Long Sidewalk Poems
Long Sidewalk Poems. Below are the most popular long Sidewalk by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Sidewalk poems by poem length and keyword.
VillanellesVillanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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Categories:
sidewalk, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
An Affective Disorder, the Doctor SaidNo, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie's number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worked hard,...
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Categories:
sidewalk, anxiety, mental illness, , 8th grade, ,
Form:
Prose
Please Consider Those Who - Not By Choice - Are Living Alone - 2nd ThirdThis is the 2nd THIRD of my 3-part poem - see Mark Stellinga on Poetry Soup for the other 2 THIRDS - couldn't be helped.
“What about neighbors,” I carefully pried...“do any of them check on...
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Categories:
sidewalk, love, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Things That Break IPoems about Things that Break I
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
sidewalk, break up, depression, goodbye, leaving, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
LA SewersWhen I was a child in Los Angeles, you could size up groups approaching by watching their movements.
I remember this gang of older kids approaching me, watching them carefully while looking down to see if...
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Categories:
sidewalk, abuse, child, child abuse, childhood, children, culture,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About RegretRegret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
sidewalk, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Colin the Caped CabbieColin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to...
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Categories:
sidewalk, hero, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
The Armless AmbidextrianI. The Love of Minds
The volume on the desk,
The one not claimed by dust or burned
By light, will follow her to bed tonight.
Its pages will be turned and smothered,
Each in turn, so as not to...
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Categories:
sidewalk, conflict, death, depression, desire, fear, life,
Form:
Free verse
What Is a Life To YouWhat is a life to you?
Do you wake up to love
imagine a future with someone?
A wife or a husband,
a child or ten?
An exaggeration,
but love is different to everyone.
Do you have a cat or a dog,
that...
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Categories:
sidewalk, america, anger, emotions, grief, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Kitchens Are DirtyIt was dark out. The stars shone dimly, and the horizon blushed faintly as the birds sang, too cheery for the hour. A chill swept the edges of all the outside world: not cold enough...
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Categories:
sidewalk, absence, cry, depression, home, loneliness, lonely, silence,
Form:
I do not know?
Vacation In New OrleansWalking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves. The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses. My luggage...
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Categories:
sidewalk, dark, evil, scary,
Form:
Haibun
The Long Way HomeIt was late in the balmy springtime, and I was attending a lecture,
On a topic of great interest, which was the history of architecture.
As a great lover of beauty, I admired structural geometric designs,
Like the...
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Categories:
sidewalk, fantasy, home, magic, people, school, spring, time,
Form:
Couplet
Red TulipsUnder a tree of wet blossoms, shimmering to life in the sun, one honey bee is circling around two burly men, who wave it off, with childlike dramatics...arms flailing. One of them,...
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Categories:
sidewalk, friendship, me, red, spring, tree,
Form:
Verse
Crackled_ _ _ _While walking one day in crisp autumn air,
On the edge of the sidewalk, I saw it so clearly_ _ _ _
...
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Categories:
sidewalk, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Riding Sixties ShotgunI was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...
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Categories:
sidewalk, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form:
Political Verse
La FermeIt was a cool, overcast and windy Sunday afternoon in March 2014. We were about 50 miles from Paris, at my Grandmère’s (grandmother’s) farm. She lives in Paris, but she owns a Château and surrounding...
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Categories:
sidewalk, 4th grade, easter, family, friendship, grandmother, murder,
Form:
Free verse
The Proof Is In the Pudding 1The weather was fine today so I decide to go outside and play
I didn't have a plan but I was consistent with the weather man
I stepped out of the house and walked down the empty...
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Categories:
sidewalk, adventure, america, break up, christmas, conflict, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
I Could Never Be the RainMy life started with rain,
the steady stream of drops,
hitting the trees gently
and ending its descent to our world
on the wet pavement.
I am on the sidewalk,
sheltered by a makeshift roof and
a border of trees.
The...
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Categories:
sidewalk, body, loneliness, longing, passion, rain, symbolism, voice,
Form:
Free verse
G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
A rising sun burns like a solar flare
from St....
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Categories:
sidewalk, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
Landlord-Tenant Relationship Protection Available Help Hot-LinesLandlord-Tenant Relationship Protection: Available Help Hot-Lines!
Greetings everyone and I pray that each of you will overcome this coronavirus pandemic, which has impacted many communities in various ways. The Census Bureau assessment paints an image that's...
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Categories:
sidewalk, angst, conflict, feelings, heartbreak, humanity, people, soldier,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn - a Year Ago Yet Now No Change Diary Notes: Lament at Dawn A Year Ago and yet now No Change
...
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Categories:
sidewalk, august, christian, discrimination, hate, immigration, islamic, jewish,
Form:
Free verse
Windows To My SoulI sat at my desk in the early hours of the morning listening to the words of the mighty one calling “windows to my soul” kept warning. I didn’t question it, I didn’t understand...
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Categories:
sidewalk, abuse, august, business, confidence, courage, education, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
Our Lives Are But a Blink - Both Audio and TextLife is way too short for some, and far too long for others -
“Says here, ‘Lester Kiblingworth - a former county sheriff - and oldest man in Sidwell, passed away at one-oh-three,’”
I announced to...
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Categories:
sidewalk, life,
Form:
Rhyme
StagnatedS T A G N A T E D
"I'm pregnant."
A snake chill suddenly crawl in his spine when he heard her words. Icy sweats ran to his brows. He was astound! Tongue-tied. How else could...
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Categories:
sidewalk, character, growing up, relationship, sad, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Which Love Was TrueSuccess left my hand,
Abandoned me and had thrown me out of my dreamland,
Broke my trust, killed my faith, took my only reason to live.
I crumbled down to the ground and wondered how would...
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Categories:
sidewalk, break up, dedication, depression, desire, poetry, success,
Form:
Rhyme