Long Excerpted Poems
Long Excerpted Poems. Below are the most popular long Excerpted by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Excerpted poems by poem length and keyword.
Attitude with latitudeAttitude with latitude
originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic
Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours truly
psyche asper paternal overture
toward aforementioned offspring
smitten with opprobrium
figuratively smacked upside...
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Categories:
excerpted, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal, family, father daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Random Excerpts - 2: Ice In My Eyes Smoke In Yours, a Novel
May 29, 1957: …have to think about getting a thesis director…know no professor yet in the department…someone suggested i get hold of Derek Fogg for an intro to the big guns in the philosophisches Seminar…can't...
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Categories:
excerpted, growing up, international, student, universe, world war
Form:
Free verse
Poem By Kasiananthan On the Tamil Diaspora and Eelam, Trans By T WignesanThe Parrot and the Woodpecker may turn...
[Sung by TEnicayccal Cellappa] Translated by T.Wignesan
mAnkiliyum marankottiyum ...
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excerpted, history, nostalgia, political, pain, longing, may,
Form:
Ballad
Electorate Witnesses Wounded BeastElectorate witnesses wounded beast...
flailing, lurching, and writhing in throes of agony
Trumpets blare acknowledging
crack hunters lucky strike,
i.e. bullseye salvo shot at
innocuous yet brutish
and nasty looking Homo sapien
courtesy elite militia incapacitates,
(yet doth not kill) mortal enemy.
Tis a...
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Categories:
excerpted, absence, autumn, class, evil, fate, humanity, november,
Form:
Political Verse
Two Hawaiians, a Sunset and a MemoryTwo Aloha-shirted Hawaiians
of generous girth were strumming
their ukuleles
on a small stage in front of the hotel’s poolside bar
in the late afternoon,
rehearsing for the night’s performance.
It must have been the low...
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excerpted, blessing, happiness, memory, places, simple, travel, vacation,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Days of Love In Flushing: Anticipation(for those in Kwangju: May 18, 1980)*
after Dante
Taking this peach within the mouth, the tongue
hovers around its sunset skin like a lover
and its Sappho sweet bite is heaven. A song
of honeysuckled rivers is like...
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Categories:
excerpted, history, introspection, political, romance, warnight, may, night,
Form:
Terza Rima
Innocent Omission of a Lower Case MTop notch legal scholar Erin Go Braw
(less concerned about being fair versus
abominable, irrevocable, and execrable
unforgivable oversight most holy "M" &...
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Categories:
excerpted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Big Bang By Mrx PoemsScientists claim the big bang was the first sound ever, not knowing how hard milkyway had to beg forever so they could team up to imitate us, first in supernovas, then in rainbows and Pleiades...
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Categories:
excerpted, art, butterfly, cute love, love,
Form:
Free verse
If Ever I Had a Country : Xxi and XxiiIF ever I had a country : XXI - XXII
" I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from...
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excerpted, anger, anti bullying, care, power, rights, sleep,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Weather By Mrx PoemsLove is this two empty chairs we use to sit, drowning in pain and dust. Love is counting hours into days in the most littlest bit, over and over until you are lost. Love is...
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excerpted, abuse, addiction, art, beautiful, feelings, romance, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Truth, Falsehood, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Sonnet: Verdad, MentiraTruth, Falsehood, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Verdad, Mentira
Note: I've tried in vain to upload, since November 2, 2013, the following poem: "Words uttered in a subdued voice in order to constitute a dedication,...
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Categories:
excerpted, philosophy,
Form:
Sonnet
Cogent and the Diligent GentlemenThe emblem on the pendant
was new to all of the professors
they sorted every detail
from end to end
they sampled and examined
until were lofted dumbfounded.
a miracle: something that
made all in attendance
stop to notice.
They looked one another in...
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excerpted, culture, film, music, science fiction,
Form:
Bio
An Old Photoexcerpted from "For an album";
Adrienne Rich (1987)
...
Our story is of moments
when even slow motion moved too fast
for the shutter of the camera:
words that blew our lives apart, like so,
eyes that cut and caught each other...
...our...
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Categories:
excerpted, angst, brother, childhood, death, family, introspection, loss,
Form:
Narrative
Three SistersThree Sisters
Three sisters sitting on a stoop
Like Autumn Summer and Spring
Reflective Introspective and Serene
Contemplating the past present and beyond
Givers of life from the womb to the tomb your love is eternal
You nurture children into...
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Categories:
excerpted, mother,
Form:
Free verse