Long Cradles Poems
Long Cradles Poems. Below are the most popular long Cradles by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Cradles poems by poem length and keyword.
Transmigration of the WindThe strong gust of wind was cut off from its source; a frigid early spring blast that swept across a lofty mountain range, high above British Columbia.
It then encircled one of the lesser peaks and...
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Categories:
cradles, imagery, journey, nature, sky, spring, water, wind,
Form:
Prose
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 2I awoke the next day, with a soft smile,
Not awakened by the screeching and the moaning of the demons beside,
But of the intense breathing of my collaborator,
Crouching above me, glaring me down with eyes abhorred
Though...
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Categories:
cradles, adventure, beauty, change, confusion, courage, deep, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 3They say the one you think of last before sleep,
Is the one you care for the most— the one you wish to hold, admire, love…
The two of us…beings of bravery,
Had labored all the night,
In...
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Categories:
cradles, adventure, allegory, anxiety, art, friendship, sympathy, time,
Form:
Free verse
O' BaobabO' Baobab! O' Baobab! O' Baobab
Ace of the furnace, finest of the dynasty
You strut your breast high
And ply strain against the yearn,
Against the fire, the desire for sigh
Haughty, you stand, before the...
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Categories:
cradles, africa, mystery, myth, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Spirits In the WoodStanding all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken and rustle.
Bristlecone pines ever sway slowly,
while pockets of air blush...
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Categories:
cradles, death, earth, fantasy, sin, sound, spiritual, tree,
Form:
Free verse
A Big Welcome To Soup CreekIf you're passing by Soup Creek our peace loving town
Do pay us a visit but wear a big smile not a frown
Our town is open to everybody all colours and creed
But check in your guns...
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Categories:
cradles, america, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
home again -
I am home ...
oh, my heart
pray, hush its cadence
for the sacred sake of unsated thirst
beg its thrums...
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Categories:
cradles, heart, loneliness, lost love, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Heavencatapulted by a magic trampoline I pass the gates of heaven
no border control
...
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Categories:
cradles, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
RumpelstiltskinBurn, burn does fables fire, as an impish figure dances,
Around the wild flames of greed, guess, guess my
Uncommon name, by the devil’s hang nailed toe,
Your never guess it mortal woman, and so your
Royal child will...
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Categories:
cradles, fantasy, gothic, halloween, history, holiday, imagery, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Life IsAt this very moment, no one has successfully defined what Life truly is, so
every fleeting second that passes, one breathing being at a time, tries
...
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Categories:
cradles, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Mindgames, Figs and a Dictionary
“Mindgames, Figs and a Dictionary”
Have you ever wondered
where you’d be
if there were absolutely no
dictionaries?
You could make up almost any word
and give it any meaning.
Like Figs are jewels for chewing on
and words are...
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Categories:
cradles, daughter, love, magic, mother, mother daughter, my
Form:
Free verse
Jigsaw Puzzle(Manifesto)
VIII … stop! - Skid! - Shift knobs, slide gears, vomit numbness, fondle!… the music of
guillotines!…
VII … unmannered retching! since everything is a percentage of death in motel prayer-nights
separated from unholy...
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Categories:
cradles, socialdark, dark, love, giggle,
Form:
Free verse
Beneath the Oak TreeI kneel to pray beneath an oak tree’s leaves,
where my journey began.
Broken limbs straggle over a patchy lawn,
a neglected place full of holes,
shoveled from childhood memories.
I bow at the altar of the tall oak.
Days...
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Categories:
cradles, childhood, courage, faith, prayer, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Home To ElysiumThis is a poem I wrote about the struggles of mainly coal miners the industrial revolution and the hardships and luxuries of both the poor and the entitled rich .
Home To Elysium
Like potent perfume pervades...
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Categories:
cradles, deep, destiny, discrimination, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
Flesh WoundsThe mirror reflects a lifetime etched upon my skin; a canvas of stories whispered through maturity. I stand before it, middle-aged and exposed, my nakedness laid bare. My image holds no judgment, only truth—an unyielding...
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Categories:
cradles, appreciation, beauty, body, growth, perspective, self, woman,
Form:
Free verse
The Revenant pt 2 - LeviaethanThe Revenant pt. 2 - Leviæthan
I
'neath the grim pallor of a...
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Categories:
cradles, anger, betrayal, dark, dream, gothic, horror, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
Chanting Vibes In Bangla, I SingChanting vibes in Bangla, I sing
Bengali, words confluence in lyrical verse
O glory be! I envision thee in inner me
I caress thee in remotest pristine Bangla waterfalls.
Chanting vibes in Bangla, I sing
Bengali, words confluence in lyrical...
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Categories:
cradles, bangla, song, sound,
Form:
Free verse
Children of GuernicaChildren of Guernica
Children of Guernica .
In deserts of no mans land
children play among the dead
killer themes from killer kings
what is the song they sing
comes raining down in
shrews of...
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Categories:
cradles, war, , western,
Form:
Free verse
Paper Buckles 5 - 64.
on this spine
having a mouth of crocodile
always jump down
the climate
everyday
the sunglass changes
look at the soil and the sky
no one of them has any body-guard
the...
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Categories:
cradles, fantasyblue, flying, girl, horse, may, yellow,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Pieces of Mea ball is stuck in rafters by a pool waiting
as long as I have been coming
for 7 years on tender hooks as clouds drift by
...
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Categories:
cradles, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
A Unicorn SpellOpening wings spreading out
one pure beautiful image in beholding
Gracefully embracing inside visions
greeting Mother of pearl shimmering rainbow hues
Her horn sparkling tipped diamond
Under the moonlight silver gleams
Her silhouette reflecting light
Princess wearing...
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Categories:
cradles, beautiful, beauty, love, paradise, romance, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Existencebetween new nightmares
and day dreams
of a better life
lay reality resurfaced
tight with taut brutality
unspeakable thoughts drift
down through time's flash
triggered not there
not then
but now and here
her mind digs through fear
as she sinks
slight form down
crisp skirt's rustle...
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Categories:
cradles, conflict, courage, dark, hope,
Form:
Alliteration
The Wasteland -Part 2-
A long time passes and I am still here
Silently insulting, brutally weeping
But then I lift my head from the ground
To see him standing there
Towering over me in all endeavor of quietude
Was he there the entire...
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Categories:
cradles, adventure, allegory, angst, art, childhood, confusion, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Living In the MiddleWe are living in the middle, you and I,
between butterfly beginnings - ethereal endings.
Despite Natural Law, I'm persuaded to pause;
if possible, dear, let chrysalis continue ...
Timothy Levi Hicks
Living in the Middle
Rules of life restrict us...
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Categories:
cradles, destiny, dream, happiness, love, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
elegy, ours -
the stars weep ...
but not for heaven
they weep for vacant eyes
and hearts of parched desire
with tears untold ...
and uncounted
for where is the hunger -
the yearning for substance
that sets tongues afire?
where are souls that ache for
a...
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Categories:
cradles, analogy, appreciation, life, loss, love, romance, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse