Long Lighter Poems
Long Lighter Poems. Below are the most popular long Lighter by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Lighter poems by poem length and keyword.
Haiku 1
The Original Sin: Rhyming Haiku!
Haiku
should never rhyme:
it’s a crime!
-Michael R. Burch
The herons stand,
sentry-like, at attention ...
rigid observers of some unknown command.
-Michael R. Burch
Late
fall;
all
the golden leaves turn black underfoot:
soot
-Michael R. Burch
Dry leaf...
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Categories:
lighter, family, heart, love, mother son, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Family Poems
Family Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
lighter, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Grand Mother Eartha's Dream
My husband and I always enjoy visiting
GrandMother Eartha
on Mother's Day
She often shares
last night's dreams,
which too often follow rather disturbing peak experience themes
Because,
you know,
or maybe not because,
how would I know?
Dreams about Her Straight White AlphaMale trauma
were...
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Categories:
lighter, culture, earth day, health, mothers day, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Wonderland
Wonderland
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:
lighter, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Flight, Flying and Birds Ii
Poems about Flight, Flying, and Birds
Flying
by Michael R. Burch
I shall rise
and try the bloody wings of thought
ten thousand times
before I fly...
and then I'll sleep
and waste ten thousand nights
before I dream;
but when at last...
I soar the...
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Categories:
lighter, animal, bird, flying, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Children
Poems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
lighter, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers I
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
lighter, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Beckoning
Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
lighter, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Dream of Infinity
Dream of Infinity
by Michael R. Burch
Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?
Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air
that your soul sought its shell like a crab on a beach,
then...
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Categories:
lighter, confusion, depression, dream, farewell, leaving, loneliness, longing,
Form:
Couplet
Lucifer Gets the Gig
“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
Anatole France
"I heard you wanted to see me Boss?", Lucifer asked.
"I can always see you Lucifer", replied God. "No, I...
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Categories:
lighter, heaven, satire, universe,
Form:
Prose
Night Terrors
As I awakened to the night terrors again it's 3am. I know I'm being monitored in my own home Ciro Gargano installs cameras to watch my every movement in order to know when I write...
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Categories:
lighter, allah,
Form:
Rispetto
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVOR WHO WORE WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI
I AM A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVOR I'LL NEVER EVER BE HIS VICTIM AGAIN I'LL NEVER EVER MISS THE STENCH OF ANGER RAGE VIOLENT OUTBURST THE SPITTING WHEN HE YELLED SCREAMED AMAZING I SURVIVED AFTER RETURNING...
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Categories:
lighter, allah,
Form:
Naat
Dante's Divine Comedy Iii Canto Translation
“Through me you enter the city of woe
Trough me you enter the eternal pain
Through me you go to people lost below.
Justice inspired my highest factor reign;
I was created by act of divine,
Supreme wisdom and the...
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Categories:
lighter, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Someone To Love-Part 2
...cont
Always wanting to get the most from life,
one morning after a terrible snow storm
she rose from bed stretching
the most radiant, playful grin spread across her face,
"I feel incredible," she screamed,
"Let's have a picnic!"
"In this?"...
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Categories:
lighter, loss, love, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Saul Grills Marilyn At a Seedy New Orleans Jazz Dive
Saul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely...
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Categories:
lighter, humor, murder, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 9
As Lumi left the two, they strolled slowly along the cobbled streets and the mood changed from jovial to serious. DynDoeth's voice lowered to just above a whisper,
“Joulupukki, I...
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Categories:
lighter, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Narcissistic Sister
You are a narcissist and a gas lighter although you claim that you’re not, can’t you see inside, the decay of your soul? The turmoil, all of the rot
I guess that you can’t because...
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Categories:
lighter, bullying, emotions, little sister, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
To Belong Is a Harmonious Bravery
A sense of belonging
Is amongst your nobility
Peaceably, truly longing
To give praise to You entirely
Take me all the way with your sway of youth
Give me physical poetry, please, beyond the truth
You are more priceless...
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Categories:
lighter, angst, betrayal, confidence, confusion, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
Deep Wellhearted Minds
I suppose my worldview life of mind
and witnessing view of few
deep well
hearted Earth
Bodies
Would feel easier
healthier
lighter
safer
more powerfully co-inviting
without chronic win/lose stressors
popping up
against downstream sundry, multiculturally
diverse
Technologically
Digitally
and yet Organically EcoGreen
possible
Future prophets
without ecologically probable
health
Potential for...
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Categories:
lighter, earth day, health, home, integrity, mother, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
The eye of the storm
Huge fluffy clouds began to form over
Sanibel Island as the salted gulf splashed
against the rocks around the lighthouse
coastal waters rose up as a calming coolness
carried this gentle warm breeze over to...
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Categories:
lighter, allah,
Form:
Nonet
Scare Me Good Poetry Contest
I crept into the pit of hell all alone. Contingent upon my lifestyle I knew this could be my last day alive…
She haunted me in my dreams. She terrorized me in the sunlight but through...
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Categories:
lighter, dark, deep, fear, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Taken By the Wind
I was out one day walking, along the glad sounding shore,
Gathering pretty seashells, and watching the seagulls soar.
To the left were lofty mountains, touching the azure skies,
To the right, sparkling ocean, and ahead the butterflies!
In...
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Categories:
lighter, beach, fantasy, mountains, nature, sea, weather, wind,
Form:
Couplet
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 4
March 18-27
This time I woke,
He was staring readily,
Smiling, plotting steadily
I lifted my body and gently gazed at his grotesque beauty
He was always at his best in thought…
“You look ravishing…” He began.
“Mouth-parched, crusty-eyed, hair...
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Categories:
lighter, adventure, anger, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Zolar the Inet God
(after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Angel of the Odd")
It was a tidy day and I sat, replete, under vellux blankets.
Sadly, my tea was weak, the bottle of cinnamon whiskey
tantalizingly low, and my feet swelling above...
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Categories:
lighter, abuse, addiction, anti bullying, betrayal, bullying, horror,
Form:
Quatrain
A Rather Uncomfortable Story
PART I
The girl was walking with the boy. The color of her cotton saree was lighter green. Her face was a little worried. Some might not fully understand the situation, some might see her...
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Categories:
lighter, best friend,
Form:
Prose