Long Upshot Poems
Long Upshot Poems. Below are the most popular long Upshot by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Upshot poems by poem length and keyword.
My Inner Voice Told Me
A plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem-encrusted sequestered vaults impervious on mountain peak percentage practical basis,
when express benevolence enjoins the ultimate in empirical assessment ...
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Categories:
upshot, care, character, dedication, deep, encouraging, feelings, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Deprived Of Your Love -When My Life Changed
Glib rhetoric concerned with striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegrating in rapid spasms,
a longing sated and mutually embraced by two compatible persons...
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Categories:
upshot, break up, courage, cry, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form:
Free verse
I Dived Into The Cauldron Of Magic Potion And
Catapulted into seething temperatures beyond the imagination
risking excitement in escapades that may seem inane,
potential hazard weighted against predicament predestined,
at some future stage I might peer backwards and reassess,
initial impetuousness under caustic supernatant thumbnail,
maybe I...
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Categories:
upshot, adventure, character, courage, endurance, environment, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Growing awareness
Richard was quiet this morning..He sat listening to the
Part of the world around him, there was thd odd bird
Call the muted ticking of the clock in the hall, he looked
A the dark t v screen,...
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Categories:
upshot, assonance,
Form:
Narrative
Translate From Speech
Let's dwell a tiny bit on that skill most hanker after,
of mastering a language that especially enthrals,
infused with magic rhythm so fervent,
pulsing music lilt, anthem-rich samba,
think for one ecstatic heady moment,
if...
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Categories:
upshot, age, anxiety, art, courage, language, literature, spoken
Form:
Free verse
Exhortations Against Ole Saint Nick
the (better late than never)
free admission confession, exhortations against Ole Saint Nick
treasured untold shenanigans of Santa,
his elves and reindeer discovered only
by colluding via "FAKE" fluke
did I manage to worm winning the...
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Categories:
upshot, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Light Verse
'she' An Awakening and Eclipsed Soul
A wandering soul lost in her own fantasies
Not interested in cruel world of enmity
In search of her own sunshine
Against the unfair realities...
Neither afraid nor pressurised
Belongs to a unique women's tribe
An example of living on her...
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Categories:
upshot, anger, betrayal, confidence, fantasy, integrity, success, women,
Form:
Rhyme
The Better Late Than Never Free Admission Confessio
...exhortations against Ole Saint Nick
(alternately titled untold treasured shenanigans of Santa)
his elves and reindeer discovered only
by colluding via "FAKE" fluke
did I manage to worm winning the trust
among Christmas elves and reindeer
confident this generic...
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Categories:
upshot, analogy, december, giggle, imagination, lust, metaphor, satire,
Form:
I do not know?
Treasured Untold Shenanigans of Santa, His Elves and Reindeer
only by a fluke did I manage
to worm winning trust
among Christmas elves and reindeer
confident this generic guy,
would never breach scandalous
...
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Categories:
upshot, christmas, holiday, humor, myth, satire, snow, youth,
Form:
Light Verse
An Unrepentant Spitball Marksman
the upshot constituted a figurative straw
that broke the virtual camels back
where yours truly fingered as scape goat,
who meekly, passively, and subserviently
...
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Categories:
upshot, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Achilles and the Tortoise
In ancient times as told in rhymes
there was a hero Greek
Whose mother said, “Before you’re dead
you should go out and seek
The glorious fame that goes...
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Categories:
upshot, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Notes From the Future--A Tale In Two Forms, Free Verse and Rhyme
“I am in a desert place in my life
I had this dream the other night:
Comfort came to me in two forms
Dark and Light
Remembrance and Anticipation
There was a sweet taste,
Not on my tongue but in my...
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Categories:
upshot, destiny, dream, for her, love, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Wide Eyed Saunter Part Two
There’s a burning yen nomadic deep within entrenched,
to absorb fresh environments ambrosial on foot,
where incidental hue or august colour wash abound,
or that March bloom tantalising shady patch,
with its dreamlike mystic wide-flung allure,
some blue pigment dawn...
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Categories:
upshot, celebration, character, color, deep, environment, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Haibun
The Destruction of My Home
It was a quiet, peaceful morning in the vast meadow.
I could hear the thump of hooves as other deer grazed in the valley below,
but across the sea of grass, a sight I feared,
two burly men...
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Categories:
upshot, animals, natural disasters, nature, sad, fire, fire,
Form:
Narrative
The Commissar
Dear commissar
My poetry is filled with agitation and grievances.
To have stood amid, betwixt disillusionment and
Displeasure before. This plea seek not immunity
Nor to pile vanity vines rather seeks progression.
Dear commissar
My poetry is the echo...
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Categories:
upshot, desire, freedom,
Form:
Blank verse
Soliloquy: To Run Honorably, Or Not To Run Honorably
To run honorably, or not to run honorably--those are my options:
Whether ‘tis wiser in the main to malign
The lives and motives of my foes
Or to defend myself against their charges,
And by defending . . ....
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Categories:
upshot, parody,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Proof In Her Prowl
She is a Battle Babe
make you mouth her as a FAV. ,
all her work an automatic save, a rage'n rave,
getcha cravin the ultimate poetic shave
makin demons a quick grave and enticin angels to misbehave,
She's a...
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Categories:
upshot, betrayal, business, poetess,
Form:
Free verse
Hitchiker From Another World
1
Sunday, an overarching day both raw edge conduit and
coarse grain shelter for that soul in torment,
it’s when psyches plagued by doubt face those
sudden twists and turns we call bizarre,
thoughts of the macabre...
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Categories:
upshot, art, change, character, city, dark, engagement, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Thin Glass Frame
Did I see an alter ego twirling round the edges of a microscopic slide
or just another doughnut cell the crosshair must endure?
The answer surely lies upon the fractal shoulders of a dinosauric factor tree...
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Categories:
upshot, analogy, appreciation, art, creation, deep, identity, introspection,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Lollipop Anthology : Solar Eclipse
Granny said it's solar eclipse
So I should not eat my favourite chips.
"Today",she said, "A giant snake will eat the sun"
Her anxious face isn't making any fun.
"Snake would gulp the sun?"
Thoughts raced in the lobes...
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Categories:
upshot, child, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
The Gravity of Gravity
Gravity keeps our feet on the ground,
Stops us from slapdash flying around.
This force of attraction ‘fictitious’ gives weight
And makes all fall down at equivalent rate.
(Albeit in flights of fancy it seems
That gravity follows the laws...
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Categories:
upshot, earth, math, muse, nature, science, sky, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Message of Gratification
Nippy crisp morning’s walk
Condensed clouds gathering for a dance
Sounds of cheerful birds whistling their customary songs
Underneath a hoody, shivering body feels cold wind’s upshot
Fallen leaves have ornamented the path
A huge Maple tree has shown a...
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Categories:
upshot, appreciation, autumn, beauty, confidence, courage, encouraging, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Common Room
I sat in a flop house common room
Doing social research one Christmas Eve,
Galveston in '79, I do believe.
I was there in a room full of strangers.
Sammy Davis and Old Blue Eyes
Sang on the TV...
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Categories:
upshot, allegory, loneliness,
Form:
Sonnet
Life Is But A Trick
Who knows how
Net turns ten
Now own to won
Off arm to mar
The sunshine of four
That rise to grow
Their sheep fur
Just like ours
As long as bride's gown
Unlike a fairy tale bird
Whose ribs are light
Off bid to...
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Categories:
upshot, art, dedication, growth, strength, symbolism, uplifting, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Nursing Home Syndrome
Used upshot ~ no just quiet ring
as Grandma sits upon her swing
content, but how, you want to sing
can quiet rest so willingly!
Her eyes seem set ~ yet seeing more
it must be from some elsewhere store
no...
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Categories:
upshot, devotion, family, love, peoplehome, home,
Form:
Monorhyme