Long Tacks Poems
Long Tacks Poems. Below are the most popular long Tacks by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Tacks poems by poem length and keyword.
Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs
“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and...
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Categories:
tacks, dark, destiny, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Elf On the ShelfNo one suspected or may have expected
As it was mind-boggling to even conceive
Of events to transpire that night by the fire
On a cold wintry Christmas Eve.
The Elf on the shelf was left by himself
And shenanigans...
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Categories:
tacks, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
TenchThere is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun,
barred by spindle trees and the last
of summer's brindled reeds
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
Damp leaves hide...
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Categories:
tacks, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
Requisite Inspection June 29th, 2022 At Apartment B44Requisite inspection June 29th, 2022 at Apartment B44
Aforementioned title and following
little known verses of Matthew
finds me feeling squeamish,
peevish, anguish, et cetera
at our (the missus and mine) digs,
cuz low income rental housing regulations
require safe and...
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Categories:
tacks, 12th grade, adventure, america, anxiety, business, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
My Secret KeyRolly, rolling in shallow surf, every wave a wisp
that'll move me through this sticky sand to the lush land.
Lumbering, waterlogged, soggy heap in my tux,
arms flopping, flailing about, cool currents fill my ears;
mere vestige of...
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Categories:
tacks, garden, philosophy, sea, self, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Phi Poetry of Reality In Dream
"I have seen and heard the vibrancy of dreams,
and the way
of the crossings-through the ills
and through the barriered things."
A fleeting spark that perceives,
I, have seen...
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Categories:
tacks, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Fear's Chains Chained HaikuFears Chains (Haiku)
First line 5 syllables
Second line 7 syllables
Third line 5 syllables
(7 syllables)
Caught within a snare
The paralyzing peepshow
Seduces you there
(Making itself intimate)
(undressing for your favor)
(Fairydust of lunacy)
Scrolls, parchments, bark, at the moon)
(Self fulfilling prophecy)
(Demons of...
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Categories:
tacks, absence, anxiety, courage, emo, evil, gothic, halloween,
Form:
Haiku
Forever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor DriveForever doomed to reside at 2 Highland Manor Drive
A worse fate than death being hull hive,
I just realized after a surprise inspection
our opportunity to relocate cursed
after yours truly and the missus
subjected to vitriolic wrath
(okay hyperbole...
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Categories:
tacks, anger, angst, community, discrimination, fate, fear, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Homonym PoemSPOT THE HOMONYMS
For the Homonyms are full of spots!
We were young and wore black
During the war we were under attack
We wear bright clothes now
Where were we?
I thought we were the prey
But now where do...
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Categories:
tacks, word play, words, write, writing,
Form:
I do not know?
Requisite Inspection November 24th 2020 At Apartment B44Requisite inspection November 24th, 2020 at Apartment B44
Countdown triggers nails
bitten down to quick
geesh if only Mary Poppins
could pull off cheap trick
or think super tramping Glinda courtesy
film Wizard of Oz
Good Witch of the North
riding at light...
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Categories:
tacks, adventure, confidence, feelings, horror, marriage, moving on,
Form:
Free verse
Collisions Between Yours Truly and the MissusCollisions between yours truly and the missus
Space at a premium
in our apartment
lettered and numbered b44
at Highland Manor,
cuz the spouse
heavily trends toward disorderliness.
She readily admits her predilection
to disavow being a neatnik,
yet owns the capacity
getting down to...
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Categories:
tacks, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
The Missus Upstages Grosse and Quade At Unit B44The missus upstages Grosse and Quade at unit b44...
for upcoming June 2023 inspection/violation.
Countdown triggers nails
bitten down to quick
geesh if only Mary Poppins
could pull off cheap trick
or think super tramping Glinda courtesy
film Wizard of Oz
Good Witch...
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Categories:
tacks, america, anger, anxiety, business, care, community, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
The Durable Mick Malloy a True StoryIn Jan, nineteen thirty-three, there was man called Mick Malloy
At the time he was an alcoholic and a poor homeless boy.
A young Irish fire-fighter out of work
He left his home in Donegal - to find...
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Categories:
tacks, history, day, drink, life, murder,
Form:
Rhyme
Email To Republican Bob Corkerlemme git down to figurative and virtual brass tacks
and risk introducing this veritable unknown citizen,
who feels Trump stacks
odds against supposedly “making America great again” -
vis a...
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Categories:
tacks, anxiety, dark, environment, evil, fate, fear, political,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Al What a PalAL ::::: WHAT A PAL ??
I will assume you know AL, to many he's a pal
A fake friend to the end, to the grave he will send
...
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Categories:
tacks, addiction,
Form:
Rhyme
Dude, Where's My AutomobileNot advertising that flippant flick. I just want to know
where my blooming flivver is. It ruffles my feathers no
end to find out, when exiting the embassy,
that my buggy's whereabouts are a mystery.
I must meet Sherry...
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Categories:
tacks, animal, bird, car, fish, nonsense, silly, urban,
Form:
Burlesque
Pimp In a Fur Suiton behalf of the little guy
deep behind enemy territory
welcome to the nameless republic
all good capitalists want a monopoly
all good physicians need you sick
the National Antidote Party broke down the door
I told them everything I know
so...
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Categories:
tacks, how i feel, universe,
Form:
Free verse
AftermathLast Night
There is a stillness in the house
While I wait, as quiet as a mouse
I soak it up, this quiet respite
For very soon, I'll be more desperate
I will need the peace inside myself
To put my...
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Categories:
tacks, family, holiday, humor, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Rhyme
Sharon's Tootsie RollsI kept them in the 'fridge
In hopes to keep them fresh
To send to my friend Sharon
Our minds, they seem to mesh
I prepared the envelope for me to mail
(kind'a odd, cause I know not where she...
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Categories:
tacks, food, friendship, funny, me,
Form:
Burlesque
Help Me Writing Lyrics Inbox Methey asking why its i, the doesn't cry
frowing away from the tears,to shy
its the same reason y'all don't fight
when the governments acting like they always right
its the fear, that somethings near, its like its right...
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Categories:
tacks, creation, music, writing,
Form:
Lyric
The Gemini's GistA daunting press of gifted dreams
The boyish boasts and sculpted schemes
...
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Categories:
tacks, appreciation, hero, music, tribute,
Form:
Quatrain
And Then There Were NunsBlack hoodie, black gloves and a black balaclava
Allegiances born of belligerent father
A council estate with yards full of tyres
A rucksack that’s laden with tin tacks and wires
Cars outside boozers where loyalist losers
Don’t spot...
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Categories:
tacks, ireland, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
Anxious DissolutionIV
A soul was broken to make room
For dusty halls and labyrinths.
A gossamer, nylon bed-sheet shroud
Enwraps the remnants of that mind.
And no excuses can be made;
This disease does not justify that one.
I do not sleep...
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Categories:
tacks, allegory, depression, introspection, sad, dream, cry, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Granny's LegacyHer home was my escape
It was an awesome retreat
Full of wonders and surprises
Green glass and old lace
Cut glass and fireplace
A real ticking clock
Fresh laid eggs
Queen Anne legs
And a cracket by the fire
The dresser, complete...
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Categories:
tacks, family, grandmother, inspiration, inspirational, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Up At the North PoleUp on the Housetop
1. Up on the housetop reindeer pause,
Out jumps Good Old Santa Claus
Down through the chimney with lots of...
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Categories:
tacks, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme