Long Emigrated Poems
Long Emigrated Poems. Below are the most popular long Emigrated by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Emigrated poems by poem length and keyword.
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
emigrated, memory,
Form:
Prose
Jacqueline Trestrail
On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won...
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Categories:
emigrated, mother, tribute,
Form:
Prose
Renee Vivien Translations
Renee Vivien Translations
Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped in flightless wings.
It's getting late; soon we will sleep
(your eyes...
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Categories:
emigrated, analogy, image, imagery, love, metaphor, surreal, symbolism,
Form:
Sonnet
The Crime Is Snowed Over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel S Il Neige Sur Le Crime
The crime is snowed over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Il neige sur le crime
Are we buried under snow holding our silence
in what immense Cimmerian (collision) of terror ?
The mouth kept open in the shriek...
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Categories:
emigrated, absence, devotion, war, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
Veras First Poem
Hi everybody, my name is Vera as some of you already know, and I am the wife of Peter Duggan. I came on this site to cheer Peter on, and also to read some poetry...
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Categories:
emigrated, anger, angst, change, war, drug,
Form:
Narrative
Negligent Grooming Habits Unbridled
Negligent grooming habits unbridled
Apathy toward mine personal hygiene
i.e. relinquishing attention
linkedin with bare toiletries,
cuz I rarely spruced myself up
nor never maple leave
to cease being hard nut to crack
and rendered adopted
couture modus operandi
of yours truly shabby chic
figurative...
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Categories:
emigrated, 11th grade, 12th grade, betrayal, care, clothes,
Form:
Rhyme
My Parents Were Illegal Immigrants In the United States
In 1920, my father, 16, was a guest of the British government. He was a prisoner of their forces occupying Ireland at the time, a group called the Black and Tans.
One day he and seven...
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Categories:
emigrated, america, immigration,
Form:
Prose
The Age of Thrill Seekers
Emartra Van Doyle, II was a powerful leader.
As a powerhouse, he knew this was his golden age.
He formed leaders and defeated procrastination.
He prepared them for the world to come.
A connection of minds he was assembling.
Amass...
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Categories:
emigrated, absence, abuse, age, anger, angst, appreciation,
Form:
Epic
A Glencraig Boy
Note: This is about me and the struggle to find out who my dad was. I was never told and at the age of 67 I had a DNA taken and found out to late...
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Categories:
emigrated, age, anger, birth, childhood, dad, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
Rendered Self Lame Courtesy Obsessive Compulsive Behavior
Handy dandy blues clues plain
all purpose favorite refrain
i.e. "impossible mission"
courtesy complimentary doppelganger
G.I. ("Government Issue", "General Issue",
or "Ground Infantry") Jane
in tandem with Alyson Chain
comes to the rescue attempting
to describe entrenched nonproductive
crippling psychological mindset ascertain
most any reader...
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Categories:
emigrated, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Curriculum Vitae
She calls herself Bunny Boucher, but she was born Veronica Chermak. She’s tall and leggy with a body that looks tidy, yet lived in. She’s high and tight, but flexible like a strong rubber band...
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Categories:
emigrated, sensual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Cecil County Maryland
(Land that doth marry mother lode
of sublime earthen land and sea).
Age of exploration
ushered cruel fate
against “red” men living
in bliss by agents
...
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Categories:
emigrated, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
I Love South Asian Women
I married someone in America, "My royalty" -
But can you look away from Brides in Sari*
That long, silk or chiffon sheet several feet long
Wrapped with tantalizing patterns around
And around, until thrown over her shoulder?
Another act...
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Categories:
emigrated, america, appreciation, beautiful, culture, environment, growing up,
Form:
Verse
Kefalonia
On the twelfth of August in nineteen fifty three
Tectonic plates moved in the Ionian sea
A massive earthquake bringing destruction and death
Caused kefalonia to draw her last breath.
Buildings were flattened and many lives were lost
It...
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Categories:
emigrated, holiday, mountains, natural disasters, sea,
Form:
Narrative
Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)
Erster am Südpol
Geheimer Wettlauf mit Scott
Im ewigen Eis
Auf Rettungsflug für Nobile
Verschollen im Eismeer
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First at the South Pole
In a secret race with Scott
In the eternal ice
On a rescue flight for Nobile
Missing over the Arctic Ocean
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Primero...
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Categories:
emigrated, history
Form:
Tanka
Mr Macron Thinks Things will be Fine
Mr. Macron now recognizes ‘Palestine’
a country that never was, that never had borders
...
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Categories:
emigrated, imagination, immigration, jewish, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Gangsters Paradise
GANGSTERS PARADISE
South Africa has a high rate of crime, anything is probable,
Keeping out determined criminals is impossible!
This is the house that my parents built 40 years ago that we
We live in,
This is the house...
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Categories:
emigrated, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
Atlantis Sunk In the Alantic
Atlantis
> Atlantis broke into Islands three
> Back in ancient antiquity
> The redskin Nations emigrated
> Mound builders on the Mississippi, generated
>
> Some Negro people now in Africa
> Have the very dark reddish hue
> All around the...
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Categories:
emigrated, adventuredark, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Lotte Lehmann
Lotte Lehmann (Sentanka)
Charlotte Lehmann
Die große Opernsängerin
Sie schrieb und filmte
Ihr Ruhm bleibt unvergessen
Und bot den Nazis die Stirn
Charlotte Lehmann
The great opera singer
She wrote and filmed
Her fame will always be remembered
And she defied the Nazis
Charlotte...
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Categories:
emigrated, people
Form:
Tanka
How the West Was Won
When he emigrated to North Dakota
Daddy came to help fill needed quota
Of young, strong men of honest worth
For untamed land at its new birth.
He met my mother, strong as he,
Raised seven kids including me.
He broke...
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Categories:
emigrated, social, work, dad, dad, men,
Form:
Ballad
Anna Liisa
Anna Liisa was Great-grandmother's name. She emigrated from Finland at the beginning of the 20th century.
I have only one memory of Anna Liisa from back when I was 10. She was elderly then and...
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Categories:
emigrated, family,
Form:
Haibun
Heaven Called
Born into a family of fourteen
Never having heard the words “I love you”
She left home a girl with little education
An army life she did pursue
She fell in love and married a soldier
Soon a...
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Categories:
emigrated, child, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Molay Wins Day and Dairy
We emigrated from England to Rhodesia, I was just
Seven when I began grade two,
My wonderful father always there if I wanted a
Cuddle or a good old boo-hoo,
My English still rocky as I was...
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Categories:
emigrated, school,
Form:
Rhyme
Heavens On the Phone
Born into a family of fourteen
Never heard the words “I love you”
She left home a girl with little education
An army life she did pursue
She fell in love and married a soldier
Soon a mum...
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Categories:
emigrated, appreciation, inspirational love,
Form:
Rhyme
Well, To Be Born, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Or D'Etre Ne By T Wignesan
Well, to be born…Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Or d’etre ne… by T. Wignesan
Now to be flesh of a man and a woman
All my life I will long for that
Without any hope of being re-born, being...
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Categories:
emigrated, bereavement,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue