Long Yup Poems
Long Yup Poems. Below are the most popular long Yup by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Yup poems by poem length and keyword.
Missed By a MileHaving been avid antiques collectors for nearly 4 decades, my wife and I met our share of rascals like this sneaky dealer -
Damp and chilly winds were blowing, leaves would paint the ground,
As me...
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Categories:
yup, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Old Pharaoh - 2 of 2For Pharaoh still exalts himself and thinks he’s in control,
But if he won’t release my folk, he’ll pay a heavy toll.
Tomorrow I will bring down hail like Egypt’s never seen,
On plants and trees and man...
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Categories:
yup, bible,
Form:
Ballad
The Car Club Meeting Lament - Text - Part 2 of 2Note: This is the 2nd half of one of my MANY long story works, and the 1st half can be accessed, of course, at "poems by Mark Stellinga" on the soup.
My wife and I were...
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Categories:
yup, car,
Form:
Narrative
Hollywood Zombie Part 02Part 02
"...and it's not a horror movie?"
"Yeah. It's just a regular knock at my door."
"OK, I guess it is a horror movie."
"Yup."
"So are you telling me, I'm dreaming?"
"I'm telling you, it's just...
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Categories:
yup, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Plane Crashes Fate Takes OverIt was Christmas Eve and I was at the airport,
Not a soul in sight, almost deserted, it was 10.00 pm,
Only two hours before Christmas day,
Perhaps if I got on a plane, I would see Santa...
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Categories:
yup, love,
Form:
Free verse
Snapshots From a Child's West LondonI remember my cherished Wolf Cub pack,
How I loved those Wednesday evenings,
The games, the pomp and seriousness of the camps,
The different coloured scarves, sweaters and hair
During the mass meetings,
The solemnity...
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Categories:
yup, child, childhood, children, england, friendship, london, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Magic Bagpipes and the Five Jelly TykesA Bagpipe am I,
My drones point to the sky!
I am magic they say, since the wizard ‘spelled’ on me that day.
He gave me the gift of immortal time,
I could travel through centuries,
T’was a gift.
It was...
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Categories:
yup, 5th grade, children, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
Au Revoir Oh Perilous FreedomAu revoir oh perilous freedom...
Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.
Ever since the notions
of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
coalesced within the mindscape
attributed to one
or more...
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Categories:
yup, age, america, anger, anxiety, bereavement, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
The Wicked Witch of Soup Creek Bites the DustGalloping hooves broke morn's peace in Soup Creek's Main Street
When Jimmy Smith rode in from Bar 20 his face white as a sheet
He stopped at Sheriff Koplins office and banged heavily on the door
"What's...
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Categories:
yup, america, death, humor, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
How My Sister and I Duped a Crook - 1st Half1st Half - because of Poetry Soup's file size limitations -
How My Sister...
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Categories:
yup, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Papa What About Spring a Central Focus Poetic Prose Effort Part Two Papas Dying WordsWritten for my earthly adoptive, adaptive; Father.
Who passed away from cancers of the spine, brain, and lungs.
He told me that he had a good life and was honestly grateful to our Creator for this!
No,...
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Categories:
yup, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 4th
Form:
Bio
Face Masks, Face Veils: Same Thinghttps://youtu.be/c1gNm21YzfI
When last I visited India almost a decade ago
I recall riding on my brother's scooter
as he drove me around town,
And I saw fully veiled Muslim women
half their faces veiled, masked in Niqab
driving scooters,...
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Categories:
yup, health, truth, , western,
Form:
Prose
Not What We Expected - 2nd Half of Text - Plus Full AudioHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
...
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Categories:
yup, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the FaceGrant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face
blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth
of the late...
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Categories:
yup, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Alpha To OmegaALPHA TO OMEGA
A is for Arturo and Alexis two great Poets,
Who make us all cry and laugh
B is for Besma a great philosopher
And soul sister On Poetry Soup’s graph,
And Beata,and Gordon who
With their...
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Categories:
yup, friendship,
Form:
Free verse
Super Duper Guy and DragonHubby was working, out of town, lately, so we went to pick him up.
And we passed thru the town of Metropolis in our ancient pickup truck.
Now don’t think Dragon didn’t notice, that this was the...
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Categories:
yup, fantasy, fun, funny, hero, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
Her Silhouetteher, she sat out like no other...but her silhouette
her voice, it was music to my ears like no other..but her silhouette
her personality, it matched mine like no other...but her silhouette
her resistance, it...
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Categories:
yup, love,
Form:
Free verse
Nothin' Left To ChanceThis young greenhorn was simply wasting his time trying to outsmart Shorty!
Nothin’ Left to Chance
Sittin’ in this tavern, lookin’ back...
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Categories:
yup, funny, humor,
Form:
Verse
Off kilterOff kilter
Yup
I sobered up
despite expressing regular
(unleaded and unlettered)
urge to shtup
expunged courtesy
system of a down
with shuga (mush)
and everything nice.
The following crafted some time ago,
when empty nest syndrome
pulled me psyche taut
analogous to an...
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Categories:
yup, abuse, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, betrayal, black
Form:
Rhyme
Kissing Carol AnnBack in 1957
kissing Carol Ann
behind the barn
in the middle of
a windswept field
of Goldenrod
with a sudden deer
watching was
something special,
let me tell you.
Back then, bobby sox
and...
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Categories:
yup, love,
Form:
Blank verse
This December 17th, 2021This December 17th, 2021...
Totally tubular fiction yup,
nevertheless I reflect
the year (arbitrarily plucked from misty past)
Santa Claus did not show up
courtesy imagination license
cruel as crippled poet pan handler
rattling his empty cup.
Though blink of time...
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Categories:
yup, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
Argh, I never got muffin top before why nowArgh, I ne'er got muffin top before - why now!?
Once upon a time yours truly did allow
himself to consume anything in sight
eats of mine in the mein
included an assortment of chow.
Impossible firm me
(read...
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Categories:
yup, adventure, age, angst, appreciation, body, food, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Peril Us Aye Grant This To Be a Civil Yet Hurried Lee Red(Alternately titled always look on the bright side of life)
Armageddon wold be a morbidly amazing,
concluding (reign of Homo Sapiens)
fascinating albeit simultaneously catastrophic boon
dog gull to accompany
...
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Categories:
yup, 10th grade, 12th grade, future, howl, image,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Chicanery Grabbed Lustfully Repeatedly YupChicanery grabbed lustfully repeatedly - yup!
While merrily bobbing along
the boulevard of broken dreams,
which in truth measured
no more than a furlong
think envisioning myself top banana
analogous to bull headed Donkey Kong,
I felt on top of my game,
which...
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Categories:
yup, abuse, age, america, analogy, anger, animal, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till He Gets Blue In the Faceblowing balloons signaling 158 years since Appomattox
(Alternately titled always look on the bright side of life)
Armageddon would be morbidly amazing,
concluding (reign of Homo Sapiens)
fascinating albeit simultaneously catastrophic boon
dog gull...
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Categories:
yup, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, april,
Form:
Prose Poetry