Long Auden Poems
Long Auden Poems. Below are the most popular long Auden by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Auden poems by poem length and keyword.
Epigrams VEpigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
auden, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Poems About Poems IPoems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.
Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch
“What will you conceive in...
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Categories:
auden, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
State of the Art IiState of the Art (II)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~~underwater~~~~
watching the shoreline...
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Categories:
auden, muse, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's 28th Legal: Letter Jan 2, 1966 By T WignesanEric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)
January 2,...
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Categories:
auden, america, art, creation, culture, music, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Harvest InfernoTake me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf thunder,
What happened to your breath baby brother,
what happened in...
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Categories:
auden, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic
Today I Will Wander To the Brotheltoday i will wander to the brothel
those divine friends of Jesus
where i will intercourse
with the ladies in my growing Spanish
write some lines to ponder
while they wash clothes and bathe
i the balneologist with the brandy
we watch...
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Categories:
auden, anger, death of a friend, forgiveness, friend,
Form:
Free verse
A Search, a Quest For a Lost Paradise - a Collaboration With Susan AshleyA Search, A Quest For A Lost Paradise -
a collaboration with Susan Ashley
I will take flight, into another zone
how far off to wander 'tis now not known
no regret, as dear point is to be...
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Categories:
auden, art, beauty, color, dream, growth, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
A Search, a Quest For a Lost Paradise - a Collaboration With Robert LindleyI will take flight, into another zone
how far off to wander 'tis now not known
no regret, as dear point is to be free
beyond sadness, into a joyful sea
to a purple land, a paradise realm
I hopeful...
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Categories:
auden, appreciation, beauty, freedom, imagination, innocence, journey, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
In Response To My First Poem - For Contest'The Journey'
Sight.
Sound.
Smell.
Taste.
The trains,
the tracks,
the rush, the haste.
The sweeties and toffees,
newspapers and coffees,
Cases and bags, e-cigs and fags,
pasty and tanned, iphone in hand,
The people who come and the people who go
and the Taxis that wait, as...
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Categories:
auden, journey, travel,
Form:
I do not know?
Epigrams IiiSpeechless at Auschwitz
by Ko Un
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
At Auschwitz
piles of glasses
mountains of shoes ...
returning, we stared out different windows.
Ko Un speaks for all of us, by not knowing what to say about the...
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Categories:
auden, humor, literature, philosophy, poems, satire, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Poems For Poets VPROFESSOR POETS
These are poems about professor poets and other “intellectuals” who miss the main point of poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of emotion as well as meaning.
Professor...
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Categories:
auden, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Icarus, ResurrectedFinally to Burn: Icarus, Resurrected
by Michael R. Burch
Athena takes me
sometimes by the hand
and we go levitating
through strange Dreamlands
where Apollo sleeps
in his dark forgetting
and Passion seems
like a wise bloodletting
and all I remember
upon awaking
is: to Love sometimes
is...
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Categories:
auden, desire, dream, fantasy, flying, god, joy, magic,
Form:
Verse
Poems For Poets XPOEMS FOR POETS X
US Verse, after Auden
by Michael R. Burch
“Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.”
Verse has small value in our Unisphere,
nor is it fit for windy revelation.
It cannot legislate less...
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Categories:
auden, poems, poetry, poets, rose,
Form:
Rhyme
Our Enemies In Disguise****OUR ENEMIES IN DISGUISE***
Norman MacClain wrote, "it is those we live and love, and should know, who loot us"
But whether we like it or not they exist
For some are endowment
And others we got after birth
As...
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Categories:
auden, betrayal, jealousy,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poets IiPoems about Poets
Elemental
by Michael R. Burch
for and after Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea...
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Categories:
auden, art, inspiration, muse, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Thank You All and a Very Merry Christmas
Just wanted to say a very big thank you to all you amazing poets who took the time to comment
on my last post ‘Sunny Horizons’
I would have loved to thank each and every one...
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Categories:
auden, appreciation,
Form:
Prose
I Was Listening To Levertov Readi was listening to Levertov read
one of her poems
and as she spoke my mind drifted
her words were of those moments
when manunkind sinks its' teeth
into the bowels of the earth
rapes untold but well known
riches for itself
my...
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Categories:
auden, poets,
Form:
Free verse
One LineONE LINE
I’m remembering a class I taught at
Bohank Business School,
Poetry 101 –
The grading papers chore,
The mental anguish,
God. what a bore!
It seems that President Swink fancied himself
gifted
In the...
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Categories:
auden, teacher,
Form:
Free verse
RequiredOh final stanza
Title yet required
Men of mice
Oh Sancho Panza
O Wilde
Oh Auden juicy bone clock
Oh vagueties of meaning
Speak unto me in visions
of language only i may understand
Feed me grool as spaghetti soup
Until i plead please Sir,
May...
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Categories:
auden, crazy,
Form:
Free verse
Poet Visitors In the Night
Poet Visitors in the Night
Asleep, I was, under my new forest green
velvet and Sherpa throw.
With loving stockings to...
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Categories:
auden, dream, encouraging, motivation, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Photographs of WystanAbove: Wystan in fancy dress
as a beetle -1912
Photographs of Wystan
One of the world's
greatest poets
in a pose, similar
to an Anne Gedde's baby
Balancing beetle antennae
his head at an angle
a satin suit padded to
emulate the chest
of ...
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Categories:
auden, books, poets,
Form:
Free verse
A Don Quixote and a Sancho PanzaTough time – the economic crisis for a short period
Sometimes for the five members there’ll be a few bread.
Mother would declare she'd already her share of bread
“I was soo……. hungry, I had mine” she would...
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Categories:
auden, inspirational,
Form:
Verse
A Don Quixote and a Sancho Panza-WTough time – the economic crisis for a short period
Sometimes for the five members there’ll be few bread.
Mother would declare she'd already her share of bread
“I was soo……. hungry, I had mine” she would add.
Dad,...
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Categories:
auden, life,
Form:
Couplet
Us Verse, After AudenUS Verse, after Auden
by Michael R. Burch
"Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful." - W. H. Auden
Verse has small value in our Unisphere,
nor is it fit for windy revelation.
It cannot legislate...
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Categories:
auden, beautiful, Lullaby, song, together, universe, voice, writing,
Form:
Verse
The Budding SoulThe shadows from his younger days shake his resolve,
and make a mockery of time 'til time be lost
to moments of bewilderment, ne'er to evolve,
they bounce and bluster errantly, much to his cost....
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Categories:
auden, tribute, writing, , literature,
Form:
Verse