Long Finite Poems
Long Finite Poems. Below are the most popular long Finite by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Finite poems by poem length and keyword.
Where Is Your Mind
Where Is Your Mind?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking cigarettes and cigars?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking marijuana?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out...
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Categories:
finite, adventure, allegory, analogy, desire, growth, passion, perspective,
Form:
Lyric
Summer Solstice 2025
Summer Solstice 2025
Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year
for people living
within the northern hemisphere.
Just shy of the supposed...
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Categories:
finite, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty, dedication, earth, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal Moment
Impossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
finite, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Rilke Translations Ii
Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
finite, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke Translation
Archaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
finite, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the Panther
The Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
finite, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
The Secret of Death and Life
There is a "Secret To Life,and "There is a secret to "The Death of those who will not realize that they are"already dead in the "Spirit"of "The Lord God Almighty! There is a secret...
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Categories:
finite, 12th grade, 1st grade, 8th grade, allah,
Form:
Bio
Random Excerpts From Ice In My Eyes, Smoke In Yours - a Novel
"Hey, you philosophysing Hindu. Give me a break, Buddy. I was just pulling your leg. [...] I want the rest of the story. Really, I mean it.” Theson said nothing. [...] “I can see you’re...
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Categories:
finite, fantasy, growing up, lost, nature, religion,
Form:
Free verse
God's Return Ticket
God's Return Ticket
Did you ever wonder about the Almighty’s criteria or selection process for reincarnation of souls back on Earth? Just think some famous politician, movie star, sports figure,criminal, dictator, and so on could use...
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Categories:
finite, beauty, creation, earth, emotions, god, heaven, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
Xenophobia Pt 1
TITLE:
Xenophobia
Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings
They're bound to be a bit tart...
Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...
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Categories:
finite, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form:
Lyric
But Just Where Is God
(Musings of a poet with huge doubts and a fragile faith)
Introduction: Is God A Joke Or Human Vanity?
When close friends die and other’s thoughts are suicidal,
When mankind’s soup du jour is loneliness with anguish
When mental...
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Categories:
finite, god, mental illness, perspective, , atheist,
Form:
Blank verse
The Daily Star Thursday issue
The Daily Star Thursday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2024
regarding purr ray zing planetary earthlings
paying obeisance to god/goddess of the sun
Thursday, June twentieth
at 4:51 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This...
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Categories:
finite, anniversary, beauty, celebration, june, star, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Social Privy
justice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
finite, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
The Daily Star Tuesday Issue
The daily star Tuesday issue...
announces Summer Solstice 2023
regarding ray zing planetary earthlings
Wednesday, June twenty first
at 10:57 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year for
people...
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Categories:
finite, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful, creation, england, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Time, Friend Or Foe
"Time is the thief you cannot banish." ...
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Categories:
finite, life, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy Translation
This is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
finite, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Which Paradise Is Not the Elusive Chimere
Which paradise is not the elusive chimère?
…how long does it take to live one life…learn the lessons of a lifetime…find the time to live…find the time to sort things out…know what you did...
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Categories:
finite, heaven, innocence, myth, paradise, symbolism, truth, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The Face of the Lord God Almighty
The Face of "The Lord God Almighty" who is the only "LIVING GOD"
is "The True GOD" because "THE LIVING GOD" is "The Lord GOD Almighty and there is none else!Any who call themselve "GOD"...
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Categories:
finite, 11th grade, 1st grade, adventure, allah, america,
Form:
Chant Royal
God's Kind of Poetry
The finite contemplating the infinite
The stardust male and female still flush with light
From exploding stars, seeding new possibilities, our true progenitors.
So that even God Himself must take note of our passing (in its season),
Such elemental...
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Categories:
finite, god, poetry, universe,
Form:
Blank verse
Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold
Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold
alternately titled: incorrigible lottery dreamer
big plans to relocate self and spouse
to some tropical island paradise
by the dashboard light
(the above line credited
to musician named Meatloaf)
upon...
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Categories:
finite, adventure, angel, appreciation, blessing, drug, happy, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Missus Served Me High Test Coffee
The missus served me high test coffee...
Ah... tis nothing more heavenly
(to one borne again devout atheist)
then a spring like January 18th, 2023
here at Highland Manor apartments
picturesque green covered landscape,
where intrepid dandelions
dare to defy...
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Categories:
finite, angel, appreciation, atheist, blessing, dedication, drink, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Memory Lane
Moments to Reflect
Memory lane
Our memories are a part of us that helps us to grow. Reminiscing about the past keeps thoughts alive so that they will last. Memories are a record of all the things...
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Categories:
finite, faith, inspirational, day, pain, light, memory, day,
Form:
I do not know?
Doomsday Clock Minute Hand
Doomsday Clock minute hand...
hovers over 100 seconds to midnight
as of January 2022,
which apocalyptic prognostication
established by the Bulletin
of Atomic Scientists
maintained since 1947,
the clock quantifies a metaphor
for threats to humanity
from unchecked...
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Categories:
finite, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
The Great Forgotten Language
"The Great Forgotten Language"
In the forest
Love shows
the way
spreading seeds
strange creatures
come forth
into the clearing
of a known self
some run away
spooked as if
the bare reflection
shows their undressed soul
confronting,
are the peculiar
ghosts risen, speaking
like...
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Categories:
finite, humanity, love, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Christmas Dream Within the Child
I woke last night and read my Poe
and asked is all that we see or seem
but a dream within a dream of a dream?
I know what I don’t know what I know.
In Bethlehem’s cradle, a...
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Categories:
finite, blessing, child, christmas, family, hope, philosophy, star,
Form:
Lyric