Long Melodic Poems
Long Melodic Poems. Below are the most popular long Melodic by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Melodic poems by poem length and keyword.
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947
It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
melodic, memory,
Form:
Prose
Family Poems
Family Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
melodic, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Erin
Erin, for a girl who embodies Ireland
by Michael R. Burch
All that’s left of Ireland is her hair—
bright carrot—and her milkmaid-pallid skin,
her brilliant air of cavalier despair,
her train of children—some conceived in sin,
the others to avoid...
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Categories:
melodic, ireland,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Children
Poems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
melodic, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers Iii
Poems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
melodic, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
My Melodious Muse
** I apologize, but if you're viewing this on a phone, it probably wont look right, as the browser page on a phone is not wide enough to indent the right edge properly. It was...
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Categories:
melodic, analogy, inspiration, love, metaphor, muse, music,
Form:
Concrete
Phoenix
I feel so damn trapped in rage
Like a rainbow lion in a cage
I feel so much pain in my brain
And it's driving me quite insane
Numb my solace shame
Get me feeling more...
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Categories:
melodic, 11th grade, 3rd grade, 6th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Final Lullaby
Final Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over.
Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress,
like pebbles unaware of raging waves.
Sleep peacefully—like fields of fragrant clover
unmoved by any motion of the wind.
Sleep...
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Categories:
melodic, death, eulogy, funeral, Lullaby, mother, mother son,
Form:
Lyric
Uncle Eldon
UNCLE ELDON
Now that I am old, I see more clearly through my mind's eye, than I did in my youth, all those special people who played such a wonderful part in my life....
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Categories:
melodic, dedication,
Form:
Narrative
In My Room
(His version of Room 123)
I’ve laid here on this bed dreaming of being with her for many days and nights, and tonight she agreed to meet me here, the stars finally aligned
Either I was too...
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Categories:
melodic, angst, conflict, heartbroken,
Form:
Rhyme
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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Categories:
melodic, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
A Clerihew of Poo, But Only Because Too Much Me and Not Enough the Few
Well I know it's been forever and you didn't know what to do
Fear no more your philosopher is back with his clerihew
Who will be now name victim of this wonderfully silly form
Probably himself and anyone...
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Categories:
melodic, dedication,
Form:
Clerihew
You Hurt My Feelings
Father, you hurt my feelings
It looks as if you don’t care that I’m alone
Melodic, hopeful bird sings,
So I listen and feel at home, all on my own
The tune of tranquility will drain away the...
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Categories:
melodic, angst, courage, emotions, faith, feelings, strength, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Table - the Difference Between Heaven and Hell
The Table
...
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Categories:
melodic, heaven, humanity, imagery, inspirational, joy, love,
Form:
Narrative
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024
(alternately titled GENESIS RESPLENDENT)
No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpires until Thursday, Jun 20, 2024, an intimation sensed...
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Categories:
melodic, 12th grade, animal, appreciation, beauty, daffodils, earth,
Form:
Rhyme
Conversational Ecstasy
I believe SuperEgo bicameral comprehension
functions, forms, and flows organic
ecotherapeutic integrity;
I believe balanced Left-Right consciousness
orbits toward ecstatic psychology.
I've got nothin' to say
And I'm gonna keep it just that way
'til my mean old SuperEgo
lets me go outside...
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Categories:
melodic, freedom, god, identity, imagination, joy, love, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Life In Eternity
LIFE IN ETERNITY*
1.
The cheerful trumpet of miraculous life, imperatively sounded in
My mother’s life-giving womb,
Heralding with its melodic tune another animation: MINE!
And as my innocent infantile heart was provoked by
The challenging divine call,
Started beating...
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Categories:
melodic, birth, life, universe,
Form:
Epic
Memories and Broken Pieces of You
(His Version of Pieces and Memories of You)
A smile one so beautiful that I asked myself, could she be real? As I sat there looking at your picture you would never believe me when I...
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Categories:
melodic, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
Better To Let Go
Literally feeling like dying of boredom…
Feeling like a freak, unleashing dumb foolishness while drunk on rum
My noggin is full of negativity and positivity mixed together
My cranium is about to explode like a volcano…erupting…then, I’m feeling...
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Categories:
melodic, courage, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Rhyme
Jazz Out
(Sam Trio stands at the mic, snaps fingers lightly, takes a drag on a Marlboro, and smiles to the crowd) Dig this, we’re going back in time, way back to the smokey jazz clubs and...
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Categories:
melodic, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word
Around 4 Am - Idiotic Insomnia Is Icky
I can’t help, but feel kinda restless
Can’t sleep because I’m hopeless
You got to save me from myself, my restful dear
You are asleep in your melodic, swaying chandelier
Prayers please……
Give me starlit and moonlit ease
The sun...
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Categories:
melodic, angst, anxiety, confusion, fear, hope, how i
Form:
I do not know?
Spring also known as vernal equinox arrives March 20th, 2025
Spring (also known as vernal) equinox arrives March 20th, 2025
at 5:01?AM in Northern Hemisphere
out of hibernation,
sans mancave, I will climb
eastern standard time,
when calendrical, celestial,
and chronological prime
airy factors mark
onset of temperate clime
mitt, also coincides with
'super worm...
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Categories:
melodic, adventure, beautiful, bird, birth, inspirational, march, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Inevitable Death Defines Life
Inevitable death defines afterlife
I mull mortality
thru lens crafted occipital orbs
regarding a better future
experience sing a space oddity –
whar incessant yaks
exuding a big hurt
emanate as cosmic atomic
bipedal hominids replete roof lee wax
during a...
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Categories:
melodic, absence, allah, angel, anxiety, atheist, bereavement, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring Equinox Arrives March 20th, 2023 At 5:24 Pm
Spring equinox arrives March 20th, 2023 at 5:24 PM
Despite what outside temperature registers
(even absolute zero), the official arrival
of spring occurs, when thee eel hip tic
of coe phish hunt holy Mackerel
becomes tangential to barenaked ladies
barren...
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Categories:
melodic, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, celebration, daffodils,
Form:
Free verse
Burning Paper Houses
Slowly creeping out of winter
Would it ever be the same
If I showed up at your door
Out of breath, out of line
With a million excuses behind my manic behavior?
A video diary full...
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Categories:
melodic, betrayal, extended metaphor, imagery, loss, winter,
Form:
Free verse