Long Shuffled Poems
Long Shuffled Poems. Below are the most popular long Shuffled by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Shuffled poems by poem length and keyword.
The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
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Categories:
shuffled, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Sunday Morning Joggers
Goodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some...
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Categories:
shuffled, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form:
Prose
The Dancing: the Return Thereof
Prelude
After banishing my foe off to hell
The Lord took pity on my soul
And returned it to my undead shell
Again, I was alive and whole
But the consequences of a second chance
Meant that I would have...
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Categories:
shuffled, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
shuffled, parody, song,
Form:
Ballad
Heavens's Poker Game
In the beginning after God had finished creating this land.
Satan boldly challenged the heavens for the absolute control of man.
Gods’ architectural blueprint stretched for ages across the sky
He watered the...
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Categories:
shuffled, bible, christian, conflict, emotions, encouraging, god, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
I'Ll Cry Tomorrow
Sitting dying alone,
In this dark and dingy place
It has now become my home..
The only open bar
In town, I needed something to heal my broken heart
I'm on my 8th round, Going on Nine now!
Swaying...
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Categories:
shuffled, addiction, cry, dark, deep, depression, pain, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA
I remember it well, that first day in Hell
So long ago, I know
As the sirens sounded our Yankee foe
Decided that now his...
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Categories:
shuffled, war,
Form:
Ballade
Paper Tigers
"Paper Tigers"
eyes mark slow time
spotting leopard rhyme
never changing its spots
black balled
white pops
the want-to-be bees
sting the dripping honey spot
slapping cards down
kitty pots are shuffled
bluffing intelligentsia
between the gaps
flatulent poets floss their teeth
waxing lyrical strings
tied to the weary...
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Categories:
shuffled, dark, muse, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
shuffled, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Sawbill Bay Ufo Sighting
Sawbill Bay UFO Sighting
Stranger than fiction, fraught with mischief,
To deceive impressionable minds of gullible people:
Who desperately want to believe in conspiracies,
And alien abductions and out of body experiences,
As was the UFO sighting on the...
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Categories:
shuffled, humor, imagination, science fiction, space,
Form:
Verse
Tragedy of Decay
The doors still creaked as they did before, age emanating from the very core;
The walls, ceiling, his arms and legs, even the floor, worn smooth and warped
From the years of trodden feet.
The smells bring back...
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Categories:
shuffled, bible, encouraging, gospel, heaven, hope, old,
Form:
Narrative
Match In the Dark
What a game ...
he was just a jester,
and this a ghastly prospect ...
The ground lay torn open before him,
a wound in the earth that called to his dark heart,
pulled on his better judgement like lead...
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Categories:
shuffled, analogy, death, fantasy, games, metaphor, raven, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Building Castles In the Sky
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach Or What Is in A Name
When building Babylonian Towers with the Lego of our minds we construct
...
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Categories:
shuffled, god, religion,
Form:
Free verse
It's a Mad Hatter's World
A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole where bunnies ware
Waist coats and fancy pocket watches!
Empty tea cups,...
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Categories:
shuffled, adventure, character, fantasy, imagery, imagination, inspirational, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Chella
The home where Chella grew up, in the ghetto of Liberty City Florida, had beige carpets so old that pieces of the tuft and twirl would come out of the backing under-foot.
The apartment window...
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Categories:
shuffled, childhood, feelings, friend, history, humor, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Forgive Your Enemies
Vicar Tynan sat amongst his roses in a Friday morning sun,
that shone in beams through willow branch and leaves,
where it’s time to think of Sunday and what sermon must be done,
when he heard squabbling coming...
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Categories:
shuffled, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Defaulted Leaders
I wish you would’ve told me,
That I was no longer worth your time.
Your back-handed alabaster murmurs
Stroll passed my skeptical exhales
As I greeted you like adults should
But, your whitened pupils
Spoke louder
Than your failed dreams
To be a...
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Categories:
shuffled, leadership, life, people,
Form:
Free verse
Book 3
(What have I done? This is
all my fault. He has never left
like that. What if he doesn't
come back? What about Maya?
Oh, shit! Maya!) I flew up
throwing the chair behind me....
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Categories:
shuffled, adventureme, old, me, old,
Form:
ABC
Spinning
When it stopped and I saw the target, a handsome 16 year old, part of me wanted to jump up and run. This party wasn’t with my usual friends - except my BFF Kim was...
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Categories:
shuffled, 11th grade, boy, girl, kiss, teen,
Form:
Free verse
The Zombies of Zander Ranch, Part Iii
III.
There must be a hundred, silent and cruel,
a slow-moving wave as the night grew cool,
Rose had a shotgun, to blast out her hate,
yet Sol remained steady, motioned her to wait.
He didn’t shoot, he had planned...
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Categories:
shuffled, adventure, conflict, corruption, dark, death, evil, horror,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Last Runes Cast
Face down in the mud, he paused before he rose
'Women pay a fortune and I'm covered to my toes'
Back among the runners, he tried again to jump
Over the high barriers, but he really got the...
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Categories:
shuffled, health, inspiration, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Just Posted
A young girl stood at the school hall wall,
Some paper in her hand,
She shuffled her shoes while eyeing the views,
And the news on a notice board.
This space looks so impersonal, the wall so pale and...
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Categories:
shuffled, funny, hope, school, teacher,
Form:
Light Verse
Rudolph Gets the Job
Twas on the eve of Christmas and St Nick was feeling glum
because his leading reindeer had some problems with his tum.
With Dasher feeling poorly, Santa wondered what to do,
he needed to leave Toyland soon, but...
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Categories:
shuffled, funnytime,
Form:
Rhyme
The Honest Truth
I want to be honest, fruitfully honest
But now in pain, I waver
I would much rather live in the dark hallows of my mind
Where honesty is blurred in visions of imagination
Blurred in a world where lies...
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Categories:
shuffled, angst, confusion, deep, fire, hurt, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
Lt. Willy On Trial
* This poem was inspired by the court marshall of Lt. William Calley for his
leadership in the attack on My Lai, Vietnam. For more info, see
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/mylai.htm
Lt. Willy on Trial
Tiny warm beads...
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Categories:
shuffled, wargreen, life,
Form:
Narrative