Long Deems Poems
Long Deems Poems. Below are the most popular long Deems by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Deems poems by poem length and keyword.
A Free-Verse Epic
Thus it begins—
A free-verse epic
Into the mind of
A writer and an idiot—
A romantic and,
Often a pessimist
Conjoined in arbitrary glory
Are the thoughts and words
Of one overly-worked mind—
Charismatic and, of course,
On the pushover, pitiful
And usually...
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Categories:
deems, beautiful, confidence, conflict, courage, deep, freedom, love,
Form:
Free verse
Come post presidential election 2024
Come post presidential election 2024...
heil to the Wharton chief firebrand -
more worrisome than an ovarian cyst
every race, religion, nationality,
gender, creed, et cetera with impunity dissed
brigand able, eager, ready and willing
to punch contenders throwing...
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Categories:
deems, 11th grade, 12th grade, america, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
The God Complex
“The God Complex”
His face imprinted
hidden under layers of ink
he whispers his words
like a haunting breeze
dust blown off the pages
towards the back of their minds
once-in-a-while
reminding them of stories
they are eventually, all souls
book-marked
tagged...
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Categories:
deems, god, i am, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Narcissistic Sister
You are a narcissist and a gas lighter although you claim that you’re not, can’t you see inside, the decay of your soul? The turmoil, all of the rot
I guess that you can’t because...
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Categories:
deems, bullying, emotions, little sister, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetic Psychoanalyst
Plant the seeds you wish to reap.
I have planted my seed in the soil of my people.
I have no home, no earthly land,
I have no food sometimes, sometimes,
I must find the white spot in my...
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Categories:
deems, america, analogy, confusion, hate, jealousy,
Form:
Political Verse
The Lay of the Best Man - Part 2
The Lay of The Best Man - Part Two
I will not understate my distaste, but I do not hate. I rate hate as being irate
Shall I underrate the spate of your hate as you devastate;...
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Categories:
deems, humanity, men,
Form:
Lay
I Am On Fire For Poetry Soup Right Now
I know this may surprise some of you.
Not all.
It’s not going to surprise my besties.
But for others,
Let me be the bearer of a
Little surprise nugget of
Information.
I am OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE.
Some of my obsessions are:
Have as many...
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Categories:
deems, friendship love, how i feel, identity, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
If Dullness Be Your Plunder
63.
If Dullness Be Your Plunder
Speech be silence gone amiss
But if speech be ne'er to be.
Choose words with...
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Categories:
deems, angst, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
I relished being hungry for leftover Thanksgiving pop slop gloppy grub
I relished being hungry for leftover Thanksgiving pop slop gloppy grub
(a poetic partial fiction
blended, diced, fricaseed,
marinated, mixed, pureed, sautéed,
stewed... with fact)
Hmm... on second thought
lemme join anorexic club
until rib cage protrudes taut and...
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Categories:
deems, america, appreciation, blessing, celebration, family, food, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Faith As Poetry
If you have ever wondered what side of the fence you should be on consider this...
1. Christ would never not buy a gun to avoid the temptation perhaps that he might use it in fear or...
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Categories:
deems, life,
Form:
Free verse
This Body I'M In
Being an empath has its ups and downs…
Being an empath has its smiles and frowns…
I just know when people are talking behind my back…I am but a horribly lonesome shack
It’s sad that family and friends...
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Categories:
deems, angst, anxiety, emotions, endurance, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
They Called Him Hell
In a dark world where light rarely resides, you can find the one that they call Hell masked in his disguise
There he sits on his throne, and he waits for the torture he is to...
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Categories:
deems, anger, evil, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
My Dear, in Headlights
No one dead is reaching out to you
That's my voice that you hear when you're remembering all the opportunities you let go
This is the lonely road
and not only are you driving it...
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Categories:
deems, betrayal, emotions, freedom, jealousy, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Si La Vie Demande Ca By the Groupe Native
Translated: Si la vie demande ça by Laura and Chris Mayne by T. Wignesan.
If Life would not wish it otherwise
[Note: The two sister French Caribbean-Martinique Black “Blues” Swan : Laura and Chris MAYNE (lyrics...
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Categories:
deems, 7th grade, french, heartbroken, memory, poetess, relationship,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Tongue Ever So Young
An eggplant need not taste nor look like egg,
Nor in a hamburger ham need be there,
Where's pine, apple in pineapple, I beg?
Nor yet french-fries in France invented were.
They native are— American pure blood,
Wherein was born...
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Categories:
deems, language,
Form:
Free verse
German Poetry translations into English II
These are modern English translations of poems by the German poets Ingeborg Bachmann, H. Distler and Johann Georg Jacobi.
“Song”
by Johann Georg Jacobi
translation by Michael R. Burch
Friend, tell me where the violet fled,
so lately gaily...
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Categories:
deems, books, dance, dark, death, poetry, rose, song,
Form:
Free verse
Lion
The Lion roars from the highest peak it may reach
His voice covers the savanna
And all will hear His call
He calls out to the lost
To the hurt and broken
He shouts to them to lift them up
Above...
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Categories:
deems, 12th grade, christian, love, meaningful,
Form:
Personification
Lonely
I watch the passage of the sands of time
As the gold and red combine on fire in the falling sunset
Yesterday I was content
Alas my dreams now scatter unto dust
I cling in desperation try to keep...
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Categories:
deems, angstme, time, may, me, storm, time,
Form:
Sestina
Normandy
Normandy
For man to set alight his earthly pyre
was destined from the capture of the spark.
T’was mere survival harnessing its fire
to lift his primal world out of the dark.
It seared his prey, it warmed his...
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Categories:
deems, appreciation,
Form:
Sonnet
Know When To Give the Benediction
we think that we know what true worship is really all about
it's more than getting your praise on to jump up and shout
God gets excited about what is in our hearts
He's more concerned about the...
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Categories:
deems, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational, upliftinggod, god,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Graffiti Hieroglyphs
Learned or learnt not to quit ...
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Categories:
deems, on writing and wordsmay, today, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
A Song of Ascents (Part Ii)
They fashion stone or wood and in sin
Worship it adorned with silver and gold,
And that it totter not as scarecrows in
A melon patch, they fasten it hold
By hammers with nails; there it will be
With eyes...
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Categories:
deems, faith, fear, men, strength, trust,
Form:
Epic
IRONIC EXISTENCE
ronic – isn’t it…?
The very essentials we need to survive
Are the same essentials that endanger and destroy us!
The very same people we love
Are the same loved ones we hurt or hurt us –
The very same...
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Categories:
deems, irony, society,
Form:
Free verse
Dreaming of Legos Monotetra
Using Jared Picketts form Monotetra
...
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Categories:
deems, fantasy, hope, loss, time, visionary, god, city,
Form:
Free verse
Pondering the Same Old Entry
The facial expression I wear; it gives nothing away
says nothing to no one except the mirror only to scream 'HELP ME'
There's no doubt that I've been this way before
I only thought I closed the door
not...
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Categories:
deems, poetry, write, writing,
Form:
Free verse