Long Listless Poems
Long Listless Poems. Below are the most popular long Listless by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Listless poems by poem length and keyword.
More Pickles Than One
For ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple, so there can be no excuse,
that the pickles in this...
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Categories:
listless, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
See
See
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
listless, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Where Does the Butterfly Go
Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch
for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba
Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...
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Categories:
listless, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Chinese Translations Ii
Chinese Poets: English Translations II
These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty.
Tzu Yeh (circa...
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Categories:
listless, body, desire, love, lust, night, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems Iii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
In the Whispering Night
by Michael R. Burch
In the whispering night, when the stars bend low
till the hills ignite to a shining flame,
when a shower of meteors streaks the sky
while...
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Categories:
listless, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your Mouth
The Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...
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Categories:
listless, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Things That Break Ii
Poems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
listless, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Lii-Lx
Sonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
listless, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
Chapter 95 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Just Summertime Birthday Celebrations
The kid who often was lost in
The sauce Joshua! His
birthday was in June. He became
The strong silent youngster with
The youngest kids.
A small Celebration was held in
Josh's honor party at...
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Categories:
listless, birth, black love, children, confidence, devotion, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
A Vain Word
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
listless, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
A Brief Epistle in Urgent Forewarning against Melancholia--Part I
(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).
Dear Euphoria,
...
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Categories:
listless, depression, friend, metaphor, philosophy, psychological, uplifting, wisdom,
Form:
Prose
Love Poems Ii
LOVE POEMS II
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch: original poems and translations about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating and marriage. On an amusing note, my steamy Baudelaire translations have become popular with the...
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Categories:
listless, desire, love, lust, marriage, passion, romance, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
Early Poems Ii
Juvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Desdemona
by Michael R. Burch
Though you possessed the moon and stars,
you are bound to fate and wed to chance.
Your lips deny they crave a kiss;
your feet deny they ache to...
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Categories:
listless, poems, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Ali's Song
Ali's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...
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Categories:
listless, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Georges Scoriety Bash
Picture this..? Seedy joint.'mediocre comedy one Kiev night.
Hunky billionaire bored and sour, joins his guests Uneventful hour.?
A pan faced man is on the stage, mocking life with inward rage.
George faintly get the vibe, listens more...
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Categories:
listless, addiction,
Form:
Rhyme
Obsession
...inspired by 'Portrait Of A Lady' by T.S. Eliot
On winter days the view outside is nebulous at best,
within, the furniture is as it always was, and I am waiting,
waiting for a glimpse of you to...
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Categories:
listless, angst, devotion, universe,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Miracle of Marshside Lea
In Marshside Lea, there stood a tree, old in trunk and bough
'Twas long ago, this tale, although, it may still stand there now
And in its shade, the young sheep played as often did young lambs
Whilst...
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Categories:
listless, allegory, angel, animal, crazy, fantasy, farm, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
What You Do Not See Is Not Necessarily Not There
I
Take out the caked grimy faucet plug
Let those unseen crawlies dive and duck
...
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Categories:
listless, health, philosophy, care, care,
Form:
Free verse
The Mystery of the Black River Gorges
*Situated in the south-western region of Mauritius, a dream island in the Indian Ocean.
Written on 9 November 2023
...
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Categories:
listless, love, moon, mystery, nature, passion, river,
Form:
Rhyme
Footnote
I order an audience, I command an audience
but it's a shallow demand
so all I ask is for just one
only one person come to me please
hear me out
erase my loneliness even if only for a brief...
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Categories:
listless, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
One More Wound
To quote the queen of my broken heart
“Call me a coward, too scared to leave”
leave my cocoon; evolve, maybe I never will
the air in here is suffocating
suffocating but this is home
To rewrite her words, I...
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Categories:
listless, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Sun Setting Over the Dark Green Fringe of a Shivering Lake
Sun setting over the dark green fringe of a shivering lake on the last day of winter
An old man still unbent sits on a deserted wooden bench
with the load of his cares...
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Categories:
listless, bird, loneliness, song, spring, winter,
Form:
Free verse
What Was I Thinking, O'Yes
My arrival landed where I began my flight and journey
Sunny San Diego y e s, I was back and how I missed it
Oh-h-h-h, let me count the ways—rather days spent
in a border town,...
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Categories:
listless, character, love, sweet, sweet love,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets I-Iv
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the...
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Categories:
listless, desire, first love, for her, love, lust,
Form:
Sonnet
Soon You Will Be Gone, My Stinky Little Pug
I posted this first poem on one of my first days here at Poetry Soup. It’s about my stinky Pug Mugsy. He is almost fourteen now and for the past two days he has been...
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Categories:
listless, death, dog, grief, i miss you,
Form:
Rhyme