Long Commentary Poems
Long Commentary Poems. Below are the most popular long Commentary by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Commentary poems by poem length and keyword.
Everyday ChristiansI would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody of Christ.
I would further imagine
both he and George Washington,
at least...
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Categories:
commentary, body, christian, culture, earth, health, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Translation With Commentary of a Wild West Classic: Summer Wine By T WignesanTranslation with commentary of an archetypal Wild West Classic : " Summer Wine "
(I'd wage my bottom diamond dime future generations will re-discover and treasure this true American classic like only a few others of...
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Categories:
commentary, america, angel, betrayal, england, myth, romance, song,
Form:
Ballad
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:
commentary, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
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:
commentary, culture, earth, environment, health, nature, political, prejudice,
Form:
Prose Poetry
New BeginningsToday we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic
of Synergetic Steerage.
"We have a[n intuited, autonomic systemic] need to stay in contact with people with whom we share...
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Categories:
commentary, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, relationship, religion, science,
Form:
Narrative
Hubert Might Go Upstairs But Not To RomeTea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it.
"I'm going upstairs," Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself out...
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Categories:
commentary, marriage,
Form:
Prose
On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-KuralOn the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary
[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic boundaries, but I wouldn't be wrong, I dare say, ...
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Categories:
commentary, evil, hate, jealousy, racism, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Translation With Commentary of On Est Les Oublies By T WignesanTranslation of « On est les oubliés » (They/We are the neglected and forgotten lot)
by the songster-poet Gauvin SERS
(For the last two years, this young unassuming Frenchman, full of verve and disarming airs has been...
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Categories:
commentary, 4th grade, anger, children, city, school, song,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan
(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms,...
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Categories:
commentary, england, poetry, political, power,
Form:
Free verse
K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With CommentaryK373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...
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Categories:
commentary, appreciation, bible, christian, fate, philosophy, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Niitthaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of the Ascetic, Canto 3 of the Thirukkural By ThiruvalluvarNiithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan
[Given the scarcity of information (mostly conflicting even then) on the...
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Categories:
commentary, education, humanity, life, philosophy, retirement, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
The Perspective of Alabaster ScroogeTHE PERSPECTIVE OF ALABASTER SCROOGE
In modern English people time, when the world was full of eminent joy, there lived a man of prestige who was totally the opposite of anyone who strives to form the...
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Categories:
commentary, culture, humanity, i am, identity, image, mentor,
Form:
Imagism
K169 and K170 of Canto Xvii of the Thiruk-Kural With Translations and CommentaryK169 and K170 of CANTO XVII of the THIRUK-KURAL with Translations and Commentary
[If one could put together all that has been said, written and published on the Thiruk-Kural and on its progenitor Thiru-Valluvar, it could...
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commentary, bible, evil, hate, jealousy, people, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
New Year's Eve 2022New Year's Eve 2022
Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd
entertains reckons partition of time
into...
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Categories:
commentary, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form:
Free verse
Angel Eyes
"Angel Eyes"
that dark angel
standing in the corner
observing the shadows of man
pass him by -
he has angel eyes
that shine high beam
bright bushfires that light
the entire transparent
padded room parade
dance cards lit
he’s biding...
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Categories:
commentary, art, muse, truth,
Form:
Free verse
On Naming Plants and AnimalsA Commentary on
"A Note on the [Patriarchal-Colonizing] Treatment
of Plant Names"
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, p. 385
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS:
INDIGENOUS WISDOM,
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE,
AND THE [SACRED] TEACHINGS
OF PLANTS
I too often accept
with nary a LeftBrain dominant thought
that our verbalized labels
for individual EgoPersons
are...
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Categories:
commentary, earth day, health, humanity, integrity, nature, planet,
Form:
Political Verse
Grocery shopping with mum
It's always Aldi on a Sunday afternoon. You're always waiting with your shopping bags in hand, slowly trudging along with your walking stick. It takes you ten minutes to get into the car....
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Categories:
commentary, mother son, mothers day,
Form:
Prose
China Tour ThoughtsChina Tour Diary Moment #1
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KUNMING THOUGHTS
Sunday morning flight to Kunming city;
East bound to explore vignettes of China;
New vistas to sight, postcard memories;
Feast visual galore on tour agenda.
Yunnan province greets our earthly landing;
Brisk clearance and we...
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Categories:
commentary, blessing,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation With Commentary of Mais Que Dieu Me Pardonne By T WignesanTranslation of Kendji Girac and Claudio Capeo's Que Dieu me pardonne by T Wignesan
Lyrics by Kendji Girac and Renaud REBILLAUD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP2jp31jFMc
(The two young French songsters' duet, now, yo-yo-ing in the upper echelons of c-Star...
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Categories:
commentary, courage, dance, encouraging, god, heart, poetry, song,
Form:
Couplet
Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 1 With Commentary By T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 1 by T. Wignesan
...
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Categories:
commentary, addiction, america, freedom, political, war,
Form:
Free verse
Invite Our DayLive each day
as if this day were your last.
What do you mean, dear?
Each day is your last day.
Well, no,
not if you have another tomorrow,
or perhaps even if you merely plan for a tomorrow
which never comes...
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Categories:
commentary, gender, health, humor, love, political, psychological, time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Cherish Armour
"Cherish Armour"
She
wears
Her armour,
LOVE -
draped like chain mail
shields You
with Her heart
When She is drowning
She will throw You to the sure
safe for Your future
And She will cry of lost children
morbid oblivion,
damnation and...
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Categories:
commentary, daughter, journey, love, mother, mothers day, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Remnants of a Saturday NightSunday morning early, five a.m to be
precise, my mind awakes, then gently succours
the body to arise from one’s mundane sleep. I
then transfer to Britain via 1ZB, listening
to the English football commentary, it’s worth
the lack of...
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Categories:
commentary, me, morning, people, social,
Form:
Free verse
New Year's Eve 2021New Year's Eve 2021
December thirty first
two thousand twenty one countdown
will transparently and seamlessly stream into
simultaneously linkedin January first
two thousand and twenty two,
whereby the Ball a geodesic sphere,
12 feet in diameter,
and weighing 11,875 pounds.
The aforementioned Ball...
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Categories:
commentary, adventure, culture, dance, humanity, inspiration, new years
Form:
Free verse
Confluent Co-OperationsI grow increasingly challenged
to discern where my innocent thoughts
hopes and fears
challenges and victories begin
where others more wisely end.
I feel wrong to publish thoughts
under just my name
built on shoulders,
plodding feet,
sleight of hands
and great transitional feats
reminding me...
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Categories:
commentary, caregiving, earth, education, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse