Long Keeps Poems
Long Keeps Poems. Below are the most popular long Keeps by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Keeps poems by poem length and keyword.
Cymbric ValeI believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
keeps, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of TribulationI’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subside
My tears are diamonds in...
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Categories:
keeps, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
Spiritual Mahjong Your Move LordSpiritual Mahjong
Your Move Lord
Is there a God?
A benevolent entity.
An eternal presence presiding over me.
A creator, watching and observing.
All knowing.
Is my end determined and conclusive before it begins, before I begin?
If so, then to what purpose...
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Categories:
keeps, bible, christian, death, i am, perspective, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Deception Part 2 - Translation From TagoreThis is the second part of Rabindranath Tagore's Narrative poem - Phanki (Deception). The first part has been already posted.
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Categories:
keeps, life, women,
Form:
Narrative
The Night Before Christmas EveThe night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
keeps, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Dragon StewOn an early morning just before school
My tummy is churning my head hurts too
My feet are cold my forehead is hot
I have a runny nose and a tongue with blue dots
“Mom come quick!” I helplessly...
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Categories:
keeps, 4th grade, 5th grade, adventure, anxiety, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Middle of the NightI woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...
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Categories:
keeps, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
Fully Employed NowHumanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...
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Categories:
keeps, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
When It Struck 11When it struck 11, I sighed in relief
When it struck 11, I haven't felt grief
The time kept ticking on and it wasn't brief
And I'm so… patiently shaking like a leaf
Vigorously feeling vital everyday...
Every minute...every second...come...
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Categories:
keeps, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, courage, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Sunday Evening SpreeI see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
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Categories:
keeps, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
The Breeze at Ease - with hardly any difficultiezDriven insane by sorrow, there’s no tomorrow to cure it…
Honestly, I’m in vain and so guilty…feeling way less than legit…
I’m holding you close in my optimism and its memories along with it
Torn apart by negative...
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Categories:
keeps, angst, beautiful, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, how
Form:
Free verse
Sappho TranslationsSappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch
A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!
*
Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch
She keeps her scents
in a dressing-case.
And her sense?
In some undiscoverable...
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Categories:
keeps, girl, girlfriend, love, lust, sensual, woman, women,
Form:
Epigram
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiMy most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
keeps, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Limericks I - Relatives and RelativityLimericks I - Relatives and Relativity
The Cosmological Constant
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
said E equals MC squared.
Thus all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
A$$-tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Relativity, the theorists’ creed,
says mass increases...
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Categories:
keeps, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, science, space, time,
Form:
Limerick
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:
keeps, break up, change, divorce, extended metaphor, farewell,
Form:
Verse
Sufi Dream Poem-Theory: Cosmontological Uni-BallCosmology + Ontology = Cosmontology
NEW Cosmontological Principle: Be SO SO humble!
>>> SEE NOTE BELOW
A Sufi Dream-Poem--Our purposefully "proto-conscious" UNI-ballish recycling?
By: Moji Agha
Started on Oct. 26, 2020
You know?
Being a microtubular cosmontologically proto-conscious
goofy sufi...
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Categories:
keeps, creation, destiny, imagination, mystery, planet, science, stars,
Form:
Free verse
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
keeps, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
kiss -
your silken skin gleams opaline
bathed in Luna's soft wash of cornflower - like a
porcelain Madonna by Michelangelo
conjured to life by the magic
of moonlight
your eyes open just long enough to
affix mine, and affirm I'm in a...
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Categories:
keeps, kiss, passion, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
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:
keeps, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free 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:
keeps, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Healing a Trumpian GodI remember several prayers
to invoke God's blessings on America,
a reminder of traditional political
mindfulness?
Fundamental lack of awareness
of righteous economic investments
in win/win GoldenRule
positive social-psychological security.
No one "keeps"
or "makes"
this confederation of uniting states great,
unless we democratically...
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Categories:
keeps, education, faith, health, hope, integrity, religion, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Seek the Lord - the Star of David Style~ Seek The Lord ~
( Star Of David )
God
For sure
Knows sees all
Wants best for you
He sure loves us all
Lord wants us to have Love...
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Categories:
keeps, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Keeping America SafeA prayer for God to bless NativeAmericans
is also a reminder of traditional political mindfulness,
basic awareness of our economic investments in security.
No one "keeps" this confederation of uniting states
safe with alien immigrants
unless we invite them.
Second, prayers...
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Categories:
keeps, culture, earth, health, political, race, religion, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Longing For the StarsMy mind is always a million miles away
I long for a better time...I long for a better day
There’s nothing in this life that turns me on
If it weren’t for Mondo, I’d pass and be gone
I...
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Categories:
keeps, beautiful, conflict, confusion, death,
Form:
I do not know?
God Knows All - the Pentaphor Style~ God Knows All ~
( Pentaphor )
~O~
God loves you a lot
He always knows best
God is never wrong
In...
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Categories:
keeps, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse