Long Slung Poems
Long Slung Poems. Below are the most popular long Slung by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Slung poems by poem length and keyword.
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
slung, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a Halloween In the 50'sThe excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With an old suit and hat of Granddads, I became a...
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Categories:
slung, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
The Philistine Troops Gathered Up For WarThe Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...
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Categories:
slung, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
All That Was SpartaOur lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
slung, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Car Wars - 1st Half In Text - Plus Full AudioHere's the scoop, friends...
This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way...
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Categories:
slung, car, humor,
Form:
Verse
All Is Fair In Love and War - Right“I prob’ly shouldn’t be telling you, Marge, but...knowing I can count on you to never tell another soul...get a load of this!
Just as I was hoping, my biggest prayer was answered - and after barely...
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Categories:
slung, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
the 3rd floorThis was last Saturday night. We were at a rooftop party in downtown New Haven thrown by ‘DocHouse.’ Doc-House is kind of a frat-house, owned by Dr. Melon, where he and seven doctoral students live....
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Categories:
slung, humor, school, social, student,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxii Part TwoUnquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, Sereno and the Hausgast –XXXii Part Two
The duties of the Housekeeper in the U.K. par rapport au Portero in Spain or the Gardienne in France is that...
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Categories:
slung, dedication, destiny, devotion, good night, loneliness, prison,
Form:
Sonnet
Armegeddon PrayerHave you ever found yourself stranded in the tract
between what you think is fiction and what you think is fact?
And whipped so hard with the bible belt, your minds a welt of doubt
throbbing in confusion...
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Categories:
slung, religious,
Form:
Couplet
Ode To the End of WarSharpened pens were brutal swords; a war was forged
Blow after blow was struck, with blood rage engorged
Not one single word between them had been spoken
No flag of truce waved, or friendship offered as token
Nothing was...
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Categories:
slung, friendship, war,
Form:
Epic
Dead Crush
"Dead Crush"
Oh uplift me woman
if we were to have a
conversation would
bees fly out of your mouth
or just mewling, simpering
watered-down honey
not so pristine, just soft
and somewhat
ingratiatingly tainted
you ply uplifting
romantic notions
like an air...
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Categories:
slung, courage, freedom, women,
Form:
Free verse
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised April 19th, 2023Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised April 19th, 2023
IM pen named Pilot Jane A. Rug
who ascribes to writing poetry
as opportunistic, holistic, and cathartic
warming me body electric
courtesy an outsize
warm brimful...
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Categories:
slung, absence, adventure, april, farewell, fate, heartbroken, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Aha Argh Oh My DogAha - argh... oh my dog...
don't mind me muttering, eh?
Earlier today (May 5th, 2020),
I forget thee exact hour
found me utterly beside mice elf,
matter of fact even at this moment,
yours truly doth feel mad at himself
cuz...
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Categories:
slung, adventure, celebration, fun, heartbroken, husband, nostalgia, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
G O DG O D
God my professor who does not sit on a stool at the head of the class correcting exam papers with their columns of graphite-filled dots with each question being multiple choice and the...
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Categories:
slung, christian, devotion, inspiration, jesus, song, teacher,
Form:
Prose
Victim Or VictorPhoenix and Phoenicia
They had both been victims of their own sad minds stories lost told and untold
narratives to be re-authored livid experience lived in silence meaning smeared in
crusted mud slung in terminal slots shots executed...
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Categories:
slung, change, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2024...
(Any resemblance between the following humorous account and real life circumstance tis purely coincidental).
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager...
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Categories:
slung, absence, adventure, confusion, humorous, march, missing,
Form:
Rhyme
I Survived Janjaweed Part 2Hordes of screams sounded out all around and masses of slashed bloody villagers staggered into our village. Grownups started running to finding stuff to clean them They kept saying “Janjaweed,...
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Categories:
slung, bereavement, death, death of a friend, family,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Up Up the Fly Away Wig Doth Go Revisited and Revised March 10th, 2022Up up the fly away wig doth go revisited and revised March 10th, 2022...
Went off for hair raising shindig
donning noggin of villager in Nigg
(historic county of Ross-shire,
historic region of Ross
and Cromarty, northeast
coast of Scotland).
Somehow postiche...
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Categories:
slung, absence, america, appreciation, beauty, character, england, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
Whitechapel, London 1888Wanton women of Whitechapel
Desperate and destitute
Weakened from want
Shrunken stomachs barren of bread
Dying from disease in dingy dosshouses
Selling themselves on the streets for shillings
to buy beer, a bed for the night
or a bonny new bonnet
to enable...
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Categories:
slung, death, england, history, london, murder, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
The High King's Noble Son, Part VV.
Prince Garrow, it seemed, had not listened well,
they said he was already riding south,
not even waiting to meet his twin bastards,
who’s mother had perished pushing them out.
Reth found himself looking down at two boys,
screaming infants,...
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Categories:
slung, courage, family, fantasy, love, truth, violence, war,
Form:
Epic
Caught In the ReignCAUGHT IN THE REIGN
“am i a real princess?” she articulates.
the painting, on her canvas nails, pains her.
firm fountain of toenails are just fine.
shrugs, “who knows why!?”
her lashes, feel the flecks, of mascara.
her skin itches at...
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Categories:
slung, princess,
Form:
Free verse
My Life So Far:I met my love one summer's day
Amongst the fields threshing hay
Her bonnet slung about her neck
As homewards afterwards we did trek
Her bonny brown hair
to waist length did fall
A comely wench with wherewithal
She at first was...
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Categories:
slung, voyage,
Form:
Free verse
A Child In WarAs the dust burns my weary eyes
I push on and compromise
Looking for a long lost dream
Of swimming through the waters clean
Bombs echoing in the distance
Dead and gone in an instance
Praying to god for...
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Categories:
slung, death, life, sad, song-god, me, war, pain,
Form:
Ballad
Hollywood Has Left the BuildingDawn is breaking as I get home from work
...
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Categories:
slung, angst, life, music, sonhouse, heart, heart, house,
Form:
Lyric
Soaring By the Sea Part 1Returned to the coast of the
mind, the tide of energy
wetness, rising in and out
we sat on the park
bench, the sun rays a warm
blanket upon skin
cracked out galling gulls
stared...
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Categories:
slung, happinessnight, time, sea, day, howl, me, night,
Form:
Free verse