Long Sideboard Poems
Long Sideboard Poems. Below are the most popular long Sideboard by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Sideboard poems by poem length and keyword.
Make Do and Mend
Make Do and Mend,
Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And never ever lock it
But still so many struggled
To buy food...
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Categories:
sideboard, community,
Form:
Verse
The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine's La Soupe Du Soir
The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s La soupe du soir
To J.-K. Huysmans
(Verlaine here paints a stark tableau of working-class or peasant life shorn of any symbolic or imaginary references. Even if I see no...
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Categories:
sideboard, poverty, stress,
Form:
Elegy
And Who Will Do the Mopping Up
Vae victis! Her quick eyes spy out the field.
Reconnoitred, the foe's dispositions have been noted,
quantified, assessed. The forces of order
and tidiness, in neat array,
perfect their alignment, await onslaught.
The sentinels stand guard:
A pot of...
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Categories:
sideboard, baby, child, violence,
Form:
Blank verse
A Ship In a Bottle
A Ship In A Bottle
My great Grand Father sailed to New Zealand on a ship called the Wild Deer in 1872. I have always loved ships in bottles, and one day decided I would drain...
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Categories:
sideboard, appreciation, art, boat, kids, grandparents, imagery, technology,
Form:
Ballade
Moment Suspended In Time
the universe inside each person, the thousands of facets that are hidden in each gesture, thought, second... so many lives existing concomitantly in one, our theater of joy and horrors could only happen in this...
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Categories:
sideboard, life, memory, remember,
Form:
Prose
Two Greatest Commandments
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love...
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Categories:
sideboard, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form:
Limerick
Miniature Juniper
Although I hardly gave it a thought
I didn't really doubt
our miniature juniper, a bonsai,
would survive our desert vacation.
...
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Categories:
sideboard, bird, flower, history, love, snow, water, weather,
Form:
Verse
The Old Lady Down the Street
A curled-up bundle of skin and hair
Adorns the window-seat
The sorry remains of Kitty
The old lady down the street
To those who saw her struggle daily
With her heavy shopping trolley
All of her ignorant neighbours
And her estranged sister...
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Categories:
sideboard, age, family, sad, society, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
The Mahogany Sideboard
Household Auction
Saturday and Sunday
Refreshments
I must sell some family heirlooms from grandmothers attic,
there are many items, jewelry, glass, lamps, and some furniture;
but the most treasured item is a mahogany sideboard quite exquisite,
beautifully carved, and ornate...
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Categories:
sideboard, old,
Form:
Narrative
This Slimming Lark
I am wanting to look good.
It is high time that I should
The mirror in the wardrobe told me so
I am now no longer fit
Just an old decrepit git
Who lost his youthful figure long ago
My hair...
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Categories:
sideboard, foodold, lost, lost, old, time,
Form:
I do not know?
INTERVIEW WITH A GOLDFISH
Good morning Mr. Goldie
And welcome to the show.
How is life for a goldfish,
Our viewers would like to know?
Well, as you can see, my world is round,
So I have three-sixty vision.
I can see the sideboard over...
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Categories:
sideboard, fish,
Form:
Rhyme
Cancer
in the corridors of this endless labyrinth every corner hides the abominable, like your last sad diagnosis, crumpled up and thrown on the old sideboard, or my pale face in the embarrassing portrait, still scared...
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Categories:
sideboard, cancer, pain, sorrow,
Form:
Prose
Heritage
The carpet was worn -
The pattern thin in some places,
But it was a “good” rug,
A real original Oriental.
We had others, too, and a
Silver tea service, slightly tarnished,
(Sterling, of course)
On the mahogany sideboard.
The...
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Categories:
sideboard, appreciation, care, family, growing up, love, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Musing Over Afternoon Tea
Whatever happened
To afternoon tea
Served around four o-clock
It used to be a daily ceremony
Out came a pretty cloth
From an old sideboard drawer
To put on a small table
Used many times before
On to this table
Doylies and napkins placed
Precisely...
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Categories:
sideboard, 10th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Lynne Cameron Taken At Her Home In North Ryde
The air, warm, unmoved, clings to our bodies
Like an old, familiar blanket.
From the west, the light,
A warm amber brew, pours down
And is strained through the leaves of the nearby gums
It fills the veranda and spills...
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Categories:
sideboard, character,
Form:
Free verse
Lighted House At Night
From across the park I see the house,
Open windows spilling pools of light
Onto the wide wraparound porch.
As I walk nearer, I take a look inside.
On the walls, framed paintings
And a cluster of family photographs,
Over-stuffed furniture,...
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Categories:
sideboard, family, love,
Form:
Free verse
True Story
Walking in the front door with my sisters in tow, the phone on the sideboard in the dining room started ringing incessantly. Upon answering the phone, a very determent voice accosted my ear with,...
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Categories:
sideboard, death, grief, parents, satire,
Form:
Other
Our Dream
We built ourselves a dream and sent it high into a blue sky,
Watched as the gods crushed it between their thighs-
cried as they threw it back down to earth- tiny pieces like rain,
our dream fell...
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Categories:
sideboard, bird, dream,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Heritage
all device features are described in the manual,
but we are still unruly in the streets,
I needed to know a lot more about fractions
that hide between the numbers one and two,
measure the exact extent of each...
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Categories:
sideboard, emo, life, mirror, perspective, sorrow, today,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sting
A bee sting caused her world to crash.
It made her leap about in pain into the
sideboard, tipping hot dogs, mustard,
ketchup, smearing stains on mom's new
carpet as dad slipped and fell down,...
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Categories:
sideboard, children,
Form:
Verse
The Art Show
The Art Show
At the art exhibition, it was about metal
craftily shaped to resemble tulips and roses
polished to mirror sharpness, and there were
trees made of barbered wire and a painting
made out of coat hangers, the...
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Categories:
sideboard, butterfly, career, change, child, christian, class,
Form:
Sonnet
Roots Under Glass
My stare,
? like a statue's -?
not a blink,
? wink?
...
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Categories:
sideboard, age, history,
Form:
Free verse
Sting
A bee sting caused her world to crash.
It made her leap about in pain into the
sideboard, tipping hot dogs, mustard,
ketchup, smearing stains on mom's new
carpet as dad slipped and fell down,...
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Categories:
sideboard, adventure, childhood, family, dad, dad,
Form:
Narrative
Sting
A bee sting caused her world to crash.
It made her leap about in pain into the
sideboard, tipping hot dogs, mustard,
ketchup, smearing stains on mom's new
carpet as dad slipped and fell down,...
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Categories:
sideboard, childhood,
Form:
Verse
Sideboard Sonnet
Oh, faithful four-legg’d friend, mahogany brown,
That stand beside my armchair day and night,
And never let my doilies be cast down,
Supporting my ashtray and reading-light.
Thy beauty this day is not as before,
When once you were presented...
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Categories:
sideboard, satireday,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter