Long Sixty four Poems
Long Sixty four Poems. Below are the most popular long Sixty four by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Sixty four poems by poem length and keyword.
The Game of HockeyThe Game of Hockey
By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed by Canadians since 1875,
When the game was first played, on...
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Categories:
sixty four, hockey, sports,
Form:
Verse
Attitude with latitudeAttitude with latitude
originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic
Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours truly
psyche asper paternal overture
toward aforementioned offspring
smitten with opprobrium
figuratively smacked upside...
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Categories:
sixty four, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal, family, father daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Populist PoliticsWhen I was sixteen
I wanted Robert Kennedy's life,
although I didn't know about his time squandered
in staffing McCarthyism's
Make America as Grotesque as Possible campaign,
Which would have given me pause
in that comparatively naive age
of green longing for...
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Categories:
sixty four, bullying, earth, environment, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
I Can Win the War Without Destroying the WorldI have been reluctant to write this poem
Because I don't want to disappoint anyone
from going to heaven
I have been reluctant to write this poem
Because it has been a heavy burden
Yesterday a little past noon
I...
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Categories:
sixty four, absence, america, angel, community, death, faith, farewell,
Form:
Narrative
The CowboyThe Cowboy
A hundred thousand miles
were written on his face
He'd earned near every wrinkle
Did this cowboy known as "Jace"
He'd ridden cross the country
From Death Valley up to Maine
In weather full of sunshine
To the roughest hurricane
He owned...
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Categories:
sixty four, america,
Form:
Epic
The Driving LicenseWhich are your points for living
if we all die into cold leaky stink or ash anyway?
What's the point of dying
if we could otherwise live continuously?
Heading down the river
on AAA rite of ritual passage.
Six years since...
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Categories:
sixty four, age, death, earth, health, humanity, humor, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Awaiting a growth spurt that never happenedAwaiting a growth spurt that never happened
When a boy,
I wanted to be as tall as my father
(he passed away October seventh
two thousand and twenty
linkedin to congestive heart failure),
who stood at his prime
about six feet and...
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Categories:
sixty four, 12th grade, 9th grade, anger, angst, birth,
Form:
Free verse
A Psalm To Solemnize Pure Tin Forefathers MothersA psalm to solemnize pure tin forefathers/mothers...
Who didst unknowingly, unquestionably,
and unwittingly script vitality
and the prologue to Thanksgiving,
(which theme poem initially written)
about three hundred and ninety seven years,
and nine months after February third 1621,
yet...
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Categories:
sixty four, adventure, africa, age, america, animal, autumn, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Degrees of SeparationThe story of my unique biosystem
goes back,
as does yours,
through six degrees of separation,
each with its own dominant culture,
tincture,
color,
taste and feel.
Feedback loops began with rainbows
and tidal streams ebbing and flowing
and lunar
and solar cycles.
Looping back in spirals
of...
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Categories:
sixty four, happiness, health, history, integrity, peace,
Form:
Free verse
The Poet IsadoreHe sat behind the counter,
Inside the used bookstore.
I thought I recognized him,
As if we'd met...
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Categories:
sixty four, growth, inspiration, journey, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
DaleDale, as your birthday fast approaches, just think!
You would be turning sixty-four!
Maybe by now, you’d even have retired
from a law practice I’m sure would have been successful.
It’s easy to imagine this since in my...
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Categories:
sixty four, brother,
Form:
Free verse
Wonderment at existence mineWonderment at existence – mine
a sixty four year old married bloke
born January 13th, mcmlix
under Capricorn sign in general,
and January 13th in particular
who dons online personage
with custom (think
swiftly tailored harried styled)
made poetic raiment cloak.
With...
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Categories:
sixty four, adventure, age, animal, celebration, character, creation, identity,
Form:
Rhyme
BondsI was raised in a prison of darkness
along walls of cement have I groped
the hearts here deep scarred and callous
no...
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Categories:
sixty four, allegory, angst, care, child, daughter, death, devotion,
Form:
Verse
BondsI was raised in a prison of darkness
along walls of cement have I groped
the hearts here deep scarred and callous
no...
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Categories:
sixty four, abuse, anger, betrayal, character, conflict, depression, hurt,
Form:
Rhyme
RhythmSee them dressed in colors soldiers, regiment, British royal guards, guard bearskin, grandier guards, Buckingham palace guards dressed in scarlet red walking behind the queen’s casket and reminiscing the dead. Their tall bearskin hat almost...
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Categories:
sixty four, animal, death, destiny, endurance, environment, eulogy, motivation,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
sixty four, absence, destiny, dream, imagination, lost, missing, time,
Form:
Free verse
Prayer Solemnizing VitalityWise no adulation, dedication and gratification
not emphasized the other three hundred and sixty four days a year
question their role as consumed end product of taxidermist,
gnome hatter clucks...
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Categories:
sixty four, adventure, america, boat, courage, endurance, power, religious,
Form:
Epic
Two WordsI heard a voice across the road
A girl from class I hardly knew
Not just “Hello”
But “Hello Chris”
Two words where maybe
Just one would do
It was Joy Pepper
Smoky grey eyes
And a smile so warm I’m sure
That it...
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Categories:
sixty four, crush, sad, teen love,
Form:
I do not know?
Ode To Bobby FischerChild of darkness, child of scorn,
the devil danced when you were born,
for demon seed from Morphy passed,
would haunt your days ‘til everlast.
Predestined to die derelict,
an iso-pawn so cynical,
how cruel a fate awaits the one
that conquered...
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Categories:
sixty four, death, eulogy, memorial, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Overcoming My Depression Part OneOvercoming my depression. How can I best accomplish it in the troubled times like these? Frequently I recite in my mind my favorite Bible verse John 3:16, "For God so loved the world...
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Categories:
sixty four, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Learning when how to close seat thenLearning when/how to close seat then...
flush... the toilet with good frisson!
Bull leave me you, though how bison
teen and juvenile
from a sixty four year old
married male no less!
(alternately titled long windedly
using lower case letters:
no matter...
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Categories:
sixty four, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, age,
Form:
Rhyme
Three Score and Fifteen Years AgoThree Score and Fifteen Years Ago
By Franklin Price
11/14/2020
Three score and fifteen years ago
I was born upon this earth
Joined a family of eight,
Was the ninth, for what it's worth
Four sisters and two brothers
A mother, father there...
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Categories:
sixty four, birthday, celebration, family, life,
Form:
Rhyme
June Nineteenth One Hundred and Fifty Years AgoJune nineteenth one hundred and fifty years ago
Juneteenth hint: three hundred
and sixty six days
after eighteen sixty four.
Major General Gordon Granger
led the Union Soldiers to Galveston, Texas,
to announce the end of the Civil war
and the freedom...
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Categories:
sixty four, africa, america, anniversary, appreciation, black african american,
Form:
Free verse
An Awful HarvestAn Awful Harvest
I went a hike up to Wawa in Montalban and up the mountain roads. Here I was to go past the peaks of Mt Parawagan, Susong Dalaga and Mt Lagyo plus others. The...
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Categories:
sixty four, adventure, military, nature,
Form:
Verse
Two Thousand Twenty-TwoTwo Thousand Twenty-two
By Franklin Price
03/05/2022
As the year was turning over, from two thousand one to two,
God was watching down from Glory, knowing what he had to do.
You had fought the cancer valiantly, since the decade...
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Categories:
sixty four, bereavement, christian, death, god,
Form:
Couplet