Long Gongs Poems
Long Gongs Poems. Below are the most popular long Gongs by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Gongs poems by poem length and keyword.
CladestineTHE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.
Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined...
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Categories:
gongs, corruption, death of a friend, depression, emotions,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Unquotable Quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep - Xl, Part OneUnquotable quotes: Addictions: Smokes, Drugs, Sex, Films and Sleep – XL
Where the hand leads, the eyes close.
When the eyes shut, imagination is on fire.
What you don’t really see is what you feel.
When you feel at...
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Categories:
gongs, abuse, addiction, baby, drug, mother, sensual, sleep,
Form:
Epigram
The WhaleTHE WHALE:
Confused and blind
Numb in rhyme
Your light sublime
Running I fell
Into an ocean wide
Reaching my hands grasp
out of time
Spinning in circles
In the ocean see it spinning
Grabbing for the moon
Grasping at the...
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Categories:
gongs, faith, fish, journey, life, song,
Form:
Free verse
Villanelles IIIThese are villanelles by Michael R. Burch and and villanelle-like poems...
Villanelle: Trump’s Retribution Resolution
by Michael R. Burch
My New Year’s resolution?
I require your money and votes,
for *you* are *my* retribution.
May I offer you dark-skinned scapegoats
and bigger...
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Categories:
gongs, america, anger, community, money, rights, song, write,
Form:
Villanelle
The Sound of the Rain
The rain---sounds like catapults fired on our roof
drops like palm kernels---splash on the back cover
of our black pots, Stamping the roof like horse
galloping on a...
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Categories:
gongs, africa, age, april, baptism, children,
Form:
Free verse
Sunshine On a Rainy DayI lie,
on my large comfort bed..
counting seconds,
syncing my heartbeat,
with the tick of the great white clock,
above my head.
What I'm thinking,
even I do not know..
Clouds have formed on my thoughts...
Fogs have scathed...
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Categories:
gongs, christmas, happy,
Form:
Free verse
OLUPONNA; MY LAND AND TERRAINOLUPONNA: MY LAND AND TERRAIN.
Oh my mother land; wealthy in soil
To my grip held so highten; not soiled
So cultured and nurtured in legendary
To a land whose worth is never lost in form
Will I soon...
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Categories:
gongs, africa, confidence, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Canvey Island Summers 1951-1957Each time my Auntie Rosa went to shop in the High Street,
She’d bring us back a pink-iced bun; it was our special treat.
We’d take them up to Grandad’s (we preferred to eat them there)
We’d scoff...
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Categories:
gongs, childhood, nostalgiahouse, old, garden, house, old,
Form:
Narrative
Ode To Msu-IitOh MSU-IIT, a campus so grand
A university that's known throughout the land
A place of learning, where knowledge abounds
A community of scholars, that truly astounds
From the towering buildings, that reach for the sky
To the green fields,...
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Categories:
gongs, blessing,
Form:
Ode
A Letter From IndonesiaDear Home:
Please forgive my departure, silent and without warning, like the simmering
warmth of mountain springs that bubble, unexpected, in the pale tropic light of
morning. I am now straddling the equator, my toes naked...
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Categories:
gongs, imagination, nature, places, light, light, sun,
Form:
Rhyme
Peak of Bontok[A poem written in a dying language]
Sa tuktok ng Bontok
Ang tuktok ng Bontok, himpapawid ng mga pangarap, Kalikasan'y humahalimuyak, biyaya sa bawat hakbang,
Mga kabundukan, kay lawak ng inyong kagandahan, Taglay ninyo ang sigla't tapang ng...
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Categories:
gongs, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Many Insinuations In Your.......EyesI.
Religion and his spiteful visions,
Race and her unholy irrations,
Madness the first lady of Death the Destroyer,
Sadness the Arch-enemy of Peace and Bliss,
Oh! His breathe just ceased,
To whom,To what shall we plead,
On what mountains shall Volcanoes...
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Categories:
gongs, adventure, happiness, passion, men,
Form:
Ballad
Have You Hear From My FatherHAVE YOU HEAR FROM MY FATHER?
Have you hear from my father, okadigbo?
He was among those captured in the oil well
Around the black river of delta in the south.
Days ago they had gone with their hungry...
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Categories:
gongs, africa, art, betrayal,
Form:
Blank verse
HymnI bow down before the break of day...
Where the feeling of melancholy apprehension
fades by the emblazoning and dilating skies
Yet the stillness behold a sensation
even amid the hues and cries.
I concieve of a deity...
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Categories:
gongs, dedication, feelings, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Advanced Nouvelle CuisineHe did his hash slinger training
Then with a couple of his mates
Set up this high class restaurant
Where they didn’t bother with plates,
Just bits of brickkies rubble,
Guttering and such,
Jam jars and slabs of wood
Stuff not...
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Categories:
gongs, humor, irony,
Form:
Rhyme
Grand Spanish God-
Montezuma Golden on earth he lived upon his land
Cortes his rival metalled horse and soldier Spanish grand
Aztec warrior a noble race to them a god should come
From far beyond their skeleton homes and...
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Categories:
gongs, adventuregod, god, race,
Form:
I do not know?
50's and 60's Weird Tv On Channel Three - Part 3 Continued from Part 2
Some kid is spraying Clearasil,
He wants to make his pimples nil;
He paints his breath with chlorophyll;
I’m in the dream of someone ill
I’m fleeing but I feel a goose,
Behind me grins...
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Categories:
gongs, me, parody, words,
Form:
Rhyme
GARDEN OF THE HEARTGARDEN OF THE HEART
I am the Garden
In me all things live
In me nothing is forgotten
Here we enter
After being done with the Serpent
Flamed or in darkness
When the Cross enters from below...
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Categories:
gongs, 12th grade, allegory, creation, extended metaphor, garden,
Form:
Free verse
Mama AfricaMama Africa,
How long shall you suffer and cry?
How long shall your heart bleed in anguish, struggle and try?
Forged with the brilliancy of a well-cut jewel,
Today, you rust, your tears overflowing and can't even be wiped...
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Categories:
gongs, africa, , western,
Form:
Limerick
World Music in Dulcet Tones and Duduk VibrationsAcross the globe, music ascends—a universal zephyr,
Bridging cultures in harmonious yearning;
Chords converge from Andes to the Zangezur, xenharmonic,
Dulcet tones of a duduk—in the air, they whisper.
Every note—an echo of humanity's vibration,
From flamenco's fire to the...
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Categories:
gongs, culture, dance, humanity, music, tribute,
Form:
Abecedarian
A Walk In the DarkA WALK IN THE DARK
The cold wind stung my ego
As my feet darted down the corridor of nowhere
The bitter push whipped through my skin
I slithered through the arrogant open gate
I elbowed my way into the...
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Categories:
gongs, dark, dark, body, dark,
Form:
Classicism
I Know That I Am This SoulI know that I am
(This soul)
By Michelle Morris
21/10/2023
I look at this image
The mirror reflects her to me
I see inside the beauty
The soul I'd like to be
As this shell becomes weathered
Like a lighthouse in the storms
I...
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Categories:
gongs, angel, heaven, life, light, soulmate, spiritual, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Most Beautiful LoveMOST BEAUTIFUL LOVE
Barren rice fields, hungry heart; heels cracking dry ¬ thirsty soul part.
Face awaiting, every season, knotted aching old ~ new reasons...
Love! Oh Love! Written by God, crawl on us strengthen our grit.
Clanging cymbals,...
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Categories:
gongs, character, feelings, inspiration, life, love,
Form:
Sijo
First Musings of 2020The final kismet of three hundred sixty five days
Which charmed me in time’s remembering jaunts ,
As radiant eyes winked ,
and lacy veils blew
Beyond late dusk as old tower gongs pealed,
When hymn of joy was...
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Categories:
gongs, inspirational, new year,
Form:
Free verse
The AcrobatThe Circus gongs excite the Throngs in nighttime Never Land –
They swarm to see the destiny of Freaks at their command,
While Acrobats step pitapat above the shifting sands
And Lady Fat sits down to chat and...
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Categories:
gongs, people, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme