Long Adored Poems
Long Adored Poems. Below are the most popular long Adored by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Adored poems by poem length and keyword.
Be of Good, Compassionate CourageDandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown
I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...
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Categories:
adored, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Falling Into Place: Solace SolitudeLet me take a little sip
Of your blessed, breathtaking brilliance that will numb...
This pain I have in this heart of stone
The voices in my head won't leave me alone
I thought I was on my own,...
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Categories:
adored, deep, desire,
Form:
Lyric
UnfaithfulAh yeah ah oh
Ah yeah ah oh
So scared and fragile...
So weak for only awhile...
Unfaithful me is as cold as glaciers of disgrace glamorized
Unfaithful you is as hot as fire of desire, burning...you and I...
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Categories:
adored, deep, drug,
Form:
Lyric
Halloween PoemsIt's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
adored, children, grave, halloween, horror, myth, silly, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
It's HalloweenIt's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
beware the witch's eye!
If goblins loom
within the gloom
till playful pups grow terse;
if birds give...
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Categories:
adored, cat, children, evil, grave, halloween, horror, moon,
Form:
Verse
The Fallen
“The Fallen”
Remote,
he sees himself
in the reflection of cold close
yet distant shop windows,
his final journey along the
Hard Time Road
walking alone,
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life
a million knives...
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Categories:
adored, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Various Heresies 5Various Heresies 5
Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch
July 7,2007 (7-7-7)
Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples, your thinning hair.
Tonight, let's remember, and let us draw near...
Tonight,...
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Categories:
adored, creation, earth, god, heaven, spiritual, wine, women,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Lii-LxSonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
adored, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
adored, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Adam and Eve - Part OneYear One -
Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it all,
what did Lilith know, where did she go
far past the...
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Categories:
adored, art, creation, love,
Form:
Epic
A Vain WordA Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
adored, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Megan's Quest Part 1of7Moon sprites dotted the sky like lilies at dawn
in a ballet meant to cause nocturnal delight.
While Fairies and Pixie Dust covered the lawn
in a dance that would...
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Categories:
adored, adventure, courage, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Jacqueline TrestrailOn this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won...
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Categories:
adored, mother, tribute,
Form:
Prose
Who Am IWHO AM I
I am a woman of abundance,
...
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Categories:
adored, character, i am, life, me, perspective, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiiJuvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...
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Categories:
adored, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic ParkerThese words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
adored, beauty, emotions, love, passion, romantic, sensual, soulmate,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Once Upon a Time In TipirIt was noon, he was in the bush, he enjoyed this type of living, he sometimes played with the animals just to make himself happy and spend some time, Leisure and embraced them all as...
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Categories:
adored, africa, age, animal, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
Leaving sooo SoonI guess I’m sorry I was leaving so soon
It came out of the blue,
It came out of the blue moon…blue moon…
I couldn’t find my left shoe
I could have been here
For a little while, while,...
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Categories:
adored, angst, devotion, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, how
Form:
Lyric
Kidnapped By AliensThey had kept me imprisoned there for three full days,
In that sparse, solitary room, of scarce sunshine rays.
Having good food to eat, had never been a problem;
They brought hot meals, but the problem was...
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Categories:
adored, adventure, earth, fantasy, imagery, space, stars,
Form:
Couplet
Uncle EldonUNCLE ELDON
Now that I am old, I see more clearly through my mind's eye, than I did in my youth, all those special people who played such a wonderful part in my life....
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Categories:
adored, dedication,
Form:
Narrative
Artificial Iris
"Artificial Iris"
Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar,
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pages of hardcopy in school
were aptly ignored -
however,
our Overlords were...
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Categories:
adored, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
Part 2 You Have To WhistleNeither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young, thus learning you cannot trust your care-givers or anyone else.
In...
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Categories:
adored, child abuse, giving, i love you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Accumulating Anger: My Love Was SerpentineMy love was serpentine to the touch
I can't quite explain it...the love of mine
Had gone away from my sight and such
I can quiz my mind to say otherwise, my bittersweet sugar wine…
Why am I extremely...
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Categories:
adored, angst, longing, lost love, love, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
Mom's Old Photos - 2nd Half Text Plus Full AudioHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
...
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Categories:
adored, memory, mom,
Form:
Narrative
King of the CastleThe King of the Castle
Said I’m but a child
Afraid of the world outside
Afraid to run wild and to be proud
Of the freedom it provides
Afraid of love
Afraid of the dark
Said you...
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Categories:
adored, betrayal, corruption, depression, evil, lost, memory, mental
Form:
Narrative