Long Australian Poems
Long Australian Poems. Below are the most popular long Australian by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Australian poems by poem length and keyword.
Summer
“SUMMER”
Where
has Summer
gone?
The world
has lost
Summer
Sweet
little
dream
missing
all those other
beautiful
small dreams
seen as toys
small and
inconsequential
casually tossed aside,
disposable play,
things
pure shining lights
smiling eyes once so bright,
switched off,
'neath...
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Categories:
australian, abuse, child abuse,
Form:
Epic
Salvage
"Salvage"
Salvage the fixating salvation
unfurling from the wreckage
of a numb world twisted inside
treasure climbs swimming
the ladder from the deep of all things
reaching upwards travelling in a new time
of melting morpheme moments overlapping
dissolved...
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Categories:
australian, muse, paradise, poets,
Form:
Romanticism
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiiJuvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...
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Categories:
australian, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Territory TrampleHeadlights messaged through midnight windows
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning
Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...
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Categories:
australian, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form:
Bio
Starlight and MoonlightThese are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Will There Be Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Will there be starlight
tonight
while she gathers
damask
and lilac
and sweet-scented heathers?
And will she find...
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Categories:
australian, dark, dream, love, moon, night, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over
amber gold wild bush...
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Categories:
australian, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Human Rights Charter For Australian Aborigines By Oodgeroo NoonuccalLa Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan
Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme,
La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme
Du progrès pour les Noirs,...
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Categories:
australian, 3rd grade, abuse, discrimination, humanity, language, slavery,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Aroma PoetryMother nature oh! Rose of roses!
Mother of all flowers' and smell,
Ylang Ylang! You don't know what it causes!
An aphrodisiac turns you on like hell!
Sandalwood with its masculine warmth poses,
Rosemary clears the head, you can tell,
Peppermint...
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Categories:
australian, beauty, flower, rose, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Room 251 13 th March 2024Senate legal and constitutinal affairs reference committie convened
March 2022 one Senator presiding and two witnessing'
The room echoes as the warriors enter.! Almost equivelent to
The booming endorsements of the preceeding years yet ghostly
Sounding echies now.....
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Categories:
australian, community, education, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
ROBERT SHERRIFF Leonardo's ArtROBERT SHERRIFF 08/07/1954 - AUSTRALIAN - POET -AUTHOR - SINGER - ACTOR - AMERICAN HISTORIAN – PHOTOGRAPHER
Leonardo's Art
Leonardo da Vinci, a visionary of his time, was often likened to a grandmaster wielding a baton, orchestrating...
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Categories:
australian, age, art, heart, women,
Form:
Spoken Word
Angels of MercyAngles of Mercy
By
Kevin L Fairbrother
There is not to many of us that can say that the owe their existence on this earth to a Native in a Foreign country, in my case I can say...
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Categories:
australian, angel, father, memory, men,
Form:
Narrative
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
“Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
ghost gums
shed their bark
the min-min
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to
imprint and write
thoughts, like the
ripening welts of
green ants
small bites sting
subcutaneous and
meridional,
terra...
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Categories:
australian, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form:
Free verse
White the Lowest Sky
"White the Lowest Sky"
Cries the Lowest Sky
tear drops fed as manna
o’er the littlest warrior
face raised to ultra Light
The 3
that sit in Ultra Gamma
there cries the lowest Sky
the voice that ever hears you
Cries the...
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Categories:
australian, freedom, love, trust,
Form:
Free verse
Black Summer
I
Listen up and I’ll tell
you...
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Categories:
australian, fire, mythology, passion, sad love, truth,
Form:
Couplet
And Many ThoughtAND MANY THOUGHT WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE
Tell me child, what it was like so many years ago?
When as a young person you grew
In what we considered was times of uncertainty...
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Categories:
australian, war,
Form:
Free verse
Frozen Into DivorceThe end to our sixteen years love affair
he didn't even try to hold on to my love
did I ever mean anything after that single wedding day
was this just your easiest way to be free of...
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Categories:
australian, child, death, destiny, divorce, emotions, heartbreak, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Jessica Casey - Part 2 - Seven Years LaterJessica Casey the punters dream- Sequel to Shy Julie
They came from near - they came from far
Bus ferry and train and some by car
THE GOLDEN EGG GRAND FINAL
One greyhound in mind
Jessica Casey -The Select...
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Categories:
australian, family, feelings, humorous,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Exegesis
"Exegesis"
At 7 he was
thrown to the wolves
Bede marked his territory
hidden secrets
kept in the abbey
he escaped
went to war
where the unwanted trod
First regiment,
Vietnam
he took with him
like a comfort blanket
his Nicene creed and God
and on returning...
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Categories:
australian, father daughter, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
WeepThe year dear Callie - my best cat ever - fell victim to cancer,
she had lived 18 wonderful years
as queen of our house, for sweetly did that calico rule our hearts.
I’d realized too late her...
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Categories:
australian, angst,
Form:
Narrative
Robert Sherriff Reflections of PainRobert Sherriff - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer
Shadows to Light-Reader Advisory: The following narrative depicts domestic abuse and its aftermath. Proceed with care.
Reflections of Pain
When you're...
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Categories:
australian, 2nd grade, abuse, angel, anger, body, child
Form:
Bio
HimalayasHimalayas
Eons ago in the planet’s evolution,
During tectonic plate movement: 1
The Indian Island Ma moved northward
Crashing into the Eurasian continent,
To form the Himalayan mountains. 2
Out of the chaos, towering peaks arose,
Piercing heavenly soft, white cotton clouds,
Bursting...
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Categories:
australian, culture, education, environment, mountains, nature, planet,
Form:
Verse
Rod Andersons Speech Kerry ValleyRod Andersons
...
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Categories:
australian, abuse, anger, betrayal, corruption, courage, hate,
Form:
Free verse
Elly MayELLY MAY
poem by: Maria Williams
T'was the night before her birthday and Elly May
Still in the office putting stuff away
In her horn rimmed glasses and grey flannel suit
She was the epitome of perfection, the essence of...
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Categories:
australian, beautiful, beauty, body, career, change, confidence,
Form:
Light Verse
The Reedybrook AshesEach year in August the teams descend, cricket foe morphing quickly to friend,
Bonds are forged on a pitch unique, camped on the banks of Reedybrook creek.
The grass is cut, the fields set out, the...
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Categories:
australian, friendship, fun,
Form:
Ballad
Glass Throne - A Poem Collab with Ink Empress
Glass Throne – A Poem Collab with Ink Empress
Note:- Before diving into my Multi-media, Music video “Glass Throne”, I encourage you to first read the Lead Up poem below which is a collaboration with the...
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Categories:
australian, anti bullying, emotions, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme