Long Shrilly Poems
Long Shrilly Poems. Below are the most popular long Shrilly by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Shrilly poems by poem length and keyword.
Matthew delivers his latest bullet tin
Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...
from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out
eager and ready to be mortally wounded
courtesy notorious big headed
(and bigoted) infamous...
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Categories:
shrilly, absence, america, angel, august, courage, future, political,
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
shrilly, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds I
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
shrilly, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan Poe
On the night before Christmas, alone in my house,
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready to snap if I counted more sheep.
I rose at the...
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Categories:
shrilly, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
A Doggy Afternoon
Narrator: I take you now inside the mind of a ten year old miniature Eskimo dog who
lives happily inside a Rambler house with a fenced back yard that serves as his special
area...
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Categories:
shrilly, dog,
Form:
Narrative
50 Words For Poe: the Lacrimosa
“Where does Love live
It lives in The Light within
where time never ends it just begins”.
Lady Labyrinth
"50 Words for Poe: The Lacrimosa"
Room 9 was haunted
this much was known
with great fear and trepidation
all patients avoided...
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Categories:
shrilly, birth, dark, death, devotion, forgiveness, freedom, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Halloween Tale 2 - Potd
To Kill a Wild Rabbit - FICTION
The small winding valley was cold and dank.
Nothing stirred as darkness descended quickly.
Dusk brought an ominous cloud of evil fog
that, like a black shroud, spread itself over the...
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Categories:
shrilly, abuse, anger, betrayal, bullying, horror,
Form:
Free verse
The Mad World
That night, I looked at the glorious moon
And chose, on the spur of the moment
To leave all that I was accustomed to
I would go, there, wherever my feet took me
I set out, with only a...
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Categories:
shrilly, creation, faith, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Mosquitoes Please Beware
Mosquitoes Please Beware
With an audible snort of disgust,
I pushed back this chair of mine...
In my head, I angrily exclaimed...
Oh, no! Mosquitoes, they are at it again..
Dreaded mosquitoes, they make my life miserable..
Incessant buzzing and...
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Categories:
shrilly, anxiety, crush, imagination, insect, murder, nature, war,
Form:
Narrative
Primo Levi Holocaust Poem: Buna
Buna
by Primo Levi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Mangled feet, cursed earth,
the long interminable line in the gray morning
as Buna smokes corpses through industrious chimneys...
Another gray day like every other day awaits us.
The terrible whistle shrilly...
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Categories:
shrilly, death, holocaust, horror, murder, race, racism, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
Willy Milly Dilly
I know a boy named Willy Wolly Way
Parties all night and sleeps all day.
He is a boozer. He is a shmoozer.
Like a tomcat,he must stray.
He is a layer.He is a player.
I know a boy named...
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Categories:
shrilly, anger, betrayal, change, daughter, emotions, goodbye, word
Form:
Rhyme
The Horse and the Lion
" The Horse and The Lion ... "
(From The Solomon Studies Series)
(Eccl. 3: 11 / Prov. 6: 6 / Matt. 6: 26, 28, 29)
The Horse and The Lion
Both Have Beautiful Manes
The Horse and The Lion
Both...
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Categories:
shrilly, africa, horse, introspection, nature,
Form:
Light Verse
THE GANGSTER, Spoken by the popular SILENT ONE
Appreciation:
A big thank you Silent One for your splendid narration of this poem.
THE GANGSTER
Through foreboding, whispering, wintery air
A woken Heron shrilly shrieks somewhere
Reflective iridescent gem in a gloomy stream
The gangster with a poetic heart dares...
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Categories:
shrilly, art, conflict, love hurts, mystery, power,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bigotry That Remains, Part I
There are those in our society
who scream about fighting bigotry,
claim that we hate people with dark skin,
when you fired for insulting them,
claim that our women fear for their lives,
when the female sex is lionized,
claim that...
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Categories:
shrilly, america, culture, discrimination, political, racism, society, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Sad Life 1-10
Sad Life
At three years old my parents divorced
Father got full custody
Mother, visitation rights
My sister and I were too young
yet still we understood
Into our life another came
and she begat a younger one
who stole...
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Categories:
shrilly, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
I do not know?
A Shout Into the Void
I encounter ebbs and flows, a peaceful solace sigh.
Wedged on the cusp of a cliff to endeavor a descry.
I'm heading somewhere to ascertain a fair minding.
Although I've ultimately arrived, I'm still screeching.
We will fit along...
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Categories:
shrilly, analogy, bereavement, caregiving, community, confusion, extended metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Christmas Night Reflections
Fluttering beneath the newly cut
Festive green hollies,
Decked out with heaped drapes
Of freshly fallen snow,
A bold little red breasted Robin,
Busily searching,
Cheerfully hops to and fro.
Darting between the soft, swirling
flakes
Of unique crystalline, driven without
respite,
He alights...
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Categories:
shrilly, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Listen To Nature At Night
How delightful is the softest sound of a clear and starry summer's night,
You may hear a moth bashing up against a cottage window pane near a lamp,
If you listen really hard you can hear him...
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Categories:
shrilly, nature, sound, garden, green, sound,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Calm
CALM
When all the world seemed calm
The starlight met the dew
Birds chirps, did compete for tweets.
but sounded cheerfully sweet.
Cars moving slowly TO and FRO
Not much hustle in human bustle.
Not much chaos in the dawn.
Mommy would be...
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Categories:
shrilly, anxiety, fear, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Entreated
ENTREATED
The gigantic motion patrolled
In the dark room immersed myself
No! This can't be it's no more
Giving out a shrilly sharp vocal
My throat adhering to dryness
What a slurred pilgrimage
I didn't realise it...
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Categories:
shrilly, emotions, freedom, image,
Form:
Blank verse
Who In the Darkness Follows Me
Who in the darkness follows me
Now I hear a sound very near
I turn around and almost faint
What's going on tonight is so bizarre
I see weird things all the day
Footsteps and...
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Categories:
shrilly, halloween,
Form:
Rhyme
Hillbillies, Bybillies 'N Blowbillies
I once knew a boy named Billy
I thought he was originally from Chile
Mostly ‘cause he loved his hot sauce and chili
Toting everywhere his jar of piccalilli
It turns out Billy was really the local hillbilly
I should...
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Categories:
shrilly, change, crush, cute love, love, silly, word
Form:
Monorhyme
Peace Be With Thee
Rise born
To love or hate
Right or sin
Destroy create
Not give a hang
One yin one yang
Balanced to swing
Time's tapping drum
Shrilly pipes blow
As we war with ourselves
Over...
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Categories:
shrilly, peace, lonely,
Form:
Lyric
Her Parting Song
Overshadowed by the green canopy of trees,
My heart finds its peace amid the singing of birds...
The cuckoo calls out to me shrilly,
I raise my head and look her in the eye,
She acknowledges my presence with...
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Categories:
shrilly, bird, nature, peace,
Form:
Verse
Long Suffering Angel
My angel I have heard on high.
I'm lost. I don't know who I am.
You seem so high up in the sky,
and I am really in a jam.
By the tinkling of heaven's chime,
I ask myself, suppress...
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Categories:
shrilly, angel, humor, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme