Long Images Poems
Long Images Poems. Below are the most popular long Images by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Images poems by poem length and keyword.
Hitchhiker From Another World 4“Come on, let's get introduced to my play mate in a palm.
Linda, these are Joshua’s true other selfs.”
Lelia emitting a peculiar chuckle.
A comic situation arose where I changed my voice for each of my...
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images, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration, character, emotions, environment,
Form:
Prose
Translation of Eric Mottram's Poem 33 In Interrogation Rooms 1980-82 By T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms by T. Wignesan
33. on a vu un homme courir/ de la scène de crime un homme est maintenant en train d’aider/ la police avec...
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Categories:
images, america, conflict, culture, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
I Am My Father's SonThey were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
images, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
FlintFlint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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images,
Form:
Abecedarian
Poems About FlowersLady’s Favor
by Michael R. Burch
May
spring
fling
her riotous petals
devil-
may-care
into the air,
ignoring the lethal
nettles
and may
May
cry gleeful-
ly Hooray!
as the abundance
settles,
till a sudden June
swoon
leave us out of tune,
torn,
when the last rose is left
inconsolably bereft,
rudely shorn
of every device but her thorn.
The...
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Categories:
images, flower, june, rose, roses are red, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Poems IiPoems about Poems (II)
Kin
by Michael R. Burch
for Richard Moore
1.
Shrill gulls,
how like my thoughts
you, struggling, rise
to distant bliss?
the weightless blue of skies
that are not blue
in any atmosphere,
but closest here...
2.
You seek an air
so clear,
so rarified
the effort leaves...
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Categories:
images, muse, poems, poetry, poets, work, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
images, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Self ReflectionsSELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
images, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Matsuo Basho Haiku TranslationsThe first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
images, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
The Making of a PoetThe Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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images, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
images, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Sonnets Xxxiii-XliSonnets XXXIII-XLI
The Folly of Wisdom
by Michael R. Burch
She is wise in the way that children are wise,
looking at me with such knowing, grave eyes
I must bend down to her to understand.
But she only smiles, and...
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Categories:
images, child, childhood, children, death, life, time, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume TranslationTo a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
images, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
No MarkNo Mark
by Michael R. Burch
A wave implodes,
impaled upon
impassive rocks...
this evening
the thunder of the sea
is a wild music filling my ear...
you are leaving
and the ungrieving
winds demur...
telling me
that nothing returns
as it was before...
here where you have...
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Categories:
images, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
The State of the ArtThe State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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images, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
Restoration TownsI was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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Categories:
images, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Earthy EmpathyYou've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.
Not so distant from,
I...
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Categories:
images, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Poems About Poems IiiPoems about Poems III
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus?hard toil?
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes?dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but...
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Categories:
images, poems, poetry, poets, visionary, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnet Lxxxi-LxxxixSonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
images, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
Radiance, For Dylan ThomasRadiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
images, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Poems VPoems about Poems V
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
There is a small cleanness about her,
as though she has always just been washed,
and there is a dull obedience to convention
in her accommodating slenderness
as she feints at her salad.
She...
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Categories:
images, metaphor, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Modern Sonnets IMODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch
A poem...
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Categories:
images, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
Some PoemsA Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
images, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
A Vain WordA Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
images, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Stranger Than Fiction*warning* disturbing lines have been detected - you have been warned, readers. Okay, enjoy this somewhat deep and astounding poem from me that took days to write...>:)
I bet you anything that I'm the laziest guy...
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Categories:
images, deep, universe,
Form:
Free verse