Long Form Poems
Long Form Poems. Below are the most popular long Form by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Form poems by poem length and keyword.
April's Babbling Foolishness(Created using the bAbBlE sentence generator, various text excerpts, and a minuscule bit of human editing.)
And she smells good without keeping all ...
Beef, sitting lonely on that lies floating on the tufted floor. "Surely,"...
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Categories:
form, art, computer, crazy, food, funny, horror, humor,
Form:
Prose
In the Middle of the NightI woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...
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Categories:
form, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
An Uppercut I RememberDad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
form, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Justice Is Crying In the StreetOh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
form, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
The pain of not knowing
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A lament of Love? and Loss
In the silence, I hear your voice,
A whispered reminder, of my foolish choice.
I was blind to your needs, and deaf to your pain,
And now I'm left...
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Categories:
form, anxiety, betrayal, black love, crush, cute love,
Form:
Light Verse
The Hardships of Honesty - Neither Will II often surprise many people in many ways
With the words I say…with the actions I make…
It’s extraordinary how many seek high praise
With the words they say…with the actions they fake…
Neither will I…
Assume the worst in...
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Categories:
form, angst, conflict, emotions, endurance, faith, hope, passion,
Form:
Free verse
A Day Under the SunBlue Hunter's Moon of the Festival of Lights.
And the day of Vengeance of our Holy One to comfort all those who mourn.
Isaiah 61:3-11
I Proclaim the acceptable Generation or Year and Day of Yehoshua also known...
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Categories:
form, blue, earth day, faith, growth, moon, rainbow,
Form:
Prose
Honey Bee Flying Around In WinterI have been reluctant to pen this verse
Because I don't understand what it was all about
I have been reluctant to pen this verse
Because I don't want anyone to get hurt
Morning comes and evening...
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Categories:
form, angel, blessing, business, community, freedom, mythology, people,
Form:
Narrative
CurrentsCurrents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
form, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
LimericksLimericks
by Michael R. Burch
Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
"When again, gentle bride?"
"Nevermore!" bright-eyed Raven replied.
The Platypus
by Michael R. Burch
The platypus,...
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Categories:
form, giggle, light, nonsense, parody, silly, smile, word
Form:
Limerick
THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
form, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
form, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiMy most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
form, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About IcarusSouthern Icarus
by Michael R. Burch
Windborne, lover of heights,
unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace,
you climb, skittish kite...
What do you know of the world’s despair,
gliding in vast solitariness there,
so that all that remains is to
fall?
Only a...
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Categories:
form, analogy, angel, bird, butterfly, extended metaphor, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks I - Relatives and RelativityLimericks I - Relatives and Relativity
The Cosmological Constant
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
said E equals MC squared.
Thus all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
A$$-tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Relativity, the theorists’ creed,
says mass increases...
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Categories:
form, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, science, space, time,
Form:
Limerick
Limericks Iii - Grab BagLimericks III - Grab Bag
Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:
Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch
The English are very...
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Categories:
form, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly, war, writing,
Form:
Limerick
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
form, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Roses and LilacsWinter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
Published...
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Categories:
form, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Lxi-LxxSonnets LXI-LXX
Erin
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair?
bright carrot?and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children?some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid it. For nowhere
is evidence of...
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Categories:
form, heart, night, spiritual, wife, words, write, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Malkavian ThreeHis glowing golden eyes glistened with a comprehension beyond the mortal condition
A well-toned, tall, and tanned man, who most, not all, would call handsome
A brightly bleached stalactite overbite gleaned between the mean features of an...
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Categories:
form, dark, psychological,
Form:
Bio
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
form, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
UnWatering Trumpian TerrorI'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love powers
over competing fears
about scarcity of healthy time,
and other resources
for evacuating anger
about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a regenerate wealth source
CoPresent ReTort,
raised to believe the Golden...
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Categories:
form, anger, destiny, fear, hate, love, power, violence,
Form:
Political Verse
VillanellesVillanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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Categories:
form, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
form, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Juvenilia: Early Poems XJuvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...
once starlight
languished
in your hair...
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret,
a pain
I chose to bear...
unleash
the torrent
of your hair...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
form, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme