Long Centre Poems
Long Centre Poems. Below are the most popular long Centre by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Centre poems by poem length and keyword.
Hitchhiker From Another World 4“Come on, let's get introduced to my play mate in a palm.
Linda, these are Joshua’s true other selfs.”
Lelia emitting a peculiar chuckle.
A comic situation arose where I changed my voice for each of my...
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Categories:
centre, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration, character, emotions, environment,
Form:
Prose
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:
centre, abuse, child abuse,
Form:
Epic
Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
centre, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
centre, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
centre, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Cooperative FeministasCooperative Feministas
are not quite so much Competitive Manifestos.
In David Holmgren's introduction to Permacultural Therapeutic Design,
he contrasts "Industrial Culture" with "Sustainable Culture"
kind of like comparing masculine LeftBrain culture
with feminist RightBrain enculturation, nurturance, resonance
over the longer-term scenaria,
rather...
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Categories:
centre, anti bullying, caregiving, destiny, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Villanelle: No Man Can On His Own Escape Written Fate, For Thiru-ValluvarVillanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate
For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of
the THIRUK-KURAL
Note: In my previous posts, especially on Canto 38, I...
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Categories:
centre, beauty, character, creation, god, identity, truth,
Form:
Villanelle
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:
centre, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Classified Part FourI was hungry and headed to one of the tents that had been set up as a field kitchen and noticed Tim who came over to talk to me , he said that he was...
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Categories:
centre, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
Inside the Great Halls of Us
“Inside the Great Halls of Us”
Inside
The Great Halls of Us,
there resides a ghost
IT hides in plain sight,
waiting quietly, alone,
in our dark
there, IT holds ITs light,
to draw us further in,
we nervously laugh IT...
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Categories:
centre, i am, science fiction, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Daily Star Tuesday IssueThe daily star Tuesday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2023
regarding ray zing planetary earthlings
Wednesday, June twenty first
at 10:57 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year for
people...
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Categories:
centre, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful, creation, england, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Strange Creatures and the Forest of Egregore
“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore”
Where do we go -
when our rosebuds
stop still in the cold,
unwanted,
along the unopened road?
we walk into the
forest alone,
there we meet
strange creatures -
some say
they...
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Categories:
centre, dark, light, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
MarlinoTwo, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas,
Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees,
Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue.
Where sun burns softer gringo skin, but...
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Categories:
centre, fish, fishing, sea,
Form:
Narrative
The Twin Towers Disaster Or a True Friend Part 1Touching my hand was a wet doggy.
Whatever my fate was going to be,
My dog, my hero would be with me,
If he was in terror it did not show,
I was the weak one that I know.
With...
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Categories:
centre, poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing EpigramsUNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers
The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.
« I don’t love you ! I hated your father ! » - must...
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Categories:
centre, art, humor, irony, women, word play,
Form:
Epigram
How Huxley Sees the World
"How Huxley Sees the World"
He composes his world -
dream extractions
simulated from
the surreal reality of man
colour cognitive from the dead moments
we phantomise to life in sleep
electric light colour bursts forth
from a perspective unique
a hare...
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Categories:
centre, art, future, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
The CallThe Call
For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I had good or bad news, it was just natural for...
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Categories:
centre, angst, blessing, courage, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
The Game of HockeyThe Game of Hockey
By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed by Canadians since 1875,
When the game was first played, on...
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Categories:
centre, hockey, sports,
Form:
Verse
Beginnings EndingsBeginnings – Endings
Out of the darkest reaches of time and space
came molten minerals, gasses, rocks, comets
– life traversing aeons, in suspended animation
across millions of light years, billions of desolate miles
creating unseen universe after universe,
creating unseen...
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Categories:
centre, history, planet, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Translation With Commentary of On Est Les Oublies By T WignesanTranslation of « On est les oubliés » (They/We are the neglected and forgotten lot)
by the songster-poet Gauvin SERS
(For the last two years, this young unassuming Frenchman, full of verve and disarming airs has been...
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Categories:
centre, 4th grade, anger, children, city, school, song,
Form:
Free verse
Trial of Red and White FireCenturies ago
In ancient Hermopolis
A debate roared loud
Between a proud Christian priest
And a strange shepherd
Who was a Manichaean
Wearing ragged clothes
And who was looking for sheep
“Flames will consume you”
The priest roared at the shepherd
Because their debate
Was going...
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Categories:
centre, beautiful, fire, religion, religious, spiritual, symbolism, visionary,
Form:
Choka
Diary Notes: Another Day Sets In ParisDIARY NOTES : Mad-House Maths
March 30th., 2018 - Another day sets in Paris
The home-bound Octogenarian trundles from the Mall's town centre
Back laden with the day's shopping
His hands numb from clutching load-packed plastic bags during the...
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Categories:
centre, abuse, french, inspirational, judgement, life, violence,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan
(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms,...
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Categories:
centre, england, poetry, political, power,
Form:
Free verse
Legacy of PenangBack in 1962 when I was just a lad
my dad gave me a holiday
the best I ever had.
A holiday of every dream
that one lifetime could hold
so listen while this wondrous time
to you I now...
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Categories:
centre, culture, father, food, friendship, introspection, paradise, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Conceits
"Conceits"
Such conceits
as veils between
our windowed worlds
torn torrential incomplete
mayst thou watch and learn
the one I spawned,
strength beats weakness
carried soft and harsh
one direction or the other
strength and weakness
both carried soft and harsh
ego and...
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Categories:
centre, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse