Long Compose Poems
Long Compose Poems. Below are the most popular long Compose by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Compose poems by poem length and keyword.
Medieval Poems IiMedieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!
Wulf's on one island; I'm on...
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Categories:
compose, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Dream of InfinityDream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
compose, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Sonnets Xxv-XxxiiSonnets 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:
compose, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
SweetspotsCould you tell me, please,
how to become polypathically smarter,
economically deep learned and wisely adept
co-arising ecologically systemic theories
to grow more co-empathic trust
of and for cooperatively organizing positive
nutritional slow-growth,
optimally sustainable Continuous Quality Health Improvement?
Try...
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Categories:
compose, beauty, earth, growth, happiness, humanity, humor, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IMy most popular poems on the Internet (I)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
compose, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar TranslationSweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
compose, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
compose, earth, seasons, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
TeatalkDo you share my concern that your happiness and healthy life are too ephemeral,
short-lived?
No! Why? Do you know something I should know?
Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive energy for life,
despite the odds of...
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Categories:
compose, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Letter To Poetry"A word like a river flows through the mind" ...
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Categories:
compose, poetry,
Form:
Personification
Poems About Eros and CupidPOEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
compose, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
Meet On the Upper FloorWhat would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no poor to clean the floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no one to guard the door
What would the rich do...
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Categories:
compose, beauty, change, emotions, friendship love, independence day,
Form:
Narrative
Legacy of HiphopAnd that is why... this platform is here for answers they can't deny...
It's a truth within a complexity that is standing high...
Let us follow the roots and explore the depths of its grand design...
Cause every...
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Categories:
compose, deep,
Form:
I do not know?
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:
compose, appreciation, bible, christian, fate, philosophy, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades of Oblivion, a TrilogyPredator Antiqua Multis Versus Respiciens Tempus
I Watched Midnight Sun Fall Into Dark Shades Of Oblivion
Part I
I watched midnight sun fall into dark shades of oblivion
with its dying light screaming in agonizing moans
upon bloody battlefields of...
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Categories:
compose, appreciation, art, birth, blessing, time, truth, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl KovalovichAce colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich
revisited January 23rd, 2024
on the evening before yours truly
(the one and only Matthew Scott Harris),
a stand up comic wannabe, who
historically heartily hales
from Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
undergoes oh joy rapture colonoscopy.
Three days...
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Categories:
compose, angel, anxiety, appreciation, birthday, blessing, death, health,
Form:
Free verse
A Letter From MeME dear FATHER you already know,
But you need to be briefed,
On a tragedy I believe you must not know.
There’s a deadly dance with violence killing teens in America’s Black Communities.
Use to be,
Good Christian mothers,...
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Categories:
compose, black african american, conflict, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
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:
compose, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Softly Off-Colored Poem - 2Poet's Pre-Notes: A poem from my 8th week in a Stanford continuing education class offered on the internet, a study of free verse and structure. The poem writing technique is to write as unconsciously as...
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Categories:
compose, life,
Form:
Free verse
Miracle On Ford StreetSt Anthony's orphanage was founded some thirty years ago
For homeless and orphaned children, by a priest Father Angelo
Every child was made welcome; race and religion mattered not
And every Christmas Father Angelo ensured presents they all...
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Categories:
compose, care, children, christmas, prayer,
Form:
Narrative
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Kurt RavidasDancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss
Collaboration with Kurt Ravidas
I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from its narrow ledge,
in the midst of ravenous rage and great...
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Categories:
compose, art, dark, evil, fantasy, horror, raven, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Subject, Aspects of Interest, and Effect of John Keats's ''On the Sonnet''“On the Sonnet”
by John Keats
If by dull rhymes our English must be chained,
And, like Andromeda, the Sonnet sweet
Fettered, in spite of painéd loveliness;
Let us find out, if we must be constrained,
Sandals more interwoven and complete
To...
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Categories:
compose, england, fate, literature, muse, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Prose
The part of me That Never LivedIt is with tears in my eyes that I write these verses of hope, it is with tears in my eyes I climb the mountain of joy and stands on top of it and...
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Categories:
compose, america, best friend, city, community, dance, environment,
Form:
Narrative
Subject, Aspects of Interest, and Effect of William Wordsworth's ''Nuns Fret Not''“Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room”
by William Wordsworth
Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room;
And hermits are contented with their cells;
And students with their pensive citadels;
Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his...
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Categories:
compose, england, metaphor, perspective, poems, poetry, poets, prison,
Form:
Prose
Princess Diana PoemsPRINCESS DIANA POEMS
Fairest Diana: an Epitaph for Princess Diana
by Michael R. Burch
Fairest Diana, princess of dreams,
born to be loved and yet distant and lone,
why did you linger?so solemn, so lovely?
an orchid ablaze in a crevice...
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Categories:
compose, angel, beautiful, beauty, england, princess, rose, woman,
Form:
Epitaph
White the Lowest Sky
"White the Lowest Sky"
Cries the Lowest Sky
tear drops fed as manna
o’er the littlest warrior
face raised to ultra Light
The 3
that sit in Ultra Gamma
there cries the lowest Sky
the voice that ever hears you
Cries the...
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Categories:
compose, freedom, love, trust,
Form:
Free verse