Long Entry Poems
Long Entry Poems. Below are the most popular long Entry by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Entry poems by poem length and keyword.
Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
entry, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Turkish Poetry Translations IiTurkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
entry, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
entry, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
How I Got Richer and What I Did NextHow I Got Richer and What I Did Next
I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they got me back (those post-empty-nesters)
by making fake deals I couldn't...
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Categories:
entry, allegory, funny, heaven, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic ParkerThese words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
entry, beauty, emotions, love, passion, romantic, sensual, soulmate,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
My Corporate Life and How It All EndedI met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits –
a cure-all for things that ail your back.
I served 'em...
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Categories:
entry, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Wall StreetSet 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:
entry, political, slam, social, war, war, world, lost,
Form:
Epic
Classified Part ThreeThe photograph that Tim had shown me a few hours earlier certainly did not do it justice.
From what I could see it was a large triangular shape on three legs which were all at a...
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Categories:
entry, science fiction,
Form:
Prose
Brave New World(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")
Human hatchery
Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...
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Categories:
entry, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity, introspection, political, science
Form:
Free verse
Laundering Her AccountsNew England's late May sun was long up,
and yet her laundry began to unfold
and clip onto the droopy clothesline,
while yet to warm into 8 AM.
She wore a light spring jacket
and need not think long
about why...
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Categories:
entry, analogy, destiny, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Megan's Quest Part 2of7Now Regan and Megan were down on their luck
and faced with little or no choice.
So with a quiet trepidation... a deal was struck
and from now all would...
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Categories:
entry, adventure, funny, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Dante's Divina Commedia Translation Canto ViiiI tell, to follow, that long trait before
We reached the back foot of the tower tall,
Our eyes went up to the top core
For two little flames we saw install,
And another responding from so far
That...
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Categories:
entry, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
a coat of cosmos covering
over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
a quantum cellar creating
the very big...
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Categories:
entry, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form:
Verse
Megan's Quest Part 5of7At 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:
entry, adventure, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
Halloween Night In the Apple OrchardYoung Timmy saw Jim walking down the street. Timmy considered a quick retreat, but steadied himself with a shrug. Timmy dreaded the sight of Jim, a teenage bully and wanna be thug, who...
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Categories:
entry, children, fear, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Fraudulent
"Fraudulent"
A writer writes of people
walking lonely dark streets
begging for bread, shelter and cold without all
like he’s been there
trudging up and downhill knocking on doors
that judgmentally remain closed after glimpsed twigging -
a monumental fail,...
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Categories:
entry, depression, family, friendship, home, loneliness, lost, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Another Time and PlaceAnother time and Place
...
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Categories:
entry, appreciation, friend, poets, remember, smile, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"
“She fits the bill”,
they say it
insouciantly
visions of being
carried in the beak
of a bilious pelican
where it builds
its rudimentary nest,
it uses sticks and debris
no stones, yet,
from irreverence
thrown at it
no higher...
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Categories:
entry, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Laura Norder 2 - New Balls PleaseLaura Norder took her gun and strapped it to her thigh
The skirt she wore was so damned short she had to strap it high
And stood there on the corner where the street lamps dare not...
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Categories:
entry, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Kellyanne's Fake Constitutional Rock"The Second Amendment is a bedrock principle of our Constitution..."
...
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Categories:
entry, anger, history, humor, integrity, language, leadership, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends of galaxies
May it become the ‘Swan Song Poem’ of all...
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Categories:
entry, beautiful, peace, star,
Form:
Verse
The Edges of RhymeThe Edges of Rhyme
I wrote the playbook, watching what they took
While the earth shook I could not look
In the direction of the Big Book
Like a fish caught on a nasty hook...
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Categories:
entry, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
DP1 DIARY OF DIONDRA POSHMarch 10, 2051 Monday
So diary today Monday I woke late
For work. I thought no problem I just
Call in. I called Mister Idris Moorah.
He said, Diondra I'll be brief. We're
Downsizing, you're laid off....
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Categories:
entry, africa, allusion,
Form:
Prose
Mobile In AlabamaThose were such happy days, for I had lately been deeded a farm,
My aunt and uncle were retiring, so tillage had lost its charm.
Since they were childless, and to a retirement community bound,
It seemed I...
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Categories:
entry, beauty, dream, home, imagery, night, sleep, travel,
Form:
Couplet
Mehmet Akif Ersoy TranslationsMehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish National Anthem.
Snapshot
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
entry, dark, death, earth, grave, life, war, world,
Form:
Ghazal