Long Shreds Poems
Long Shreds Poems. Below are the most popular long Shreds by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Shreds poems by poem length and keyword.
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
shreds, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
Adieu - Part 1Do you remember?
We lay in the moonlight, exhausted and content,
Moments from perfection, skin glistening with moisture,
Salty and sweet from love - love so amazing
That it stunned us every time ...
Always better than before, and always...
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Categories:
shreds, heartbreak, love, passion, romantic, sad love, true
Form:
Free verse
The Inception: the Dark Side of MeI’m broke without your love to repair me…
My young heart breaks into two and you push on the brakes…
Three strikez…you’re owt…. Get lost….that is my only plea
Our lives were at stake and we were taking...
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Categories:
shreds, beauty, betrayal, how i feel, kiss, life,
Form:
Free verse
Worming the Cat and DogOnce again it’s Saturday; the day when footy reigns supreme.
The Dogs are up against the Cats, the premier favoured team,
but I’ve got no doubts the mighty Dogs will surely cope with that.
I couldn’t think of...
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Categories:
shreds, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Fraudulent
"Fraudulent"
A writer writes of people
walking lonely dark streets
begging for bread, shelter and cold without all
like he’s been there
trudging up and downhill knocking on doors
that judgmentally remain closed after glimpsed twigging -
a monumental fail,...
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Categories:
shreds, depression, family, friendship, home, loneliness, lost, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Surviving Your Own LifeMy father and I did not share all that much,
More like passing a truck on the road
Parent’s squabbles I overheard offered me clues
And at times I caught glimpse of his load.
His freight always sealed with...
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Categories:
shreds, family, father son,
Form:
Ballad
The External World of The Internal
“The External World of the Internal”
when the Internal
finally woke up,
it was like all the words
in that book, flew at It
like flaming arrows,
an external barage, a tale,
of trading 10 for 50,
a...
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Categories:
shreds, humanity, muse, satire,
Form:
Narrative
Lusting Abyss, His Darkness
Lusting Abyss, his Darkness.
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Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands desiring what he sees
In front of him stands a virgin pure as the driven snow
For white he knows it is, upon she his darkness...
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Categories:
shreds, love, peace, people, places, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Lusting Abyss, His Darkness
Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands, desiring what he sees
In front of him stands a virgin, pure as the driven snow
For white he knows it is, upon she his darkness will show
Long haired...
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Categories:
shreds, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
The Uninviting FeelingI'm not at all innocent...when you make
me hurt inside
I'm getting over you...but I'm not giving up
completely, though you are not present in
my life
It rips my high hopes into shreds of
worthlessness
I will...
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Categories:
shreds, beautiful
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist KindUnquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind
(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)
STOP: ARREST ALL GIRLS
- standing with legs...
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Categories:
shreds, beautiful, crush, cute love, desire, humor, men,
Form:
Free verse
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Kurt RavidasDancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss
Collaboration with Kurt Ravidas
I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from its narrow ledge,
in the midst of ravenous rage and great...
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Categories:
shreds, art, dark, evil, fantasy, horror, raven, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Approved By the God of VerseWhat a gratifying experience this was...
While sitting at a readers’ desk in Bobby Booker’s Bookstore, waiting for the latest composition I’d composed
To reach the eyes of - Bob himself...the so-called - “God of Verse”...the man...
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Categories:
shreds, poetry, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Again, I PraySleeping in sorrow’s lullaby...can’t lie
Sweet slumber is only tomorrow’s cry
Can’t deny, I prayed a thousand times
I can only try to make up these rhymes
Again, I pray away the past pain
Again, I pray away the shy...
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Categories:
shreds, angst, passion, prayer,
Form:
Lyric
The Ghost Dance Part VThe Ending at Wounded Knee
This is what happened:
Two worlds collided,
And the elder one died.
Pony soldiers and Indian police,
Triggerhappy and jumping at shadows,
Killed Sitting Bull at Pine Ridge;
His horse pawed the...
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Categories:
shreds, betrayal, history, humanity, native american, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Robert J LindleyDancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss
Collaboration with Robert J. Lindley
I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from its narrow ledge,
in the midst of ravenous...
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Categories:
shreds, dark, death, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To PlayYesterday,
I went home for lunch,
I never go home for lunch.
When I got to our apartment
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key.
Francine was at work and I always leave last in the...
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Categories:
shreds, betrayal, break up, heartbroken, jealousy, lost love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Letter To My Father*LETTER TO MY FATHER*
Dearest Father
With heart ripped into rags and shreds I write ? to you tonight
Trembling hands and ink made of tears and blood
Teary ?? eyes and bloody heels like a defeated soldier
Lost...
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Categories:
shreds, betrayal, depression, emotions, fairy, father son, forgiveness,
Form:
Free verse
Dreams, Imagination, Write On, Write OnDreams, Imagination, Write On, Write On
Night's call to arms, sweet echoes before death
Waking to live, glory in dawn's first breath
Dreams, imagination, write on, write on
Life is a gust of wind, then it is gone.
Gone as...
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Categories:
shreds, appreciation, art, creation, dream, introspection, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
This 'Old Eyesore' Is Here To Stay --- We Love Our PetsThis piece is a testimonial to the strong and unwavering love many of us tend to bestow upon our pets - been there - done this -
Just the other day, while I was talking with...
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Categories:
shreds, love, pets, uplifting,
Form:
Verse
Accumulating Anger: the Rivers of Dimensions Chapter 1I’ve lost my darksome heart in the rivers of dimensions long ago..oh so long ago...
I’ve lost my lonesome soul in the waves of oblivion
You’ve given me wretched woe, but I still love you deep down...
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Categories:
shreds, anger, angst, conflict, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Gitter Dunn - 1st Half In Text - Plus Full Audio VersionThis is the 1st Half - sorry, this is the only way to get my long pieces posted - 2nd HALF is posted
Times were hard when I was young, and - tryin’ to help...
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Categories:
shreds, dad, father, father son, inspirational, love,
Form:
Narrative
Those Early Attempts At a Mexican Foodthose early attempts at a Mexican food
no store bought cardboard taco shells
she had to prepare her own
the appearance of the tortilla press
the arrival of the tortilla holder
became a beginning to a menagerie of new tools...
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Categories:
shreds, august, devotion, food, happiness,
Form:
Romanticism
You, AloneSave me from becoming numb
I'm aware that you don't care
Be my best friend unlike some
All these scars I, alone, bear
Beware of my blessed breeze as it slips out of my finger tips
I...
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Categories:
shreds, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Put Out DoubtI am bound in the chambers of doubt
I want to run His ever-redeeming Route
Believing in You is getting more difficult, so difficult
Faith in You has been disappearing…and it’s my fault
I must trek these mountainous tribulations...
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Categories:
shreds, angst, conflict, emotions, endurance, pain, passion, words,
Form:
Rhyme