Long Listing Poems
Long Listing Poems. Below are the most popular long Listing by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Listing poems by poem length and keyword.
Radiance, For Dylan ThomasRadiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
listing, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Myth, After Dylan ThomasMyth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
listing, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 2
"The Swoon Hypothesis" - Part 2
Arimathea stands next to you and I on the deck, soon we are back in Nazareth, you press into my palm,
“A very rare Dubunni coin” you say - on...
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Categories:
listing, imagery, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
GREEN DAY revisited GREEN DAY – revisited
Although the following poetic/prosaic material written January eighteenth two thousand and eighteen, I came across these encapsulated, enclosed, encoded, and encrusted with barnacle clad body electric of...
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Categories:
listing, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, anger,
Form:
Free verse
I See You Looking At Me- Collab With DmI see you looking at me
There is an old pang in my chest
there where your hands used to caress
where your lips loved to roam
there where you called your home
There is an old flutter now
What is...
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Categories:
listing, absence, lost love, passion, relationship, remember,
Form:
Narrative
I See You Looking At Me - Collab With EmI see you looking at me
There is an old pang in my chest
there where your hands used to caress
where your lips loved to roam
there were you called your home
There is an old flutter now
What...
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Categories:
listing, forgiveness, joy, lost love, love,
Form:
Narrative
HollywoodThe victim list keeps growing
But no one really cares
The gristmill claims another one
Keep your hands in and don't stare
Hollywood is the golden land
The eternal silver screen
But many souls are lost here
A lot of greats or...
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Categories:
listing, america, betrayal, culture, loneliness, pain, society,
Form:
Epic
Lets Talk About LoveLets talk about love
Love is meant to be an opportunity
To share a place in time,
And an open heart for a person,
That God has designed, just for you.
Love is to be our now,
Our everlasting and...
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Categories:
listing, love, marriage, life, god, heart, god, heart,
Form:
Blank verse
Land Is a LoomLand Is A Loom
I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet.
The land itself spoke from mountains, torents, islet
From bird song and bear splashing fishers
From rutting moose and cougars sharp incisors.
The...
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Categories:
listing, adventure, environment, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
One Last Questionall my prayers are answered in silence..
but its massive gifts at the door...
with sighs and tears when no one ever heard or saw..
with the universe i cried with unspoken words..
knowing he is listing.. holding me...
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Categories:
listing, beautiful, best friend, blessing, care, celebration, love,
Form:
Free verse
Scammed AgainResponding to an ad I’d found on Market-Place last month, describing what the seller claimed to be a - “true antique”,
I queried - ‘Have you sold this yet?’, nervously suspecting - being the gorgeous...
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Categories:
listing, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Mv Wilhem GustloffMV WILHELM GUSTLOFF
This was the worst ship disaster, with the greatest loss of life at sea
A German ship that was overloaded, with over 10.600, war refugees
Sank on the 30 January 1945 by a Soviet submarine...
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Categories:
listing, boat, death, horror, world war ii, write,
Form:
Couplet
Meet Me At the Cross RoadMeet me at the cross road and nurture my soul
Meet me at the cross road and make me whole
I woke up this morning in a somber mood
grasping the reality of the rude awakening
that held...
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Categories:
listing, adventure, blessing, culture, emotions, feelings, leadership, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Storylistening ProposalI would like to hear and see
how and why you live,
when and where you prefer to die.
I would like to touch and taste
who and what you think and feel
is your greenest dreamed sanctuary
without imagined ultra-violet...
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Categories:
listing, children, culture, earth, environment, green, health, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Recreating StoryBefore human languaged time and cultural memory,
SunGod radiated EarthGoddess Gaia
"Let's partner to plant a life-giving network."
"Not a bad-good idea!" smiled Earth reflectively,
synergetically and photosynthetically,
regeneratively speaking.
"Yes, and
an ultimately GREAT mutual-mentoring redemptive concept,
too!"
ruled YangSun,
listing left...
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Categories:
listing, creation, culture, gender, history, myth, religion, universe,
Form:
Free verse
More Audacious HopeSenator Obama's Audacity of Hope
ends with listing memories,
visual images,
that rekindle his love for this imperfectly united Place
For his Country,
this humane Habitat
for mutual care-giving,
and at least implies this is all he needs,
not yet all he hopes,
for...
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Categories:
listing, beauty, destiny, education, health, hope, humanity, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Knowing NothingMy Math Teacher said:
I know how to teach you about 1
but can't guide you into comprehending None--0
A more sacredly co-arising binomial relationship,
less traveled bipartisan path
to know Zero rises positive toward full future
and suppresses negative
degenerating back
reversing...
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Categories:
listing, earth, education, health, integrity, math, western, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
A Blanket MarriageScreaming from his office was loud enough to wake the dead
by our trucking company foreman who was livid when he said,
“That useless bloody mongrel, that scum of the flamin’ earth,
has loaded up a truck with...
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Categories:
listing, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Press ReleaseA listing of the fires
and all the survivors
will be provided
Names of the dead
are written on broken cobblestones
at the bottom of the river
The sheet music
is in the morgue - reconstruction
of...
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Categories:
listing, crazy, humor, political, satire,
Form:
Verse
Most Beautiful Christmas Poem*Image of The Nativity by Pixabay.
MOST BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS POEM
(Pre The Epiphany)
THE WORLD VERSION:
Twelve Drummers Drumming.
Eleven Pipers Piping.
Ten Lords A-Leaping.
Nine Ladies Dancing.
Eight Maids A-milking.
Seven Swans A-swimming.
Six Geese A-laying.
Five Golden Rings.
Four Calling Birds.
Three French Hens.
Two...
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Categories:
listing, birth, blessing, christmas, inspirational,
Form:
List
The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness
"The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness"
When the crime
was committed,
the writing
was already on the wall,
no one listened.
It climbed insidiously
out through the cracks
like a friendly tarantula.
that sad poet
I read today,
she writes
of...
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Categories:
listing, love, mother daughter, muse, war,
Form:
Narrative
Not So Friendly DiscussionsAlfredo always abhorred angry approaches
After an amigo accosted after an argument
And, afterward, Alfredo abstained arguing,
Because blackening bruises betrayed blather
Berniccio blindly behaved better, bravely
Becoming brotherly before blasting bullies!
Carefully commandeering calmer Carlos,
Claiming cool comradeship courageously
Communicated clever candid...
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Categories:
listing, friendship, humorous,
Form:
Abecedarian
On Writing Poetry[A few years ago, I wrote this poem “On Writing Poetry” for creative writing students. I hesitated to put it on Poetry Soup, but I did some revisions and decided to share it with you....
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Categories:
listing, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Antipoem 36 Silent MerciesAntiPoem 36
“Silent Mercies”
(Poet’s Instruction: Softly play in the background Mario Lanza singing
“Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen” from Puccini’s La Boheme, while reading this AntiPoem)
A
Look over there.
See the stunned grandmother knitting,
Not speaking a word neither, nor...
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Categories:
listing, death, memory, suicide,
Form:
I do not know?
We'Re - Slippery-Slopin' - Both Audio and TextSince halfway through the fifties we’ve been slowly slippery-slopin’, and almost everyperson that I know, that’s near my age,
Agrees with me that, if you read the “book of life” today, you’ll clearly see my reasoning...
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Categories:
listing, humor,
Form:
Verse