Long Adept Poems
Long Adept Poems. Below are the most popular long Adept by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Adept poems by poem length and keyword.
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
adept, memory,
Form:
Prose
To Be a Friend PleaserI heavily recall two times when I had made you cry,
Both of which bewildered and moved me
My response was that of disbelief, and regret
And never, upon recalling,
Have I felt more of the need to...
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Categories:
adept, change, character, confusion, devotion, friendship, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
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:
adept, beauty, earth, growth, happiness, humanity, humor, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Random Excerpts From Ice In My Eyes, Smoke In Yours - a Novel"Hey, you philosophysing Hindu. Give me a break, Buddy. I was just pulling your leg. [...] I want the rest of the story. Really, I mean it.” Theson said nothing. [...] “I can see you’re...
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Categories:
adept, fantasy, growing up, lost, nature, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Canto Xxix Hell TranslationSo many people and the various sores
Intoxicated in such a way my eyes,
That wanted open to crying their doors.
But Virgil told : “What for you look this guise?
Why now your sight is so carefully brought
Down...
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Categories:
adept, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
There Comes That MomentFortunately, when I was young, what I perceived - 'my kingdom' -
spanned - and I'm not kidding you...seven - city - blocks!
But being neither worried about - nor having fully mastered -
the tricky...
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Categories:
adept, childhood, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
My Friend the Wise DoctorEu-e,
Eu-e-e,
Eu-e,
Bucky Fuller Big Bang.
U-C,
U-C-A-G,
U-C,
ribonucleic acid.
Yang-Yin,
Yang-Yin-Yin,
Yang-Yin
Bucky Fuller Big Brain
My Friend Bucky Fuller
came down to me today.
He said,
"Lao-tse's Time
grows not-not binomial
radiates fore
and gravitates aft
Space and Time
poetry as rhyme
Convex and Concave!"
My Friend Rumi Gloomy
said to me today,
"When you...
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Categories:
adept, nature, perspective, spiritual,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Recluse By Dint of CircumstanceRecluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark...
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Categories:
adept, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
Georges Scoriety BashPicture this..? Seedy joint.'mediocre comedy one Kiev night.
Hunky billionaire bored and sour, joins his guests Uneventful hour.?
A pan faced man is on the stage, mocking life with inward rage.
George faintly get the vibe, listens more...
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Categories:
adept, addiction,
Form:
Rhyme
The Lorax SequelI took the only seed of hope
for any future healthy Truffula Trees,
but reminded my clinically depressed acquaintance
we are all born co-redeemers,
not addictively incubating extractors.
Ours is not to commodify
what we did not recreate
for its sufficient...
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Categories:
adept, earth, environment, integrity, love,
Form:
Narrative
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updatedCaptain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated
Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary
after Grahame Wood
determined to meet
the evolving needs of the community
opened the first Wawa Food Market
in Folsom,...
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Categories:
adept, america, anger, anniversary, april, baptism, birthday, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
2020 Earthrights PartyTell us what everybody most needs to know about the 2020 Global EarthRights Party.
Well speaking for myself,
and I guess probably my extended family
of diverse relatives and friends and neighbors,
certainly including the polar bears and turtles
and...
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Categories:
adept, earth, games, health, humor, political, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
The Bard of Ancient SmyrnaAfter enjoying a pleasant walk, I then spent an hour at a park,
And I relished the dulcet sounds, of cheery airborne skylarks.
The blooms were so lovely, all sultry in the fervid sunshine,
And the hummingbirds were...
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Categories:
adept, adventure, age, fantasy, history, imagery, poetry, time,
Form:
Couplet
Which Paradise Is Not the Elusive ChimereWhich paradise is not the elusive chimère?
…how long does it take to live one life…learn the lessons of a lifetime…find the time to live…find the time to sort things out…know what you did...
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Categories:
adept, heaven, innocence, myth, paradise, symbolism, truth, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Three Enigmas of TurandotThe three enigmas of Turandot
The well of souls run deep in fabled lands of old.
Of China's ancient dynasty and the lost Great Tartary,
a ballad of love and loss that must be told.
The Emperor's daughter,...
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Categories:
adept, crush, longing, love, moon, romantic love, sad
Form:
Narrative
Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl KovalovichAce colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich
revisited January 23rd, 2024
on the evening before yours truly
(the one and only Matthew Scott Harris),
a stand up comic wannabe, who
historically heartily hales
from Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
undergoes oh joy rapture colonoscopy.
Three days...
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Categories:
adept, angel, anxiety, appreciation, birthday, blessing, death, health,
Form:
Free verse
Advent of Other Happy EndingsThroughout 2016 I have been reading Rob Brezsny's Pronoia
Is The Antidote For Paranoia
now ending before I reach 2017.
This postmillennial bible of multiculturalism
ends with several questions or statements
with space to write in my responses.
I am about...
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Categories:
adept, destiny, earth, health, humanity, humor, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Fork Git About Spooner Hiz HamFork git about spooner hiz ham
And join (singing the words
in the next paragraph) whether alone
in a traffic jam
basting, cooking, then eating a lamb
prepared by thee missus
a superb culinary madam.
“A Ram Sam Sam” Lyrics
A ram...
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Categories:
adept, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Richard Mcgeehan PoemRichard Mcgeehan Poem
Poetic license I employ
to match inventive
wisdom and witticism
regarding (brother in law of mine
husband of eldest sister of same)
interspersing, initiating, incorporating
fabrication whenever possible,
and only the subject himself
can discern fact from fiction
and get a...
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Categories:
adept, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation, birthday, celebration, confidence,
Form:
Free verse
Potlatch Cafes and GardensDear Covenant to Empower Children, Inc.
I was in a Potlatch CoHousing Cafe
just the other repair-invested day
for both ego and eco therapy.
Our host introduced
this Potlatch SkillShare event
speaking to himself:
The less I share skills and resources
on cooperative...
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Categories:
adept, caregiving, children, community, garden, health, home, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Love ManifestoIt is love, not loss, we expect,
we long for and belong with,
we seek within
a cooperative economic network
rather than a competitive gain-over-loss
capital-rooted value system.
Love evolves more resonantly
and robustly
than fear
and hatred
and apathy
and dispassion,
yet we have planted our...
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Categories:
adept, community, culture, destiny, love, nature, political,
Form:
Political Verse
The Grand PianoShe was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who had come to play in
the great hall. Once they...
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Categories:
adept, analogy, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Story of the Grand PianoShe was a grand piano: grand in structure, grand in beauty, grand in quality
of sound. She had captured the heart of every pianist who had come to play in
the great hall. Once they...
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Categories:
adept, allegory, betrayal, music,
Form:
Prose
Present Wedded Bliss Haint No TouchstonePresent wedded bliss haint no touchstone...
Circa ~ late spring/ early summer 1978
twas at behest of Harriet Harris,
thus due credit mother dearest
(she long since passed away)
who tried, to bribe, coax, exhort...
(protracted effort not all in vain),
cuz...
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Categories:
adept, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dedication, devotion, husband, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Urgent Message To Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone AgeThough I wrote no book
attention summoned to look
at following--->>>
Urgent message – to send Mephistophelian madman back to stone age
predicated upon past and present, I gauge
will offer ogre golden opportunity
to rewrite anarchistic playbook...
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Categories:
adept, abuse, america, bullying, conflict, dark, depression, evil,
Form:
Rhyme