Long 21st Poems
Long 21st Poems. Below are the most popular long 21st by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long 21st poems by poem length and keyword.
Poems About the Coronavirus IiPoems about the Coronavirus II
This World's Joy
(anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 14th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters...
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Categories:
21st, fear, loneliness, loss, natural disasters, scary, social,
Form:
Rhyme
What Kind of People Are WeWhat Kind of People Are We
In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the question I shall
discuss in this narrative. Rather, I shall consider...
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Categories:
21st, conflict, fear, humanity, immigration, international, poverty, war,
Form:
Narrative
The Queen of EnglandQueen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022
“We are all visitors to this...
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Categories:
21st, appreciation, celebration, grief,
Form:
Clerihew
Our Baby Girl Turns 21OUR BABY GIRL TURNS 21
ON 1ST JULY 1990~ THE ANGELS DID SOMETHING ALMIGHTY
FROM HEAVEN THEY SENT US OUR LIFE-LONG DESIRE-A PRECIOUS DAUGHTER TO LOVE AND ADMIRE.
TRUE TO YOUR NATURE YOU ARRIVED WITHOUT FUSS OR PAIN--THE...
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Categories:
21st, daughter, daughter, school, baby, nature, beautiful, age,
Form:
Rhyme
The Spirits of CullodenThe Spirits of Culloden.
This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year,
Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear.
Standin on that moor, that once with blood was sodden,
Paying respects...
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Categories:
21st, anniversary, death, dedication, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct,
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means...
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Categories:
21st, america, sports, war,
Form:
Epic
Transformational CuriosityThat's queer!
said transculturing Curiosity,
peering out Her sacred big-boxed window
panes of misty white fog
gently covering her view
of upstream tiding River's
mysterious grey
reverse time flow
Sometimes,
OK, really too often,
I could use more courageous exercise
But, Other times
I'm more content, inviting...
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Categories:
21st, culture, earth, health, peace, senses, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Political Verse
Ill Fated AddressAN ILL-FATED ADDRESS
Being on holiday in Athens was truly the best 21st present
my parents could have given me, stayed with my granddad,
felt great, I traveled on my own, no more an adolescent.
Sad that I...
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Categories:
21st, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Words the Ship Melanie Dear Melanie Troubled Times LosstouchWords
The ship
Words come to me like spring.
They set free, they shed the shroud,
open with all their glory, beauty and sing.
They stand tall, they ring out loud,
from a life that blossoms with...
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Categories:
21st, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Face of Modern SlaveryA shameful act in this world we live today
surely an educated mind can clearly see the truth behind a mask
Ignorance is the hardness of heart manifests in such violence
The horrors and inhumanity of it...
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Categories:
21st, christian, dark, emotions, truth, drug,
Form:
Narrative
What Is My Name My Name Is Child of GodTest many people are unaware this
relishing the thought
Many things have been purchased and bought
what is a human a thing
Unless my color is my being
Been birth and born
Shackled dragged and torn
Been a...
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Categories:
21st, america, analogy, anxiety, assonance, discrimination,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Flirtation With Love - Parts 1, 2, and 3 FinisA Flirtation With Love (Parts 1, 2, & 3 finis)
#1 Sue's Legacy (Has A Home In My Heart)
Sure, each touch that enjoins us to life has Love's sparks,
one less photon (warms retina), dies but informs
that...
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Categories:
21st, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Official Pen's Broadcasting Signature?Universe interconnected?
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Pen's Broadcasting Name
...
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Categories:
21st, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, body, life, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Within My Quasi Moat Toad Lily Padded Immediate EnvironsWithin my quasi moat toad lily padded immediate environs
Meaning the corporeal complex edifice
housing these lovely bones,
where linkedin logorrhea ably
strives to break out
in meaningless song
yobble hum hum diddle dee dee
and dance courtesy
an...
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Categories:
21st, adventure, age, allusion, analogy, anniversary, appreciation, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
I Hear He's a WinnerBolsonaro was president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023.
Former army officer and right-wing nationalist who revered Brazil's 1964–1985 military rule.
Jair Bolsonaro sought to arm a disarmed nation.
To a place where gun ownership meant freedom.
Anti-establishment populism...
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Categories:
21st, analogy, bereavement, celebrity, international, political,
Form:
Bio
Is the World Insane(A SHORT COMMENTARY ON THE 21ST CENTURY CIVILIZATION)
This story goes on to throw light on the 21st century civilization. And in that political era, the religious and political atrocities, which ended up as...
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Categories:
21st, discrimination, , western,
Form:
Alliteration
The Dilettante Diaries: the Incubation and Metamorphosis of Ulysses
This is a story about a Butterfly
She escaped the Boilermaker
Through transformation.
To transform required a period of incubation,
a need to sleep to dream and
the freedom of quiet self-contemplation -
of course, such a...
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Categories:
21st, courage, daughter, faith, inspirational love, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
The Best Gifts of This Life - 1,2I. Early Childhood’s Gifts
Gift 1:
Is love felt from our parents, our friends a true gift
or more something we earn bit by bit over time,
(a child adds to, subtracts from, as days turn to years)?
This is...
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Categories:
21st, appreciation, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Adieu Dental Floss and Toothbrush(21st century pearly white prosthetics,
restored jaw bar wah key)
Aye noel hunger bristle,
and when false teeth soak at night
in tandem with stubby facial gristle
har reckon noah kisses
...
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Categories:
21st, 11th grade, 12th grade, farewell, grief, hyperbole,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Long Poem About Cyberspace and the People Who Live There/by Vicki Acquah
Before, when we were young;
We were together all of us..
Awhile back when you were young,
I was youthfully older-We were
together back then as space and time
had arranged.
As some of us were...
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Categories:
21st, community, computer, together, planet, universe,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Suffolk DaySuffolk day Wednesday 21st of June 2017
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet
There is going to be a Suffolk Day, I heard the news I did today!
On BBC radio...
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Categories:
21st, celebration, encouraging, fun, happiness, inspirational, pollution, satire,
Form:
I do not know?
Roaring TwentiesRoaring Twenties
Nostalgia and age like bacon and eggs,
With buttered toast and jam on the side for breakfast;
And coffee, and a glass of orange juice to drink,
And a memory in-between to rethink.
The day begins with boring...
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Categories:
21st, america, culture, education, history, perspective, society, usa,
Form:
Verse
Future HealthIf we could sing
of futures searched
If we might ring
with resonant sacred research,
We might find within each inside thing
a place Future co-invites,
outside reconnects
ego-remembers
from dreams of Ancient Paradise
Each unfolding chapter heading
becomes retitled
unentitled revival
as we pass
Renaming Future Searches
as...
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Categories:
21st, analogy, caregiving, green, health, humor, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
What IfThe human heart…the young human heart. I look at our lives, the confusion we live in. Falling in and out of love, having friends..with benefits…dreaming of perfect relationships…unrealistic ones. Sometimes I wonder what kind of...
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Categories:
21st, devotion, engagement, friendship love,
Form:
Narrative
21st Century ParasiteMarriage has lost its security and the vow, its invincibility
especially in a generation so saga and scandal loving
and a society rarely frowning its face to traditional unfaithfulness.
Setting up the stage for lots of pests
to...
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Categories:
21st, education, environment, faith, humanity, husband, identity,
Form:
Ballade