Long Vetted Poems
Long Vetted Poems. Below are the most popular long Vetted by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Vetted poems by poem length and keyword.
Upon Waking
“Upon Waking”
Slumber has its upsides
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard,
cacophonous
pecking at each other
and at the ground…
Elsewhere,
like dull background noise
through the fog of dream
the sound of the gamble...
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Categories:
vetted, gothic, muse, poets,
Form:
Narrative
The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorderThe monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder
As origin of Homo Sapien species surged ahead,
harboring nascent predominance
asper said primate reproductively bred,
(albeit via incremental fits and starts)
evolutionary forebears didst dread
Tom Tom Club former members
an American...
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Categories:
vetted, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety, atheist, environment, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Strong suspicion a 2024 presidential winStrong suspicion a 2024 presidential win...
for the trumpeting don
spells loss for democracy
after inauguration day
witnesses his swearing-in
nepotism will run rampant
lawlessness the name of the game
of thrones breaking apart ramparts
of inalienable rightful
freedoms rent sunder, whereby nothin
can stop...
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Categories:
vetted, america, angst, anxiety, business, conflict, culture, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Three-Fifth Stooges Quartet
Moe
Larry
Curly
Shep
Joe
This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know
Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry and Curly passed my way
They were yukking it up,
talking clown...
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Categories:
vetted, fun, humor, parody, political, satire,
Form:
Light Verse
Figurative Paralysis Laid Waste Body Electric of MineFigurative paralysis laid waste body electric of mine
This is Spinal tap
bamboozling, binding, bleeding, bombing...
ripped from every dog eared
and book marked page
recounting latest ill fated fiasco,
now peppering my life and hard times
causing quite...
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Categories:
vetted, absence, adventure, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Cherry Tree Music Co-OpCherry Tree Music Co-op
alternately titled instant infatuation:
a moment of spontaneous spunk
instantaneously transformed
ordinarily shy guy into a quidnunc
courtesy powder milk biscuits
inside his mouth
bitesize morsels did plunk
wafted courtesy pheromones
found him punchdrunk
reclusive tendencies bubbled...
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Categories:
vetted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
The Chinese Horoscope, Preserved“Dragons don’t live up to the talk.
I’ll find a way to fix the wagon”,
Opined the jealous Jabberwock,
“Of the scaly, lummox dragon.”
This foul fiend then, most inhumanely,
Pausing to munch a trembling snack
As his...
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Categories:
vetted, allegory, animal, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Private ResidencePrivate Residence
Sign at the gate – no solicitors –
Beyond the rosewood door sanctuary in seclusion
Untouched by hands racing round
A face framed by chimes and alarms –
Measures of mincing minutes
Exiled with suitcases packed
To astral planes of...
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Categories:
vetted, home, house, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Cloudy BookshelfWhen that storm arrived,
the entire congregation
in genuflection
knelt before
Her poetic prayers,
they saw themselves shining,
eventually, in Her reflection
scandalously quiet
like perculating thunder,
their minds cracking open,
their whole chicken little sky
falling closer ever...
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Categories:
vetted, i am, muse, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Argh No More MedicareARGH! NO MORE MEDICARE!
A worst nightmare loomed large
notification courtesy Montgomery County
Assistance Office caseworker
implied medical coverage axed
I felt hammered, nailed, shingled out...
livid with rage
frenzied, harried, jarred...
railing away
fit tubby tied to train tracks
ready to kill myself,
but dang,...
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Categories:
vetted, 12th grade, absence, america, angst, anxiety, august,
Form:
Free verse
Podcast Lesson Re Learned TodayPodcast lesson (re)learned today...
(May 6,2020) for umpteenth time,
no deliberate attempt to rhyme
rather to express satisfying reason
incalculable absolute value prime
mate (me) derived bliss oh so divine.
Fresh animal tracks thru equa door
gave urge right of way
plethora experiencing...
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Categories:
vetted, 11th grade, 12th grade, animal, cat, dog,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Argh No More MedicareARGH! NO MORE MEDICARE!
A worst nightmare loomed large
notification courtesy Montgomery County
Assistance Office caseworker
implied medical coverage axed
I felt hammered, nailed, shingled out...
livid with rage
frenzied, harried, jarred...
railing away
fit tubby tied to train tracks
ready to kill myself!
Bajillion dollars...
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Categories:
vetted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, dark,
Form:
Bio
Talk Therapy As Fulcrum To Leverage Psychological IllsOh...and hello
to you, some hours past, I
returned from counseling,
(hence this boy yent -
albeit beastie boy
figuratively basking
in fading afterglow)
great kickstarter session,
countless moments ago,
sans treatment plan,
she...
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Categories:
vetted, atheist, december, desire, health, heartbreak, passion, sorrow,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Doctors Particularly Biomedical EngineersDoctors (particularly biomedical engineers)...
really trolley train hard to keep track of patients
Eye tell ya we (spuds)
pulled up stakes after four yar
and zero scores ago living in Bryn Mawr
salutary heart and lungs figurative
storied Main Line Health...
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Categories:
vetted, 11th grade, 12th grade, appreciation, drug, leadership,
Form:
Free verse
Brilliant, Grandiloquent Magnificent TrenchantBrilliant, grandiloquent, magnificent, trenchant...
Writing prompts burst asunder
deafening soundcloud roared
with apocalyptic thunder
'course only audible to yours truly,
I did dumbfoundedly wonder...
At o'clock tick tocking wee hours brisk
December seventeenth
two thousand nineteen
simultaneous blinding fiery kindling
quickening xing risk
within winkin blinkin...
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Categories:
vetted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, betrayal,
Form:
Political Verse
Invisible:Not For ContestHe stands beside this long black granite wall
broken lines accentuated reflection recalled names
It is here where he realized
that intranquility of redemption, even of prayer's forgiveness,
he do not...
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Categories:
vetted, memory, military, , memorial,
Form:
Free verse
Ascent
As emotion's embolism petitions
a mirror sea for endless blue transparency-
through oculat lens flare, an albionic estuary
garden variety of pleasures appears, obligatiry-
in full...
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Categories:
vetted, art,
Form:
Rhyme
The ValiseThe Valise
The brief case has edges and mystery surrounds it
Accompanied by men on the periphery of law disordered
Perhaps the economy there is equal to Greece and Spain combined
Fiduciary responsibilities and pride at stake
If the case...
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Categories:
vetted, business, conflict, corruption, fantasy, mystery, trust, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Pushy ParentingYou create them
You give birth to them
You nurture them
You raise them
All the while seeking to rearrange them
For you insist on always owning them
Kids are forever
Children are our saviour
Dynasties become prolonged
It is never best to have...
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Categories:
vetted, abuse, betrayal, children, dedication, depression, identity, power,
Form:
Free verse
In SilenceIn Silence
The English ex SAS Special Forces member went to the Ukraine to fight. He travelled light and took just a small back pack and a head full of skills. A gun was a gun...
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Categories:
vetted, conflict, history, war,
Form:
Verse
Whit Wet Vetted SplendourWhit wet Vetted Splendour...
Pervaded mounded jeweled ground
gunmetal sky incessantly
pelted and did pound
asper staccato round
arhythmic, emphatic, melodic sound
to this clown,
who felt housebound
as precipitation reigned down.
steady rain quintessentially
patterned oodles of necklaced
mini mellow marsh lands
wee hour early this...
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Categories:
vetted, absence, adventure, analogy, death, grave, lost, obituary,
Form:
Free verse
ButterfliesWe were on a 2nd floor garden terrace. The three-quarter moon was doing its best to set a romantic, gin-mood, pouring a soft pastel-blue on the world, that softened hard edges.
A cool breeze wafted jasmine...
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Categories:
vetted, joy, kiss, romance, student, success, teen, tree,
Form:
Free verse
The ButterflyEnroling you a worm (cumbersome and)
hairy, you- scimitar of leaves
Knows the pain ,writhing pupae
Abandoned and convicted
Constricted hanging straightjacket
Squirming like a jackrabbit
Gagged nocturnally - blindfold humility
Rejected by those mocking moths
and jealously believing left the...
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Categories:
vetted, angel, beauty, butterfly,
Form:
Free verse
Sage BrownPeter is joining us for lunch in the cafeteria. I met him on a crowded Saturday morning at a coffee shop. He’s from the flammable, paper-dry, sagebrush hills of Malibu and grew up overlooking the...
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Categories:
vetted, boy, friendship, fun, school, student, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Indebted Tothe debt crisis started in Greece
with that ancient fact, let us make peace
we are founded after all, after Greek democracy
today's government grown to democratic bureaucracy
so, our debt crisis started in Greece
our numbers much larger, make...
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Categories:
vetted, history, inspirational, political,
Form:
Couplet