Long Captain Poems
Long Captain Poems. Below are the most popular long Captain by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Captain poems by poem length and keyword.
Medieval Poems IiiMedieval Poems
Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...
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Categories:
captain, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Millie's Christmas WishMillie's Christmas Wish
Winter Vacation was coming
The kids were all set
They were thinking of Christmas
And the gifts they would get
But, Millie sat waiting
Thinking of nothing but snow
Watching the class clock
That was moving so slow
They did arts...
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Categories:
captain, 5th grade, adventure, america, childhood, christmas,
Form:
Epic
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
captain, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar TranslationSweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
captain, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
Lifeboat the SinkingAs to the this and the that and the how and the why,
I pass no judgement on the tale at hand.
And leave it to scribes to much later decide
...
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Categories:
captain, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Dont Know What Lies Ahead - the Monchielle Style~ Don't Know What Lies Ahead ~
( Monchielle )
~O~
Don't know what lies ahead
What will happen tomorrow
So each day just enjoy
Thank God for all...
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Categories:
captain, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Childhood Dreams Part 2The three little pigs came to the ball
Tried to blow the castle down
It didn’t work
It was made of solid gold
So they gave up and sat at their trough
Ate noisily
And snorted quite a lot
They...
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Categories:
captain, childhood, cinderella, dream, mum,
Form:
Free verse
The Alaskan Oil PipelineThe Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
captain, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah
His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...
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Categories:
captain, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
Rush Amid the Rapids PublishedThe greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
captain, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
Wall StreetSet upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth. The meek children bending over for millennium, taken spankings of...
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Categories:
captain, political, slam, social, war, war, world, lost,
Form:
Epic
Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or BeastMoby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne....
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Categories:
captain, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The First Thanksgiving, September 3, 1578The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578)
The shortest distance to Cathay 1
(Land of riches: silks, teas and spices)
Lay to the north to the South Sea. 2
Didn’t Barlow tell the King, 3
Was reserved for England.
The routes ‘round...
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Categories:
captain, education, history, holiday, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day, voyage,
Form:
Verse
Film NoirFilm Noir
By the lampost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from...
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Categories:
captain, remember,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Reflections By Commodore John Barry“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.” Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of...
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Categories:
captain, adventure, autumn, dedication, history, longing, military, sea,
Form:
Epic
Personal WorthPersonal Worth
Everyone has value. Everyone has been called for such a time as this to use their unique gifts and experiences to serve others and to serve God. But what are those gifts? And...
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Categories:
captain, spoken word, sympathy, words, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Film NoirFilm Noir
By the lamppost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from...
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Categories:
captain, forgiveness, i love you,
Form:
Ballade
Defecation accidentally cloggedDefecation accidentally clogged...
for the umpteenth time
during spate to sit scrawny buttucks
on porcelain throne id est
videre licet toilet bowl...
with toxic water brew threatening
to overflow onto the floor,
and hence found yours truly (me)
immersing himself...
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Categories:
captain, adventure, analogy, angel, blessing, december, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Legend of the Red October RunDedicated to the 2000 National College Football Champions, the Oklahoma Sooners
--------------------------------------------------------------
Over fifty years, boy and man, I’ve been a Sooners fan
Watched and reveled in their glories, every one;
But there’s no more glorious “Sooner Magic”...
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Categories:
captain, adventure, autumn, desire, football, games, heart, history,
Form:
Rhyme
MonofilamaniaIt is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.
It sharks,
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy inches
in and out:
casting,
winding in and playing out,
hardly fishing, rarely catching
anything
from...
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Categories:
captain, allegory, passion, woman, memory, sea, fish, lust,
Form:
Free verse
The Job - Part 2On the plane I meditated or at least I tried to. Most of the time I get a seat to myself. These days it’s just a ****ing Greyhound in the sky. I...
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Categories:
captain, death, desire, first love,
Form:
Narrative
6535 SOUTH BISHOP CHICAGO HEAVENTHE UNSEEN TERROR BEHIND MY WEARING PREGNANT FOR THE FBI CHICAGO FIELD OFFICE LIVING AT 6535 SOUTH BISHOP CHICAGO WE LIVED ON THE FIRST FLOOR THE BUILDING OWNED BY PAPPA DUKES LONGTIME PILAR OF CHICAGO...
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Categories:
captain, allah,
Form:
Naat
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:
captain, community, education, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updatedCaptain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated
Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary
after Grahame Wood
determined to meet
the evolving needs of the community
opened the first Wawa Food Market
in Folsom,...
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Categories:
captain, america, anger, anniversary, april, baptism, birthday, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2PART 1: THE MEETING
Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met...
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Categories:
captain, fantasy,
Form:
Ballad