Long Eliot Poems
Long Eliot Poems. Below are the most popular long Eliot by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Eliot poems by poem length and keyword.
Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
Elocution lessons for the morality police
Persecution of those not callously elite
Convolution of the elongation of the technique
Revolution from the poor, downtrodden and bleak
Ageless reckonings that are born...
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Categories:
eliot, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Currents
Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
eliot, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Come Down, For Harold Bloom
Come 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:
eliot, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Yosa Buson Translations
Yosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
eliot, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Bergfried
I. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
eliot, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
eliot, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
eliot, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.
Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless poets put a mask on.
Encryption can be used to mask...
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Categories:
eliot, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination, metaphor, passion, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: Poets - Xxxvi
Unquotable quotes: Poets, Poetasters and Platos – XXXVI
For James McAuley – in remembrance of a memorable week in Cardiff 1965
The greatest poet ever is NOT Homer, Lao Tse, Ovid,...
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Categories:
eliot, creation, poetry, poets, word play, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Obsession
...inspired by 'Portrait Of A Lady' by T.S. Eliot
On winter days the view outside is nebulous at best,
within, the furniture is as it always was, and I am waiting,
waiting for a glimpse of you to...
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Categories:
eliot, angst, devotion, universe,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Essential Reading
When asked
by my nephew
for an essential reading list
for PermaCultural Therapeutic Design,
my Taoist thoughts went back
to Unitarian-Universalist
Yin/Yang pre-history,
when Earth produced a theologian,
Dr. Thomas Starr King (1824-1864)
reaching out for non-violent dialogue
across all global healing cultures.
This 1800s Dr....
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Categories:
eliot, community, destiny, earth, health, history, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
( “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)
Deep in newly disturbed soil, lies my true love
'neath a canopy...
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Categories:
eliot, death, deep, depression, heartbreak, loss, pain, sorrow,
Form:
Elegy
History of Havard Yard
Okay. So, according to her license plate, Sarah had something to do with the name “Welbeck Street” and had once asked if the Journal would consider using “Harvard Yard” in her name. Also according to...
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Categories:
eliot, america, people, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Gateway Town
Gateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within the lawn-jockey, pink flamingo neighborhoods of moral decay.
T.S, Eliot,...
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Categories:
eliot, allusion, city, class, longing, racism, slavery, urban,
Form:
Rhyme
The Company of Fools
"No, I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
...
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Categories:
eliot, angst, solitude,
Form:
Free verse
Acknowledgements
1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...
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Categories:
eliot, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form:
List
Believe the Facade of a Narcissist-No More
Mirror, mirror on the wall ~
don't let me fall for a narcissist's words
for fear I'll find myself tangled in the web
of silk threads cunningly spun to lure me in.
You might take those words to...
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Categories:
eliot, anti bullying, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Into the Heart of a Soulless Existence
Into The Heart Of A Soulless Existence
Damn these flies!
There must be a half dozen of them
Buzzing around my tiny room here,
Buzzing and humming spasmodically,
Like tongue-less eunuchs
In a locked church full...
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Categories:
eliot, education, girl, heart, lost love, me, red,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Obliviousness Concerning Lapsed Driver License
(alternate title: days of yore bubba's zayda
flush with buggy boo horse sense).
Norristown City Hall police person
informed yours truly
on September 15th, 2020
mine automotive driver license expired,
thus between January 13th 2019
and September 17th, 2020
I drove automobile,
(whether borrowed...
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Categories:
eliot, 11th grade, 12th grade, angel, appreciation, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Grabbing Colors With Vincent
Running fast thru Autumn’s dream, Vincent-bright in village winter’s light
Topaz-treed streets, eaves-filled , singing with saffron and gold,
A Rocky Mountain cold cornflower sky over English hills
Vivid with Vincent-fuzzy ice-finger edges
Photo-album best parts of...
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Categories:
eliot, art, dream, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Being a Better Man - Revised
Do plans take stock of what you’d give to be a better man,
and somehow you have trust it’s true that human dream’s a gift,
that life’s a blessing on bad days? The world sees Grace (or...
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Categories:
eliot, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Nightscapes
Late night summons madmen,
madams, bold streetwalkers,
picking pennies from the gutters
as the merchants close their shutters
and the homeless crouch in doorways
in their rags, against the cold.
Black or white, no compromise,...
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Categories:
eliot, tribute, writing,
Form:
Verse
The Kingfisher
"The Kingfisher"
Easters
fast escape us
like every
Christmas
comes and goes
like a Graduation
where the parent
is excluded
and the lost
prodigious progeny
eventually
makes their quest
for an elusive
Holy Grail
buried under shale
or burnt ashes
floating on air, where,
the breeze pushes...
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Categories:
eliot, easter, journey, life, love, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Reckoning With Lifelong Despair
Which late afternoon/ early evening
today adventuristic, edenic, and idyllic
April 13th, 2021
pitch perfect weather
serves as temporary tonic
to balm away blues.
Like a tumbleweed
aimlessly blowing in the wind
across infinitely wobegon open wide
prairie home companion land
(which wasteland famously
epitomized by...
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Categories:
eliot, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 2nd
Form:
Free verse
Cement Shoes
With a heavy heart,
the sorrow in it
feels
all
hope
...
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Categories:
eliot, corruption, death, mystery, perspective,
Form:
Epic