Get Your Premium Membership

Long Contending Poems

Long Contending Poems. Below are the most popular long Contending by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Contending poems by poem length and keyword.


Premium Member God As Brown As An Egg
If God is EggWhite
then Tao is His embryonic EarthYolk.

Why would you say such a confusing and silly thing?

What is the difference between a Paradise Tree of Life and Death
and a Great Chain of Being?

Is this...

Read More
Categories: contending, earth, god, health, history, motivation, power, psychological,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Jeremiah chapter thirty five k j v
The Lord is faithfull.!
Thesselonians ch 3 v 3-5

Jerimiah in the midst of the rebbelious people, had taken
Note of a sobdrly clad 'new group to his awareness' he made
Enquiry at the market stalls, and was told...

Read More
Categories: contending, appreciation, education, endurance,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fr Time's Endless Newyear Proposal
Dear National Science Foundation--Economics Department:

So,
here's what I want to learn,
or research,
if you will.

Why do we have a Financial Sector,
Business and Industry Sector,
Religious Sector,
Education Sector,
Health Care Sector, 
Food and Nutrition Sector,
Services Industry Sector,
and a Political Sector,
an...

Read More
Categories: contending, adventure, birth, business, destiny, dream, humor, life,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Two Wrongs Against a Right
If your story
and history
or herstory,
is wrong,

If wrong is negative,
If right is positive,

When do two historic
two cultural
two personal
two political
two familial
wrongs make it right,
just as double negatives equal a positive?

Perhaps when this double-negative shy
not yang and not...

Read More
Categories: contending, culture, earth, humor, integrity, philosophy, political, universe,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Life Is Almost Over
I have written this today to let my family and friends know what's going on in my life.
I am deeply saddened by where I am, in it, right now, but am appreciative of the excellent...

Read More
Categories: contending, age, cancer, death, life, wife,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Conversational Ecstasy
I believe SuperEgo bicameral comprehension
functions, forms, and flows organic
ecotherapeutic integrity;
I believe balanced Left-Right consciousness
orbits toward ecstatic psychology.

I've got nothin' to say
And I'm gonna keep it just that way
'til my mean old SuperEgo
lets me go outside...

Read More
Categories: contending, freedom, god, identity, imagination, joy, love, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Every January first of the new year
Every January first of the new year...

finds me (a doggone muttering Homo sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previous three hundred
and sixty five days in...

Read More
Categories: contending, adventure, age, america, angel, anniversary, celebration, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lonely Lark
The Lonely Lark

                                ...

Read More
Categories: contending, 1st grade, bird, humanity, life, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Self-Inflicted Murder
I've seen Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson 
In a bar room near my dorm on one foggy afternoon
Dr. Watson was singing, Holmes was playing the bassoon 
When a loud voice was heard that...

Read More
Categories: contending, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Love Has Gone and Left Me
Love has gone and left me

Yet the day continues on

I wake to ruminations

Plaguing me from dusk till dawn.

____________________________________

My feet now hit the carpet

As I gather up my wits

Rub my eyes and stretch my limbs

And persevere...

Read More
Categories: contending, angst, conflict, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soul Talk
The Lord created us humans to be a three-fold being.
We mortals are made to consist of body, soul, and spirit.
The body is essentially a conduit through which soul and spirit
operate. Our finest hour is when...

Read More
Categories: contending, christian, spiritual,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Finger Pointing
If you like this and believe it has merit, please try to get it to as many people as possible, through any method you have available to you. The media, congress, and We the People,...

Read More
Categories: contending, america, anger, betrayal, conflict, future, health, political,
Form: Couplet
The signs of the times according to Daniel 12:12-13 part two and Q and A
V 12 "Blessed is he who waits, and comes to one thousand three hundred and
thirty-five days.  V 13 "But you, go your way til the end; for you shall rest (your
body shall rest in...

Read More
Categories: contending, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Prose
Heavily Distraction
Heavenly Distractions
 
Heavenly distractions Gods divine guidance that will set you in an idle space of quietness
Away from all the noxious noise
Where you are only able to hear his voice commands and promises
Instilling in us...

Read More
Categories: contending, christian, faith, family, inspirational, joy, motivation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silenced Voices
Silenced Voices


                                 ...

Read More
Categories: contending, anxiety, conflict, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Wait
Each time has a special place
And every such place has its time.
When nature seethes with strangeness
Where the mind in exquisite isolation halts itself and listens
For the rumblings of a something large and not easily defined...

Read More
Categories: contending, history, imagination, introspection, life, mystery, social, light,
Form: Free verse
The Comedy House Ii: the Rats
Bewitched with irri-
tating glows,they ransacks the
purse and 'ijawo'; those rats!

Breaking news;
The Headline: "3 husky rats
ransacking the purse of the nation."
The news: As noted in the
headline of today's consciousness-leaking
news. We'll have to say this with
Annointed regret...

Read More
Categories: contending, africa,
Form: Political Verse
Story of Snowball Latham
Down in the white famed plains of Western Kentucky in the 19th century, Alpha Omega Latham was born. Days after his father was shot on the porch, was the beginning of being, and the pass...

Read More
Categories: contending, character, community, desire, dream, hero, history, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Therapeutic Homes
Consider a beehive
and/or an ant nest,
and call it holistically holonic,
egoQueen and eco-proletariat balancing regenerativity,
Beloved cycle-climaxing Community.

Now look at the manual/womanual service sector
as co-responsible co-redemptive CareGivers
and the cooperative-matriarchal Queen
and her fertile multigenerational authoritative function
as perfect CareReceiver,
co-investing...

Read More
Categories: contending, conflict, creation, culture, health, love, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Random Acts of Kindness
(alternately titled “How art thou dear reader?”)

(Inexplicably triggers domino effect
and doth indirect
lee send favorable
     ripples vibrantly unchecked.)
vagaries of an uncertain
     today or tomorrow
    ...

Read More
Categories: contending, 10th grade, 12th grade, 4th grade, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ecotone
Ecotone 

I did not plant the prairie tickseed that appeared among
The cultivated flowers of my garden and quickly dominated.
It seemed to say, “We live, still!

My house sits in a tension zone, an ecological “no man’s...

Read More
Categories: contending, environment,
Form: Free verse
Contending For Truth:Therefore Solafidaism !
Contending For Truth
                      Therefore  Solafidaism !

 
      ...

Read More
© Mc Mc  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contending, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Ode of a Kaiju King
Since the Time of Dawn,
The World Was Enriched with Nuclear Spawn,
For the Greatest Discoveries … are achieved at the Cost of Great Scientific Atrocities!
For the Enter the World of Fear, 
It will consume all you...

Read More
© Justin Wu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contending, allegory, bereavement, conflict, dark, deep, identity,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member A World Without War
The Sands of Time are
sinking,
foundation of peace
quaking,
Under the mountains of hatred
Peace finds itself
ransomed;
Human greed is overflowing,
thirst for Sapiens’ blood is growing;
Leaders on a whim are orchestrating
the wars that the nations are
fighting.

To help satisfy the egos...

Read More
© MB Farookh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: contending, future, hate, history, humanity, perspective, soldier, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHO PERFORMS WHAT HE SAYS
April 17 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 12-14
 
Key Verse – 1Kings 12:15 …For the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake…
	
FAITH IN GOD...

Read More
Categories: contending, bible, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry