Long Focus Poems
Long Focus Poems. Below are the most popular long Focus by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Focus poems by poem length and keyword.
Echoes of a Shady PastAn icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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focus, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Twon icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
focus, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
After All Is Said and DoneI wrote this random rap song just yesterday! Have a blast, reading it! :D
"We shall all be like magnets,
Connecting to God's Laws in perfect symmetry
We shall all shine as the sun,
Glorifying the son of...
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Categories:
focus, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Letters For People Part 4Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
focus, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Various Heresies 7Pagans Protest the Intolerance of Christianity
by Michael R. Burch
“We have a common sky.” — Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
We had a common sky
before the Christians came.
We thought there might be gods
but did not know their names.
The common...
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Categories:
focus, angel, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Grand PrioritiesWhat fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
Let me ask again:
Noticing you are concerned about long-winded
and -winding
and...
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Categories:
focus, black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Various Heresies 4Various Heresies 4
I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch
I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.
But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...
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Categories:
focus, america, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, usa,
Form:
Verse
Bipartisan DissonanceWhen oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading back in time
to where she began to feel alone,
marginalized,
siloed,
anxious,
neglected.
If...
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Categories:
focus, conflict, math, parents, political, race, religion, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Fortunes Re ToldFORTUNES READ the sign displayed
TRINKETS, CHARMS AND SPELLS
The store had not been here yesterday
shades of candles, books and bell
Drapes were hung from side to side
The windows all were dark
Where was this place a day ago?
Just...
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Categories:
focus, surreal,
Form:
Epic
I PromiseTo my dearest,
On this day you turn thirteen, officially a teenager! This meaning you are on the very first stage of discovering yourself, your music tastes, your food preferences, your style of clothing and even...
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Categories:
focus, beautiful, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Chaucer Translation: Merciless BeautyMerciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...
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Categories:
focus, beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
Rilke Translations IiCome, 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:
focus, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Psychotripic Theory of EverythingCompassion co-arises nondually
internal-external.
Today I want to talk about possibilities
for integral polycultural dynamics,
which are systemic relationships,
correlations,
between LeftBrain deductive ego-mind,
RightBrain inductive eco-body,
and a boundary between these bicameral landscapes,
which we call unconsciousness.
The feasibility
and health value
of recognizing this...
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Categories:
focus, community, political, psychological, science, spiritual, western,
Form:
Free verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic 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:
focus, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
No Matter What - Davedas Cascade Style~ No Matter What ~
( Daveda's Cascade )
~O~
So happy my soul You did save
To sin I don't have to be slave
My heart in God I can confide...
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Categories:
focus, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Seek the Lord - the Star of David Style~ Seek The Lord ~
( Star Of David )
God
For sure
Knows sees all
Wants best for you
He sure loves us all
Lord wants us to have Love...
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Categories:
focus, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
4 More Poems About Poetry - BWho hasn't this nightmare of forgetting an inspirational word or phrase happened to?
...
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Categories:
focus, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe 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:
focus, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Stay Focus On the Lord - the Cross of Salvation Style~ Stay Focus On The Lord ~
( Cross Of Salvation )
~O~
Stay focus till you
Reach your dreams goal
Just watch soul
And you'll be fine
Know with God's Love...
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Categories:
focus, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Worship and Praise - the Pantoum Style~ Worship And Praise ~
( Pantoum )
~O~
Worship God, each day, all the way.
Keep the Lord always in my life.
Try follow Him in all each day.
Worship, praise...
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Categories:
focus, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Seek the Lord - the Star of David Style~ Seek The Lord ~
( Star Of David )
~O~
God
For sure
Knows sees all
Wants best for you
He sure loves us all
Lord wants us to have Love Faith Hope...
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Categories:
focus, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Women and their ManWhat went wrong with women and why women worry.
Some women worry for it’s in their nature. They grew up watching grandma worry and momma worry. They lack confidence. They too often need reassurance. Their insecurity...
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Categories:
focus, change, forgiveness, god, hurt, men, relationship, women,
Form:
Narrative
10 Poems About PoetryBeing a “Poet” Can Be Painful!
I’ve likely told you, more than once, that poetry can be painful, and whined about the need for penning verse
That stems from deep inside my soul...fashions every word...and has become,...
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Categories:
focus, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Various Heresies 6Various Heresies 6
Altared Spots
by Michael R. Burch
The mother leopard buries her cub,
then cries three nights for his bones to rise
clad in new flesh, to celebrate the sunrise.
Good mother leopard, pensive thought
and fiercest love’s wild insurrection
yield...
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Categories:
focus, atheist, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
God Knows All - the Pentaphor Style~ God Knows All ~
( Pentaphor )
~O~
God loves you a lot
He always knows best
God is never wrong
In...
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Categories:
focus, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse