Long Engage Poems
Long Engage Poems. Below are the most popular long Engage by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Engage poems by poem length and keyword.
Faded In Xoxo Oxox Fadin' Out
A special dedication to Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" song in her album "Beyoncé", which came out in 2013.
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I took a cat nap...yah put on your classic, clever-mini cap
drank that sorrow sap, my companion...
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Categories:
engage, deep,
Form:
Lyric
Liquor of Lament: My Glass Is Half Full
Verse 6: I've given up love countless times
I needed to pay up for my heartbroken crimes
I already repented for my sins that made my high hopes paper-thin
Don't you feel that envy from deep within?...
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Categories:
engage, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Lyric
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:
engage, memory,
Form:
Prose
Various Heresies 3
Various Heresies 3
Breakings
by Michael R. Burch
I did it out of pity.
I did it out of love.
I did it not to break the heart of a tender, wounded dove.
But gods without compassion
ordained: Frail things must break!
Now...
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Categories:
engage, america, bible, christian, god, jesus, religion, usa,
Form:
Verse
Words of Young Generation - a Message To Nigerian Youth
Please be informed:
The Nigerian youths have agreed together in love and oneness that in 2023 presidential election and in every other elections, whether state or local government. We will not vote for anyone who...
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Categories:
engage, 5th grade,
Form:
ABC
Mom's UnderGround PeaceTrain
A transitional skill
my Mom taught me,
good to use when I start to feel at-risk,
somehow
anyhow,
whether in my relationship with her,
or with EarthDays more kosmic travels
through naturally wild
and domestic spirits.
Remember to ask permission
before...
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Categories:
engage, beauty, community, earth, humanity, humor, love, mother,
Form:
Political 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:
engage, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Bodhisattva Tease
Do you share my concern
that your happiness and healthy life
are too ephemeral,
short-lived?
No! Why? Do you know something I should know?
Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive
EarthAgapic energy for healthy life,
despite the...
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Categories:
engage, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Gaia Out Speaks
Queen Gaia
of Earth's Shabbat
is here to speak today.
Unfortunately,
she can only sign,
and the only way she can see
is through our DNA/RNA fractally-balancing syntax,
so she has asked if she could respond to your questions
as she understands them
within...
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Categories:
engage, earth, gender, god, health, humor, love, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Earth's Humane Rights To Healthy Climates
In 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
proposing Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human...
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Categories:
engage, culture, earth, environment, health, nature, political, prejudice,
Form:
Political Verse
Fishy Science School of Geometric Arts
Math speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.
Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right as at least not not ecologically wrong,
ecopolitically suboptimal perhaps,
yet at...
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Categories:
engage, adventure, earth, life, light, math, science fiction,
Form:
Political Verse
Indignation 1-6-21
How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags, grim reminders of our bloody history,
Alongside swastikas, hate symbols...
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Categories:
engage, anger, discrimination, emotions, hurt, prejudice, racism, violence,
Form:
Free verse
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit
[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
engage, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Beary Tales Episodes 15-24, More Poet's Notes
Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...
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Categories:
engage, adventure, beauty, friendship, innocence, love, mentor,
Form:
Quatrain
YangRed and YinBlue ReMemory
You.
Reading this.
Right now.
Proof you have descended
from an unbroken powerful line
of politically and economically successful
Elders.
If we define “powerful Elder”
as those who have had political and economic authority over another,
responsibility for at least one or more...
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Categories:
engage, culture, earth, health, love, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Perennial Problems
I suppose you might have missed out on Paul Feyerabend's,
and especially Thomas Kuhn's Problem of Incommensurabiity.
Oh, not at all.
I have not looked at science or culture
or language
or even your attempts at communication
quite the same since...
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Categories:
engage, culture, history, humor, philosophy, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
The Dancing: the Last Dance
Was it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
engage, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
New Beginnings
Today we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic
of Synergetic Steerage.
"We have a[n autonomic neurosystemic] need to stay in contact with people with whom we share emotional...
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Categories:
engage, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, relationship, religion, science,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
IrReligious MisEducation
S/he is controversially counter-cultural
And yet,
MotherEartha defensively claims,
not so:
We grow trans-regenerational
transubstantiating substances
and subjects
to integrate more sacredly organic
Positive passions
re-connecting
re-membered past peak
pleasures restoring universal EarthJustice
and unitarian EarthMother peace.
I stand before you today
not to bury every conservative re-ligion
but to...
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Categories:
engage, god, health, peace, political, relationship, religion, religious,
Form:
Prose Poetry
querulous
( A university-life vignette)
It’s Saturday morning. Lisa, Leong and I were in the common area, lazing about. “This is what happened to us (Lisa and I) last night.” I said, beginning to explain last night's...
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Categories:
engage, abuse, anxiety, funeral, humor, music, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Flickering Reflections-No Place Like Hume
The mind doesn't passively await impressions, no tabula rasa,
The mind is active, understanding, not just a passerby.
He had bete noire towards Christianity, a Scottish Nominalist,
David Hume, born in Edenborough, was a philosophical skeptic.
Born in 1711,...
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Categories:
engage, philosophy,
Form:
Epic
Canto Xix Hell Translation
Simon wizard, you poor under his sway
That all things of God, which then of good will
Must be always brides, and you birds of prey
For gold and silver adulterate still,
Now it's time that the trumpet sounds...
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Categories:
engage, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Twins, Part 1
In the dark of night a wind took hold,
With powers charged to shake the sky,
By moody swings of gods up high,
Their breath alone enraged and bold.
In the dark of night history spoke,
Of a world alive...
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Categories:
engage, brother, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, , cute,
Form:
Prose
Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid
After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decided to post five...
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Categories:
engage, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Megan's Quest Part 5of7
At that moment an explosion of mud filled the air
as their tension was now largely increased.
They tried to gather their wits but all took to stare
as for...
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Categories:
engage, adventure, courage,
Form:
Rhyme