Long Doer Poems
Long Doer Poems. Below are the most popular long Doer by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Doer poems by poem length and keyword.
How Time FliesIntro/read aloud:
You deserve a bro hug and a friendly pat...
That's the spirit - keep going forward
You're getting back of track...I'll try to encourage you without acting awkward...
I leave your side
Without a word...
I can't help,...
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Categories:
doer, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Lyric
Medieval Poems IvMedieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
doer, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Chaucer Translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
doer, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems VMedieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
doer, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
doer, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sun God's Original IdeaI'm not much of a writer,
more of an activist,
a doer,
timeless doing.
Anyway, my Yang side,
which you AnthroTribes might recognize as EcoJustice,
emerges from my PositiveYang/NegativeYin Balancing
compassionate/revenge YinFractal-Dialectical DiPolar
appositional
negative co-relational,
co-arising side.
Just as my Yin Compassionate/Immune Empathetic/Aptic Elation
emerges...
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Categories:
doer, earth, health, sun, time, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Ultimate Truth“I have five friends; a Christian, a Buddhist, a Sikh, a Hindu and a Muslim. Each speaks of a different God or truth. Who should I believe?”
“Belief? Is that not a mind game? Is not...
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Categories:
doer, god, religion, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Free verse
I Said, He SaidFinding a new hiding place
the grass cutters cherish
not taking advantage is deemed extremely foolish.
Taking note of the lady who seems Scottish
and protected by her beauty and charisma
is a situation meant for me to...
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Categories:
doer, character, conflict, culture,
Form:
Prose
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 15:7
15.7
“You are That in which the universe appears
like waves appearing in the ocean
You are Consciousness itself
No need to worry”
The concept being that the world is nothing but thought
Transient and therefore necessarily unreal like a...
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Categories:
doer, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Ashtavakra Gita Verses 15:4 To 15:5
15.4
“You are not the body
You do not have a body
You neither do nor enjoy
You are Awareness only--the timeless Witness
You are free
Go in happiness”
15.5
“Attachment and aversion
are attributes of the mind
You are not the mind
You are Consciousness...
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Categories:
doer, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 11:6
“I am not the body, nor is the body my possession—
I am Awareness itself.”
One who realizes this for certain
has no memory of things done or left undone.
There is only the Absolute.”
We now enter still...
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Categories:
doer, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
PlaymatesPlaymates
by Michael R. Burch
WHEN you were my playmate and I was yours,
we spent endless hours with simple toys,
and the sorrows and cares of our indentured days
were uncomprehended . . . far, far away ....
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Categories:
doer, adventure, best friend, boy, childhood, children, death,
Form:
Verse
Who Is a True ChristianA True Christian is born of the spirit of God and he is the new creation of God
He display the fruit of the spirits in his life which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,...
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Categories:
doer, bible, christian, culture, devotion,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Magic Is In Dragons BloodDragon was feeling persnickety one day, he wanted his Dragon magic back.
The Elven King had bound it for 100 years, to protect those who magic lacked.
Every young dragon needs to first learn… to live a...
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Categories:
doer, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination, magic,
Form:
Light Verse
Morning PrayersEarthMother's unwilling Emissary
asked each faith community
and patriotic party
what they thought and felt
about God's preferential option for the poor,
despised,
criminal,
homeless,
wounded and powerless women and children,
physical disabilities,
sick,
terrified,
rabid with anger and fear,
enslaved,
addicted,
insane.
Does this sound like an accurate description
of your...
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Categories:
doer, earth, health, humanity, peace, prayer, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
I Toss Another StoneYou throw a rock into a pool.
Watch the concentric ring slowly expand
from its point of origin.
Its curvature infinite. Shape pristine.
And yet... there it dissipates
at the subtle sternness of the wind.
To blend with all the other...
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Categories:
doer, allegory, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, emotions, god, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
ConceptsCONCEPTS
Concepts forming conceptual understanding for time and space,
As I face defects, removing them all from my rhyme as I race,
Around so called facts, that lack the basic constructs for us to trace,
Is it all just...
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Categories:
doer, allegory, identity, meaningful, metaphor, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
A Thrill Seeker - Part 1A THRILL SEEKER (PART 1)
He is a sick man with no life that is running around in a world that cannot be lived.
All but not one knows his dementia and does not respond.
He is defiled.
Violating...
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Categories:
doer,
Form:
Epic
Ballad of Joyce HillTo her family she was coy
but truly she would be their Joy,
a country girl from Kingaroy -
...
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Categories:
doer, tribute,
Form:
Ballad
Death and Dying In DallasDeath and Dying in Dallas
Death and dying in Dallas seems to have all
started with the death of President Kennedy.
The following is all true and actually, recently
happened in my life. The essay was written
to describe...
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Categories:
doer, allegory, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Couplet
Yen for zenThose practicing Tantra urge us to celebrate,
albeit in an aspect of childlike trust and surrender,
whilst Buddhists lay emphasis on emptiness,
essentially negating play of aversion and desire
and as for fundamentalists, lost in the scriptures,
lost in labyrinths...
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Categories:
doer, spiritual,
Form:
Sestina
The Witch and the JudgeA Witch must confirm the Powers in her possession
Before performing an anticipated condemnation
The guilty Judge, rendered immobile and speechless
Wets himself, cowering, trussed and helpless
As the Witch intones the Powers’ sacred Creed
That she has sworn to...
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Categories:
doer, lifeevil,
Form:
Rhyme
The Simple Truth“be at ease, oh hermit, in thought free awareness
you are, as you are complete, one with that oneness”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Let us be clear
We are here
In this mind body
Endowed
With senses five
Having polarities
Out of which
The inner is...
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Categories:
doer, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Drowning In a Box of CondomsI'm a virgin.
Yet I'm a peer educator
I teach people about sex
and how to put on the condom.
sometimes the irony does bother me
...
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Categories:
doer, angst, confusion, life, loss, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
I AmI AM
I am
a student and a teacher,
...
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Categories:
doer, lifelove,
Form:
I do not know?