Long Ignoble Poems
Long Ignoble Poems. Below are the most popular long Ignoble by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Ignoble poems by poem length and keyword.
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
ignoble, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
ignoble, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
ignoble, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
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:
ignoble, brother, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, , cute,
Form:
Prose
Limericks Iv - Donald TrumpLimericks IV - Donald Trump
The Hair Flap
by Michael R. Burch aka "The Loyal Opposition"
The hair flap was truly a scare:
Trump’s bald as a billiard back there!
The whole nation laughed
At the state of his graft;
Now the...
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Categories:
ignoble, america, humor, humorous, leadership, light, nonsense, political,
Form:
Limerick
Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"
The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson
Life spent in The Hard Sell
Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia
mouth sucking a loaded gun
blue ribbonned and veined
pulsing electricity
from heart to lung to brain
you’re a...
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Categories:
ignoble, abuse, addiction, angel, depression, forgiveness, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Forgotten Legion of Rose Thorns
"The Forgotten Legion of Rose Thorns"
Reversing roll calls
the Anti-Hero
jumps through
burning hoops
instinctively
bathed in the magnum glow
designed to fire cartridges
with a kick like a field gun
a bloody victory
is eventually won
lacking conventionality
novel and picaresque
placing bad...
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Categories:
ignoble, abuse, dark, girl, hero, muse, women,
Form:
Free verse
The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes On the Sensate Slip Stream : the Silent War In 3 Acts: Pt1
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip Stream : The Silent War in 3 Acts
(Part 1)
Starlings singing...
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Categories:
ignoble, bible, bird, evil, god, love, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
A Tale of Ancient TimesThis is a tale of ancient times
And a knight of valiant heraldry
Who followed true his knightly code,
The weight of righteousness his load,
All sheathed in heaven's grace he rode,
And practiced naught save chivalry.
From the Pope a...
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Categories:
ignoble, faith, history, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
Jinxed Jesting Jejune Junior JobberJinxed jesting jejune junior jobber...
just jabbering gibberish (A - J)
Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously ambiguously
absolutely asinine avoidable alliteration.
Because...? Basically bonafide belching,
bobbing, bumbling, bohemian beastie boy,
bereft bummer, bleeds blasé blues, begetting
bloviated boilerplate bildungsroman,
boasting...
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Categories:
ignoble, 1st grade, 2nd grade, adventure, age, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
The Night I Fell Like RainYou had that future retro look: two thousand seventeen,
There was a slow and sultry permanence, a little slouchy lean
As you eased out of the taxi before it shot off to the right,
Who could have...
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Categories:
ignoble, destiny, water, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
As Above, So Below - the Messengers
"As Above, So Below - The Messengers"
One day
when this sad story
has all blown over
of how we came to be
walking the earth
below the veil
with monsters
that are men
with horns and tails
in...
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Categories:
ignoble, animal, god, humanity, i am, love, mirror,
Form:
Free verse
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru ZingLima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...
thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting from selfishness, I feel quite aghast.
Yes practically every word
needs be...
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Categories:
ignoble, absence, conflict, emotions, family, heartbroken, horror, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
Flammer Me Gimbels, Number 42Flammer Me Gimbels #42
(a Vogon Pirate poem)
Flammer me gimbels, me trimbels and dromies,
Whenceforth I caminal scrabbit thy foamies.
Jeerbo or Jabox, ex labbit. Ex findle
Will not dethrail thee, ignibious twindle.
Ickwad of thrumpus, I salue wack vornage...
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Categories:
ignoble, confusion,
Form:
Vogon Poetry
50 Words For Poe: Revenant
"50 Words for Poe: Revenant"
Everywhere he looks for Her his melancholic Ghost Girl
does our lachrymose ignoble Phantom in his own thunder storm
In the Wind Song he listens
Her elusive whispers hail from another dimension
echolocation through...
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Categories:
ignoble, dark, fate, freedom, gothic, muse, mystery, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Politesse Pleases MePolitesse pleases me...
thank you very much
for letting me clutch
your attention courtesy
sharing following thoughts
thru reading my poem analogous
to invisible electronic,
fantastic, kinetic... touch.
Manners work like a charm
equivalent to abracadabra to disarm
truculent nasty shortish brutes
who thrive...
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Categories:
ignoble, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction, analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
The Final Brace of the Poetries I Meant As One To Post, But By This Could NotIt is generally thought of to be one of the myriad,
Guiding, governing, binding principles and precepts of all
Mature civilized countries that what horrors that they unleashed in
Vilest, bloodiest, convulsive conflictual combative martial
Confrontation, on their fellow...
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Categories:
ignoble, adventure, allegory, anniversary, arabic, august, beautiful, beauty,
Form:
I do not know?
Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970sArcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020
Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade
(or substitute favorite creative soul)
how aforementioned illustrious artists drape
mesmerized amateur and/or
art appreciation...
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Categories:
ignoble, 11th grade, 12th grade, environment, father, growing
Form:
Free verse
Double Play - Part 1There is a story ‘bout Casey, that is but incomplete
It tells of simple ball and bat and Mighty’s ignoble feat
There we learned of failure and the storied Mudville name
Here we’ll learn what happened in the...
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Categories:
ignoble, baseball,
Form:
Rhyme
Ancient Greek Philosophy Series Continued : Musical Theory of PythagorasPythagoras while playing the Lyre one day ,
Formulated his musical theory as Historians say !
Just as distinct notes were produced by the varying
lengths of the Lyre strings ,
So did the planets , revolving in there...
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Categories:
ignoble, historywater, fire, change, day, fire, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Hellhounds Doggie Chow Part 1If you drink that SPECIAL brand of Kool-aid,And now you flounder belly up make sure someone else is there with you,(and not just for good luck,)who has the required skills to render first aid. Cause...
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Categories:
ignoble, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Extra InningsThere is a story ‘bout Casey, that is but incomplete
It tells of simple ball and bat and Mighty’s ignoble feat
There we learned of failure and the storied Mudville name
Here we’ll learn what happened in the...
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Categories:
ignoble, baseball,
Form:
Rhyme
Hear Ye, Hear Ye
Here’s the thing ...
needful truth of an urgent matter
Humanity has a Rubik Cube ethnic pride problem:
Dark Age Crusaders of Hate
say the right color is on the genetic wrong side
of the racial debate Holy Grail...
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Categories:
ignoble, conflict, hate, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
And Ignoble Prize Trumpeting Hubris Awarded ToAnd ignoble prize trumpeting hubris awarded to...
Bourgeoisie donning ersatz
overstuffed ego freezer bewigged pate
"FAKE" grotesque humanitarian
bribed corrupt judges will vindicate
jimmied cracked corn
land of "milk and honey"
red hot button he spoils to activate
countdown to Armageddon
leaving nation prostrate,
all...
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Categories:
ignoble, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, fire, freedom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Valor and SacrificeWho could forget what happened on that unsuspecting and sunny day,
when no visible clouds drifted over the Twin Towers?
Little after midnight, the cool rain adds to the melancholy
of the descending angels; and I join...
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Categories:
ignoble, death, history, loss, people, places, sad, thank
Form:
Narrative