Long Drab Poems
Long Drab Poems. Below are the most popular long Drab by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Drab poems by poem length and keyword.
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
drab, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Butterflies and BeesPoems about Butterflies and Bees
Flight
by Michael R. Burch
It is the nature of loveliness to vanish
as butterfly wings, batting against nothingness
seek transcendence...
Album
by Michael R. Burch
I caress them—trapped in brittle cellophane—
and I see how young they were,...
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Categories:
drab, animal, butterfly, flying, insect, sky, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems IvPoems about Poems IV
The Toast
by Michael R. Burch
For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...
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Categories:
drab, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Ono No Komachi Translation: AutumnWatching wan moonlight
illuminate tree limbs,
my heart also brims,
overflowing with autumn.
—Ono no Komachi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono...
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Categories:
drab, age, autumn, death, depression, desire, heartbreak, women,
Form:
Tanka
Radiance, For Dylan ThomasRadiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
drab, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Ono No Komachi TranslationsAs I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Submit to you—is that what you advise?
The way the ripples...
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Categories:
drab, desire, life, longing, love, nature, woman, women,
Form:
Tanka
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
drab, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Red and Green ChristiansLet's start with a fundamental flaw of fundamentalist Christianity,
a literary flaw within literal non-interpretation of historical creation
and sacred development.
This is true of radical jihadist Muslims as well,
although we both know you think you're more special...
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Categories:
drab, addiction, bible, hate, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
drab, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Dylan ThomasThese are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I...
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Categories:
drab, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan ThomasMyth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
drab, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
drab, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About RegretRegret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
drab, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
A Gardening ExposeWith these lines I’ll relate an intriguing tale of dubious accuracy
For I Hope to unveil sordid affairs of more than one conspiracy!
Be warned, that though you might be disturbed by the facts I relate?
They are...
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Categories:
drab, garden, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
All That Was SpartaOur lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
drab, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Speaking With Donald JohnI was speaking with my good friend
Donald John
the Evangelist for AntiChrist
the other day.
And I had to ask,
Donald John,
Why are you so against health care
for all our not yet slaughtered
and otherwise dead already?
Except perhaps health services...
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Categories:
drab, earth, education, faith, health, integrity, psychological, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Love Has a Southern FlavorLove has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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Categories:
drab, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth ISwept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
drab, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
What If - New UpdateWhat if…
If fear did not guard and watch over me?
My seeds of shame and doubt
Would timidly venture out
And finally sprout,
But as they reached the light,
Like a vampire, would wither and die
Without the protection of night.
Or:...
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Categories:
drab, conflict, courage, fear, inspiration, longing, motivation, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
More Iffy Coronavirus Haikuyet another iffy coronavirus haiku #1
by michael r. burch
plagued by the Plague
i plague the goldfish
with my verse
yet another iffy coronavirus haiku #2
by michael r. burch
sunflowers
hang their heads
embarrassed by their coronas
I wrote this poem after having...
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Categories:
drab, america, death, eulogy, health, humanity, natural disasters,
Form:
Haiku
Nightingale - Part II...cont
His sleep was tormented,
each sound he heard playing upon his dreams,
until the sweet notes he remembered
floated into his ears like the gentleness of down.
Following the sound he was surprised
to see his lovely companion sitting quite...
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Categories:
drab, fantasy,
Form:
Prose Poetry
On Hearing That Ronniefor Ronald Hindmarsh-Midwood
...
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Categories:
drab, friend, friendship, light, pain,
Form:
Elegy
The Raven, Sequel - Part 1Part 1 - A raven alone, ravaging around in the darkness.....
i.
Ultimately aware, suspense is such, though truly I am sensing,
something dark diverting mind withdrawn, the silence muttered,
since melancholy holds suspicion where to probe now...
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Categories:
drab, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form:
Rhyme
America, 1933They are conflicted haunted images from black and white photos of America 1933, when there was no place left to run.
It was the hunger of people lined up, scraps of food ladled out, the...
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Categories:
drab, character, culture, history, life, natural disasters,
Form:
Narrative
The Lovers DanceIt was their night they shone bright as they danced their sweet dance
Two lovers embraced in their world of romance.
They laughed and they cried as their eyes locked in stare
It was their world for this...
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Categories:
drab, faith, god, marriage, religious, wedding, life, dance,
Form:
Couplet