Long Lodged Poems
Long Lodged Poems. Below are the most popular long Lodged by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Lodged poems by poem length and keyword.
Currents
Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
lodged, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall Remain
Here We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
lodged, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse Ii
Nucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
lodged, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
Bergfried
I. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
lodged, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
Tell me, my friend,
does infinity not unsettle your reason,
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?
Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you...
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Categories:
lodged, beauty, christian, easter, faith, longing, science, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Quest of the Heart: Chapter One
Of Ghosts and Fiends in Twilight
The sun sank low on the darkening horizon
Grey mist hung adrift over the land thickening
A cold, brisk autumn wind held and embraced me
With my horse’s pace and that of...
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Categories:
lodged, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Literary Feud Among - Pt 1
Prelude to what…..
I see you, / you / yes, come into my……
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought
and savage syntax shatter like glass on concrete.
Where Titans...
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Categories:
lodged, emotions, judgement, literature, poetry, poets, rude, writing,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Michelangelo: Modern English Translations
MICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English translations of his poems and epigrams by Michael R. Burch.
SONNET:...
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Categories:
lodged, art, beauty, light, love,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Soliloquio Del Individuo By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour for writers in Spanish), four times nominated for the...
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Categories:
lodged, allegory, humanity, loneliness, philosophy, psychological, world,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Everything of Yours Must Go Now, Even If It Burns
I write about my ex a lot,
we didn't talk much, but our tongues touched,
we used to have sex a lot and
it was so hot that it set my soul ablaze,
and no, it wasn't...
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Categories:
lodged, break up,
Form:
Free verse
Race the Finals Spoken Word
I wish to
Relay
To all of my people the importance of sticking together as a
team
And that
Because we have run
through the preliminary trials as selfish individual, goal seekers
we have barely made it to the finals,...
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Categories:
lodged, africa, black african american, change, courage, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
lodged, angst, body, cancer, confusion, dark, health, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf
Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of time
can be made to go in reverse
a more exemplary version
to...
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Categories:
lodged, absence, adventure, age, birth, creation, family, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets V-Ix
Sonnets V-IX
Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch
The night is full of stars. Which still exist?
Before time ends, perhaps one day we’ll know.
For now I hold your fingers to my lips
and feel their pulse... warm, palpable and slow...
once...
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Categories:
lodged, love, moon, night, star, time, universe, world,
Form:
Sonnet
Aye Passively Plead Death To Please Release Me From Agonizing Clutches
(alternately titled: Typical daily mindset today –
July 17th, 2020)
The following words
mostly unredacted, nevertheless finessed
for curbed poetic/prosaic appeal
lock, stock and barrel
codify, and edify (hoopfully not mortify)
any reader unbeknownst and/or familiar
with unsteady state of yours truly,
(an...
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Categories:
lodged, absence, cheer up, death, fate, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Labour Day
Written 28 April 2024
“Genius begins great works. Labour alone finishes them.”
Joseph Joubert
...
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Categories:
lodged, appreciation, inspirational, jobs, rights, work,
Form:
Rhyme
America, 1933
They are conflicted haunted images from black and white photos of America 1933, when there was no place left to run.
It was the hunger of people lined up, scraps of food ladled out, the...
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Categories:
lodged, character, culture, history, life, natural disasters,
Form:
Narrative
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf
Thus writer of these words
forever mus lee experiencing
craving to eat cheese,
a milk product
eternally preserved within
annals, chronicles, epistles,
et cetera of human civilization
and it's discontents...
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Categories:
lodged, adventure, america, angst, anxiety, crush, environment, hate,
Form:
Free verse
Are You There God
The man lay painfully wedged between two large boulders,
his position an anomaly only the cruelest of fates could bring to a man.
In one moment he’d been sure-footed, gingerly climbing the cliff....
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Categories:
lodged, death, god,
Form:
Narrative
Gerard Sekoto, In Memorium: 1913 - 1993 Parts One and Two
[Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral rites in the presence of his close relatives come from...
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Categories:
lodged, anger, friendship, may, words,
Form:
Elegy
Roman a Clef Tragicomedy
Roman à clef tragicomedy...
overlaid with façade of fiction = Mein Kampf
in summer re:
typed out during winter of my discontent,
when yours truly no spring chicken
stirred ruse to expatiate poetically
regarding following rhyming reason,
hence mine lovely bones
into...
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Categories:
lodged, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Rhyme
Husband and Wife: Literary Life
Your Rain was tears on my window pane -
the first poem of yours I had seen -
pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse,
grief-blue with regret and what should have been.
I thought mediocre. Bad omen for you.
You who...
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Categories:
lodged, husband, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Meleager Translations
If I am Syrian, what of it?
Stranger, we all dwell in one world, not its portals.
The same original Chaos gave birth to all mortals.
—Meleager translation by Michael R. Burch
Love, how can I call on you;
does...
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Categories:
lodged, desire, drink, feelings, for her, girl, girlfriend,
Form:
Epigram
Yes, I Pier Irma Donned To Crush Mar a Lago Estate
To Crush Mar a Lago Estate, and lower the Economic debt ceiling...
Now that DACA docked amidst
marshy tidal outskirts of Poker flats
(readied to be sunk) off shore
(beach combing divers – ectoplasmic flotsam
glorying...
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Categories:
lodged, america, anger, anxiety, crush, discrimination, future, horror,
Form:
I do not know?
Sargasso
Sargasso
..by D Johnson
Fourteen days adrift time slowly slipped
on the good ship Cavalier
Becalmed, morose, no water they sipped
drank rum to calm their fear
The fog was thick o'er water and ship
On the...
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Categories:
lodged, angstdeath, old, sea, water, day, death, old,
Form:
Rhyme