Long Hexagram Poems
Long Hexagram Poems. Below are the most popular long Hexagram by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Hexagram poems by poem length and keyword.
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
hexagram, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads - Xxxvii Part TwoUnquotable quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads – XXXVII
An adulterous couple soon make lying, cheating and downright treachery (not to mention their role as carriers of germs within the orbit of the family) the principal...
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Categories:
hexagram, girl, mother, mother daughter, mother son, nature,
Form:
Epigram
Growing Up Too Soongrowing up too soon
you said: is there anything more excruciating than lagging behind
being passed by
a hasbeen
still knocking on portals
twitching toes twirling thumbs
in fidgety drawn-curtained waiting rooms
and...
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Categories:
hexagram, age, growing up, lonely, longing, psychological, women,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
hexagram, absence, destiny, dream, imagination, lost, missing, time,
Form:
Free verse
I Can'T Breathe I Am
"I Can't Breathe I Am"
I can’t breathe
when you
paint the words
“Flow”
on my throat
when the words
are trapped
and I am gagged
I can't breathe
when you're kneeling
in prayer
on my neck
singing a gentile
white...
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Categories:
hexagram, color, freedom, i am, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Prologue To Lessons of Changefor King Wen, circa 1151-1143 B.C.E. – with seven mind-bending kowtows
There where you had no occasion for play
There in your confined Ming I space
Where change wrought no change
In your fate
But for those plagued by your...
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Categories:
hexagram, life, may,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Unquotable Quotes: Outsiders and Odd Men - XxviiiUnquotable quotes: Outsiders and Odd Men – XXVIII
for Colin Wilson (1931-1913)
...
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Categories:
hexagram, anti bullying, black african american, courage, forgiveness,
Form:
Epigram
Lessons of Change - X - Part OnePart One
GOU - Hexagram 44: One powerful Yin encounters or comes to meet the Yang in the Sixth month of the Gregorian Calendar, on the Sixth of June onwards – having associated with five (meaning...
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Categories:
hexagram, natural disasters, june, may,
Form:
Free verse
Villanelle: Five Yin Lines On November 6th Overcome the Top Yang LineVillanelle : Five Yin lines on November 6th overcome the top Yang line
(Bo, Hexagram 23 (November 6 to December 6): The mountain falls down on the earth and crushes it.
Result : neither side wins completely,...
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Categories:
hexagram, allegory, america, autumn, conflict, leadership, mountains, spring,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 62Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 62
Everything’s encased in square 8 by 8*
Each family member plays with 7
Now this now that the future turns out late
This villanelle’s 6 + 2 = 8
Day 1 Month...
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Categories:
hexagram, nature, new year, violence,
Form:
Villanelle
I Ching Hexagram
Three coins tossed at once; each coin is given a value of 2 or 3, depending upon whether it is tails or heads, respectively. Six such tosses make the hexagram. Some fortune-tellers use an empty...
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Categories:
hexagram, analogy,
Form:
Sonnet
Free Cee This Game Is a ShameTHIS GAME IS A SHAME
I don't like this game
it's like hunting only for fame
so it's hunting for fame or game be it rabbit, squirrel or bird
and this game isn't as much phun as I'd heard
the...
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Categories:
hexagram, angst,
Form:
Quatrain