Long Concerns Poems
Long Concerns Poems. Below are the most popular long Concerns by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Concerns poems by poem length and keyword.
Poems About DogsPoems about Dogs
This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently caressing his head,
I acknowledge his company.
This simple recognition gives my...
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Categories:
concerns, animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Restoration TownsI was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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Categories:
concerns, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Father Time's Surprising Taoist IntimationsTell me,
Father Time,
if you would share this space
it would mean everything to me
to us, so kind,
which forms of integrative diversity
incarnate your highest priority,
most comprehensive,
social-political-economic-cultural issues:
1. Domestic economy flat-line trends,
2. International peace intent and praxis,
3. Universally...
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Categories:
concerns, analogy, culture, earth, games, humor, psychological, time,
Form:
Narrative
As Time Walked ByThese are early poems of mine, written as a high school student in the 10th grade.
as Time walked by
by Michael R. Burch
yesterday i dreamed of us again,
when
the air, like honey,
trickled through cushioning grasses,
softly flowing,...
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Categories:
concerns, 10th grade, boy, child, childhood, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You PlayEvery Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp...
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Categories:
concerns, aubade, beauty, dog, for her, fruit, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Climates of Ballistic ManagementSenator Fuller,
a permaculture designer
turned architect of exterior landscapes
then public sector architect
of EarthShip cooperative interior landscapes,
is with us today
to tell us about why he supports Sanders,
at this point in time,
although he is making no commitments about...
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Categories:
concerns, destiny, earth, health, humor, peace, political, true
Form:
Prose Poetry
Trump's Intake InterviewHello,
you've reached the EcoTherapist Cooperative.
How can we help you
without bringing harm to Others?
That's a question I've never thought about.
I'm calling for the National Republican Party.
We would like to hire an EcoTherapist
for a consultation
during the 2020...
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Categories:
concerns, america, caregiving, earth day, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Wisdom's Marching CouncilI know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.
Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too...
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Categories:
concerns, deep, health, poverty, race, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
A Few Years Back and ForthA few years back,
in the prior millennium,
1993 to be more precise
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
born without a stage name
had his book entitled "The Evolving Self" published,
by which he meant The ReGeneratively Nutritious Flowing Self,
but he was probably shy...
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Categories:
concerns, beauty, earth, health, political, psychological, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Dillen's Continuing Dmv AdventuresI wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.
Background Review:
One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...
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Categories:
concerns, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Lifeboat the SinkingAs to the this and the that and the how and the why,
I pass no judgement on the tale at hand.
And leave it to scribes to much later decide
...
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Categories:
concerns, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Romeo and Juliet: the RemixThree voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia
In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.
Professor:
Today we are going to role play
a Win-Win enculturation game.
We will define enculturation...
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Categories:
concerns, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
Dillen and the DmvTO: Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney
FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer
8/16/16
RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common courtesy, civil respect; freely accessible pursuit of health, happiness, and prosperity
I don’t...
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Categories:
concerns, culture, discrimination, health, political, race, perspective, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Reunited -- Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationMany of us have a favorite possession from when we were young, and this
93-year old gentleman is no exception.
...
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Categories:
concerns, childhood, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds (I)
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as hummingbird wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Southern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching...
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Categories:
concerns, angel, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Alaskan Oil PipelineThe Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
concerns, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
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:
concerns, culture, earth, environment, health, nature, political, prejudice,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Misguided MeditationsI am sorry
about my judgmental,
sadly disdainful,
tone
in earlier messages.
Even worse,
I remain embarrassed
for spreading it out
for key staff
and leaders
to well-positioned see
and hear
and feel,
touched by wounded toxicity.
My training
and experience
includes victimized by homophobia
and healing through community mediation.
Within this...
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Categories:
concerns, anxiety, appreciation, health, humor, motivation, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Let His Light Shine - the Candle of Hope Style~ Let His Light Shine ~
( Candle Of Hope )
~O~
Let
Love Hope
Peace fill heart
As walk with the Lord
In Him find best friend
May heart rejoice
Love the...
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Categories:
concerns, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Red and Blue Estrangered FamiliesDear Siblings Three,
I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.
This is a variation on a diaspora story.
But, here growing physical distance
is seen more as a...
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Categories:
concerns, earth, faith, family, health, integrity, religion, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Unquotable Quotes: Janitor, Gardienne, Portero, Sereno, Hausgast -Xxxi Part OneUnquotable quotes: The Janitor, Gardienne, Landlady, Housekeeper, Portero, the Sereno and the Hausgast – XXXI Part One
Be they so named or not in these here parts, visions of shrieking furies with Gorgon heads and...
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Categories:
concerns, care, city, horror, rights, urban,
Form:
Quatrain
Supremely Courted Systemic FeelingsI believe it was Alfred North Whitehead,
an early developer of cognitive systems thinking,
who observed frequent miscommunication
and confusion
and chaos
over bilateral complexities
of Set v isolated Individual issues
within a systemic set
of inter-related issues.
This comes to mind
as I listen...
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Categories:
concerns, culture, earth, education, health, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Love Brings Hope - the Tigerjade Style~ Love Brings Hope ~
( Tigerjade )
~O~
Love brings Hope
Helps me cope
It's great when you possess them all inside your heart
Life without them, truly hard to continue, start...
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Categories:
concerns, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Love Brings Hope - the Tigerjade Style~ Love Brings Hope ~
( Tigerjade )
~O~
Love brings Hope
Helps me cope
It's great when you possess them all inside your heart
Life without them, truly hard to continue, start...
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Categories:
concerns, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Boundary Issues As OpportunitiesI wonder if everyone
has a most dreaded dreamed
nightmare worst way
to conscientiously drop wrong dead.
Mine is claustrophobi-recallish buried
half alive at best is worse
in a wooden rough pine crate.
I'm feeling angry with those who raped,
then buried...
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Categories:
concerns, earth, humor, integrity, psychological, relationship, science, tree,
Form:
Political Verse