Long Favored Poems
Long Favored Poems. Below are the most popular long Favored by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Favored poems by poem length and keyword.
Hurricane Katrina - 20 years later
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed through New Orleans and Louisiana. The only difference was, in New Orleans (intentional or not), the levees broke. The flood waters flooded the 9th ward and most of...
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Categories:
favored, anniversary, change, life, people, storm, usa, world,
Form:
Narrative
Revolutionary AnthroMatriarchy
Those who get,
get more widely.
Those who want,
want more deeply.
Normal slow-grown inter-religiously co-invested evolution
is not survival of the wealthiest and strongest species,
but thrival of the deepest win/win fit
with least panentheistic disruption required
within,
whether we speak...
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Categories:
favored, health, integrity, love, political, religious, science, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Turkish Poetry Translations Ii
Turkish 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:
favored, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 2
"The Swoon Hypothesis" - Part 2
Arimathea stands next to you and I on the deck, soon we are back in Nazareth, you press into my palm,
“A very rare Dubunni coin” you say - on...
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Categories:
favored, imagery, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
144 - Shedeur Sanders
Let’s talk about it.
The projected disrespected was selected! Yes selected, not by man, but by God.
144, yes, that’s the number it took for Shedeur Sanders to be drafted.
Let’s talk about these NFL owners from the...
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Categories:
favored, america, betrayal, confidence, evil, football, god, race,
Form:
Narrative
Divine Comedy, Second Canto
The day was going off, and the brown air
To the terrestrial animals gave rest
For their labors; and only me was there
Just ready to withstand the war at best
Both of the journey and of the torment,
Which...
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Categories:
favored, fantasy, proposal,
Form:
Terza Rima
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1
From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah
His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...
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Categories:
favored, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
Preface
Greetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....
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Categories:
favored, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
War of Worldviews
YangLeft: Those still capable of right thinking,
as our more civil
humane reflections
on bilateral political
and economic investment inflection,
sometimes cooperative
and democratically co-invested,
but usually just BusinessAsUsual
life remains a win/lose infested
compromising
ZeroSum political disempowering game
deflection.
YintegrityRight: Sweety,
thanks for honorable...
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Categories:
favored, analogy, caregiving, earth, health, integrity, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Wonderful Women
Mary was a virgin girl:
With big dreams and aspirations!
An angel came to visit her:
With honor and salutations!
Troubled by his sayings:
She did not know what to think!
The angel said to Mary:
My dear, no need to shrink!
Mary...
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Categories:
favored, inspirational, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Bruce Walker, Elegy
My teacher died.
His lungs failed him.
He taught me that the lungs
harbor grief.
His lungs are gone.
My grief has only just arrived.
He used his lungs...
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Categories:
favored, death of a friend, love, teacher,
Form:
Elegy
WeedPatch Therapy
What words do we choose to express our ultimate accomplishments,
achieving our healthiest goals,
measuring our most successful outcomes?
Why do these words,
and our feelings about these choices,
wave in and out of happiness and prosperity,
even...
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Categories:
favored, beauty, deep, earth, environment, health, peace, poverty,
Form:
Political Verse
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part One
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz
Prologue
This is a rather grim epic poetic tale of Rosalia, a 16th century German witch who terrorized villages, destroyed the lives and corrupted the souls of many...
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Categories:
favored, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
The True Knight -POTD
POTD 9th April 2018
Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even in modern times.
She’s a queen who sees her lover...
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Categories:
favored, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Translations
Mehmet 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:
favored, dark, death, earth, grave, life, war, world,
Form:
Ghazal
Kilo
Forever is only a moment lost without champion the cause Anderson mister burnette blossom barachatta Barbara Streisand globally Hussein ghost minnows shady lane candles blue stay real vanderbuilts vaults of favored few points topless blunt...
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Categories:
favored, 11th grade,
Form:
Alexandrine
Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First Date
Spouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date
While yours truly sat here
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous readers,
he unexpectedly, noisily and effectually
exploded out rear...
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Categories:
favored, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
Syria Reconstructed
It is in our fragile, nearly broken, exposure
that we are most available for love
and remedial gratitude,
rather than the louder applause
of our full-blown ballistic glory.
While exercising restrained patience breeds tolerance,
giving pregnant reign to co-empathy compels timeless...
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Categories:
favored, deep, earth day, health, love, mother, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Treasuring the Educator
A former friend of mine
tricked me into becoming
something I am not
The volunteer President
of our condo association,
a position I clearly cannot afford
midst trifling disassociations.
We were starting our Autumn tradition
of arguing about next year's budget
which typically continues
until...
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Categories:
favored, education, health, humor, integrity, peace, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Thank You
Thank You!...
It's Black history month, so we come to celebrate,
all the hues of brown that made our nation great!
From Fredrick and Harriet to Mandela, and Muhammad Ali, because of the stance they took,...
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Categories:
favored, america, celebration, culture, humanity, leadership, pride, tribute,
Form:
Ballad
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Six
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Six
Archangel Gabriel and His Force of Heavenly Angels
Upon seeing the radiant, almost blinding light as it lit up even the darkest corners of the forested...
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Categories:
favored, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Riding Sixties Shotgun
I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...
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Categories:
favored, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 40 -- Damian Delilah Mallory the Master Plan Ii Continues: Offspring
One year Passed Dolly had long
Since given birth to a baby girl
Named Desharah, a green eyed
Heart stopper. She and
Amadeus were growing up
Crazy about each other. She
Was 2 years old and...
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Categories:
favored, child, clothes, color, cute, emotions, father son,
Form:
Alliteration
Empowering Regenerative Healthcultures
Living
is our shared regenerative tradition
as Earthlings,
And dying
is our autonomously
separating
fading degenerative position
as former organic life systems
living ego-identified upon
and economic-ecologically within
an organic Sun/Earth Revolving HealthSystem
spiraling through Time
revolving through Space,
a global organic ecohabitat network.
Anthropoid memory
of matriarchal history
proscribes unrealistic...
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Categories:
favored, culture, earth, health, history, integrity, life, mother,
Form:
Political Verse
Stories of Grace and Pathology
I hope it would not be a parody of Michael Morrell’s political scientific position
to suggest all relationships are political
and all political relationships fall somewhere on a spectrum
between perfect co-empathic trust,
nutritionally and regeneratively favored by creolizing...
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Categories:
favored, blessing, gospel, health, history, political, religion, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry