Long Literature Poems
Long Literature Poems. Below are the most popular long Literature by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Literature poems by poem length and keyword.
Woman: The Flame that Lights the WorldIn every dawn that breaks anew,
In every dream, and skies of blue,
A woman’s strength, steadfast and true,
Guides the world in all we do.
Through ages past and times untold,
Their stories rise, so brave, so bold,
In quiet...
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Categories:
inspiration, literature, meaningful, memorial,
Form:
Narrative
Translation of Eric Mottram's Poem 33 In Interrogation Rooms 1980-82 By T Wignesan Translation of Eric Mottram’s Poem 33 in Interrogation Rooms by T. Wignesan
33. on a vu un homme courir/ de la scène de crime un homme est maintenant en train d’aider/ la police avec...
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Categories:
america, conflict, culture, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are...
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Categories:
literature, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Epigrams VEpigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Burning LogsEach flame
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.
Each flame
unique in point of origin below
as ubiquitously flickering fading destinations above.
Yet...
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Categories:
literature, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Political ArtistryBrilliant writers
have recommended to younger students,
to only write if they cannot live without doing so.
Elder successful icons of artistic expression,
dance,
voice,
drama,
sculptors
have similarly advised apprentices,
do not do as I have done
unless you could do naught else.
But what...
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Categories:
literature, art, beauty, health, leadership, parents, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
literature, addiction, bible, hate, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist
"The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist"
The Sleeper
shone as she walked
through the Woods
shining alive
like nothing
natural could
caught
in the moonlight
unaware
the innocent
red-caped roses stared
the trees whispered,
"beware, beware"
barefoot softly
the Supernaturalist
transfigures instead
from under shine
she bares...
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Categories:
literature, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Fadwa Tuqan TranslationsFadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by...
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Categories:
literature, allah, culture, earth, love, nature, voice, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Uyghur Poetry TranslationsWith my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.
Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Asylum seekers, will...
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Categories:
literature, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Chaucer Translation: Merciless BeautyMerciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...
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Categories:
literature, beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa TuqanEnglish translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Enough for me to lie in the earth,
to be buried in her,
to sink...
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Categories:
literature, allah, arabic, culture, nature, poetess, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Winter Awakens My CareWinter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters my thought:
regarding this world's joy,
how everything...
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Categories:
literature, angst, england, joy, sorrow, tree, weather, winter,
Form:
Couplet
An Ordinary Girl - Translation From TagoreSharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...
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Categories:
literature, life, loss,
Form:
Narrative
Enlightening Systems"Overcoming misleading [economic and political] metaphors
that are physically [naturally, ecosystemically, phylogenically] in [and of]
your [ecological-organic embodied] brain
is never easy."
George Lakoff, The Political...
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Categories:
literature, blessing, humor, math, mentor, metaphor, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust PoemsPostcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
literature, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
Bitter Wind - Page 2The laws are not in the management of the soul, but the greatest science fruits are punished with the sounds of the rails that follow the trains of the cows living without breaking the suffering...
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Categories:
literature,
Form:
Free verse
Wonderland VIII: Conclusion
it feels good to escape
with authors and poets
and dream up new places
with tales that are spun.
but sometimes what's real
and sometimes what isn't
encroach on each other
and read just as one.
such are the worlds
of rhyme but no...
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Categories:
10th grade, emotions, literature, world,
Form:
Narrative
A Poem For My History TeacherI wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
literature, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
Working With TheoriesI'm working on this Systems Theory
All existing formal religious traditions
and informal spiritual experience
of Great Sacred EcoLogical Transitions
[e.g. Holocene to
Green AnthroScene;
HolySpirit to
Whole Holonic Natural Communion Systems]
Originally,
through our divine monotheistic
and/or polytheistic
and/or atheistic naturalistic branches
shared as...
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Categories:
literature, anxiety, appreciation, culture, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Healthy Politics, and Sex, and ReligionI hope I know what is healthy sex,
in an experiential kind of way,
and a trans-biblical swell known sway,
and I can imagine a world with healthier,
more cooperative, politically empowering days,
but I am clueless about healthy religion,
which...
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Categories:
literature, health, humor, philosophy, political, religion, sensual, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan
Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...
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Categories:
anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 36I sung all the night with the Devil,
It seemed harmony had found itself spooning with dissonance
Not indeed needing to be one or the same
Yes—the light indeed could sustain itself in the midst
Of what then was...
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Categories:
appreciation, dark, desire, endurance, inspiration, literature, meaningful,
Form:
Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic