Long Lying in Poems
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In the Middle of the Night
I woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...
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Categories:
lying in, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
Blue Sky, Why
"Blue Sky, Why?"
stories speak to us.
inside our heart
is crying.
Blue Sky, Why?
why do children
holding sunflowers
watch their parents die
why do sweet children,
now war torn,
some the battle's orphans,
daily lose their lives
lying in their sick beds
bombed in...
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Categories:
lying in, courage, humanity, leadership, light, peace, truth, war,
Form:
Narrative
THE LAST GOODBYE
This is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
lying in, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Storm Is In the Calm
The angles are in the storm
Just before the break of dawn
Sending a message to everyone
Telling them to remain calm
The angels are singing out loud
They want to break the treacherous cloud
and relinquish that awful...
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Categories:
lying in, abuse, america, angel, anger, betrayal, community, england,
Form:
Narrative
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes....
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Categories:
lying in, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Modern Sonnets I
MODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
Maker, Fakir, Curer
by Michael R. Burch
A poem...
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Categories:
lying in, art, freedom, romantic, romantic love, song, write,
Form:
Sonnet
The Girl With Eyes As Black As Crows
On that night the moon seemed hidden from her starry brothers
The kind of night not suited for the fighters nor the lovers
I ventured out only to put out the low burning lamp
When there I saw...
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Categories:
lying in, dark, death, fantasy, murder, mythology, night, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Today's Journey Through Covid-19
As I woke up this morning I was thinking of what should I do through COVID-19 pandemic.
I said to myself, “I want to go for a walk.”
While walking along the street, people were passing with...
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Categories:
lying in, africa, baptism, beautiful, christian, courage, poems, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
Dante's Divina Commedia Translation Canto Viii
I tell, to follow, that long trait before
We reached the back foot of the tower tall,
Our eyes went up to the top core
For two little flames we saw install,
And another responding from so far
That...
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Categories:
lying in, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Jean-Louis Barrault As I Lay Dying
Heavy storm was sweeping dark Paris streets
Lit with dim lights that dreary November night
With ghostly shadows lurking in the corners
Cold wind dancing with dirty wet leaves fallen
In the water pools in the middle...
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Categories:
lying in, allusion, art, death, french, imagery, life, philosophy,
Form:
Ballad
Dad, Continued
...cont
Breath...
You once said to me,"I'm a man of extremes," and I understood immediately what you meant. When you drank, you drank hard. When you worked you expected perfection, in yourself not others, because...
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Categories:
lying in, dad,
Form:
Elegy
Pronoia Happiness Finals
Brezsny in quotes:
"Bestow a blessing on a person you've considered to be beneath you
or alien to you."
Donald, may your future communications involve both deeper listening
and comprehensively ecological learning
about our cooperative potential as individually evolving parents,
and...
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Categories:
lying in, blessing, earth, health, humanity, humor, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Maid of Orleans
Reflecting in her garden sits a winsome little maid;
She holds a purple flower like the circlet that she made
And wrapped about her braids to grace her forehead like a crown;
Her thick and shining braids that...
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Categories:
lying in, christian, conflict, courage, england, history,
Form:
Couplet
The Mountain Goat
The noise aboard the motor boat reminds me that I was not alone
The high perspiration smell from the young couple sitting beside me
caused me to remember the green wood’s in Virginia and the squirrels
chasing each...
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Categories:
lying in, angel, courage, creation, friendship, leadership, love, missing,
Form:
Narrative
Bitter Wind - Page 1
Bitter Wind
With the winds beginning in the autumn season, the Soul seems to be a leaf falling towards new pain.
In the heat of the fire flying with the wind, it inhales us with...
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Categories:
lying in, literature, war,
Form:
Free verse
Intertwined
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Intertwined in everything and nothing. Apart forever and never apart. Always reaching, never meeting. Intertwined in nothing and everything.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I twist and turn rising higher.
I’m forced into destruction and anger.
I want to dance...
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Categories:
lying in, 10th grade, day, earth, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
Dante's Hell, Fourth Canto Translation First Part,
Fourth canto (first part)
The deep slumber was broken in my head
By a strong thunder, so that I woke up
As person forced to arouse from bed;
My rested eye I moved around then deep,
Erect uprisen, and also...
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Categories:
lying in, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Interdependent Americans
"I do not see what right any one would have
to object to calling this part
[the South American mainland],
after Americus
who discovered it
and who is a man of intelligence,
Amerigen,
that is, the...
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Categories:
lying in, earth, health, history, humanity, independence day, mental
Form:
Political Verse
The Whore and the Sea Part 1
The moon was neither full, nor was it not
She shone down radiant lighting the misty ole night
The waves lapped the shore
As a gentle breeze streaked my face
Alone by the sea, clouds, the moon and me
The...
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Categories:
lying in, allegory, angel, french, imagination, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Uncontainable
Uncontainable
(Music playing)
“I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord
and I’ve been waiting for this moment, for all of my life, oh lord
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord,...
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Categories:
lying in, character,
Form:
Prose
Search For the Hidden Spark
The old man stood;elbows resting on the old stone wall
Wistfully he gazed over the snow laden field,
Watching the sheep nibble on bales of hay,
He thought back remembering his working day.
In his leather like work hardened...
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Categories:
lying in, age, allegory, imagery, loss, magic, memory, riddle,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Is the Devil Real, Who Really Rules the World
Is the Devil real? Who really rules the world?
Some say the Devil is just the evil inside each of us. If that is true then he is NOT a real person. Some have seen the...
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Categories:
lying in, christian, evil, god, gospel, halloween, jesus, religious,
Form:
Didactic
Just Like Daddy
I haven’t felt this emptiness that settles deep in the pit of my soul since I was four, when my dad kissed me on my cheek as he walked out the door
And just as then...
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Categories:
lying in, betrayal, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
A To Z An Amazing Couple
~A To Z An Amazing Couple~
A is for Allow me to write a poem about my best friends
love affair with an army man, she was 35 years old he was
the same age living...
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Categories:
lying in, family, mum,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Describing Cocaine Addiction On Paper
Treat this poem as the truth
Non-fiction...
Because this is the best way I can try to describe what it feels like to suffer with cocaine addiction
It’s hard to even put this feeling of addiction into words
To...
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Categories:
lying in, anger, deep, lonely, moving on, pain, recovery
Form:
Rhyme