Long Taped Poems
Long Taped Poems. Below are the most popular long Taped by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Taped poems by poem length and keyword.
Loves Trial 5
The Trial 5
Workers in the courtroom were making last minute sitting arrangement for Poetry Soup’s poets who have been following the case.
Their comments after reading the transcripts, were seen by Love. She...
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Categories:
taped, heartbroken, hurt, judgement, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
I. Sighting
I saw you
through refracted light-
a prism of chance
splitting ordinary into spectrum.
Wind-tangled hair
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails
the scent of soil and...
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Categories:
taped, dream, innocence, journey, loss, memory, mystery, nature,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Cautious Optimism
Human foot-traffic is flowing along slightly faster than 2020, ...
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Categories:
taped, world,
Form:
Verse
Red Tulips
Under a tree of wet blossoms, shimmering to life in the sun, one honey bee is circling around two burly men, who wave it off, with childlike dramatics...arms flailing. One of them,...
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Categories:
taped, friendship, me, red, spring, tree,
Form:
Verse
Thanks For Your Time
THANKS FOR YOUR TIME: To everything there is a
season, a time for every purpose under heaven; -
Ecclesiastes 3:1
A young man learns what’s most important in life
from the guy next door. It had been some time...
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Categories:
taped, analogy, bible, blessing, books,
Form:
Prose
Rileys Comet
A stunning scene. Edited for our insatiable reading pleasure. High on a tight-rope.
The debutant wearing her 2-piece at one end. The isis general at the other.The plot is for them to tip-toe, slowly...
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Categories:
taped, me, simile,
Form:
I do not know?
Joe Bonamassa Inspiration
Joe Bonamassa is famous for more than just guitar skills.
but as for the lovely array of ancient antiques,
His "Nerdville" house is filled with tools and artifacts.
Joe Bonamassa hankers for blues-rock as pioneers age.
Danny Gatton taught...
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Categories:
taped, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history, music,
Form:
Bio
Bandaid Addiction
My 4 year old was addicted to Band-aids
Every part of his body needed a Band-aid.
'mama mama momy mom mom mama'
"WHAT!!!!!!"
'I have an owie
come see mama'
"Julian, love
mama doesn't have time to look today
I'm getting ready for...
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Categories:
taped, funny love, hilarious, mother son,
Form:
Bio
Teaching An Old Dog
All I remember is going into the garage to get the snow shovel.
I am not even sure how much of the driveway I managed to shovel. Apparently, I was lying in the snow...
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Categories:
taped, life, child, christmas, me, nice, people, home,
Form:
Narrative
Hiding In Plain Sight
I had my plan memorized,
and I picked the right time.
I walked into the bank
when there was no line.
I walked up to the teller
and presented a note.
She hadn’t lived my life,
you see,...
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Categories:
taped, adventure, fantasy, hope, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
protests
If you’ve read any of my delicious, hand-crafted vignettes and listened to us talk, you’ll know that my roommates and I are critical thinking swifties who spend hour after hour talking about anything and everything,...
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Categories:
taped, appreciation, celebration, education, freedom, identity, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Life After Death
"House of lies, pride and bone,
The gauzy instability in my augmentation, I feel the hostility commence deep into my lanes. I prom in the masquerade of the mirror and cannot identify myself as an...
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Categories:
taped, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, betrayal, confusion, deep,
Form:
Free verse
The Witches Broom
It is a witchy tradition to pass down your first broom to
The next generation, but poor dear sweet Mable inherited an eye
Sore from her elder granny, the handle topped end was crooked
In a twisted...
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Categories:
taped, adventure, halloween, holiday, humorous, imagery, imagination, international,
Form:
Free verse
Ban Me Thuot
Ban Me Thuot
By Franklin Price
8/31/2018
Out in the Central highlands, far away from Cam Ranh Bay,
In the town of Ban Me Thuot was a place where I would stay.
There was no space available at any compounds...
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Categories:
taped, memory, military, war,
Form:
Couplet
A Day For a Lifetime
Driving my car across the country, numerous years ago, going to a new place,
Changing who I’d know
A loud bang broke the boredom and...
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Categories:
taped, adventure, anxiety, food, memory, romance, travel, true
Form:
Ballad
Deceiving Bird Calls
For as long as I remember I’ve had this avicultural fad;
keeping birds in planted aviaries from the day I was a lad.
Caging prolific zebra finches to the pretty Whydah bird.
Bred Strawberries and Cutthroats...
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Categories:
taped, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Deceiving Bird Calls
For as long as I remember I’ve had this avicultural fad;
keeping birds in planted aviaries from the day I was a lad.
Caging prolific zebra finches to the pretty Whydah bird.
Bred Strawberries and Cutthroats...
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Categories:
taped, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetic Nugget Discovered Today March 29th, 2021
Poetic nugget discovered today March 29th, 2021...
while rifling thru outdated electronic drafts,
whereby yours went back to our memorable past.
Circa 6/30/ 2017 - Lost missing master car key...
plus additional ordinary travails affecting me
such as near bankruptcy,...
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Categories:
taped, absence, adventure, anxiety, community, crazy, environment, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Stevie Ray Vaughan Inspiration
Stevie Ray's guitar spurred the 1980s blues boom.
He wasn't like any other guitarist.
Inspired by Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Albert Collins...
He linked blues and rock in the late 1960s.
He ruled the American blues from 1983...
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Categories:
taped, analogy, appreciation, beauty, history, music,
Form:
Bio
God breaking griefs chain
Things are a mess, not because they had to be but because familiarity outranks togetherness. Corner wall has cobwebs, the bed not made in months. Curtains taped over trapping any light out of the room....
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Categories:
taped, december, deep, god, grief, red, sorrow, water,
Form:
Free verse
Saturday Afternoon Before Jack's 2nd Birthday
Saturday Afternoon Before Jack’s 2nd Birthday
A Caravelle wall clock behind me
ticks away muffled minutes,
Its black pointed hands
reaching upward and downward;
The EXIT sign above the open white door
...
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Categories:
taped, birthday, grandson, words,
Form:
Free verse
Breaking
*letters and numbers tearing at my mind,
Words decending upon my curled body.
Sentences wrap around my neck.
Paragraphs drown my lungs
withering, and wailing, laying upon the floor.
Music pounding in my ears,
I cant hear.
But they still speak.
HELP...
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Categories:
taped, conflict, crazy, evil, girl, identity, lost, mental
Form:
Free verse
The Mayflower Sails
Under a tall cottonwood tree that grows along the curb...
two burly men stand next to a giant truck, and smoke one last cigarette...
...
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Categories:
taped, devotion, friendship, people, cancer,
Form:
Narrative
Theater of Utter Charm Part 17
Part 17
a kitchen drawer filled with throwaway lines
taped across the raw spots
itching festering inquiries eh inspector
asking the unavoidable
if we know how we got here
there's a better chance to know
where the fated flatulence we are going
if...
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Categories:
taped, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Becoming 1
Becoming 1
I’ve seen stranger things
Spoiled tongue
Rosy words
Puzzle pieces
Riddles and books to be published
And a wedding televised every place
A beautiful pink dress unlike the rest
Kassadine Corporation
A cologne pina colada and almond
A white...
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Categories:
taped, anger, anxiety, betrayal, butterfly, corruption, death, god,
Form:
Narrative