Long Wisps Poems
Long Wisps Poems. Below are the most popular long Wisps by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Wisps poems by poem length and keyword.
Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
wisps, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
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Categories:
wisps, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
wisps, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
A Night On a WharfA Night On A Wharf
The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...
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Categories:
wisps, blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
TozzathPellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
wisps, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
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:
wisps, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form:
Prose
Death WatchDeath Watch
It was early morning.
The sun was barely above the high hills on the other side of the lake.
I was at the end of the dock slowly reeling in my line.
I could see fish jumping...
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Categories:
wisps, death, father, poetry, sick, drug,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Call of the Grimoire
"The Call of the Grimoire"
when Exalibur was retrieved
from the rock, then foolishly
and irretrievably lost
in that dreadful battle most worthless
the imps encouraged
the once good Poesie folk
to jeer and throw pebbles
the...
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Categories:
wisps, i am, light, magic, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Heart
"Heart"
Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret
through the green
veined blues
protean bit by bit
the flesh disappears
prematurely 6ft under
mulch for rebirth
the subcontinent
conscientious conscience
inward reaching
the divine central tableau...
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Categories:
wisps, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Life's Fading Light-Part 1-Heroic Crown of SonnetsYouth
When orchids bloom in beauty life's aglow
to hold emotions locked in deep repose
in young desire and love warm thoughts will show.
Affection holds its ardor as it grows
to burn inside young hearts in evening tide.
In darkest...
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Categories:
wisps, age, death, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Desperate Message To Kim Jong UnPardon 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:
wisps, abuse, dark, emotions, evil, hate, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2PART 1: THE MEETING
Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met...
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Categories:
wisps, fantasy,
Form:
Ballad
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween GagChief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...
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Categories:
wisps, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
What You Are, What You Mean To MeWhat You Are, What You Mean To Me...
Oh Wife! You are my life,
around which I spin my daily axis -
My work, dealings, obligations, routine is as a nexus,
Interacting connecting life with gratified emotional plexus...
You...
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Categories:
wisps, dedication, destiny, devotion, husband, love, marriage, wife,
Form:
Narrative
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gagat Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
As a Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got the brilliant idea
for his sole son to be dressed
with one of a kind getup.
Missus Shaner...
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Categories:
wisps, 5th grade, adventure, autumn, character, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Geishapitty-pit-pat, pitty-pit-pat ...
dark attic, echoing ... tenderly
rain on tin roof above,
her nana's voice, ages hence -
lives ago, really ... calling …
"Little Tea Pot, Little Tea Pot -
...
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Categories:
wisps, imagery, longing, memory, metaphor, nostalgia, old, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Workshop Poem - Winds ForgiveTurning my back on typhoon skies,
a pestilent past, I pitch my mistakes
into a forgiving wind. Standing barefoot
at the edge of apologies,
coastal tides carry hope, tomorrows stir
on a mariner’s horizon. I search...
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Categories:
wisps, change, faith, forgiveness, memory, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White TrashChief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”
As Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got brilliant idea
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua
putrid offal getup.
Missus Shaner (talon clawed,
shriveled relic...
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Categories:
wisps, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Fragments of Life'Fragments and crumbs of life, all little pieces'
John Ruskin 1853
FRAGMENTS OF LIFE
...
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Categories:
wisps, emotions, memory,
Form:
Free verse
LabyrinthiaHer full name was Labyrinthia Pennyweight Babineaux, but her closest friends called her Libby. She was of blended French, German, and Native American heritage. Her Great Great Grandparents were said to have come from a...
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Categories:
wisps, beauty, character,
Form:
Prose Poetry
An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a MisanthropeAn image of the netherworld envisioned by a misanthrope
Mein kampf fraught re:
emotionally/psychologically challenged
impossible mission to cope
compared to classmates, I felt like a dope
and entertained escapist fantasies,
whereby Miss Rainbow
(sixth grade student teacher),
though robbing...
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Categories:
wisps, 6th grade, adventure, age, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Courtesy Severely Receding Hair LineCourtesy severely receding hair line...,
yours truly enveloped within morose mood
I (Samson incarnate)
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.
Now in doddering dotage scant wisps...
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Categories:
wisps, absence, anger, crush, cry, fate, heartbroken, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
The Enchanted ForestThe enchanted forest- what a sight!
With glorious rays of the dim sun,
Shining through the peaks of the wise old trees.
With massive faces carved in the rough bark, close to the shiny multicolored leaves.
Whisking...
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Categories:
wisps, fairy, fantasy,
Form:
Verse
Botticelli Dreams of Sweet Purple Calicoo - and YouYour image appears through a purple-hued haze of silence…
weaving its whispered dreamy spell, while you re-connect the strings of my sleeping heart
You go about undressing my soul as I watch your image drift in...
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Categories:
wisps, color, dream, emotions, , sweet love,
Form:
Free verse
Pay Your DuesShards of glass cover the floor,
all bloodied and disarrayed,
The night of terror exposed to us all,
the town came out and prayed.
For the ten were gone, yet none be found,
people were completely dismayed.
On a...
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Categories:
wisps, appreciation,
Form:
Narrative