Long Tarp Poems
Long Tarp Poems. Below are the most popular long Tarp by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Tarp poems by poem length and keyword.
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Imu Ground Oven
Preparations for 'Luau' (LOU-ow) or a Hawaiian Party-like event, for a church Luau, would be a 'Ho'ike' (hoe-'E-kay). The hunters will tie the hind legs of whatever animal will go into an 'i'mu' (E'-moo), which...
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Categories:
tarp, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration, happiness, religion, together,
Form:
Narrative
Adjustments
"But there's one thing I know ...
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Categories:
tarp, analogy, blue,
Form:
Verse
Morning Musing
I remember that day
a early spring day
cold snow melted away
and grass turning green
long cold winter gone
days of shivering cold
dormant brown grass lay not
beneath crystal blanket cold
spring task was before
needing to be done
in cool early morn
before...
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Categories:
tarp, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Sandbags Pray for Hurricane Victims of Florida
We are hunkered down again
as we watch the land cry
evacuation gathering medication
pets helping others as neighbors
become first responders helping
others checking on elderly residents
rather Charlie Lisa Francis Hugo
dean Katrina...
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Categories:
tarp, allah, faith, freedom, meaningful, muse, mystery,
Form:
Hamd
Haunted
Darkness.
Eyes widen more and more,
trying in vain to see.
Then other senses compensate,
I hear the faint rustle of dry leaves.
My body caught in the shock of fear,
refuses to move,
but I feel...
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Categories:
tarp, boy, child abuse, death, father son, halloween,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Orchid Oxymorons
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~ Rumi
Dear Diary,
I’m a hopeless romantic,
a sentimental sonnet
scribbled...
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Categories:
tarp, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Greed (Part Two)
Our Supreme Court
Just allowed corporations free rein,
Unlimited power to effect our popular elections.
This regardless of,
Where stockholders may live or stay,
Corrupting the whole process of our Reps selections.
What this means to you,
Is the next Representative you'll...
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Categories:
tarp, politicaleducation, voice, may, money, power, voice,
Form:
Narrative
Dearest Mama, I'M Okay
dearest mama
it's been three days now
but it seems a lifetime
I'm sorry it had to be this way
I really am
I can only imagine you on a crescent moon
lost in a crater, yelling at me
mama I'm sorry
a...
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Categories:
tarp, daughter, freedom, grief, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
You Look Sideways and I Set Sail
You look sideways at me
I look straight on at you
You glance towards me
I stare at you
memorize the stiches of your coat
they are uneven
it must have been handmade
You look up at the sky
I look at...
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Categories:
tarp, love,
Form:
Free verse
States of Transition
Who were you today,
at your best moments?
Grouchy hermit
already missing quality dream times
and rhythms
when chimes greet pre-light's crust frosty dawn,
to get Yang, then Yin, up and out of our sangha,
ready to enter their own daytime...
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Categories:
tarp, children, family, health, humor, life, love,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Elegy of Divine Cross
I
The bell the Town Courier want to toll
To salute the day of reckoning in Getham City
Is now on the neck of the scary-witty cat her paws like dragon
Saints, Publicans looking on at each other nose
Of...
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Categories:
tarp, christian, devotion, life, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Melon Rind Green
Life was hard when growing up cus I was poor.
Farm work always needed doing, chore after chore,
wearin' hand-me-downs, never gettin' new toys.
No time for playin' with friends, like other boys.
They made fun of me for...
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Categories:
tarp, childhood,
Form:
Rhyme
Crop Circles On My Head
I awoke a bit firghtened
My senses were heightened
I had heard a soft whirring sound,
As my eyes opened,
I thought I saw three silvery Quarters
Fly out of my bedroom door...
My head felt stung,
My mind seemed full of...
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Categories:
tarp, adventure, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, me, pain,
Form:
Burlesque
Lost Indecision
He wakes every morning already in pain
He takes no meds because addiction lives with in him
He checks his feet are they purple or blue
Flat foot he can't stand unless he puts his foot strait in...
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Categories:
tarp, age, allusion, america, anger, anxiety, world war
Form:
Free verse
Lost Indecision
He wakes every morning already in pain
He takes no meds because addiction lives with in him
He checks his feet are they purple or blue
Flat foot he can't stand unless he puts his foot strait in...
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Categories:
tarp, age, allusion, america, anger, anxiety, world war
Form:
Free verse
The Slight Distance Beyond
He lost her that night.
Before-
Weeks after school and weekends,
weather or not,
they had built the fort-
strong, Indian proof.
Father had provided a tarp.
and his father’s High Standard Sport 22 pistol
for wild animals.
The woods behind the fort
were...
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Categories:
tarp, childhood, loss, sister,
Form:
Free verse
Sleeping Porch
Sleeping Porch
Light bulbs strung like stars made their way from the camp house down to the dock. We had two old boats tied up down there at the ready. One was made of...
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Categories:
tarp, emotions,
Form:
Narrative
Something In the Way Kurt Cobain
Born in Aberdeen Washington
where he hung out,
“Underneath the bridge,
the tarp has sprung a leak”
Taught himself to play guitar,
liked to smoke some weed,
“And the animals I’ve trapped
have all become my pets”
Started writing...
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Categories:
tarp, allusion, dedication, deep, for him, song, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
If Only the Were Awake While They Were Sleeping
the night stretched on until dawn, sleep evaded my eyes,
I couldn't sleep not a wink, I just stared blankly to the skies.
then it hit in its purest form, boredom I could not...
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Categories:
tarp, adventure, funny, happiness, imagination, nature, world, me,
Form:
Blank verse
A Boiler In My Dog's Stomach
My dog's stomach sounded like a washing machine set on high and hot.
He was laying between my mother and me Off the couch,
but not because we told him to, the couch was too covered with...
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Categories:
tarp, animal, anxiety, dog, humor, spoken word, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Under the Stars of Heaven: Answer Me
Mystic Rose's Poem
Stars Are Our Link To The Great Beyond And God Himself
I watch the splendor of a shooting star
and breathe the beauty of a hum-guitar
Her light
in flight
is like...
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Categories:
tarp, god, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Cat Purrs To Haiku
You never feed me.
Perhaps I'll sleep on your face.
That will show you.
You must scratch me there!
Yes, above my tail! Behold,
elevator butt.
I need a new toy.
Tail of black dog keeps good time.
Pounce! good dog! good dog!
The...
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Categories:
tarp, artme, me, sleep,
Form:
I do not know?
Mommy Dearest
as i look into your eyes i see what i become a mirror image of you,i learned how to survive
from seeing you hustling and bustling on the grind.my mentality is the same as yours...
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Categories:
tarp, familyme, home, clothes, home, me,
Form:
I do not know?
Grandpa's Treasure Chest
Grandpa's Treasure Chest
In the corner of the attic
covered with a dusty tarp
Was a neat wooden chest
It was stamped 1942
Excitedly I opened it up
hearing the hinges creak
Inside to my suprize
were pieces of...
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Categories:
tarp, family, grandfather, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
I See Myself in Everything
I endure my arrogance like a leftover twin
absorbed during gestation,
seeing myself in everything, not only the eyes
that watch me rocking back and forth in a corner
in order to...
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Categories:
tarp, analogy, extended metaphor, introspection, truth,
Form:
Free verse