Long Dialect Poems
Long Dialect Poems. Below are the most popular long Dialect by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Dialect poems by poem length and keyword.
Revolutionary StoryThey called their gang The ReVolutionaries,
my Father Sun and Mother Earth drew time with them,
but they often called themselves Yang and Yin,
respectively and mutually respectful
yet privately erotic,
not so much politically and economically
where Yang could not...
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Categories:
dialect, health, humor, joy, life, love, political, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar TranslationSweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
dialect, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
The Crow Ghost of Haunting FootstepsBreak my neck; snap it in two, snap it in half
don't give me that incredulous, frightened look as I ask
don't hesitate in front of me, please just do me this favor
so I gain a halo,...
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Categories:
dialect, i love you, i miss you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Deep CoMessianic EngagementMs. Real Time,
an often engaging Taoist,
but sometimes, admittedly, not so much,
more of a disengaged cannibal really
on her dark time of before and after
her Taoist stimulating period
if you know what I winterish mean.
Anyway,
Ms. Real Time
invited her...
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Categories:
dialect, adventure, birth, earth, language, religion, space, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
My Eyes the Painting Photograph In the Sky- -"I am a painter and my eyes are the paint brushes I had if I look up with my open eye I see the Horizon I see the clouds to be continued
Oh shutter as I...
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Categories:
dialect, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Giant of LisbellawStood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
dialect, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
To Help a Hob - Part 1There "he" stood in front of me, the deep forest behind him framing
His ancient face like an emerald halo, the growing dark of dusk getting
Deeper by the moment. He was no more than two-and-a-half feet...
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Categories:
dialect, adventure, mystery, myth, mythology, travel,
Form:
Free verse
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:
dialect, poetry,
Form:
Canzone
My Day Part 2 Continued From Part 1Continued From My Day Part1
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Just as I thought of it a little old woman stumbled up beside me and greeted me with a funny dialect
I had to listen hard to understand the content of...
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Categories:
dialect, adventure, appreciation, beauty, blessing, community, courage, desire,
Form:
Narrative
Singing and Dancing In BalanceWhat I care about
and what I am working
and even playing hard with
is better understanding what and how
we and Earth
communicate to and with each other,
regenerating mindbody health sometimes,
and yet degenerating pathological climates and subclimates,
gestalts,
ecopolitical chemistry puzzles...
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Categories:
dialect, art, community, depression, faith, feelings, health, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Darzet Countree Lad Be OiOi be nowt but an auld country hick,
we a liddle bit of gall, an a lotta stick.
Oi baint niver afeared to speak me mind,
nor critizise folks harshly iffen Oi find
zummit I don’t loik. Tis...
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Categories:
dialect, immigration, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Perseverance and JoyPassion and compassion vibes flow
Let the flowers grow, you know?
Yes, you know...because it’s shown
In your oceanic eyes...it’s like an ice cream with its favorite cone...it’s flavorful and all alone
Your voice is depicted in shimmering, scrumptious...
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Categories:
dialect, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Healthy Learning ClimatesIt appears that Feyerabend presents a more accurate normative gestalt
for RightBrain epistemology,
how RightBrain solves chaotic puzzles,
while Popper is better for LeftBrain deduction,
diastolic evolving unfolding
of syllogistic logic.
Together evolving toward a dipolar truth
of balancing flexibiity
trending toward regenerative...
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Categories:
dialect, earth, health, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Ballad of CircumlocutionIn realms where thought and tempests meet
where shifting sands outpace the feet
a creature stirs with cunning guise
Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies
its words like desert viper’s sting
they strike the heart then coil and cling.
Through jungles thick...
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Categories:
dialect, allegory, allusion, confusion, philosophy, society, vanity,
Form:
Ballad
Resurrection Machine
In the purple shadows of the black's monoliths, where an ancient echo calls forth, at the blurry forge of "Ralkon Dis",
a salient dragon from mystery's petra cliffs drifts you...
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Categories:
dialect, art,
Form:
Rhyme
William Dunbar: Lament For the Makaris TranslationLament for the Makaris ("Lament for the Makers/Poets")
by William Dunbar [c. 1460-1530]
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
i who enjoyed good health and gladness
am overwhelmed now by life’s terrible sickness
and enfeebled with infirmity ...
how the...
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Categories:
dialect, death, evil, fear, poets, sorrow, sympathy, writing,
Form:
Elegy
Adept Anglophone pines to learn Yiddish as a second languageAdept Anglophone pines to learn Yiddish as a second language
When alive colorful turns of phrases
uttered courtesy my father or mother
whose ability to describe a situation
perfectly verbalized and couched by
a dialect of High German including
some Hebrew...
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Categories:
dialect, 6th grade, adventure, america, anniversary, celebration, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Red Sky At NightOnce upon a nightime grim
all creatures of Earth dreamed
our Mother was not enough for everyone,
just "me."
This collective nightmare thunderously rolled out
dark implications:
Earth is insufficient for our needs!
We live in Closed Systems of immunity,
heading toward decay!
EarthTribe...
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Categories:
dialect, earth, forgiveness, freedom, health, peace, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
Robert Burns Translation: To a MouseTo a Mouse
by Robert Burns
translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Sleek, tiny, timorous, cowering beast,
Why’s such panic in your breast?
Why dash away, so quick, so rash,
In a frenzied flash
When I would be loath to run after you
With...
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Categories:
dialect, animal, farm, home, house, life, nature, sympathy,
Form:
Verse
Grandmother Moon: Philosopher of LawI declare,
said Grandmother Moon,
in a distinct correlational dialect
of new to full moon recycling health,
You have the right to remain free
of annoying monotheistic waste-stream Authorities.
Waste-stream Authorities...
And who would be responsible
in that LoseLose way?
I was asking about...
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Categories:
dialect, culture, games, health, humanity, humor, integrity, judgement,
Form:
Political Verse
Glorious DayGoodness filling up souls, and pouring back out
Love, filling cups that quench thirsts of all doubt
...
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Categories:
dialect, christian,
Form:
Acrostic
Shade TreeThe crinkle in her hair
The bends of her waste
The fullness of her lips
I recognize as she sits under the shade of that tree
The dip in his step
Wave breaks of his hair
And the dialect...
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Categories:
dialect, black love, discrimination, feelings, identity, race, racism,
Form:
Rhyme
So much Love to give O beloved rose in my
garden of fairy-lamps,
would you bloom in hues of stardust?
let the daffodil moon
envy this fragrant field of
immortal lyrics~
for I’ll treat you with kindness,
scatter...
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Categories:
dialect, break up, fantasy, heartbroken, love,
Form:
Free verse
Deceiving Bird CallsFor as long as I remember I’ve had this avicultural fad;
keeping birds in planted aviaries from the day I was a lad.
Caging prolific zebra finches to the pretty Whydah bird.
Bred Strawberries and Cutthroats...
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Categories:
dialect, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Deceiving Bird CallsFor as long as I remember I’ve had this avicultural fad;
keeping birds in planted aviaries from the day I was a lad.
Caging prolific zebra finches to the pretty Whydah bird.
Bred Strawberries and Cutthroats...
Read More
Categories:
dialect, humor,
Form:
Rhyme