Long Glean Poems
Long Glean Poems. Below are the most popular long Glean by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Glean poems by poem length and keyword.
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:
glean, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
The Reason I Write“I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.” *
If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something soothing...
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Categories:
glean, family,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Poem of RuthThe tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a distant, unknown land:
Once so secure, yet now compelled to roam;
Once...
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Categories:
glean, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Let It Be Written 3
“I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.” Psalms 77:5 NIV
If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something...
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Categories:
glean, family,
Form:
Prose Poetry
GenieUsGenusPlan
In the darkness of the night,
a ruby gleams
to contrast a slumbered eye awakened
to feeling,
reflection, light,
Lady "Genie", eyes aglow
like a beast, in mid-stride,
lost in her midnight dreams is clothed in a...
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Categories:
glean, april, art, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Invisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilismInvisibly tortured courtesy existential nihilism
Psyche wracked with agony
impossible mission to extricate lovely bones
they wanna remain permanently abed.
I chiefly function to amass knowledge
courtesy assiduously, habitually,
and judiciously reading
an eclectic assortment of written material.
Yours truly woke
with ambition, disposition,
inclination,...
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Categories:
glean, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence, age, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
Am I Turning Into a Lizard Serial KillerHmmm, where do I start? With deep sighs, I am sighing right now.
I just finished burying 2 lizards, and my heart is heavy...
Let me back up a bit...bear with me if I might turn out...
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Categories:
glean, angst, animal, how i feel, sad, sorry,
Form:
Narrative
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 15:7
15.7
“You are That in which the universe appears
like waves appearing in the ocean
You are Consciousness itself
No need to worry”
The concept being that the world is nothing but thought
Transient and therefore necessarily unreal like a...
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Categories:
glean, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots ViStrategically placed when raised
Upwards
By your masterful and well
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing
Skylines
That frown down with arrogant
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous of
This just and tolerant island.
To study and pontificate upon...
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Categories:
glean, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Spirit of ChristmastideBeneath the mantel's alabaster gleam
Where verdigris flames pirouette, in cerulean ballet's beam...
We gather close—a familial love—
In hallowed halls where chimes of crystal laughter, stream.
Amid the yuletide glow, memories take flight, a morning dove...
Cinnamon-kissed balsam and...
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Categories:
glean, christmas, december, joy, love, nostalgia, winter,
Form:
Narrative
Loving My Refurbished Fifteen Inch Mid 2015 Macbook ProLoving my refurbished fifteen inch mid 2015 Macbook Pro
A lightning fast machine
purchased three days ago
now comfortably nestling with
said technological wonder,
where outside a cold wind howls
measuring windchill factor of five below
allowing, enabling and providing me
an opportunity...
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Categories:
glean, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
The Welkin - and - the Influences1. The Welkin
Wind blows / clouds race / vast blue sky
Breeze tugs / trees sway / great green hills
Sun scourged / sand glares / small white beach
Skip stones / thoughts nag / mind fug stills
2....
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Categories:
glean, analogy, nature,
Form:
Jueju
Ability To Defecate Wildly Swings Both WaysAbility to defecate wildly swings (both ways)...
between incontinence and constipation
Irritable bowel syndrome i.e.
the former excretory bout I address
the above (polite way to phrase diarrhea)
and avoid moon efficient cheekiness,
yours truly doth buttress,
a literal warranted pain in...
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Categories:
glean, 12th grade, adventure, desire, health, imagery, recovery
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Hell Translation Canto Xxxii Part1If my rhymes rugged and clucking might be
As it would better fit to wretched hole
Above which are pointing all rocks to see,
I would express my concept as a whole
More clearly; but since I do not...
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Categories:
glean, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Terza Rima
Figurative Paralysis Laid Waste Body Electric of MineFigurative paralysis laid waste body electric of mine
This is Spinal tap
bamboozling, binding, bleeding, bombing...
ripped from every dog eared
and book marked page
recounting latest ill fated fiasco,
now peppering my life and hard times
causing quite...
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Categories:
glean, absence, adventure, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Shaggy Dog Limericks ViThe Rottweiler
I wouldn’t provoke a Rottweiler
Not unless I were prepped like a miler
Seems a little inbreeding
Done without heeding
Has turned Benji into a Sieg Heiler
The Saint Bernard
Though not in his nature to beg
He would flip for...
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Categories:
glean, animal, cute, dog, fun, funny, humor, pets,
Form:
Limerick
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 5:1-5:4
5.1
“You are immaculate,
touched by nothing.
What is there to renounce?
The mind is complex—let it go
Know the peace of dissolution”
5.2
“The universe arises from you like foam from the sea
Know yourself as One
Enter the peace of dissolution”
5.3
“Like an...
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Categories:
glean, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Anchors of Sin(This is all just my opinion,
what I glean from the internet,
Mainstream News, and my imagination –
do your own research. If there is any
truth in my observations, this write will
definitely not make me a...
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Categories:
glean, integrity, political, power, society, truth, violence, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Please Do Not Weep For MePlease do not weep for me!
(alternately titled: dost newt expend
precious tears toward pitiful poet!)
Intense passion to read
doth foster divine enlightenment...
Also simultaneously, albeit instantaneously
triggering brutal mind-numbing self awareness
starkly underscoring how existence (mine)
devoid scant trace
positive life enhancing...
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Categories:
glean, 12th grade, betrayal, grief, irony, perspective, self,
Form:
Free verse
Rascallions and Other De-Blessed Humanizing FaunaSome things are royal
others so prosaic
and then there's everything else
You bring your own biases to the choice
BUT the question then arises:
do these (even these)
belong to you?
It's Your day
Your life
Your breath
(cratered between small clumps
of sunrise and...
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Categories:
glean, allegory, hyperbole, paris, parody, perspective,
Form:
Burlesque
Let It Be Written-FIf you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something soothing and wonderfully therapeutic;
If you knew that you were soundly built on...
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Categories:
glean, blessing, children, christian, family, future, god, history,
Form:
Prose
Making It Great In 2008 (Part7) :Let Your Towel of Service Be the Weightit was a momentous occasion at the Lord's last meal
time for Jesus to tell His Disciples what is the real deal
the tension was thick about the table, anticipation was in the air
Jesus to reveal to...
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Categories:
glean, faith, inspirational, philosophy, work, god, god, jesus,
Form:
Didactic
Achilles, the Journey To Troy, Part TwoAchilles, The Journey To Troy,
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)
Achilles, The Journey To Troy
Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods sent that day
mighty king suffered, his treasure stolen away,
power of...
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Categories:
glean, art, death, hero, literature, mythology, tribute, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Sentimental JourneyMy parents were born in the USA as was I,
but about my heritage I have never been shy.
My grandfather came from a distant land,
one I've never seen, but still hold close at hand.
He took that...
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Categories:
glean, appreciation, family, identity, love,
Form:
Rhyme
A Matter of FaithO balked from the tree of his righteousness
Dried out, crushed to bitter pulp, I am bleached
Of his nature, his image sin digest
Till I am a chemical drip, a leached
Embodiment of human reason, just
Paper without special...
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Categories:
glean, faith, hope, mysteryme, me, truth,
Form:
Sonnet