Long Warding Poems
Long Warding Poems. Below are the most popular long Warding by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Warding poems by poem length and keyword.
Some PoemsA Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
warding, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
I Was TrickedThis was down right evil - 3 against 1, how fair is that?!
Tony Boogerelli asked me straight out if I did, and, as he was expecting, I assured him that I do.
Tony told his sister,...
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Categories:
warding, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Lost In the Mists, Part V and ViLost in the Mists, Part V and VI
...
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Categories:
warding, mystery, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Of My PrescriptionI'm here to clarify
My passions that I never defy
Prescriptions of my essence
My drug is my vibe
Addictions to what I do
No cure to my being true
My body is vacant of disease...
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Categories:
warding,
Form:
Free verse
Dual HeritageI am a descendant of Greece and the
Greeks,
We say hello and goodbye by kissing
Both cheeks,
But I also descend from the British,
For my father was very, very English!
I am a true mix of English
And Greek,
And...
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Categories:
warding, life, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
warding, baby, birth, fear, hate, metaphor, mother, scary,
Form:
Free verse
The Obeah WomanThe Obeah Woman
Heavy musty air reeks with the Obeah Woman’s pungent perfume,
sweat, burnt incense, bitter roots, and swirling black smoke,
dim light from a waning moon streams into the shadowy room;
and mirrors crack as restless...
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Categories:
warding, magic, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Cerneja Kingdom and a Chirurgical GiftMy GRANDFATHER loved to work. His schedule from 3 am till 6 pm we were farmers
-we is a lot of people who's here?- He asks.
-We Are.
With the scream of a Legendary fighter we all...
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Categories:
warding, animal, childhood, culture, grandparents,
Form:
Epic
Happy National Friendship Day - August 6th, 2023Happy National Friendship Day - August 6th, 2023
The idea of Friendship Day originated
in the United States in 1919,
proposed by Joyce Hall,
the founder of Hallmark cards.
It gained official recognition
when the U.S....
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Categories:
warding, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
After the Storm, Columbus Day, 1962After the storm, my brother
(all gangly knees and elbows)
bore the brunt of its ferocious aftermath.
Every day after school
I watched his wiry biceps bulge a little
as his handsaw scritched against the tree
which had fallen diagonally across...
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Categories:
warding, angst, brother, childhood, family, growing up, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Curse, Or Blessing -- You Decide - Both Audio and TextIchabod Zit, in seventh grade, had sixty thousand pimples, but by the time he graduated, most of them were gone.
He wound up getting married to the cutest girl in school, but, sadly, all the children...
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Categories:
warding, humor,
Form:
Verse
What HappenedWHAT HAPPENED
Darkness is enveloping sinister
and frightening,
Elusive, alluring, captivating and
Inviting,
Every night it falls like a
clock that is punctual,
And we accept it as a part of
Our life that is factual,
Whilst the earth revolves
around...
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Categories:
warding, dark, faith, light,
Form:
Rhyme
Happy National Friendship Day August 5th 2018Unlike this papa akin
to being racked, raided,
and raked with hot coals
during his adolescence devoid of
a social network and academic goals
if...
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Categories:
warding, 11th grade, 12th grade, encouraging, flower, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
They Both Desire To Rule- Nietzsche Recast In PoemAges there are in which the ration'l man
And th'intuitive stand side by side, the one
In fear of intuition, or scorn for abstraction;
Irrational one, the other inartistic.
They both desire to rule over...
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Categories:
warding, emotions, inspiration, judgement, life, philosophy, poetry, truth,
Form:
Light Verse
Glory and MadnessThey were twisting, shaking, breaking,and
mad.
The shattering of their minds went unseen,
and unheard.
They were the lost generation.
Spilling the remnants of their tattered souls,
out along with their whiskey.
They were running,
running from what they had done,
And from what...
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Categories:
warding, city, dark, remember, sad, tribute, world war
Form:
Free verse
Greetings To a New Year SeasonSoon there will be temperatures that will show
Forecast predicting snow
Coming down creating blankets that are white
Packed together thrown when in a fight
Everything seems magical as it drops
Festive music enhances need...
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Categories:
warding, nature, seasons, spring, water, weather, winter, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Greys, Part VGreys, Part V
Time was, when reason was not our King,
And grey was the color only of the morning's mist.
We beat the drum and danced close
Around our fires, warding off the dark
We danced and offered...
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Categories:
warding, angst, feelings, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Midnight PoetWhisper's of October
Whispers in this soup bowl
20 minutes after its muse explodes,
Daylight remains nothing more than a dream
Warding off the howling sound in mid-September's stream
Casting a line about a ginger light,
...
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Categories:
warding, addiction, character, devotion, identity, october, poets, voice,
Form:
Free verse
The Ghost On the WallThe ghost haunting the wall stood tall
He manifested in the shape of a man wearing a top hat and tails
I christened him Tom
I would talk to him telling him of my troubles
He was always there...
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Categories:
warding, childhood, dance, imagination, loneliness, poverty, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Salad and SudokuYellow chard stain index finger smears my logic puzzle,
Sour cream cilantro splatter quite the quaint “addition”
juicy brain pump lemon zest solution that I guzzle,
number crunching sea salt a spur to intuition
Roasted sweet potato has...
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Categories:
warding, creation, food, imagery, science, science fiction, smart,
Form:
Rhyme
Cancellated AccursementsBanul had a knack for annoying others,
thanks to a fractious face –
a smile guised as a grimace,
a grimace guised as a scowl,
a mouth left ajar when it should’ve been shut,
full of wrongful words
And Kashy...
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Categories:
warding, fantasy, magic,
Form:
Free verse
Dead FishDead fish on the dead fish counter;
surprised bulging aqueous eyes stare,
none of them belly-up
but spread on their sides in a pageant
of slippery colors.
Silver, red, rainbow streaked
and all the muddy tones
of river and sea are laid...
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Categories:
warding, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Impossible FairyShe awoke with such urgency that eyes popped open;
Her meager frame had hushed in the stillness.
Her vast eyes fixed on something only her imagination,
Her inspiration and curiosity could truly believe.
The magic of it unmasked giant...
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Categories:
warding, dream, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Narrative
October PantoumOCTOBER PANTOUM
Rufous luster of Autumn on October allures assures romance under azure sky.
Celtic seasonal festival Samhain proclaims completion of harvest in plenitude.
...
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Categories:
warding, appreciation, october,
Form:
Pantoum
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part FiveThe Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Five
All day she toiled to keep her knees and busts in position
The Mairie’s serrated metal-hearted spool of derision
And the glinting fly-eye cutaways of the Prefecture
She who must mind...
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Categories:
warding, dream,
Form:
Quatrain