Long Root Poems
Long Root Poems. Below are the most popular long Root by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Root poems by poem length and keyword.
A Love's DialogueUnique: I need someone to hold me and tell
me it's alright.
I need someone to hold my hands and feel
my pain.
I need someone to kiss away my pain.
I need someone to look into my eyes and...
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Categories:
root, allusion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Frequency
“Frequency”
we are separated
from the others
by a thin membrane
electromagnetic
we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own
frequency
existing to be lit
the fuses touching
reaching delicately
that which we do
and do not see,
believe
answers embedded
in tablets read...
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Categories:
root, future, humanity, muse,
Form:
Narrative
An Bee Cailleach
“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh tú a chaitheamh.
Briseadh an tost seo”
"An Bee Cailleach"
She lives to...
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Categories:
root, fantasy, imagery, joy, life, love, magic, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViJuvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
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Categories:
root, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks I - Relatives and RelativityLimericks I - Relatives and Relativity
The Cosmological Constant
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
said E equals MC squared.
Thus all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
A$$-tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Relativity, the theorists’ creed,
says mass increases...
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Categories:
root, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, science, space, time,
Form:
Limerick
Ancient HaikuThese are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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Categories:
root, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Haiku
Father Time's InterviewHi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?
False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...
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Categories:
root, allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
root, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Haiku Translations of the Oriental MastersGrasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
root, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Why LifeWhy does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of gift-it-forward light,
some longer,
some shorter
before naked covered night.
Why life?
To uncover...
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Categories:
root, adventure, earth, earth day, farm, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Ono No Komachi Translation: AutumnWatching wan moonlight
illuminate tree limbs,
my heart also brims,
overflowing with autumn.
—Ono no Komachi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono...
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Categories:
root, age, autumn, death, depression, desire, heartbreak, women,
Form:
Tanka
Hellfire On EarthDear Donald John
and GoodFaith Followers,
CoInvestors,
ProActive Prayers for Rapturous Redemption
from Eternal Hellish
paranoid
Left EgoVoices anger and fear
Right SpiritFeelings ecodarkly terrified
from and of dying death.
Your LeftBrain does not lack
for paranoid Win/Lose conviction
We must live in a dog eat...
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Categories:
root, appreciation, bullying, caregiving, games, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Father Time's Surprising Taoist IntimationsTell me,
Father Time,
if you would share this space
it would mean everything to me
to us, so kind,
which forms of integrative diversity
incarnate your highest priority,
most comprehensive,
social-political-economic-cultural issues:
1. Domestic economy flat-line trends,
2. International peace intent and praxis,
3. Universally...
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Categories:
root, analogy, culture, earth, games, humor, psychological, time,
Form:
Narrative
Auschwitz RoseAuschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...
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Categories:
root, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
Ono No Komachi TranslationsAs I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Submit to you—is that what you advise?
The way the ripples...
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Categories:
root, desire, life, longing, love, nature, woman, women,
Form:
Tanka
Our Earthcafe CoopIn one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.
But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in Thought Experiments
about what would my optimal Eden Paradise.
restoring peace and...
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Categories:
root, business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 88 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Solomon Brothers: the Billards BlowoutEarly afternoon. The Solomon
Were in their, (according to Damali)
Club house. But the reality of the
Circumstance is this. The Club
House was the Damian Domaine.
Damian's Billards. Damian didn't
Know it was their chosen hangout.
As the...
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Categories:
root, africa, allusion, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Yangyyolks With Yinyin-WhitesStart and end each day,
and life,
with a taoist egg.
I doubt my eggs are religious.
No, but they are natural,
organic incubators,
co-arising nondual yolk form
with white-transparent regenerative function,
teleology,
and cosmology, maybe,
if you're a chicken,
or a turkey,
or a...
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Categories:
root, analogy, culture, earth, food, health, math, science,
Form:
Narrative
Ecotherapist ConventionsTruth is a feather
pushed off to the other side.
Truths are a body of feathers
within which our bodies reside.
OK, students of life’s healthiest purposes and meanings,
it’s time to regather, if you would be so kind.
Namaste.
[Silence]
[My...
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Categories:
root, beauty, culture, earth, health, humor, nature, truth,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Custody of 2020 EyesMonks and nuns,
ascetics and miscellaneous humble proletariat folks,
were taught custody of the eyes,
to show respect for those older
and/or wiser
and/or more supremely royal,
and/or in other positions of merited or inherited authority,
to avoid appearing too curious
too available
too...
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Categories:
root, games, gender, health, poverty, psychological, racism, slavery,
Form:
Political Verse
Limericks Vi - ReligionLimericks VI - Religion
Pell-Mell for Hell Mel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a Baptist named Mel
who condemned all non-Christians to hell.
When he stood before God
he felt like a clod
to discover His Love couldn’t fail!
Why I...
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Categories:
root, christian, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, religion, religious,
Form:
Limerick
2020 RevolutionNumbers, numerals,
like words,
combinations of letters,
mean something,
sometimes more secular,
sometimes more sacred ecological.
Numerals and letters share sacred iconic human-intelligence root systems
within a bicameral ecology of mind-body nonduality,
both RightBrain matriarchal empowering flow of integrity (Czikszentmihalyi)
and LeftBrain patriarchal Yang...
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Categories:
root, beauty, culture, earth, health, math, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Messages For Regenerating TimeThis revolutionary message
is brought to you by
the
TransMillennial EarthTribe CoOperative,
your international ecopolitical sponsor,
speciating Earth's New PostMillennially Silent EcoLogical Majority.
We think we begin to both comprehend,
in a B. Fullerian metaphysical sense,
and co-empathically trust,
in an economic and...
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Categories:
root, culture, health, humor, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
What I Didn'T KnowPeople, Places, and Things I Didn't Know I Trusted
I rather suddenly, and belatedly,
realized I trust the highest and best use for language,
for every community and communication of faith,
for every school and pedagogical political enculturation,
for every...
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Categories:
root, culture, health, love, political, power, psychological, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
SweetspotsCould you tell me, please,
how to become polypathically smarter,
economically deep learned and wisely adept
co-arising ecologically systemic theories
to grow more co-empathic trust
of and for cooperatively organizing positive
nutritional slow-growth,
optimally sustainable Continuous Quality Health Improvement?
Try...
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Categories:
root, beauty, earth, growth, happiness, humanity, humor, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse