Long Coursed Poems
Long Coursed Poems. Below are the most popular long Coursed by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Coursed poems by poem length and keyword.
Fully Employed NowHumanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...
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Categories:
coursed, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Unidentified Extraterrestrials Willingly Abducted MeUnidentified extraterrestrial(s) willingly abducted me
As a divergence
from the apocalyptical, dialectical,
geomorphological, judgmatical,
metaphorical, philosophical...,
I share an out of this
(webbed wide) world,
light hearted anecdote
ye may find far fetched.
Believe me you,
an unspecified number of...
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Categories:
coursed, absence, adventure, august, blessing, confusion, courage, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Tiny Town Events - 2nd Half -- Text With IllustrationTHIS IS THE SECOND 1/2 of my "Tiny Town Events" piece, posted separately, (one half at a time), due to Poetry Soup's poem maximum-length requirement.
To enjoy the entire story, you'll need to first go to...
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Categories:
coursed, love,
Form:
Narrative
Where Gladiators FoughtPart I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night is throbbing with the heat of our battle,
our...
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Categories:
coursed, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
Unidentified Flying Object Abducted Yours Truly,Unidentified flying object abducted yours truly,...
a willing experimental subject
to escape untenable married life.
Upon falling into a deep slumber,
the following subconscious
somnambulant scenario arose
allowing, enabling, and providing
temporary alleviation from
outa harried...
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Categories:
coursed, absence, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, courage, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
This Is No FableI was relaxing in my sunroom, one very peaceful afternoon,
Enjoying the fables of Aesop, and all the flowers abloom.
The view from the many windows, was gold sunshiny delight,
With blossoms and rich greenery, and many birds...
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Categories:
coursed, adventure, animal, fantasy, flower, imagery, life, tree,
Form:
Couplet
And Still I Drive - Part TwoStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...
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Categories:
coursed, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
The Accomplice - Both Audio and TextThis is a very sad tale, indeed. Does anything hurt more than a shattered heart?
You asked me for a story from the days of long ago, of unrequited love…of broken hearts…and love betrayed.
This brings...
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Categories:
coursed, anger, gothic, hurt, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
Road TripTime for a road trip, my dad, mom and us three kids all packed into our old station wagon. I guess it wasn't so old but it sure seemed that way at the time....
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Categories:
coursed, memory,
Form:
Prose
Victims of Another Desert's TaleThis piece was inspired by a journal left behind by an adventurous young man that elected to take his wife and two young children, by ox-drawn wagon, to California, in the early 1850s, expecting to...
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Categories:
coursed, sad,
Form:
Narrative
T SalamanderT Salamander enjoyed local fame
down by the creek, there with her daughter.
Prided herself on her inky black frame,
bathing each day in the cool, brackish water.
She set amphibious cold-blooded hearts
on fire, exploding, through black magic arts.
All...
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Categories:
coursed, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
He Touched MeDo you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it corrodes your soul
To see how the stench that follows your...
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Categories:
coursed, miracle,
Form:
Free verse
The Boadicea Blood Cup
"The Boadicea Blood Cup"
Didst thou think? Didst thou?
Didst thou think, at all?
That thou would remain untouched, unchecked, unscathed
Safely locked up away from mine wrath and thee, thy self-made grave?
Imprisoned in your Dark Lost Woods of...
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Categories:
coursed, daughter, home, lost love, love, magic, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Type, CastHe crafted word ...
all plucked delicately
like the petals pulled for a vinok
precious and pink and pulpy
wove them, giv'n a similar grace
not for vanity, mind you ... or even title
but to stir the cockles
a soul-or-two ......
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Categories:
coursed, analogy, art, creation, introspection, lost love,
Form:
Epic
NietzschePain is everywhere
Springing from the crown
Of the head and like jellyfish
Expanding proboscis
Cover the whole body
Till the end of the toes
He collapses in epilepsy
And lays there on the cold floor
For the whole day
Till the...
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Categories:
coursed, anger, anxiety, deep, philosophy, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
NietzschePain is everywhere
Springing from the crown
Of the head and like jellyfish
Expanding proboscis
Cover the whole body
Till the end of the toes
He collapses in epilepsy
And lays there on the cold floor
For the whole day
Till the...
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Categories:
coursed, philosophy,
Form:
ABC
Letter To My MotherRealizing a fresh life growing inside,
What thoughts coursed through your mind,
I still wonder, oh dear my mom.
Did you gleefully welcome the news?
Or respond to it with a violent shock?
So sure, right away...
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Categories:
coursed, angst, birth, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
An Act of Courage and FaithI nudged my way through the throng of women and positioned myself at the starting line—an archway of variegated pink balloons. It was mid-October, and a stiff autumn breeze swirled around my body numbing...
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Categories:
coursed, courage, faith, inspirational,
Form:
Haibun
Matthew O' Harris Ease a Fake IrishmanMatthew O' Harris Ease A "FAKE" Irishman
Since adopting the guise
of Norwegian bachelor farmer,
I may as well fabricate genetic stock
lock, and barrel linkedin to Celtic legend.
Sentimentalism invariably swelled me bosom
regarding how grown former bonny lad,
essentially mutely...
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Categories:
coursed, adventure, america, anniversary, appreciation, celebration, color, green,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Marcel Moreau's Je T'Ecris By T WignesanTranslation of Marcel Moreau's " Je t'écris " by T. Wignesan
I WRITE TO YOU
I choose green ink to write to you
For Love does not prescribe any one hue
In the hope you might take shape
When desire...
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Categories:
coursed, break up, depression, green, heartbreak, i love
Form:
Quatrain
Big Ticket* For basketball legend Kevin Garnett *
Intensity ... defined
excuses were for gods and gamblers
(lesser giants with fairer feuds)
HE ... was of a wholly-invested mettle and mind
the conscript of a checkered court
dauntless defender of glass and...
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Categories:
coursed, analogy, basketball, dedication, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Portrait In Indigo -She Dreamed of Icarus**~~**
She seemed to be like a delicate portrait
which had fallen from its gilded frame
Abandoned, lying face down on the cold winter floor
An elegant portrait once painted
In resplendent hues...
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Categories:
coursed, allegory, angst, loss, sad, heart, winter, blue,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
TravellerShe came upon me in a dream deep down from within my destination
Which coursed the mind and soul of years for my memories' inspiration
The path was crowded with bouncing hooves and wagons decorated
With fantasies ornaments...
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Categories:
coursed, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
She Dreamed of Icarus- Portrait In IndigoShe seemed to be like a portrait...
which had fallen from its gilded frame
Abandoned...
Lying face down on the empty, cold wintry floor.
An elegantly created portrait once painted in striking...
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Categories:
coursed, life, loss, mystery, heart, heart, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Polar Ice CapWhat If There Was No Tomorrow? - The Polar Ice ‘Cap’
- this time it’s burnt and curled upon a new head. The
sweet smoke of his sugarloaf effigy black as night,
surrounded by a material...
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Categories:
coursed, analogy,
Form:
Free verse