Long Missing Poems
Long Missing Poems. Below are the most popular long Missing by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Missing poems by poem length and keyword.
Falling Into Place: Solace Solitude
Let me take a little sip
Of your blessed, breathtaking brilliance that will numb...
This pain I have in this heart of stone
The voices in my head won't leave me alone
I thought I was on my own,...
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Categories:
missing, deep, desire,
Form:
Lyric
Faded In Xoxo Oxox Fadin' Out
A special dedication to Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" song in her album "Beyoncé", which came out in 2013.
{intro}
I took a cat nap...yah put on your classic, clever-mini cap
drank that sorrow sap, my companion...
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Categories:
missing, deep,
Form:
Lyric
The Sun's a Liar-Children's Story Short Contest-
The Sun Is a Liar
It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed out the window from my bedroom window seat, the sky...
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Categories:
missing, childhood,
Form:
Prose
Unfaithful
Ah yeah ah oh
Ah yeah ah oh
So scared and fragile...
So weak for only awhile...
Unfaithful me is as cold as glaciers of disgrace glamorized
Unfaithful you is as hot as fire of desire, burning...you and I...
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Categories:
missing, deep, drug,
Form:
Lyric
Summer
“SUMMER”
Where
has Summer
gone?
The world
has lost
Summer
Sweet
little
dream
missing
all those other
beautiful
small dreams
seen as toys
small and
inconsequential
casually tossed aside,
disposable play,
things
pure shining lights
smiling eyes once so bright,
switched off,
'neath...
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Categories:
missing, abuse, child abuse,
Form:
Epic
The Messenger
"The Messenger"
Love is rich with
venom and honey.
there was a female ...
snake,
it watched
with green-eyed
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest
the dove,
was white as snow,
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey
the dove
alone,...
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Categories:
missing, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Who Put Luebella Down the Wych Elm
"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"
There are rumours
about me, some
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart
shaped planchettes
unanswered questions
in the woods, crackling
within the sounds of leaves
invisible dead things speaking
underfoot...
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Categories:
missing, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The Hotel Caretaker
How unparticular the day had particularly been,
On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,
For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,
Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.
‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,
From either...
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Categories:
missing, death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
missing, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Fallen
“The Fallen”
Remote,
he sees himself
in the reflection of cold close
yet distant shop windows,
his final journey along the
Hard Time Road
walking alone,
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life
a million knives...
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Categories:
missing, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 73 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Historical Hakims' Hit the Road
10 o'clock am the morning
Quest: A country side bike ride.
Molly woke Dolly and Damian.
Woke Everyone on that July
Morning of 2038. They had a Bicycle
Expedition to tend to plus a newly
Minted swimming pool...
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Categories:
cancer, missing you, nonsense, rude, scary, visionary,
Form:
Alliteration
An Affective Disorder, the Doctor Said
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie's number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worked hard,...
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Categories:
missing, anxiety, mental illness, , 8th grade, ,
Form:
Prose
Mathgeek Passions
Healthy nutrition research
starts with wealth producing past searches,
individual through community co-investments
in good and fragrant meals,
or even harmonic and graceful music with dance performances.
Ingesting healthy passions
consumes PositivEnergy wealth
for future co-productive system projections.
My evidence for future...
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Categories:
missing, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, math, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Fadwa Tuqan Translations
Fadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by...
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Categories:
missing, allah, culture, earth, love, nature, voice, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Some Poems
A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
missing, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
The Journey
Once upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.
It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I...
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Categories:
missing, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form:
Rhyme
The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa Tuqan
English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Enough for me to lie in the earth,
to be buried in her,
to sink...
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Categories:
missing, allah, arabic, culture, nature, poetess, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Megan's Quest Part 1of7
Moon sprites dotted the sky like lilies at dawn
in a ballet meant to cause nocturnal delight.
While Fairies and Pixie Dust covered the lawn
in a dance that would...
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Categories:
missing, adventure, courage, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Today Is Different
Today is assiduously
religiously different,
as I review our local RiverEast News.
Every week
Mike Thompson writes a solid Editorial
in a compelling voice.
I expect to only add
my hearty sacred
happy secular "Amen!"
Our nearly fearless Editor and Chief
calls for political "ACCOUNTABILITY!"
like...
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Categories:
missing, america, health, integrity, prayer, spiritual, spoken word,
Form:
Political Verse
The Swoon Hypothesis - Part 2
"The Swoon Hypothesis" - Part 2
Arimathea stands next to you and I on the deck, soon we are back in Nazareth, you press into my palm,
“A very rare Dubunni coin” you say - on...
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Categories:
missing, imagery, jesus, love,
Form:
Free verse
I Broke Your Heart and Mine
(His Version of Break My Heart)
I have each piece, each shattered part of your heart that I broke in two, I feel every ounce of pain, every emotion, just as you
I would never take this...
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Categories:
missing, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi
World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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Categories:
missing, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry Beach, sunning and playing frisbee, I
playing guitar, she practicing her...
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Categories:
memory, missing you, passion, relationship, soulmate, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Water, 30 random word prompt
The weight of the water is heavy in my chest, a force pressing against the ribs. It rises when I don’t expect it, like a flood breaking through cracked, neglected seams. The truck of my...
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Categories:
missing, 10th grade, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
I Survived '75
KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom
Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo Town and...
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Categories:
missing, 9th grade, angel, boy, friendship, happiness, natural
Form:
Dramatic Verse