governance board to censor you, tag you, give you a fine, or put you in jail if you voice an opinion they don't like. They hired Nina Jankowicz...
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Categories:
shanghai, america, freedom, future, jesus, rights,
Form:
Narrative
It's Raining, It's Pouring Man--REMAKE
"It’s Raining, It’s Pouring"
It’s raining, it’s pouring
The old man is snoring
He bumped his head
And went to bed
And didn’t get up till morning.
Shivers 'me Timbers
truth be told tune's like old
day had grew night he knew
possibles here...
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Categories:
shanghai, appreciation, music, song,
Form:
Lyric
Ladies From Shanghai: COMPLETE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A rare good sou-L
at Mote-L Six
who smel-Led different.
...
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Categories:
shanghai, analogy,
Form:
Than-Bauk
Puzzle
if you are reading this with a face non-pale.
and you think of nothing to tell or to re-tail.
...
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Categories:
shanghai, friendship, voice, paris, voice,
Form:
Limerick
Imagine, Predator
What if all Africans returned home?
The cradle of humankind would be rescued.
The hungry wolves would be kept at bay.
Mother Nature would be preserved.
Even at a high price to pay.
What if all Africans returned home?
Lives of...
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Categories:
shanghai, africa, anger, beautiful, black african american, grief,
Form:
Elegy
Lost Heaven
I belong to an abscondered valley...
Where people are squandered by the armed moochers...
The whimsical parasites are more bigoted than a malingerer...
A false dogma- to Shanghai , to deadlock and then to murder; is what they...
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Categories:
shanghai, anger, autumn, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
The Old Shanghai
the old Shanghai,
that most devoted friend
doing a duty so faithfully, crowing,
rousing the farmer at break of dawn;
the proud Shanghai,
arrogantly strutting off, chest out,
white plumes advertising his place
among feathered brethrens in the farm;
the lusty Shanghai,
flirting with...
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Categories:
shanghai, devotion, life, loss, pets, sad, old, old,
Form:
Narrative
Come 2016
come 2016
or 2015
or 2017
whenever china’s economy exceeds that of the united states
(the year disputed circa. 2016)
and there is no longer any dispute over
who will be calling the shots in the world
from there on out
one has...
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Categories:
shanghai, lifecity,
Form:
Free verse
Machiavellian Machinations
Treachery is the coin of the covert realm,
gears within gears turning ...
Devious machinations, pure Machiavellian
Secrecy is the Shanghai shuffle speech
Tool and Die maker,
what instrument of inflection deception
will you darkly wield?
Skilled in the art of misdirection,
fake...
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Categories:
shanghai, allusion, corruption, dark, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Pawnshop Customer
Downtown
broad squares
highway
out of these places
every nook and cranny alleyway,
shabby signboard,
makes a terrifying sound
when the wind blows,
we open a very narrow door
and meet an old man
who greets us with a warm smile
across an iron cage
we are...
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Categories:
shanghai, love,
Form:
Free verse