Long Navigated Poems
Long Navigated Poems. Below are the most popular long Navigated by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Navigated poems by poem length and keyword.
Epitaphs
Epitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
navigated, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
I Cry
I cry at baptisms, funerals, and touchy movies. There are more ...
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Categories:
navigated, change, family,
Form:
Verse
Velvet Glove Compartment
Age defiant was this spruce and spirited citizen slinking blithely past the burgundy red doors of her enigmatic country dwelling.
As her olive skin neatly curved fingers
slid over an intermittently scratched carbon black handrail she...
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Categories:
navigated, adventure, age, birth, celebration, deep, devotion, feelings,
Form:
Prose
Blind Man’s Five-Legged Dog Rap
Blind Man’s Five-Legged Dog Rap
Yo, gather 'round the table, let me spin you a tale, 'Bout a blind man named Benny, he was never frail. Owned a dog with five legs, yeah, you heard...
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Categories:
navigated, adventure, animal, best friend, crazy, friendship, hilarious,
Form:
Narrative
Honoring You In Living Color
Kitchen counters alive; the vivid colors of red, green, purple and yellow glass jars. Your garden flourished.
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Pickled beets mingle boiled eggs; a pretty periwinkle purple.
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Yellow and purple tinted fingers; dandelions and elderberries distilling; musty aroma...
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Categories:
navigated, mom, mother, mother daughter, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
ads
The school year’s ending. ‘Spring Fling’ is tonight (Saturday) the biggest event (concert) of the year, and next week - final exams. It’s hard to believe that I’ll be a senior in about 2...
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Categories:
navigated, future, humor, places, school, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Navigating Life
At the request of none,
Nor the behest of any, except for me.
But it's more than a guess that he has
Contributed to the success of my life.
I sat with an aged man when I, but a...
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Categories:
navigated, age, childhood,
Form:
Narrative
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'
When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above
infected ripples of time,
I question the
chaos that claims
serenity through
saline serenade
of sirens, composed
with midnight ink
across a mazed face
of a starless canvas,
What if these...
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Categories:
navigated, black love, dark, deep, meaningful, metaphor, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Riveting Romeo
I was a famous, American actress, who adored performing for live audiences,
In stage plays, both modern and classic, like velvet time, which often rushes.
Rose acclaim filled long, chaotic days, of colorful masquerades and fulfillment,
Like Sleeping...
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Categories:
navigated, fantasy, happiness, love, nature, romance, wedding, work,
Form:
Couplet
A Sliver of Silver
I was an experienced astrologer, for wandering stars held much fascination,
Luring in opal darkness of mystery, like beautiful butterfly transformations.
My days were spent charting pretty planets, alongside of faint, pearly stars,
Interpreting their effects on humans,...
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Categories:
navigated, beauty, fantasy, imagery, moon, nature, stars, work,
Form:
Couplet
Odyssey From Africa 12d, 13a
Chapter 12d (The Fireflower cont.)
As they held their breath and waited
For a flame to catch the fire flowers
Finally a smoky ribbon
Drifted upwards from the petals
Gradually the flowers smouldered
And a filmy smoke ascended
With an aromatic odour
As...
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Categories:
navigated, adventure, africa, history, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Odyssey From Africa 13d 14a
Chapter 13d
Yet at length he reawakened
As if in another lifetime
Han discerned a sound and movement
Stiffly rose to look about him
And he saw his precious Matto
Crouching near him in the vessel!
That was now...
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Categories:
navigated, adventure, africa, animal, children, mythology, sea, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
America! With Respect To W.W. & A. G.
This struggling accomplished path winds,
Spiral like stairs leading us to the point;
Average wingedhipsters today more like
Displaced thugs. With no sense.
At every corner, we're speaking rigorous
Reminders.
That we all eventually yawn.your wombs
America, I'm wore out, worrying about
This...
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Categories:
navigated, lost, lost,
Form:
Free verse
The Prodigal Son!?
And then I took this box of blight, and cast it into the sea of forgetfulness
Once I had finally realized, that it had become a Pandora unto myself....
A portal of passage towards darkness' infiltering of...
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Categories:
navigated, faith, happiness, life, loveme,
Form:
I do not know?
Aftershocks 11
Francie ran to check on Donny as soon as the shaking stopped.He was curled on his side so deep in sleep he had slept right through it all.She scooped him up resolving they would not...
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Categories:
navigated, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Plato Epigram Translations
PLATO EPIGRAM TRANSLATIONS
These epitaphs and other epigrams have been ascribed to Plato...
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
But go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
—Michael R. Burch, after Plato
We left...
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Categories:
navigated, death, eulogy, funeral, memorial, memory, remember, tribute,
Form:
Epigram
Above and Below, Water and Sky
I once heard a song with the words, "Above us only sky". ...
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Categories:
navigated, sea, sky, star, sun, water,
Form:
Free verse
Crones
Five gray, silver, and white haired crones
Navigated slimy green stones
Like tight rope walkers
Having been summoned by the wind talkers
They crossed a shallow creek
Each feeble and weak
They entered consecrated woods
Wearing cloaks and hoods
Upon awareness of being...
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Categories:
navigated, magic, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
A Debutante's Ball To Remember
A Debutante’s Ball to Remember
In the autumn of my life, oft have I recalled that superb summer night,
when I finally experienced my long-awaited heart’s delight.
Family and close friends were all ready for my entry into...
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Categories:
navigated, celebration, dance, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
Mother River
My mother is a river.
Not a calm, deep river, lush with fish and plants, flowing by gently and powerfully...but
a thick, white rapids, furiously polishing the jagged rocks into marbles.
There is no room...
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Categories:
navigated, mother, river,
Form:
Free verse
GNRT THOUGHTS-OUR KIA SOUL
When we planned our road trip we set up with Budget
that a Toyota Corolla would be waiting for us in Seattle
but after standing in line for 2 hours…I was a little rattled
When Budget ran...
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Categories:
navigated, car, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
We Could'Ve Been Us
Don't let fear or pride stand in the way of love. We don't get endless opportunities to find love.
Be inspired by this song. Feel love. Feel strong. Be free.
We could've been us
By Michelle...
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Categories:
navigated, emotions, heartbreak, heaven, light, love, song, soulmate,
Form:
Lyric
Star Paths:
A poem I shall attempt to write of heavenly delight,
About all the wonders that shine deep in the night.
There is so much more than the Moon and stars above,
From the earliest navigators that fell heavily...
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Categories:
navigated, beauty, boat, ocean, sea, stars,
Form:
Couplet
Melodies of the Azure
Written: August 24, 2023
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Where oceans meet, the edge of the sky,
I cast bones onto a pyre, flames soaring high.
In this realm of dreams, where reality suspends,
I find solace amidst blazing amaranth trends.
The exposed palette of...
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Categories:
navigated, analogy, appreciation, beauty, nature, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Blessings From Demise
And then the blunders of the past merged into serenity. Tranquility
ensued where wild storms had been raging.‘Safe travels’, they whispered
‘now you’re prepared and able to let go.’ The past became a beacon and...
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Categories:
navigated, celebration,
Form:
Abecedarian