Long Congregate Poems
Long Congregate Poems. Below are the most popular long Congregate by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Congregate poems by poem length and keyword.
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
“Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
ghost gums
shed their bark
the min-min
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to
imprint and write
thoughts, like the
ripening welts of
green ants
small bites sting
subcutaneous and
meridional,
terra...
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Categories:
congregate, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form:
Free verse
Christmas Eve In JamaicaI stand here in my innocence
Not knowing what is planned in heaven
The skies are grey the wind is still and
The heavy sound system is blasting on the hill
I could not tell what it was all...
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Categories:
congregate, beauty, business, celebration, christmas, community, courage, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
No Remorse - Both Audio and TextFar too many small towns are slowly dying out, how incredibly sad...
On a run we took to see our brand new grandson last July,
we’d left ourselves some extra time so we could veer off...
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Categories:
congregate, sad,
Form:
Narrative
Ashoremargins stimulate and juxtapose
edges greet with troubled, disturbing friction
faraway forces exert influence and combine relentlessly
how the Sun and Moon dance together about the planet Earth
their grasping hands...
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Categories:
congregate, beach, environment, humanity, ocean,
Form:
Verse
While Daydreaming About Timepiece InventorsWhile daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022
How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
and I would be hard pressed
to differentiate one moment
from the next without the...
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Categories:
congregate, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, creation, december,
Form:
Free verse
I Am Feeling Alive AgainI see the smiles beaming in your eyes
And I can hear the passion moving in your voice
I can feel your breath moving inside me
And your spirit soaring above me
I wish if I could fully understand...
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Categories:
congregate, appreciation, blessing, business, community, cute love, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
The Stricken CorridorFall tumbles relentlessly on our door steps
young winter birds inducing provoking sounds scamper in trees
Watching winter crawling slowly under our feet.
The night rain wet the ground with sadness
washing away the environmental stench
purging...
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Categories:
congregate, dream, education, environment, water, weather, wedding, winter,
Form:
Free verse
I Defy the ClownI defy the clown that is chasing everyone around
I defy the clown that is closing everything down
I defy the clown and became the biggest talk of the miserable town
Hoary women gathered around looking at me...
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Categories:
congregate, angel, appreciation, community, destiny, endurance, integrity, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
Know That I Am ThereIt's the best I can do to explain myself
is standing in between it all, so I can view both sides.
Who are you to say that a summer days more beautiful
than the dead of night?
You profess...
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Categories:
congregate, faith, growth, how i feel, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Cardinals FlyWe crept down a meandering country road, gravel crackling underneath our tires. The countryside stretched before us like a great quilt of golden, brown, and green squares held together by the thick green stitching of...
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Categories:
congregate, memory,
Form:
Haibun
Take Me To Another CountryThe rain birds keep hopping up and down the town
stamping the rain out of the ground with their wire feet but
they have little to compete and the sun is walking under my feet. They are...
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Categories:
congregate, absence, angst, appreciation, celebration, courage, environment, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
I Still Feel Under the Weather Today April 2nd, 2023I still feel under the weather today April 2nd, 2023
Unseen enemy invades my body
with platoon of green berets air
rating, and enfilading immune system viz
Hib bully knock and sock kin me
courtesy roebuck seers...
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Categories:
congregate, adventure, anger, anxiety, april, body, caregiving, health,
Form:
Rhyme
I Loathe Feeling Under the WeatherI loathe feeling under the weather...,
especially when nasty elephant
(named Thomas the pachyderm)
stomping to break loose courtesy tether,
where antibodies of mine
struggle to band together
loosely analogous to voters
standing in a queue
waiting to cast their vote
(while...
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Categories:
congregate, 12th grade, adventure, animal, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Freedom PleaseRepent and change your ways
Wait fervently till you see brighter days
Repent and change your ways
Martin Luther King Jr. just wanted us to feel liberty and we still haven’t achieved it...yet we give praise...in happy-go-lucky days
Face...
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Categories:
congregate, deep, emotions, hope, passion, peace, thanks, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
A Town He Once Called HomeLike a beacon on a hill
The white church steeple gleaming still
For all the many years gone past
It marks the path for home at last
Up and down each tree-lined street
Where childhood friends and neighbors meet
In history...
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Categories:
congregate, childhood, home, nostalgia, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
RhythmSee them dressed in colors soldiers, regiment, British royal guards, guard bearskin, grandier guards, Buckingham palace guards dressed in scarlet red walking behind the queen’s casket and reminiscing the dead. Their tall bearskin hat almost...
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Categories:
congregate, animal, death, destiny, endurance, environment, eulogy, motivation,
Form:
Narrative
Goodbye Maya AngelouClinton's Inauguration 1993
You were so beautiful, Maya
Standing in front of the
President and the First Lady
I didn’t really understand
Your Pulse Of Morning
Presidential inauguration poem
I kind of got lost in the dinosaur theme
Poems about Mastodons usually
Don’t...
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Categories:
congregate, angel, courage, emotions, poetry, presidents day, simile,
Form:
Rhyme
The NativesI can hear the drums beating
They are beckoning me to come
I can hear the drums beating
Murmuring what is taking me so long
I can hear the drums beating
And it is singing a merry little...
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Categories:
congregate, absence, beauty, courage, cry, cute love, emotions,
Form:
Narrative
YesThis is why I dislike the word ‘yes’ -
It has put me in this mess...
But, I will celebrate cheerfulness my way
This is why I dislike the word ‘yes’ -
It has put me in distress
But, I...
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Categories:
congregate, paradise,
Form:
Free verse
The Story of Potentialbeyond our time and place a clumsy confusion of Primordials dwell
they play with notions, forming bubbles in child-like wonder
they meld and morph, shaping membranes which burst asunder
falling under the...
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Categories:
congregate, analogy, universe,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Hen HouseCooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant
dwells amongst an elder net
of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque
of old folks, only a portion of population I met
which achey, flaky, kooky motley crue
disgruntlement fed as peevish...
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Categories:
congregate, care, class, environment, farewell, grave, nostalgia, retirement,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Eleven Pm Part OneDo you know what happened
At 11 p.m Tuesday night
I guess you must have it
However much I protest-
But do you know
Of course you don’t:
The victory of ignorance
Come on! I will enlighten you
I took the bi-valve
Flung...
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Categories:
congregate, fun,
Form:
Free verse
What Will We Tell Our GrandchildrenIn years to come as we talk to our grandchildren, I hope that we all can say,
I remember when SARS arrived, the worry, the concern that troubled day.
A fellow Infection Control Practitioner confided that “I...
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Categories:
congregate, health, inspirational, natural disasters, , cute,
Form:
Epic
Behold the Temple"Behold! The Temple!"
Behold! The Temple! on sacred ground,
Where those who worship gather 'round.
Behold! Your synagogues, mosques, and churches,
Where faithful souls kneel on pews and perches
To sing Hallelujah! Give worship and praise;
Where scripts are read, eyes...
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Categories:
congregate, god, love, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Socialist Coup 2020Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
A global supplant rippling the air,
unseen scourge in the wind,...
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Categories:
congregate, addiction, allegory, anxiety, earth, fear, parody, riddle,
Form:
Concrete