Long Like a mother Poems
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The Ship Came Like A Flying Horse or Homage to the Famous Poet FranketienneThe ship came like a flying horse, at an inexact time
Our brother-sailor, from the Pantheon of Poets, was on board
Jean Pierre Basilic Dantor Frankétienne D’argent
Who wrote, in haste, the last act
Happened to be miraculously on...
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Categories:
like a mother, celebration, eulogy, farewell, journey, literature, poets, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Letters To the LadyTroop ships loading, crowded docks
Mums and sisters waving off
Go with keepsakes, golden locks
Some men hug while many doff
Eric, soldier single stands
Beryl, lonesome widow cares
Many kissing holding hands
Eric stands and Beryl dares
Bump the soldier, make excuse
Apologizing...
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Categories:
like a mother, mother son, war, world war ii,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a TimeThere stood a castle on the summit of a hill
Now fallen to decay, hidden among bushes wild
It perched like an eagle’s nest on the steep hill
It was owned by a Lord, gentle and mild
Blessed with...
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Categories:
like a mother, celebration, cute love, irony, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
A Night With MicThe scent of musty, truly ancient fine books,
Waifs seductively behind the impossible doors,
As they swing wide, out into L.A.’s balmy air,
I enter, a shiver, over what lies therefore.
There they are, the true Hollywood stars,
Scaling...
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Categories:
like a mother, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, community, happiness, poetry, success,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Monique MinahanSix years inside complicated grief taught me many things. Five of them I can put into words and onto paper. I have a feeling I will be learning from her the rest of my life.
Grief...
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Categories:
like a mother, bereavement,
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I do not know?
She's Like the MoonI'm not good at moon guessing,
but God created many a blessing;
and the moon is just one of them.
I'm neither scholar nor theologian,
but I observed that God made the
heavenly bodies, making no mention
of gender. The words...
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Categories:
like a mother, gender, moon,
Form:
Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 107Jessica, in time, became ripe with child, the only child that she would bear.
“I know who that baby was,” a sweet young voice interrupted the story. This is my favorite part.
“Shhh,” came from...
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Categories:
like a mother, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
CollectingShe collects dolls,
Babies, she calls them,
Little darlings, children – honey
Like a mother, she touches them,
Piecing together clothing for infants, toddlers –
Girls and boys who might
Tell her she is better than she believes
In her heart, where...
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Categories:
like a mother, appreciation, blessing, christian, hope, inspirational, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
Mother
"No poem can encompass mother in entirety.
A mother is too lofty to fit in a poem" -
Quote by author
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Mother is an emotion
Mother is feeling
Mother is love
Mother is ambition
Mother is a service
Mother is patience
Mother is...
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Categories:
like a mother, mother,
Form:
Free verse
PrayerHave you ever felt like you needed to talk to someone?
Someone whom you could open the closet to and unveil the skeletons that you have been hiding
Someone who you could connect to soul to soul
Someone...
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Categories:
like a mother, faith,
Form:
I do not know?
Sappho Translations XISappho Translations XI by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 92
translation by Michael R. Burch
“Sappho, if you don’t leave your room,
I swear I’ll never love you again!
Get out of bed, rise and shine on us,
take off your...
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Categories:
like a mother, beauty, clothes, flower, god, hair, women, words,
Form:
Free verse
Self DestructiveYou meant nothing to me
you were only a game
I saw in you kindness
A heart easy to tame
The devil inside me smiled
And spilt my golden lies
I never thought about the day that
I’d bring sadness to your...
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Categories:
like a mother, emotions, feelings, heart, hurt, introspection, relationship, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Could You Hear Me?Ignorant questions you asked
While requesting in return intelligent answers
A pillow of tears I cried
But only for awhile
Yet instead my heart was beating like a hammer beats a nail
And I was slowly decreasing like a...
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Categories:
like a mother, angst, confusion, depression, husband, introspection, life, lost
Form:
Free verse
The Living DeadMy mind wanders to the stillness of a field
where wild asters used to stud the grass with blue
I seem to hear the echo of a voice
Lamenting over the vast stretches where my...
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Categories:
like a mother, adventure, beach, beauty, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
Reading FacesAs I looked upon his face it was very recognizable
I had seen the hollow look in my own eyes many times
I knew this wasn’t just another poem request
He wore the face of death and...
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Categories:
like a mother, death, friendship, life, recovery from...death, family, body,
Form:
Free verse
Wicked GenerationThe word makes sense to those who see sense
senseless to those who senseless so see it
so in the beginning there was the word and with the word was God and God was the word
With...
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Categories:
like a mother, christian, devotion, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
God and My Friend 'Originally Called- Untitled'“Please,” I said to God one day,
“I just need a friend.
One who’ll stay with me,
From beginning to end.”
I didn’t hear an answer,
I guess He was pretty busy,
I’ll try again later,
Maybe He’ll get back with me.
“I...
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Categories:
like a mother, christian, god, me, prayer, god, love, me,
Form:
Free verse
DoaDark Side of the Sixties
peace brother hey man i just scored some bennies it’s really far out i’m speedin like a mother wanna buy some you won’t get busted i know this cat who’s tight...
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Categories:
like a mother, addiction, dark, drug,
Form:
Prose Poetry
THE SUN SEES AND THE MOON WATCHES
The Sun WATCHES at Dawn... Day by day! The Moon SEES in the Dark... Night by night. The Sun WATCHES and The Moon SEES and take note, of all the dealings of all creatures here...
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Categories:
like a mother, appreciation, creation, dark, education, environment, fantasy, growing
Form:
Burlesque
African SunAfrican sun
African sun African sun,
The sun that differed
from any sun in the world.
You kill and scorch all the disable
Creatures in African world.
You're a paradigm during all
arid complicates.
You torture and wallop
By your excess heat because
We're...
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Categories:
like a mother, africa,
Form:
Alliteration
The Strange Case of Frances InglesI felt that I had to write a poem to understand what Frances Inglis must have gone through
after reading an article by Hassan Suroor by the same name in the papers dated Jan
29,2010....
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Categories:
like a mother, love, motherson, heart, heart, life, love, son,
Form:
Blank verse
StrangersThe slowing whine as it came to rest
A spacecraft settled down
Like a mother bird into its nest
Glowing there green and round
Smoke spewed from open ports
The air smelled of gas
Little men came out of doors
And laid...
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Categories:
like a mother, funny, men, garden, men,
Form:
Free verse
Gus, Trainer, of Puppets Mall Exodus III
And thus began their heroic journey through the fantastical labyrinth of the escape room, where every twist and turn carried the promise of freedom, laughter, and the unforeseen—the perfect remedy for chaos and an unexpected...
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Categories:
like a mother, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Other
Rabindranath Tagore TranslationsThe Seashore Gathering
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
On the seashores of endless worlds, earth's children converge.
The infinite sky is motionless, the restless waters boisterous.
On the seashores of endless worlds earth's children gather...
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Categories:
like a mother, universe,
Form:
Verse
PreciosaYour words are always pleasant to my soul
and their intent sweet as honey in...
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Categories:
like a mother, caregiving, dedication, devotion, faith, family, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
Verse