Long Disappointing Poems
Long Disappointing Poems. Below are the most popular long Disappointing by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Disappointing poems by poem length and keyword.
More Pickles Than One
For ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple, so there can be no excuse,
that the pickles in this...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Rilke Translations Ii
Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke Translation
Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy Tale
Once Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia
This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them.
Why they hang about, instead of scurrying off.
A reluctant snake...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, fairy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Misguided Meditations
I am sorry
about my judgmental,
sadly disdainful,
tone
in earlier messages.
Even worse,
I remain embarrassed
for spreading it out
for key staff
and leaders
to well-positioned see
and hear
and feel,
touched by wounded toxicity.
My training
and experience
includes victimized by homophobia
and healing through community mediation.
Within this...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, anxiety, appreciation, health, humor, motivation, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
The Poo Poo Bird
They pursued it with vigor, they pursued it with crass
They hunted with valor and hope
They proceeded with a dose of good Knightly sass
They chased it with tackle and rope
Now King Arthur declared in a boisterous...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, abortion, adventure, funny, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon A Christian Time
Once upon a Roman Empire building time
a brilliantly pleasing boy was born
of humble Jewish means,
named Jesus.
Born into autocratic occupation,
to avoid military police threats
of mass Jewish male child murder,
Jesus and his mom and dad
became...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, christian, culture, humanity, integrity, jesus, jewish, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Once Upon a Time In Tipir
It was noon, he was in the bush, he enjoyed this type of living, he sometimes played with the animals just to make himself happy and spend some time, Leisure and embraced them all as...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, africa, age, animal, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy Translation
This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Santa We've Been Outta Touch
Santa Claus, we’ve been out of touch
and I don’t ask for very much
but I have needs, and I’m in Dutch
I want to see the light of day
oh, and can you give me a...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, crazy, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Rabindranath Tagore Translations Ii
Patience
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
If you refuse to speak, I will fill my heart with your silence and endure it.
I will remain still and wait like the night through its starry vigil
with...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, dark, heart, night, silence, spoken word, stars,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 59
“I must say, Rian,” Joulupukki addressed the Dark Elf. “I find you a bit disappointing. From all of the stories I've heard, I expected so much more from you.”
“I...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Gold Is Your Soul
Gold is your soul
The drive there will be boring.
The arrival so momentous!
The disappointing greeters;
The sights not quite as expected.
The smell at times will be rancid.
The art of it all will be lost.
They will say “Welcome...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, art, journey, music, paris, romance, solitude,
Form:
Bio
Sought Deliverance
Listen to the encouragement in mind
And the people say it for you to find
Relief from the grief due to trials in its prime
You can be who you want to be, yes, this time…
I...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, deep, desire, emotions, encouraging, pain, passion, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Claustrophobic Centers
Much has been felt
then written
about loneliness at the top
Less written,
yet perhaps far more often felt,
about claustrophobia in the center.
Problems with delegation,
boundaries,
predictable timelines,
responsive management focus,
follow through performance,
closeted partisanship,
competitions to be heard
listened to
appreciated
respected
for our therapeutic,
and not...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, appreciation, games, happiness, health, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Anthrosupremacist Questions
S/he wonders why
when we breathe in
our left sides
feel right mind dominant
when our rights inside
feel LeftBrain capital deviated,
Dysfunctional
disappointing
disharmonious
sad and lonely
dissonant
disturbed
unbalanced
uneased
Constipated
blocked
trumped
Stuck
obstructed
oppressed
suppressed
repressed
not fluently holistically impressed,
Pressured
disabled
disenabled
feminized
marginalized
enslaved
disempowered
Unenlightened
unarticulated
not understanding
not cooperatively experiencing
co-investing in questioning
Why we continue longing
for bicameral win/win engagement
of all...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, environment, health, integrity, light, loneliness, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Bad Boy Gone Good
Your life is a sandwich with many layers
Your knife slaughtered me as you bewitch my mind with thought-slayers
Coming undone by this bleeding hate-love relationship
You tease me with insults that make me wanna cry, but...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, deep, depression, happiness, boy,
Form:
Free verse
Family Gardeners
I've noticed
since early years on the family farm
with large matriarchally planted and harvested gardens,
that food,
for moms,
is a natural,
and yet also spiritual,
communion relationship.
Nutrition evolves from and for communal relatives
of which we are ourselves made
and nurtured into...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, caregiving, earth, garden, gender, health, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills
Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills...,
and finally gung-ho with a poem title
important to yours truly
not disappointing his Facebook fan base,
which electronic affirmation,
and confirmation, breeds gratification
analogous to being
the proud papa begetting offspring
progeny growing up at...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, absence, africa, animal, baby, creation, miracle, race,
Form:
Free verse
Anger Management
I'm rereading Marshall Rosenberg's chapter on Anger,
The big challenge for nonviolent communicators.
Marshall, a StraightWhiteMale psychotherapist,
repeatedly refers to feeling disappointment
escalating into Loser-shamed anger
sometimes further escalating into defensive
red-hot blaming Rage
risking lose/lose nihilistic outcomes for oneself
and anyone in...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, anger, community, conflict, family, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
The Queen Is Alive But the King Is Dead
At the time I thought I was in love
At the time I thought there was no one who could come above
What we had all those days we spent
All those days when I...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
chinese soup
( a college life vignette)
It’s Thursday morning, usually no one’s favorite, but this one seems sugary new, as if beamed in from a different, better universe. The clouds look fluffy and freshly washed.
Even the freshmen,...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, father, father daughter, friendship, happy, humor, school,
Form:
Free verse
Circa Sixty One Years Ago July 6th 2001
Circa sixty one years ago July 6th, 2001 -
birth of dear beloved wife
We now get along swimmingly
analogous to this bro and his older sis
on the cusp of our gifted silver married years
if her presence absent,...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, birthday, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Moments
Recalling moments stored in memories with people I miss
Staring at a star-filled sky sometimes it's nice to reminisce
Seems like it was yesterday if only a short while
Cruising along my own time machine with thoughts that...
Read More
Categories:
disappointing, life, memory,
Form:
Rhyme