Long Understatement Poems
Long Understatement Poems. Below are the most popular long Understatement by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Understatement poems by poem length and keyword.
Insecurity Part TwoI went against my better judgment, I was flattered not appalled, the only affection that I had ever known was just affection that I didn’t want
By a man that was many years older than me,...
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Categories:
understatement, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
An Adverse World UnfurledSuddenly, I constantly cough, cough, cough
I haven't had enough, for this life's so rough
My friend is right beside me and he truly understands
Where I stand and I thoughtfully fiddle with my hands
Oh,...
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Categories:
understatement, angst, desire, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Oh YesOh God Most High, oh yes…
I’ve done it again…
I admit…now, I’m in distress
Oh Lord, why did I sin that same sin over and over again?
Why did You allow this to happen to me? Where have...
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Categories:
understatement, change, deep, desire, emotions, faith, hope, how
Form:
Rhyme
Beloved Universal CommunityMy fetal alcoholic bipolar:
“sometimes I experience low anxiety
and act like a happy drunk”
“sometimes,
like when entering new places
and situations,
I experience high anxiety
and act like a very bad
and mean-spirited drunk
with immense juvenile curiosity and overload,
near total...
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Categories:
understatement, community, culture, discrimination, earth, environment, faith,
Form:
Narrative
My Democratic Party TownIn my New England town
our local Democratic Party runs everything.
Some would argue these local celebrities
and self-promoting treasures
to posterity
rather over-run everything,
and surely we could find some truth
in this way of seeing,
but we are learning a spirit...
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Categories:
understatement, community, earth, education, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
I Should Try AgainYou wouldn’t look me in the eyes
Because you were afraid of me, reducing to lies
Betrayal begins to bleed out of your scars…you were the color of Mars
You bit the bullet and you are shining...
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Categories:
understatement, deep, depression, desire, faith, hope, passion, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice ElfInk roached infestation didst derive within mice elf
Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of time
can be made to go in reverse
a more exemplary version
to...
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Categories:
understatement, absence, adventure, age, birth, creation, family, history,
Form:
Rhyme
She SpokeI was in 4th grade - when most kids are 9 or 10 years old. Not yet to the semi-adulthood of the teenage years, and not just "little kids" anymore, either. You might...
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Categories:
understatement, growing up, memory, , 4th grade,
Form:
Prose
Soul Stance River - 5The delegation arrives in a procession of handsome, barbaric lineage
rugged in animal accoutrements and subdued in the presence of the future's skin,
the women, fine in wild beauty are bejeweled in beads, white and blues
that accent...
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Categories:
understatement, history,
Form:
Epic
Grief a New Best FriendGrief is so unimaginable painful it cant be explained,
To lose someone you love so much is unfeigned,
Once grief comes knocking at your front door,
Entering your life, It doesn't plan to stay as a guest
In...
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Categories:
understatement, death, deep, emotions, father, father daughter, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice ElfInk roached infestation didst derive within mice elf
Thus writer of these words
forever mus lee experiencing
craving to eat cheese,
a milk product
eternally preserved within
annals, chronicles, epistles,
et cetera of human civilization
and it's discontents...
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Categories:
understatement, adventure, america, angst, anxiety, crush, environment, hate,
Form:
Free verse
Free Association Comprises RatiocinationFree association comprises ratiocination...
Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewed den - brought about divine visit
analogously to solve mystery pinpointing
within suspense unveiling whodunnit.
Whereat your true
plane vanilla...
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Categories:
understatement, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Free Association Comprises RatiocinationFree association comprises ratiocination...
Bonafide catatonic doggedness,
nevertheless this stubborn stoic poet writ
afore and another feeble effort courtesy
exhaustive mental effort
he brewed den - brought about divine visit
analogously to solve mystery pinpointing
within suspense unveiling whodunnit.
Whereat your true
plane vanilla...
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Categories:
understatement, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, allusion,
Form:
Free verse
Rwanda's WhyI'm driving through such beauty, this lush rural countryside. I find it hard to believe that my
career has taken me to here. Being where I am is so much different to the Highlands from...
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Categories:
understatement, africa, death, people, places, world,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Magnificent Black WomanA dream is a wish the heart makes,
And the moment I saw you
My heart wished you to be mine
So to say that you are my dream
Would be merely stating the truth,
But only in it=s rawest,...
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Categories:
understatement, black love,
Form:
Rhyme
Soul Stance River - 19Through April and May not a single Indian has been noticed
along all the serpentine bends of this rambunctious river,
however I feel we are being espied by a jealous warparty
immortal in it's protection of this pristine...
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Categories:
understatement, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Unraveling, Alone Two HeartbeatsA whirlwind, an understatement of what this day has become
Funny how it was a day where optimism would be welcomed in with open arms
Only to have confusion be the annoying friend
This is a book unraveling,...
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Categories:
understatement, art, beautiful, lonely, longing, love, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Saved By His Creator, Part II...He laughed at memes, he watched podcasts,
rolled digital eyes at the news,
saw endless reams of adult stuff,
why they liked it, he never knew…
But in this searching he came on
a fact he’d never realized:
A.I.s lasted just...
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Categories:
understatement, death, future, humanity, life, meaningful, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Will You Ever See MeMy Name is Paul & I am a Young Black Male
My Grandmother's Father was from Great Britain, his Family came to the New World to Stake their claim
He was a White Male
I Never knew Him
My...
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Categories:
understatement, black african american, business, discrimination, endurance, history,
Form:
Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm Part 15the inside attempting to outside
each with its own absurd shopping list
we are after all composite beings
clumps and aggregates and glomerations
made up from all the faces we have seen
all the people we have imagined to have...
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Categories:
understatement, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Patriarch, Roller CoasterRoller coaster by ian munywe
Shuffling of many a feet in the street, sighing reluctantly in this awful road.
As we draw closer to alien things, what we saw before not in sync,
Far so far we have...
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Categories:
understatement, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Lovely enchantress of cyberspaceLovely enchantress of cyberspace
Betwixt and between us
lies an immense untraversable realm
of never knowable forbidding possibilities
quixotic, rhapsodic, sympathetic, telepathic...,
where tantalizing, scandalizing, and revolting,
nevertheless promising fantasies beckons
buzzfeeding, crowdsourcing, dovetailing,
earthshaking, foo fighting, hashtagging,
jump/kick starting, twittering
uber whatsapp pining
toward...
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Categories:
understatement, absence, adventure, anxiety, betrayal, desire, divorce, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice ElfInk Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
(thus forever experiencing craving to eat cheese)
Nothing but gridlock traffic
(far as thee eye could see)
heading east on Schuylkill Expressway
(oxymoronic name for quickest route
into center city, albeit Philadelphia),
yet this...
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Categories:
understatement, anxiety, books, childhood, creation, dad, education, father
Form:
Bio
Smoke Alarm- a True StoryA long tale, so grab a drink.
Dateline, Tuesday, August 30th 2016.
They had a clear-out where I used to work
with heaps of office junk for getting rid,
the usual stuff in cardboard boxes lurked
old staplers, cookie...
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Categories:
understatement, anger, grief, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
My AgeMY AGE
My age is nothing but a number, nothing but a slumber that I can’t wake from, this is what I’ve done. I’ve looked around and found that the matter of the fact is life...
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Categories:
understatement, age, deep, for teens, truth, world, youth,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue