Get Your Premium Membership

Long Expended Poems

Long Expended Poems. Below are the most popular long Expended by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Expended poems by poem length and keyword.


Premium Member Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"



Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys

praying
preying

hungry hearts
count the days 

wasting away
in all that preying 

for prayers 
to be answered

children become
strangers

reading 
strange words

finding 
themselves puzzled

genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to

fumbling
mouths closed,

swallowed hole
in the...

Read More
Categories: expended, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form: Epic



Snapshots From a Child's West London
I remember my cherished Wolf Cub pack, 
How I loved those Wednesday evenings, 
The games, the pomp and seriousness of the camps, 
The different coloured scarves, sweaters and hair 
During the mass meetings, 
The solemnity...

Read More
Categories: expended, child, childhood, children, england, friendship, london, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For Shame
The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it reaches
Possessing her every inhalation – exhalation - it envelopes her...

Read More
Categories: expended, betrayal, environment, natural disasters, peace, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Obsession
...inspired by 'Portrait Of A Lady' by T.S. Eliot


On winter days the view outside is nebulous at best,
within, the furniture is as it always was, and I am waiting,
waiting for a glimpse of you to...

Read More
Categories: expended, angst, devotion, universe,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Bookish Bound Man Obsessed For Knowledge Crafts Long Poem
1.
This hunger artist cannot read 
volumes of printed material fast enough 
to satiate an immense appetite 
and unquenchable thirst 
to acquire learning from 
the millenniums gushing fount of 
cumulative chance revelations, 
(or deliberate intent to...

Read More
Categories: expended, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction, adventure, books,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Robotic Ascension - Part 1
It was a grey day more or less on planet earth,
But earth’s robots hardly noticed at all
Robot logic so tuned into ones and zeros,
On and off, grey matter is of little interest
Day and night, sunrise...

Read More
Categories: expended, life, planet,
Form: Blank verse
Worry Knot Chokes Out the Living Daylights
Worry knot chokes out the living daylights

I know from personal experience
the foolhardiness of
courting, flirting, honeymooning...
worse case scenario,
particularly when just a wee lad,
yours truly internalized
unfamiliar bodily aches and pains
as a death sentence,
slept with one eye opened
against...

Read More
Categories: expended, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Agricultural Show Rodeo
Across the ridges, flats and ranges, in print, on radio and stages,
you may hear this tale wherever you may go.
Sometimes a stranger may confide, about that famous ride,
in the rodeo at Mildura's annual show.

For a...

Read More
Categories: expended, adventure, animal, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Hen House
Cooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant 
dwells amongst an elder net 
of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque 
of old folks, only a portion of population I met
which achey, flaky, kooky motley crue 
disgruntlement fed as peevish...

Read More
Categories: expended, care, class, environment, farewell, grave, nostalgia, retirement,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member The Crone
A warning breeze bore tale of a familiar and fiery rage;
in the dread of night, a crone hobbled, accursed of her age  
by smoldering orange glow, she took to an ancient black tome 
raptly...

Read More
Categories: expended, courage, dedication, fantasy, lonely, mythology, star,
Form: Quatrain
Obsession Part 2
Though I'll remember nature's wonders,
sunsets and the breath of spring,
feel the wind blow through my hair
and know the thrill of sunrise cresting.

We see the universe as dancing,
two such different creatures trancing,
we two will never understand
the...

Read More
Categories: expended, lost love, universe,
Form: Verse
Choices of Past Forebears
Random chain of events
preceded occurrence re:
guarding existence of me
interminable fits and starts
concerning self destruction
inherent within one measly
self important species.

Yours truly synonymous 
with any chance reader
(of course inclusive those 
untold past multitudes,
who trod upon this oblate...

Read More
Categories: expended, adventure, atheist, bullying, creation, earth, fate, grandparents,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poems going nowhere that don't get finished
This is a broken emptiness
So surrounded in fixedness you can't get at it
All I've ever wanted, I'm that
But in disorder
Unoriginal amongst poets
My drama is bound, I won't let it out
All doors remain shut
I dare not...

Read More
Categories: expended, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
To My Children
To My Children

Love is just energy forever changing form, but indestructible.
The force determines the beloved from the lovers, mistakenly interchangeable.
Whereas the latter are the bones of thy ribs, you the beloved are the
  ...

Read More
Categories: expended, father, children, love, me, my children, time,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Obsession Pt 2
We see the universe as dancing,
two such different creatures trancing,
we two will never understand
the private notions of the other,
even if we take each other's hand.

Coming close to your destruction
you will see the other side,
who says...

Read More
Categories: expended, tribute, writing, universe,
Form: Verse
Thoughts Uric and Urinary, Or: Does She of a Morning Stand Before Some Wicked Ablutionary Sink
As I stood before the porcelaneous basin,
And streamed into its already uric and xanthous-stained depths,
A stain, a sight and a liquid yet yellower and more urinary;
And as cloudiness, not of mind, but of that which...

Read More
Categories: expended, allegory, anger, angst, art, august, baptism, betrayal,
Form: I do not know?
Tempest
TEMPEST

Twin limestone tors thrust up through valley floor
Like isles or icebergs in a calm flat sea
Deep green save where shear rock can hold no spore
To spawn in fecund niche a vine or tree

Midday and all...

Read More
Categories: expended, environment, inspirational, philosophy, places, storm,
Form: Narrative
Sham Cum Shame
They say the virus does not exist. Why?
our leaders politicize its mortality
profiteers make it a minted and crispy business
rumour mongers carry myths of it across the Nile
and the poor are to isolate at home in...

Read More
Categories: expended, africa, corruption, depression, heartbroken, nonsense, poverty, rights,
Form: Free verse
Open Arms Welcome Poetry Muse
Ideally yours truly prefers 
a she/her who never got prosecuted for a felon, 
yet who most deaf fin knit lee  
possesses sound blinding killer instincts
think miracle worker Anne Sullivan
signifying rendering phenomenal success 
with one...

Read More
Categories: expended, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, angel,
Form: Free verse
Nature and Human Juxtaposed
Deep in your peaceful mind,
confusion starts.

Like volcanic eruption.
Deep down the depths,
of the dark blue sea.

Your heart and soul collide.
In Conflict, Causing a rift.

Like the tectonic plates,
that collide and shift.

Disturbances are brewing inside yourself
Concealed by your...

Read More
© Sam Raj  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expended, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea
most instances when i initially seat
     myself priming creative literary juices to flow,
     an unspecified number hours elapse
     before that eureka i.e. Jackie...

Read More
Categories: expended, 11th grade, 12th grade, encouraging, meaningful, mystery,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The World of a Writer
The world of a writer

The world of a writer,  like a caretaker 
Who is in charge for administration
To travel to and fro the yet to happen
Bringing the mind down the memory lane
And warning for...

Read More
Categories: expended, beautiful, drug, , cute,
Form: Free verse
Kellyn Hodges
above named entitled african american orthodontist 
   crowned specialist exemplary de jure by this dad
sans perfecting offset dentition of me daughter – shana – who had
quite noticeable gapped teeth – just the opposite...

Read More
Categories: expended, black african american, daughter, feelings, thank you,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Bees Knees
The Bees Knees

She was the buzz between the feathery blossom
The flutter midst buds and petals in cloak of fur
Rapturously delving the gene laden pollen
To trap the powdery wonder upon her hairy legs
And transfer to elsewhere...

Read More
Categories: expended, insect,
Form: Blank verse
Obsession Part 3
I shall take my morning walk,
communing with the birds and talking
to myself while reading Kafka,
glancing at the latest headlines.
Dear Stravinsky's 'Rite' is slighted,
(he'll return when ears are righted.)
When I smell a rose I'm prompted 
to...

Read More
Categories: expended, love,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs