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Premium Member John F Kennedy - Martin Luther King Jr - Robert F Kennedy and Donald Duck

it was the sixties
we were young
we were going to change the world
spin it like a basketball on our finger
take the three point shot 
win the game
we had great leaders 
john, robert, martin...

the planet was singing 
with the purity of a four year old
...
The ants go marching two by two;
The little one stops to tie his shoe,
...
then 
it started raining bullets
our optimism soured
slightly at first

and the grassy knoll
and the sniper
and the magic bullet

john was shot 
jackie squirmed
we sat on the edge of our seats

The ants go marching four by four;
The little one stops to shut the door,

John F. Kennedy was assassinated 

The ants go marching five by five;
The little one stops to take a dive,

years had passed, five
look before you dive

the civil rights movement gathered 
to fight for their God given rights
the right to be treated as humans 
exactly that...humans...no more no less.
to listen to the man who had said
"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon 
which cuts without wounding and ennobles 
the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."


the man who stood on the hill speaking
"I have a dream today!"

The ants go marching seven by seven;
The little one stops to pray to heaven,

Boom, boom, boom, boom! 

Martin Luther King Jr. was shot 
died

and my God it rained 
it rained salt
as a nation black and white cried

The ants go marching nine by nine;
The little one stops to check the time,

time for the rise of Bobby
Hoorah! Hoorah!

Boom, boom, boom, boom! 

i wish he could have ran faster than the bullets
they murdered John's brother
Robert F. Kennedy was dead

the sixties where almost finished
and i wondered 
if the world would ever be the same
again

I marched away buried my face into the ground
To get out of my pain.

great leaders lost
words that radiated 
radiate hope

America was
the envy of the world

it's two thousand sixteen 
and we have sunk so deep into the dirt

i know we can't Trump this disaster 
have you ever heard of fools gold
we have a choice
our lives count

remember the ants
nature's banner is blowing in the wind

don't make
the little one shout
"THE END!!" 




March 16 2016
armand


I'D Like To Go

When I get time I'd like to go
On a cruise around the world
So many sites I'd like to know
I'd watch as each unfurled

On a cruise around the world
I'd look at the sun as it sets
I'd watch as each unfurled
With colors that at eve besets

I'd look at the sun as it sets
Each day so many things I'd see
With colors that at eve besets
As the oceans come alive to me

Each day so many things I'd see
When I take a dive into the deep
As the oceans come alive to me
The further down that I would sink

When I take a dive into the deep
I' get to see the colored coral their 
The further down that I would sink
Would show a world beyond compare

I get to see the colored coral their
As the fish swim through it all
Would show a world beyond compare
That has me feeling oh so small

As the fish swim through it all
I must return unto the ship
That has me feeling oh so small
As I continue on this trip

I  must return unto the ship
So I could find a mountain range
As I continue on this ship
To watch the sites as they now change

So I could find a mountain range
To climb, so  I can reach it's peak
To watch the sites as they now change
Would show a beauty words can't speak

To climb so I can reach it's  peak
Must surely take my breath away
Would show a beauty  words can't speak
That leave me without a thing to say

Would surely take my breath away
Just as I sample all the cuisine
That leave me without a thing to say
Because my mouth's full and my plate's clean

Just as I sample all the cuisine
So many taste delight these lips
Because my mouth's full and my plate's clean
I give my servers healthy tips

So many taste delight the lips
From people so very different
I give my servers health tips
Because they are so excellent

From people so very different
Will come to us so many things
Because they are so excellent
Their reality was once their dreams

Will come to us so many things
So many sites I'd like to know
Their reality was once their dreams
When I get time I'd like to go
Form: Pantoum

Spilled Ink On a Perfect Verse

This isn't the time to run away

Nor is it the time to hide

they say "use your whole heart

and take a dive"

 

I forgot the past  while I  lay in your arms

you partially held me

became my blanket for the meantime

I swam in you and you in I

threw caution to the wind

I didn't think that eventually I'd cry

well I knew I would eventually cry but my brain

and my heart hadn't made it that far yet.

 

I forgot about the boundaries

and entered unchartered territory

I went places that I shouldn't have gone

because I desired you more than anything

you occupied places in my heart that

should have been left alone

but I unlocked the door for you

and here you'll stay forever

 

I still get shivers when I hear your voice

And your energy makes me feel like I'm a boss

you see the thing that attracted me the most

is that you picked me up when I was lost.

I fell into you even though I knew the cost.

Now my heart will always be thirsty for you.

Like damaged hair it became porous.

 

I don't blame you though. And surprisingly

enough I don't even blame me.

We saw a chance to steal a goal

but ended up stealing things we couldn't keep.

For a moment I owned the property,

even if in secret. But the bank took you back

and put foreclosure on my feelings.

 

Now I'm left scrambling here and there.

I gotta roll my sleeves down and brush off

these lingering feelings. This isn't going to be easy because

 I will still be me and you will still be you. Its like trying to get

away from a walking advertisement as big as the ones in times

sqaure advertising someone whose perfect for you.

 

But that reality is unreal so I put one foot in frount of  me

and slowly start to move.....

Vulnerable Love

Inhale me like DMT
And follow me into my dreams.
I'll show you things you've never seen
Because I exist in the 5D.
I'll make you trip on reality
And help change your mentality.
You will find me where you clear your head
Beyond aimlessly followed riverbend.
In the waters I sing my songs,
Waiting for the right sailor to come along;
To fall in love with my melodies.
Because I am a siren of serenity,
So won't you come take a dive with me?
Do not worry about how you would breathe,
You're only swimming in the oceans of my eyes
Where it rains because I cry.
I only ask that you hold me in your arms tenderly
And if I am to fall asleep you promise not to leave.
I want someone whom I can rely on,
Someone who offers their shoulder for me to cry on.
Because I am strong but I'm not always my strongest.
Though I will always push on and try to remain honest.
I don't need you to change me
Just take your time to bathe me
With every form of intimacy,
Woven with masterful intricacy.
I will not allow a relationship that does not serve me.
I need someone who will ground me, earth me. Serve me.
Be my anchor and we can get lost in my daydreams
Any time reality needs a bit of escaping.
And tell me, do my demons evade you
Like an illusion because they're not meant for you?
Or are you someone who reads in-between lines?
Because that would make it a whole lot harder to hide.
If I told you the answers you seek lie within me?
Would you believe me and lie with me?
I learn valuable lessons in my sleep:
We are all 'the Fool' who needs to leap!
I know my faith will guide me,
That my angels are beside me.
And so I beckon you "come rest,"
Come relax the breath that weighs heavily in your chest.
© FJ Cartier  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

I Wish I Weren'T a Penguin

I WISH I WEREN’T A PENGUIN
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


I wish I were a penguin in a warm protected land
The sunny Galapagos islands, where I could lie and tan
Compete with marine iguanas for a visitors attention
Where guides are paid to be alert n  offer me protection
Yes, that’s the location that I’ve always envisioned
Not in this desolate place where I am duly imprisoned

Yes, you guessed it, I’m here in the south Atlantic
Any venture out to sea becomes so problematic
Seas here are overcrowded with voracious eaters
Claiming the right to consider penguins as feeders
Orcas, leopard seals, great whites always on the prowl
One misstep and you’ll find yourself in their bowels

Fortunately, I’m not an emperor nor am I a king
They are giants, I’m just a little black n white thing
They are hardy meals for those insatiable types
But I’m so much quicker I cruise right past the bites
When its time for me to eat and I have to take a dive
Launching myself off the ice, I hope I will survive

Here’s more bad news winter here is brutally cold
Tempts below zero, ice on your nose, a sight to behold
Oh. I forgot to mention we have accompanying gales
So strong and persistent we’re blown about like sails
This environment is no place to grow old and content
I want a new existence and a life better spent

I decided a long time ago what I wished to be
Live in the tropics as a humming bird, a Colibri
Sucking sweet nectar all year round
I can get it easily even when hovering upside down
What about my colors a mixture across the spectrum
I’m getting hungry now, I think I’ll go for a swim
Form: Rhyme


I Can Finally Drive

My bicycle days are through 
Please help me spread the news 
I no longer have to be a 32 year old hermit 
Mom and Dad got me my permit 
I just bought a car that seats 5 
Thanks to my parents I can finally drive 
Mom goes with me and my girlfriend out to eat 
Mom rides shotgun, my girl in the back seat 
While we are eating with live entertainment 
My girlfriend expresses how she doesn't like the car's seating arrangement 
So my mom drives and my girl is shotgun 
Now I am the lonely one 
We drop off my girlfriend and I ask my mom to remove the knife 
She says stop complaining, now you can drive 
The next night my Dad goes out with me and my buds 
We want to sit back and suck down a few suds 
Not on my watch, my Dad says 
My night out with the buds was disastrous 
After one beer, my Dad says you are too drunk to get behind the wheel 
He has no idea how this freedom of driving makes me feel 
My Mom and Dad are smothering me, my social life will never survive 
With them around, it look as if I will never truly drive 
Now it's Mom's turn to escort me, guess where we go 
My girl and Mom in the front seats, we stop at Domino's 
We all three sit in the car and wait for the pizza to get done 
Mom says no a/c, let's enjoy the sun 
I begin a waterfall of sweat 
Mom says look at you, you're all wet 
Mom asks for extra napkins when the pizza is delivered to the car 
Mom says tonight is Friday, let's park by the lake and enjoy the stars 
At the lake, I will drown myself, if I take a dive 
I am going back to the bicycle, I will never again attempt to drive
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Fall of the Fourth Estate

                              Where did all the journalists go,
                                    longtime passing -

                               Why did objectively reporting the news end,
                                    many years ago -

                               How did integrity bow to bucks,
                                    gone to job security every one.

                               Gone the referees, gone the rules,
                                    gone the protection from leaders who fool.

                                When will they ever learn 
                                When will we ever learn 

                                  
                               Where did American professors go,
                                    longtime teaching -
  
                               Why did American Greatness atrophy,
                                    tossed out the window at university -

                               When did elevating truth and integrity 
                                    take a dive to conformity.

                               Gone to controlled, politicized, opinion news,
                                    gone to Big Exec’s checks excused.

                                If a tree falls in the forest,
                                Does it make a sound?

                                If media doesn’t cover events,
                                Do events even happen?
Form: Other

Premium Member Mark and Megan

Mark & Megan

Megan was a quiet girl and a studious 
young woman she was,
and never had dated till Mark came along
which changed her life for what she thought was a plus.

They began to date in her Junior year of high school
which caused her grades to take a dive,
for now she had more than just studies to do
she had a definite change of direction in her life.

No, they didn’t drink and do drugs
but they liked to kiss and hug and certainly make out,
going much too far one night and now a baby was on the way
and a situation that they would talk about the next day.

A couple of months went by and they talked it over between the two of them
and agreed to abort this little soul,
so Mark drove Megan to an out of town clinic to have it done
so that her parents and friends would never know.

Mark graduated a few months later
and left with the Army and was shipped to Viet Nam,
leaving Megan behind struggling with her guilt
and her friends and family wondering why she was never happy now or calm.

Mark died in Viet Nam
leaving Megan so alone and so sad,
how she wished now she wouldn’t have aborted their only son
because she felt that he would have been exactly like his dad.

Megan chose to never marry and
she lived a life of guilt and sadness to,
until the day she accepted Jesus’ love and forgiveness
and now she is helping other girls to choose life as now she would do.
Written by: Marilyn S. Jennings

March 6, 2016

To Really Appreciate Loves High's

The harmony that we feel is the real deal 
And is so worth the fight
Baby, we need to treat each other right 
Let's never be mean or pick a fight
The magic we share is worth the care
Finding our calling is like not falling

When we are aware
Instead of being in despair
Allowing ourselves time to compare
Having a love as rare as ours
Is like dancing among the stars

Stepping back when we feel under attack
Will help us stay on track
To keep us from falling back
This way when we have a bad day
We don't feel like we want to play
Then we just meet in the middle
Like a dancing fiddle
understanding we need to give a little

Being able to put yourself on the other side
Before it becomes a bumpy ride
When It's much easier to just let it slide
Finding a place to chill 
So we don't let it put us into overdrive

This will allow our love to thrive
Instead of letting our love take a dive
We will be on top of the world very much alive
Able to magnify our love to touch the sky
You and I able to look each other in the eyes
To really appreciate love high's
Form: Rhyme

Weightless

those beaten eyes glazed with a film

of bitter almond

shakily receiving her post partum reward

of a broken thyroid and a lumpy lack of form

 

once upon a time she lived

a lighter life

‘til procreation drubbed her good

these days she’s flesh in a black bag

of tightly straining clothes

 

mother-love keeps her upright

dead on her feet several months ago

but no-one’s noticed she’s gone off

under the wafts of the morning bacon

 

was that a giggle or a sob

or perhaps both, for things past

caring she is but it won’t help her now

as the hormones take a dive

and psychiatry pricks up its ears

 

still her occult self eludes her

skips laughing through months of therapy

peeps out behind the tumble dryer

to whisper “take the pills”

 

they want to help, they cannot help

those people who mean well

there is no holding dock

for deadweight mum

she sails away with breakfast things left clean

performs a joyful whale-dive, drifts

unseen

 

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