Long Curve Poems
Long Curve Poems. Below are the most popular long Curve by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Curve poems by poem length and keyword.
Pencils In SeptemberI smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags, and nonsense lived.
You stared me in the eyes, since the...
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Categories:
curve, 3rd grade, america, betrayal, child, child abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Fairer, IndeedWOMEN ...
Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of end-
urance known to our species - yet they have the
self-confidence...
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Categories:
curve, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
Kiss* Single moments of passion can last forever ... (re-posted for a friend) *
...
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Categories:
curve, appreciation, kiss, metaphor, passion, sensual, soulmate, true
Form:
Free verse
Auschwitz RoseAuschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...
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Categories:
curve, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
Professor Glory's Active HopeThe title of this talk today,
"Win-Win Politics of New Feminist Economics"
suggests questions,
more than emasculating
definitively deductive
reductive
answers.
Would you imagine
a minority-identified Buddhist,
more likely as a feminist
or culturally comfortable
with political and economic Left-brain domination,
monopolistic competing toward total self-consuming
reiteratively...
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Categories:
curve, creation, culture, deep, environment, feelings, love, political,
Form:
Narrative
Please Consider Those Who - Not By Choice - Are Living Alone - 2nd ThirdThis is the 2nd THIRD of my 3-part poem - see Mark Stellinga on Poetry Soup for the other 2 THIRDS - couldn't be helped.
“What about neighbors,” I carefully pried...“do any of them check on...
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Categories:
curve, love, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
curve, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Thelma Lou - Both Audio and TextThe biggest funeral I've ever attended...
Thelma was a waitress at the diner on the corner of 4th and Oak, across from Ron’s DX, in Abilene.
They had an old brass register that rang when it was...
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Categories:
curve, heart, love, memory,
Form:
Narrative
kiss -Your silken skin gleams opaline,
Bathed in Luna's soft wash of azure ...
Like a porcelain Madonna by Michelangelo
Conjured to life by the magic of moonlight,
Your eyes open just long enough to affix mine
And affirm I'm in...
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Categories:
curve, kiss, passion, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Such Does ExistI ran out of breath on the road to Mumbai ...
Not for sake of dust or smog or even health. I had rounded a curve on
my motorcycle,...
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Categories:
curve, appreciation, beauty, imagery, travel, world, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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:
curve, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
This Transit RegenerationMy TransITion began there
right there
in my woodland playground,
when I first knew
something right feels wrong to others.
I was blind to curve-balls
hurled at me.
Being "It" is not why I grow
this TransIt mind and body!
Or, is it?
Could I...
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Categories:
curve, angst, birth, bullying, culture, destiny, earth, environment,
Form:
Political Verse
Open Letter To LeadersAn open letter to new legislators,
new chief executive officers,
new judges,
and all new healthy climate parents and other advocates.
When you were in the process of securing this new position in your life,
and, hopefully, the lives of...
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Categories:
curve, earth, environment, health, parents, political, psychological, thanksgiving,
Form:
Political Verse
Vacation In New OrleansWalking down the alley behind the buildings on Royal street the Mandevilla and Jasmine vines line the sidewalk calming my stressed nerves. The sweet fragrance of the flowers intoxicating my senses. My luggage...
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Categories:
curve, dark, evil, scary,
Form:
Haibun
A New MythologyThere is a new mythology emerging,
Howling from the hind end of the pack,
Scorching the composted leavings
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of flame
Showing the way for true rock & rollers.
It’s...
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Categories:
curve, allegory, mythology,
Form:
Blank verse
Essay: Darwin's Theory - Science Or Fairy TaleNot to let the air out of anyone's tire but it's really not fair to compare religious
writings to modern science. Scientific theories for one thing are models of
reality (for example) ...
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Categories:
curve, appreciation, universe,
Form:
Blank verse
My Layover Nightmare - Both Audio and TextYa' gotta feel sorry for this ding-bat -
The clouds were drifting eastward through a cool late-evening sky, as I was barreling down a road in eastern Tennessee.
Whipping through the traffic in a new...
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Categories:
curve, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Canzone Poem Form ExamplePoets Collective multi-site network
Canzone
The canzone is an Italian form with strong similarities to the sestina. There are no rhymes; instead there are five keywords that determine the structure of the poem. Every line of...
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Categories:
curve, poetry,
Form:
Canzone
Camellia - Part 1 Translation From TagoreThis is a translation from the poem "Camellia", by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel laureate Poet from India (1861 -1941) Understandably the story took place in late nineteenth century - early twentieth century Bengal.
Her name is...
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Categories:
curve, life, love,
Form:
Narrative
My Son's Poems 2 By Robert RoperMine own son
God, did bless me
sunshine that's mind
mine own heart's petals bloom
joy i did shed while i did see thee
in mine arms wast w'rthwhile
lullabies sung as thee didst lie in thy crib
meaningful mem'ries...
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Categories:
curve, love,
Form:
Free verse
Eyes of the Orient(oh, mercy ... )
amazing eye whites,
perfect and pure as glacial ice -
they draw me in,
like diving into a clear Caribbean lagoon,
fluid and cool ...
brown iris so dark in contrast,
that they're lost in the inky black...
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Categories:
curve, beauty, metaphor, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Young and StrongYoung and Strong
She was young, she was strong
Working cleaning all the day long
So much to do, but she carried that load
So concerned about everyone, at Kenmore road.
Then we moved, to Strandfontein we came
A new challenge...
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Categories:
curve, bereavement,
Form:
ABC
Hope-And a Father Is Could BeHope and…a father is could be
Against all odds and expectations
so many rules and norms and
clever theories society’s demands
cultures and conventions there is
no magic wand no miracle solution
I throw you high up in the air
and...
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Categories:
curve, childhood, fantasy, father daughter, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 69Chroí awoke early the next morning, disoriented and a bit frightened. This was not her bed . It was so big. She was tired and felt drained. Closing her eyes, thoughts...
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Categories:
curve, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Lost: For the Children of the HolocaustLost
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost—
lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight,
vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars
immeasurable...
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Categories:
curve, child, children, death, holocaust, loss, lost, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse