Long Asp Poems
Long Asp Poems. Below are the most popular long Asp by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Asp poems by poem length and keyword.
The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 2
"The Swoon Hypothesis" - Part 2
Arimathea stands next to you and I on the deck, soon we are back in Nazareth, you press into my palm,
“A very rare Dubunni coin” you say - on...
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Categories:
asp, imagery, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
The following fictitious scenario I evokeThe following fictitious scenario I evoke
Analogous to fire breathing
puffed up imaginary dragon
(in a land called Honah Lee)
ye might rightly think
what the deuce
haunting spectre ace of spades
goodfella aiming to be a poet all about,
meaning...
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Categories:
asp, adventure, age, america, angel, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Why What Reason Have IOften times I wonder if I may have missed
a greater calling or purpose in my life.
As a young man I was frivolous and non-sensical
when it came to asking the most important questions:
“Why am I...
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Categories:
asp, allusion, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Alpine WindIt's too hot and humid for September!
Even dust specks descending in the room's sunlight
are beads of sweat running down my sides.
I bring pencil, crossword and ice tea
to this chair and table, these angled shutters,...
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Categories:
asp, humor, longing, weather,
Form:
Imagism
Memphis BelleI recall the day she journeyed to the delta from her village above the first cataphract with a New Kingdom attitude and an Old Kingdom strut, inspiring rumors to be passed from shadoof to shadoof...
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Categories:
asp, allegory,
Form:
Blank verse
Letter To Ronald Hull On His Comment On Diary Notes: Lament At DawnLETTER to RON" Diary Notes : Lament at Dawn - A Year Ago Yet Now No Change "
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
8/19/2018
"Quite a lament! The state of Paris at dawn. Just the thought of sewage seeping...
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Categories:
asp, conflict, immigration, paris, political, race, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Ravenous Eldritch Wrath a Collab With James FraserRAVENOUS ELDRITCH WRATH
The darkening skies in choir of wrath;
The wind brisk banging blows;
The withering of trees;
The falling twirling leaves;
The branches sudden irate tweak and split.
Giving way to the rushing threat of death
Will another candle die...
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Categories:
asp, holiday, horror, imagery,
Form:
Verse
Ravenous Eldritch Wrath a Collab With Olive Eloisa GuillermoRAVENOUS ELDRITCH WRATH
The darkening skies in choir of wrath;
The wind brisk banging blows;
The withering of trees;
The falling twirling leaves;
The branches sudden irate tweak and split.
Giving way to the rushing threat of death
Will another candle die...
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Categories:
asp, angst, dance, dark, death, gothic, halloween, horror,
Form:
Verse
A Summer Re: Follicular Fall Out Can Spring a Heady WinterThy scalp thoroughly massaged during hair washing,
after showering (frequently tapping the cold water faucet –
in an effort to ramp up brisk temperature tolerance),
an immediate process to shake out matted down hairs
follows...
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Categories:
asp, absence, anger, angst, anxiety, emotions, hair, how
Form:
Free verse
The Sad Farmer - a Rhyme Attemptthere flies a bird as white as life,
an ugly, peaceful dove,
which carries darkness in its beak,
the poem wroth with love:
the farmer wakes at morning,
weak with pain and ache;
there's no peace in...
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Categories:
asp, angst, anxiety, death, longing, loss, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Needle HouseThe Needle’s House
Waiting For the Third Time Out
Arabic Poem by: Salah Hassan *
Translated into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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Between me and me there is a civil war!
It’s my war...
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Categories:
asp,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Wandering Boy With a Song In His PocketA Wandering Boy with a Song in His Pocket (Part I)
Arabic Poem by: Salman Dawood Mohammed
Translated into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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A blaze
Sticking out
Its tongue
At firefighters
That’s what love is!
***
(2)
Do you remember my soul,
When...
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Categories:
asp,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Woman Made of DewA Woman Made of Dew
Arabic Poem By: Falah Al-Shabender*
Translated into English By
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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From the vastness of my heart,
My thought, the embers of my blood,
And the child in me,
That is a child bigger...
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Categories:
asp,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Iraqi AchingIraqi Aching
Arabic Poem By: Saddam Fahd. Al-Asadi*
Translated into English By
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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For Iraq I slaughtered the silence in my pen
For Iraq I fended fear off my words
And for Iraq, I would smother the...
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Categories:
asp,
Form:
Prose Poetry
No Sin For a MirrorNo Sin for a Mirror
Arabic Poem by: Habib Al-Samir*
Translated Into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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In a room,
Bordered by the sun on the right
And the moon on the left,
A mirror stands
On a smooth wall
Exposing or concealing...
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Categories:
asp,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Sky of WaterA Sky of Water
Arabic Poem By: Falah Al-Shabender*
Traslate By
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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A sky of water
Doesn't blaze in a glance;
It follows us, as we head towards it,
Fraying its essence,
And transcending in its mysteries;
Emptiness .....
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Categories:
asp,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Tree of DescentThe Tree of Descent
Arabic poem by: Saad Yassin Yousuf *
Translated into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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As she descended from her paradise,
She said :
Oh Lord, choose a land for me
Where I would...
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Categories:
asp,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Entrance Into the Garden of Eden An Exit Oft Repeated In Four ActsEntrance into the Garden of Eden
An Exit Oft Repeated in Four Acts
By Sy Roth
Act 1—Somnolence
Smells of winter tickle a warm sun.
Crisp air,
Red, brown and yellow leaves,
Thrust the trees aside for their impending sleep.
They...
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Categories:
asp, anxiety, character, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Ashen AqualungDaddy's specter plectrums mercilessly
Fraying my nerves raw
with oxidized guitar strings.
my thoughts relentlessly hemorrhage
onto clay vinyl grooves
s p i n n i n g
endless nights
of
suffocation.
a midnight jazz wail
lacerates
the void of your absence.
notes gnaw through bone marrow
ravenous...
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Categories:
asp, abuse, father son, mental health, music,
Form:
Free verse
Dance of Unity and DiversityNote: This poem was translated from Persian to English by the author on Feb. 13, 2025.
By: Moji Agha (Mojtaba Aghamohammadi)
Dec. 22, 2021
Colorado, U.S.
Dance of Unity and Diversity
O' unity, how beautifully hidden you have become,
deep inside...
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Categories:
asp, age, beauty, color, dance, humanity, love, universe,
Form:
Free verse
I Can'T BreatheThe last of me is drowning deep in agony
A packaged denied arrest paints a felony
Isn't it crazily funny?
We live together in harmony
Whereas urgent attention couldn't rescue the saga
From this skillful kneel aga
Whose...
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Categories:
asp, abuse, adventure, africa, america, art, betrayal, bullying,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cold Embrace of DeathHeinous are the horrors in the rages of war
after it makes its purchase of pawns.
Brave are those following orders with a salute.
Some will never see their homeland again
for the reach of the reaper is...
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Categories:
asp, angst, death, fear,
Form:
Elegy
In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be FateIn Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate
Life, its complexity truly astounds
astounds this old soul so sadly earthbound
earthbound but not without imagined flight
flight into blue heavens's glimmering night.
Night of ill winds that beggars disbelief
disbelief...
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Categories:
asp, appreciation, art, conflict, corruption, evil, meaningful, war,
Form:
Sonnet
The Kensington Rune StoneExhilaration runs thorough every pore.
With time’s wisdom, my doubts have vacated,
My eyes have opened like never before.
New discoveries keep me elated.
The Kensington rune stone I learned today
May have been carried by the Norse blood line,
Along...
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Categories:
asp, education, history, inspirational, life, mystery, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Trees of a Dreary AutumnTrees of a Dreary Autumn
Arabic poem by: Saad Yassin Yousuf*
Translated into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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At a light
Said to be "dawn" We got to the shoulder of the Sea book;
Our wrecked boats were floating...
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Categories:
asp, autumn, death, emotions, grief, sad, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry