Long Stumbles Poems
Long Stumbles Poems. Below are the most popular long Stumbles by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Stumbles poems by poem length and keyword.
The Badly Drawn Goat
The pencil now resting the image was 'testing' for the creature before him, (his badly-drawn drawin') had come out 'not right' somewhat twisted and tight.
The picture in question, it burst with suggestion, for lines that...
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Categories:
stumbles, animal, creation, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Same Ol' Song and Dance
As I look back across more musical times
of rhythmic reflections,
ceremonies and commemorations
of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy,
if that is not an oxymoron
of sound and sight,
song and dance,
tragically sad, yet also bilaterally bound with happier...
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Categories:
stumbles, community, dance, humanity, humor, integrity, love, music,
Form:
Political Verse
The Whiskey Bottle Wish
The Whiskey Bottle Wish
One late summer night outside a saloon in the mid-west, an intoxicated Dusty Rogers, stumbles out of the Bar nearly taking one of the revolving doors with him. As he flutters...
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Categories:
stumbles, bible, drink, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
The Moon Also Rises - the Midwatch
The Moon Also Rises
The Midwatch
Harry Mayer
The X.O.’s in the shower
and the Captain’s in his bed.
The Chiefs’ are playin’ poker
as we’re steamin’ to the Med.
“I’ll take that bet and raise you”
is what the Bo’sun says
from the...
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Categories:
stumbles, humor, military, sea,
Form:
ABC
The Silver Axe
He 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:
stumbles, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
stumbles, farewell, friend, goodbye,
Form:
Free verse
You Never Left Me
You, never, left me
Parents
Separated
Children
Sent, away
Others
Stray
Out, of, sight
To, fight
A, living
Misery
Seemingly
Very, very
Wrong
Everything, gone!
Life
Isn’t
Right
Past
Insight
A, loner
Bi Polar
Without
Medication
To, boarder
Needs
Sedation
Any
Mind
Filling
Stimulation
Annulling
His
Sensations
Could
Cause
Dramatic
Fanatic
Inflation
Bi Polar stumbles, on
The, children’s, prison
Sensing
Grieving
He, plans, on
Just
Leaving
Until
Still…
He, remembers...
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Categories:
stumbles, crazy,
Form:
Epic
Inauguration Not Graduation
Inauguration Not Graduation
January 20,2021
This is dedicated to President Joe Biden & Vice President Kamala Harris
Inauguration is the mark to something great
Let me talk, let's elaborate
This go round
A lot of kings and queens...
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Categories:
stumbles, america, beautiful, birth,
Form:
Prose
Memories of the Sea
Ah the lovely seasdie
Ah the lovely seaside
Childhood scents
Salt air, Salty bitter memories
Jacques had turned just seven
He dreamed to walk along the seashore
He dreamed to see the seagulls sore overhead
He most of all dreamed to leave...
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Categories:
stumbles, caregiving, confusion, death, sea, war,
Form:
Light Verse
Inviting Hills
O to tune in to good times of childhood—
To re-live gone-by years, not just to brood,
To lighten dust-laden baggage’s dead tare,
To unburden mind of deadwood afloat,
To fast-forward to dusky days of old,
To turn...
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Categories:
stumbles, childhood,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
The Dragon Stones
Dragon visited the famous ‘Stones of Dragon’ at our Mayhem Falls Cave.
Hundreds come every year to see them, found here, in this hollowed enclave.
Dragon runes upon their face, they remained from a very ancient time...
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Categories:
stumbles, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
It Started With A Blank Canvas
Empty sheet a blank canvas
and a wall hanging a screen arras
listen to me—share your journey
why didn't you earn to draft a guernsey?
Igniting the flame
...
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Categories:
stumbles, analogy, appreciation, beauty, character, dream, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Most Mind Boggling Mysterious Mortal
Most mind boggling mysterious mortal
Mystification prevails stupefying yours truly
befuddled, he blindly stumbles along rocky
pathway illusory impediments strewn helter
skelter intangible obstructions hinder access
psychological barricades effective impasse
detains, deters, detours manhood maturation
manumission manifestation materialization
linkedin, when permanent submission arises
beckoning...
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Categories:
stumbles, absence, angel, angst, atheist, birth, courage, creation,
Form:
Free verse
Barnabas Oral's Sightless Game
He plays throughout the house at night
a braille touch for his lack of sight
and dreams of all the crippled things
with broken legs and shattered wings.
The bandage on his wounded eyes
will be there...
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Categories:
stumbles, dark, games, humorous, psychological, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
The Walk Home
A walk home
...And there he lie in fetid squalor,
Upon the chaise in vacant parlour...
“What befell this young man?” a query.
A sorrowful tale - tis quite dreary.
Tricks! The superstitious mind doth play.
Bested -...
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Categories:
stumbles, dark, death, evil, fear, horror, imagination, night,
Form:
Narrative
Trump's 'Win' 'Hey, Fore' - Now, Five More
Trump’s ‘Win’ “Hey, Fore!” (Now Five More)
Trump’s ‘Win’
Trump’s ‘Win’ fades (but for lives that it cost)!
Think he cops to the fact that he’s lost?
Fake News’ swill! Be prepared
for a varmint (once snared),
can be vicious as...
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Categories:
stumbles, abuse, anxiety, corruption, family, hope, political,
Form:
Limerick
Halo
The music video is more or less a continuation to the poem. So please play it when cued in the poem text and continue enjoying the music and lyrics.
Another bar unceremoniously has ‘asked’ him...
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Categories:
stumbles, depression, drink, inspirational, love, romantic, sensual,
Form:
Rhyme
Hide the Details
Everybody got a Hollywood life story
to tell
More meat on the bone
give juicier bites
to sell
Nobody ever turns in a tarnished silver screenplay
Those warts and mistakes
get Photoshop casting couch edited away
Baby Jane rude attitude don’t make...
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Categories:
stumbles, allegory, fun, metaphor, word play,
Form:
Vogon Poetry
A Soul Called Soul
I’m trapped in the American struggle/
Surrounded in the alcoholic drug addicted jungle/
In my soul called soul I seem to unknowingly look for trouble/
Yeah am I the only one to truly see our...
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Categories:
stumbles, confusion, depression, inspirational, life, loss, native american,
Form:
Acrostic
Green Spanish Eyes - Part 3
Continued from Part 2
Ah Consuela! I’m watching as lightning at midnight in green Spanish eyes
kindles cracks within crystals like flashes from pistols
residing inside of the gloom
as it hovers above us betraying a dove as
...
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Categories:
stumbles, green, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Foe
The Foe
With strong arms, the warrior raises his crimson stained sword against the mighty Foe.
Death for the cause emboldens me in a strong clear voice he shouts.
The Foe peers down with its fierce coal colored...
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Categories:
stumbles, confusion, corruption, health, poetry, sick,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Processing
Sturdy oak creaks as my weight shifts, hands tangling in my hair.
My chair scrapes hardwood as I begin to pace.
Processing... Processing...
The flickering lamp casts strange shadows on the walls.
I sit back...
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Categories:
stumbles, anxiety, conflict, god, prayer, relationship, religious, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Lord was able to deliver me from a plot by demons Q and A and commentary
Q Because of my relentless and persistent 'wool gathering' were Satan's
demons actively plotting 'to put me out commission due to my willful
acts of disobedience?
A...
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Categories:
stumbles, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
2 Journeys
Things I need to stop for:
deodorant, candy bars,
some magazines,
to while away the hours..
Have to catch the train in time,
as it's a long trip north.
With no one to keep me company,
my tongue's going to rot.
On my...
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Categories:
stumbles, brother, emotions, journey, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Nightmares and Imbetweens
A busted boys heart
Beaten black and blue
His bloody hands pray for help
A cowering child
Shaking by the door
Lowers his head and wonders if anyone can help
A woman in fear
She knows her husband will be home
She speaks...
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Categories:
stumbles, art, childhood, confusion, death, family, fear, hope,
Form:
Epic