Long Abbey Poems
Long Abbey Poems. Below are the most popular long Abbey by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Abbey poems by poem length and keyword.
Chaucer Translation: Merciless BeautyMerciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...
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Categories:
abbey, beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
Pale Though Her Eyes: Vampire PoemVampire Poetry
Pale Though Her Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Pale though her eyes,
her lips are scarlet
from drinking of blood,
this child, this harlot
born of the night
and her heart, of darkness,
evil incarnate
to dance so reckless,
dreaming of...
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Categories:
abbey, dark, death, desire, evil, gothic, grave, horror,
Form:
Verse
Vampires Are Such Fragile CreaturesVampires
by Michael R. Burch
Vampires are such fragile creatures;
we fear the dark, but the light destroys them...
sunlight, or a stake, or a cross—such common things.
Still, late at night, when the bat-like vampire sings,
we heed his voice.
Centuries...
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Categories:
abbey, dark, death, gothic, halloween, horror, lust, night,
Form:
Verse
The White Lady of Skipsea
"The White Lady of Skipsea"
Last night I dreamt
I dreamed of you
a kind of dream
within a dream
Diaphanous,
my soul escaped,
this firmament,
my immaculate heart
held hands, my fingers
did entwine with
handsome Morpheus
Crystal radiate
twin gossamer...
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Categories:
abbey, dark, fantasy, gothic, history, horror, mystery, romance,
Form:
Free verse
A View From a WindowAs dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground, insane,
immersed in scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and...
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Categories:
abbey, peace, people, political, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Sacred Lakes
“Sacred Lakes”
There is magic
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo
busy under cover of autumn leaves
turning burnished topaz gold
idling unrushed roll over
in honeyed slumber
turning back hands
to face a time of
blushing...
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Categories:
abbey, journey, love, magic,
Form:
Romanticism
My TownFrom north, south, east and west
This is the town to beat the rest,
Where history and present blend
As through its many streets you wend.
Where once a monastery so great
From every view would dominate,
Where Pilgrims...
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Categories:
abbey, city, history, home, me, places, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Handel's MessiahA combination of Prose and Free Verse:
The most thrilling and inspirational piece of music ever to reach my
ears is, without doubt, Handel's Messiah. I've never known anyone
who could experience a performance and remain...
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Categories:
abbey, christmas, music,
Form:
Prose
Hey Jude - Dedicated To Winged WarriorHey Jude, love is like a butterfly - just let it be.
You've got a ticket to ride, go where you should be.
Love is a revolution it shall set you free.
Don't live a life of sorrow...
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Categories:
abbey, love, music, tribute,
Form:
Pantoum
Exegesis
"Exegesis"
At 7 he was
thrown to the wolves
Bede marked his territory
hidden secrets
kept in the abbey
he escaped
went to war
where the unwanted trod
First regiment,
Vietnam
he took with him
like a comfort blanket
his Nicene creed and God
and on returning...
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Categories:
abbey, father daughter, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
RhythmSee them dressed in colors soldiers, regiment, British royal guards, guard bearskin, grandier guards, Buckingham palace guards dressed in scarlet red walking behind the queen’s casket and reminiscing the dead. Their tall bearskin hat almost...
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Categories:
abbey, animal, death, destiny, endurance, environment, eulogy, motivation,
Form:
Narrative
Commercial SlamAN APPOINTMENT WITH DR. VIAGRA
Husband: Honey, I consulted a doctor before using this product and my erection has lasted four or more hours so I guess I'm going to have to seek immediate medical attention
Wife:...
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Categories:
abbey, angst, nonsense, drug,
Form:
Light Verse
Commercial Slam - Part IiI JUST CAN’T HELP IT, YA KNOW?
Elderly Lady: Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
First Alert: Duly noted, will there be anything else?
Elderly Lady: Are you going to call an ambulance?
First Alert: Ambulance? ...
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Categories:
abbey, angst, funny, how i feel, drug,
Form:
Light Verse
Nope Not Even a Brief HistoryNope Not Even A Brief History...
About Month Named December
The Latin root (albeit - lo'
(mein lee) first two syllables
i. e. decem) - no
joking - translate to mean ten,
where millenniums ago
this delineation quite apropos,
cuz (wade back in...
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Categories:
abbey, creation, fate, january, meaningful, moving on, new
Form:
Free verse
Bleeding Before Rome -1The bombers began to bleed
their heavy tears of death
from 20,000 feet above the breathless battlefield,
B-17 Flying Fortress formations
moving with apocalyptic aplomb
the shadows of high metal crosses by the hundreds
rippling along the rugged roman earth
bringing...
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Categories:
abbey, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
And Time Stood StillLike an arboretum, my smile and laughter fills empty space,
tall stand the trees all huddled together like girlfriends on a chilly night ready to share their secrets.
We lay bare our souls, sat on the bench,...
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Categories:
abbey, friendship, memory, missing you,
Form:
Free verse
RussiaFor the last five hundred years, posh “society,” is where the wealthiest and most influential people in the world mingled, inter-married and conducted business. If you’ve ever watched “Downton Abbey”, “The Gilded Age” or even...
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Categories:
abbey, celebrity, desire, money, political, western, world,
Form:
Free verse
Carnivorous Cottage Routine.
A whale in a pail is far more active in a gale or in copious amounts of hail. Putting money into sharks is a shifty act involving the shuffling of coats in cloakrooms. And clown...
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Categories:
abbey, adventure, allah, allusion, analogy, angel,
Form:
I do not know?
Eggs-Acting Revenge Part 1Oh noo' It has happened again.! I thought we had escaped the continual scene:
forever falling down, and ya know what people actually celebrate it..?
and we'd thought we were safe here) a place where you...
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Categories:
abbey, anti bullying,
Form:
Narrative
Rearview MirrorRear view mirror
Objects, objectively put, are closer
than they appear. But it doesn’t say it all.
With the fair signs that spewed forth once turning to
a slew of pre-twitter ...
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Categories:
abbey, life,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection Slips 4Rejection Slips 4
Editor's Notes
by Michael R. Burch
Eat, drink and be merry
(tomorrow, be contrary).
( and complain
in bad refrain,
but please, not till I'm on the plane!)
Write no poem before its time
(in your case, this...
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Categories:
abbey, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Living Rough - Part 1Makes me chuckle when I hear folks talking about living rough; heck some of them think that not having HD3D is living rough! Well, let me tell you a little story about a young fellow...
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Categories:
abbey, abuse, addiction, class, dark, imagery, poverty, society,
Form:
Prose
TestimonyDistressed, I attest,
Like not blessed,
A voice in my head,
Said out of bed,
So I was led to
A quiet church,
As owls sang out,
Midnight gone tombs,
And my tears appeared,
Death beckoned long
finger nails of distraction,
And so I gazed upon...
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Categories:
abbey, christian, death, faith, gospel, jesus, judgement, true
Form:
Concrete
His Queen.............................They ...
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Categories:
abbey, lovemorning, , Lullaby,
Form:
Shape
He Is Leaving HomeIn great respect of the band I grew up listening to
as sure...
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Categories:
abbey, absence, angel, betrayal, business, car, career, celebrity,
Form:
Blank verse