Long Disbelieving Poems
Long Disbelieving Poems. Below are the most popular long Disbelieving by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Disbelieving poems by poem length and keyword.
Where Does the Butterfly Go
Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Social Privy
justice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Bully Me You, I Exemplified Archetypal Scapegoat
Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
Even as an old curmudgeon, aye pucker
and raspily suction, albeit toothless mouth
drawing reminiscent guffaws affecting
(think feeble attempt
impersonating plumber plunging -
unclogging backed up toilet),
flushed with satisfaction,
now...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, anger, angst, anniversary, anti bullying, anxiety, august,
Form:
Rhyme
Irrational exuberance at respite from reading
Irrational exuberance at respite from reading...
(on a rainy May thirteenth
two thousand and twenty five)
as a balm against ennui
becoming engrossed, immersed,
and lost in space of orrery
regarding the universe created courtesy
Nora Roberts well crafted novel Montana Sky
perusing...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, adventure, america, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, sweet love,
Form:
Free verse
Finding the Plot
Finding the plot
Of lost innocence
engrained in untold memories
The silenced absence
in past present unspoken
stories well hidden
and therefore evoking
my past and my future
not mine and mine
Quite a mind-field
mines bombs blazing
artillery burning houses
My antecedent shelter of
generational tapestry
knotted...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, war,
Form:
Free verse
Bully me you I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat...
who suffered cuts by a thousand knives.
Even as old (dish) married
(spooning) curmudgeon,
who receives social security disability
linkedin with social anxiety)
chose the fork less traveled
aye pucker with...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, anger, bereavement, child abuse, family, innocence, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Antipoem 36 Silent Mercies
AntiPoem 36
“Silent Mercies”
(Poet’s Instruction: Softly play in the background Mario Lanza singing
“Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen” from Puccini’s La Boheme, while reading this AntiPoem)
A
Look over there.
See the stunned grandmother knitting,
Not speaking a word neither, nor...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, death, memory, suicide,
Form:
I do not know?
The Way My Ex-Friends Wan'T You To See
people always say to me
you clearly want to better me
succeeding whilst I fell away
conforming to normality
I don't meet or speak to people
face to face invisible
but hey, nobody knew anyway
one...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Vagaries of An Unknown Methacton High School
Nineteen Seventy-Seven Alumni
Some conspiratorial and malevolent force
must be fast at work
cranking chronology dial
an extraterrestrial force
donning, housing, loosing,
...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, angst,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Underdogs Have Their Days
Well, well, well!
The whole world knows by now, impossible dreams can come true,
In the game of professional soccer, it has just been proven at Leicester,
Starting the season with a laughable 5,000 to 1 odds of...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, appreciation, community, encouraging, football, inspiration, sports,
Form:
Free verse
Dlcw Don'T Let China Win
DLCW Dont Let China Win
For the badminton pundits in this country, there are a great many of them...
In their eyes, the greatest badminton player is Lee Chong Wei , a true Malaysian...
If you are...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, appreciation, community, dedication, international, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
frustrated
Why is it so frustrating to be frustrated?
Frustration,
a knot in the chest, a choke of the mind,
a silent scream in the loudest noise,
a dance with shadows, lost in the void.
It's the itch you can't scratch,
the...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
Black Armada
Icy seas engulf the setting sun. Fisherman turn their boats to shore, bellies full, their murderous day is done. Scores of frightened eyes stare to darkened skies in search of help that will...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, anger, animal,
Form:
Free verse
Soul's Cry
Even the stars tremble, ever so faintly, glistening
Revealing the heartbreak beneath the breath,
Stars, still as night, they listen…
Beyond the shudders, the tremulous sighs,
Disturbing the silent prayers of dusk,
Aching to invite the shadows, from their...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, appreciation, blessing, christian, light, stars,
Form:
Free verse
....Darkness Falls....
Do you really think, that I am going to trade my eternal soul,
for your bowl of germ infested puke? Think again!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
O' sullen sullies of darkness....
How you often paint yourself so very innocent and pretty
While...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, visionary
Form:
I do not know?
Setting Yourself Free
Setting Yourself Free
Searching exhaustively for the truth in everything one is taught by others.
Extensively evaluating all things in order to find which path to take.
Thoroughly questioning anything that one is informed by anyone, instead of...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, peace, philosophy, recovery from..., life, world, life,
Form:
Acrostic
Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
Even as old (dish) married
(spooning) curmudgeon,
who receives social security disability
linkedin with social anxiety)
chose the fork less traveled
aye pucker with sunken cheeks,
(especially without dentures)
and raspily suction...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse
Unnamed
Constantly shaking on edge feel at risk
My insides feel like they got caught up in a whisk
The aches and pains that define my days
Take over my life in so many ways
My...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, cry, how i feel, pain, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Fantasy of the Woods
Barefoot, I stepped on the twigs and the dry leaves,
Loving the cracking sound they make as they break,
Hating the noise at the same time,
As, they might wake those sleeping monsters
From whom I was running!
Barefoot, I...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, faith, life, love, mystery, soulmate,
Form:
Narrative
In the Suspended Time
In the suspended time
In the suspended time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve,
I think of you.
Time has passed, much time, and you have said in
Clear words of silence, that you wish me...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, memory,
Form:
Blank verse
Comatose To Life
Comatose To Life
Somewhere on a small island called Penang, historically known as the Pearl Of The Orient…
There is a heartwarming tale of how tender loving care revived a comatose patient…
The patient is a fully qualified...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, devotion, giving, inspiration, meaningful, miracle, recovery from,
Form:
Narrative
Testimony
Distressed, I attest,
Like not blessed,
A voice in my head,
Said out of bed,
So I was led to
A quiet church,
As owls sang out,
Midnight gone tombs,
And my tears appeared,
Death beckoned long
finger nails of distraction,
And so I gazed upon...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, christian, death, faith, gospel, jesus, judgement, true
Form:
Concrete
The Live-in -- Part 1 of 3
Six months gone now since that dark night, I was kitchen-bound for a bite
Hoping I in icebox there a slice of pumpkin pie could score –
While I searched, I heard a ringing, an insistent ding-a-linging,
Louder...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, fun, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Bully Me You, I Exemplified Archetypal Scapegoat
Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat
Even as old curmudgeon, aye pucker
and raspily suction toothless mouth
drawing reminiscent guffaws affecting
attempt impersonating plumber
(think unclogging toilet)
please support your local bummer
back in the day one
long haired pencil neck geeks...
Read More
Categories:
disbelieving, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse,
Form:
Bio