Long Mesh Poems
Long Mesh Poems. Below are the most popular long Mesh by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Mesh poems by poem length and keyword.
SeeSee
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
mesh, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets Xxv-XxxiiSonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
mesh, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets X-XviSonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
mesh, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rilke Translations IiCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
mesh, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
mesh, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
RetributionIn sandy Egypt lived three men
In ancient days when pharaohs reigned
The kingdom of the pyramids,
Osiris and that Isis’ den,
Whom everyone worships and heeds,
Or at least doing so they feigned,
And those gods too blessed them and...
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Categories:
mesh, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
Font Din BlackFont Din Black
so u real???
Warning! The following choppy, batty,
dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy,
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy,
sketchy material prone to find the reader
dazed and bewildered, yet comfortably...
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Categories:
mesh, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
Rilke Translations IArchaischer Torso Apollos ("Archaic Torso of Apollo")
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
mesh, art, life, love, tribute, visionary, voice, wine,
Form:
Verse
Faithmedication malfunctions, feelin 6 in depression
world guessin eyes stressed when, lord of heaven drops confessions
code of matrix saturates, bash it's core of hate.....
make my getaway, in noble deeds as I speed.....
so fast must move slow,...
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Categories:
mesh, 3rd grade, faith, hip hop, philosophy, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Perseverance and JoyPassion and compassion vibes flow
Let the flowers grow, you know?
Yes, you know...because it’s shown
In your oceanic eyes...it’s like an ice cream with its favorite cone...it’s flavorful and all alone
Your voice is depicted in shimmering, scrumptious...
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Categories:
mesh, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Making TeaIt's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quaintness
Encountering myself at a passionate spring
oozing its life gliding o'er its rocky...
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Categories:
mesh, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration, dad, daughter, mother,
Form:
Concrete
Faux ThingsIt was 3AM.
I had too many cups of rum and I wanted to hear your voice
before I fell into a drunken stupor.
You didn't answer my two FaceTime calls or texts so
it got my mind...
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Categories:
mesh, deep, heartbreak, love, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
O' BaobabO' Baobab! O' Baobab! O' Baobab
Ace of the furnace, finest of the dynasty
You strut your breast high
And ply strain against the yearn,
Against the fire, the desire for sigh
Haughty, you stand, before the...
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Categories:
mesh, africa, mystery, myth, nature,
Form:
Free verse
An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To DaverDo not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a
Small part of me; ...
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Categories:
mesh, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dryad's Scream - 22 Mar 2016I heard the dreadful Dryad's scream
As axe bit into woody flesh
The sap oozed out as scented cream
My veins stood out in rictal mesh
My wits all scrambled left me quick
My hands and face were full a-sweat
My...
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Categories:
mesh, dream, gothic, horror, imagination, magic, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
No Eden HereNo Eden here, for there’s no snake;
There’s just a thief who likes to take
The labors of all our hard work.
My blood is boiling, half berserk
Near stripped of reason, one thing’s clear:
I’m settling the score...
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Categories:
mesh, humorous, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Mother Natures CursesA lovely summers day with my family on a Sunday,
could not be any more perfect than for us to get away,
so we packed a picnic hamper and threw in a fishing rod
and drove towards a...
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Categories:
mesh, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Inside a '72 EconolineInside A ‘72 Econoline
This old green van has a musty smell to it,
Like a pair of sweaty rancid socks
Mixed with half-empty beer cans.
It’s a banged up thing, this ’72 Econoline.
Scratches and mysterious dents
Cover its...
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Categories:
mesh, desire, girlfriend,
Form:
Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Blue Skies
"50 Words for Poe: Blue Skies"
She was dressed to kill
Hot like a blazing Australian Bushfire
She crackled with heat as she
sashayed through the entrance
like Summer towards him,
Like she was painted in
Gold Lame Mesh
Armour tight,...
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Categories:
mesh, adventure, freedom, fun, humorous, mystery, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Garden Talegardens are where we are:
from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
from mountain to coast, town to country
from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice
...
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Categories:
mesh, garden, places, space,
Form:
Free verse
Come, You: the Death Poem of Rainer Maria RilkeCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Come, you--the last one I acknowledge; return--
incurable pain searing this physical mesh.
As I burned in the spirit once, so now I burn
with you; meanwhile, you consume...
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Categories:
mesh, cancer, death, depression, fire, health, pain, surreal,
Form:
Verse
The Only Solution-Book 11~The Only Solution~
It’s the only solution isn’t it amazing
Words transcribed by lightning emblazing
Etched upon stone that hangs on our tomb
When flowers no longer blossom and bloom
We shed divine spirit of faith for the flesh
Without weaving...
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Categories:
mesh, death, journey, me, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Nightmare DisposalThere are skeletons in the wardrobe but they’re home and dry
Looked after properly moth balled and yet unkindly falling apart
Conscience is layered just as are subconscious wishes and fears
Sometimes I play with the bones and...
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Categories:
mesh, night,
Form:
Free verse
The WindowMelted candles atop a resigned dresser
Wilted roses lying atop a white cloud
The flickering of fires and shadows mesh well with your
Batting eyelashes your heavy words and your breathing in rhythm with
the cadences of muted car...
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Categories:
mesh, america, city, desire, emotions, heart, lust, political,
Form:
Free verse
The News SellerCallum is an old-fashioned man on the verge of becoming history’s memory
Ancient even in that he holds only one job but that is for privation of another
Sort of a whiz kid at what he...
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Categories:
mesh, celebration,
Form:
Free verse