Long Colored Poems
Long Colored Poems. Below are the most popular long Colored by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Colored poems by poem length and keyword.
The Amistad Mutiny
The 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:
colored, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Flint
Flint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
colored,
Form:
Abecedarian
Roses and Lilacs
Winter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
Published...
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Categories:
colored, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
Verse
Urbane History Lessons
I have a hardbound copy of
"The City of Hartford 1784-1984"
although most of this coffee table story
of unfortunate events
takes place between 1850 and 1950s,
before and after the UnCivil War,
and,
like the U.S. Catholic Church
and many MainLine Protestant...
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Categories:
colored, caregiving, city, health, integrity, meaningful, universe,
Form:
Political Verse
Let Me Give Her Diamonds
Let 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:
colored, valentines day,
Form:
Verse
Chapter 97 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Times and Projects
Date: December 2042
Early afternoon, Damian was
Busy in his den planning the trip
To Trinidad. He called CJ first
To confirm his commitment to
The project. "Hey brother you
Still on for that trip we spoke
About."...
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Categories:
colored, absence, allusion, earth day,
Form:
Alliteration
Modern Sonnets I
MODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch
A poem...
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Categories:
colored, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
My Heavenly Father - the Couplet Style
~ My Heavenly Father ~
( Unrhymed Couplet )
~O~
My sweet Heavenly Father, help me to serve You better in all this day
And with Your Holy Spirit guide me each day, as...
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Categories:
colored, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
Sonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
colored, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Bergfried
I. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
colored, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
One Day
One day not so long ago
I walked
Never alone
For the world
Is always my home
It was a late
Spring snow
Yet I felt
Invisible red roses
Offering sweetest perfume
To my nose and soul
There’s such warmth
In snow-filled winter
No bitterness
No...
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Categories:
colored, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Caregiving Stories Continued
Wounded Sacred Dementia
My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.
My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...
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Categories:
colored, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Prose Poems Ii
Prose Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
colored, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 89
The magic disappeared. The lead Troll's hand fell through the air where the magic was released and he lost his balance almost falling to the ground. He hesitated feeling the emptiness in front...
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Categories:
colored, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Johnny the Fable Sapling
Evening came and the Harvest Moon was about to rise,
little did Johnny know this night would bring him a surprise…
Johnny lived in a mushroom village with many folks just like him. He carried an over...
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Categories:
colored, children, silly,
Form:
Narrative
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1
From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah
His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...
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Categories:
colored, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
My Corporate Life and How It All Ended
I met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits –
a cure-all for things that ail your back.
I served 'em...
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Categories:
colored, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Dante's Hell Translation Canto X
Now is going on through a secret way
Between the martyrdoms and the ground wall,
My master, and I behind him to stay.
“Oh highest virtue, who me gently haul
In wicked rounds”, I started, “If you please,
Speak to...
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Categories:
colored, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Heroic Crown of Sonnets - Part Two
(continued from A Year Of Months (January-June)
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/heroic_crown_of_sonnets_-_part_one_772928
A Year Of Months (July-December)
8. July
July now follows summer's song of June;
with sun ablaze, her days are humid, warm.
Great time to languish in the afternoon,
and later, watch an evening...
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Categories:
colored, earth, seasons, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Translation of Canto Xvi Hell By Dante
Already 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:
colored, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
On My Mother Passing
ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING
i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...
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Categories:
colored, cheer up, mother, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
The Ghost Dance Part III
Wovoka in the Feverland
In the Dying-Grass Moon came another winter to claim the old and sick.
This was when the first messengers came
To the desolation known as Pine Ridge.
They came riding in at the end of...
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Categories:
colored, emotions, heartbreak, native american, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
My Melodious Muse
** I apologize, but if you're viewing this on a phone, it probably wont look right, as the browser page on a phone is not wide enough to indent the right edge properly. It was...
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Categories:
colored, analogy, inspiration, love, metaphor, muse, music,
Form:
Concrete
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:
colored, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two
Rosalia’s Instruments of Evil and Debauchery
Rosalia needed certain tools or instruments of evil and debauchery to successfully pursue her nefandous plans of bringing the people...
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Categories:
colored, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative