Long Devised Poems
Long Devised Poems. Below are the most popular long Devised by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Devised poems by poem length and keyword.
Letters For People Part 4Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
devised, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal MomentImpossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
devised, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 95 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Just Summertime Birthday CelebrationsThe kid who often was lost in
The sauce Joshua! His
birthday was in June. He became
The strong silent youngster with
The youngest kids.
A small Celebration was held in
Josh's honor party at...
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Categories:
devised, birth, black love, children, confidence, devotion, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
Old Pharaoh - 1 of 2Old Pharaoh had enslaved the Jews; he would not let them go.
So God devised a mighty scheme; his go-to guy was Mo.
His brother Aaron was the voice, for Moses talked real slow,
So he would wave...
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Categories:
devised, bible,
Form:
Ballad
Kidnapped By AliensThey had kept me imprisoned there for three full days,
In that sparse, solitary room, of scarce sunshine rays.
Having good food to eat, had never been a problem;
They brought hot meals, but the problem was...
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Categories:
devised, adventure, earth, fantasy, imagery, space, stars,
Form:
Couplet
Artificial Iris
"Artificial Iris"
Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar,
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pages of hardcopy in school
were aptly ignored -
however,
our Overlords were...
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Categories:
devised, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
All Is Fair In Love and War - Right“I prob’ly shouldn’t be telling you, Marge, but...knowing I can count on you to never tell another soul...get a load of this!
Just as I was hoping, my biggest prayer was answered - and after barely...
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Categories:
devised, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
God's Bag of SugarGod's bag of sugar
Burst all over the North
The sweet scent of the stars are pleasant to the eyes.
The limiltless strength of the belt of Orion
Three stars in one belt,
That only God can bind
Bring...
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Categories:
devised, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
De'Ja Vu - Wuthering Heights - 2nd HalfHere's the deal...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
The 1st...
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Categories:
devised, betrayal, funny, humor, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends of galaxies
May it become the ‘Swan Song Poem’ of all...
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Categories:
devised, beautiful, peace, star,
Form:
Verse
The Three Enigmas of TurandotThe three enigmas of Turandot
The well of souls run deep in fabled lands of old.
Of China's ancient dynasty and the lost Great Tartary,
a ballad of love and loss that must be told.
The Emperor's daughter,...
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Categories:
devised, crush, longing, love, moon, romantic love, sad
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
devised, emotions, friend, god, humanity, inspirational, peace, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
That Spark of HopeA little girl lost her home this year, for her, Christmas wouldn't be there.
Her family was angry from all the troubles, they simply couldn't repair.
Don’t bother us about presents her parents said, they were depressed...
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Categories:
devised, christmas, conflict, confusion, depression, devotion, dream, emotions,
Form:
Narrative
Domestic MaskI see a rose wilting by the darkness of an abusive husband/
And I feel guilty just standing by and not doing something/
I’m proving nothing with my inactivity and hollow words/
Truth is hard to swallow but...
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Categories:
devised, abuse, dark, poetry, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Where My Soul BelongsWhile a part of my soul longs,
To be carried away,
Far far,
From myself,
To another world,
To a mountain top,
To a lonely place,
To where the air is thin and light,
To where sensations stop,
To where feelings end,
To where noise...
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Categories:
devised, identity,
Form:
Free verse
To a Dead Mouse
I
Friend, whatever brought your life to end
had no appetite for mouse flesh, nudged your
small gray body on its side with a thorough sniff
and left your corpse exposed on the asphalt path,
then, for reasons of its...
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Categories:
devised, in memoriam,
Form:
Free verse
Progressive Reading BrunchChapter 1: Deneen's Failed Liberalism (Revised Version)
Developing progressivism
within liberalism
further iterates pervasive presentism
of win/win
past through future multiculturalism,
A healing timelessness,
progressivism grounds deep attachment
toward our most sensory-nutritional past,
Particularly radical cooperative customs
and multiculturally bilateral geocentric traditions.
While widely understood to...
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Categories:
devised, caregiving, creation, culture, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
I Don'T Think Prissy Is Pretty At AllPriscilla Penelope Thurston was a young Brazilian beauty with jet black eyes and amber skin that shown like a natural pearl.
You didn’t need to look real hard to know, by any measure, that Prissy was,...
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Categories:
devised, desire, lost love,
Form:
Narrative
To Question ExistenceIsn't our quality of life greatly subject to how we view our world and what happens in it?
I heard someone say recently, (and I agree), that nature is one of the most beautiful things we...
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Categories:
devised, appreciation, beauty, earth, humanity, nature, ocean, world,
Form:
Free verse
God's Utopian ChurchI was listening to a Christian theologian friend of mine
speaking about the Messiah's,
and St. Paul's,
original intention when singing praises of God's here/not-here Kingdom,
and potential as a multiculturally inclusive Church,
as a countercultural extending family,
creolizing out to...
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Categories:
devised, christian, culture, education, health, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Categories:
devised, america, cry,
Form:
Personification
Unquotable Quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads - Xxxvii Part TwoUnquotable quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads – XXXVII
An adulterous couple soon make lying, cheating and downright treachery (not to mention their role as carriers of germs within the orbit of the family) the principal...
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Categories:
devised, girl, mother, mother daughter, mother son, nature,
Form:
Epigram
My Coping Method Fraught With Utmost Futility ThusMy coping method fraught with utmost futility thus...
My professional treatment plan
predicated upon duress in extremis
hence Electroconvulsive therapy,
a last ditch effort I avail
and surrender self qua
to shock the monkey (me)
one (twenty first century)
obstinate bipedal hominid turncoat
optioned,...
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Categories:
devised, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence, abuse, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
When Nature's Best Is Not At All That GoodThe ecosystem’s perfect design
A providence of the Great Divine.
A holistic balance that should not fail
If well-taken-cared of by those that dwell.
The atmosphere was just enough
To sustain the living and its habitat.
Green vegetations were all around
And...
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Categories:
devised, earth day, life, natural disasters, nature, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Quality CultureA
Desire
For Good
For Order
For Equalities
Humans have lately drawn
Devised - A “Quality Culture”
Now there is A Crack in the structure
Hacked Humans. Statistics...
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Categories:
devised, culture, technology,
Form:
Concrete