Long Erudite Poems
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Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds IiPoems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
erudite, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Chinese Translations IChinese Poets: English Translations
These are modern English translations of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets of all time, including Du Fu, Huang O, Li Bai, Li Ching-jau, Li Qingzhao, Po Chu-I, Tzu Yeh,...
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Categories:
erudite, children, heaven, moon, sorrow, spring, water, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Dream State Yields Deep Sleep PersonificationsDream state yields deep sleep personifications
Upon lying supine - eye shutter lids
into the land of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,
where the sandman beckons and bids
dead to the webbed wide world,
yours truly immune to wakefulness
despite being...
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Categories:
erudite, 12th grade, 1st grade, adventure, animal, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
Obama Rhapsody - PotdHis full given name is Barack Hussein Obama
The etymology of his first name, "Baraka," a Swahili word meaning "Blessed"
It's easy to see why he's my favorite POTUS
...
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Categories:
erudite, appreciation, celebrity, perspective, political, tribute,
Form:
Ode
Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"
The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson
Life spent in The Hard Sell
Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia
mouth sucking a loaded gun
blue ribbonned and veined
pulsing electricity
from heart to lung to brain
you’re a...
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Categories:
erudite, abuse, addiction, angel, depression, forgiveness, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Literate Lettered LatitudinarianLiterate lettered latitudinarian
Presents the following slapdash
higglety-pigglety bupkis, whereby reader
experiences being mentally hogtied
perusing pseudo poetic perambulation
devoid of sense and sensibility
welcoming character assassination
concerning pride of yours truly,
who merely strung together
words sharing "arian"
as their last five letters
for no...
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Categories:
erudite, 12th grade, adventure, blessing, community, courage, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
One generic baby boomer, a garden variety sexagenarianOne generic baby boomer, (a garden variety sexagenarian)...
offers his interpretation of critical race theory
I, (an articulate, charming, domesticated,
erudite, friendly, genteel, humorous, intelligent,
kind, learned, male, albeit modest – married)
with freshly clipped formerly gnarly toenails
discounts...
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Categories:
erudite, 12th grade, abuse, africa, america, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Woman-HoodA fragile but tough
Creature,a woman,an
Embodiment of glory and
Honour wit heart deeper
Than the deepest sea;ful
Of mysteries.
The mother of all humans
A mystery herself that
Emanates power and
confidence-alas!the
Egocentric man has for...
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Categories:
erudite, celebration
Form:
Free verse
WomanhoodFragile but tough
Creature,a woman,an
Embodiment of glory and
Honor with heart deeper
Than deepest sea;full
Of mysteries.
Mother of all humans.
Mystery herself,emanates
power and
confidence-alas!the
Egocentric man has
Centuries tried to strip
Her of...
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Categories:
erudite, abuse
Form:
Blank verse
Big Political PoemTimes and Protests
Times and protests are troubling
All of our problems started doubling
In minds Trumps seeds are planted
With him as President are disenchanter
White House water has stopped bubbling.
For hours at poles we waited
Can this election be invalidated
Due...
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Categories:
erudite, political, , memorial,
Form:
Limerick
Rule of Threes FivePride negatory
Better to share His glory
God writes your story
Special kind of gain
We can only learn through pain
God may not explain
Treasure has a source
Wisdom is treasure, of course
God stores His resource
When God sends trouble
And we climb...
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Categories:
erudite, bible, christian, muse, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Still Binge Reading Bertrand RussellStill binge reading Bertrand Russell...
9/8/2020
I plunge further into
erudite epistemological philosophication
courtesy said renown British polymath,
philosopher, logician, mathematician,
historian, writer, social critic,
political activist, and Nobel laureate.
Whew! His treatise
A History of Western Philosophy Quite profound
grist for intellectual mill
yours...
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Categories:
erudite, 12th grade, adventure, age, america, appreciation, growth,
Form:
Free verse
The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise
"The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise"
They called her
the tree hugger,
her forest was full
of trees that watched
silently, they had
no mouth to speak,
rustling their leaves
like fingers writing
strange stories coded
for decoding a mystery
on...
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Categories:
erudite, dark, light, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Chant RoyalLife flashes by in a moment of time.
Late twilight’s rose fades, the sweet songbirds leave.
Though we strive to remain in reasoned rhyme
All living will die, the joyful will grieve.
What vision can guide us? What blinding...
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Categories:
erudite, allusion, death, inspiration, life, truth, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Chant Royal
Theater of Utter Charm Part 7gesturing crudely about luck and doom
blowing us towards the promised manic Paradise
a steely eyed greeting committee
providing the final hurdle
their panel of erudite jurists
concluded that his sense of right and wrong
had been tricked by wizard mesmerists
no...
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Categories:
erudite, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Spiritedly Distilling Social GracesPuberty set off affright
seeding decades long
terrestrial space flight
freighted existential blight,
wherefore from that
attempt to live airtight
many scores yesternight
ago, I barely (except
on par with grateful
...
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Categories:
erudite, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, depression,
Form:
Free verse
The Autobiography of a BrookYou've visited me after a long time: Remember; once, I was brimming with might? Named babbling brook, revered as a singing deity, how blissful was my sight! Have reminiscences of your childhood, in my mellow...
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Categories:
erudite, care, caregiving, change, childhood, creation, cry, death,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Snapshot of CambridgeThis is a poem about the University city of Cambridge in the UK , although I have only been there a few times , I decided to write a poem about it. Lord Bryon one...
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Categories:
erudite, england, graduate, poets, student,
Form:
Rhyme
A Note of Appreciation For Poetrysoup and All SoupersI just wanted to thank Poetry Soup for, well, for being, for existing as a format for poets to share their hearts and souls. I can hardly believe it's been 6 years (gulp!) since I...
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Categories:
erudite, appreciation, community, dedication, inspiration, poets, wisdom, words,
Form:
Prose
My Heart Smile To YouFear not for i hold you in my heart
I was not bought but was made
In the perfection of the image of the maker
My heart smiles to you all for your good wishes
You sang melodiously to...
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Categories:
erudite, beautiful,
Form:
ABC
The Askance Chapter 4 Part 5b“Dwellers of the Ancients, is all be seeking The Fallen atop?
Well… be advised and turn back for to entertain he will not
It's been far too long since mortals have come before our sight
And above all,...
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Categories:
erudite, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
It Tastes a Bit Like ChickenI wish to reminisce
Upon the bliss
Of triumph
And the agony
Of tragedy;
Are they not twin and twisted ends
Observed as life occured
In random spurts and trends?
To calculate and gauge his fate
Man did create
The chime of time;
One more illusion...
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Categories:
erudite, satire, son, son, time,
Form:
Narrative
Love Letter of SummerBy Cherbo Geeplay
Summer is yet to come and may
never come. She's stirring in an
August noon, sitting on the long
plateaus of these fields so far
from our grasp. The rice
...
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Categories:
erudite, appreciation, black african american,
Form:
Elegy
Eye of the Tropical January SunExercising belief about unknowns.
Makes sense to take your best guess.
Using history, numbers, extrapolation.
Getting the trajectory right for re-entry.
Few dissenters left for climate change, evolution.
Nuclear power brings a process to earth
that occurs only in space. Dangerous
but...
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Categories:
erudite, death, fire, food, innocence, january, senses, song,
Form:
Verse
Shinning Like a Million StarBorn into the family of seven
Handed over the last born baton
By the other descendants of the
Pa Noah “Mekolani Olajide’s” fame.
Her sojourn in life starts from
The far down “Sora”,
Sora to “Odo Alafia”
“Odo...
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Categories:
erudite, adventure, anniversary, childhood, family, happiness, wife
Form:
Free verse