Long Walt Poems
Long Walt Poems. Below are the most popular long Walt by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Walt poems by poem length and keyword.
Artificial Iris
"Artificial Iris"
Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar,
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pages of hardcopy in school
were aptly ignored -
however,
our Overlords were...
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Categories:
walt, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
PS Atheists Get Your Own Dirt
Part I
Rock n Roll came through the slave trade
The Hippies and Moonies said “We’ve got it made”
“Rock n Roll sounds came from the jungle” [Lennon said]
The blues helped through the struggle
The rhythm and the movements...
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Categories:
walt, conflict, culture, history, philosophy, society, visionary,
Form:
Epic
Desperate Message To Kim Jong Un
Pardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...
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Categories:
walt, abuse, dark, emotions, evil, hate, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 20
It was a bitter morning, the ground hotter upon my flesh
I kneeled at the center of the pit on the twentieth day,
Remembering a tune sung so long ago,
A great song grieving for the incessant wars...
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Categories:
walt, growth, heart, life, loss, mystery, pain, war,
Form:
Epic
New Year's Resolutions
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O'Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the homes...
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Categories:
walt, new year,
Form:
Prose
The Over-Soul
“Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable
may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment
to acknowledge...
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Categories:
walt, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
( “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)
Deep in newly disturbed soil, lies my true love
'neath a canopy...
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Categories:
walt, death, deep, depression, heartbreak, loss, pain, sorrow,
Form:
Elegy
Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentyeighth Legal By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s TWENTYEIGHTH LEGAL (Part One) by T. Wignesan
N.B. If any one is interested in reading the continuation of the extracts of letters that Eric Mottram wrote from America during 1965-66 to...
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Categories:
walt, america, creation, culture, film, race, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Invisible
"Invisible"
Trapped
within
4 Walls
A ghost
escapes
it's prison
through
unlocked door
beyond
freefall
a bird
now soars
The Ocean
calls the wild
Sargasso in
Me
Rochester’s
Mirage
ecstatic
Bacchae
Maenad
possessed
submerged
Blue-Green
(Ladylabyrinth/2020)
for my daughter,
Georgia
“Come Near Me” / Massive Attack – Ghost Poet
https://youtu.be/KY0TZQTwwbk
“There is...
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Categories:
walt, imagery, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Define Your Moment
......define the moment or the moment will define you....
Quote...
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Categories:
walt, motivation,
Form:
Free verse
Multiplicity of the Self
“I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman
**************************************************************
...
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Categories:
walt, inspirational, life, self, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Everybody Knows That Nobody Knows
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT NOBODY KNOWS
The Paleolithic Era was a long time ago.
It consisted of a few years in a row.
That's pretty standard as eras go.
I don't know what happened,
but there's one thing I...
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Categories:
walt, fun, history, humor, parody,
Form:
Rhyme
America's Hypocrisy Or the School of Resentment
are you free, humanity, by power of love
or in chain by love of power or by lack of it?
a student of The School of Resentment asks…
back in time,
at such dominant spaces
called...
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Categories:
walt, community, home, native american, natural disasters, power,
Form:
I do not know?
Old Fogies: Part Ii
But a strange change happens
at early nightfall
in those stuffy rooms and halls
and it suddenly becomes clear
all was not as it seemed
old folks transformed
so cunning and keen
sparkling iridescent
playful, plucky, pleasant
flagrantly libertine!
Like children slowly scampering
out of bed...
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Categories:
walt, age, community, crazy, humor, humorous, people,
Form:
Free verse
Freckles They Called Him
Walter Branham, a retired teacher, and his wife Victoria went to Applebee’s, the chain restaurant, for lunch one day last week. First time they had gone there. Usually they go to an ethnic restaurant but...
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Categories:
walt, race, retirement,
Form:
Prose
a bird and a boy -
one day as a boy, I went down to the sea
clambered o'er rocks way out to the bluff
stopping to search in a tide pool for shells
senses awakened by strong, briny smells
warming, the zephyr was gentle...
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Categories:
walt, beach, bird, childhood, nature, ocean, soulmate,
Form:
Rhyme
Fun For a Price Dallas
Old City Park I went last night,
Admission price, it's outta sight,
Night it was the weather was cold,
Many were there young and the old,
Hotel, office, homes to go through,
Better walk fast else you turn blue,
With Walt,...
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Categories:
walt, food, city, food,
Form:
Rhyme
Cryogenics Or Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Or Is It Chilly In Here
Call me mad if you must
But please first hear me out
I just got back from the Cryogenics lab
And guess who's head I picked from the crowd
If your thinking Jimmy Hoffa
No, he's somewhere deep asleep in...
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Categories:
walt, funny, drug,
Form:
Free verse
A Conversation With Cinderella
( Based on the animated musical produced by Walt Disney
based on the fairytale written by Charles Perrault.)
"Hello Cinderella, how are you ?
I am very happy and still in love,
the Prince is kind and...
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Categories:
walt, cinderella,
Form:
Rhyme
Petrichor
"Petrichor "
Two minds
have made an entrance
magnetic bodies electric
minions babble
it’s just wasted white noise
sandpaper against back stories hit
The Wall of Wasted Time
He’s read most between the lines
He’s all hard hot and cool
unruffled piercing eagle...
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Categories:
walt, desire, for her, for him, imagery, psychological,
Form:
Romanticism
Marvelous Mitzvah Munchkin Minted
Marvelous mitzvah "munchkin" minted
Thy eldest daughter Eden Liat
treasured more'n a pearl
(otherwise known as Rapunzel)...
donated cut hair to charity - you go girl,
ha, whereat your fine brunette locks of love
will be repurposed into wigs for kids,
and...
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Categories:
walt, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
AUTHENTICITY of POETRY
When people comment
on the style or way
I write and the words
I use to express and convey
my thoughts and views.
I tend to stop and ponder
my road less traveled ....
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Categories:
walt, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Alphabet Soup
Eating alphabet soup with a straw so you can play Scrabble with the leftovers
Lyrics from an obscure band is music to your ears
Shaving off the November scruff that was plastered on your face
Nightmares are less...
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Categories:
walt, creation, dream, games, how i feel, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
My Hunger For Silence
"And you, O my Soul, where you stand,
Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing -
seeking the spheres, to connect them;
Till the bridge, you will need, be formed -
till the...
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Categories:
walt, silence,
Form:
Free verse
On the Salutations of Ginsberg To Pessoa and Pessoa's Alvaro To Whitman
Every time I read Pessoa I think
I'm better than he is
Salutations to Fernando Pessoa-Alan Ginsberg
Me, the monocled one, with my foppish belted waistcoat,
I'm not unworthy of you, Walt,
I'm not unworthy...
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Categories:
walt, appreciation, poetry, tribute, word play, writing,
Form:
Free verse