Long Claims Poems
Long Claims Poems. Below are the most popular long Claims by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Claims poems by poem length and keyword.
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
claims, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
claims, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]
SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...
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Categories:
claims, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Megan's Quest Part 1of7Moon sprites dotted the sky like lilies at dawn
in a ballet meant to cause nocturnal delight.
While Fairies and Pixie Dust covered the lawn
in a dance that would...
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Categories:
claims, adventure, courage, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
4 More Poems About Poetry - BWho hasn't this nightmare of forgetting an inspirational word or phrase happened to?
...
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Categories:
claims, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Why I Don'T Trust Psychics - 2nd ThirdNOTE: This is the 2nd THIRD of a funny 3-part piece. No other way to post it due to file size limitations. It's a really fun poem, and I hope you'll take the time...
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Categories:
claims, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Earth's Humane Rights To Healthy ClimatesIn 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
proposing Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human...
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Categories:
claims, culture, earth, environment, health, nature, political, prejudice,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Tiny Town Events - 1st Half -- Text With IllustrationNOTE: THIS IS ONLY THE 1st half of this piece-- its 2nd half is posted separately due to Poetry Soup's poem-lengths-limitation. Be sure to check out the balance of this poem = "Tiny Town Events"...
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Categories:
claims, love,
Form:
Narrative
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:
claims, america, art, creation, culture, music, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Canto Xvi Hell By DanteAlready I reached the place where heard the sound
Of falling water in the circle next
Suchlike the rumble done by hives around,
When three spirits together changed their treks,
Running, out of an horde just passing there
Under...
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Categories:
claims, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Adopting YuaThe dust had all but settled from the sultry morning air when Sergeant Kessler tapped me on the arm to wake me up.
“Gonna be a hot one,” he announced, “a chance o’ rain...and could get...
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Categories:
claims, child, daughter, inspirational, inspirational love, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Truth Is All An Act In Government ExposedOne small little country which houses
one of the highest paid governments
in this modern world joke ran upside down
A big part of our life existing reality
when the backbone is gone snakes appear with...
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Categories:
claims, betrayal, ireland, political, rights, society, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
With God's Help - the Goblet Style~ With God's Help ~
(The Goblet )
~O~
I'll just put on my best
Face and a nice Smile
Be Strong...
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Categories:
claims, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
God Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth - With New FootnotesGod Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth!
God Bless Each Day's Magnetic Field On Earth!
God bless each day's magnetic field on Earth (1) that shields the human race
from cosmic rays bombarding Earth and us (from...
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Categories:
claims, love, science, space,
Form:
Rhyme
MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART IMY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980
The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane, won't replace that particular memory of Mr. Rick Nelson's hearty...
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Categories:
claims, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form:
Narrative
The Legend of Justin Case - Both Audio and TextJustin Case - the weirdest guy in the all of Buxton county - did a lot o’ crazy things that most would never try,
And even weirder - just before he’d do the things he did...
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Categories:
claims, hilarious,
Form:
Narrative
The Holy Bible - the Quatern Style~ The Holy Bible ~
(Quatern)
It tells the beginning of man
How God created all from start
He made the moon, stars, earth, day, night
It tells of...
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Categories:
claims, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
AbnormaloriginalsSetting aside richly incorporated through homeless economies,
we have three political ways
to compare a population's internal status:
a. Aboriginal populations,
b. Immigrants--sometimes appearing as multiculturing creolic waves,
c. EmPowered Natives.
Natives are aboriginals
unless a more self-centered wave of supremacist immigrants
stake...
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Categories:
claims, betrayal, christian, health, humanity, humor, immigration, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Manic Depressive ClimatesDepression is like dying
without hope this process will end well,
without remediation
at least not for my closely held ego-identity,
and despair
this turning inward
creates a cocoon by avoiding outward.
Focal awareness of ego mortality,
immanent and emanant,
eminent,
turns inward,
returns...
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Categories:
claims, beauty, culture, depression, health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Magic Bagpipes and the Five Jelly TykesA Bagpipe am I,
My drones point to the sky!
I am magic they say, since the wizard ‘spelled’ on me that day.
He gave me the gift of immortal time,
I could travel through centuries,
T’was a gift.
It was...
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Categories:
claims, 5th grade, children, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
Freedom of the PressABOUT THE PRESS
The media, the press was established as an institution to fight for humanity and human right as well. To serve as a mediator between the people underground and the...
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Categories:
claims, freedom, , western,
Form:
Ballad
Why I Don'T Trust Psychics - 3rd ThirdNOTE: This is the final THIRD of a funny 3-part poem. You'll find the 1st and 2nd parts on my homepage, of course. I hope you'll take the time to read the whole thing, it's...
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Categories:
claims, funny, humor, , western,
Form:
Narrative
I'Ve Been So Lucky In Life 1,2I’ve Been So Lucky in Life! (1&2)
(Only Raped 5 Times Metaphorically)
Poem’s Introduction
My poetry has always been about transparency. It’s about letting go of an effort to be liked by others, and allowing others to gravitate...
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Categories:
claims, abuse, angst, faith, humor, love, pain,
Form:
Rhyme
It's Not Too LateOne seat back from where I sat in almost every class was where this wimpy, red-haired nerd, I’d hated from the start,
Made a point of sitting, thinking - if he played it right - because...
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Categories:
claims, inspirational, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Gladiators FoughtPart I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night is throbbing with the heat of our battle,
our...
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Categories:
claims, passion, places,
Form:
Epic