Long Slugs Poems
Long Slugs Poems. Below are the most popular long Slugs by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Slugs poems by poem length and keyword.
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s dreams
rust crumbles to dust
Virulent apathy spreads
Betrayal’s destruction
hand...
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Categories:
slugs, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Auschwitz RoseAuschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...
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Categories:
slugs, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
Apocalyptic Poems IThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...
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Categories:
slugs, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Frog Prince - Part 1A funny frog called Mr Snog,
once lived beside a slimy bog,
he was a most peculiar fellow,
his hat was red, his boots were yellow,
his waistcoat was an olive green,
the strangest sight you’ve ever seen,
no matter where...
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Categories:
slugs, allegory, fairy, humorous, metaphor,
Form:
Light Verse
A Rum n Raisin Special - Seeking MiltonTheir human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with the credits rolling past
And Raisin said, “That gunslinger was super...
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Categories:
slugs, cat, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Chinese SonnetsI
These days I forgive myself everything. After all
I'm alone and unhappy so I give myself a little treat
whenever possible. On summer nights I remember
the good women who loved me but live with their husbands now.
This...
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Categories:
slugs, crazy, friend, grief, kiss, society, women, work,
Form:
Verse
On Property ManagementMy wife and I were apartment managers for 18 grueling years that rented exclusively to college students, and - though everything I claim here is either disgusting or scary - or BOTH....it’s all true!
Well, it’s...
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Categories:
slugs, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Mating of the Rich and FamousI once walked into my backyard
and found two slugs mating in a bucket
I had just learned how slugs go about mating,
or trust-I would have been rightly confused
Here hangs a long line of slime, almost...
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Categories:
slugs, animal, beauty, cat, dance, love, nature,
Form:
Prose
Sometimes: a Random Poem, Part ISometimes I think I should have started this prose
With a disclaimer of sorts
To my readers, many of those
Who may think me out of my gourd
Sometimes I think this disclaimer should be
Short and sweet, honest and...
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Categories:
slugs, allegory, allusion, analogy, fun, mental illness, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost: For the Children of the HolocaustLost
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost—
lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight,
vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars
immeasurable...
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Categories:
slugs, child, children, death, holocaust, loss, lost, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Three-Fifth Stooges Quartet
Moe
Larry
Curly
Shep
Joe
This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know
Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry and Curly passed my way
They were yukking it up,
talking clown...
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Categories:
slugs, fun, humor, parody, political, satire,
Form:
Light Verse
John 3: 16 RewriteIf John 3:16 is read as,
For God so loved Earth
that S/he gave up Her only begotten-beloved Child,
so all future regenerating generations
might have eternal timeless love lives.
it doesn't feel quite right.
It doesn't even sound rational,
nor consistently...
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Categories:
slugs, destiny, earth, gender, god, health, war,
Form:
Political Verse
Beef Jerkey and a Bottle of WineA tramp steamer plies an ocean of fog.
The Chief Bos’n makes a note in the log while the helmsman
Strains to see beyond the wheel.
The ship’s Captain leaves the bridge with a groan....
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Categories:
slugs, adventure, sea,
Form:
Ballad
My Childhood Christmas MemoryAn age old tradition has gone viral in the sky, Santa is moving around in his three piece gown carrying I don’t know what in his burnt out sleigh; gift I supposed? Three...
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Categories:
slugs, business, christmas, courage, education, environment, holiday, hope,
Form:
Narrative
Summer ThanksgivingTwo bails of straw, an ornament,
...
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Categories:
slugs, fun, garden,
Form:
Rhyme
Child Once MoreWouldn't it be wonderful to wake up one morning
To find you were still a child
So much energy jumping up and down upon your bed
So many wonders and thoughts swirling through your bed
No responsibilities
Just fun and...
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Categories:
slugs, adventure, child, childhood, fun, funny, growing up,
Form:
Couplet
Fruit LeatherYou bite that apple!
Give it a go, put on a show
There is no shame
You said shame is a sham
And clams are happy
Do they hop or skip?
Tripping along the seafloor
Playing hopscotch
Eating numbers like cookies
Chips Ahoy!
Sleeve after...
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Categories:
slugs, fruit, humor, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Summer HolidaysMonday, Monday what a start to a beautiful summer holidays day
The kids are on their summer term holidays, so, hip, hip, hooray
I get some time off work; just so to look after the little...
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Categories:
slugs, children, funny, holiday, humor, mother, summer,
Form:
Couplet
The Witches of Wong Get Everything WrongOnce upon a time in a woodland vale,
A town called Wong had an amazing tale,
Of witches who plotted to harm the townsfolk,
But their spells were so bad they became quite a joke.
Hubble, bubble,...
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Categories:
slugs, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, children,
Form:
Rhyme
Rat-A-Tat-TatThe typewriters tap,
with a rat-a-tat-tat,
like a fourth estate rap
to provide us the pap
(that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat)
in a newspaper scrap
crammed with meaningless crap
from the editor's yap
(spewing flimflamy flak, booming rat-a-tat-tat)
after gashing a...
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Categories:
slugs, society, violence, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Depression: An ExplanationImagine it like a black slug, feeding on me, leeching off what is left of my happiness. Sitting deep in the pit of my stomach growing larger stronger with every day that goes by that...
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Categories:
slugs, anxiety, cry, deep, depression, emo, emotions, how
Form:
Narrative
Oh MolesA translucent but lucid idea is best held by a pea in a pod. A pea in a pod is protected whilst in the pod but shelling the peas means that the pea would then...
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Categories:
slugs, adventure, africa,
Form:
I do not know?
Never Land Part 5A lad is stopped by roving cops, who shoot in disregard.
His face is black, he’s on his back, a breeze is breathing hard,
he bleeds and dies, his mama cries, the screaming sky is scarred,
the sheriff...
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Categories:
slugs, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Fragrance of LifeFragrance of Life ©
Cool rain drums on blistering
asphalt, the scent streams into
the nostrils--hot, grassy smell of
summer, freshly cut-smoky
cedar lingers on the air
Fresh popcorn drenched in
butter, I sit in...
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Categories:
slugs, life, senses,
Form:
Free verse
Demon 'Punchers, Part VV.
He could hold his breath over a minute,
bullets hit water, didn’t penetrate it,
he’d used this trick before against his foes,
water stopped slugs fast, not many did know.
When he rose again the demons were out,
so Sol...
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Categories:
slugs, conflict, corruption, evil, god, hero, horror, western,
Form:
Narrative