Long Subtext Poems
Long Subtext Poems. Below are the most popular long Subtext by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Subtext poems by poem length and keyword.
If We Were Gods
If we were Earth gods and goddesses,
with powers to create anything we prefer
for our healthiest wealth attainment,
would we settle for living in a swamp
created by our own collective lack of mindfulness
about how to play longer-term...
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Categories:
subtext, creation, education, health, humor, love, political, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fall Break
In New Haven, Lisa misses the sad, dark, city aesthetics of her hometown. Its crime podcast vibe, actinic crime-lighting and sirens in the distance, that lull her to sleep like lullabies. She has a disturbingly...
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Categories:
subtext, food, friendship, fun, humor, new york, sister,
Form:
Free verse
A senior moment experienced by this drip
A senior moment experienced by this drip...
awash with intermittent amnesia.
Scant number of minutes elapsed...
before I forgot whether yours truly
took another dose of glycopyrrolate
ingested as a palliative prescription
medication addressing the issue of
palmar hyperhidrosis -- excessive
perspiration of...
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Categories:
subtext, 12th grade, anger, body, courage, father, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Octopuses From Outer Space
Octopuses From Outer Space
I'm glad I'm not some 'octoplie'
I'd not serve friends in Shephard's Pie
What slimy mollusk could invent
Or needs eight arms: A hollow tent
(More land than sea) who won't pay rent!
Rich born with more?...
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Categories:
subtext, humor, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Suicide Note
If I were to write a suicide note,
I would kiss every inch of the page, to drench it
With my last breathings of doomed love
If I were to write a suicide note,
I would spray each corner...
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Categories:
subtext, death, dedication, lovedeath, beautiful, write, beautiful, death,
Form:
Free verse
Garden
GARDEN
She smelled like the colors
of an intricate garden in which
every geometry and every dimension,
every expression of soft composition,
had the dominant splash, the pervasive
aura, the relentlessly visible subtext
of red
Centered and rooted in the soil
of tradition, North...
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Categories:
subtext, beauty, love,
Form:
Free verse
Another Shameless Plug
Maybe you have got to thinking
I probably should read more books,
but there’s just so much crap out there,
is anything really worth a look?
Is there anything worth my time,
something that will not disappoint,
something that strives to...
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Categories:
subtext, books, humorous, literature, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Another Poetry Festival
Another poetry reading.
I arrive late and drop my phone in a workshop.
I capriciously retrieve it and slink to the corner,
My notebook and pen
Poised and ready
For my muse to be resurrected after
A long hibernation.
This is why...
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Categories:
subtext, introspection, lost love, love, on writing and
Form:
Narrative
Soundscape Strata
Soundscape Strata
Did Bach know to what end
his harvest of melodies-in-parallel would become?
Scholars agonize
Was creation of counterpoint
musical destiny
a hybrid fruit of beauty
knowing no boundary
bewildering those of first look
given musical staffs
voicings and manuscripts
always conformed to traditional confinement?
What...
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Categories:
subtext, music,
Form:
Free verse
Elegy For Michael Jackson (1)
Refrain:
You shimmering waves on the ocean blue
Dance not again, he cannot dance with you
You weeping forests where the winds wail too
Let your bright tears fall in the pool of dew
The world of pop will never...
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Categories:
subtext, death, dedication, historytime,
Form:
Elegy
Mein Kampf My Struggle
…the seeds of neo-Nazism are germinating
Markus Nierth, former mayor of Tröglitz, Germany 2015
Germany’s rock candy windows and cookie like shingles make seeing the oven inside impossible. At first, the obsessive compulsive cleanliness of...
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Categories:
subtext, anxiety, racism, , atheist,
Form:
Haibun
Death on the road
We piled into the car
Caleb and Mom in front, me in the back
We weren't planning to go far
A nearby arboretum off the beaten track.
We went north, there were many cars each way
Saw a motorcycle downed,...
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Categories:
subtext, car, death, destiny, travel,
Form:
Lyric
Through a Latin-Rock Haze
THROUGH A LATIN ROCK HAZE!
Grupo Pagan
gave a Latin/Rock clinic: driving rhythms,
complex melodies, sweaty adrenaline, and
earthy vibrations that plowed through the
crowd at the Greenwood Winery on a perfect
summer evening like a long-haul, fast freight
thundering through the...
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Categories:
subtext, love, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Abysmally Slow Learner
I don't know about you
but the seeming me abused and cursed
had all my birth fingers burnt off
at the first knuckle before the first lullaby
from too many here hold my beer
blithely eager watch this rolls of...
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Categories:
subtext, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Exigent Kisses
It's not every woman I love gets my kiss
(Though I wish for it), some lips aren't tasted by mine,
Although touching's in play, it may not know the bliss
Of a moment's reflection, "I wish you were...
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Categories:
subtext, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Unwritten Absence
Rhythms of pulses echo in souls, augmenting tenor of love song,
Reminiscing in sanctuary of life, together they shared for long;
Yet, memories sadly clamor aloud, since the day she’s been gone,
Of nightmares that cruelly shattered, dreams...
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Categories:
subtext, absence, love, love hurts, missing,
Form:
Rhyme
Are you attracted to eleven or more?
Should 21st Century poetry
For the new minds of a culturally bombarded generation
Be limited from 3 to 7 lines?
Before you answer
To me personally, even though to answer, makes my Heart aches
I like reading...
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Categories:
subtext, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Hyphenated
The million-to-one longshot -
I know this unlikely victory
isn’t so sweet when the race is fixed
and everyone got paid on the side
for being in on the trick
while I just ran and ran and ran.
Ran...
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Categories:
subtext, confusion, loss, love, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Crapping Out A Masterpiece, Part II
...Now some may think this trend depressing,
there’s this idea our creators’ minds
understand things on some deep level
when they happen to craft the sublime.
But I, as one more wayward writer,
find the crapped-masterpiece comforting,
since years of work...
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Categories:
subtext, art, how i feel, music, satire, smart,
Form:
Rhyme
The Espresso Salon
He’s behind the bar,
polishing glasses
like they’re his last remaining purpose.
“I know things!” he insists.
“I watch Question Time!
I once bought quinoa by accident!”
He pours stout
with the weight of centuries.
Tries to explain The Bell Jar
like it’s a...
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Categories:
subtext, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Desperate Hope
While gelid breezes of winter, quiver emotions of decaying rays,
And arc of horizon cedes to dusk, evoking grimace of malaise,
Casting shadows tenebrous, shrouding glimmer of a slowing day,
Desperate hope lingers still, in resplendence of autumn’s...
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Categories:
subtext, hope, inspiration, love,
Form:
Rhyme
free form poetry and programming
discovery
let us create a mission to mars
in hyperspace
perhaps a gpt game
where we isolate known valence electrons
these are source codes of electricity
which anonimity excludes
from detection
in p doping of semiconductors
we capture and confine static discharge
in the...
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Categories:
subtext, addiction, art,
Form:
Free verse
Connotation
Dazzling rising sun of dawn is connotation of good day
Graceful face at first sight of day is subtext of lucky ray
Along with the autumnal wind the lavender scent
Wandered grasshoppers on the grassy spikes lane
Smiling beauty...
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Categories:
subtext, life, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
These People Need Snow Globes
Inspired by a scene between two colleagues and close friends, Kai and Alex, portrayed by the fierce and gorgeous Samantha Richelle and the wonderful and interesting Christian Kane.
They're establishing what's really important to each...
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Categories:
subtext, encouraging, family, friendship, inspirational love, light, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Here Is the Face
Here is the face that your mind holds onto.
There is the place that your soul belongs to.
Created in dreams
where doors and windows melt,
conceived in grass
...
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Categories:
subtext, dance, metaphor, prayer, prejudice, simile, song, surreal,
Form:
Ballad