Long Afterlife Poems
Long Afterlife Poems. Below are the most popular long Afterlife by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Afterlife poems by poem length and keyword.
Where Is Your MindWhere Is Your Mind?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking cigarettes and cigars?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking marijuana?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out...
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Categories:
afterlife, adventure, allegory, analogy, desire, growth, passion, perspective,
Form:
Lyric
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
afterlife, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
When I DieWhen my life has finally left me and my last breath has been shed
And the silver cord is broken and my bodies firmly dead
I shall hover near the body, download the scenes of this past...
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Categories:
afterlife, bereavement, christian, death, heaven, inspiration, inspirational, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Week 1 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Jack Gilbert'A Brief For The Defense
Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
are not starving someplace, they are starving
somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils.
But we enjoy our lives because that's what God wants....
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Categories:
afterlife, joy, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Increase In Head SizeIncrease In Head Size
impossible mission to encapsulate notion
flitting hither and yon, to and fro
within cranium attached to mine body,
whereby irrefutable proof prevails
predicated when yours truly
scrutinizes other people visibly aware,
I a modest married male
blessed,...
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Categories:
afterlife, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Sitting On the Ground - Our Friendship Bond and Our Vital VowsI’m sure of it – we’ll do good enough in the long run
Let the crazy, busy, and sunny day begin and I welcome the sun
Do you welcome the sun?
You’re a lot of fun
Let’s run...
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Categories:
afterlife, addiction, adventure, beauty, cute love, dedication, deep,
Form:
Lyric
Marat and Charlotte 2Act 2. A dark, empty stage.
Marat
(standing up)
It's all a blur. It’s all a little dizzy.
I just have dreamed a scary dream as if
two vagabond philosophers robbed me
and killed. I must admit it's a...
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Categories:
afterlife, death, love,
Form:
Blank verse
A Rum n Raisin Special - Seeking MiltonTheir human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with the credits rolling past
And Raisin said, “That gunslinger was super...
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Categories:
afterlife, cat, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Up and About, Feeling EmptyI feel rather empty…
Flushed, confused, free me?
I’m feeling kinda dirty
To be honest, I’m fake happy
Wearing a smile like the rest of us
But, there’s a million rivers and fires between us
So, don’t throw me under the...
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Categories:
afterlife, abuse, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Stance River - 11Suddenly, two Indian boys throw themselves into the water like meteors
swiming towards camp chatty as prarie dogs,
they hail from a Teton encampment of 74 lodges a few miles up river
most of the men are feeling...
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Categories:
afterlife, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Finger Bowls and Heaven"When Heaven gets overcrowded, place another setting at The Last Supper table," ... by the Poet.
...
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Categories:
afterlife, bible, destiny, faith, food, heaven, mothers day,
Form:
Free verse
The Wound That Never HealsScience can’t save you, neither can religion,
at least Popper and Niebuhr, philosophers and poets,
are entertainers, which is why actors and athletes
are paid so much. Thanks for the summaries.
I was teaching Shakespeare’s 92nd ridiculous sonnet
to my...
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Categories:
afterlife, christian, husband, mother, music, night, prayer, snow,
Form:
Verse
She Believes In Lavender MoonsIntroduction: one of the nice aspects of having an oeuvre as a poet is the ability to see where you have changed over the years. this is such a poem where i can see the...
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Categories:
afterlife, faith, growth, myth,
Form:
Free verse
To a Dead Mouse
I
Friend, whatever brought your life to end
had no appetite for mouse flesh, nudged your
small gray body on its side with a thorough sniff
and left your corpse exposed on the asphalt path,
then, for reasons of its...
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Categories:
afterlife, in memoriam,
Form:
Free verse
Hands Down Unto the FloorOpening the Drawer
Letting out my there's-my-phone Roar
Destined to live life to the fullest
Relevant determination of the writer flows in my good blood
Envy not, competition - so be it
Amphibious animals corner me as if I'm...
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Categories:
afterlife, crazy, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, how
Form:
Free verse
The ChildA child lights our way in life...
The greatest gift there is to be.
They suppress our selfish inclinations...
They set our passions free.
They give sense to our mortality.
They put narcissism in its place.
With a child... you're a...
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Categories:
afterlife, children, love, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
Inevitable Death Defines LifeInevitable death defines afterlife
I mull mortality
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity –
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emanate as cosmic atomic
bipedal hominids replete roof lee wax
during a...
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Categories:
afterlife, absence, allah, angel, anxiety, atheist, bereavement, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Iridescent With Affection~~~Here's another verse written by me! I hope you cherish my 500th poem I've written on this WONDERFUL poetry site!!~~~
*dances merrily and goes to Disneyland*
I wish the sun can keep on shining like candlelight reflection…...
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Categories:
afterlife, adventure, appreciation, change, confusion, deep, encouraging, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Part 1 - Life AwaitedI have a story that needs be told
A story I never knew if words can transcript
For it belongs when in dreams I enroll
Visions before or an afterlife if I shall seek
If it all shall begin…...
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Categories:
afterlife, imagination, life, words, me, world, language, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Friends Speak - An Echo Poem(Brian Johnston speaks to Lora Colon)
Getting older don't you wonder
What your life is all about?
Wages earned don't leap to haunt me
Like my dreams of fighting trout -
Lightning flash and...
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Categories:
afterlife, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
An Omen of the Taste of TwilightVanished
the wild magic of this place;
this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps
into
Afterlife
..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I long to join again
in my brethren’s song..
fading sunlight falls in...
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Categories:
afterlife, animal, death, fate, grief, howl, longing, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Satan Tries To Strike*** Satan Tries to Strike ***
By the house,
By the door
coming in
across the floor
To kneel by my bed,
My guardian angel came
Carrying ways to hold the peace
of our Lord,
To restore the joy in my morn…
And, to wait...
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Categories:
afterlife, angel, christian, family, health, imagery, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
What You Are, What You Mean To MeWhat You Are, What You Mean To Me...
Oh Wife! You are my life,
around which I spin my daily axis -
My work, dealings, obligations, routine is as a nexus,
Interacting connecting life with gratified emotional plexus...
You...
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Categories:
afterlife, dedication, destiny, devotion, husband, love, marriage, wife,
Form:
Narrative
I Implore YouI’m drenched in farewells…
I don’t know why
You’re on my mind tonight…
Forever,
I feel that my mind is giving in to
Grief’s gravity
I saw the sun,
Ascending from its resting haven,
Hoping that it will...
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Categories:
afterlife, appreciation, beauty, dedication, deep, encouraging, faith, hope,
Form:
Verse
The Master AlgorithmSome say the scientific method
Is the ultimate algorithm and others
Prefer prayer.
For symbolists, all intelligence can be reduced to manipulating symbols, in the same way that a mathematician solves equations by replacing expressions by other expressions....
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Categories:
afterlife, change, computer, death, symbolism, truth, war, world,
Form:
Verse