Long Draws Poems
Long Draws Poems. Below are the most popular long Draws by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Draws poems by poem length and keyword.
We Against the World
I have this faith deep inside that my Father, my beloved Father, can mend my broken dreams
There's a purpose for us being on Earth
It serves us well to be good examples for the future Kingdom
We...
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Categories:
draws, deep,
Form:
Lyric
A CRYSTALLINE COLLAGE
A.COUPLETS
IN SIGHT'S EYE
Ideas with nowhere to hide
An eureka moment inside
Indistinct ,then becoming clear
Words & pictures coming near-
A passage of light to my soul,
Inspiration to make me whole.
LOVE'S STORY
Can a letter break a heart
Like the look...
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Categories:
draws, appreciation,
Form:
Crystalline
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
draws, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
draws, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations Ii
Dusk-gliding swallow,
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers!
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
draws, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the Fall
Poems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
draws, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Haiku Translations of the Oriental Masters
Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
draws, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist
"The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist"
The Sleeper
shone as she walked
through the Woods
shining alive
like nothing
natural could
caught
in the moonlight
unaware
the innocent
red-caped roses stared
the trees whispered,
"beware, beware"
barefoot softly
the Supernaturalist
transfigures instead
from under shine
she bares...
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Categories:
draws, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
Sonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“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...
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Categories:
draws, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Cooperative Family Politics
I think he's talking about a cooperative bicameral political system,
with "How to talk to the other side".
And what could that possibly mean, dear Yang?
Well,
I was watching this Ted-talk from Marin,
by Robb Willer, as I anciently...
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Categories:
draws, culture, earth, family, freedom, health, humor, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Sonnets X-Xvi
Sonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“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...
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Categories:
draws, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
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...
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Categories:
draws, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Caregivers Among Us
To receive care
that best meets your needs,
and also,
by the way,
everyone else's too,
we look first
to where and when we have given such care
since our original longest reborn journey
down Mom's birth canal,
prepared just in time for our...
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Categories:
draws, care, caregiving, happiness, health, immigration, love, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth. The meek children bending over for millennium, taken spankings of...
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Categories:
draws, political, slam, social, war, war, world, lost,
Form:
Epic
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and right alm
seeking succor Out Of Human Bondage
invisibles shackles bind head,
shoulders, knees and...
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Categories:
draws, abuse, age, angst, anxiety, city, depression, earth,
Form:
Free verse
With God's Help - the Goblet Style
~ With God's Help ~
(The Goblet )
~O~
I'll just put on my best
Face and a nice Smile
Be Strong...
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Categories:
draws, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Day In School, Thru Autistic Eyes
alarm goes off*
I sit straight up startled and scared
Just my alarm, I hit the button
Get up and go to the bathroom
I brush my teeth with my toothbrush
Scratchy, painful bristles
Toothpaste that makes me sick
With the strong...
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Categories:
draws, child, childhood, emotions, feelings, loneliness, pain, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
Inside the Great Halls of Us
“Inside the Great Halls of Us”
Inside
The Great Halls of Us,
there resides a ghost
IT hides in plain sight,
waiting quietly, alone,
in our dark
there, IT holds ITs light,
to draw us further in,
we nervously laugh IT...
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Categories:
draws, i am, science fiction, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Misanthropic Melodies
Misanthropic melodies played from a broken violin
Prehistoric prophecies that ignite new ideas before they begin
Telescopic telomeres that formulate a scientific grin
Endoscopic X-rays and a doctor drunk on gin
Valiant human beings with virtue among the discord
Salient...
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Categories:
draws, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Inception: Trade Me Prosperity - Collab With Mikey Part 4
Blossoming
Effulgent sun proffers love
Clambering…
My brain makes me wonder if you remember the times shared
Back to the blessed times, I recall that you would listened, be worried about me, and, at the time,...
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Categories:
draws, emotions, words,
Form:
Free verse
Listening For Firestorms
Always respect this combination of fire and wind,
she tentatively said,
after having listened for healthy and pathological winds
regenerating and degenerating,
investing in and divesting of,
yeasty flames of fertile dopamine.
They, like you,
co-arise of and from the landscapes
in which...
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Categories:
draws, absence, blessing, happiness, health, humanity, nature, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
Geese, Goslings and the Bridge
Sometimes, when you least expect it, Mother Nature makes a u-turn and draws you into the ridiculous. Such was the time recently as I was returning from a friend’s home...
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Categories:
draws, bird, family,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Mad Molly Shaw 2 - Molly Stands Firm
[If you’re a glutton for punishment, you
Can find ‘Mad Molly Shaw’ using the poems
Tag at top of screen]
****
Mad Molly Shaw wasn’t...
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Categories:
draws, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 24 -- Dolly Damian Friends and Family Part Ii
The fifth floor was decorated
With fancy art work. Molly
Rang the bell. After a few
Minutes an attractive older
Woman answered the door.
She threw the door wide Open
After she saw them
with Damian. "Hello Hello...
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Categories:
draws, confidence, family, feelings, friend, friendship, growing up,
Form:
Alliteration
The Pedicure Virgin
I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.
My beaming spouse leads me, a dog on a short leash, into the forbidden citadel, the...
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Categories:
draws, humor,
Form:
Prose