Long Spinster Poems
Long Spinster Poems. Below are the most popular long Spinster by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Spinster poems by poem length and keyword.
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
spinster, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Frozen Soul Within Her Heart
Frozen Soul Within Her Heart-
She's Terrified to Feel
Her shadowed past still haunts her-
each night as every light-
fades back into the darkness,
as ghostly beings rise.
She gave her heart to someone,
and...
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Categories:
spinster, emotions, heartbroken, missing,
Form:
Free verse
The Ballad of Freddie and Flo
This is a story about Freddie and Flo,
They lived in Baltimore a long time ago.
It might be called a May-September romance
And shows how love can blossom if it's given a chance.
Flo taught Sunday School, her...
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Categories:
spinster, humor,
Form:
Ballad
Democracy Ii
Oh, Democracy,*
You, the most desirable bride among
Political systems,
Your suitors many have been throughout
History
In every part of the world, you were the one
They were after
But
You declined their proposals, despite the...
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Categories:
spinster, philosophy, political, society,
Form:
Free verse
Democracy
Oh, Democracy,*
You, the most desirable bride among
Political systems,
Your suitors many have been throughout
History
In every part of the world, you were the one
They were after
But
You declined their proposals, despite the...
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Categories:
spinster, people, philosophy, political,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Defending Democracy
Oh Democracy,
You, most desirable bride among political systems,
Your suitors have been many throughout history,
In every part of the world, you were the one
They were after
But
You have declined their proposals, despite the fact
All...
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Categories:
spinster, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Me very late mum, a funereal day
Me very late mum, a funereal day...
courtesy latitudinarian, nonestablishmentarian,
sexagenarian, and Unitarian son
and modest mastermind maven maverick.
Another anniversary of her death occurs
upon advent of
May fourth two thousand and five,
not quite seventy years since her...
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Categories:
spinster, absence, age, america, anniversary, atheist, birth, death,
Form:
Rhyme
We Rage
“Let your light shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father
in heaven”
There is an eternal sight that lights the lives of men,
She is wondrous, full of rage and fury.
And...
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Categories:
spinster, inspirationalworld, lost, light, light, lost, men, time,
Form:
Blank verse
George and the Spinster
I didn’t know George was an amorous lad,
causing chat on the bush telegraph.
I’d never heard George had done nothing bad,
‘cept splitting one marriage in half.
George never delved into breaking the law,
so there’s never a day...
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Categories:
spinster, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
College Bill
I grew up with Phillip Jones who was our doctor’s son.
We built huts amongst the ti-tree and fired the odd slug gun.
We went through school together and we hung out up the street;
played footy and...
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Categories:
spinster, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
They Ask
1. They Ask (For 1984 riots)
Everyone asks;
how were you coupled with him?
Whose desertion
has dried up your eyes.
Finding solace in my gasps
You tell me-
How can I disclose
that the radiance of your blood,
before becoming my vermilion,
is gleaming...
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Categories:
spinster, poetry, violence, women,
Form:
Blank verse
The Troll and the Spinster
One evening an old ailurophile strolled through a forest with her blackest of cats,
To brood on her once goldenrod hair and the callipygous bottom on which she once sat.
Her head hung low upon shrugged cathartic...
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Categories:
spinster, beauty, fantasy, fate,
Form:
Couplet
A House Without a Fence
These walls are broken,
termites eaten, the bricks crumbling
clay, the remains of dust.
was this ever a house, ?
Their first fire extinct,
it was never real,
The early smiles were deception
A makeup never truly...
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Categories:
spinster, break up, bullying, divorce, dog, feelings, goodbye,
Form:
List
A Faerie Tale For Assertive Girl Children
Once upon a mountaintop a she-monster named Mazy
was searching for a man.
She wanted a young, honest alien man. Not a nutty old
tooth-jagged Monster like Bill or Dan.
We were horrified. Inner-galaxy dating...
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Categories:
spinster, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Oh Mother
Oh mother, hold me in your womb - safe and secure,
You do not judge me, you do not call me names,
Except when you are encouraging me,
Grow little bud and bloom - you whisper in the...
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Categories:
spinster, absence, death,
Form:
Free verse
Thank You For Saving Me
Chelle knew she was too old to get married
or even meet a man now
She was living at home, working as a bookkeeper for her dad.
She would be doing this until she died, she...
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Categories:
spinster, love,
Form:
Free verse
Marital Bliss
Once upon a time, a Bedeviled Bachelor,
fell in love with a Sinister Spinster.
It seemed to be a match made in Heaven,
until the day all Hell broke loose.
It started when the Bachelor's Brother,
laid eyes on the...
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Categories:
spinster, love, marriage,
Form:
Prose
The Legend of Backwater
Way down south at the edge of the swamp,
Was a little town known as Backwater.
A peaceful town that most folks found,
Was a good place to raise sons and daughters.
A plague hit the town and people...
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Categories:
spinster, halloween,
Form:
Quatrain
Love Ballad
A gentle knight chirped and roaming the way of desert at night.
His dancy browny hair, blue eyes made romantic guy and couraged.
He lured by lovely song beyond a hill.
Eagerly, he rushed his...
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Categories:
spinster, devotion, love, uplifting, heart, song, red, heart,
Form:
Ballad
Loaves and Fishes
Rita was visiting. She pointed off the road. Let’s go there. So we did. It was the CIA - Culinary Institute of America. Like Auntie Mame, my aunt was a world traveler, an adventurer. My...
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Categories:
spinster, god, life,
Form:
Haibun
The Unkept Grave
At the edge of the old cemetery,
I found an unkept grave.
It was though the person interned there,
Had a soul no one could save.
Her tombstone contained two dates
That showed the term of her long...
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Categories:
spinster, death, extended metaphor, mystery, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Memory Quilt
Memory Quilt “ For Auction contest “
Welcome all to today’s prestige event
Let us start the day ladies and gentlefolk
We have this wonderful memory quilt
For your deliberation and delectation...
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Categories:
spinster, beautiful, celebration, clothes, devotion, memory,
Form:
Free verse
A 'Love' Comet Tale
In the dimming dawn of pulsar uncertainty,
asteroidal tear projections of past launch failures
boosted the fear of rejection
It made you afraid of me ... and my shy Virgo intentions
Understandably,
when you’re in a cloudy sigh free-fall,
it’s...
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Categories:
spinster, allusion, encouraging, hope, romantic love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Directions
Take that road down yonder, she said
Toward the signpost that reads, lickskillet
Turn right up thar and then left after that
To a highfulootin road that’s paved in black
After you see the red store building by the...
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Categories:
spinster, america, people, perspective, travel,
Form:
Free verse
The Tale of My Beautiful Man of God Lover--
The Tale of My Beautiful Man Of God Lover--
It began on a divorced spring morning:
I was the most beautiful woman ;
Of God around,
And this man over there,
Was the most beautiful Man of God anywhere, anywhere;...
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Categories:
spinster, analogy, appreciation, devotion, for her, god, i
Form:
Ballad