Long Toned Poems
Long Toned Poems. Below are the most popular long Toned by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Toned poems by poem length and keyword.
Malkavian Three
His glowing golden eyes glistened with a comprehension beyond the mortal condition
A well-toned, tall, and tanned man, who most, not all, would call handsome
A brightly bleached stalactite overbite gleaned between the mean features of an...
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toned, dark, psychological,
Form:
Bio
Beware the Ides of March 2023
Beware The Ides of March 2023
Ides simply referred to first new moon,
which usually fell between
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.
The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March
across span of millenniums.
One:...
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Categories:
toned, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Voting With Our Feet
It seemed to me,
when I was eight,
U.S. Christian disciples and teachers
had been given so much grace
And had fundamentally boiled it down
to settling for such small subcontinental WhitePatriarchal colonizing gratitude
for God's universally healthy
multicultural EarthTribes.
It was so...
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Categories:
toned, community, destiny, earth, happiness, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Groundhog Day - Thursday, February 2nd 2023
The date of the celebration
(the second day of February) coincides
with medieval feast of Candlemas,
and its pre-Christian predecessor,
Imbolc, a day also rich in folklore.
An old Scottish prophecy foretells
sunny weather on Candlemas
means a long winter.
The tradition is...
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Categories:
toned, 12th grade, 4th grade, 8th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase
twelve of us he choose to paint
sons of Jacob in an earthen
jar so sturdy
plonked us with vehemence
directed by neuronal cells
skull protecting scrambled
delicacy
...
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Categories:
toned, allegory, art, character, color, extended metaphor, light,
Form:
Ekphrasis
To My Valentine
To My Valentine
My heart opened like an opened window
like an opened square quivering treu love
from poor dull stare in blind eyes that care
something coming to me I am waiting for it fear fullly
as my head...
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toned, africa, love, valentines day, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
Girls Night Out - By Jan Allison and Jenny Brewer
Look out lads here we come
Couple of wild girls out for fun
Perfect hair and makeup's fine
Brand new perfume, we smell divine
Skin tight jeans, mini skirts and skimpy knickers
Can't wait for the party its theme is...
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Categories:
toned, fun, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Him and I
I wandered through the semi busy streets filled with pedestrians as they hurried out of the rain. I continued on with no destination in mind ,no umbrella to shield myself from the frigid elements. ...
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Categories:
toned, first love,
Form:
Free verse
almost showed off
(There’s a song for this: ‘Confessions’ by Sudan Archives)
I remember it like it was yesterday (it was yesterday).
I arrived on a cool (42°f), blindingly sunny New Haven afternoon. It was as if they’d opened up...
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Categories:
toned, home, humor, student, travel, write, youth,
Form:
Free verse
The Dilettante Diaries: Goin' Gangsta On the Road To the Lotus Eaters At Loon Junction
“Pictures could not be accessories to the story – evidence – they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame”. Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters
“There...
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Categories:
toned, cool, courage, fun, humorous, lust, romance, sexy,
Form:
Free verse
Privileged Testosterone Cultures
One of my several disabilities
of personal knowledge
through experience
and, therefore, empathic intelligence,
is to know what estrogen-driven "horniness"
might feel like,
look and sound like,
taste and smell like.
Gay men require alternative
deviant paths
toward green/blue/red
ultra-nonviolent
cooperatively owned
and perpetually self/other-managed
multiculturally mediated
open...
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Categories:
toned, culture, earth, environment, green, health, power, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Blind Date Disaster - Now a Collaboration
He arrived wearing pink skinny jeans
They were scruffy and ripped at the seams
He looked like a wiener
I will not be meaner
But he’s sure not the man of my dreams
2/07/18
A square peg into a round slot
A...
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Categories:
toned, clothes, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
A Life Never Saved
Before I go hide,
I shall rest in the tide-
After the waves,
my life I shall save.
I needed this life-
I craved a passion so strong,
knowing all along she’d
become my wife.
Like salt to the sea,
she was meant...
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Categories:
toned, death, fishing, goodbye, loneliness,
Form:
Verse
The Dark Girl's Black Magic
Some days I wake up
Brush my teeth with anxiety
And braid my hair with pain
There are days I chafe at my dark skin
As insults burn holes in my heart as I walk in
The school...
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Categories:
toned, anger, anti bullying, color, dark, love, magic,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
toned, change, peace, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Juniper's Daughter Picks a Man
Juniper’s Daughter Picks a Man
On a cold rainy early winter night Juniper’s Daughter landed her flying disc on the car park of Aldi and went for a beer. She was dressed in casual attire...
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Categories:
toned, drink, fantasy, love, power, romance, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Spirituality
Poet: Ken Jordan
Prose: Spirituality
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: April/2014
Anger, depression, stress
and fear, is a sinking ship
drowning in the ocean of life -
Nothing good can ever
come from accepting the status
quo -
...
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Categories:
toned, spiritual
Form:
Prose
Survivor
She woke to find herself on the floor of a cabin,
The cabin was bare dark and damp
She felt queasy and uneasy as if waking from being drugged,
She was wearing boots, tight leather shorts and a...
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Categories:
toned, abuse, adventure, courage, emotions, imagination, science fiction,
Form:
Free verse
Thomas the Jefferson's Train
In my dream
Thomas Jefferson pops out a pilgrim
in The Jeffersons family,
proprietors of Chinese laundries
on the best end of Main Street’s forested path
emerging toward Sanford and Sons
and Daughters Recycling Dump.
Here, midst polyglot stone soups
both informing...
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Categories:
toned, culture, freedom, humor, political, race, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Greengold Dragon
Placed : 10th : Premier Contest
Robert James Ligouri
way down into womb, C O L D
I traveled with Greengold Dragon
wide winged, known as GD
dripping tears where I was to
disembark, severing divine connection
to know...
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Categories:
toned, adventure, allegory, allusion, change, character, courage, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
World's number one and two in batting's Who's Who
Yorkshire’s blessed treasure chest best take their Test berth as they surf the crest out on the hallowed turf
The self anointed..God’s own country..didn’t rest..hasn’t disappointed..simple ploy
Plucky…lucky to be an envoy that still has the joy..zest...
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Categories:
toned, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Under the Boardwalk - a Sensual Love Story
Sheer poetry in motion with a picnic basket in hand
Laughing brandishing a bottle as he lopes along the sand
His handsome features completely wreathed in smiles
Lifts and twirls me round - my squeal must be...
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Categories:
toned, love, lust, romance, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Verse
Sappho Translations IX
Sappho Translations IX
Sappho, fragment 17
translation by Michael R. Burch
Hear me, Queen Hera, as your delightful festival nears,
you to whom the sons of Atreus performed vows,
those dazzling kings who did such amazing things,
first at Troy, then...
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Categories:
toned, god, heart, men, prayer, wedding, wife, women,
Form:
Free verse
I Wax Poetic As Lifeblood Imperceptibly Doth Wane
I wax poetic as lifeblood imperceptibly doth wane
Mine body electric analogous
to Google map pronounced
with arteries and countless varicose vein
visible popping blood vessels
leeches haven grand old time
at expense of poor sucker...
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Categories:
toned, adventure, anxiety, body, character, december, farewell, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Sappho Translations XIII
Sappho Translations XIII by Michael R. Burch
In these translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if they are used in any way, shape...
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Categories:
toned, beautiful, beauty, desire, joy, love, sun, voice,
Form:
Free verse