Long Wryly Poems
Long Wryly Poems. Below are the most popular long Wryly by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Wryly poems by poem length and keyword.
Sunday Morning Joggers
Goodness, I nearly lost my balance on the spiral seashells and broken sea stone chipping matrix.
My quaint obsession with marine life and that skyline paradox blossoming so tantalisingly, might be a source of some...
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Categories:
wryly, age, art, birth, devotion, feelings, heart, irony,
Form:
Prose
Come and Go
Her back never faces the door
“I’ll only need you on certain days”
she says
(absently)
“I’ll have to write them down
my memory doesn’t work so well
especially when I am caught up”
she’s thinking
(a lovely stare)
“Who is that in the...
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Categories:
wryly, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Majesty of Spring’s Tapestry
Meandering meadows broken by a tossing garbling brook…boulders embossing...marbling and moss flossing
Awoken whispers spoken..cantankerous coughing eddy wheezes..then a curmudgeonly icy mirror hush
Reckoning breezes yield cats' paws beckoning…teases across the flanking field
Fairies’ wield spells conveyed in...
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Categories:
wryly, nature, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
The Unknown
I ask you, “Where might we go:
A land to, or a land fro;
Let the land like a river flow.
Leave yourself behind, and dare,
Dare to know Thoreau.”
Ahh, how the day is
The simplest of all revolutions.
The...
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Categories:
wryly, absence, adventure, imagery, imagination, meaningful, mentor, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost
My friend is called Henry Smith
nothing unusual about this
it’s quite easy to remember
until two years ago, in December.
Diagnosed with early onset dementia
He was sent to see a care provider.
A young man with a notepad...
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Categories:
wryly, humor, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Phantasmagoria
I
You stare silently squinting
through your stained glass panes
Pulling aside sapphire drapes
of somber samite and organdy
Lo, gazing mesmerized
a quixotic moon--
blithely blows kisses,
wryly winks
and coyly smiles--
Yea,...
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Categories:
wryly, life, light, light, sensual,
Form:
Blank verse
butterfly messengers
from above a hum, a gentle pop and they appear out of thin air
large as Right whales out of the sky they pour in like colorful dreams
gliding down on papered metal wings, the airborne...
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Categories:
wryly, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Alas Oh How Grave and Horrendous Misfortune
Alas oh how grave and horrendous misfortune...
Relapse written all over whole
fudge besmirched countenance
American as apple pie garden variety troll
tell tale evidence eats away
at me heart and soul
argh so much for new year's resolution
straight and true...
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Categories:
wryly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Bio
Where Leaves Fall
Where Leaves Fall
Somewhere
Near an eastern wall
Where, after the wind
The leaves will fall
There is a door
To another land
But, lest you should enter
Do you understand?
You’ll imagine that the land is great
Where you’ve been told that problems...
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Categories:
wryly, addiction,
Form:
Rhyme
The Purple Dandelion and the Dame
There was a purple dandelion which I once had—
Which into the blues suddenly disappeared;
Oh! for many days it was my only possession,
Before I was dispossessed and left for dead!
For with nothing could I afterward be...
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Categories:
wryly, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Mother Nature's Moodswings
Nature smiles in Spring
Pulls at our heart string
as greenery's hued in greener tinge
Having had an everlasting effect
on those evergreen trees.
Nature frowns in Autumn
gets all bored, pale and blue in the fall
Almost seems to sigh...
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Categories:
wryly, muse, nature, seasons,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Tyrant Tears and Fears
Married for eleven years
It began simply, with daily tears
It wasn’t always bad
Yet on most days I felt terribly sad
The good times were great
No indication of our eventual fate
Together we spawn two children
Early in life they...
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Categories:
wryly, abuse, conflict, freedom, love hurts, marriage, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
Love and the Law
(a story in trochaic tetrameter)
Even a Prince must bend his knee
to the lass who has won his heart.
“Please be my bride, stay by my side
forever - tell me we shall wed.”
“My love and affections are...
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Categories:
wryly, boyfriend, father, love, poems, teen, write,
Form:
Free verse
How Do You Decide
It is the latest news that even claimed attention there in London...
A video clip somewhere in the city, the central part being redly encircled...
Drawing attention to the running digital display of a statement...
Of an Opposition...
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Categories:
wryly, anxiety, community, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Cosmological Fantastical Imemorial Lil Opus
aswirl within tremendous maelstroms
universal united uninhabitable cauldron
tempered with analogous:
outrageous, portentous
thunderous cacophony in tandem
with thick mucilaginous fog
metaphorically postpartum
nebulous placenta afterbirth
and/or proto planets aborted
per primordial material
slowly (millions of years) coalescence
annealed bubbling primeval soup
engendering (extant
via immeasurably immense stretches...
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Categories:
wryly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Epic
Proverbial Palindrome
'No pain,no gain‘ Mum reminded us wryly.
'No lemon no melon' Dad quipped adding pith to the bitter- sweet maxim.
So there we stood, Sis and I, incarcerated by our own parents and ordered to repaper the...
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Categories:
wryly, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
One of Two Thieves
One of two thieves
You can only be
One of two thieves
Better choose wisely
One of two thieves
One scorned and mocked Him
Which of two thieves…?
One had to love Him
Which of two thieves…?
One joined the loud crowd
Which of two...
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Categories:
wryly, appreciation, christian, forgiveness, god, gospel, jesus, life,
Form:
I do not know?
Snack O'Clock
There once was a sandwich, quite absurd,
who dreamed of speaking every word.
One morning crisp, it woke and cried,
“Oi! Who nicked my clock?” it sighed.
The chef just blinked, his whiskers twitching,
“Your clock? You mean your lettuce...
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Categories:
wryly, food,
Form:
Narrative
I Do not Believe in Mermaids
Summer would soon be over
I thought wryly as I walked
Along the beach, bare-footed,
Admiring the beauty of the sun setting
Behind the far away mountains.
She emerged from the sea, all wet,
And hid behind a large rock.
I...
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Categories:
wryly, miss you, sea,
Form:
Free verse
The Kindness of Men
All of the wrongs we have done to each other,
We will overlook...
W's lawsuit against my church, because they will not permit him to smoke there,
My interminable and intolerable lateness,
J's calling me, 'pathetic',
MY frustration with W's...
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Categories:
wryly, appreciation, birthday, conflict, forgiveness, friendship, humor, sorry,
Form:
Free verse
Poets Are Us
"Poets are Us"
The blood dripped
off each piranha's
sharpened fang
acquiescing
compliant
with tragic complacency
keep it neat and clean
within the margins
no detours
stick like Teflon
to the poetic rules
virtuous and unsoiled
aa bb cc dd
pristine are us
sanctimonious sugared...
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Categories:
wryly, dark, humor, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Tree Talk
When soft zephyrs are stirring arbor leaves
Words may be overheard whispered from trees.
Leaned against a trunk, my ears on alert,
This ranger heard soft words from a filbert.
A long-limbed water oak, leaning half bent,
Wryly some cross-cultural...
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Categories:
wryly, children, humor, nonsense, silly, tree, wisdom, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Of Tears and Brolly
Of Tears And Brolly
Funny how sad
raindrops feel,
Weather as mad
as a glockenspiel,
Tinkling on our skin
like an overture...
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Categories:
wryly, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Once In a Lifetime
They're once in a lifetime
These moments of joy
The first time you rattle
That colourful new toy
Your first day at school
With the rest of the kids
Your hair all slicked down
Bad smells Mom got rid
The ultimate joy
Of your...
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Categories:
wryly, life, love,
Form:
Quatrain
Once In a Life Time
ONCE IN A LIFETIME
They're once in a lifetime
These moments of joy
The first time you rattle
That colourful new toy
Your first day at school
With the rest of the kids
Your hair all slicked down
Bad smells mom got rid
The...
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Categories:
wryly, life,
Form:
Rhyme