Long Shuts Poems
Long Shuts Poems. Below are the most popular long Shuts by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Shuts poems by poem length and keyword.
Mad Molly ShawThis is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar...
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Categories:
shuts, western,
Form:
Rhyme
InstructionInstruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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Categories:
shuts, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
Poems About Poems IPoems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.
Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch
“What will you conceive in...
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Categories:
shuts, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
shuts, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
The Love Song of L Marie ModenbachWe disagree
I want to breathe people
Feel a timeless, immortal pulse
My solitude is anonymous observation
Strolling in unnoticed contemplation through worlds stacked upon worlds
The Flâneuse
My sustenance is colorful variety
Diving into the expressionism of bizarre fringes
Taste testing any...
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Categories:
shuts, change, emotions, growth, humanity, love, society, together,
Form:
Free verse
A View From a WindowAs dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground, insane,
immersed in scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and...
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Categories:
shuts, peace, people, political, society,
Form:
Rhyme
MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART IICONTINUES PART II:
Then she departs, ... his newfound friend
stands (clueless me, no intro of her) I with Rick ... waiting
wife comes--(Hellooo Oh) newfound by brochure stand
he says, "My wife Kris." "Hm" <--(My utterance--smiling, as I'm...
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Categories:
shuts, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form:
Narrative
At the Crux4/8/24
Aww shucks
Still at the crux
In a state of flux
With reality still out of touch
I've been puzzled much
So I smoke a couple blunts
That's a double dutch
From dawn to dusk
I turned myself into a husk
Just so I...
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Categories:
shuts, dark, deep, life, poetry, rap, sad, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Passionyou don't know
my love!
it doesn't whisper,
or...
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Categories:
shuts, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Over the Edge
Jack and Sam
were two inseparable souls
Best friends tend to be like that,
especially if both were born on the same day
They were two good looking kids,
who liked to play rough and tumble
Didn't mind scraping their knees...
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Categories:
shuts, best friend, death, horror, sad,
Form:
Epic
Blarney Stone Collab-MORE ADDITIONSIf anyone would like to have some community fun,
please send me a limerick(s) in a comment or soup mail.
The famous Blarney Stone, some can't resist
When in Ireland, it's on tourist's checklist
But do...
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Categories:
shuts, humor,
Form:
Limerick
A Dashing BladeIn a house high on a hill an old man grows weak, many years have gone, he lays in his old bed,
Back in the day, a dashing young officer with a brilliant red uniform he...
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Categories:
shuts, nostalgia, beautiful, old, sweet, beauty, summer, beautiful,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Golden PenLightly the rain falls upon the lamp lit streets, the shabbily dressed figure
Walks with an air of uncertainty down the cobbled stone streets, leaning,
On his rickety cane, the elderly gentleman huddles beneath his umbrella Of...
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Categories:
shuts, celebrity, dark, farewell, fear, halloween, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
He Was the BraveSat in his chair, the tv still on
He’s not changed the channel for so very long
The message on screen says a shut down’s ensuing
But press any button to carry on viewing
The remote, untouched on the...
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Categories:
shuts, hero, remembrance day, war,
Form:
Couplet
All Is Well At the PondTwilight, the frolicking hour of the nocturnal animals.
A curtain of gray melancholy slowly shuts out the sun.
There are two gentle remembering streaks across the sky,
Then all is dark. The master artist knew what He...
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Categories:
shuts, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
The Haunted HouseThe Haunted House
So vacuous this winding road
A rainy eve for man, not fit
As shivers course my dampened skin
My vehicle, this place does quit
When through the pines these eyes do spy
A silhouette of monstrous...
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Categories:
shuts, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
SeasonsAt First Dawn,
The curtains part.
The sun gently peaks over a distant horizon as its rays lightly stretch over the sky.
What was once the darkest blue speckled with small jewels is now an abstract mural...
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Categories:
shuts, autumn, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Lizabeth's Henry Is Down and Gone Part IiRay has a hole, now, taps a long bar in,
And ties the winch to it, and turns it on,
“STAY BACK!” he howls, “THIS CABLE’S ALMOST GONE!”
The bar flies out, the cover slips, the din
The winch-engine...
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Categories:
shuts, courage, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Peaceful Dreams of the NightWhen the days become so tiring and the mind does not want to rest
Many thought race in the midst of the mind where it gathers
Torn from reality comes the moments that rest unlocks
Bearable to see...
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Categories:
shuts, blessing, dream, growth, imagination, inspiration, journey, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
How Was It Missed.I recently went to see my doctor. I suffer with a degenerative disease in my spine, only after
a car accident did the disease wake up and its been down hill all the way for...
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Categories:
shuts, lifeme, people, me, people,
Form:
I do not know?
Pied PiperessAs Medusa walks in, shuts the door,
caresses precision hand down the mahogany-
and shows one what for.
Senses in starbursts-cloudburst
flavor crystals accenting- your bloom
of predicate corpus, cat claws in my brain,
comes metamorphosis-
Led mushrooming depth of...
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Categories:
shuts, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hollow TreeThe hollow tree of a man, ...
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Categories:
shuts, bereavement, death, desire, father son, funeral, growing
Form:
Rhyme
Walls ana wailsWALLS AND WAILS
I am confined within these four walls
For far too long and pray a wall falls
And the guns jam with wardens asleep
As I take a walk of freedom, a leap
To a new world without...
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Categories:
shuts, 12th grade, depression, freedom, literature, self,
Form:
Rhyme
The DraglineTHE DRAGLINE for Pete Brett
One hundred foot boom
7-½-yard bucket
The tracks are like
Ones on the tracks of a tank
They go chunk clunk and clank
Arm of the boom...
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Categories:
shuts, family, dance, me, old, light, dance, light,
Form:
Free verse
Www.Myspace.Com/November_21_1979shadowfiend sold me
a place to hang the alphabet
the transformation of your schism
communication of the ascention we havent learned just yet
slide away the weapon of a code of imperfection
the stories told like whispering winds
closer now than...
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Categories:
shuts, angst, history, lifeme,
Form:
Free verse