Long Amusements Poems
Long Amusements Poems. Below are the most popular long Amusements by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Amusements poems by poem length and keyword.
The Outlander
I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...
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Categories:
amusements, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
Hiking Home
His thick-soled hiking shoes
tread too loudly
to celebrate time's homing invitation
to hear and see,
feel and smell resonantly hidden diversity
within Spirit's wooded ridge.
He stops to break from sacrilegious pounding
plodding echoes
reverberating through ears attuned for inside voices,
languaged...
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Categories:
amusements, heart, humor, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Dangle A Backdrop
Fountains sprinkle summer city rising steam spiral,
wet dispersed and raucous shrieks from children,
pavements, streets. lanes, byways imbued,
with that June to September jubilance,
jovial spirit goes beyond the urban confines yet included,
the riot of revelry induced...
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Categories:
amusements, adventure, art, beautiful, beauty, environment, holiday, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Erinna Distaff Translation
ERINNA
Erinna is widely regarded, at least by those who have read her, as second only to Sappho among the ancient Greek female poets. Little is known about her life; Erinna has been called a contemporary...
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Categories:
amusements, child, childhood, death, death of a friend,
Form:
Free verse
Alfred the Great modern English translations by Michael R Burch
KING ALFRED THE GREAT MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
King Alfred the Great (c. 849-899), arguably the first great king of England, may have done more to lay the groundwork for English literacy and literature than any...
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Categories:
amusements, england, leadership, literature, poetry, power, war, words,
Form:
Free verse
Mgc
Straight rows of soft chairs, larval eyes stare blank
Absorbed by glowing colors on the wall
Their jaws slack, fetid whiff, unwashed and dank
Arrested minds the blue screen does enthrall
Their horticulture, growing docile strains
Indulge the twisted whims...
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Categories:
amusements, america, political, power,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Categories:
amusements, bible, christian, god, love,
Form:
Personification
Ablaze - Part Two
[Continued from Part One]
The youngsters were oblivious— so entranced were they
in their childhood amusements and entertaining play.
That door was small and narrow to leave the family home.
And, oh, their lives were fragile, like bubbles on...
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Categories:
amusements, allusion, desire, destiny, fire, life, wisdom, world,
Form:
Narrative
Harvesting What We Plant
We have grown accustomed
to Business As Usual
Yang dominant ways
to teach kids
to live egocentrically apart.
We also have Old School
Yin recessive ways
to listen to children
teach each Sacred Other
how to love ecocentrically
together.
Yang alone
is about WinLose
Either/Or evolution
competing against
other competitors.
While...
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Categories:
amusements, education, health, love, peace, philosophy, power,
Form:
Political Verse
As Summer Evolves
As summer evolves,
With heat and despair,
The boy I once knew,
Gazes up in the air,
He's enamored by freedom,
The choices supplied,
By three months vacation,
And magic implied,
Some friends are around,
Some travel with kin,
While others do nothing,
Or indulge in...
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Categories:
amusements, freedom, summer, sun, sunshine, teen, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Buccaneer and the Dolphin
There is an adventure to be written
From my perch where I be sitting
Two characters my imagination see
A relationship story to be told late in the day over tea
There is an honest...
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Categories:
amusements, beach, deep, fish, friend, mystery, sea, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Riding the Romantic Comedy Rollercoaster
Into the darkness with adventurous fantasies at stake
Wondering how much this creative experience
Will actually make
It was only a few months ago
One’s mind played out the moving picture show
A funny friendly...
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Categories:
amusements, conflict, feelings, relationship, romantic love, tribute, true
Form:
Rhyme
Afflicted Afghanistan
Like nations many, at Central South Asian seam,
With its roots in the Paleolithic time stream;
Home of cultures, habitats, and martial movements,
Lounge of Arab, Muslim, British, Greek amusements...
Empires many, like spiders, yearned to spin in; Failed!
On...
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Categories:
amusements, abuse, betrayal, conflict, fear, power,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring In the Small Village
Arrived is now Spring,
The scents of flowers
scattered in the fields
Awaken feelings of sleeping children.
Here, the breeze that goes
Between flowering almonds.
There, weeping of poplars
Are spreading like white snow.
Far away, along the path,
White...
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Categories:
amusements, beautiful, childhood, children, inspiration, life, spring, teenage,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Seaside Memories
Modest swimsuits, bathing boxes
White-blue flesh ice cold
Scratchy towels, sandy sandwiches
Pots of tea being sold
Foxford blankets, picnic baskets –
A donkey ride on the strand
Flowery summer frocks, mischief brimming
A practical joke being...
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Categories:
amusements, childhood, nostalgia, night, mother, night,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Frankenstein Tea Party
Monsters of conceit that human beings create,
With fantastic forms and shapes and strength decorate;
Licensing to love, loath, lust, lie, lure and loiter,
Wretched then; dare to kill the very creator...
Scientific ambition, sure, is creative,
What, if, the...
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Categories:
amusements, life, political, psychological, social,
Form:
Rhyme
Exodus
Exodus
From a distant hill far away
Shadowed off by a monstrous cloud stormy
Lay signs and sighs
From an alley tucked away
Sheltered off by ghostly shades of moaning moon
Flogs chorus a hollow song in a fog
The twinkling mirage...
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Categories:
amusements, betrayal, change, conflict, destiny, paradise, people, world,
Form:
Prose
Agony of My Sister
As she stared at the framed photo
Of her friends and herself taken some days ago,
A pain went through her ailing heart
And an obscure tear from her eyes did depart.
Those were the times of idyllic...
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Categories:
amusements, childhood, grief, i miss you, innocence, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
How Did We Survive?
I was sittin' on the porch the other day a-starin' into space,
Peerin' back thro' the mists of time when life was a slower pace.
I was amazed recollectin' how my friends and I survived.
Kids are so...
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Categories:
amusements, childhoodday,
Form:
Rhyme
When the Sun Lashes Out
Enjoy your techno-toys while you can;
As you frantically surf the internet
In a vain, pathetic attempt to "keep up"
With meaningless jumbles of jibber-jabber
Which you consider essential information.
All those gotta-have gadgets you crave
Like some new kind of...
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Categories:
amusements, addiction, earth, earth day, future, games, internet,
Form:
Free verse
Travail For the Young
children growing up in a bewildering moral landscape
what is right, what is wrong, what is politically correct
with mindless amusements or habits they seek escape
the media, education, religion they all opposing direct
the parents fared no better,...
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Categories:
amusements, anxiety, youth,
Form:
I do not know?
The Maypole
I remember it well.
The feeling was swell.
It happened once a year;
An event most precious and dear.
The fragrance was in the air.
It was still mid-Spring, but from the sky,
There protruded the aroma of summer.
I hasten to...
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Categories:
amusements, childhood, may,
Form:
Verse
Have I Been Too Long At the Fair
Have I been too long at the fair?
by Michael R. Burch
Have I been too long at the fair?
The summer has faded,
the leaves have turned brown;
the Ferris wheel teeters . . .
not up, yet not...
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Categories:
amusements, absence, allegory, allusion, analogy, autumn, child, childhood,
Form:
Verse
Of Fond Amusements
The soaring sinews of morning sunrise,
Ascend like attacking phantoms with flailing spears;
They rise thinking of fond amusements in the foggy darkness;
They appear as an apparition appears through an old curtain,
As a suffering ghost lurking, groaning...
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Categories:
amusements, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Lions In Sheep Skins
Lions in Sheep skins
Is all that is left in the World
No more brotherhood and kins
The world before only need to be told.
From family members to friends,
Supervisors to managers,
Officials to Religious leaders,
Neighbourhood and abroad,
The pure heart...
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Categories:
amusements, 10th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, absence,
Form:
Diamante