Long Shots Poems
Long Shots Poems. Below are the most popular long Shots by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Shots poems by poem length and keyword.
Cymbric ValeI believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
shots, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems of Recanted BachelorhoodPoems of Recanted Bachelorhood
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u
are
charming
& disarming,
but mostly ALARMING
since my resolve
dissolved!
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Disconcerted
by Michael R. Burch
Beth, my sweet,
fresh as a daisy,
when I’m with you
my heart beats like crazy
& my future gets hazy ...
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What Goes Around, Comes
by...
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Categories:
shots, desire, engagement, first love, girl, love, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Love Poems IiiLOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
shots, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Please Consider Those Who - Not By Choice - Are Living Alone - 2nd ThirdThis is the 2nd THIRD of my 3-part poem - see Mark Stellinga on Poetry Soup for the other 2 THIRDS - couldn't be helped.
“What about neighbors,” I carefully pried...“do any of them check on...
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Categories:
shots, love, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
The World Is a Small PlaneI have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times.
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...
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Categories:
shots, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form:
Narrative
DEADLY GAME OF MRSAHow the Nation of Islam saved my granddaughter
from Catrina Bell queen pin gang leader it was a warm
day i was suffering from traumatic brain injury raising
five children including my granddaughter only four...
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Categories:
shots, beautiful, daughter, granddaughter, grandmother, my child, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My BowMerov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!
In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senior English class
one night in Nineteen Sixty-One. Assigned just...
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Categories:
shots, blessing, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CONFIDENTIAL HUMANS SOURCE CRISIS TEAMCRISIS TEAM:HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: HELLO I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT BETWEEN THREE OR FOUR AM I CANNOT BREATHE PANTING HEARING MY FETUS HEARTBEAT SO LOUDLY
CRISIS TEAM: YOU ARE...
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Categories:
shots, america, analogy, anxiety, art, career, inspirational,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION CRISIS TEAM OF CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCESCRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN...
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Categories:
shots, america, analogy, anxiety, forgiveness, hero,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Once Upon A Time In Milton CreekThe sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All the store fronts were decorated; it was a colourful sight...
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Categories:
shots, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Ol' Babe - Both Audio and Text Versions - W-IllustrationHey…did I ever tell you ‘bout the greatest baseball game,
Or should I say…the one that gave “Ol' Babe” his famous name?
Like several other great ones, there were many hits that day,
And if it hadn't...
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Categories:
shots, baseball,
Form:
Verse
The Night Nasty Jack Met His Match - Both Audio and TextThis is a tale of one of the orneriest dudes there ever was, and how someone much smaller, but easily more clever than he was, managed to cope with his belligerence.
...
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Categories:
shots, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Saul Grills Marilyn At a Seedy New Orleans Jazz DiveSaul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely...
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Categories:
shots, humor, murder, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Mcgillicuddy's WakeTwo new crutches and two double shots of Bushmills Irish Whiskey enabled Joe Faherty to move from the back seat of Moira Murphy's 1976 Buick into Eagan's Funeral Home for Tim McGillicuddy's wake. At 87,...
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Categories:
shots, death of a friend, fantasy,
Form:
Prose
Chapter 151-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Pt 1 This Day This FamilyDate: April 1, 2051
air planes departed in flight
1 hour and 15 minutes
Between them. The trip was 7 hours
And approximately 30 minutes in
Duration. The first plane touched down
On the...
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Categories:
shots, africa, allusion, birth, child,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 141-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Business inventoryDate: August 2050
10:45 blissful Monday morning
Damian was in his DHRR office
Peering through the panoramic
Window. As he met on Skype
With investors and his brothers in
The office. The Hakim family was
Willing...
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Categories:
shots, allusion, business,
Form:
Alliteration
Sooner Or Later - Both Audio and TextHow terribly awkward it so often is when ones relations are faced with seeing to the daily survival of those they most care about - young OR old -
Sooner or later the day will...
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Categories:
shots, age, family, father, parents,
Form:
Verse
Kellyanne's Fake Constitutional Rock"The Second Amendment is a bedrock principle of our Constitution..."
...
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Categories:
shots, anger, history, humor, integrity, language, leadership, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Film Travel - Both Audio and TextBy watching lots of foreign films I’ve seen a lot of places
I’ve never been…and don’t expect to ever make it to…
But I’d have only made the time, and spent the cost, to see them...
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Categories:
shots, together, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Doppler Radar Killed Our Classic Car - 2nd Half As Text Plus Full AudioHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
...
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Categories:
shots, car,
Form:
Narrative
ChooseChoose unironically ripping off a film to be ironic
Choose now because then will never be enough
Choose puff puff puff puff puff pass because you’ll never have enough
Choose feeling guilty in the morning because it’s better...
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Categories:
shots, addiction, anxiety, depression, drug, happiness, political, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Torn ApartA piece of me has been torn apart
All of you have broken my heart
The tears are still coming and going
And I can still feel my heart burning
I know that this was coming
But I pretended and...
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Categories:
shots, appreciation, boat, break up, loneliness, love, love
Form:
Narrative
The 'Vice-Canceler' of 'Joizey'Officer Gwendolyn Becker - a “newbie” - at Newark P. D. down in 'Joizey', was combin’ the streets for a couple o’ thieves who’d been holdin’ up stations and stores...
When - back in an alley...
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Categories:
shots, violence,
Form:
Narrative
The Found Phone - a Short StoryI was running some errands and stopped into the little waterfront restaurant for a late lunch. It was kind of that in-between lunch and dinner time hour, so the place was completely empty.
I ordered...
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Categories:
shots, mystery, me, time, voice, me, time, voice,
Form:
Narrative
Game of Cricket Is a Game of LifeLife is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is simply...
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Categories:
shots, dedication, emotions, endurance, fantasy, games, image, inspiration,
Form:
Prose Poetry