Long Commissions Poems
Long Commissions Poems. Below are the most popular long Commissions by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Commissions poems by poem length and keyword.
Translation of Eric Mottram's 28th Legal: Letter Jan 2, 1966 By T WignesanEric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)
January 2,...
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Categories:
commissions, america, art, creation, culture, music, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or BeastMoby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne....
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Categories:
commissions, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Buying the FarmHave you chosen what you will become,
my son,
or will you become something yet unchosen?
Become?
How will you keep yourself gainfully occupied,
dare I speak of vocation?
Oh yes,
I will be absent.
Absent from…?
From you.
Absent from you.
My wisest son,
thank you...
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Categories:
commissions, anger, community, destiny, dream, humor, love, nature,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Theater of Utter Charm - Part 26as the Crystal Mariachis arpeggiate the morning
why do the mighty remain cruel
while we are manning the oars beneath them
they see a tidy world
where mommy wipes their butts
you got your allegory you got your metaphor
plowing the...
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Categories:
commissions, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Happy Father's Day With Mom In Heaven Dad - I Love and Miss Both of YouFor my Dad and Mom (Dorothy) on Fathers Day.
Albin J. Gruhn who passed away at the age of 94 years young. I Love You Dad and I am missing you so much! Robert
When Albin...
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Categories:
commissions, father, mother, parents,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
About My Father - Albin - Who Has Passed Away - So Proud of You Dad - Greatest Labor Leader EverThe following is about my beloved father Albin J. Gruhn who passed away at the age of 94 years young. I Love You Dad and I am missing you so much! Robert
When Albin Gruhn got...
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Categories:
commissions, father, hero, leadership, life,
Form:
Narrative
Peaceful Stolen WorldAs I sit and watch
Watch you denounce the obligatory violence
Announcing and pronouncing the fabricated freedom
Joyfully commemorating and celebrating your assassinated true leaders
The enemy killed not the leaders but the ideas
You buried not them but the...
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Categories:
commissions, africa, freedom, leadership, peace, political, slavery, truth,
Form:
Free verse
National NarcissismNationalism,
like other faces of narcissism,
multicultural cynicism speaks in ways devoid of integrity,
authenticity,
global transparency,
empathy,
active power and authority of and for,
from and toward, resiliently positive energy,
compassionate wealth of health,
resonant power,
regenerative EarthPassion,
more like internationalism,
like other faces of polycultural...
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Categories:
commissions, bullying, community, health, integrity, passion, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
W-Death Mystery of Subhash Chandra Bose-1897-1945Described as “patriot of patriots” by Mahatma Gandhi
His Words, ‘Give me blood and I shall give you freedom’
Are still ringing in the minds of each and every Indian.
He stood for unqualified Freedom with the use...
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Categories:
commissions, august, death,
Form:
Free verse
An Ode To Life, Part ITo die an old man, tasks left on slow burn,
And as fake coins do, get reborn ‘pon earth;
Work harder still, more mileage points to earn,
Which, heaven calls goodly deeds well their worth,...
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Categories:
commissions, death, life,
Form:
Ode
The Manor HouseBy invitation from a trusted friend,
a medium intervention took place and I went.
The building set in the thick forest by a shimmering lake,
some broken sheds looking sad and strange to take.
Weeded and worn the...
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Categories:
commissions, imagination, inspiration, nostalgia, parody,
Form:
Ballade
AmericaThe focus in the direction of possibilities and to enter into a bridge of congressional diplomat and to decipher the negative from the positive in all ways of motion and emotional dictation from the view...
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Categories:
commissions, america, deep, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Great Commissions--Small OmissionsIn all things, give thanks.
Surrounded,
overwhelmed by claustrophobic depression,
gratitude.
Gratitude, a sacred noun,
positive attitude, a secular verb phase.
Depression and gratitude,
depressed gratitude,
mystical oxymoron.
Impossibly essential
potential.
Repression and victory.
Hope in and through blind and deaf,
senseless faith in power of positions
over doubling...
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Categories:
commissions, depression, faith, health, hope, love, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Cravings For CreativityBehind the curtains of this smile, are freshly sewed wounds;
Rich yarns finely whipped by the Armageddon;
Each touch turned colder, from philosophy of ashes to ashes;
Each an ongoing curse, of every memory of Attila the...
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Categories:
commissions, allusion, art, desire, poetry, prayer, scary,
Form:
I do not know?
The Fate of Poetry*************
Having never studied poetry, but composed and wrote it most of my adult life, in the Army, commissions for lovesick, homesick mates. In civvy street, mainly for my wife, the odd commission for enstranged lovers,...
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Categories:
commissions, anger, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Power of LoveThere is a tide in the affairs of men
Which can lay us low or then
Raise our standards so high
That we can even reach the sky.
But in affairs of the heart
There can be a flood so...
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Categories:
commissions, love, me, power,
Form:
Rhyme
Committees, Boards, Panels and SuchPerhaps the most inane entities contrived by the human race,
(Leaving folks wondering why they must meet in the first place),
Are the interminable meetings of committee, panel and board,
Convening for hours leaving participants bleary-eyed and bored!
For...
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Categories:
commissions, funnyme,
Form:
Rhyme
Revolutionary GreenpeaceMost of life plays out somewhere
somehow
sometime
in-between resplendent deification of MotherEarth
and rabid defiance of EarthMother
wisdom
Is a peculiarly Republican challenge,
confusing unchanging
uniform
divinely dogmatically inspired
Tradition
As if such Tradition were against
healing
unitarian economic political flow
of Earth-conserving sacred grace
slow-growing
co-invested capital...
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Categories:
commissions, god, health, integrity, peace, power, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
The Job of PresidentThe Job of President
By Franklin Price
10/30/2015
The job of president in the Constitution is defined.
He really has no others except within our minds.
He is the commander and the chief of our military force
Commissions officers therein to...
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Categories:
commissions, political, , cute,
Form:
Couplet
Admirable a B OwlThat is Admirable A.B. Owl to you the man said.
Buckets of medals must have gone straight to his head.
The rest of us rolled our eyes behind his arrogant back.
We were privates and sergeants, his experience...
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Categories:
commissions, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
ComparisonsPeople aren't perfect, for sure this is true.
They don't always do what they say they will do.
By the same token they often aren't guilty,
Of commissions, omissions that some will deem filthy.
Nefarious crimes, using darkness for...
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Categories:
commissions, anti bullying, discrimination,
Form:
Couplet
The Zen Sprit of True Love Or What Is Love Part Twothe one walks out
of your dreams
and into your life
becoming your wife
my wife one day
was berating me
for all my myriad faults
all my sins against her
my omissions and commissions
malfeasance and misfeasance
things I had done
and...
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Categories:
commissions, deep, dream, love, magic, marriage, meaningful, wife,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Never KnowWe'd never know what we meant to someone
Why?
We are not supposed to know
We are supposed to know how we are to someone
and correct ourselves
But the knowing part - hah
Why do you want to know anyway?
So...
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Categories:
commissions, faith,
Form:
Free verse
Margin of ErrorMargin of Error
By Mark D. Stucky
If, statistically, Adam and Eve
hadn’t exceeded Eden’s margin of error,
would lambs now be lounging with lions?
Would toothy T-Rexes have been vegan?
Would we love our neighbors and enemies
as we love our...
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Categories:
commissions, corruption, god, humorous, recovery from, sin, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The Story of a Private TeacherA teacher is a creature
Whose life a miniature
Those who follows the management culture
At last the management becomes a vulture
Teacher have to do the job
It's as a sales executive bob
To make students to buy the...
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Categories:
commissions, truth,
Form:
Rhyme