Long Nile Poems
Long Nile Poems. Below are the most popular long Nile by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Nile poems by poem length and keyword.
Rejection Slips 2Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
Read More
Categories:
nile, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection Slips 3Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
Read More
Categories:
nile, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
Read More
Categories:
nile, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Identity ApplesIdentity Apples
iam a fat skeleton, resurrecting
from the sad memories of dada
and dark mysteries of aminism
iam buganda
i bleed hope
i drip the honey of fortune
makerere, think tank of africa
i dance...
Read More
Categories:
nile, africa, analogy, anxiety, assonance, bangla, bereavement,
Form:
Didactic
Xenophobia Pt 1TITLE:
Xenophobia
Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings
They're bound to be a bit tart...
Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...
Read More
Categories:
nile, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Old Pharaoh - 1 of 2Old Pharaoh had enslaved the Jews; he would not let them go.
So God devised a mighty scheme; his go-to guy was Mo.
His brother Aaron was the voice, for Moses talked real slow,
So he would wave...
Read More
Categories:
nile, bible,
Form:
Ballad
The Stela Epic, Part 1 of 8The Stela Epic by DR. Mohammed F A Alrazak
The grains of sand, the drops of rain, makes the stage for souls to play
The prints of feet on rocks were wonders and arts as the...
Read More
Categories:
nile, culture, freedom,
Form:
ABC
Travel Light* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
Read More
Categories:
nile, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
travel light -Her small angelic face ...
Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...
Read More
Categories:
nile, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
Last Trap of ZulaikhaZulaikha:
What a bird you are, o red-billed Bird,
you don’t eat reddish mangoes!
By eating which ash, will you exist then
in this bower of fate?
Yusuf:
That there is any fruit better than the name of God
and any...
Read More
Categories:
nile, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Edges of RhymeThe Edges of Rhyme
I wrote the playbook, watching what they took
While the earth shook I could not look
In the direction of the Big Book
Like a fish caught on a nasty hook...
Read More
Categories:
nile, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
The Death of TutankhamenTHE DEATH OF TUTANKHAMEN
I.
The king is dead--and layed within his place,
and night has fallen as it...
Read More
Categories:
nile, future, mystery,
Form:
Sonnet
The Death of TutankhamenTHE DEATH OF TUTANKHAMEN
I.
The king is dead--and layed within his place,
and night has fallen as it...
Read More
Categories:
nile, absence, culture, history,
Form:
Sonnet
Proposition For the Old Pagan GodsSpring flowers you grow & bloom, watered and snuggled within our bed
I knew that my skull was filled with cogs that spun together in my head
I knew early on I made a series of promises...
Read More
Categories:
nile, girlfriend, women,
Form:
Quatrain
The Curse of NefertitiIn golden chains of bondage, was the royal queen
Brought forth, force to kneel, before the newly crowned
Pharaoh of Egypt!
Branded a heretic, a blasphemer of the Gods, a traitor to
Her people, unworthy to wear the serpents...
Read More
Categories:
nile, adventure, halloween, history, imagery, international, mythology, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Corner of the StreetPedestrians are moving ups and downs the day can define the differences he experiences in the bathroom, cars buzzing their noise, around my understanding I cannot keep on thrusting for answers which has to be...
Read More
Categories:
nile, appreciation, butterfly, candy,
Form:
Chant Royal
Belles Lettres
“belles lettres”
It’s a slow drifting
off, that moment
before you dive
into the dark
you surface
to find a boat
surrounded by
shining pearls,
Styx, a mirror
reflecting
otherworldly stars
hypnotic,
you trail
your long
pale slender fingers
in...
Read More
Categories:
nile, dark, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The Leadership ConventionWhen potable water nearly disappeared,
good faith communities
for healthy living
water,
Earth,
people,
plants,
soil,
air,
Fire-breathing resistance churches
and calmer rapture temples,
synagogues,
mosques,
green post-millennial sanctuaries,
Gaian ecofeminist fire-circles
gathered their members and neighboring allies,
republican nationalists,
green democrats,
ecosystemic libertarian zeroists,
To discuss and discern
which potential Presidential
and Vice-Presidential candidates...
Read More
Categories:
nile, conflict, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Vitale's Fantasy Part Onetry me if you please as you are out spreading the disease
plagued by thoughts of granduer with affectionate melancholy
sparkling array of blissful care through the air
my very soul permeates a reason for being amidst the...
Read More
Categories:
nile, anxiety, art,
Form:
Free verse
Why What Reason Have IOften times I wonder if I may have missed
a greater calling or purpose in my life.
As a young man I was frivolous and non-sensical
when it came to asking the most important questions:
“Why am I...
Read More
Categories:
nile, allusion, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Adufe the Beauty GoddessWritten by Adebayo Olamide(Aesthete),Prince Joe and Ajibade Abdullah(Pen Talk).
..................................................................
9th Of January,2017.
................................................................
.
Who would hold my heart,
Now it's reeling off, almost?
Adufe!
My praise queen,
Only in your palms,when drop,
Will it survive the fall.
.
You praise the queen bee,
Her elegance,a perfect...
Read More
Categories:
nile, africa,
Form:
Ode
TitanCanadian Ocean Gate
O beauteous land of mirth and Glee!
O land of falls and seas and lakes!
Which shadows row in horrid nights
Which sorrow in Thee circulate
O start of mystic Nile gate
In which Thy goddess contemplates
Which...
Read More
Categories:
nile, adventure, art, bereavement, fate, father son, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
Memphis BelleI recall the day she journeyed to the delta from her village above the first cataphract with a New Kingdom attitude and an Old Kingdom strut, inspiring rumors to be passed from shadoof to shadoof...
Read More
Categories:
nile, allegory,
Form:
Blank verse
legend's last moon -
* I always felt like “Nessie” got a bad rap, being called a monster and a beast and all that, so I think this little piece of mythic imagery grew from that. I hope you...
Read More
Categories:
nile, fantasy, moon, myth, nature, sad, water,
Form:
Free verse
Collective Tapestry TwoCollective Tapestry II
Words can uplift they also can bring down. With words we can soon discover a reason for being like the changing of the seasons. Out of every bit of circumstance we can learn...
Read More
Categories:
nile, anxiety, art, august,
Form:
Free verse