Long Stretches Poems
Long Stretches Poems. Below are the most popular long Stretches by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Stretches 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:
stretches, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
Limericks Vii - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, AbsurdLimericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:
There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...
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Categories:
stretches, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, sexy, smile,
Form:
Limerick
In the WildIN THE WILD
Early morning, we go for a drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At 6 o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that we have missed...
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Categories:
stretches, adventure, africa,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Wild Re PostIN THE WILD
( Re Post)
Early one morning, we begin our drive,
An awesome feeling as we arrive,
At our camp gate which, opens
At six o’clock,
Now we are in the African bush
Which, will unlock,
Moments that...
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Categories:
stretches, animal,
Form:
Free verse
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.
But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always has a Fact at hand;
with him, who needs...
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Categories:
stretches, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
A Night On a WharfA Night On A Wharf
The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...
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Categories:
stretches, blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Old Pharaoh - 1 of 2Old Pharaoh had enslaved the Jews; he would not let them go.
So God devised a mighty scheme; his go-to guy was Mo.
His brother Aaron was the voice, for Moses talked real slow,
So he would wave...
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Categories:
stretches, bible,
Form:
Ballad
Across Country With CrystalskyHello CRYSTALSKY*. ...
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Categories:
stretches, america, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Anticipation of RealitySo cramped ...
Strain to move,
Flex and budge in tiny increments ...
That's the limit.
Constantly testing, trying,
Pushing, pressing ...
Constrict, exert, constrict, struggle,
Spin slowly, push ...
That's it. That's all.
Nothing more.
But it helps ... relief,
A body sigh ...
But only...
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Categories:
stretches, birth, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Learning To Recreate HealthFrom Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by [NonHierarchical] Step
Summary
The emphasis in education has always been on logical sequential thinking which is by [deductively analytical academic] tradition the only proper [true, good, and pretty]...
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Categories:
stretches, creation, culture, health, humor, nature, power, psychological,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Revolutions In ResistanceBefore we had the LeftBrain eclipse word,
circa 1200s on back through space and time,
we had great sacred transformational co-arisings,
re-alignment as BlackHole icons
of ancient eco-alignments,
Yang solar resilience
with Yin lunar resistance.
Before we had dualistic separation,
from sunlight's...
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Categories:
stretches, deep, earth, gender, health, history, math, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Rabindranath Tagore Translations IiPatience
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
If you refuse to speak, I will fill my heart with your silence and endure it.
I will remain still and wait like the night through its starry vigil
with...
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Categories:
stretches, dark, heart, night, silence, spoken word, stars,
Form:
Free verse
Kitchens Are DirtyIt was dark out. The stars shone dimly, and the horizon blushed faintly as the birds sang, too cheery for the hour. A chill swept the edges of all the outside world: not cold enough...
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Categories:
stretches, absence, cry, depression, home, loneliness, lonely, silence,
Form:
I do not know?
Embrace the LinesEmbrace The Lines
Vitality marks gently stretch your soft skin beyond the wildest dreams of
beauty unbound where children had once or thrice embraced your womb
the soothing waters cushioning and cradling three miracles three water
marks engraved...
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Categories:
stretches, life,
Form:
Free verse
Me, Dreams, RealityOne bright night
In the Twilight of day
I awoken to a dream
With in a world of worlds
Not my self, but still the same
What was it? Never more
What year was it? Forgotten
One must be careful...
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Categories:
stretches, adventure, age, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Angels of MercyAngles of Mercy
By
Kevin L Fairbrother
There is not to many of us that can say that the owe their existence on this earth to a Native in a Foreign country, in my case I can say...
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Categories:
stretches, angel, father, memory, men,
Form:
Narrative
Van GoghEndless sunflower field
Rhythmically swaying in the wind
Like lazy ocean wave stretches
To the distant line of horizon
Touching the edge of the sky
Melting into hot noon brilliance
Boiling all shades of yellow into
One burning brightness of...
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Categories:
stretches, anxiety, art, crazy, desire, pain,
Form:
Free verse
The Silver AxeHe wondered with horror how so many memories, so many forms to be branded on his skin and engrave there.
Then the wet rattle of a twisted throat, and he beats his last breath to his...
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Categories:
stretches, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Etty's PenMy heart failed a few times again today, but each time it came back to life.
This is no time for poets and philosophers.
***
It is strange that in such a short time a person can come...
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Categories:
stretches, courage, dedication, eulogy, fate, holocaust, inspiration, life,
Form:
Free verse
Beneath The AltarThe fruit juice drips momentarily beneath the alter filling the crevices and corner, while the sound of impatient traffic rolls down the street honking horns and disrupting the peace. A strange sound starts rumbling in...
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Categories:
stretches, baptism, caregiving, city, community, drink, missing, money,
Form:
Narrative
Lamentations 1How deserted lies the city, once so full of people!
How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations!
She who was queen among the provinces, has now become a slave.
Bitterly she weeps...
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Categories:
stretches, abuse, anger, anxiety, assonance, betrayal, bullying, butterfly,
Form:
Free verse
The Little You Can KnowWithout form and void,
The world gave a lunatic gaze.
Lack of luminous light love bought,
Darkness did give her a chase.
Open to no one was her,
Water beneath and air above.
Open to someone...
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Categories:
stretches, evil, god, humanity,
Form:
I do not know?
An Omen of the Taste of TwilightVanished
the wild magic of this place;
this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps
into
Afterlife
..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I long to join again
in my brethren’s song..
fading sunlight falls in...
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Categories:
stretches, animal, death, fate, grief, howl, longing, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Tao and the Art of Permaculture MaintenanceInformation caused qualitative culture,
some might say cussed culture,
but, whether damned or graced,
culture, or vulture,
languaged-left hemispheric information
languished after right-brained exformation
self-regenerated human in/out-side culture.
Human culture preceded human race
and DNA races
and racism
and socioeconomic language boxes
and hierarchical...
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Categories:
stretches, earth, light, longing, loss, love, lust, peace,
Form:
Free verse
All AboardWho suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El." We hurdle head-long above asphalt blanketed streets that are determined...
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Categories:
stretches, city, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Prose