Long Cloth Poems
Long Cloth Poems. Below are the most popular long Cloth by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Cloth poems by poem length and keyword.
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:
cloth, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
A Vain Word
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
cloth, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Oncle Albert - Part 1
Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats,
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple...
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Categories:
cloth, flying, history,
Form:
Narrative
Night Terrors
As I awakened to the night terrors again it's 3am. I know I'm being monitored in my own home Ciro Gargano installs cameras to watch my every movement in order to know when I write...
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Categories:
cloth, allah,
Form:
Rispetto
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Seven
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Seven
The Final Days: Rosalia’s Death and Destruction
In the wake of such evil, debauchery and depravity what can be said now in the case of...
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Categories:
cloth, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
A Chance Conversation At Osmers Hill 1999 Part 1
On a typical English day late June Joe travelled the above country road, his buisness was in the construction field, and this day he was estimating work as per customer enqiriy, this being the case...
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Categories:
cloth, appreciation,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 14
Joulupukki awoke early the next morning and hurriedly dressed. His intention was to catch DynDoeth before the crowds started gathering in the eating hall. He had but one question for him that he...
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Categories:
cloth, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
One Thing That Love Is
Everything 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:
cloth, dog, love, memory, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Sick Art
"Sick Art"
I walk the streets
still and quiet
I do not lie
I do not betray
what the heart belies
pickled kidneys
I am a ghost
of my former self
ears lent to hear
the sweet music
of the sounds so fraught
caught up...
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Categories:
cloth, dark, horror, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Differences You Say
Differences – you say !
I – me Lass – brave Helios, rides his golden chariot,
drawn by fiery Steeds, into the vastness of this universe.
These mighty Titans, dispatched – brilliant, glowing -
ruled, controlled the blueness...
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Categories:
cloth, friend, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 143-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: Prodigal Aquarius Paradise Restaurant
Date: September 2050
Damian stood at the front door
Ushering everybody out to the waiting
Limousine. "Come on my People
Be quick about it wifies!" Sidney
And Saderi were willing to go along
For the...
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Categories:
cloth, best friend, birth, husband,
Form:
Alliteration
Phobia's
Phobias
A Bluto is not that Disney dog
It was when a mewling
that I would scream
Should they wet my body
And then apply cream
Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Achluo the demon that lurks
In darkened...
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Categories:
cloth, on writing and words, hair, me, pain,
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems Ii - Bertolt Brecht
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems II - Bertolt Brecht
The Burning of the Books
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of dull oxen hauled...
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Categories:
cloth, books, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Babylonian Anthem
Thou, O king, hast made a decree,
that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer,
and all kinds of musick, shall fall
down and worship the golden image:
And whoso...
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Categories:
cloth, bible, patriotic, religious, truth,
Form:
Narrative
A King Lamenting
A king entered in a robe,
Clothed in a raiment of
Multitudous colors:
Vast and enormous is he,
Occupying matters of matters,
Spaces of Spaces.
His presence accomodates no vacuum.
Before him was raident throne,
Swathed in light and graced
With fire of sulphur...
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Categories:
cloth, spiritual,
Form:
Epic
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of Charity
An Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464
In Virgynë the swelt'ring sun grew keen,
Then hot upon the meadows...
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Categories:
cloth, allegory, christian, england, faith, prayer, religion, romantic,
Form:
Ballad
Baby Brot Bringer
Incredible! Where could little girl of her age be going under this cold weather at this hour barefootedly and bareheadedly?What could have sent a poor girl she was to street with just oversized slippers she...
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Categories:
cloth, children, grief,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 81
“I do not know if he still lives in that cave or if he is even alive, but I can tell you where it is. I have never shared this with anyone but Jessica,...
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Categories:
cloth, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
The Lonely
Slowly he opened the drawer and looked inside. Some time had passed since he last gazed upon the cloth that lay there. Years perhaps. Yes definitely years. The blotched rusty brown...
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Categories:
cloth, depression,
Form:
Prose
Wildmoor Symphony
FIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)
Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings
In this bright...
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Categories:
cloth, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
How I Became a Street Boy
Can a lioness tender care
Cease towards the child she bare
Yes she may be forgetful
Yet I shall never forget you
Words of mom on that fateful day
As she lay there in the most pitiable way
She drew me...
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Categories:
cloth, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Vacation In New Orleans
Walking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves. The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses. My luggage...
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Categories:
cloth, dark, evil, scary,
Form:
Haibun
Therapeutic Talking
Talk therapy
among braver angels
and curious devilish advocates,
Evolves natural contemplative thoughts
of healthy minds and bodies
felt sacredly neuro-systemic
Organic
dynamic systems
reconnecting sensory consciousness
and mindful sexual experience
with worldviews recombining
Liberal YangTruth and Conserving YintegralBeauty
in co-empathic compassion
Nonviolently hopeful
win/win bicameral intelligence
exploring why
And healthy...
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Categories:
cloth, health, humanity, humor, peace, senses, sensual, stress,
Form:
Political Verse
Make Do and Mend
Make Do and Mend,
Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And never ever lock it
But still so many struggled
To buy food...
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Categories:
cloth, community,
Form:
Verse
Summer Memories Summer Realities Thoughts About Part 1
Summer Memories
Summer Realities
This, the first day of summer, two thousand and two, finds me,
slipping back into what once was my desire, my need, my reality.
This step back into, and into times passed, has allowed me...
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Categories:
cloth, summer,
Form:
Prose Poetry