Long Flour Poems
Long Flour Poems. Below are the most popular long Flour by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Flour poems by poem length and keyword.
Medieval Poems IiMedieval Poems
Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
We are so different!
Wulf's on one island; I'm on...
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Categories:
flour, angel, england, love, middle school, poetry, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Uyghur Poetry TranslationsWith my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.
Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Asylum seekers, will...
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Categories:
flour, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 114 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Godfrey and Barrington's Fiesta and Food Reperation ShiftDamian was on the tele-video
conference with various Prestigious
Proper people of distinction. The US
Vice president was on Skype along
With Secretary of State. He spoke
With Russia's top diplomat, Valeiry
Sergei Shonikov, South African president
Holu...
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Categories:
flour, color, husband,
Form:
Alliteration
Where Do We Come InWhere do we come in
in medias res not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages pictures or else make for images of what...
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Categories:
flour, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership, people, rights, sports,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Perhat Turson: Elegy TranslationPerhat Tursun
Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry...
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Categories:
flour, brother, eulogy, magic, prison, spiritual, violence, wine,
Form:
Free verse
The Girl With Eyes As Black As CrowsOn that night the moon seemed hidden from her starry brothers
The kind of night not suited for the fighters nor the lovers
I ventured out only to put out the low burning lamp
When there I saw...
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Categories:
flour, dark, death, fantasy, murder, mythology, night, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Translation of 'The Story' By Kama NasserThe Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story that comes from the world of tents.
It is a story...
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Categories:
flour, arabic, betrayal, christian, conflict, courage, devotion, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Tiny Town Events - 2nd Half -- Text With IllustrationTHIS IS THE SECOND 1/2 of my "Tiny Town Events" piece, posted separately, (one half at a time), due to Poetry Soup's poem maximum-length requirement.
To enjoy the entire story, you'll need to first go to...
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Categories:
flour, love,
Form:
Narrative
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
flour, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
All That Was SpartaOur lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
flour, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Cowboy Way - 2nd ThirdThis is, as indicated, the 2nd THIRD of this lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 3 parts.
The 1st and final thirds can...
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Categories:
flour, first love, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 44“I apologize for any offense I have given to your wife,” DynDoeth.
DynDoeth just smiled. Joulupukki, after listening quietly since the meal began, spoke up.
“Seileach, Ceridfen has a wicked sense...
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Categories:
flour, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
And Still I Drive - Part TwoStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...
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Categories:
flour, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
The White Race Has a PointThe white race has a point
But that doesn't mean
They should treat us improper
The white race has a point
Nature is repeating it over and over
White snow, white moon
white Jesus, white angels
white robes, white clouds
White pedestrian crossing
White...
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Categories:
flour, america, angel, betrayal, break up, christmas, discrimination,
Form:
Narrative
Saturday Morning ReflectionsMy stomach is growling from the coconut trash bubbling in my system, my stomach is growling from toxic energy circulating in the street. My stomach is growling from words people are shouting in the town;...
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Categories:
flour, community, future, happiness, sad, strength, success, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
G L Trestrail and Co Ltd
A rising sun burns like a solar flare
from St....
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Categories:
flour, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
Sitting On the Ground - Embrace Your PassionsGive me a minute to catch my breath before I discover what’s in store
Embrace your passions…never let it go…
I smell the scent of death…what am I waiting for?
Embrace your passions…never let it go…
One…two…three…four…I’m waiting behind...
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Categories:
flour, addiction, appreciation, beauty, hope, paradise, passion, peace,
Form:
Lyric
Bored PresidentI once invested a year
as Board President.
Indeed, I was often a bored resident
of our State Affordable Housing Coalition.
My platform,
to speak grandly
of what was more of a healthy whim,
was for safe and beautiful affordable housing
Habitat is...
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Categories:
flour, caregiving, culture, health, house, humor, integrity, leadership,
Form:
I do not know?
The Ghost of Christmas PresentTerrence the Turkey was feeling quite perky
Passing time in his rafter and doing no harm
No fighting nor squabbling, just gabbling and gobbling
Turkey talking turkey down on the farm.
Whilst having a natter, tame turkey type chatter
Before...
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Categories:
flour, adventure, animal, bird, celebration, christmas, food, freedom,
Form:
Quatrain
The Pepperman and the Quantum Dot ProgramI OPENED A DOOR TO THE QUANTUM DOT WORLD
OF INORGANIC ORGANIC MATERIALS.
ALSO KNOWN AS SYNTHETIC BEINGS. PART HUMAN
PART MACHINE. ONE MIGHT EVEN SAY CYBORG.
CONTROLLED BY FREQUENCIES RADIATING FROM
WHAT APPEARS TO BE 6G...
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Categories:
flour, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Victims of Another Desert's TaleThis piece was inspired by a journal left behind by an adventurous young man that elected to take his wife and two young children, by ox-drawn wagon, to California, in the early 1850s, expecting to...
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Categories:
flour, sad,
Form:
Narrative
Soul Stance River - 3Night one on the new river, the campfire is spirited
and the future appears hospitable,
everyone has their rations, everybody is resting their pride
for on an expedition epic to each man and for a republic as well
souls...
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Categories:
flour, adventure,
Form:
Epic
In the Fairest Circumstance - Both Audio and Text“His fastball, so they tell me, has been clocked at 105!
His ERA is 1 point 4! The guy can really pitch!
I heard he’s making more than any athlete alive,
doing what…when baseball started…didn’t make...
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Categories:
flour, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
Skipping RocksEvery summer Mother’s folks would take us to their cabin. ‘Twas neither big nor fancy. Had no furnace. No TV!
The cistern pump beside the sink was all there was for plumbing. So primitive…and yet...
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Categories:
flour, marriage, metaphor,
Form:
Verse
Mighty Oak Tree, Its Acorns Fed ManyMighty Oak Tree, Its Acorns Fed Many
(A Native American Food Source)
Hard-cast shell
flung down in Fall,
food for man and beast
nuggets of forested treasure,
Nature
sprinkles its bounty
majestic Oaks rain
fruited missiles to ground:
thy treasure feeds life itself
creatures...
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Categories:
flour, creation, history, humanity, native american, nature, tree,
Form:
Verse