Long Wedge Poems
Long Wedge Poems. Below are the most popular long Wedge by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Wedge poems by poem length and keyword.
Hurricane Katrina - 20 years later
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed through New Orleans and Louisiana. The only difference was, in New Orleans (intentional or not), the levees broke. The flood waters flooded the 9th ward and most of...
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Categories:
wedge, anniversary, change, life, people, storm, usa, world,
Form:
Narrative
Echoes of the Angel's Fallen
Invocation to the Muse
From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly,
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...
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Categories:
wedge, allegory, angel, christian,
Form:
Epic
Echoes of the Angel Fallen Part 2
Book 2
“Next we will use and abuse, the wedge of doubt. To place a misgiving, a slight of hand, an apprehension into the day, to mold the day thoughts of these apes, these...
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Categories:
wedge, allegory, angel, faith,
Form:
Epic
Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"
“She fits the bill”,
they say it
insouciantly
visions of being
carried in the beak
of a bilious pelican
where it builds
its rudimentary nest,
it uses sticks and debris
no stones, yet,
from irreverence
thrown at it
no higher...
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Categories:
wedge, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct,
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means...
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Categories:
wedge, america, sports, war,
Form:
Epic
Unscrupulous Man
You crawled out of her innocent womb
Kicking , begging and screaming
But it is too late for you to be redeemed
You were born evil and corrupted
and you have a very dirty...
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Categories:
wedge, betrayal, conflict, courage, creation, earth, encouraging, women,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
An unexceptional turning point in our marriage
An unexceptional turning point in our marriage...
unexpectedly came about,
when possible prospect
of the wife going
to Puerto Rico by herself
(for a fêted celebration
of our eldest daughter
and her significant other,
which occurred years ago
courtesy justice of the peace)
attended by...
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Categories:
wedge, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, appreciation, betrayal, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Upsurge
Far beyond the horizon we gazed at sunlit skies
glowing from gigantic mountains, thick blue clouds
hang peacefully over our heads, painting hopes and
aspirations as we journey relentlessly to recapture
our dreams.
We have been climbing this...
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Categories:
wedge, celebration, faith, success,
Form:
Narrative
Boundless
1)The Awakening
I know when fantasies became boundless,
it was the first time I sat on the pier;
Bellowing aqua swells rolled in endless
the ocean’s melody hung in my ear;
Suddenly the size of a grain of...
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Categories:
wedge, earth, emotions, fantasy, sea,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Tyranny Counts the Ballots
“Never forget
everything Hitler did
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious
verboten spins askew
“We can and we must
write in the...
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Categories:
wedge, political,
Form:
Rhyme
The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorder
The 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:
wedge, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety, atheist, environment, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Rouging of the Lamb B
My sweet mother of pearl struck a ruby eyed reef.
Then quickly sank into the deep, just shy of the cay of life.
Don't remember much about her,
Daddy never had much to say... about the...
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Categories:
wedge, childhood, pain,
Form:
Narrative
Monoku Monday - Nov 2020
"Election Edition" posted 1 Nov 2020
politicians: like diapers, need frequent changing (for the same reason)
debates are like steer horns a couple points with lots...
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Categories:
wedge, political,
Form:
Monoku
Light My Soul
You march through the village with guns, missiles and rockets, and scrutinize the people, with foolish command that ravished the entire village before the break of dawn.
You make appointment with the beast and spread...
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Categories:
wedge, angel, appreciation, city, community, confidence, confusion, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania Circa Early 1970's
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania circa early 1970'S
(just in time for end of summer reading...
recounting emotionally disastrous campy turbulence)
intended food for thought indulgence.
A boys' life aborted
miscarried golden opportunity
for adolescent romance to be courted.
Amidst a raft of fellow...
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Categories:
wedge, 7th grade, 8th grade, adventure, age, america,
Form:
Rhyme
Peanut Jam Questions the Boards
The uniform on the floor was to be washed, dried then ironed but the scones that the pig ate meant that a walk to some hidden caves was achieved but only after the recycling was...
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Categories:
wedge, appreciation, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
Trump trumpets decree to target then deport
Trump trumpets decree to target then deport...
visa a vis militaristic plan
a boot 15-20 million people -
undocumented hard working Americans
(maybe some living here legally) forcibly,
and violently shipped out,
when victoriously, surreptitiously,
and purportedly illegally entering...
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Categories:
wedge, abuse, america, anger, angst, bullying, feelings, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
MY Capt'n
TIS thine bottled tat's tasked whence be thine edge
Be naught in wallows dew supine vogue cast
Youth triumphed hour as a young promised fledge
Barkeeper, be thoust days numbered--till asked
All stand 'tis proper thine talents measure
Skills they'd...
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Categories:
wedge, appreciation, character, destiny, father son, friendship, growing
Form:
Chant Royal
A Brighter Outlook By Stepping Out Part Two
Brighter days and encouragement succeeded from when I had stepped out from the gloom.
I found beyond the door there was greater light to visualize nature and beauty than what I could have imagined.
The swan...
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Categories:
wedge, encouraging, nature, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Saturn Dance and Basaltic Magma
Written: February 22, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Sara Jama
...
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Categories:
wedge, appreciation, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
wedge, god, life, son, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Elusive Ephemeral Ethereal Expansive Eye I Witness Timelessness
Elusive ephemeral ethereal expansive eye (I) witness timelessness
Analogous to Möbius strip -
measured passage of existence
seems to defy any beginning or end
(unless Artificial Intelligence
supersedes developers smarts
of computer technology
evincing brain power
designing sophisticated machines
that enslave their...
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Categories:
wedge, absence, africa, animal, birth, computer, creation, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Rule of Threes Four
Messiah’s portent
His advent, descent, ascent
Returns to cement
Apostates conspire
To douse the prophet's hellfire
But reap God's backfire
Curse your weighted scale
Your oppression leaves a trail
God's scale will prevail
Salvation has highs
Persecutions brutalize
Faith to exercise
Human worth erodes
Divine judgment at crossroads
Man's...
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Categories:
wedge, muse,
Form:
Rhyme
Let Me Count the Ways- For Sharon
How many?
how many lives;
how many have fallen
beneath
your magical spell?
If it may be so,
let each star be named
You.
For your beauty transpires
our words
into all shine and sheen cast out
from...
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Categories:
wedge, dedication, friendshipnight, light, autumn, light, love, may,
Form:
Free verse
Marital Covenant Chaste Away Errant Infidelity
Yours truly shirked fidelity regarding faithful vows
bequeathed courtesy angel of mercy,
who pledged her troth
July twenty fifth nineteen ninety six
five months (not quite to the day) before
"star student" birthed
on December twenty second,
(now gainfully employed
at Certified B-Corporation
San Francisco,...
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Categories:
wedge, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme