Long Spectacles Poems
Long Spectacles Poems. Below are the most popular long Spectacles by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Spectacles poems by poem length and keyword.
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
spectacles, memory,
Form:
Prose
Smooth Big Cat
"Smooth Big Cat"
He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.
She met him on the upswing from the abyss of a dismally closed final chapter....
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Categories:
spectacles, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form:
Narrative
Colin the Caped Cabbie
Colin 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:
spectacles, hero, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes
Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes
My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography
qua zee mow toe natural formed...
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Categories:
spectacles, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Train - POTD
POTD 25 Nov 2020
Manage your Stress … a peeling faded poster boldly declares
I do get it about advertising campaigns.
Enough to know that,
‘strategically placed ads’ catching the eye, is huge.
But this poster...
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Categories:
spectacles, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Fabrics Finding Fabrications
A prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here and there. Then to reappear with an often violent burst...
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Categories:
spectacles, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Many British thermal units later
Many British thermal units* later
Vice linkedin to carnal flesh this writer,
(a married heterosexual doofus, –
whose alter egos
named and highlighted courtesy
Gallant and Goofus) attones
to heat these lovely bag of bones
amazingly graceful human...
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Categories:
spectacles, 12th grade, appreciation, blessing, change, humorous, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Quotient
I went out for the newspaper at the usual time this morning, shortly after 5AM, (yes, I'm one of the "odd few" who still enjoys the crisp feel of a morning paper in my hands),...
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Categories:
spectacles, analogy, appreciation, earth, life, universe, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Granddaughter to Grandmother, Grandmother to Grandmother
The wind is blowing cold tonight
...
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Categories:
spectacles, age, granddaughter, grandmother, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Please come join me in spirit if not in body
Please come join me in spirit if not in body...
regarding my resumption
of daily/mostly nightly constitutional
I accompany my dark shadow...
(small number of hours
before edge of night,
where twilight zone evokes night gallery -
drawing...
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Categories:
spectacles, absence, animal, autumn, celebration, friendship, happiness, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Stillness in November
Over harvested fields —
I walk beneath the fading afterglow
of a forgotten lantern a path worn
by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno
its damp salve seeping through my coat
into my bones
Fog an Erebian curtain...
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Categories:
spectacles, autumn, farm, november,
Form:
Pastoral
A Wish For Fish and a Dolphins Swish
A WISH FOR ALL FISH
Washed up on shores around the world
Already dead, a whale, a dolphin a shark,
All marine life is suffering, the situation
Has become absurd,
The facts real and stark!
My Fairy God mother...
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Categories:
spectacles, fish,
Form:
Free verse
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks...,
(a poor excuse for legs),
and get me the latest
sophisticated prosthetics advancements,
whereat integration of cultured stem cells
into custom made appendages
allows, enables, and provides
unfortunate recipients of amputations
to experience sensations.
No more will...
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Categories:
spectacles, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger, april, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Booby Trapped Within Apartment Unit B44
Booby trapped within apartment unit b44
Circa August 18th, 2021
three bajillion years ago to date,
nevertheless I count blessings,
so please do not hashtag me
as worse than an ingrate
or one whose dire financial straits
attributed...
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Categories:
spectacles, adventure, anxiety, confusion, divorce, environment, grief, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Albedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfall
Albedo effect in full force after appreciable snowfall
After descent of eventide
luminescence of freshly fallen snow
still illuminates the terrestrial firma bright
even upon the onset of dusk,
when dark shadows
betoken the edge of night
analogously herald outer limits
invoking intimations...
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Categories:
spectacles, appreciation, break up, celebration, dark, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Making a Big Pie By Mr E Fortisque
It is time. Yes. It is time. Time for all time telling devices to climb up trees. The grandfather clocks can climb the oaks. The watches can climb the willows. The alarm clocks can climb...
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Categories:
spectacles, art, august, , western,
Form:
I do not know?
Figurines
Figurines
Lace up your shoes
Wear your black hoodie
And your Timberland’s, too
You’ll never know what ‘ll happen to you
Or where you’ll end up
On your way home
Your ancestors have walked this land
In shackles and in...
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Categories:
spectacles, abuse, africa, death, evil, flower, freedom, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
Curse of Miscalculation Dk
he was not dumb
but he struck his thumb
now he was dumb-struck
and screamed jolly good
his hand in plaster
and bad luck his master
he could not drive his truck
to bide his time
he drank some wine
set out to...
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Categories:
spectacles, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Mingling Like Mmmmmmmmm
What is the difference between a digger, a forklift truck, a spoon, and a toaster? None. Bread slices can be carried by forklifts and bread can be dug by a digger particularly if ground. The...
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Categories:
spectacles, adventure, allegory, analogy,
Form:
I do not know?
The Passing of Edward
Martha was rudely awaken on Monday morning
With the phone call we all dread
“Mrs Palmer we regret to inform you
That your husband Edward is dead”
She thought that it was tactless
The way she had been told
Couldn’t they...
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Categories:
spectacles, death, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Grandma's Binoculars
"Look, Grandma! I can see them! You were right! They do steal!" I jumped up and down in all excitement. Grandma grabbed the binoculars from me, pressing it as close as she possibly could to...
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Categories:
spectacles, adventure, childhood, children, dog, grandmother,
Form:
Prose
The Questions I See
What do I see? I see ... THE ALL ...
The chance to kiss deep the matter, dark, and merge with the macrocosm ... to
embrace the tremble of strings, like the fingertips of a lustful god,...
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Categories:
spectacles, analogy, appreciation, humanity, mystery, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Fantastic Flight - Chapter 4 - In the Long Run
*chorus*
The mountain winds are howling its stormy resentment
The snow glitters on the triumphant mountains…
I’ve tried to conceal these feelings of discontent
My eyes are spraying with tears of sorrow – weep no more, sad fountains
Don’t push...
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Categories:
spectacles, adventure, beauty, blessing, hope, lost, miracle, mountains,
Form:
Lyric
Fear's Chains Chained Haiku
Fears Chains (Haiku)
First line 5 syllables
Second line 7 syllables
Third line 5 syllables
(7 syllables)
Caught within a snare
The paralyzing peepshow
Seduces you there
(Making itself intimate)
(undressing for your favor)
(Fairydust of lunacy)
Scrolls, parchments, bark, at the moon)
(Self fulfilling prophecy)
(Demons of...
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Categories:
spectacles, absence, anxiety, courage, emo, evil, gothic, halloween,
Form:
Haiku
Naija Lokomotive
The bespectacled old man
Adjusted his spectacles and his hearing aids,
Positioned his walking stick
Then,
Inched forward as the caravan stuttered
And,
Birthed at Aqua Caliente Station
Unable to make out
The train number and destination,
He turned to me
And asked in a...
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Categories:
spectacles, leadership, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry