Long Motives Poems
Long Motives Poems. Below are the most popular long Motives by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Motives poems by poem length and keyword.
Let Us Speak ClearlyLet me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,
A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.
A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival motives
are absent,
so self-thrival motives
remain piratically rampant.
An intellectual prostitute
to feel-good AmericaFirst...
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Categories:
motives, caregiving, culture, education, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Social NondarwinistsWe need to talk.
Is this one of those times
where you need to talk
and I must pretend to listen
while you rant?
Well, yes,
if you could extend this favor.
Your topic?
Social Darwinism.
Isn't that the birthplace of unfettered Capitalism
and Fascism
and...
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Categories:
motives, environment, gospel, health, humor, psychological, social,
Form:
Political Verse
Megan's Quest Part 1of7Moon 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:
motives, adventure, courage, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Operation Money JumpThanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman, anarchist airborne,
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase broaching black motives,
Portland to Seattle, prison or criminal pantheon,
before...
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Categories:
motives, america, history, mystery,
Form:
Epic
Misguided MeditationsI am sorry
about my judgmental,
sadly disdainful,
tone
in earlier messages.
Even worse,
I remain embarrassed
for spreading it out
for key staff
and leaders
to well-positioned see
and hear
and feel,
touched by wounded toxicity.
My training
and experience
includes victimized by homophobia
and healing through community mediation.
Within this...
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Categories:
motives, anxiety, appreciation, health, humor, motivation, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
InsecurityA shameful secret that everyone hides behind their fake facades, when we should be honored to wear them and show them off
Why do we hide who we truly are from the strangers that we meet?...
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Categories:
motives, abuse,
Form:
Rhyme
Used As An ExperimentUsed As an Experiment
THE SILENCE IS BREAKING MEEEE….CAN’T YOU SEE?
V.1: Strong AS STEEL, wrapped up with silver, heartfelt ribbons
Give it to me – the rope of hope
You smoked me out like a cigarette…
Used like I’m...
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Categories:
motives, angst, beauty, betrayal, blue, emotions, freedom, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Judging V MediatingJudging v Mediating,
like Teaching v Mentoring,
like Win/Lose Retributive Motives v Win/Win Restorative Motivators
like dogmatic Preaching v compassionately Communicating,
As felt
and appreciated by my LeftBrain dominant
RightWing hand
nurturing StraightWhite patriarchal
overpoweringly privileged
systemically elitist judgment
Branching, colonizing,
extending up and...
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Categories:
motives, community, culture, earth, environment, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Understand Where I StoodGood boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood
The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium
I exaggerate too much and so too much,...
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Categories:
motives, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage, dedication, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Beary Tales Episodes 1-6, Poet's Notes(Remembering Innocence)
Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new tales, improvements to previous verses, and improved...
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Categories:
motives, adventure, best friend, blessing, innocence, love, mentor,
Form:
Quatrain
Please Remember You Had Nothing To SayPlease Remember You Had Nothing To Say
...
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Categories:
motives, betrayal, conflict, emotions, heartbreak, hurt, inspiration, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Sick Art
"Sick Art"
I walk the streets
still and quiet
I do not lie
I do not betray
what the heart belies
pickled kidneys
I am a ghost
of my former self
ears lent to hear
the sweet music
of the sounds so fraught
caught up...
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Categories:
motives, dark, horror, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Remain SaneDo you recognize me anymore?
Do you realize that my heart is sore?
Let me memorize your heart’s melody
Let me see right through your…melancholy…
Do you ever wave goodbye to yesterday?
Can’t bear the thought of you leaving me...
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Categories:
motives, deep, depression, desire, feelings, life, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 83 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Adult ExcursionThe day after the mutiny incident:
DJ again pitched his idea.
He gathered the Older children
Again, "Okay everybody we have
To make up to Dad Ma and Auntiema.
Today." The children remained
In the large kitchen...
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Categories:
motives, 11th grade, 9th grade, child, confidence, home,
Form:
Alliteration
Magdalen Christmas Eve Mass 1984Busy time very frustrating watching my
husband and ciro gargano go over the
blue prints over and over again during
the 1984 elections for lake county Daniel
Furlan Bobby Thompson Ernest Fisher Ciro
was looking...
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Categories:
motives, america, christmas, city, evil, faith, fire,
Form:
Free verse
King of the CastleThe King of the Castle
Said I’m but a child
Afraid of the world outside
Afraid to run wild and to be proud
Of the freedom it provides
Afraid of love
Afraid of the dark
Said you...
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Categories:
motives, betrayal, corruption, depression, evil, lost, memory, mental
Form:
Narrative
Kaleidoscope
"Kaleidoscope"
They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy
and far removed from
such an alien world,
would not possess the knowledge
of such terrible and ruthless, lusty
characters of strong will;...
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Categories:
motives, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
In the Arms of Peace-Abiding AngelsI don’t know what I know
I fly like an eagle – just go with the flow!
I don’t know what I know
I don’t know what you’re thinking about
But I can tell you’re puzzled in your...
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Categories:
motives, adventure, angel, courage, deep,
Form:
Free verse
DIARY OF DIONDRA POSHMarch 10, 2051 Monday
So diary today Monday I woke late
For work. I thought no problem I just
Call in. I called Mister Idris Moorah.
He said, Diondra I'll be brief. We're
Downsizing, you're laid off....
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Categories:
motives, africa, allusion,
Form:
Prose
RevolutionREVOLUTION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
A revolution is much deeper than what the eye can see
An opportunity to rid the land of despotism and tyranny
When any citizen can expose the enemies of the state
Present and judge valid...
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Categories:
motives, betrayal, corruption, evil, fear, irony, power, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Drinker's Doom In Sobriety's SanctuaryYour drinker's doom
Turned out to be a tranquil tomb
Is there any room
To bring out your brilliant, legitimate bloom?
You linger around my restful haven,
My darksome and lonesome, yet pretty satisfying bedroom
You stared at me vacantly and...
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Categories:
motives, addiction, angst, betrayal, deep, fear, lost, stress,
Form:
Rhyme
Summer Wild VocationsIt is my Taoist maxim
HereYang is
Where Yintegrity of SilentNow.
In my TaoSearch mission,
I reach an outside summer vulnerable peak
at YinNow
when we revolt into people
who transparently unveil
We long to vulnerably heal
cooperative Yang
as more competitive YinFlow
fractured revolutionary nuts
In...
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Categories:
motives, creation, earth, education, health, integrity, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Personified Lighted CandlePERSONIFIED LIGHTED CANDLE:
Come on, I'm strong and edified.
No one can hold me in detention for getting them defied.
Compared to Cassius Clay; fiercely bonified.
A firmly personified lighted candle on a lampad.
In the corners of every...
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Categories:
motives, self,
Form:
Lyric
Chapter 35 -- Delilah Damian Mallory: Intro JasonAPRIL 2024-
Hours passed as 3 month old
Damian Junior slept. Dolly and
Molly Reminisced and thought
about the future and the pass about
Damian and Their families.
Dolly checked The time saying
"Damian will be Here in...
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Categories:
motives, absence, color,
Form:
Alliteration
Starting With Not SureI'm not sure about this
entertainment
divorced from engagement
issue
But,
consider the following
a hypothesis,
a Thought Experiment
in the Indigenous MotherLand
and SacredWaters
of ecowomanist political theory,
Part of my own experience
betrays a rightwing bias
against superficial entertainment
And, by association, self-promoting entertainers
living out shuttered
and too...
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Categories:
motives, engagement, health, language, math, metaphor, wisdom, woman,
Form:
Political Verse