Long Collected Poems
Long Collected Poems. Below are the most popular long Collected by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Collected poems by poem length and keyword.
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 29
Somehow,
Forward, and headlong
I knew it was day again
There was a shift in the dark mutterings of the Devil,
Who now refused to sleep as I refused to sing,
Almost an anticipation in his voice,
As if he...
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Categories:
collected, adventure, bible, conflict, endurance, inspirational, love, war,
Form:
Epic
Vacuum
Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch
Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...
leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know
that once intrigued us so.
Come then, let us...
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Categories:
collected, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
Come Down, For Harold Bloom
Come 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:
collected, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our Tears
What Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
collected, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 85 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Young Solomons
Damian Stood in the morning sun.
The sun felt good on his face.
Delilah was still sleeping. He
Kissed her face and caressed
Her belly until she awoke.
Hey my Mrs. Me. Come on babe.
We will be leaving today...
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Categories:
collected, adventure, birth, business, father son, women,
Form:
Alliteration
The Remaining - Prologue: Terra Firma and the Bitumen
“The Remaining”
PROLOGUE: “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”
"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just a Shell"
Heaven for Her existed in The Dream
She called Her...
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Categories:
collected, angel, daughter, god, heaven, imagery, jesus, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Bergfried
I. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
collected, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Veronica Franco Translations
Veronica Franco translations
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.
Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I)
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
"I resolved to make a virtue of...
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Categories:
collected, desire, french, joy, love, lust, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
This World of Dew
THIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
collected, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
P O W DOWN
I will never ever fear domestic terrorists waving flags threatening and intimidation of severe PTSD survivors Army Veterans being stalked by enraged corrupt beasts attempting to blackmail him for medical benefits he receives from risking...
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Categories:
collected, allah,
Form:
Masnavi
NATIONAL PUBLICATIONS DATA HACKERS ENTRAPMENT CANCELLED
THIS DATA BREACH ALLOWED HACKERS TO STEAL PERSONAL INFORMATION ACCORDDING TO THIS I HAVE SEVERAL COMPANIES CEO FOR CRHIST SAKE ON DISABILITY IN HIDING FROM TWO ABUSIVE SPOUSE HOWEVER THIS CRUELTY HAS GATHERED FALSE INFORMATION...
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Categories:
collected, allah,
Form:
Naat
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:
collected, allah,
Form:
Rispetto
Our Arcade 1985
Is how it all began our beautiful thing we both knew it was arcade concealing it the way we did and was we wrong for protecting the jukebox the many simple pleasures hidden treasures would...
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Categories:
collected, allah,
Form:
Quatorzain
Growing Up, La - Part 2
- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,
Although I did have cash to spend,
I felt my...
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Categories:
collected, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
JAMAICAN JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY ABUSE OF POWER FALSIFYING INFORMATION FOR GARGANO FRAUD
YOUR TERRORISTS THREATS INTIMADATION ONGOING 23 YEARS NOW AS YOU AND CIRO COLLECTED A STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT OF BEHALF OF MY TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY WHILE BLACKMAILING MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND OVER THAT ARSON MURDER TO FALSIFYING...
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Categories:
collected, allah,
Form:
Naat
Poems About Regret
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
collected, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Social Privy
justice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
collected, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Preface
Greetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....
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Categories:
collected, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Early Poems Ii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...
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Categories:
collected, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xii
Juvenilia: Early Poems XII
Because You Came to Me
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
Because you came to me with sweet compassion
and kissed my furrowed brow and smoothed my hair,
I do not love you after any fashion,
but wildly,...
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Categories:
collected, boy, child, childhood, poems, student, teen, teenage,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 14 -- Damian and Polly: First Apartment
Date. August 2023
Damian turned 22 and Moved from his
family's estate Into his own
duplex apartment, 5 bedrooms.
One master bedroom and
1 and a half bathrooms.
Down town West Virginia. One night...
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Categories:
collected, best friend, confidence, dance, family, home,
Form:
Prose
Megan's Quest Part 3of7
'A magical lock?' Groaned Graygall in a voice of defeat.
'We are doomed before even we are set to advance.
To defeat Trolls would be an almost impossible feat
but...
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Categories:
collected, adventure, courage, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
GenieUsGenusPlan
In the darkness of the night,
a ruby gleams
to contrast a slumbered eye awakened
to feeling,
reflection, light,
Lady "Genie", eyes aglow
like a beast, in mid-stride,
lost in her midnight dreams is clothed in a...
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Categories:
collected, april, art, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 167--- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLYANNA: Babies play date and family TALK
September 2051
End of Autumn breeze sweet and gentle
Fluttering the garden as it passed.
Holly was on video phone with her parents 8 morning time. "Mommy you and dad should be here for the...
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Categories:
collected, age, baby, best friend, birth, birthday, care,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 68 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Damian Junior: the Teenage Barbecue Takeover
The festive furious festival of
Fifteen and fourteen year olds
Had functionally formed the
Teenage takeover brigade.
The boy and girl gladiators they
Were everywhere. And DJ had
His girlfriend there somewhere,
Ready to Introduce her to the
Family. Although...
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Categories:
collected, best friend, clothes, creation, home, mother daughter,
Form:
Alliteration