Long Attic Poems
Long Attic Poems. Below are the most popular long Attic by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Attic poems by poem length and keyword.
Apocalyptic Poems IiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
attic, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
attic, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Once Upon a Halloween In the 50'sThe excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With an old suit and hat of Granddads, I became a...
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Categories:
attic, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
Halloween Poems IiCompleting the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch
Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...
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Categories:
attic, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Mary Ma Gargano BoysMary Gargano the key player in covering the drug monies and drugs that ran from Milwaukee pitstop in Chicago Antioch Danville Marietta Georgia straight to palm beach blvd. Ciro Gargano his business partner Hayes stopping...
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Categories:
attic, america, business, history,
Form:
Free verse
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An EventThe Picture of Dorian Gray: Paint Me As An Event
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a decent fanciful novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had...
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Categories:
attic, angst, character, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Juozas Miltinis Learning Years In ParisIt was September
Of one thousand
Nine hundred seven
The end of summer
With apples lying thickly
Under the apple trees
And the smell of Autumn
Covering the grass
Filled with ripe yellow
And orange squash
He was born in a little
Wooden house...
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Categories:
attic, art, destiny, french, history,
Form:
Bio
Never Out of Season - a Short StoryI was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden flooring.
"I thought I'd find you...
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Categories:
attic, august, bereavement, blue, christmas, december, farewell, grief,
Form:
Narrative
PART OF ME: A FALLEN CHILDPart of my soul severed by their ruthless oppression, demoralization and exploitation of a frightened and abandoned child.
Part of me drowning in detrimental sorrow as a 10 yr. old coerced by the evilness on the...
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Categories:
attic, abuse, anti bullying, child abuse, childhood, for
Form:
Free verse
SplatSplat
Explosions do not always signify combustion but often combustion arrives after many years of layering the layers and tightly packing. Thus meaning that a fried piece of fat could slip and burst out of the...
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Categories:
attic, africa, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Everything of Yours Must Go Now, Even If It BurnsI write about my ex a lot,
we didn't talk much, but our tongues touched,
we used to have sex a lot and
it was so hot that it set my soul ablaze,
and no, it wasn't...
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Categories:
attic, break up,
Form:
Free verse
Rainer Maria Rilke: Second Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's second elegy from his Duino Elegies, which he began composing at Duino Castle in 1912.
Second Elegy
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Every angel...
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Categories:
attic, angel, art, desire, eulogy, god, love, passion,
Form:
Elegy
Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvii Highlight of February 12th, 2023Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvii highlight of February 12th, 2023
Above title attests
how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.
Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...
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Categories:
attic, 12th grade, abuse, adventure, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form:
Rhyme
Watching Upcoming Toilet Bowl Lvi Highlight of February 13th, 2022Watching upcoming toilet bowl lvi highlight of February 13th, 2022
Above title attests how mine mundane mein kampf
insync as a veritable clogged drain oh:
flush with adventure overflowing excrement
er... rather excitement.
Apt aforementioned accurate personal description
believe me not,...
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Categories:
attic, adventure, cool, devotion, farewell, happiness, heaven, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Incomplete Metamorphosis of Distilled AdolescentIncomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...
therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?
Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered,
and mortally wounded prepubescent,
I consider myself
analogously buttressed, cocooned,
garrisoned (for bing keeler),
hardened, insulated,
where cell baited jumping frog
o'...
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Categories:
attic, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Rhyme
Sometimes: a Random Poem, Part IiiSometimes I think I should just run and hide
And become somebody else
Leave all of my troubles and worries behind
But you can’t run and hide from yourself
Sometimes I think I hear voices in my head
And see...
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Categories:
attic, allegory, allusion, analogy, fun, mental illness, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
attic, imagery, longing, memory, metaphor, nostalgia, old, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Drop Dead DronesBy some quirky short circuit.
A drone mutated itself
and became intelligent
.
As fate would have,
The drone decided to take revenge.
Chose Chill Bates as its target
The drone altered its algorithm
and started re-programming.... its fellow...
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Categories:
attic, technology,
Form:
Free verse
The Taken GirlFather left when I was eleven. It was at this time
That I began regular jaunts to grandma's house.
Mom worked; and, my older sister was pure slime.
Grandma was wonderful, but, as silent as a mouse.
It was...
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Categories:
attic, angel, children, daughter, fairy, family, fantasy, father,
Form:
Narrative
Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 3“The songs are casual and careless in a satisfying way, like the used condom your latest lover left lying on your bedroom floor, a souvenir you’re not yet ready to dispose of.” Candy Cotton, Modern...
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Categories:
attic, mythology,
Form:
Prose
Storm WarningI love spending nights on the lake.
Once the oven-like sun disappears,
things get suddenly quiet, except for
the occasional hoot of an owl, crickets, frogs
and the soft lapping of the lake on the boat.
When the moon rises...
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Categories:
attic, adventure, fun, life, storm, summer, teen, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Stained Glass ScarletStained Glass Scarlet, Scarlet Fasinera . . . a fictional character
a vigilante haunting the streets of the Bronx
...
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Categories:
attic, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Chicago Life 101Life 101 was taught to me in an old mansion in inner-city Chicago. ...
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Categories:
attic, care, chicago, house,
Form:
Narrative
Barnabas Oral's Sightless GameHe plays throughout the house at night
a braille touch for his lack of sight
and dreams of all the crippled things
with broken legs and shattered wings.
The bandage on his wounded eyes
will be there...
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Categories:
attic, dark, games, humorous, psychological, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
This the Devil Will SeeThis the Devil Will See!
1960. New to our new neighborhood,
I wondered how mom and dad had gotten so rich?
For the first single-family home of my life,
And I realize only now, of theirs, too!
Two floors....
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Categories:
attic, bullying, children, christian, growing up, history, truth,
Form:
Imagism