Long Shirkers Poems
Long Shirkers Poems. Below are the most popular long Shirkers by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Shirkers poems by poem length and keyword.
ObliqueOblique!
(The day the gray line Wavered)
It was hot again, for the third straight day, but it was the 3rd of July; the time the place was Gettysburg and the year was sixty-three
The...
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Categories:
shirkers, war,
Form:
Free verse
Showdown At Heller RanchDon Heller owned an impressive spread,
Not that far from Lindholme town,
Below the tall peaks of Idaho,
Down the road from Ed McGowan.
Ed McGowan owned half the ville,
And had two-dozen hanger-son.
Ike Raeburn owned the other half,
But had...
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Categories:
shirkers, adventure, confusion, hero, smart, success, violence,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
The 27 Club, Part Ii...He looked around frantic as he struggled to breath.
“It’s all happening at once, I just can’t believe…
I know that they are all waiting, will want to record,
but right now it doesn’t seem so simple any...
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Categories:
shirkers, heartbreak, lost love, love, love hurts, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Comic ReliefThe Keystone Cops were funny,
Chaplain, Keaton, Lloyd, and Fields too.
Laurel and Hardy, and Will Rodgers,
Were just some of the names we knew.
Who can forget the Stooges,
Or all the pies we saw them throw?
Who didn't...
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Categories:
shirkers, dedication, funny, people, thank you
Form:
Rhyme
A Seamans WarThe Merchant seafarers` war
When world war two started Norway was
neutral but unsure which side to stay on.
The English thought occupying Norway
but they were too late the German army had
done the occupation.
The British sent a...
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Categories:
shirkers, absence, deep, devotion,
Form:
Blank verse
QuirksQuirks
Lennon and McCartney
Composed a song for harps,
But neither one was very good
At reading flats and sharps.
DaVinci was a total whiz
at graphic arts and science,
but could he run a marathon,
or wrestle with the giants?
Transformers bring...
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Categories:
shirkers, 11th grade, 12th grade, education, endurance, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Twin Towers: September 11, 2001Monotonous keyboards clicking
Redundant clocks ticking
Phones ringing, elevator doors swinging
Coffee pots brewing, vending machines spewing
Insouciant workers, carefree shirkers loitering
Clerks, secretaries previewing, managers reviewing
Visitors on stairs, in lobby chairs, lines queuing
Fate's dissonant chords o'er content hordes teeming
From...
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Categories:
shirkers, allah, america, angst,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
The AntTHE ANT
Every crossword buff will know
That the ants are real hard workers
If you look at how they go
It would seem that they’re no shirkers
But perhaps in all that motion
There’s a different motivation
And their actual...
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Categories:
shirkers, animal, humor, insect,
Form:
Rhyme
In the World and Not of ItJesus is right: Life entails a balancing act
(He is never wrong, by the way) : -
"Be in this world, but NOT of it. Don't react."
(How? you ask. Impossible even for you!)
O just wait, when life...
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Categories:
shirkers, 12th grade, appreciation, freedom, gospel, jesus, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
Anticipating (Dreaming In January)I awake to start the new day,
To find all nature stirring;
The bumble bee and humming bird
Around the feeder whirring.
The russet breasted robin
Has caught the early worm.
He'll take it to his lady love
Before its final squirm.
Across...
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Categories:
shirkers, introspection
Form:
Rhyme
IntrospectionI wake for start of new day to find all nature stirring.
The bumble bee and humming bird around the feeder whirring.
The russet breasted robin has caught the early worm.
He'll feed it to his lady love...
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Categories:
shirkers, funny, nature, philosophy, seasons, time, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Life Is a Canoe Ride For Those Born In America
Life is a Canoe Ride
For Those Born in America
Written: by Tom Wright
5/29/2019
We’re situated equal, in life’s canoe, to start the game,
Some will choose to drift, reluctant to work for acclaim.
Many are judicious, shirkers use excuses...
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Categories:
shirkers, life, work,
Form:
Couplet
How Are You?panic attacks and hot flushes
we smile at children’s blushes
embarrassment at the slightest error
fills us with terror
just how should we feel
these emotions they cant be real
am i ill or am i not
you cant see any snot
is...
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Categories:
shirkers, health, life, on work and working, people,
Form:
I do not know?