Long Sprawl Poems
Long Sprawl Poems. Below are the most popular long Sprawl by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Sprawl poems by poem length and keyword.
In the Middle of the NightI woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...
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Categories:
sprawl, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
Emo LoveWith this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...
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Categories:
sprawl, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
sprawl, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)
The muskiness...
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Categories:
sprawl, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form:
Prose
Seeking SanctuaryDiaspora Dwellings
On my way into our sanctuary
this past Sunday morning
a woman I had met in choir
was strangely inclined
to share her family history.
Her dad came over from Ireland
because he wanted better business opportunities
for his healthy future.
Here...
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Categories:
sprawl, earth, family, green, health, history, home, travel,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Unquotable Quotes Viiil: Sexual Harassment - the Feminist KindUnquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind
(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging by Hollywood standards?)
STOP: ARREST ALL GIRLS
- standing with legs...
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Categories:
sprawl, beautiful, crush, cute love, desire, humor, men,
Form:
Free verse
Canto Xxviii Hell Translation Part1Whoever might with just free words beside
Speak of the blood and in full too of sores
Which I saw now, with a narration wide?
Any speech will sure fail to open doors
To our sermon and for the...
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Categories:
sprawl, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
An Eternity IiAnd I begin my own steep climb into
The Chalkland Downs ...
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Categories:
sprawl, betrayal, , memorial,
Form:
Rhyme
This Is Where the Money IsI circled around the park three times and continue journeying towards the west
On my first cycle I met a couple sitting on the corner watching me like big brother
The young man shouted at me in...
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Categories:
sprawl, betrayal, corruption, education, endurance, environment, father daughter,
Form:
Narrative
The World Around UsAwaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and curled,
stray stars and stripes adorning,
sent from the netherworld.
I wander through...
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Categories:
sprawl, earth, environment, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Franken DragonOn one dark and stormy night… on a local, lonely, wind swept moor,
A very young and slightly mad scientist did some craziness, for sure.
Now mind you, he was only 3 years young, but, yet, still...
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Categories:
sprawl, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
The Evil EyeThe darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates and pries,
denouncing loathed dissenters to the keepers in the sky....
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Categories:
sprawl, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Marching RocksMarching Rocks
Like Toffee people chasing the westerly breeze
And, presumably ordered, abruptly, to freeze-
Tableaux is evocative of an ancient command
That left a sprawl of stones scattered on the land.
On swift flight in...
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Categories:
sprawl,
Form:
Couplet
A Sunny BeachThe hectic world is like a giant ocean.
Every day we wake up and dive in.
We dive into our work, activities, or
errands we must do inside this great big world of blue!
Our friends and family,...
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Categories:
sprawl, anti bullying, , sweet love,
Form:
Free verse
Lines Written In Albany
On white lines on valiant wheels
I head north leaving behind the City of Sails
with its humourless streets,
its casino steel and glass Sky...
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Categories:
sprawl, how i feel, places,
Form:
Free verse
Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970sArcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020
Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade
(or substitute favorite creative soul)
how aforementioned illustrious artists drape
mesmerized amateur and/or
art appreciation...
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Categories:
sprawl, 11th grade, 12th grade, environment, father, growing
Form:
Free verse
Feast
Candied isle presents herself immodestly,
exposing a proud seduction of
...
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Categories:
sprawl, angel,
Form:
Rhyme
Downfall of Ye and Resurrection of Kanye WestDOWNFALL OF "YE" & RESURRECTION OF KANYE WEST
Recreation is here to stay. So who made "Ye"?
Like a chain reaction, Hov' created "Riri" and "Ye".
Kanye's the creation made out of heavenly dew &...
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Categories:
sprawl, 1st grade, for him, metaphor, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Skipping Kidney StonesDid you even want to be found?
I took my shackles off and formed a search and rescue team
But did you even want to be found?
You’ve been running all your life I think you’ve aced...
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Categories:
sprawl, appreciation, best friend, environment, fantasy, freedom, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Gothic NightsMy chamber teems with tensions, taut, that logic can’t withstand,
fragmenting mental masonry with memories unplanned,
as bitter tears from hazel eyes reduce the stone to sand.
Dim shadows cast by candles flit across the haunted room,
beleaguer apparitions,...
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Categories:
sprawl, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Lizzie Borden Took An AxeLizzie Borden Took an Axe
By Elton Camp
Family love often will subside
When there’s property to divide
Old Andy Borden’s second wife
Came to be a cause of much strife
He allowed his two daughters no say
When he began to...
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Categories:
sprawl, historyfather, woman, home, father, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Shut-Down CityOn asphalt, wet with blood and sweat (down streets with no address),
there lay a man, snuffed by the Man and left to evanesce.
The Man then strode along the road and smiled at his success
and,...
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Categories:
sprawl, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Van GoghDecades of a formula that only he knew about it and drew,
Cascades of his artwork came to a head in his last years,
Glissades of a swan in a lake that only a handful had seen,
Tirades...
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Categories:
sprawl, art, character, mental illness,
Form:
Lento
Carnage At SeaThey packed their picnic basket s and journeyed towards the sun, with boxes of liquor, creates of beers and a drum fill with carbonated soda; busloads of them, drove down the slopes, with dug...
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Categories:
sprawl, beach, beautiful, community, creation, culture, french, friend,
Form:
Free verse
Robert Burns Translation: To a LouseTo a Louse
by Robert Burns
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hey! Where're you going, you crawling hair-fly?
Your impudence protects you, barely;
I can only say that you swagger rarely
Over gauze and lace.
Though faith! I fear you dine but...
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Categories:
sprawl, animal, body, clothes, funny, hair, insect, society,
Form:
Verse