Long Guesses Poems
Long Guesses Poems. Below are the most popular long Guesses by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Guesses poems by poem length and keyword.
- Au Revoir - Goodbye -- 2016 -
- JANUARY -
A freezing cold evening
Where the stars shining bright
With frost blade flanks
From mouth and nose steam
In the clear silence
White untrodden snows
Nature's frozen pulse
Sleep like a little baby
One gracious moon
After the night the...
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Categories:
guesses, remember,
Form:
Free verse
Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval MarvelCharles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
guesses, art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval PoemsMedieval Poems
How Long the Night
anonymous Middle English lyric, circa early 13th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts
with the mild pheasants' song ...
but now I feel the northern...
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Categories:
guesses, allegory, bible, christian, england, london, nostalgia, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Charles D'Orleans TranslationsSpring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab at whatever passes,
so we can...
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Categories:
guesses, bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
OasisOasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
guesses, marriage,
Form:
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:
guesses, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
guesses, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Eros and CupidPOEMS ABOUT EROS AND CUPID
These are translations of ancient Greek poems about Eros. Eros was the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Cupid. While today we tend to think of Cupid as an angelic cherub...
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Categories:
guesses, cute love, desire, god, heart, love, lust,
Form:
Epigram
The ParatotallynormalThe problem with trying to prove clairaudience, clairsentince, out-of-body, and Near Death Experiences to a Mudblood is not as simple
as it could have been.
Is it because Para-science is totally unsubstantiated?
Not in MY family.
Scientifically un-sound?
Sure, by...
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Categories:
guesses, adventure, cute, emotions, encouraging, fantasy, feelings, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Mine psyche riddled with dybbukMine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
guesses, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety, boy, fate, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With DybbukMine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
guesses, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Rhyme
The Ordinary Care of ProvidenceMadison's defense of the establishment clause to the Virginia legislature:
"Religion both existed and flourished, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them, and not only during the...
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Categories:
guesses, angel, body, light, miracle, religion, travel, violence,
Form:
Verse
Through Their EyesThrough Their Eyes
The Poetry Murders Part 3 in the series
Murder She Wrote
It was a dark night with a full moon
The alley narrow, my hopes high
My footsteps echoed in the ears of the invisible
I quicken my...
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Categories:
guesses, funny, grave, hilarious, history, imagery, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk Haint No JokeMine psyche riddled with dybbuk - haint no joke
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted
nor linkedin...
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Categories:
guesses, abuse, body, dark, family, food, grave, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
His StoryI've decided to write a letter
To everyone who ever told me that I wasn't good enough.
It could start off like “dear humanity,”
Because sometimes I feel like the whole world is against me
Or it could start...
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Categories:
guesses, anti bullying, bullying, childhood, cry, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
The World Around UsAwaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and curled,
stray stars and stripes adorning,
sent from the netherworld.
I wander through...
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Categories:
guesses, earth, environment, war,
Form:
Rhyme
An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a MisanthropeAn image of the netherworld envisioned by a misanthrope
Mein kampf fraught re:
emotionally/psychologically challenged
impossible mission to cope
compared to classmates, I felt like a dope
and entertained escapist fantasies,
whereby Miss Rainbow
(sixth grade student teacher),
though robbing...
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Categories:
guesses, 6th grade, adventure, age, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
To See Or Not To SeeTO SEE OR NOT TO SEE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I’ve an important story that I need to share today
There are several endings, you’ll have the final say
It’s about a young man born without his sight
Living every moment...
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Categories:
guesses, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, future, introspection, self,
Form:
Rhyme
Five Forty-Three a M3:15 a.m.
It was a crappy, wet, rainy dog-hiding drizzly morning.
Anthony woke up in a bad mood, with a sore throat, that got worse when he looked out the window.
Of course, the obstinate dog...
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Categories:
guesses, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, first
Form:
Prose Poetry
If Monday Were a SinI would deny its existence and favor the second place
prediction of Tuesday;
For the beginning is never subtle, and it tends to hunt
my off-beat verse.
Such a consistent verse, as it never sits on time...
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Categories:
guesses, conflict, courage, day, introspection, metaphor, sin, strength,
Form:
Free verse
NightscapesLate night summons madmen,
madams, bold streetwalkers,
picking pennies from the gutters
as the merchants close their shutters
and the homeless crouch in doorways
in their rags, against the cold.
Black or white, no compromise,...
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Categories:
guesses, tribute, writing,
Form:
Verse
An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a MisanthropeDeep within the bowels of the Earth
(dark visceral centre)
immensely distant from the sheltering sky
amidst a thick fog enveloped landscape
with here and there a projected
craggy, derelict chasm
precipitously crooked
rocky claws pointing toward
an infinitely wide yawning abyss
dwelt...
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Categories:
guesses, allegory, crush, death, earth, grave, horror, journey,
Form:
Free verse
The Black Man In YouTHE BLACK MEN IN YOU
Have you ever dreamt about the black men in you
You may have not , as about him you never get a single clue
I open to you today , about the...
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Categories:
guesses, repetition,
Form:
I do not know?
Stop and Shop StrikeThe Stop & Shop strike v. Game of Thrones.
In Game what’s not made plain
is the condition of the people
compared with warriors and queens.
There’s no mention of land-clearance, tree-felling,
pruning, chopping, digging, hoeing,
weeding, branding,...
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Categories:
guesses, dream, food, sun, war, women, work, world,
Form:
Verse
NightscapesLate night summons madmen,
madams, bold streetwalkers,
picking pennies from the gutters
as the merchants close their shutters
and the homeless crouch in doorways
in their rags, against the cold.
Black or white, no compromise,...
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Categories:
guesses, writing,
Form:
Verse