Long Ken Poems
Long Ken Poems. Below are the most popular long Ken by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Ken poems by poem length and keyword.
Frequency
“Frequency”
we are separated
from the others
by a thin membrane
electromagnetic
we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own
frequency
existing to be lit
the fuses touching
reaching delicately
that which we do
and do not see,
believe
answers embedded
in tablets read...
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Categories:
ken, future, humanity, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Bipartisan DissonanceWhen oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading back in time
to where she began to feel alone,
marginalized,
siloed,
anxious,
neglected.
If...
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Categories:
ken, conflict, math, parents, political, race, religion, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Fadwa Tuqan TranslationsFadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by...
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Categories:
ken, allah, culture, earth, love, nature, voice, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa TuqanEnglish translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Enough for me to lie in the earth,
to be buried in her,
to sink...
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Categories:
ken, allah, arabic, culture, nature, poetess, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Resonating Rightbrain PoliticsSays Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe a dialectical motion
between [Yang-ego-form] differentiation
and [Yin-eco-logical function] integration,
between turning attention...
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Categories:
ken, beauty, environment, health, political, psychological, religion, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Increase In Head SizeIncrease In Head Size
impossible mission to encapsulate notion
flitting hither and yon, to and fro
within cranium attached to mine body,
whereby irrefutable proof prevails
predicated when yours truly
scrutinizes other people visibly aware,
I a modest married male
blessed,...
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Categories:
ken, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
The Spirits of CullodenThe Spirits of Culloden.
This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year,
Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear.
Standin on that moor, that once with blood was sodden,
Paying respects...
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Categories:
ken, anniversary, death, dedication, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
A Weird Word Is Wyrd:The word Wyrd is Old English and means 'destiny'. From the same root comes Urd, one of the Norns, and the Germanic words Werth, Warth, and Wurth, which mean 'become'. The root word means 'to...
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Categories:
ken, mythology,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About Poets ViiPoems about Poets VII
Gallant Knight
by Michael R. Burch
for Alfred Dorn and Anita Dorn
Till you rest with your beautiful Anita,
rouse yourself, Poet; rouse and write.
The world is not ready for your departure,
Gallant Knight.
Teach us to sing...
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Categories:
ken, christian, dance, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Walking While ReadingI was walking while reading
because this had been recommended,...
Well,...
actually more like required reading
while walking,
rather than too much blindly reading
while passively impassively sitting through
Earth-reflective stalking exercises
For improving body health
and soul wealth,
Not that these are really two...
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Categories:
ken, caregiving, earth, environment, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Wildmoor SymphonyFIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)
Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter things
Like furry puppies, flowers and girls on swings
In this bright...
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Categories:
ken, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night I Grew UpDad, I remember well the night I grew up.
I know you remember that night too...
I know you never forgot this happening:
It was 1966, an early Fall night, around 10:30...
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Categories:
ken, 9th grade, brother, confusion, father daughter, father
Form:
Bio
For ShameThe inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it reaches
Possessing her every inhalation – exhalation - it envelopes her...
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Categories:
ken, betrayal, environment, natural disasters, peace, pollution,
Form:
Free verse
God's Kind of PoetryThe finite contemplating the infinite
The stardust male and female still flush with light
From exploding stars, seeding new possibilities, our true progenitors.
So that even God Himself must take note of our passing (in its season),
Such elemental...
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Categories:
ken, god, poetry, universe,
Form:
Blank verse
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...
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Categories:
ken, absence, age, america, anniversary, april, bereavement, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
Matters of the HeartI'm not your 'Life of the party' kind of GUY, ...
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Categories:
ken, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
Watts Is BurningPoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Watts Is Burning
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014
Run children run!
Run sister run!
Run brother run!
Run for your guns
We ain't backing down
Not this time -
Run through
the
poisoned
black smoke,
that
permeates
through
Watts -
Run pass
the
looting,
Run down
the
land mine
streets,
Run pass
the house
that's
no longer
your home -
Run...
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Categories:
ken, anger, black african american,
Form:
Light Verse
Watts Is BurningPoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Watts Is Burning
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014
Run children run!
Run sister run!
Run brother run!
Run for your guns
We ain't backing down
Not this time -
Run through
the
poisoned
black smoke,
that
permeates
through
Watts -
Run pass
the
looting,
Run down
the
land mine
streets,
Run pass
the house
that's
no longer
your home -
Run...
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Categories:
ken, anger, black african american,
Form:
Light Verse
Each Day of Our LivesEach day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minerals,
‘cheap’s’ turned to ‘gold,’ not by Chemistry’s...
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Categories:
ken, humor, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Obama PoemPolitical Poetry
Obama: what bard, what griot, what poet wouldn't want to tell -the miracles of our times in tales.
What courage, what evidence that man can endure; fulfilling the destiny for which he was bore.
Stones were...
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Categories:
ken, betrayal, emotions, encouraging,
Form:
Verse
One KneePoet: Ken Jordan
Poem: One Knee
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: September 2017
One Knee
Yes, I kneel down on one knee
damn right I do -
I will not honor an Anthem
of...
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Categories:
ken, africa, america, betrayal,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ongepatshket Torqued Skewed ReflectionOngepatshket torqued skewed reflection
drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.
When e'er I summon fat chance
to empower me self with courage
and steal a passing glance
in the mirror then instantaneously
hairline fractures appear
than 'afore long
snap,...
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Categories:
ken, 12th grade, adventure, america, celebration, confidence, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Gott, Oh Machtig, Trump Iz On the Warpath AgainGott, oh mächtig, Trump iz on the warpath again!
Glad for birth write to express views
aware cunning linguists
will apply figurative screws
in an effort at blatant mud slinging ruse
exercised courtesy mail in ballots,
or...
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Categories:
ken, age, america, anger, angst, anxiety, betrayal, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Variations On a ThemeVariations On A Theme...
of hodgepodge strewn helter skelter
wonky inviting reader to mentally swelter.
Ach'n (ache Ken and burn'n)
kickstarting existential and proverbial struggle
me species classified as generic muggle
analogous to entertainer
with namesake of yours truly
starring an...
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Categories:
ken, abortion, absence, abuse, age, allusion, appreciation, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
protestsIf you’ve read any of my delicious, hand-crafted vignettes and listened to us talk, you’ll know that my roommates and I are critical thinking swifties who spend hour after hour talking about anything and everything,...
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Categories:
ken, appreciation, celebration, education, freedom, identity, school, student,
Form:
Free verse