Long Attain Poems
Long Attain Poems. Below are the most popular long Attain by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Attain 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:
attain, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Medieval PoemsMedieval Poems
How Long the Night
anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 13th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts
with the mild pheasants' song ...
but now I feel the northern...
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Categories:
attain, allegory, bible, christian, england, london, nostalgia, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Chaucer Translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
attain, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
The Bone Idol[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...
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Categories:
attain, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
attain, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
With the Lord - the Magic 9 Style~ With The Lord ~
( Magic 9 )
~O~
With Jesus we can all attain salvation, all
He reinforces all the good and great things that I know
He picks me up for...
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Categories:
attain, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
attain, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Forever Forgive MeForever forgive me
For my one and only iniquity
Please forgive me
With forbearance eternally
Lots of anger and lust
Got a hold of me…
So, I must...oh, I must…
Set my soul free
Forever forgive me
Determine my footsteps to the light
Emotionally unhappy
Intervene...
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Categories:
attain, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, longing, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Canto Xxi Hell TranslationSo bridge to bridge, of other things speaking
Of which my comedy does not take care,
We walked; and reached the top, when seeking
For watching the next slit, then we stopped there
Malebolge to see and crying vain;
And...
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Categories:
attain, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
attain, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Canto Xvii Hell Translation“Here the fierce with the thin pointed tail,
Who passes mountains and breaks arms and walls!
Here who with stench can the world assail!”
So my duke started to talk with his calls;
And hinted then it to get...
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Categories:
attain, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Brave New World(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...
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Categories:
attain, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
Life Is Like That Extent Live That Moto Full Extent -Life is like that extent
Live that moment
to full extent...
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Categories:
attain, education, life, love,
Form:
Bio
TranmutationWritten 12 December 2023
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
...
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Categories:
attain, humanity, life, men, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Never AloneA young girl who’s lost & wandering in the darkness cries out
“If there’s a God out there please save me!”
The darkness replied with silence
But she kept listening so intently to the nothingness around her,
Clenching and...
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Categories:
attain, anxiety, betrayal, bullying, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy GrowthShame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.
Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...
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Categories:
attain, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Resurrected HeroeRESURRECTION OF A HEROE:
CHORUS:
Far from comparison, far from fear.
Failure part of the journey; shed no tears.
Man...do... the best you can do.
Talents in your hand's only for you.
No body cares...what you goes through;
When you succeed,...
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Categories:
attain, beautiful, beauty, hero,
Form:
Lyric
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 11In a sudden nodding shift,
I was lifted into the air by the hard wings of the Devil
His putrid stench waking me from what seemed all dream
And upon a balcony of singed vine and blackened soot,
He...
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Categories:
attain, age, analogy, crazy, growth, life, light, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Excuse Me OperatorExcuse me operator,
I think I’ve been disconnected,
To a neurotic world that's seemed to lose its senses,
A ceaseless quest of life questions,
Where are all of these transcending fairytales and esoteric answers?
I am feeling like it’s...
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Categories:
attain, courage, inspirational, passion, perspective, society, truth,
Form:
Epic
The Mountain of Knowledge:In my opinion, one goal in life is to reach the summit of the mountain of knowledge.
But we all seem to be in a rush to attain this, and all following the same path that...
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Categories:
attain, analogy, bird, mountains,
Form:
Narrative
Impossible Mission To Sleep On Opposite Side of Marital BedImpossible mission to sleep on opposite side of marital bed...
Oddly enough even
when frolicking in the autumn mist
with seasoned super tramping
cheaply tricked out goo goo dolls
some resembling Indigo Girls,
one foo fighting beastie boy
unable to...
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Categories:
attain, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Temporary TravellersNA Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Ink Empress
Temporary Travellers
...
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Categories:
attain, faith, god, humanity, inspirational, men, spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain
K169 and K170 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and CommentaryK169 and K170 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary
[If one could put together all that has been said, written and published on the Thiruk-Kural and on its progenitor Thiru-Valluvar, it could...
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Categories:
attain, bible, evil, hate, jealousy, people, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
Purge Our ConsciencesFrom my lowly bachelor’s house
Proudly christened ‘Embassy Fair’
I woke up to the chirping of birds
On the trees above and across the vale
And the riverine bushes in-between
I woke up to the crowing of cocks
And the mooing...
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Categories:
attain, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Olympic Desires Born, Gods A'Playing(1.)
Olympic Desires Born, Gods A'playing
Poseidon arose, trident a'gleaming.
Mermaids danced, fallen hair a'streaming.
Olympic desires born, Gods a'playing
Mighty Zeus often on earth a'staying
There below mortals stopped a'praying
Hades play, man's evil a'repaying!
Poseidon arose, trident a'gleaming.
Mermaids danced, fallen hair...
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Categories:
attain, appreciation, art, creation, jealousy, mythology, repetition, war,
Form:
Rhyme