Long Waif Poems
Long Waif Poems. Below are the most popular long Waif by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Waif poems by poem length and keyword.
The GiftFrom the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...
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Categories:
waif, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form:
Prose
Rescue-Zoo-ComRescue-Zoo.com
I was sitting in their studio with a gal from cable news, taking part in my first and only ever interview,
Fielding friendly questions that pertained to how and why I’d wound up, at the age...
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Categories:
waif, animal,
Form:
Narrative
Bedlam and Mayhem In the Mistress's BoudoirBedlam and mayhem in the mistress's boudoir
Nsync with variations on a theme:
of drool worthy Reuben Sandwich
(consisting of corned beef,
Swiss cheese, sauerkraut,
Russian dressing between slices
of rye bread that is grilled
until the bread...
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Categories:
waif, adventure, angel, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful, desire, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
My First Ever MistakeThe mistake I had never expected,
I did it without getting into awareness
Of how it would react.
Lacking that girl in me is like lacking
Of soul in my lonely body
Honestly speaking, she is my helm,
Stark, she is...
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Categories:
waif, 10th grade,
Form:
Ode
ah, wassailing!We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon.
It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild and change-filled hours. One minute, seemingly, you’re in a picture...
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Categories:
waif, christmas, holiday, humor, new york,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
waif, abuse, anxiety, break up,
Form:
Concrete
Dorothea Gift of Godshe was only too aware that her own conception had been maculate
it had been not been a virginal birth and yet a blessed gift from God
her mother a whore in the town’s creep joint
father a...
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Categories:
waif, abuse, allah,
Form:
Free verse
Drip Go the Children-A Halloween Poem
Drip... drip drip... drip
A gentle rain fell to the ground one beautiful Autumn day,
when the children of the village went out to play.
Colored leaves were piled so high...
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Categories:
waif, dark, gothic, halloween,
Form:
Couplet
HellHell
The place of safety was dirty and cold
The building smelt musty, damp and old
Place of safety in which I was to roam
Was, in fact, a children's home
They clothed and fed...
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Categories:
waif, childhood, dark, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
How Do Children Sleep At NightIt's a wonder young children still turn out all right
With the stuff that gets crammed in their heads every night.
Things like visions of sugar plum fairies and sprites,
Or a thousand tales of Arabian delights,
A frog...
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Categories:
waif, children, humor, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
The Wolf's TaleWhispered words from behind a wall
to cronies gathered hale and tall.
“Go on ahead.” He said. “Let me see.”
“If I can turn her sweet, on me.”
From within, she heard the tale,
the rye snickers, the wolves’ wails.
Yet,...
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Categories:
waif, allegory, lost loveprayer, universe,
Form:
Quatrain
A Feral FrozenUrsus Maritimus ...
I entered your world in quietude, slipping through the granular, soft.
Long slats to feet parting the frozen. Cold of a previously unknown
...
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Categories:
waif, animal, appreciation, beauty, nature, snow, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Never Land Part 3Now, Railroad Bob has lost his job, he’s got no place for working,
His wife, she cries with desperate eyes, their baby’s head’s a’ jerking.
The union man don’t give a damn, Big Brother lies a’ lurking,
the...
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Categories:
waif, fantasy, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Seashore: the Tiger and the FishYou're a tiger in the jungle, elusive, strong and free;
I'd wondered how I'd meet you, for I live in the sea.
And though I'd dreamt that one day soon I'd be no more alone,
That it is...
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Categories:
waif, animal, fish, i love you, longing, tiger,
Form:
Couplet
The Faerie ReunificationIn a brilliant enchanted faerie forest, where deer were fed,
There was a mature, yet slightly miniature thistle bed,
Under shiny maple leaf completely opposite of red,
Was a tiny waif named Joyce resting her sweet empowered head
She...
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Categories:
waif, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Rhyme
'Twas Naught His NightBe there the bight of a November drain
turned off tattered ruffles blotted feign
a ledged I removed and tender earlobes
waif yonder spectral possession probes
cracked nut overture eighteenth twelve
emptied shells retiring indicative delve
drain feign earlobes probes twelve...
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Categories:
waif, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, dedication, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
I Can Hardly Wait Reading Welter of BooksI can hardly wait reading welter of books...
courtesy Karen Windle a gift horse
ponied up late afternoon May18th, 2020
over roan nay bore lee volition.
Unbeknownst how she raised (cane),
and loudly wrapped outside the door
every ounce of...
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Categories:
waif, 12th grade, addiction, character, friend, inspiration, literature,
Form:
Free verse
Treasures of Your SoulWhispered words from behind a wall,
to cronies gathered short and tall.
“Go on ahead,” he said, “let's see.”
“If I can turn her sweet on me.”
So from within, she heard the tale:
the rye, small, snickers, the wolves’...
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Categories:
waif, lost love, lovewords, sweet, prayer, sweet, universe,
Form:
Ballad
Tree of LifeTree of Life
From the fertile ground, its form took shape
As the sun began to climb the forest sky
Sunshine drew a crown of leaves upon its limbs
And the blossoms filled the forest
...
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Categories:
waif, beautiful, myth, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Magnificent Pyramids Journey From Time Immemorial Till DateBetween liking and disliking
While the reason being an arbitrator
But do you see the rift between
Sane and insane ?
That the privileged ones of the era today
Conveniently and keenly prefer to ignore
To differentiate between the two
For it...
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Categories:
waif, abuse, , memorial,
Form:
Imagism
A Pregnant LassA pregnant lass with eyes of glass had never learned to cope;
once set adrift her fall was swift, she slid a slipp’ry slope.
She fled the curse of worlds perverse by shooting shots of dope,
and stalked...
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Categories:
waif, people, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Burning SinsIt is for sure, not springtime here
Shorter days now how bare His trees.
And looking back draws eyes to tear
For waste and loss of all my greed.
To sail the seas and not return
My ship sinks in...
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Categories:
waif, faith, me, loss, loss, me,
Form:
Quatrain
Joyce, a Tiny WaifIn a brilliant enchanted faerie forest, where deer were fed,
There was a mature, yet slightly miniature thistle bed,
Under shiny maple leaf completely opposite of red,
Was a tiny waif named Joyce resting her sweet empowered head
She...
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Categories:
waif, fairy, hope, inspirational, peace, society, spring, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Bigfoot In the BathroomBigFoot's in the bathroom,
I'm not goin' in there again,
That you must know...
Riveted to this spot in fear,
Believe me, I do not pretend...
I'll piss out the window,
Not unheard of with us trailer-trash,
If this, I find I...
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Categories:
waif, adventure, allegory, funny, imagination, parody, me,
Form:
Burlesque
Devised My Own Demise....This is about a jihadi.....who consummated yet another terror attack. But this time he...fell for
a grenade thrown at him......by the armed forces......he is dying now.....and in those very last
moments.......he is reminiscing his life....
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Categories:
waif, angst, death, me, death, life, me, time,
Form:
Rhyme