Long Literal Poems
Long Literal Poems. Below are the most popular long Literal by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Literal poems by poem length and keyword.
Pencils In SeptemberI smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags, and nonsense lived.
You stared me in the eyes, since the...
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Categories:
literal, 3rd grade, america, betrayal, child, child abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
literal, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Red and Green ChristiansLet's start with a fundamental flaw of fundamentalist Christianity,
a literary flaw within literal non-interpretation of historical creation
and sacred development.
This is true of radical jihadist Muslims as well,
although we both know you think you're more special...
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Categories:
literal, addiction, bible, hate, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
literal, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Artifacts of DestinyEach ego identity,
whether of busy bee
or slacker sloth,
recreates its uniquely sacred eco-Other,
mutually capable of Win-Win intentional experience
and memory
toward appreciating capital investments
in further living, not deadening, artifacts
through each personal life
both cooperative and competing
so far.
So
every shrinking...
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Categories:
literal, destiny, humanity, identity, integrity, psychological, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
Week 2 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Herman Hesse'Brian’s Poet of Note – ‘Herman Hesse’ Week 2
This week I thought I would discuss translating poetry from another language. I just finished retranslating from German this poem ‘Stufen’ from Hesse’s famous novel ‘The Glass...
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Categories:
literal, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Didactic
Slow-Cooked Conversion StoriesI was raised in one of those white nationalist churches,
passing itself off as a Christian evangelical Bible church,
where "evangelical" meant fundamental
and "fundamental" meant we did not interpret scripture
but accepted it as God's literal trans-historical Word
of...
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Categories:
literal, childhood, christian, earth, faith, health, integrity, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Aching SoulsI once had a treasured mid-western friend who ...
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Categories:
literal, christian, community, confusion, family, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Mine psyche riddled with dybbukMine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
literal, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety, boy, fate, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With DybbukMine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
literal, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Rhyme
Holier With ThouMy continuing impatience problem
with smug fundamentalists
self-asserting holier than thou moral positions,
is that Christ's main point is not
Holier Than Others, like Chosen People
but Holier With Thou,
as one interdependent EarthBound BodyMind.
British King James monotheistic readers
digest at AntiLiteraturist...
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Categories:
literal, culture, god, imagination, integrity, love, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Radically Conservative RevolutionsRadical conservatives are cooperatively embracing a culture war.
Our battlefield is our ecologically evolving brain.
At stake is what Earth and Earth's hosted tribes become.
Our cooperative vocation is to radically co-arise nondual human development
to fit conservationist moral...
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Categories:
literal, body, bullying, creation, culture, earth, health, psychological,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Why Should I Believe In God-There's No God-What is the meaning of the bold assertion, “There is no God”?
Commentators rightly maintain that the statement
Is not a literal denial of the existence of God what!
The “wicked hotly pursue the poor”
And...
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Categories:
literal, abuse, analogy, anxiety, atheist, betrayal,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
literal, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, child abuse, deep,
Form:
Rhyme
The DebateA Debate
The Atheist
I see no reason for a god
Indeed for any type of god at all
I look around at all the churchmen
The pompous richly dressed ones
And wonder what their founder would have thought
And then at...
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Categories:
literal, philosophy, god, god, universe, , atheist,
Form:
Free verse
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk Haint No JokeMine psyche riddled with dybbuk - haint no joke
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted
nor linkedin...
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Categories:
literal, abuse, body, dark, family, food, grave, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Circa February 12th, 2122 10:30 PmCirca February 12th, 2122 ~ 10:30 PM
Equals twenty one thirty 22:30 military time
future time traveler looks back one century ago,
oceanic waterways overladen with green slime,
yours truly attempted crafting id est feeble rhyme
far from madding crowd,...
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Categories:
literal, absence, age, celebration, dark, destiny, fantasy, heaven,
Form:
Rhyme
Booth Made Famous On April 15th MdccclxvBooth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV...
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").
Ever since early forerunners
of twenty first century
mankind (sprinted
across trackless expanse extant
upon planet Earth),
modern Homo Sapiens...
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Categories:
literal, animal, confusion, family, fear, hate, history, men,
Form:
Free verse
Ongepatshket Torqued Skewed ReflectionOngepatshket torqued skewed reflection
drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.
When e'er I summon fat chance
to empower me self with courage
and steal a passing glance
in the mirror then instantaneously
hairline fractures appear
than 'afore long
snap,...
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Categories:
literal, 12th grade, adventure, america, celebration, confidence, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 38“It is not the deer's tag. We do not use tags. These deer are free to come
and go as they wish.”
“Oh, alright then!” He turned quickly...
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Categories:
literal, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Tell Me What You HearI have been listening to the different sounds around
The town and they can tell you where you are bound
I have been listening to the sounds around the town
And they make me want to frown,
good...
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Categories:
literal, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration, community, confidence, devotion,
Form:
Narrative
Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century AgoFuture time traveler looks back one century ago
The following poem tweaked
courtesy original author who crafted
literary endeavor some couple years ago.
Now circa August 20th, 2122,
or 1930 military time,
yours truly attempted
drafting id est feeble...
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Categories:
literal, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, august, celebrity, crazy, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
Future time traveler looks back one century agoFuture time traveler looks back one century ago
I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,
(who remained married to yours truly for about
one century – which elapsed in...
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Categories:
literal, absence, adventure, anniversary, birth, celebration, cool, dad,
Form:
Free verse
Across Figurative and Literal Blackened White BoardAcross figurative and literal blackened white board...
Where death of democracy writ large,
nevertheless psychological strength predominates
unlike earlier chapters of mein kampf.
Mine hardscrabble existential debacle
spelled losing game
swept me up in malevolent mindset
far adrift from harbored...
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Categories:
literal, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
I Wonder Far But Wander Near- a Rant'N'RhymeI wonder far but wander near and wish to know if there is treasure here. Would it be buried underneath the sand or way off in a different land? Perhaps it is simply already in...
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Categories:
literal, dog, dream, love,
Form:
Rhyme