Long Upturned Poems
Long Upturned Poems. Below are the most popular long Upturned by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Upturned poems by poem length and keyword.
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
upturned, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
...
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Categories:
upturned, celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
The Call of the Grimoire
"The Call of the Grimoire"
when Exalibur was retrieved
from the rock, then foolishly
and irretrievably lost
in that dreadful battle most worthless
the imps encouraged
the once good Poesie folk
to jeer and throw pebbles
the...
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Categories:
upturned, i am, light, magic, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The Miracle of Marshside Lea
In Marshside Lea, there stood a tree, old in trunk and bough
'Twas long ago, this tale, although, it may still stand there now
And in its shade, the young sheep played as often did young lambs
Whilst...
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Categories:
upturned, allegory, angel, animal, crazy, fantasy, farm, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Seasonal Walks In the Park
baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
“Seasonal Walks in the Park!”
A walk in the park after a springtime morning rainfall
Is to hear the droplets fall from bent branches overhead
That can shock and moisten one’s...
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Categories:
upturned, baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,
Form:
Free verse
The Letter
The Letter
A young man strolled along the waterfront,
His mind and heart at ease.
Said an old man, sitting on an upturned punt,
Gazing out towards the sea.
“Come...
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Categories:
upturned, boy, happiness, irony, loneliness, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Breath, In Blue
Now watch this video: Planet Earth: Blue Planet II
https://youtu.be/2f9SItUEtJ8
"Breath, in Blue"
Bluebottles broken scattered
shattered legions on the beach of my heart
my blue planet lungs rattle
my breath battered in the honeycomb maze
vanished all my bees belittled forgotten...
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Categories:
upturned, animal, bird, earth, fish, god, humanity, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
My Daughter's Smile
My Daughter's Smile
By Linda Hays-Gibbs
There is a light, a light so sweet, comes from a smile beaming out from deep-within a soul, of infinite warmth, a burning coal alight with dawn, a tune to...
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Categories:
upturned, children, emotions, feelings, inspirational, religion, religious, smile,
Form:
Ballad
labs
(a university-life vignette)
It’s Saturday morning at about 9am. I’m in the chemistry lab, a sterile looking room with 12 workstations that are like multi level kitchen islands with sinks and various lab gear. It’s the...
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Categories:
upturned, angst, career, environment, humor, school, work,
Form:
Free verse
A Journeyman's Plea
The great poets begged for muse and not for moments stolen.
We lesser mortals cup in hand beg, not for attentions’ span nor
cause to celebrate, but Time; a worthy goal.
Seconds spent pondering half-held slow bled moments
shuffling...
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Categories:
upturned, angst, atheist, break up, dark, death, depression,
Form:
Free verse
The Damascus Room
The room is an object in its entirety.
Singular in form and mind,
and multiple in purpose and pleasure.
It is a secret capsule.
Though it was once adorned with bright reds and greens and plated golds
that climbed up...
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Categories:
upturned, art, culture, image, islamic, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Being a Cool Kid
• By daniel miltz •
You're not born with cool, you've got to find it. A leather jacket that fits like a glove knows it. Cool is an act. Cool is by learning to stand out...
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Categories:
upturned, cool, crazy,
Form:
Bio
The Master of the Wind - a Re-Write
[Arrhhh… this be a rewrite of a yarn I told, which truly wasn’t tawdry
alas, I can but wonder if some thought it would be bawdy.
The ‘Neptune’s Daughter’ was a fiction, No inuendo there
She’s now...
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Categories:
upturned, dog, ocean, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Hush the Stars
“Look up at the stars,” you say
Its just another night up on the old water tank
Our blanket is spread and here we sit with the universe our theater
Another night of showing me the constellations
Astronomy…your...
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Categories:
upturned, passion, universe,
Form:
Epic
Seven Shades and Mr Blue Skies
"Seven Shades and Mr Blue Skies"
You walked into the storm
and waited for some sign
to struggle less
face upturned
looking for Blue Skies
Seven shades illuminated
the yearning of your heart
Each colour a meaning
and emotion
buried firmly...
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Categories:
upturned, future, heartbreak, journey, life, love, rainbow, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Who Would Milk the Tigress
Who would milk the Tigress
wears no armour gasmask
pail within squat thighs
nor bloodless...
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Categories:
upturned, freedom, mother daughter, peace, political, soldier, women,
Form:
Free verse
SATURN GOD OF TIME
Saturn ! You magnetised with
enchanting icy rings
promised white gold
endless skates on
Chrysalis circled cates
said we would go round
like fairy rings
said you had so much
Love to give I would never
go wanting nor...
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Categories:
upturned, allegory, color, creation, extended metaphor, image, planet,
Form:
Rhyme
The Neptunes Daughter
Fifty fathoms ’neath the sea aboard the ‘Neptune’s Daughter’
The captain guards her secret in three hundred feet of water
For twenty years he floundered in a cell; Twas dank and cold
They let him out, he set...
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Categories:
upturned, dog, humorous, ocean, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Trompe L'oiel
Trompe L'oeil
I use to be so sure of my colors
But now my vision is jaded
Perhaps it is obscured
from the THOUSANDS of tears I've shed
I taught you
the primary colors, RED, YELLOW, and BLUE
The shades of red...
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Categories:
upturned, analogy, anger, angst, emotions, eulogy, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
The Girl With Red Hair, Freckles and An Upturned Nose
I met a girl once; more like noticed her I have to admit.
A girl with red hair, freckles and an upturned nose.
The girl with red hair, freckles and an upturned nose.
Oh; I noticed her.
Music can...
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Categories:
upturned, death, love, mother, mother daughter, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
Southwest Landscapes
Five in the morning
Orange and red glow in the east
A new day is born
A single rain drop
Looks to be the final straw
Now the flood begins
Albuquerque view
Volcanoes on the mesa
Since the age of time
Once green and...
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Categories:
upturned, adventure, beauty, vacation, , western,
Form:
Haiku
Awakening Teary-Eyed Moments
childhood, creation, feelings, growing up, heaven, imagery, word play,
Awakening Teary-eyed Emotions © ...
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Categories:
upturned, childhood, creation, feelings, growing up, heaven, imagery,
Form:
Verse
Ere From the Abyss I Separate
Our prison is strong,
And made stronger still,
By men who work to break the hour,
And till,
One reaps, and the other sows their will-
Here the abyss harvests,
All of passions power-
To build each brick, cell, prison, tower,
Keeping each...
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Categories:
upturned, allegory, social, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Doppelganger
Coming home late from wandering in my sleep
In search of that which goes ahead of chase
i saw the image of my form stretched on my bed
His looks – minus my glasses – through an impish...
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Categories:
upturned, introspection, me,
Form:
Free verse
Once I Was Prince - Part One
for Granny Letchumi (b. fin 19th C. - d. 1978)
Once i was a prince in your highbeamed palm-thatched house
timber and stone
of hardened mud and cold green shiny cement
in your village...
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Categories:
upturned, family, day, me,
Form:
Free verse