Long Ascribed Poems
Long Ascribed Poems. Below are the most popular long Ascribed by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Ascribed poems by poem length and keyword.
Signs of the times Q and A
Q Did they really make a practice sacrifice of a red heifer on the temple mount?
A There's a great deal of speculation with both parties making their educated
hypotheses: They...
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Categories:
ascribed, 10th grade, 12th grade, 7th grade, 8th
Form:
Prose
Epitaphs
Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
ascribed, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
The Strange Case of Ft
"The Strange Case of F.T."
They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace
confessional shared amongst
my equal peers, or so I deem
you somewhat sometimes seem,
less than me, you...
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Categories:
ascribed, dark, horror, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Athenian Epitaphs Ii
Athenian Epitaphs II
These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...
Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night:
his owner's faithful Maltese...
but will...
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Categories:
ascribed, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form:
Epitaph
Find Your Way
Find your way
from brain stemmed
seed tree infancy
of glorious humanity
history
Find your way
From correct diverse limbic resolutions
back to shared soul temporal-health
co-acclimating diverse struggling issues,
nutritionally resilient production
and root to branch to reroute transportation
and lack of wealth concentrating...
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Categories:
ascribed, body, education, green, health, humanity, humor, tree,
Form:
Political Verse
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
(alternately titled GENESIS RESPLENDENT)
No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpires until Thursday, Jun 20, 2024, an intimation sensed...
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Categories:
ascribed, 12th grade, animal, appreciation, beauty, daffodils, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Present Wedded Bliss Haint No Touchstone
Present 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:
ascribed, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dedication, devotion, husband, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious
Preface:
On February 4, 1861,
the seven states that had seceded
by this point convened and created
the Confederate States of America
under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.
Just under two months later,
on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces
opened fire on...
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Categories:
ascribed, absence, america, anxiety, baptism, bereavement, break up,
Form:
Free verse
Wordsmith's Veneration
Wordsmith's Veneration...
Methinks, I post literary endeavors inxs
but tis with blood, sweat and tears
in case ye did not guess,
who struggles to craft reasonable rhyme
ideally read by a pleasing poetess.
Aye willy nilly understate (trying to)
tantalize, hypnotize, galvanize...
with...
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Categories:
ascribed, 12th grade, america, books, family, flying, garden,
Form:
Free verse
In The Shadow of Sunlight
We are the children of the Sun
We are the children of the light
We are a shadow yond the Sun
We are a shadow yond the light
The Sun sees us in the shadow
The light sees us in...
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Categories:
ascribed, analogy,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Joseph
Some thrive to be great having never defined what it really means. ...
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Categories:
ascribed, anxiety, bible, christian, courage, jesus, memory,
Form:
Personification
Jamaican Elegy For An Intellectual (Rex. R. Nettleford) Part 1
One time a barefooted pickney dancing on the street
I beat puhn pan an' wanda how life could be sweet
For my yai quadrilled to distant cling-cling roost and feel
A longing to change their parliament in my...
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Categories:
ascribed, death, dedication, historyme, longing, me, river,
Form:
Elegy
Plato Epigram Translations
PLATO EPIGRAM TRANSLATIONS
These epitaphs and other epigrams have been ascribed to Plato...
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
But go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
We left...
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Categories:
ascribed, death, eulogy, funeral, memorial, memory, remember, tribute,
Form:
Epigram
Tribute To Women
Born into the lap of loneliness
Adam paced restless up and down
God knew he badly needed a mate
And willed the solitary man, a companion
Nonpareil in beauty and grace,
God wanted her to be the marvel of marvels
With...
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Categories:
ascribed, angel, beauty, bible, women,
Form:
Free verse
Pip Pip Hurray
Sending the tending to an unfriended ending,
yet somehow suspending from rending a newly offending recommending.
Logotype monotype linotype,
overripe stereotype,
teletyped an unripe heliotype.
Guttersnipe snipe,
stipe snipe ripe,
a wipe type a tripe,
unleash a...
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Categories:
ascribed,
Form:
Verse
Agonizing Contriteness Fashions Lugubriousness
Solitude breeds malignant nemesis
couched as woe seated heavily
within mine angst
riddled quavering psyche
blinding clairvoyance
debilitates enthusiastic frequency
wavelengths propagate unfounded
probable future destitution
predicated upon intractable lifetime mired
within groveling penuriousness
"dirt poor" accursed fate
pervaded plentiful not ready
for prime time...
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Categories:
ascribed, 12th grade, absence, anger, anxiety, april, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
A Conversation To Hear
"Franklin, why do you want such a fat, ugly bird?
Are you getting senile, or just being absurd?"
"Clearly, Mr. Adams, you are not being a friend.
My dove, not the turkey, will win in the end.
Though Franklin's...
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Categories:
ascribed, bird, history, humor, pride, symbolism, usa,
Form:
Couplet
Opiating Reality
It would seem, that, humans,
Too sensitive to deal with the harshness of life
Prefer to fly on clouds, even if temporarily
To make themselves believe
That existing can be made of goodness!
Opiates, making of them zombies,
Accrue! And selling...
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Categories:
ascribed, drug,
Form:
Free verse
The Newburghers
The Newburghers
(A Jazz Talk in Six Parts -
Dawn - Introduction
Waking - Enter Von Newburgh
Genesis - The Development
...
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Categories:
ascribed, change, cool, dream, future, society, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Avoiding Pain - Suicide Might Help
Avoiding Pain? Suicide Might Help!
I don’t like to get hurt, grok this path that most walk,
so write poems for strangers (I never will meet,
verse few friends do abide short of formal requests)
that reveal mind in...
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Categories:
ascribed, feelings, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Space Am I
I am s p a c e …
… and I owe indeed my existence from God
The Author of my breadth, depth, and height ---
With the Lord’s abundance…
I am bestowed with worthy meanings:
earthly residence, glorious...
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Categories:
ascribed, appreciation, christian, environment, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form:
Personification
You'Re Easy To Be Proud Of
You have grown to be such a man
yet, I cannot help but see the boy in you
you are my Son, who wears many uniforms
as your father, I cannot help but be Proud,
I see you march...
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Categories:
ascribed, family, son, love,
Form:
Free verse
Celebrating 50:Xxiv
DISTILLED JAMAICAN ANTHEM
Eternal Father Bless Our Land
we dare to move from plantation puppets to freedom
and we who had no voice to speak before must find
in ourselves a deeper than the echo of words design
bless o...
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Categories:
ascribed, anniversary, hope, inspirational, father, light, father, light,
Form:
Rhyme
For Quincy Mac
Like a missile I endeavor to send out these ill words that meet,
Skilled while the earth is grounded to my feet,
Onset I blend together sweet sounds using the alphabet,
No regrets what so ever, a gift...
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Categories:
ascribed, meaningful, mentor, smart, uplifting, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Garden of Eden
In this Garden, Eve took on the omnipotent
knowing she lacks power to eat the forbidden fruit.
Her bite was great, as she tasted the fruit that
she offers to Adam, to do the same.
God told Adam...
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Categories:
ascribed, change, conflict, family, fruit, future, garden, gender,
Form:
Couplet