Long Stafford Poems
Long Stafford Poems. Below are the most popular long Stafford by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Stafford poems by poem length and keyword.
The ResurrectionFor those that read this.all goes to my Grandfather,whom wrote most.
The reson I get to write is because he knew what I Didn't.......R.I.P.With Love,Doc
...
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Categories:
stafford, beautiful, god, grandfather,
Form:
Light Verse
Wheel of FortuneWheel of Fortune is still America's number 1 game show. The show has been around for 36
years: the daytime version from January 1975 to September 1991 on NBC and CBS, and the
syndicated version, which debuted...
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Categories:
stafford, epicseptember,
Form:
Epic
Going Fourth With the Football ThingThere was a ring at the dungeon door
Canary raced across the floor
Pulling a hammy while nursing his soars
Appearing was a seagull that once was poor
“My friend the Canary
Spent the morning...
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Categories:
stafford, international, literature, london, poetry, princess, soccer, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Lions True BlueA die hard fan I have been. Remember thinking, 16 games 17 weeks, even the Lions will pull off a win. Preseason champs yes we might of been. But 0-16 meant a lot more my...
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Categories:
stafford, sports,
Form:
I do not know?
Old Mother Shipton
On the eve of september, a young girl conceived,
by an unknown gentleman, with little reprieve.
And so followed a court case, so dark and so vile,
to determine the future of mother and child.
For the first two...
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Categories:
stafford, fantasy, fate, mythology,
Form:
Rhyme
Music, Music, MusicI reckon I'm showing my age and am pretty well set in my ways,
But I have zero tolerance for the 'noise' called music nowadays!
The metal bands and rap are loathsome to my sensitive ears.
I haven't...
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Categories:
stafford, humorous, music,
Form:
Rhyme
Sukiyaki: Autumn DreamsThese past few days it seems
you visit more my dreams
of springtime love,
yet I feel the cold inside my skin
I reach out to you,
but wake up to a new
dawn of another day without...
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Categories:
stafford, first love, remember,
Form:
Lyric
A Tribute To 6-6-66Silver, cool, harsh rock-smooth as rolled steel on the horizon defies the cold blue-violet sky of Mars as the pinpoint dots of distant white suns circle in wonder of the scene.
Green mist hanging from the...
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Categories:
stafford, adventure, allusion, analogy, beauty, longing, science, senses,
Form:
Blank verse
With Music Added?With Music Added
This sunny morning thought that I
Say hi to nice neighbor who I live by
And a great guitar he does play
With wife wonderful looking in every way.
Maybe might invite me over again
So we...
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Categories:
stafford, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
Tolerance“If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and I don’t know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may...
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Categories:
stafford, america, anti bullying,
Form:
Quatrain
Shakespeare's LegacyDesire make me flee to England's shore,
to Stafford where Shakespeare wrote
sonnets by candlelight and moonbeams;
let me open the tall, wooden front door,
to see him in that corner weaving a thought,
swiftly turning them into theatrical schemes!
Ah,...
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Categories:
stafford, inspirational, on writing and words, people, places,
Form:
Ode
It's Not AlrightBeautiful black woman Angela Davis
Stood by herself
At the 50 yard line
A football crooked on a tee
At her feet
Waiting
And she sang the national anthem
To an empty stadium
In perfect pitch.
When her deep voice soared and hit
That line...
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Categories:
stafford, anxiety, conflict, emotions, fear, football, humanity, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Shakespeare's LegacyDesire make me flee to England's shore,
to Stafford where Shakespeare wrote
sonnets by candlelight and moonbeams...
Let me open the tall front door,
to see him in that corner weaving a thought,
swiftly turning them into theatrical schemes!
Ah, he...
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Categories:
stafford, inspirational, on writing and words, people, places,
Form:
Ode
Things I Learned Last Week, Inspired By William StaffordWhen I first read the title of his poem I immediately thought of all the new things I learned last week:
How important words in a brief letter
can have an impact on
another's decision and can affect...
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Categories:
stafford, life, words,
Form:
Free verse
Green EyesGreen Eyes
WLM
Wildncrazy555
August 14, 2011
I met a new friend
She will be there till the end
With eyes so green
With the most beautiful sheen
She is so fine
As the sweet tasting young wine
Though we have never met
That is no...
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Categories:
stafford, adventure, dedication, devotion, happiness, life, romance, day,
Form:
Prose Poetry
It Is What It Is
Many believers find from faith in God that He is "the source, the force and the course" that leads to peace and joy and heaven.
Bill Stafford on Romans 11:34-36
It is what it is; once death...
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Categories:
stafford, 11th grade, death, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Smoke Dreams
This melody of yesteryear sounded great.
We would hear it on a record at seventy-eight.
Anybody could play the song on a Victrola.
One listened to it on a juke box by Rock-Ola.
The subject of this song by...
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Categories:
stafford, dedication, music, nostalgia, song, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Jo Stafford
With the Pied Pipers, you first achieved success.
Not many women had your vocal prowess.
As a duet with Frankie Laine and Gordon MacRae,
you garnered much popularity in your day.
You were most famous as a solo artist.
The...
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Categories:
stafford, dedication, music,
Form:
Rhyme