Long Freshet Poems
Long Freshet Poems. Below are the most popular long Freshet by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Freshet poems by poem length and keyword.
SeeSee
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
freshet, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
For All That I RememberedFor All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
freshet, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Things That Break IiPoems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
freshet, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Horace Replies To a Friend(Quintin Horatius Flaccus, Roman Poet, 65 B.C.-8 A.D.)
Yes, yes, I know what they say about me – know it well,
too damn well, in fact: that I am short,
squat, and overweight with a face even ugly...
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Categories:
freshet, poets,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot ShampooThe Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the...
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Categories:
freshet, desire, hair, longing, love, lust, memory, remember,
Form:
Sonnet
The Folly of WisdomShe is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and takes my hand.
We are walking somewhere that...
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Categories:
freshet, childhood,
Form:
Sonnet
A Certain Saturday Morn***A childhood experience where I
recall my friends and I playing in
the rain, but we became sad when
the rain lifted***
The rain patterned dull, side the sill
to remind the chill to rise 'neath
...
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Categories:
freshet, children, memory, nature, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
Cold ComfortsBeyond the wave-sacked,
lie the pockmarked dunes, heaps dug
by the claws of scaly thrashers.
Here they huddle, my blood kin
flogging grim pleasures,
wolfing eggy sandwiches,
dipping tea-stained teeth into beakers.
By a shoaling shale and monochrome spray
one brine-splattered small fry.
A...
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Categories:
freshet, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Pebble Beach Day OutBeyond the wave-sacked,
lie the pockmarked dunes, heaps dug
by the claws of scaly thrashers.
Here they huddle, my blood kin
flogging grim pleasures,
wolfing eggy sandwiches,
dipping tea-stained teeth into beakers.
By a shoaling shale and monochrome spray
one brine-splattered small fry.
A...
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Categories:
freshet, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Nature and MeAmidst the hills, there lays
a greeny valley and a river
flowing beside where it’s
elixir dripping from the
elevated peaks of hillocks,
kissing the white creamy
stones to churn, it into
decorous dewy pebbles.
The scream of peacocks...
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Categories:
freshet, self,
Form:
Free verse
River GlowThe river holds within it
a bygone starlight,
as if all that was
will be its movement
into tomorrow.
By that ancient glow
long drowned ghosts dream.
I also imagine those dreams travelling
inside my own alien rivering.
The river is a dreamscape.
I saw...
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Categories:
freshet, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Hereabout the AlpsMasterful!
lordly framed
picturesque rain stain
ing icy cap summit’s height,
vaulting off grassy green
pediplain’s sloping foothills,
impinging azure sky’s obscur
ing clouds....
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Categories:
freshet, 9th grade, appreciation, environment, nature, paradise, seasons,
Form:
Free verse