Long Homeland Poems
Long Homeland Poems. Below are the most popular long Homeland by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Homeland poems by poem length and keyword.
EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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homeland, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Let Me Give Her DiamondsLet Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch
Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.
Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.
Let me give her solace
for my words
of treason.
Let the flowering of love
outlast a winter
season.
Let me...
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Categories:
homeland, valentines day,
Form:
Verse
Athenian EpitaphsAthenian Epitaphs
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
Does my soul abide in heaven, or hell?
Only the sea gulls
in their...
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Categories:
homeland, death, eulogy, funeral, grave, loss, memorial day,
Form:
Epigram
Athenian Epitaphs IiAthenian Epitaphs II
These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...
Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night:
his owner's faithful Maltese...
but will...
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Categories:
homeland, animal, best friend, death of a friend,
Form:
Epitaph
Perhat Turson: Elegy TranslationPerhat Tursun
Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry...
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Categories:
homeland, brother, eulogy, magic, prison, spiritual, violence, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Hell Translation Canto XNow is going on through a secret way
Between the martyrdoms and the ground wall,
My master, and I behind him to stay.
“Oh highest virtue, who me gently haul
In wicked rounds”, I started, “If you please,
Speak to...
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Categories:
homeland, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Hollywood Court In Town Part 2The people began to say that I am the richest woman in Linstead town, and that cause many people to flock around, me and started to beg me money. Not a dollar in my pocket...
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Categories:
homeland, abuse, anti bullying, community, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Moderna Commedia, Second Canto, Part 2Quelle vicende vissi fino in fondo.
Quando mi riappropriai della mia vita
Se questo è un uomo chiesi a tutto il mondo.”
Those events I lived through and through.
When I again impropriated of my life
If this is a...
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Categories:
homeland, dream,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Lament of a Black ManWho am I? Am I even human? What is my place in this world?
I am confused, sometimes I do not even feel like a human being.
Like a boat in a stormy sea, I aimlessly drift...
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Categories:
homeland, black african american, death, discrimination, hate, power,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 60Several days passed when Joulupukki finally had a chance to meet with the council.
“Seileach,” Joulupukki nodded to the Elder as he entered the council chamber convening once again on the...
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Categories:
homeland, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Bleeding HomelandThe value of her name is fading,
Oh mother Ghana, mother of beauty and richness.
Every sector in her government is creating hopelessness.
A place attained from the sweat of passed souls within nationalism and confidence,
Today has appeared...
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Categories:
homeland, africa, angst,
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Political Verse
Please Michelle ObamaPlease Michelle Obama...
can you save American democracy?
I highly hugely grant
Barack Hussein belated kudos
what with his wizardesses
in tow wrought wonders
to one nation analogous
while an under dog
sweeping in like...
It's a Bird... It's...
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Categories:
homeland, 12th grade, america, appreciation, beautiful, freedom, health,
Form:
Free verse
Overarching GenocideOverarching Genocide
Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life
raft rescue boat of sorts with three decks and only one...
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Categories:
homeland, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Revolution In TogoNEWS Item AP: TOGO
LOME – In an effort to topple a government set up to end a 24 year dictatorship rebellious army troops seized the state broadcasting station yesterday, then left the building but returned...
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Categories:
homeland, christian, humor, humorous, political, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Dear MeDear Me…
Today my thoughts are about you, only you!
...
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Categories:
homeland, life, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Stance River - 146 miles up river Arikara are encountered,
they are a people of amenable disposition and are agrarians,
they chuckle with sympathy as we inform them of our grizzly confrontation
and they tell us that disease had forced them...
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Categories:
homeland, adventure, , cute,
Form:
Epic
Love Is My OceanI figured this wouldn’t be read because of its length, so why not just post it and get it over with
Love is my ocean
~
Placed on a mantle, the ship torn and tattered
Its bottle long...
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Categories:
homeland, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Palestine will be Free!!!POEM: Welcome to Palestine. The land of the prophets and the martyrs.
Let’s show show some respect, and bow down in humility…
Gaza may be small, but their angels are all over and as far as...
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Categories:
homeland, allah, christian, freedom, islamic, jewish, religious, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetical Journey of Pizzaz: Not For ContestPoetical Journey Of Pizzaz
Apple Blossom Orchids are spreading across my grandmother's land like a whiZ
Zestfully all around one's earnest expectations like the smallest of fleA
Bites a person's imagination like they're singing a song and plaY
Years...
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Categories:
homeland, appreciation, beautiful, poems, , memorial,
Form:
Abecedarian
And Many ThoughtAND MANY THOUGHT WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE
Tell me child, what it was like so many years ago?
When as a young person you grew
In what we considered was times of uncertainty...
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Categories:
homeland, war,
Form:
Free verse
Venezuela Children Are WeepingThe afternoon dances before and night sky
Threadbare shoes dangling on their tired feet
Torn up clothes bulging underneath the deep
Dirty clothes sticking to their slender backs
And a strange odor circulates around them
Five boys and one girl...
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Categories:
homeland, absence, abuse, business, confidence, encouraging, future, heartbroken,
Form:
Narrative
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpationEminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union
aimed at the destruction
of the Ukrainian nation,
the 1932–1933 genocide...
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Categories:
homeland, abuse, age, anger, bereavement, bullying, corruption, grandfather,
Form:
Free verse
The Invention of ZeroZero.
By which nothing is divided.
No zero
no negative
no opposite
no hope
no Adam, no apple, no marriage, no morning.
No mirror
no knowledge
no God, no soul, no ear lobe, no Iliad, no Odyssey.
No universe
no black hole
no zodiac
no hero
no mission, no...
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Categories:
homeland, father, future, home, hope, math, morning, wind,
Form:
Verse
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Categories:
homeland, military, integrity,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
The Otherwisethey disturb, deep behind my sleeping eyes
......
retune my tautened strings, replay my frets
vignette movies spin reels of dreams discovering
fresh slants on shadowy delight
the foreboding, ominous,...
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Categories:
homeland, community, psychological, sleep, voice,
Form:
Verse