Long Tape Poems
Long Tape Poems. Below are the most popular long Tape by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Tape poems by poem length and keyword.
Poetically Pathetic Crow
Just enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad excuse for an apology, epilogue
But I've already messed up the...
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Categories:
tape, lonely, longing, loss, lost, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
Family Poems
Family Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
tape, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Erin
Erin, for a girl who embodies Ireland
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair—
bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children—some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid...
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Categories:
tape, ireland,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Children
Poems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
tape, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
See
See
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
tape, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iii
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
tape, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break Ii
Poems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
tape, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Have Faith - the Egg Timer Style
~ Have Faith ~
( Egg Timer )
~O~
Lord wants you live right
Have Love Faith Hope
Enjoy Peace
Always
Too
Too
Always
Enjoy Peace
Have Love Faith Hope
Lord wants you live right
Just Believe in God
Love with all heart
Worship Pray
To Him
Too
Too
To...
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Categories:
tape, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Tapora
Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed
the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills)
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
From out of the Valley of Mizpah
to...
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Categories:
tape, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
A Wisp of Thought
There was a glimpse of time unknown to man
The things none may ever describe
All wrapped within this wall of thoughts
For if a moment of my thoughts are clear
They are not my thoughts at all
Never again...
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Categories:
tape, beautiful, dream, grief, lonely, lost, metaphor, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Prose Poems Ii
Prose Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
tape, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Hurt People Hurt People
Flirt with Whitney
Flirt with fear
Life is good
But I rather be anywhere but here
Body aches from pushing out tears
Driving on the road of life
Eyes is watery
So I can't steer
And I'm getting dizzy
Stomach very...
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Categories:
tape, deep, depression, feelings, longing, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
NO FEAR OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT SALE LEFT OVER FROM MY NEIGHBORS JAN 6TH PENN COVEN WISCONSIN KKK
AFTER GARGANO CRIME FAMILY OF MADISON WISCONSIN BLEW UP MY FACE WITH A CAR BOMB MY LIFE WAS THREATENED THEY BEGAN TO EXTORT MY LIVELY HOOD IMPERSONATE ME PAYING WISCONSIN CITY OFFICIALS TO FRAME DISABLED...
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Categories:
tape, allah,
Form:
Naat
Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of Nebraska
My love is light (a fairy kiss?)
Like the pressure of...
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Categories:
tape, lost love,
Form:
Blank verse
Laundering Her Accounts
New England's late May sun was long up,
and yet her laundry began to unfold
and clip onto the droopy clothesline,
while yet to warm into 8 AM.
She wore a light spring jacket
and need not think long
about why...
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Categories:
tape, analogy, destiny, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Social Privy
justice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
tape, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
gilded
This happened last Fall, during Thanksgiving break.
Lisa and I were at the MET (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), with her family, at an exhibit of Art Deco sculpture. Lisa and I came out of a...
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Categories:
tape, art, dad, daughter, fashion, fun, humor, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
By the Sea
As she saw it.
The mountains and the meadows were always so beautiful this time of year. It seemed as if a fresh new world always came to life. The high cliffs turned sharply downward....
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Categories:
tape, beautiful, body, desire, grandmother, imagination, me, mother,
Form:
Verse
Feeling Small, Broken Enigma
Let my ears deceive me but I hear it, can't bother to drown it out
the taunting laughter at my misery
Fictional should they be but the reality has cleared the camouflage
which hath once shrouded me
Exposed and...
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Categories:
tape, how i feel, nonsense,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan
(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms,...
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Categories:
tape, england, poetry, political, power,
Form:
Free verse
the 3rd floor
This was last Saturday night. We were at a rooftop party in downtown New Haven thrown by ‘DocHouse.’ Doc-House is kind of a frat-house, owned by Dr. Melon, where he and seven doctoral students live....
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Categories:
tape, humor, school, social, student,
Form:
Free verse
It's a Mad World- In a Lancashire Accent
IT’S A MAD WORLD In a Lancashire Accent.
I went to the Confectioners today, there was a long queue outside, a metre apart, and it had started to rain.
The assistant behind the counter had shiny...
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Categories:
tape, crazy, food, funny, hilarious, humor, humorous, life,
Form:
Free verse
Breathless, Travis Morrison
Suicide, euthanasia
I never thought I’d be the one to go down like this
But I wanted to have control in the way I was sent out of this world
Instead of kept barely alive, pointless.
My parents refused...
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Categories:
tape, books, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Please Help Yarn Hexed Door Neighbor
Please help yarn hexed door neighbor...
Yours truly pinned down by invisible
vestiges of coronavirus and
getting attacked from angry plague
of buttons, plus huge spools of yarn
grossly mistook me for human sock
to seal and line...
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Categories:
tape, abuse, anger, bullying, character, december, humorous, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Blind Man’s Five-Legged Dog Rap
Blind Man’s Five-Legged Dog Rap
Yo, gather 'round the table, let me spin you a tale, 'Bout a blind man named Benny, he was never frail. Owned a dog with five legs, yeah, you heard...
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Categories:
tape, adventure, animal, best friend, crazy, friendship, hilarious,
Form:
Narrative