Long Gains Poems
Long Gains Poems. Below are the most popular long Gains by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Gains poems by poem length and keyword.
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:
gains, angel, blessing, business, community, freedom, mythology, people,
Form:
Narrative
Emo LoveWith this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...
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Categories:
gains, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
Healthy Caring SystemsToo many times sadly
too seldom gladly
I must learn to trust
Earth's future more
Both Father Sun's timeless
rounds of enlightenment
and Mother Earth's
codependent rhythms
regenerating rich
empowering
soulful soil
and surfing seas
And this trusting more
impels healing trauma's lessons,
surviving hale and...
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Categories:
gains, culture, earth, earth day, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Battle Hymn of Covid19I cannot let this obsession with Coronavirus (COVID19) go
It is apparent, from the number of deaths projected, to be in the hundreds of thousands, that many Americans still are not heeding the warnings. I hope...
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Categories:
gains, america, death, health, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
Caregiving Stories RepriseWounded Sacred Dementia: Part Two
Dementia's derelict WinLose SocialWorker
suboptimizingly hesitates
when I tell her
I have not changed my mind
about not adopting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
into my vulnerable home
with a seven-year-old AfricanAmerican boy
blind
and unable to defend himself,
or even run...
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Categories:
gains, caregiving, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Earthy EmpathyYou've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.
Not so distant from,
I...
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Categories:
gains, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
A Vain WordA Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
gains, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Today Is DifferentToday is assiduously
religiously different,
as I review our local RiverEast News.
Every week
Mike Thompson writes a solid Editorial
in a compelling voice.
I expect to only add
my hearty sacred
happy secular "Amen!"
Our nearly fearless Editor and Chief
calls for political "ACCOUNTABILITY!"
like...
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Categories:
gains, america, health, integrity, prayer, spiritual, spoken word,
Form:
Political Verse
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans TranslationOft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
gains, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
In This Taoist's ViewCould we be doing our best
to invest in Earth's cooperative health markets?
While you sell our most competitive killing machines
to our Saudi Arabian cousins.
Referencing this touchstone as an ecopolitical WinWin,
unlike Parisian multicultural investments in climate health,
as...
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Categories:
gains, destiny, earth, fear, hate, health, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Life Is Like That Extent Live That Moto Full Extent -Life is like that extent
Live that moment
to full extent...
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Categories:
gains, education, life, love,
Form:
Bio
Wise EldersWise Elders are patient,
fully embrace non-violent communication
and health care
of climates and landscapes,
persons,
places,
things,
plants
and planet,
hopes
and dreams
rebuilding positive faith.
Wise Elders non-violently listen
for karmic grace of love
sometimes overflowing.
If Wise Revolutionaries for change,
clearing murky swamps,
then Wise Elder non-violent evolutionaries
toward peace
restoring...
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Categories:
gains, 5th grade, caregiving, class, health, time, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Listening For FirestormsAlways respect this combination of fire and wind,
she tentatively said,
after having listened for healthy and pathological winds
regenerating and degenerating,
investing in and divesting of,
yeasty flames of fertile dopamine.
They, like you,
co-arise of and from the landscapes
in which...
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Categories:
gains, absence, blessing, happiness, health, humanity, nature, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
On Fam'Ly Traditions - 1st ThirdThe one time before they had brought me along - to this cabin - to fish on this lake...this primitive structure that Leo - Dad's granddad - had constantly threatened to sell...
I was a toddler...Father...
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Categories:
gains, family, together,
Form:
Narrative
Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol IiLet me explain the numbers I see
The first chart illustrates the five states that flipped
Notice how close the totals are
So, when folks dismiss the evidence of fraud
As being inconsequential I think this demonstrates they’re mental...
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Categories:
gains, political,
Form:
Narrative
EzraThis is an unfinished Heroic Crown of Sonnets dedicated to a friend's grandchild who was born with serious lower body issues 3 years ago...but he is so perfect and beautiful in every other way that...
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Categories:
gains, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
L'OvertureL'Overture
Lest we forget
Words often mouthed
For the dead of bloody war
Forgot not those great ones
Whose battles were on the home front
Seeking only equality of voice
Ray Charles to you was a singer
Backwards and long ago he was...
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Categories:
gains, black african american, encouraging, freedom, french, history,
Form:
Free verse
He Is Like Thunder and Lighting He Excited MeGod! We Behold that you are great and we know somehow your ways are pass finding out. anyhow!
Neither can the number of his years be searched out anytime he made small drops of...
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Categories:
gains, appreciation, care, character, education, image, nature, rain,
Form:
Narrative
Now's As Good a Time To Start As Any -- Both Audio and TextGaylord Laryngitis was a monstrous human being.
They say he weighed…at ten years old…at least 400 pounds,
But standin’ 6 foot 7…and because he exercised…
he actually didn’t look real “fat”…despite the way it...
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Categories:
gains, friendship, love,
Form:
Narrative
RewindRewind
By Julia Shaw
At seventy-two my life has been so very fine,
That I'd like to push a button and just rewind.
I'd go back to my wedding day so exciting
And marry again the man I found so...
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Categories:
gains, appreciation, child, daughter, life, nostalgia, time, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
AfghanistanHow interesting. A contest about Afghanistan.
Afghanistan sits landlocked between Pakistan on the East
and Iran on the West with a population of 39 million. It's enemy ...
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Categories:
gains, america, military, political, soldier, war,
Form:
Verse
Moderna Commedia, Canto 1, Part 1Dopo lunghe vicende della vita
Mi ritrovai seduto su un divano
Con un telecomando fra le dita.
When my life struggles were to their end
I found myself sitting on a sofa
Holding...
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Categories:
gains, dream, , western,
Form:
Terza Rima
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Kurt RavidasDancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss
Collaboration with Kurt Ravidas
I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from its narrow ledge,
in the midst of ravenous rage and great...
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Categories:
gains, art, dark, evil, fantasy, horror, raven, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
HollywoodThe victim list keeps growing
But no one really cares
The gristmill claims another one
Keep your hands in and don't stare
Hollywood is the golden land
The eternal silver screen
But many souls are lost here
A lot of greats or...
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Categories:
gains, america, betrayal, culture, loneliness, pain, society,
Form:
Epic
The City and the State of Play TodayTHE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY
No one worries about morals today
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on the outside looking in
Are the only ones feeling queasy...
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Categories:
gains, business, community, corruption, international, london, money, political,
Form:
Free verse