Long Hero Poems
Long Hero Poems. Below are the most popular long Hero by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Hero poems by poem length and keyword.
The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
hero, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Liquor of Lament: My Glass is Half FullVerse 6: I've given up love countless times
I needed to pay up for my heartbroken crimes
I already repented for my sins that made my high hopes paper-thin
Don't you feel that envy from deep within?...
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Categories:
hero, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Lyric
The only northern northern starAs winter hazes of January spraying
While I was meditating on how
To write this riveting poem which
Seemed to be for someone who
I never cast in my sight.
Despite her name is not an odd in me
But I...
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Categories:
hero, africa,
Form:
Ode
Family PoemsFamily Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
hero, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems about ChildrenPoems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
hero, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have A ProblemIt’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...
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Categories:
grandmother, hero, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Employment TraumaMy protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples
Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.
He has been out of his calming,
regular custodial collared routine,
for over...
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Categories:
hero, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
GilgameshGILGAMESH . . .
Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Unuk
So the people of Unuk pray to the sky God Anu
To sort out...
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Categories:
hero, adventure, best friend, brother, character, deep, emotions,
Form:
Epic
Empathy as Green DemocracyI don't think it's just me.
I find myself challenged to change LeftBrain cognitive beliefs,
languaged abstractions of personal knowledge,
perhaps because it is not possible to change Right Brain's
Elder feelings of co-empathic trust
where dipolar co-arising mutual immunity
raises...
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Categories:
hero, education, health, history, integrity, political, racism,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The world is a small plane
I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times.
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...
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Categories:
hero, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Rilke Translations IICome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
hero, tribute,
Form:
Verse
The Bone Idol
[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...
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Categories:
hero, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
hero, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried not to retract,
but after so many tears
I have...
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Categories:
hero, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal, children, confusion, family,
Form:
Free verse
Rainer Maria Rilke translation: The PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
hero, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
The Pied Piper from New York City - Part OneThe Pied Piper from New York City – Part One
Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes!
The Pied Piper, himself, is the man, the myth, the legend.
And they, the so-called incurious lot of...
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Categories:
hero, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form:
Political Verse
The Girl with No Last NameShe was always so insecure, as far back as I can remember she never realized her true worth, she let people use her, and never cared about getting hurt
If everyone else was happy and smiling,...
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Categories:
hero, feelings, girl, heartbroken, introspection, loneliness, poetry, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 1From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah
His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...
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Categories:
hero, assonance, bible, christian, dance, goodbye,
Form:
Narrative
Freezer MiceThose primeval skies, no man ever knew
Ignited, as one massive boulder burst through
Hollow inside, creatures not unlike mice
Strapped themselves in as they plunged into ice
Instantly boiled then instantly frozen
None were to question the planet they'd...
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Categories:
adventure, fantasy, hero,
Form:
Rhyme
Wall Street
Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth. The meek children bending...
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Categories:
hero, political, slam, social, war, war, world, lost,
Form:
Epic
A Small Bouquet Of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you
'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey
there's not really two
the child in the mirror
is only
an image
of...
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Categories:
hero, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter, encouraging, faith, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
The Frog Prince - Part 1A funny frog called Mr Snog,
once lived beside a slimy bog,
he was a most peculiar fellow,
his hat was red, his boots were yellow,
his waistcoat was an olive green,
the strangest sight you’ve ever seen,
no matter where...
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Categories:
hero, allegory, fairy, humorous, metaphor,
Form:
Light Verse
My ReProductive Rights AttorneyAn attorney friend of mine once said,
We have two opposing views
of the hows and whys of law and time and natural evolution,
including natural law,
and including U.S. Constitutional Law.
One assumes both natural and spiritual nondual legal...
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Categories:
appreciation, corruption, earth, games, health, hero, history,
Form:
Political Verse
ENONEONEI’m A “Street Fighter”
You see the “Wings” CHUN
LI
“BRUCE WAYNE”
“LEROY”
“LU”
KAME
“THE LAST DRAGON BREATHS”
You don’t want “NUN”-CHUCK
NORE IS ANY ENTITY
Check my IP MAN
my Impulse
“Ki”
I’m the “1ONE” Fearless
Jackie’s First Strike “Unleashed”
In a...
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Categories:
hero, art, courage, deep,
Form:
Free verse
The twins, Part 1In the dark of night a wind took hold,
With powers charged to shake the sky,
By moody swings of gods up high,
Their breath alone enraged and bold.
In the dark of night history spoke,
Of a world alive...
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Categories:
hero, brother, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, , cute,
Form:
Prose