Long Minstrel Poems
Long Minstrel Poems. Below are the most popular long Minstrel by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Minstrel poems by poem length and keyword.
I Am My Father's Son
They were gambling in front of the house.
Manservants and pages bustled about
Serving Suitors who just curse and carouse.
Few mix wine with water. I heard one shout,
"Clean down the tables with wet sponges! Rouse
Yourselves! And when...
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Categories:
minstrel, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying, father, history, introspection,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and Smiles
Here and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
minstrel, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems Xi
Juvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
minstrel, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Angry Black Woman
She stood with her back turned to me
Leaning slightly towards where the light tapered off into darkness
Her faced buried deep inside her cupped hands
Her own shadow towered over her seemingly at odds with her...
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Categories:
minstrel, africa, anger, beauty, betrayal, black african american,
Form:
I do not know?
Multi-Di-Minstrel Message: Revival
KGOD presents ...
SALUTATIONS!!!
Well. Let’s just get started!
Here at the Ogden! The God den of music and soul!
So, let me introduce myself to thee,
I am DJ Multi-Di-Minstrel Messenger!!!
Thanking you...
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Categories:
minstrel, celebration, jesus,
Form:
Spoken Word
Contend With Me
Contend with me while you can
Contend with me and I will deliver the master plan
Contend with me and I will make you smile
We have been through worse than this
And we have always rise up...
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Categories:
minstrel, anti bullying, betrayal, birth, celebration, destiny, earth,
Form:
Narrative
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Under the Willow Tree
Song from Aella: Under the Willow Tree, or, Minstrel's Song
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17 or younger
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
MYNSTRELLES SONGE ("MINSTREL'S SONG")
O! sing unto my roundelay,
O! drop the briny tear with me,
Dance no more...
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Categories:
minstrel, dance, death, love, romance, romantic, song, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Valley of Avalon
In The Valley Of Avalon
This day the master of my Fate
Is none of those who lead shuddering
Through mazes of wizardry,-
Nor Trachmyr the Hunstman,
Nor Tannwein the daughter of Gweir,
Nor Penpingyon the porter of the palace,
Nor the...
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Categories:
minstrel, art, creation, fantasy, imagery, imagination, mystery, surreal,
Form:
Classicism
The Wandering Minstrel
In history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace. A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing and singing, to bestow delights
On ladies, peasants, and errant knights.
Their...
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Categories:
minstrel, music,
Form:
Ballad
Colonisation
Bombarded by myriads of daily data without cease,
I suggest a forthright discourse on this topic,
carousel of trend and sound adherence merely looming?
some unwitting sentiment an aspirational diction,
reverberation or innuendo pending aftermath augur,
the world...
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Categories:
minstrel, august, courage, deep, freedom, future, mystery, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Keep Moving
Keep moving when times are tough, keep moving when you are out of luck, keep moving when the days are dark, keep moving when you hear the sound of the lark. Keep moving if you...
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Categories:
minstrel, appreciation, community, encouraging, endurance, environment, goodbye, leaving,
Form:
Narrative
The Minstrel of Moscow
"I follow the Moskva
and down to Gorky Park-
listening to the winds of change" - Scorpions
All the heads of state and their spouses (or significant others) have arrived and been seated for this, my last show...
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Categories:
minstrel, judgement,
Form:
Haibun
Oh Look It Is the Otter Dance
Otter trance dance meets mice, worms and soups
A single iron is fed up with flattening material. In fact it has spoke of breaking. It considers such actions as pointless and therefore fruitless. And creases are...
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Categories:
minstrel, assonance, baby,
Form:
I do not know?
When I Was a Boy 1960s
I saw one flag raised and another fall
I saw the great lie of justice and equity for all
I saw a crisis that stopped the world
I saw a wall to keep out the cold
I saw a...
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Categories:
minstrel, childhood, history, world,
Form:
Couplet
Insurgents
The day has just dawn and the infidels are all over the lawn, they are setting up tents in the field and continue to ignore the written deal, the widows and single women are at...
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Categories:
minstrel, absence, abuse, character, earth, poverty, weather, winter,
Form:
Narrative
How Many Times Have You Tried?
You were brought in at a special time to stop a situation from growing wild, there was chaos everywhere and the multitude began to fear, and your ingenuity and strategy brought back the global stability....
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Categories:
minstrel, appreciation, business, career, community, conflict, courage, deep,
Form:
Narrative
One Word
with midnight dreams we dance
unyielding, i stir unwilling to awaken
incessantly seeking
You
like virgin wings of the monarch, your shape gently unfolds
i clutch the edges of slumber
aware in my wakening you will be gone
Again
you have come before,...
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Categories:
minstrel, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Dragon Hood
Yes, I read my Dragon, the story of good old… ‘Robin Hood’.
You know, the first super hero, who was really… super good.
Now, with Dragon, things don’t always end up, exactly… as they should!
His eyes lit...
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Categories:
minstrel, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, happiness, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Part 9, 10 and 11
Part Nine — Saeed's Love Revealed to All
Young Saeed rose in joyful flight,
A bird set free in morning light.
Through streets and lanes he wildly spun,
His careful mask now came undone.
He sang of Giti's promised grace,
Of...
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Categories:
minstrel, cute love,
Form:
Masnavi
The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Part 3, 4 and 5
Part Three — Zuhrah's Song (1)
O knower of love and mystic's wine,
Sweet mistress of the dance divine!
With harp and lute she weaves her tune,
Her music soars beyond the moon.
A queen whose steed none can outrace,
While...
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Categories:
minstrel, cute love,
Form:
Masnavi
Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part III, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part III
ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I was also with Eormanric for many years,
as long as the Goth-King availed me well;
he gave me six hundred shillings of pure gold
beaten into...
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Categories:
minstrel, poems, poetry, poets, travel, war, words, world,
Form:
Free verse
The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Part 24, 25 and 26
Part Twenty-Four — The Fifth Cupbearer's Song
O Saqi, one glance—show mercy here,
And heal this wound with wine so clear.
Fill up the cup for we are dry,
Drunk with desire that makes us sigh.
That cup like chalice...
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Categories:
minstrel, cute love,
Form:
Masnavi
The Forgotten Bards: Song of the Classical Minstrels
Forever extinct seems the age of classical poetry,
With all its cheers from caves, cottages, marble domes and temples,
When now a country honors not classical bards:
O Hugh MacDiarmid, Petrarch, Ono No Komachi, Thomas Chatterton, Robert Browning,...
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Categories:
minstrel, allusion, appreciation, betrayal, emotions, in memoriam, remember,
Form:
Ode
Ode To a Street Beethoven
On a Los Angeles street - play it brother, ladle it on black delirium
A wind blows – from trumpets, oboes, and saxophones
...
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Categories:
minstrel, dedication
Form:
Free verse
Cheese Dip
I am waiting for the sun to come out so that the children can run about. I am waiting for the suns to come out so that I can get up and shout....
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Categories:
minstrel, career, community, confidence, courage, education, encouraging, farewell,
Form:
Narrative