Long Mature Poems
Long Mature Poems. Below are the most popular long Mature by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Mature poems by poem length and keyword.
Constructive CritismThere's consequences in all we say and do
Go forward and walk your walk and I'll go ahead and talk my talk
Quite distraught due to the fact that you're too good to be true
I...
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Categories:
mature, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Zen Death HaikuZen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
mature, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s dreams
rust crumbles to dust
Virulent apathy spreads
Betrayal’s destruction
hand...
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Categories:
mature, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Employment TraumaMy protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples
Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.
He has been out of his calming,
regular custodial collared routine,
for over...
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Categories:
mature, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
Medieval Poems IvMedieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
mature, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Albert Einstein PoemsALBERT EINSTEIN POEMS
These are "poems" I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme...
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the...
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Categories:
mature, light, love, poems, poetry, science, time, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Father Time's InterviewHi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?
False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...
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Categories:
mature, allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
mature, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Urbane History LessonsI have a hardbound copy of
"The City of Hartford 1784-1984"
although most of this coffee table story
of unfortunate events
takes place between 1850 and 1950s,
before and after the UnCivil War,
and,
like the U.S. Catholic Church
and many MainLine Protestant...
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Categories:
mature, caregiving, city, health, integrity, meaningful, universe,
Form:
Political Verse
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:
mature, addiction, bible, hate, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 108 -- Damian Dj Delilah Mallory Damali Cj: the New Temple and Djs BirthdayDate: January 4 2046
Damali and DJ were active in the
Small house sprucing up for their
Day. "Hey happy birthday partner!"
Damali jostled DJ. In the main house
Now 11 morning time. Damian had
Plans...
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Categories:
mature, color, confidence, deep,
Form:
Alliteration
Bipartisan DissonanceWhen oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading back in time
to where she began to feel alone,
marginalized,
siloed,
anxious,
neglected.
If...
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Categories:
mature, conflict, math, parents, political, race, religion, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Cooperative Family PoliticsI think he's talking about a cooperative bicameral political system,
with "How to talk to the other side".
And what could that possibly mean, dear Yang?
Well,
I was watching this Ted-talk from Marin,
by Robb Willer, as I anciently...
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Categories:
mature, culture, earth, family, freedom, health, humor, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Fishy Science School of Geometric ArtsMath speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.
Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right as at least not not ecologically wrong,
ecopolitically suboptimal perhaps,
yet at...
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Categories:
mature, adventure, earth, life, light, math, science fiction,
Form:
Political Verse
Portraits of Racial Politics“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate to the perspectives of individual disciplines. I have argued that...
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Categories:
mature, culture, earth, health, love, political, race, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Today and Tomorrow - the Butterfly Style~Today And Tomorrow ~
( The Butterfly Style )
~O~
Love God with all heart
He is best friend
Always there
The Lord
Greatest
In all
Just ...
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Categories:
mature, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the GhostHarriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...
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Categories:
mature, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
Exodus To GenesisWith Julian Jaynes
we find an egocentric languaged LeftBrain
developing reasons to sacredly love our healthy RightBrain inductive-integrative SacredPower feelings of Earth's co-relationship with LeftBrain's Self-ReGenerating Identity
of BiCameral Ego/Eco-Consciousness.
Later on in the evolution of Positive Psychology,
we find...
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Categories:
mature, culture, health, nature, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Superior Courts of Ecological JusticeWhat evidence do we have that businesses receive financial as well as other nutritionally healthy benefits,
by co-investing cooperatively within health-developing community cultures?
What are financially healthy benefits for cultural communities
both internal to corporate identity,...
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Categories:
mature, culture, earth, health, humor, judgement, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
LegendLook up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...
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Categories:
mature, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Forever Forgive MeForever forgive me
For my one and only iniquity
Please forgive me
With forbearance eternally
Lots of anger and lust
Got a hold of me…
So, I must...oh, I must…
Set my soul free
Forever forgive me
Determine my footsteps to the light
Emotionally unhappy
Intervene...
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Categories:
mature, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, longing, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part FourRosalia - The Evil Witch of the Harz, Part Four
Rosalia’s Date with Destiny and the Power of Light and Goodness
It is said that the Almighty Lord God works in very mysterious ways . . ....
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Categories:
mature, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form:
Narrative
Out For a SpinI take a four-fold spin
through Bill Plotkin's wheel
of bilateral identities,
iconic developmental faces,
ironic personalities.
FIRST comes Eastern-born
dawn of human infancy,
Innocent Sage infants
so WiseElder
in our LeftBrain emergent
wrinkling unfolding
sacred RightBrain ways.
Searching for care giving eyes
to be sure we...
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Categories:
mature, gender, health, humor, integrity, nature, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Caregivers Among UsTo receive care
that best meets your needs,
and also,
by the way,
everyone else's too,
we look first
to where and when we have given such care
since our original longest reborn journey
down Mom's birth canal,
prepared just in time for our...
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Categories:
mature, care, caregiving, happiness, health, immigration, love, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
The GiftFrom the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...
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Categories:
mature, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form:
Prose