Long Adopted Poems
Long Adopted Poems. Below are the most popular long Adopted by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Adopted poems by poem length and keyword.
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal Moment
Impossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
adopted, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Solo Performance
It had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.
This separation had been scheduled to...
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Categories:
adopted, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
I Promise
To my dearest,
On this day you turn thirteen, officially a teenager! This meaning you are on the very first stage of discovering yourself, your music tastes, your food preferences, your style of clothing and even...
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Categories:
adopted, beautiful, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Earth's Humane Rights To Healthy Climates
In 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
proposing Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human...
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Categories:
adopted, culture, earth, environment, health, nature, political, prejudice,
Form:
Political Verse
Slots poker machines unsolved murders Illinois
Lake county music company filled with
slots carney folk real carny folk the little
pete's illegal gambling road show throughout
the Midwest gaming like your idol Frank Peter
Balistreiri the mad bomber stops Metropolis...
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Categories:
adopted, allah,
Form:
Nazm
The Story of My Life
I want to tell you the story of my life. I was born in a barn at dawn. There
were eight of us but I was the only one with spots. I was...
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Categories:
adopted, cat, life,
Form:
Prose
Happy Fourth of July, Or Happy Independence Day
Happy Fourth Of July, Or Happy Independence Day
On this day we celebrate and commemorate the birth of our nation, The United States of America's Independence from Great Britain's monarchical hold and liberty's triumph
Congress voting in...
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Categories:
adopted, america, birthday, celebration, firework, food, freedom, fun,
Form:
List
Translation of 'The Story' By Kama Nasser
The Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story that comes from the world of tents.
It is a story...
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Categories:
adopted, arabic, betrayal, christian, conflict, courage, devotion, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Trust In Jesus - the Linked Style
~ Trust In Jesus ~
( Linked )
Trust in Jesus
T
Jesus loves you
R
You, me, and all
U
All in this World
S
World...
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Categories:
adopted, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Engaging the Family Laundry
Perhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.
That disclaimer said,
I have two incomplete conversations
in mind and heart
and what I...
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Categories:
adopted, culture, destiny, games, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Lord Is Coming - the Linked Style
~ Lord Is Coming ~
( Linked )
~O~
Lord Is coming
L
Coming again
O
Again to Earth
R
...
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Categories:
adopted, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
February 29th, 2024
February 29th, 2024
Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...
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Categories:
adopted, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form:
Rhyme
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Alexander The Great was born in Macedonia in 356 BC, led to believe
From a boy by Olympias his mother, and to conceive
He was born of the gods, legend inferred he was the son of Zeus,
Ruler...
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Categories:
adopted, horse,
Form:
Narrative
Origin of Christianity
Origin of Christianity
(If you don't like religious writes don't read on)
It may surprise some that Jesus was born a Jew, his parents Joseph and Mary were Jewish, both from the tribe of Judah, in the...
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Categories:
adopted, bible, christian, faith, history, jewish, religious, truth,
Form:
Didactic
Inxs of Poison From Iron Maiden Scorpion Mamma and Ac Dc Charged Aries Papa
Inxs of poison from iron maiden scorpion mamma and ac/dc charged aries papa
Although gainfully unemployed
(fate now finds me receiving
social security disability –
for approximately
the last baker's dozen years -
the yeast divine intercession...
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Categories:
adopted, 12th grade, abuse, anger, anxiety, atheist, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Easter Origins
"Worship in spirit and truth"
With Easter approaching, many people Christian and non-Christian are exposed to this celebration and may have questions concerning the various teachings, rites, rituals and traditions that are promulgated by public worship...
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Categories:
adopted, bible, christian, easter, god, gospel, jewish,
Form:
Didactic
Chapter 121 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family's Grand Gathering and Family Rumors
Date: June 2048
The grills were set everything was
In place. CJ informed "More
than 350 family members
Are expected to be here within
The hour." Damian said, "with 300 plus
Relatives expected today it...
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Categories:
adopted, birth, confidence, deep, devotion, granddaughter, loss,
Form:
Alliteration
The Ivory Castle Ii
,Once upon a time, there was a castle made of pure ivory. Pillars pale and barren holding a surface of grace and elegance. This castle was the home of a mighty unicorn named Stardust. She...
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Categories:
adopted, adventure, child, fun, silly,
Form:
Narrative
Following Earth's Light
Borrowing from David Holmgren, Permaculture Principles and Pathways Beyond [Win-Elite v Lose-NonElite] Sustainability, 2002, p. 1
Health ethics are Beloved Community normative principles
used to guide action toward good and light and right outcomes
and away from degeneratively...
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Categories:
adopted, creation, destiny, earth day, environment, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
On Naming Plants and Animals
A Commentary on
"A Note on the [Patriarchal-Colonizing] Treatment
of Plant Names"
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, p. 385
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS:
INDIGENOUS WISDOM,
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE,
AND THE [SACRED] TEACHINGS
OF PLANTS
I too often accept
with nary a LeftBrain dominant thought
that our verbalized labels
for individual EgoPersons
are...
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Categories:
adopted, earth day, health, humanity, integrity, nature, planet,
Form:
Political Verse
Slow Gin and Astral Conversations
"Slow Gin and Astral Conversations"
A maze me?
I’m the architect
of my own destiny
he beguiled her
incessantly
from the depths of
his bottled up Carceri
she knew him
before he became
a complex
well-hidden
Piranesi
twixt your world
and...
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Categories:
adopted, dark, muse, symbolism,
Form:
Epic
The Legacy of Ain'T Barbie
The Legacy of Ain't Barbie
By Franklin Price
03/23/2022
“Ain't Barbie” was her handle, Barbara Price her married name
She was my wife, for most my life, this is how she played the game
Her roots were from the North...
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Categories:
adopted, blessing, inspiration, jesus, life, love,
Form:
Couplet
Bank rolled by billionaires
Bank rolled by billionaires
No matter Tuesday, November 5, 2024
still one hundred and eight days away,
(thank you Julian Date Calendar -
FOR LEAP YEARS ONLY),
I believe a foregone conclusion
that Donald Trump will win
based on the pathetic debate...
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Categories:
adopted, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 91-- Damian Delilah Mallory: Changes
Date: April 2041
It's been one week now. There
Was no sign of the Black China
Men. The other Hakim family
Members decided to take residence
Closer to the foundational family.
Which was Greatgrand and
Carter Hakim...
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Categories:
adopted, africa, black love, books, death, Lullaby,
Form:
Alliteration
Neigh say being corralled and cult shod
Neigh say being corralled & cult shod
"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I
bring death to tyrants.”
Above the fray of twittering,
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified,
yet vilified...
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Categories:
adopted, 12th grade, age, allusion, america, fate, history,
Form:
Free verse