Long Swedes Poems
Long Swedes Poems. Below are the most popular long Swedes by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Swedes poems by poem length and keyword.
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
swedes, memory,
Form:
Prose
Here Once Stood Our HomeHERE. ONCE STOOD OUR HOME
I can't forget in a hurry,
Here once stood our ancestral home,
As was told my great- great- great- grand father
Who told my great-great-grand father,
Who told my great grand father and who
In...
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Categories:
swedes, art,
Form:
Ballad
The Mime In the Airport Lounge - Both Audio and TextSitting in my wheel chair, near the stairway to a lounge, I clearly heard what sounded like some men
Laughing hard and carrying on…it seemed a bit peculiar…they’d laugh a bit…then stop…then laugh again!
I became...
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Categories:
swedes, hate, prejudice,
Form:
Verse
Parallel Are the RailsPARALLEL ARE THE RAILS
(PRE-VERSE 1)
Feeling all alone
Cast away like a stone
Few friends what I got
True friends can’t be bought.
(VERSE 1)
Living is a joke
Think I’m about to choke.
Lookin’ at you
Lookin’ at me
Mirror is true (but...
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Categories:
swedes, addiction, allegory, change, dark, deep, drug, extended
Form:
Lyric
Salad SaluteSALAD SALUTE
Listen up everyone, and I mean you peas at the back:
Think you can hide in the mayonnaise?
Some of you peppers feel you are pretty hot stuff, I know;
And our cucumber friends...
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Categories:
swedes, parody, green,
Form:
Free verse
Didactic Alphabet SoupAlphabet soup, homemade, here's how
Begin the dish with alphabet pasta and homemade chicken broth
Coriander is next, chopped finely and bruised in cloth
Dice some carrots and parsnips, add chopped swedes as well
Endives and onions tickle the...
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Categories:
swedes, health,
Form:
Rhyme
The Devotions of NoelSaturnalia, the pagan worship of winter solstice,
...
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Categories:
swedes, christmas, culture, funny, humor, satire,
Form:
Free verse
The Battle of Northfield's BegunSomebody special just rode into Northfield,
Somebody famous and bold,
Long linen dusters concealing their pistols,
They’ve come to steal all our gold.
James boys and Youngers, they’re up from Missouri,
Riding so slow into town,
Mighty warm welcome in South...
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Categories:
swedes, history
Form:
Ballad
The Plains of DakotaThe plains of the Dakotas seem endless
With rumors of great mountains to the west
And rumors of great lakes to the east
But to the proud pioneers who settled here it was home.
The sturdy Swedes, the proud...
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Categories:
swedes, america,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Names For Countries Or PlanetsNAMES FOR COUNTRIES OR PLANETS
I can understand and sympathise with famous cities
Being named after animals eg Buffalo or Phoenix, if they must;
But when whole countries are named after...
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Categories:
swedes, sky,
Form:
Rhyme
All Women Over Forty Are Dried UpAbsurd situations amuse me; they get written into poems.
Foolish generalizations about groups of people infuriate me;
they also get written into poems.
All Irish, all whites, all English, all red-heads, there is no all.
It...
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Categories:
swedes, age, bullying, conflict, hello, prejudice, rude, satire,
Form:
Light Verse
The Things They Will Do To Julianthe things they’ll do to julian
imagine imagine
the things they’ll do to julian---
as mr. assange
genius founder of WikiLeaks
did open the door to
let the light in
on so many lies spread by the governments across the...
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Categories:
swedes, life,
Form:
Free verse
My Country Tis of TheeWhite stars, red and white stripes.
Blue for loyalty.
Waving in the wind, instilling pride.
Reminding us of pledge.
Apple pie, Chevrolet, John Wayne.
Viet Nam, Gulf War,
Freedom of speech, freedom riders,
...
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Categories:
swedes, patriotic, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
New JerseyWhat does it mean to me
New Jersey
It means smell and warmth
iI……. oops wrong sort of Jersey
Here we go start again …….
Was the home of the Lenape Indians
Till the Dutch and Swedes came their way
Followed...
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Categories:
swedes, places, home, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Poltava
King Charles is a foolish megalomaniac.
He constantly sends his armies to the attack.
In the first few years of the eighteenth century,
Swedes have attacked Russia, Denmark, and Saxony.
Sweden exerts its regional hegemony
over the smaller states around...
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Categories:
swedes, history, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Nobel Prize WinnerNOBEL PRIZE WINNER?
Nasal, sand paper gritty voice.
Why did he win the poetry Nobel?
“The answer my friend” may be
“blowin’ in the wind.”
What were the Swedes thinking
when they voted, what were they on?.
Probably sat around
...
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Categories:
swedes, music, people,
Form:
Free verse
PassionsDad is out back,
speaking to his swedes and turnips.
He only grows tubers, root vegetables,
that I sullenly refuse to eat.
There is one flower
a Passionflower, 'Passiflora Incarnate'
that clings to the garden fence.
I could not see any passion...
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Categories:
swedes, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Mum Loves WarThe hophead at the
Music festival next to me
Yells out the instruction
"Everybody shrink!"
The lead singer holds parallel
To the audience an elongated
Truncheon with a dishwashing
Glove on the end of it
A manakin dummy is tossed
Into the congregation and
It...
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Categories:
swedes, humor, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Guns In SwedenGuns in Sweden
Sweden has problems with too many guns
shoots hole in the night.
Many refugees came to Sweden, who thought
when the refugees discovered a Nordic paradise
they would become Swedes overnight.
The inhabitance of this Eden...
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Categories:
swedes, anti bullying, best friend, break up,
Form:
Blank verse
Tranquility Marries the Night SkyA delightfully deep azure blue sky commandeers the aurora borealis
Somber Swedes slumber in used pup tents, unaware of this beauty
Visitors stare into the night, hoping to capture the sight forever
Some use film, but it is...
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Categories:
swedes, sky,
Form:
Imagism
Freedom of the PressFreedom of the Press
The hallowed freedom of the press
In the west
Doesn’t sit well in the east
when Islam is made fun of.
So leave them alone to worship
Allah their way,
Millions of backsides exposed
to an...
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Categories:
swedes, absence, angst, anxiety, assonance,
Form:
Blank verse
2018 Fifa World Cup - Quarter Finals Senryu SeriesUruguay 0 - France 2
Uruguay bad day
Les Bleus take total control-
France-Belgium showdown
Brazil 1 - Belgium 2
Brazil's own-goal gaffe
brilliant Belgium bests Brazil...
Belgium comes of age
Sweden 0 - England 2
Swedes hit Pickford wall
England's clean sheet victory
"...coming home"...
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Categories:
swedes, emotions, england, football, international, joy, soccer, world,
Form:
Senryu