Long Commonplace Poems
Long Commonplace Poems. Below are the most popular long Commonplace by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Commonplace poems by poem length and keyword.
Poems About FlowersLady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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Categories:
commonplace, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Poems IiiLOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
commonplace, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
RipR.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
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Categories:
commonplace, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
Rilke Translations IiCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
commonplace, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic 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 lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
commonplace, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
commonplace, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Positive Political PsychologyI question my own interplay of psychology and political science.
Does this too facilely root analogy within ecology of climate health v pathology?
Intersections of sociology and psychology are at least academically commonplace.
I have a friend with...
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Categories:
commonplace, culture, health, political, psychological, religion, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan
Blanches oeuvres ouvertes
résident dans les jours
la surface du banc de travail est noire
les géraniums-lierres
les fougères et les adragans
accumulent leurs oeuvres et jours:
La toile noire de Courbet
un...
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Categories:
commonplace, america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About RegretRegret
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:
commonplace, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Silence reigns supreme in my reichSilence reigns supreme in my reich
No don (except me)
doth trumpet within the aborted
barren reach of freedoms within expansive realm,
I annexed courtesy manifest destiny,
which peoples now inhabiting said jurisdiction
circumscribed by following coordinates -
Latitude: 40° 16' 22.20"...
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Categories:
commonplace, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, celebration, dark, hair,
Form:
Free verse
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
commonplace, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
PS Atheists Get Your Own Dirt
Part I
Rock n Roll came through the slave trade
The Hippies and Moonies said “We’ve got it made”
“Rock n Roll sounds came from the jungle” [Lennon said]
The blues helped through the struggle
The rhythm and the movements...
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Categories:
commonplace, conflict, culture, history, philosophy, society, visionary,
Form:
Epic
Thiru-Valluvar On Praising Ladies of Their Qualities: Canto 112 - Nalam Punainthu UraiththalThiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal
[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to INBATHTHUPPAAL, the amorous relationship between the sexes, i.e., cantos...
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Categories:
commonplace, beauty, culture, relationship, tamil, true love, women,
Form:
Epigram
What Have I Seen?1
Sunrise, late winter
skunk smell
turkey flock
playful otter, too.
The white heron
a great blue,
white phase,
in the abandoned beaver pond.
Purple clematis
its long-awned achenes
in globose heads
spidery, fiery, extravagant fruit!
To identify or classify
birds by
the complexity or beauty
of their songs.
And so
what is...
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Categories:
commonplace, allah, girl, nature, peace, prayer, war, writing,
Form:
Verse
home again -
I am home ...
oh, my heart
pray, hush its cadence
for the sacred sake of unsated thirst
beg its thrums...
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Categories:
commonplace, heart, loneliness, lost love, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Can'T Let GoCan't Let Go
It is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES.
Chorus:
Hello... Hello...
Redefine the treasure I seek from you,
It's pulling my nose and every other senses into doom,
Confusion is tearing me for being a fool,
Between us comes with seductions...
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Categories:
commonplace, angel,
Form:
Classicism
Being HumanWhat is it that makes a feeling? Why are some words soothing? We have heard poets, in lyrical ways, describing the delights of stars or waterfalls or rainbows. They awaken in us the wonder of...
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Categories:
commonplace, earth, heart, humanity, life, meaningful, people, society,
Form:
Free verse
Achab, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Achab By T WignesanAchab*, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Achab by T. Wignesan
One man alone stands erect before the king, and speaks
A man
Alone
The king is not accustomed to being confronted face to
...
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Categories:
commonplace, loneliness, words,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Wandering MinstrelIn history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace. A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing and singing, to bestow delights
On ladies, peasants, and errant knights.
Their...
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Categories:
commonplace, music,
Form:
Ballad
A Definite Bonehead MomentA definite bonehead moment
since revised when das scribe
made laughing stock of himself
(circa ~ 8:30 post meridiem
December twenty eighth, 2022).
A retrospective account
revisited courtesy the following
honest to dog doe eyed,
doofus dopey dilemma
allows,...
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Categories:
commonplace, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, angel, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Struggle To WriteStruggle to write
Witnessed courtesy the following poetic sight
especially when dark shadows foretell edge of night
twilight zone expanding
into outer limits of width and height
obscuring webbed wide world
subsequently where black tentacles alight.
This poetic prologue feeble exercise to...
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Categories:
commonplace, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
How Broken Men Begin AgainThere's a time to chase the world,
and a time for the world to chase you...
the distinction between destiny and damnation
can become ambiguous as a dream
on the edge of twilight
when the world is watching you ruthlessly,
hungering...
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Categories:
commonplace, adventure, america, art, courage, god,
Form:
Epic
Hermann Hesse translation of 'The Poet' and 'Without You'The Poet
by Hermann Hesse
translation by Michael R. Burch
Only upon me, the lonely one,
Do this endless night’s stars shine
As the fountain gurgles its faery song.
For me alone, the lonely one,
The shadows of vagabond clouds
Float like dreams...
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Categories:
commonplace, hair, lonely, love, night, poets, song, stars,
Form:
Free verse
TheAs an attempt, in the most philisophical sense.
A line was drawn in the sand yet filtered;
Through its etched silence within hand...
Amidst twilight with adjective faith will break the mends,
It is my hope that someday we...
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Categories:
commonplace, adventure, art, depression, faith, family, fear, food,
Form:
Free verse
Sailor Groom and Mermaid BrideA thousand tumbles takes a bottle in the sea-
a thousand tumbles and whirls and swoops.
A million grains of sand takes that bottle in the sea,
to break apart,
and fragment like a snowflake fractal.
How many waves carry...
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Categories:
commonplace, boat, dream, voyage, woman, world, , Lullaby,
Form:
Prose