Long Taxis Poems
Long Taxis Poems. Below are the most popular long Taxis by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Taxis poems by poem length and keyword.
Justice Is Crying In the StreetOh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
taxis, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
Enola GayEnola Gay
There on the ‘North Field’ tarmac of Tinian Island, Marianas;
Taxis the sleek designed ‘Boeing B-29 Superfortress’ to ready for take-off. 1
Glistening, polished aluminum under the blaring floodlights filmed for posterity,
Maneuvers' the ‘Enola Gay’, chosen...
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Categories:
taxis, education, history, usa, war, world, world war
Form:
Verse
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
taxis, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Ill Fated AddressAN ILL-FATED ADDRESS
Being on holiday in Athens was truly the best 21st present
my parents could have given me, stayed with my granddad,
felt great, I traveled on my own, no more an adolescent.
Sad that I...
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Categories:
taxis, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Vacation In New OrleansWalking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves. The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses. My luggage...
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Categories:
taxis, dark, evil, scary,
Form:
Haibun
Scary Tale Of New YorkIt’s Christmas Eve, Babe
In the car pound
It shouldn’t be this way
Should not have been found
But I’m the lucky one
I am the thirteenth one
And when I got a scare
I hi-tailed out of there
But everywhere I went
It...
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Categories:
taxis, america, horror,
Form:
Lyric
Let the Drums BeatLet the drums beat until it release the number sheet
Let the drums beat until it rip out my heart's seat
Let the drums beat until blood spill in the street
Let the drums beat until justice is...
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Categories:
taxis, america, betrayal, break up, conflict, corruption, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Sept 11,The Day the World Stood StillIt was a day like every other day, sunny and warm they said
New Yorkers smiling and happy, looking for their daily bread
Taxis were darting here and there, planes flying everywhere
Children were going to school, parents...
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Categories:
taxis, america, evil, grief, hero, history, inspirational,
Form:
Epic
Greening Our NeighborhoodPermaculturists,
like Taoists
and Buddhists
and Hindus, etc.
Consider neighbors
extended and respected family,
ZeroZone Kin,
regardless of zone status
near or far,
regardless of species,
regardless of living
or gone
or not yet arrived.
Dear Neighbors,
I make no proud claims
of embracing a GREEN lifestyle,
making green integrity choices,
No...
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Categories:
taxis, caregiving, earth, education, environment, health, history, school,
Form:
Political Verse
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots IiGazing down along the zealously
Monitored borders of well clipped
Evergreen Privet hedges.
Standing watchful guard over
Divisions
Re-enforced by concrete posts and
Darkly stained, wooden, wavy-lap
Fences;
Age-old neighbourly disputes, petty
Grudges and childish jealousies -
Ably demonstrated by various
Patchworks of shabbily...
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Categories:
taxis, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
In Response To My First Poem - For Contest'The Journey'
Sight.
Sound.
Smell.
Taste.
The trains,
the tracks,
the rush, the haste.
The sweeties and toffees,
newspapers and coffees,
Cases and bags, e-cigs and fags,
pasty and tanned, iphone in hand,
The people who come and the people who go
and the Taxis that wait, as...
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Categories:
taxis, journey, travel,
Form:
I do not know?
Beautiful City of Goma , DrcongoAs I was in national park virunga
and I saw a zebra
which was giving birth and
one black and white cobra
passed by there.
I admired their colours
and took some pictures
to show my kids...
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Categories:
taxis, africa, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
The Saturday AfterMy first concern was to contact family, friends and employees that might be in the
immediate vicinity of the event. We are one of those lucky stories where my wife
had a doctor’s appointment...
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Categories:
taxis, history, lifeson, people, water, city, people, son,
Form:
Narrative
The Urchin In Dr Radhakrishnan Road - Part OnePart One
Still the din dashes about in his dreams
now louder in the spacedout quiet:
an occasional auto-rickshaw backfiring revving
spluttering...
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Categories:
taxis, life,
Form:
Free verse
Krishna's Advice To Arjuna - Part TwoII
for Thodti trailing barefeet his dried coconut-stick broom on cracked macadam
in the gutter festering oozing fresh month-old drying turds urine remains of fed-up banana-leaves skins withered jasmine garlands drained motor-oil from scooter-taxis overfed flies lean...
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Categories:
taxis, religion,
Form:
Free verse
To Mom March 11 1979To MOM; March 11,1979
This is the story of an animal trainer,
Whose mettle and courage, couldn't be plainer.
A search'd reveal if you'd care to explore,
None greater exists than El Eleanor.
She's faced the very meanest...
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Categories:
taxis, animal, birthday, childhood, family, happy, humorous, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
the assassinationSeven Mossad Agents came to Norway a winter day
when a snow drowns the needs of the homeless
asleep in a shop's doorway absorbing the sarcastic smell
of coffee and the aroma of a Napoleon cream cake.
Their...
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Categories:
taxis, allusion, angst, birth,
Form:
Blank verse
Nyc Noir In Black and WhiteNYC nior in black and white
NYC nior in black and white
Dark landscapes 1957 NYC
of automats radio city and hotdog stands
memories of things past
Take us back to lucid dreams of light and...
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Categories:
taxis, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Venice a Crazy Nice AdventureVenice, Italy, is a crazy shamozzle of new and old
Where junk, graffiti, decay, stunning beauty,
history and culture poverty and opulence, all reside side by side, bobbing.
Water dominates...
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Categories:
taxis, adventure, travel,
Form:
Free verse
MomentarilyTaxes are not talking nor are they taxis. But airports are often very congested. Packed tightly forming queues. Vastly unreported by news. News are neatly arranged newts in a bath licking ice cream. And a...
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Categories:
taxis, baseball, basketball, beach,
Form:
I do not know?
the most beautiful girlsThe most beautiful girls,
Are those we imagine to love,
The ones we would like to invite to the restaurant
To drink champagne and grands crus,
The most beautiful girls, I know some,
Are the ones we imagine loving you,
They...
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Categories:
taxis, beauty, girl, love,
Form:
Free verse
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 1It is night yet in the West
and the planes land between listlessly burning tarmac lamps
stealthy fingers scurrying through diadems of neons halogens and amber
...
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Categories:
taxis, inspirational, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Poor Little Black GirlShe sits on a street corner with a teardrop in her eye
Wishing she were in the cars of the people driving by
Her mother left with some john about two months ago
The man with the eviction...
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Categories:
taxis, life, me, girl, me, mother, today,
Form:
Rhyme
Three Sonnets Inspired By My Reigning Ex Warmly dedicated to SMJ
Three Sonnets Inspired by my
...
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Categories:
taxis, girlfriend,
Form:
Sonnet
SummerIn the summer we left. We went to the island we came from. Though we barely spoke the language we felt strangely at home.
The island we came from, with its postcard-perfect ocean and movie-perfect...
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Categories:
taxis, 11th grade, angst, art,
Form:
Free verse