Long Steeple Poems
Long Steeple Poems. Below are the most popular long Steeple by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Steeple poems by poem length and keyword.
How I Got Richer and What I Did NextHow I Got Richer and What I Did Next
I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they got me back (those post-empty-nesters)
by making fake deals I couldn't...
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Categories:
steeple, allegory, funny, heaven, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dancing: the Last DanceWas it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
steeple, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
My Corporate Life and How It All EndedI met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits –
a cure-all for things that ail your back.
I served 'em...
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Categories:
steeple, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Bits of My Own Broken I'LyezetteI know it, I'm a bit more than broken
I wish I could be more in your face
instead, I hide behind nice
away there in a corner by myself
I want to be seen
I want to be...
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Categories:
steeple, angst, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Harvest InfernoTake me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf thunder,
What happened to your breath baby brother,
what happened in...
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Categories:
steeple, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic
Scantily-Clad In the Garden of S W EdenSCANTILY-CLAD in the GARDEN of S W EDEN
Here I stand, all alone, scantily-clad in the garden of S W EDEN.
Wondering if the Original Garden still remains untilled and uneven.
Wondering how that Serpent knew of the...
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Categories:
steeple, adventure, beauty, betrayal, bible, nostalgia, symbolism, trust,
Form:
Verse
I Was Born At a Very Early Age - Part 2That's my dad for you... getting his hands deep into the knitty-gritty, when most others would just back off a safe distance away saying, "No thanks! Maybe when Armageddon comes a'knocking we can talk religion,...
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Categories:
steeple, dad,
Form:
Bio
Haunting Greeting From Lady KatieI learned so much last time I went too
The shore casino near the ocean blue
Conjuring up honesty and words that were true
Looking for tranquil sanctuary to think and talk ...
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Categories:
steeple, cheer up, children, death, goodbye, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
What Fascinates Meart inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me!
...
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Categories:
steeple, art, sky, stars,
Form:
Ekphrasis
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:
steeple, religious,
Form:
Couplet
Enhanced VisionsThings can be intimidating within this future of life as we know
like a luring spiritual souls path intricately lingering
departing its everlasting glow
Nullifying life’s hardships
Prospering life’s greatness
Alluring as my mindset is trying...
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Categories:
steeple, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
Monoku Monday - May 2021"Well, I Never" posted 3 May 2021
Six musings on the word never...
you should never marry a tennis player love means nothing to them
my wife tells me I...
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Categories:
steeple, humor, love,
Form:
Monoku
Bloodless - Tale of a Hero and the People He Died ForYou knew you were going to die. 1
And yet you came, thinking no matter how insane,
the man on the seat of power would never want you dead
… it would be too much on his head.
And...
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Categories:
steeple, change, corruption, hero, history,
Form:
Epic
The Great Escape - Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationThe wind was gusting wildly and the sun had disappeared when I would head for work that rather cool and blustery day.
I felt a little anxious as I backed out of the drive, so...
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Categories:
steeple, faith,
Form:
Narrative
All In the Name of ProgressAll In The Name Of "Progress"
The wrecking ball long since
demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
a once nonagricultural,
pastoral, rural residence,
which soulful yen
I called home while
veritably sequestered, quarantined, positioned...
sprawled atop spaciously shingled roof
countless years (B)efore...
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Categories:
steeple, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
A Town He Once Called HomeLike a beacon on a hill
The white church steeple gleaming still
For all the many years gone past
It marks the path for home at last
Up and down each tree-lined street
Where childhood friends and neighbors meet
In history...
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Categories:
steeple, childhood, home, nostalgia, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Momma and Daddy, Did You Take Time To PrayI’ve made my entrance into this world.
You looked at me with your eyes you did adore.
Your love and protection I could feel
My name you gave me was written and sealed.
You held and nurtured me all...
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Categories:
steeple, child, children, christian, prayer, religion, religious, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Never Land Part 4A sodden dreg with wooden leg is dancing for a dime,
to sacred psalms and other balms, all ticking with the time.
He’s 22, he’s almost through, he’s melted in his prime,
his bane is firm, the canker...
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Categories:
steeple, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
The Past Illuminates the FutureThe hatred in this world is sometimes too much to bear,
but the darker it gets, the more light to share.
People walk along the streets most everyday of their lives,
experiencing other cultures and seeing through...
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Categories:
steeple, history, memory, prejudice,
Form:
Free verse
End of DaysFar into tomorrow
Comes a time of great sorrow
The wickedness of mankind's ways
Brings on the end of days
Leaders pretend to be leading
With the lies they are feeding
Grows a bad seed
It starts to breed
Let us see...
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Categories:
steeple, crazy, creation, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Olympic Antics - XxxiiiUnquotable quotes: Olympic Antics – XXXIII
Why do Judo-kas bother to wear anything at all since all they do is to try their very best to undress one another before hugging themselves on the mat?
Wrestlers at...
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Categories:
steeple, character, dedication, humorous, international, sports, strength, word
Form:
Epigram
Who Or What Are These PeopleWho or What are these People?
There across the sea is something on top of the steeple?
It looks like people? But with a different neck? Should I pet or let my bird peck at it? I...
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Categories:
steeple, eulogy, nostalgia,
Form:
Epic
Sonnet 14, Part 3 of 311. They came to devour and sin.
I was briefed by a cornucopia of beings:
From Torchwood, ARGUS, SHIELD and their kin;
The Talamasca, The Shop and MiB Greens;
A BPRD agent who was burning in Hell;
The Syndicate, Consortium,...
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Categories:
steeple, evil, fantasy, fear, horror, magic, scary, science
Form:
Sonnet
The Morn's Alive With Skylarks SingingThe morn's alive with skylarks singing
o'er the greening meadow and the pliant pasture,
the ocean sighing, gulls aloft on wings of prayer.
A sudden shower would see me running
fancy free between the rain drops,
I cried 'Excelsior!' and...
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Categories:
steeple, tribute, writing,
Form:
Verse
Dwm Senior Dance Days“…Let the sunshine (and let the sun shine on in)
Let the sunshine in (You got to open up your heart)…"
-- From Aquarius, by The 5th Dimension
The times they were a-changing,
an age of great unrest.
A Ball...
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Categories:
steeple, 12th grade, age, growing up, high school,
Form:
Rhyme