Long Capturing Poems
Long Capturing Poems. Below are the most popular long Capturing by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Capturing poems by poem length and keyword.
Earthy EmpathyYou've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.
Not so distant from,
I...
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Categories:
capturing, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Cocoon
"Cocoon"
They say...
a New World
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind
the old unaware,
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect
strings of silk
in the air
glistening diamond nets
slick and sticky...
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Categories:
capturing, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 36I sung all the night with the Devil,
It seemed harmony had found itself spooning with dissonance
Not indeed needing to be one or the same
Yes—the light indeed could sustain itself in the midst
Of what then was...
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Categories:
capturing, appreciation, dark, desire, endurance, inspiration, literature, meaningful,
Form:
Epic
One Thing That Love IsEverything here is true
Just as stated
because it's already happened
or - it has yet to occur -
but it's very soon to occur
and I have such strong feeling
that the future will be as I see it
as...
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Categories:
capturing, dog, love, memory, sad,
Form:
Free verse
In My Beautiful BalloonWith summer nearly gone, we all wanted to do something special,
And decided it should be daring, rather than the usual and dull.
So, we listed the things we desired to do, but hadn't yet tried,
And we...
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Categories:
capturing, adventure, beauty, fantasy, lost, miracle, nature, prayer,
Form:
Couplet
The Cascade Adventures - Part 1It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. Been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals, having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald pine trees,...
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Categories:
capturing, adventure, friend, mountains, nature, snow,
Form:
Haibun
Cascade Adventures --- Pt 1It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. I've been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals and having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald...
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Categories:
capturing, adventure, beauty, childhood, confidence, fun, mountains, nature,
Form:
Haibun
Lusting Abyss, His Darkness
Lusting Abyss, his Darkness.
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Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands desiring what he sees
In front of him stands a virgin pure as the driven snow
For white he knows it is, upon she his darkness...
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Categories:
capturing, love, peace, people, places, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Lusting Abyss, His Darkness
Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands, desiring what he sees
In front of him stands a virgin, pure as the driven snow
For white he knows it is, upon she his darkness will show
Long haired...
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Categories:
capturing, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Light of the WorldThere is an author, a creator, a maker of the LIGHT ...
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Categories:
capturing, god, jesus, light,
Form:
Free verse
China Tour ThoughtsChina Tour Diary Moment #1
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KUNMING THOUGHTS
Sunday morning flight to Kunming city;
East bound to explore vignettes of China;
New vistas to sight, postcard memories;
Feast visual galore on tour agenda.
Yunnan province greets our earthly landing;
Brisk clearance and we...
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Categories:
capturing, blessing,
Form:
Rhyme
African DreamIt must have been the darkest, deepest fate time create,
People saw and forgot the impact when history intervened.
We forgive and endure, but our minds will not forget
The Bizarre world trying to suppress our African...
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Categories:
capturing, africa, allusion, character, dream, future, history, people,
Form:
Ballad
Disintegrating ApostacyIntegrity of Healthy Wealth
You have heard it said
Turn your swords into plowshares.
We, both Left and Right, echo that to add
Turn from planting bombs and bullets and barbs
to planting trees, and shrubs and carbon-infested fibers.
If our...
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Categories:
capturing, beauty, earth day, health, history, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Alternative Facts With FeelingsI guess it never was
The way I thought it was
I say this only just because
You never came to love
I guess it wasn't so
Guess that's how the story goes
You didn't dig my flow
You didn't dig my...
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Categories:
capturing, culture, earth day, happiness, health, heart, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
The Will To Survive
"The Will to Survive"
It was a peaceful time
back then in the dreams
that were once
our prepossessing future.
sands of time
dragged under our bare feet
while the crystal clean warm ocean
of life that once was,...
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Categories:
capturing, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The Difference In the Stories We Want To TellOhh I could have sat with my heart
--elevated with dribbled echoes--
ahhhhhh until it yet exhaled the tarnished seams
capturing only the quiet current lapping
and soaking dirty steel embankment
along the river’s edge beneath the...
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Categories:
capturing, death of a friend, music, nostalgia, river,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Bright Eyes PotdI so adored late hours. I was what you would call a night owl,
As fireflies seldom appear, until creamy moon is on the prowl.
I loved the quiet and peacefulness, and staring at a big moon,
Just...
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Categories:
capturing, fantasy, imagery, nature, night, sick, sleep,
Form:
Couplet
This Is Real LovePainting my thoughts in bold, vibrant hues –
Lavender and cobalt, scarlet and gold – all the beautiful
Found in the music, the poem, the art – unfolding
On a heart who believes, this life truly is a...
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Categories:
capturing, appreciation, christian, faith, hope, inspirational love, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Always a DreamA little fairy princess one day sits resting on a most beautiful sunflower,
And magically she begins stretching her wings for anticipatory flight
While capturing a vision assortment of most bright flying colors,
Of one gentle and...
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Categories:
capturing, allegory, beauty, celebration, emotions, fantasy, i love
Form:
Narrative
Always a DreamAlways a Dream
A little fairy princess one day sits resting on a most beautiful sunflower,
And magically she begins stretching her wings for anticipatory flight
While capturing a vision assortment of most bright flying colors,
Of...
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Categories:
capturing, dance, desire, fairy, love, romance, romantic,
Form:
Narrative
Holiday High JinxOr catching up with the holidays… They’re a great family treat, for all to see…
In the summer Dragon catches lightening bugs, and thinks they promise us fireworks.
In the fall Dragon catches Lady Bugs in the...
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Categories:
capturing, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
IvoryIt's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop...
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Categories:
capturing, appreciation, blessing, extended metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Blood and StainsThere is a sadness in her smile,
a sorrow that conceals itself within
the curl of the corner of her lips.
It's like watching someone discover
the
small good in a series of bad
memories.
There, she sits,...
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Categories:
capturing, psychological
Form:
Prose
What Do I SeeWhat do I see when I drive through my old neighborhood?
Not the familiar cookie cutter houses or the elementary school I attended with my friends. Instead…
I see my ten-year-old self clad in saddle oxford shoes...
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Categories:
capturing, 12th grade, childhood, friend, friendship, memory, youth,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Osyter Orchestra
Written: April 18, 2024
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within a shore
...
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Categories:
capturing, analogy, love, sea,
Form:
Other