Long Essayist Poems
Long Essayist Poems. Below are the most popular long Essayist by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Essayist poems by poem length and keyword.
An Ordinary Girl - Translation From TagoreSharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...
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Categories:
essayist, life, loss,
Form:
Narrative
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian TakeBack Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*
In homage - dedicated to the Chair Professor of Comparative Literature
.................at the prestigious...
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Categories:
essayist, books, eulogy, french, poems, son, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication SeriesNote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Alma mater University College, Oxford (no degree)
Literary movement Romanticism
Spouse Harriet Westbrook
(m. 1811;...
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Categories:
essayist, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Angel Eyes
"Angel Eyes"
that dark angel
standing in the corner
observing the shadows of man
pass him by -
he has angel eyes
that shine high beam
bright bushfires that light
the entire transparent
padded room parade
dance cards lit
he’s biding...
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Categories:
essayist, art, muse, truth,
Form:
Free verse
The Over-Soul
“Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable
may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment
to acknowledge...
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Categories:
essayist, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Free verse
My Annual ResolutionsGrowth should be the ultimate criterion,
nucleus and kernel of every annual pledge,
for myself and other people who might gain,
from a heartfelt commitment such as mine,
that monumental new year down the clock aptly named,
global village stepping...
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Categories:
essayist, adventure, art, birth, care, celebration, character, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the PartingDer Abschied (“The Parting”)
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We embrace;
my fingers trace
rich cloth
while yours encounter only moth-
eaten fabric.
A quick hug:
you were invited to the gay soiree
while the minions of the "law" relentlessly pursue...
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Categories:
essayist, friendship, holocaust, leaving, war, weather, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Hitchhiker From Another World Part 2Or the fate that awaits one at journey’s end.
Like all distances I suppose.
My destination if you can call it that is another world altogether."
A lady who could structure her sentences with...
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Categories:
essayist, art, beautiful, beauty, deep, environment, fantasy, inspiration,
Form:
Prose
Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the Burning of the BooksDie Bücherverbrennung ("The Burning of the Books")
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books to be burned,
teams of dull oxen hauled huge cartloads to the bonfires.
Then a banished writer, one...
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Categories:
essayist, books, fire, holocaust, voice, world war ii,
Form:
Verse
Paul Valery Translation of Secret OdePAUL VALERY TRANSLATION: “SECRET ODE”
“Secret Ode” is a poem by the French poet Paul Valéry about collapsing after a vigorous dance, watching the sun set, and seeing the immensity of the night sky as the...
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Categories:
essayist, dance, french, night, sea, stars, sun, sunset,
Form:
Free verse
The Naked Emperor's InterventionOh my goodness!
I was just thinking about Erik Erikson,
psychoanalyst and essayist,
and his social analysis thing
about the U.S.
stuck in perpetual competitive
in-grown
culture-ungrown adolescence.
And Erikson suddenly reminded me of one of my dreams last night.
When The Donald
and a...
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Categories:
essayist, america, health, humanity, humor, peace, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Le Probleme Avec Des Blancs - Translation of Jim Everett's the White Man Problem By T WignesanLe Problème avec des Blancs – Translation of Jim Everett’s « The White Man Problem » by T. Wignesan
(Jim Everett, Mawbana Pleregannana, b. 1942 on Flinders Island, Tasmania, has had a chequered career and like...
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Categories:
essayist, discrimination, power, prejudice, racism, , literature,
Form:
Quatrain
Delusion and ReferenceDelusion and Reference
(Paranoia)
Once there was only one, not fun,
So then this became two, did moo,
But my mum thought there were two,
There was her, and then guess who,
God said...
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Categories:
essayist, abuse, anger, angst, atheist, health, mother, voice,
Form:
Shape
HaikuPANAGIOTA CHRISTOPOULOU-ZALONI
Poetess, novelist, essayist, painter,
Editor of literary magazine KELAINO
e-mail: tzina@otenet.gr
Address: Zaloggou 16, 13231 Petroupoli-Athens-Greece
Haiku in English
of Mrs Panagiota Christopoulou-Zaloni
=======================
Poem and love
With scented thoughts
Holy Communion
*
Lyres are starting
Divinely are chanting
I feel so happy.
*
Pain...
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Categories:
essayist,
Form:
Haiku
You Are Indispensable: Attila Ilhan TranslationBen Sana Mecburum: “You are indispensable”
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch
You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails riveting my brain?
I see your eyes as ever-expanding dimensions.
You are...
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Categories:
essayist, absence, autumn, break up, city, depression, international,
Form:
Free verse
Ransom's Blue Girls RevisitedMy poem is patterned after John Crowe Ransom's "Blue Girls." I suppose you could call it a parody. His poem appears below mine.
Styling in your leggings, wildly designed,
Strutting to classes in your modern schools—
While...
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Categories:
essayist, girl, teenage,
Form:
Rhyme
The SunBy Izunna Okafor
Oh ye the sun
Why have you been stubborn like son
Consistent in gazing at ground
Endlessly waxing around the town
The ground is as though as husk
But you never consider the gross of dust.
Why have you...
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Categories:
essayist, sun,
Form:
Free verse
What a World, For Chinua AchebeWhat a World!
By Izunna Okafor
Tears roll down my cheeks
Beholding the palm tree I tapped
From his knowledge of blue ink
With a bow, lofting off a huge gap
What a World !
Our intellectuals have all died
And the...
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Categories:
essayist, death,
Form:
Elegy
Friendship: Just Like a Palm TreeFriendship: Just Like a Palm Tree
By Izunna Okafor
From the crusts of lonely loams
It gently roots inner and outer
And softly pullulates harder and taller
To register its purpose to mankind.
Like the trunk, the bond glues harder
To...
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Categories:
essayist, 8th grade, best friend, friendship love, poetry,
Form:
Epic
Corruption Cum RecessionUnprecedented and unannounced
The sound out-hauls the band
The beat of corruption much allowed
Now in dual they posses the land
Who should the finger now highlight
The finger itself is bent and bet
White in the day but black at...
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Categories:
essayist, anger,
Form:
Free verse
Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: the Mask of EvilDie Maske des Bösen (“The Mask of Evil”)
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
A Japanese woodcarving hangs on my wall—
the mask of an ancient demon, limned with golden lacquer.
Not unsympathetically, I observe
the forehead’s bulging...
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Categories:
essayist, anger, evil, hate, holocaust, symbolism, war, world
Form:
Free verse
Adam Mickiewicz Translation: the Ruins of BalaclavaSonnet: The Ruins of Balaclava
by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, barren Crimean land, these dreary shades
of castles?once your indisputable pride?
are now where ghostly owls and lizards hide
as blackguards arm themselves for nightly...
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Categories:
essayist, death, depression, grave, romantic, sorrow, violence, war,
Form:
Sonnet
Bertolt Brecht Holocaust Poem: Radio PoemRadio Poem
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You, little box, held tightly
to me
during my escape,
so that your delicate tubes do not break;
carried from house to house, from ship to train,
so that my enemies may...
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Categories:
essayist, flying, holocaust, poems, travel, war, world war
Form:
Free verse
In the CornerIn the corner
Is my pole star
Light and insight
Never blur
In the corner
Balm they are
For wounds of war
When sun is dark
Empty the park
In lingering pain
limps the lark
Inside the clock
Hours of shark
Roads are blocked
Rooms are...
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Categories:
essayist, books, green, , literature,
Form:
Verse
A SmileAgain and Again
The profundity of our love is my medium to write
about you & your way?
one: Without a comb i wave my hair which you dreamed some time when i think
...
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Categories:
essayist, 7th grade, literature,
Form:
Prose