Get Your Premium Membership

Long Needs must Poems

Long Needs must Poems. Below are the most popular long Needs must by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Needs must poems by poem length and keyword.


Premium Member Conceits
"Conceits"



Such conceits
as veils between 
our windowed worlds 
torn torrential incomplete

mayst thou watch and learn 
the one I spawned, 
strength beats weakness
carried soft and harsh

one direction or the other
strength and weakness
both carried soft and harsh
ego and...

Read More
Categories: needs must, love, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Subject, Aspects of Interest, and Effect of William Wordsworth's ''Nuns Fret Not''
“Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room”
by William Wordsworth

Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room;
And hermits are contented with their cells;
And students with their pensive citadels;
Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his...

Read More
Categories: needs must, england, metaphor, perspective, poems, poetry, poets, prison,
Form: Prose
Premium Member When Nursery Rhymes Attack - Volume 2
Bird Brains

Mr Fox wore padded socks to creep up on some chickens
The chickens had CCTV and weren't such easy pickings
He snuck up to the coop and took a peek in through the hatch
The cockerel slammed...

Read More
Categories: needs must, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The New Perseus
"The New Perseus"



Lambs sacrificed daily
fresh and calculated
blood riddles the 3 fates
of the new Perseus 
son of Zeus
wrists held and 
genuflection tongues out 
searching for 
good mannas 

the weak States 
pretend to lead
they’re just 
Babylon bent...

Read More
Categories: needs must, dark, future, religion,
Form: Free verse
The Eye of the Sea - Part 3
Continued from The Eye of the Sea part 2


The heaving swell and the waves from hell
Soon swamped our valiant vessel,
With the holds in flood: tattered sails above,
We were in the direst of peril.

In a meet...

Read More
Categories: needs must, adventure, boat, sea, sin, travel,
Form: Epic



Lilibonelle Poetry - To Win a Heart
TO WIN A HEART
To win a heart you must be true.
Integrity, should you win let it be part of you.
You'll find no need for compromise,
True love, is not ever in disguise.
it's in the eyes, true...

Read More
Categories: needs must, integrity, true love, truth,
Form: I do not know?
The Scenes: the First Gladiators of Rome
i.
At the centre of the world:
Back in the Roman days of yore--
A voice echoed, that decreed
To a crowd of commons, lost and unsure:

"Our rivers run dried, the Wrath of Gods,
Needs must be pacified
By human blood,...

Read More
Categories: needs must, historymen, rose,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Genuine Question Are You Paying Attention yet?
What else, what obvious opposing lies and information would you otherwise prefer to get? The world is full, it is inundated with Establishment propaganda of fear - insulting your intelligence with an annoying constant threat.....

Read More
Categories: needs must, betrayal, childhood,
Form: Prose Poetry
We Are Not Built To Last
HE: I felt so alive for a minute there. 
The moonlight struck your face.
Beauty fired my senses, arousing.
SHE: Tell me, I need to know you care.
HE: What will that tell you, what will it mean?...

Read More
© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: needs must, life, love, time, love, me,
Form: Blank verse
The Knights of St John
A knight.... 
Head bowed 
The sword sheathed 
Glittering blade......... 
Will never fade 

Knights of St John 
Knights Templar........ 
Have come far 
Battles, far from won 

Jerusalem.......... 
Will be lost......... 
We are the few......... 
What can...

Read More
Categories: needs must, devotion, faith, imagination, old, old,
Form: Ballad
Three
Thence they come, these thoughts again
As I brood, on mind thus dimmed
Fraught with doubt, crossed by light
Naught but rout, mine sublime such night

Shall I muse on love or war
Fall on fuse or seek Paramour

Laugh or...

Read More
Categories: needs must, introspection, on writing and words, philosophy
Form: Rhyme
She Cared
She came from a life of obscurity
Pushed into the constant scrutiny
from the locals and around the world.
No longer allowed to be a simple girl.

She used her popularity and fame
Treating everyone the same.
She showed compassion to...

Read More
Categories: needs must, celebrity, courage, feelings, giving,
Form: Rhyme
My Garden Butterflies
Read More
Categories: needs must, butterfly, nature, summer,
Form: Haibun
The Hamster
with apologies to William Blake

Hamster! Hamster! Spinning 'round
As the chimes of midnight sound,
Must you run that wheel so late
When I'd rather take sleep's bait?

Your actions make me ponder
This endless need to wander;
To run, though you...

Read More
Categories: needs must, animal, funny, night, parody, tiger,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sundae
We named her Miss Sundae, our cat with a cause
She looks like a princess in 'Dairy Queen' sauce  ...
(Vanilla ice cream, and butterscotch paws)
A calico lady of gold, brown and white
Her royalty reigns every...

Read More
Categories: needs must, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled
when i sit silent
still
i feel it
a longing to fall
into myself
into the dark abyss
that’s still there
after all this work
after all this time
when my room is quiet
i turn on the music
to combat the noise
in my head
it doesn’t...

Read More
Categories: needs must, angst, depression, life, sad, longing,
Form: Lyric
The Balking Mire of Fanghandrath
The Balking Mire of Fanghandrath



‘Twas late when the misted veils
Suck and drew
‘pon the reeking fetters of claxon screams
Wailing echoed dismal to

Too late for lantern to pick a path
In the trickster passages
Of the boggish marsh
The Balking...

Read More
Categories: needs must, fantasy
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Call It As I See It
We are what we are, at any given point in our life
              Everything we do that moment, is it based on choice...

Read More
Categories: needs must, allegory, allusion, how i feel, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Pebble
The Pebble

The world is burning, needs must be done
If we don’t act now it will all be gone
The blanket of green from ages past
Is torn asunder as we move to fast 
In the head long...

Read More
Categories: needs must, hope, life, social, visionary, warworld,
Form: Rhyme
The Poverty of This World
The Poverty of This World

“15 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor. 16 The wages of the righteous is life, but the earnings of the...

Read More
Categories: needs must, faith, inspirational, love, people, heart, heart, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
The Way To a Holistic Life Values Absolute
THE WAY TO A HOLISTIC LIFE – VALUES ABSOLUTE

     Why would I keep your life in the world,
when you trying to take mine out?

     What kind of...

Read More
Categories: needs must, education, encouraging, image, introspection, philosophy, political, wisdom,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Carmen Et Error
What on earth did I do to deserve this fate ?
From my insouciance I  awoke much too late.

'Tis to Tomi  now in exile on the Black Sea
Augustus in his wisdom has condemned me.

Julia's...

Read More
Categories: needs must, history, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Sir Harold, Knight
Sir Harold, Knight, the valiant swain
Did call his Lady Nell.
He held her close and kissed her hand
And bade her sweet farewell.

"Forth from here I needs must go
My swainly Lady Nell.
I shall return, my bonny lass
To...

Read More
Categories: needs must, adventure, fantasy, funny, funny love, humorous,
Form: Burlesque
Tigers Perspective
My teeth are sharp and long 
Hunger rouses me from rest
A family to feed
I needs must do my best

I travel many miles
Just some poachers kill lying around
I am not touching that.
Carrion picks food from the...

Read More
Categories: needs must, animal, perspective,
Form: Verse
Still I Love You
Still I Love You.
You are out of my love range.
Still i love you
I want to be your furure life partner in real Life,
Even donot know the way 
travel towards your road
Even though i love you...

Read More
Categories: needs must, cinderella, soulmate, wedding,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry