Long Layer Poems

Long Layer Poems. Below are the most popular long Layer by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Layer poems by poem length and keyword.


Be of Good, Compassionate Courage

Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down 
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown

I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...

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Categories: layer, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form: Free verse


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Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a Problem

It’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...

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Categories: layer, grandmother, hero, space,
Form: Rhyme
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A Day On the Farm

"You really wanna know? Cause I'll tell ya if you really wanna know. You'll be thinkin' I'm crazy before I'm done, but I'll tell ya... ifn' you really wanna know."

The day started like any other,...

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Categories: layer, farm, myth,
Form: Prose
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The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...

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Categories: layer, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form: Prose Poetry
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Bleeding Before Rome -2

Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees, 
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage, 
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...

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Categories: layer, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form: Epic


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Rush Amid the Rapids Published

The greatest performance of my life.  
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award  on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...

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Categories: layer, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form: Prose
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A Chance Conversation At Osmers Hill 1999 Part 1

On a typical English day late June Joe travelled the above country road, his buisness was in the construction field, and this day he was estimating work as per customer enqiriy, this being the case...

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Categories: layer, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
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Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or Beast

Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne....

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: layer, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Misanthropic Melodies

Misanthropic melodies played from a broken violin
Prehistoric prophecies that ignite new ideas before they begin
Telescopic telomeres that formulate a scientific grin
Endoscopic X-rays and a doctor drunk on gin

Valiant human beings with virtue among the discord
Salient...

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Categories: layer, life,
Form: Rhyme

Beware the Ides of March 2023

Beware The Ides of March 2023
 
Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One:...

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Categories: layer, abuse, age, anniversary, betrayal, conflict, crush, dark,
Form: Rhyme
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Such Does Exist

I ran out of breath on the road to Mumbai ...

    Not for sake of dust or smog or even health. I had rounded a curve on
    my motorcycle,...

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Categories: layer, appreciation, beauty, imagery, travel, world, , western,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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Chapter 24 -- Dolly Damian Friends and Family Part Ii

The fifth floor was decorated 
With fancy art work. Molly 
Rang the bell. After a few
Minutes an attractive older
Woman answered the door.
She threw the door wide Open 
After she saw them 
with Damian. "Hello Hello...

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Categories: layer, confidence, family, feelings, friend, friendship, growing up,
Form: Alliteration
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Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges

I. Sighting

I saw you  
through refracted light-  
a prism of chance  
splitting ordinary into spectrum.  
Wind-tangled hair  
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails  
the scent of soil and...

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Categories: layer, dream, innocence, journey, loss, memory, mystery, nature,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
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Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 72

Each of the new deer adjusted quickly to the pace of the ones they had been paired with, and the sleigh tracked smooth and true.  The effects of the extra four deer were easily...

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Categories: layer, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
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Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 56

“This will come to an end now,” Rian demanded!  Joulupukki nudged Dyndoeth and glanced at the crystals in each corner of the ceiling. He saw the elf begin to tense.  He also noticed...

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Categories: layer, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic
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Literary Feud Among - Pt 1

Prelude to what…..

I see you,  /  you / yes, come into my…… 
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought 
and savage syntax shatter like glass on concrete.

Where Titans...

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Categories: layer, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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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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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: layer, mythology,
Form: Narrative

Legacy of Hiphop

And that is why... this platform is here for answers they can't deny...
It's a truth within a complexity that is standing high...
Let us follow the roots and explore the depths of its grand design...
Cause every...

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Categories: layer, deep,
Form: I do not know?

You Hurt My Feelings

Father, you hurt my feelings
It looks as if you don’t care that I’m alone
Melodic, hopeful bird sings,
So I listen and feel at home, all on my own 

The tune of tranquility will drain away the...

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Categories: layer, angst, courage, emotions, faith, feelings, strength, youth,
Form: Rhyme

Inception: Crying a River - Collab With Mikey Part 0

You’re like a backpack, jam-packed with memories of High School’s fun times and hard times…I know I had weaknesses back then; in addition, I had strengths that I still lack
You carry everyone’s weight including my...

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Categories: layer, betrayal, blessing, dark, depression, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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Four paths of tantra trika

1) Preamble

As breath’s created, sustained and destroyed,
we see trika, threefold aspect at play
through life, where we are by ego decoyed,
until we choose to make love our mainstay.
Beyond religions, scriptures and folklore,
let’s explore the direct path...

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Categories: layer, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Beauty has an expectation

Beauty has an expectation.
It can be damaging and filled with infactuation.
Growing up in a world of a certain dedicated beauty, It can be confusing.
Beauty is defined at first in a home.
It is influenced in tribe,...

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© Dena Brown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: layer, allegory, beauty, culture, freedom, society, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
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Awakening to the Red Road: An Ecopoetic Odyssey 'Part 5 of 6'

V. "The Great Collective Awakening"

Aren't we the true definitive problem,
     not just astray-
     malignant corporations…
Or unresponsive governments ?
We are faulted; consumers 
     telling...

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Categories: layer, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, planet,
Form: Free verse
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Someone To Love-Part 1

Book in hand, I strode the path
in awesome Autumn splendor.
The warmth of the sun caressing my cheek,
while the cool breeze gently tickled 
goose bumps across my warm skin.
All around me the crepe paper litter
piled brilliance...

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Categories: layer, loss, love, love hurts,
Form: Prose Poetry
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The Pending Doom

I aped to a blue heron to a man who wrote his deed.
Once you're at the final of the story, no woe is needed.

If death appeared to be appropriate, life would be aimless.
If you have...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: layer, anger, appreciation, confidence, death, feelings, giving, god,
Form: Couplet
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