Long Colony Poems
Long Colony Poems. Below are the most popular long Colony by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Colony poems by poem length and keyword.
The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
colony, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Let Me Give Her DiamondsLet Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch
Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.
Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.
Let me give her solace
for my words
of treason.
Let the flowering of love
outlast a winter
season.
Let me...
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Categories:
colony, valentines day,
Form:
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:
colony, anti bullying, caregiving, destiny, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
The Little Blue FairyThere was a little wind fairy who lived in a meadow near a small town, her name was Estella. Estella had beautiful blue hair like the sky, so her friends called her the little blue...
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Categories:
colony, blue, fairy,
Form:
Free verse
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
colony, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
Now and Then and Now Again1
Though still within our infancy,
we strive to thrive, but woefully
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...
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Categories:
colony, corruption, culture, environment, money, pollution, racism, religion,
Form:
Monorhyme
StormThe day was fine and sunlit,
Decorated by several clouds
drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky.
Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze,
Sending leaves on the streets twirling like
ballerinas in a dazzling and mesmerising dance.
and...
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Categories:
colony, courage, fear, metaphor, natural disasters, school, ,
Form:
Imagism
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is -- is over, in the stormy, swarming...
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Categories:
colony, death, evil, family, fate, life, love, violence,
Form:
Haibun
Storm ConcreteThe day was fine and sunlit, Decorated by several clouds drifting
aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky. Chorused by gentle
...
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Categories:
colony, school, storm,
Form:
Concrete
Self Help Addict Needles Unsuspecting ReaderSelf help addict needles unsuspecting reader
Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow
scouting about for carrion
scavenging for dead animals
and rooting about...
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Categories:
colony, 12th grade, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety, april,
Form:
Rhyme
The Whips of History - 4Injustice is just an inconvenience until it is proven...
When the sun hit their helmets it startled the very souls of the natives
a signal upon their eyes that spoke like a siren of ill prophecy to...
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Categories:
colony, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
My Wedding DayMY WEDDING DAY
I called her honey, baby,
My best friend, my bride,
You are so beautiful.
She looked at me with smile face,
Smiling loudly.
I said,
“Oh, God bless me with a wise
And humble woman!
Today,...
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Categories:
colony, emotions, inspirational, kiss, loneliness, romance, sweet, true
Form:
Light Verse
A Story My Mother Told Mesomeone always told me this with tears in her eyes...
(for Lata Sethi's late-mother, who was my mother’s ‘sister’ and who took us all into her heart, and for Lata and Ravi Sethi of Defence Colony,...
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Categories:
colony, forgiveness, freedom, friendship, grandmother, hate, history, holocaust,
Form:
I do not know?
A Psalm To Solemnize Pure Tin Forefathers MothersA psalm to solemnize pure tin forefathers/mothers...
Who didst unknowingly, unquestionably,
and unwittingly script vitality
and the prologue to Thanksgiving,
(which theme poem initially written)
about three hundred and ninety seven years,
and nine months after February third 1621,
yet...
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Categories:
colony, adventure, africa, age, america, animal, autumn, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Retirement PlanningRetirement planning
may feel like civilian re-entry planning
as from-above ballistics continue heavy incoming
so persuasively my objective is not to win outside
but to get home safe again inside,
although I sadly know
home will never be that home of...
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Categories:
colony, earth, health, history, humanity, integrity, love, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Nigeria At 53There came a time in the history of Nigeria when she dreamed for independence,
There came a moment in the history of Nigeria when she groaned to gain freedom from the British;
There came a season in...
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Categories:
colony, freedom,
Form:
Alliteration
Ballad of Molly JonesDavid Jones, the best rat catcher Shropshire has ever had
must take some criticism for young Molly turning bad.
Even though his daughter found rich co-incidentals,
no credit could be taken by rat catching Dad's credentials.
At nineteen she's...
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Categories:
colony, history,
Form:
Lyric
Honeymoon Blues CollaborationTwo young newlyweds Samantha and Ray
On honeymoon went camping to the Bay
But as they were rocking
Strong winds came a knocking
And left them nude as their tent blew away
Both were red faced and on the ground...
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Categories:
colony, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Apocalypse Boko HaramLast night,
when laid i my head to rest,
dreamt i a dream
dreadful;
I wept,though i was a deep in sleep,
I saw a baobab tree with three branches,
on it lays the colony of three birds of the
air,
of...
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Categories:
colony, violence
Form:
ABC
Harold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot topHarold the Hugh Hefner wannabe carrot top...
spry buck analogous to energizing bunny
jump/kickstarted procreation ruckus.
Home on the range
cacophony quite absurd
PlayBoy Bunny herd
and felt ingratiatingly inured,
nevertheless colony or nest
of doe eyed demoiselles
stewed over...
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Categories:
colony, 12th grade, adventure, america, animal, candy, computer,
Form:
Rhyme
Artemisia, Part 5 of 12Judge Daniele Saggio
This year of our salvation, sixteen twelve.
Now. Gentileschi? Don Orazio?
This suit is yours. You’d press it? Drop it? Shelve
it? Very good. And you are Tazzio?
Beg pardon, Tassi....
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Categories:
colony,
Form:
Terza Rima
Old Myzie OLD MYSIE
“As crazy as Old Mysie” my grandma used to say.
Land company made promises, too good to be true,
To fisherfolk from Isle of Skye, it seemed the thing to do.
Cleared up land and new built...
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Categories:
colony, brother, death, depression, endurance, immigration, loneliness, mental
Form:
Rhyme
Poet IdentityPoet Identity
In conversations,
In biographies,
In resumes…all poets are writers,
but not all writers are poets.
On a careful look into the mirror, when not looking
for wrinkles, but staring deep into...
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Categories:
colony, character, desire, destiny, humanity, inspiration, simile, spiritual,
Form:
Prose
Another Year With YouANOTHER YEAR WITH YOU
Unto the night sky, I see a lace of stars twinkling bright
and far beyond the moon with a grin of mystique light
I welcome the thought that two nights from now,
year 2015 will...
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Categories:
colony, character, christian, life, love, prayer, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Cliff*Image of Pala au & Nanahoa by Historic Hawaii
AUDIO: Couplet read
VIDEO: Unique Okala Island Off Monumental Cliffs of Moloka'i
Cliff
Cliff's supply the bemused aback.
Amassed jaws sink as all stand back,
tourist gawks, at paired land splendors.
First; mountain...
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Categories:
colony, imagery, nature, paradise,
Form:
Couplet