Long Locust Poems
Long Locust Poems. Below are the most popular long Locust by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Locust poems by poem length and keyword.
2020 RevolutionNumbers, numerals,
like words,
combinations of letters,
mean something,
sometimes more secular,
sometimes more sacred ecological.
Numerals and letters share sacred iconic human-intelligence root systems
within a bicameral ecology of mind-body nonduality,
both RightBrain matriarchal empowering flow of integrity (Czikszentmihalyi)
and LeftBrain patriarchal Yang...
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Categories:
locust, beauty, culture, earth, health, math, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Paul and SarahHe was born in backwoods Missouri.
1840 the year he arrived.
Conflict, sickness and hard times prevailed.
Through it all he grew strong and survived.
Skills to live were a gift from his father.
Faith in God from his mother...
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Categories:
locust, adventure, america, blessing, journey,
Form:
Rhyme
Portrait of a Hanging
With the opening of my fortress cell,
solemn-faced men come locust invading in
Their mouths smile not, and eyes neither grin
as ceremonial words pursed lips expel
A deer thought escapes ... my life nears its end!
And I feel...
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Categories:
locust, dark, death, horror, imagery, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ramble SixTalismanic mystical duties of an aardvark is best performed upon a desert landscape or in a dense jungle for it is merely in these two places that wild fauna can be located and ancient brands...
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Categories:
locust, conflict, confusion, , western,
Form:
I do not know?
Cherry Tree Music Co-OpCherry Tree Music Co-op
alternately titled instant infatuation:
a moment of spontaneous spunk
instantaneously transformed
ordinarily shy guy into a quidnunc
courtesy powder milk biscuits
inside his mouth
bitesize morsels did plunk
wafted courtesy pheromones
found him punchdrunk
reclusive tendencies bubbled...
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Categories:
locust, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Notchosen StoriesWhat are these days of mourning stories
I choose not to tell about myself,
my emotion-driven journeys
to windy hot imagined future
and remembered warm wet green
and impossibly resilient blue past
pre-historic paradise,
before people
and our mosquito
and cockroach
and locust
and indoor rats...
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Categories:
locust, games, green, health, history, nature, wisdom, woman,
Form:
Political Verse
My AdrenalineI stood at the bus stop deciding which way to go and I look towards the East and my adrenaline starts to flow, the traffic was going one way and wind was blowing the other...
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Categories:
locust, betrayal, bird, body, death, endurance, environment, international,
Form:
Narrative
Random EightTalismanic mystical duties of an aardvark is best performed upon a desert landscape or in a dense jungle for it is merely in these two places that wild fauna can be located and ancient brands...
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Categories:
locust, fruit, , western,
Form:
I do not know?
Cherry Tree Music CoopCherry Tree Music Co-op
(Saint Mary's Church -
3916 Locust Walk; City)
(Circa mid nineteen nineteen eighties
after the common lee
washed out tide dull era - CODA).
Naughty bits and pieces asper
an uneventful memory came...
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Categories:
locust, 8th grade, adventure, animal, courage, desire, introspection,
Form:
Narrative
The Pains of Motherlessness(a poem by Aare Tunde Dawood-Akerele)
Sympathizing with every motherless child.
The Pain of Motherlessness
Is far beyond measure
Especially for a green mind.
Begins from the shock of announcement
To illusion of preparing the...
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Categories:
locust, caregiving, childhood, death, heartbroken, mother, sorrow, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Stranger Things
From strange elixir of mind
a form walks in forming strange lines,
in a poem of a chant of a spell,
encantrain echoes it's well.
Where roses bloom,
dead and spirits recite their bleed
of encantation-...
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Categories:
locust, art,
Form:
Lyric
Adebimpe, the African BeautyADEBIMPE
Going through this life at a frenzied pace
It's clear why we call it human race
I saw a piece of carefully gathered stardust
A desire for every parent
Adebimpe, a true definition of Omoluabi
Ornamented with great courtesy
Is she...
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Categories:
locust, africa, character, eulogy,
Form:
Ode
My Life and Our LivesMy head spinning
My mind twisted,
Im caught up in a propeller
While my body is being catapulted,
My life's a spin, so its your turn
Jumping jacks and back packs
My life a journey and my past...
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Categories:
locust, deep, earth, identity, life,
Form:
Verse
Tater and JunebugA perfect radiant day of golden complexion infused the Jefferson brothers to travel down the narrow path, a mile from their home to the Ebb Water Creek.
Their goal to hook a line of catfish was...
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Categories:
locust, murder,
Form:
Narrative
TornadosA vortex of wind dancing, with drums of thunder Waltzing, plunders the lands it turnsA partner revolves around the twisterThunderous beats escort the funnel cloudsDarkness split by flashes of lightning,The music and tone are...
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Categories:
locust, allegory, allusion, beauty, christian, natural disasters, weather,
Form:
Sestina
To Be Like EliotMy faithful quill recumbent
Motionless
Stark against the virgin parchment posed upon my desk
The peeping moon breaks through grimy windows
Mocking me as the mantel clock chimes the cheerless Midnight
Another day laid to waste
The poet’s canvas unblemished
Harmonizing with...
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Categories:
locust, mentor, poetry, poets, teacher,
Form:
Epic
Two Steps Ahead
You’ve met me,
but you just don’t know it yet
The dream house that you want,
I once polar bear hibernated there ...
two winter moons ago
The summer fruit of relaxation
that you’re tasting now,
I planted it
two prior vineyard...
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Categories:
locust, conflict, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Follow the LocustsThe climate of planet earth has always been in a constant state of change, but modern science seems to have discovered a pattern of transformation that is very disturbing. Such revelations enable them to...
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Categories:
locust, america, anxiety, change, confusion, culture, earth, war,
Form:
Free verse
Rise and FallWhen you stand in a canoe it can be hard to keep your balance. Likewise when you live life unsure, scared, unfaithful, it can be hard to keep from falling into defeat.
“One cannot be blessed...
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Categories:
locust, hope, spiritual, , Lullaby,
Form:
I do not know?
Land Filled With
Plague of lies,
froggy croaks untrue
Swarm of flies
surround Capitol dungHills
Infectious hope buzz kill:
Leftover piles of shill legislative bills
that don’t do do right
There should be no nose mystery,
stink of deceit fills the land
Brown lip locust wings
avarice...
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Categories:
locust, metaphor, perspective, political, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Lend Me Your Heart Oh ChildWorth and numbers rarely go hand in hand.
Producing seeds which will rot and be eaten by the locust
makes barrenness a special kind of blessing.
So pay attention and lend me your mind oh child
b'cos from...
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Categories:
locust, adventure, growing up, growth, my child, my
Form:
Light Verse
Nothing Between
So full of empty between the ears;
void breeze reasoning,
zero thoughts a-blowing
Banished to the barren cornfields,
multi-grain years of accumulated wisdom
bear no pleasant, golden-age yield
Black sky intellectual famine
was lost cause shuttered-in,
by a blight of self-centered locust...
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Categories:
locust, dark, perspective, sad, sick,
Form:
Free verse
The Gatekeeperthe skyline holds time as shadows vanish
darkness claims the sunset like an avalanche
faint sounds from the passing of the sun
wake aging prophets
an old street shines like half a moon
stops signs and streetlights bend for...
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Categories:
locust, adventure, brother, death, grief, i miss you,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Africa EmbodiedAfrican embodied in a birth of a nation,
I do apologize for my lateness in my African time
To the only goddess of Mother Nature in her smell of sweet
Grains of mountainous African mahogany, fruits; mahlatswa, ditshidi.
Picking...
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Categories:
locust, africa,
Form:
Narrative
Dear FateDear Fate,
I hate you.
I detest you.
I despise you.
I loathe you in ridicule.
I reject you outright.
You are no good Fate. I am sure of it.
Que sera, sera.
Whatever will be, will be....
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Categories:
locust, anger, fate, god, humorous, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse