Long Npr Poems
Long Npr Poems. Below are the most popular long Npr by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Npr poems by poem length and keyword.
National Public RadiatorsAll this long week
of early spring head colds
our National Public Radio informants
and performers,
speakers and listeners,
have been about the business of raising capital investments
preferably in their corporate direction,
to support further public broadcasting
for the benefit of our...
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Categories:
npr, conflict, crazy, creation, earth day, environment, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Disempowering Viral ViolenceI am struggling
to avoid that "I told you so"
mean
and self-congratulatory voice.
I do feel under-appreciated
but I don't feel any happiness
about the Virus
as vindicator of my beliefs
about the political and economic power
of public health and safety platforms,
which...
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Categories:
npr, america, community, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Don'T Tell Me Why We'Re WaitingMy favorite radio show
is Wait...Wait, Don't Tell Me!
on NPR near you.
But, it has bothered me,
over the years,
a snagging voice in sign-off background,
threatening the host will see me again next week,
as if that was the answer...
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Categories:
npr, community, health, humor, integrity, leadership, senses,
Form:
Free verse
Liber Novus
“Liber Novus”
Life is read
it bleeds continually
we simply need to stop
and breathe forgive
ourselves for tripping
over misspent thought
too caught up and enraptured
in the chapters we imagine
we always dream
best beginnings
and tidy arduous ends
unicorns in black matter
Life is...
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Categories:
npr, birth, dark, death, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Cry
“Soul Cry”
Yeezy you da best
Not ice cold soulless
You gotta big heart
Wanna be next U.S. Pres'
You now swingin' with da rest
with your delusional pal
That Humpty Dumpty
gonna have a big fall
One messy cracked
bad...
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Categories:
npr, abuse, america, child abuse, children, discrimination, family,
Form:
Free verse
Coming Courageously HomeI'm returning home
from a bag it yourself grocery,
and listening to an African-American novelist
respond to questions,
actual open-ended real NPR questions,
like old school inquisitive journalists once asked
before the polarizing days and nights
of fake right/wrong answer questions
and their...
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Categories:
npr, conflict, courage, health, hero, integrity, peace, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
The Search This should be read as though sung as a Country Western song
I searched the junk food aisle
And the basin of a bowl (looked real, real hard there)
I learned that the whiskey bottle beer...
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Categories:
npr, life, song,
Form:
Verse
Family Jazz FarmersI am reading Wendell Berry stories
again,
still,
today.
And notice
over these past several weeks
he unfolds two bipolar themes.
Berry is,
was,
a cooperative Southern neighborhood farmer
of organic hospitality.
His protagonists grow on multigenerational farms
as Berry grows into writing while farming,
thereby farming readers
co-investing...
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Categories:
npr, dark, education, farm, light, music, violence, war,
Form:
Political Verse
Please Do Not DisturbOn a sunny morning in September 1984
My mom’s best friend Linda drove to the grocery store
With her four-year-old daughter Becky in tow
Listening to the radio, Becky amused herself in the back seat, looking out the...
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Categories:
npr, anxiety, bereavement, car, emotions, loneliness, loss, sad,
Form:
Narrative
A Life of LeavesMy friend and I were talking about the weather and how it relates to his business. He said, "This time of year, my life is all about leaves". I said, "That would make a...
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Categories:
npr, america, autumn, business, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
Peace DividendsAsked an NPR journalist
of U.S. soldiers
damaged in Afghanistan
direct fire
for one hundred everydays,
"Was it worth it?"
"I can't answer that question."
She asks more hesitantly again
of another veteran,
"Was it worth it to you?"
A good soldier,
"I can answer that...
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Categories:
npr, america, anxiety, culture, earth, health, integrity, war,
Form:
Political Verse
Damn Divisive Demagogic DerelictDas Don doth debilitate democracy
driving a collateral wedge
deliberately dividing differences
collaborating, collapsing, and collaring
disparity amidst ever
increasing homogenization
extant within contiguous United States
across world wide web for that matter
attested by increased
spike among multiracial
amalgamated enclaves, individuals mixing,
where preponderance of...
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Categories:
npr, america, conflict, grief, howl, scary, usa, war,
Form:
Political Verse
States of BeingWho were you today,
at your best moments?
Grouchy hermit
already missing quality dream times
and rhythms
when chimes greet pre-light's crust frosty dawn,
to get Yang, then Yin, up and out of our sangha,
ready to enter their own daytime...
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Categories:
npr, children, family, health, humor, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
Dear Trump Supporter On NprDear Lady,
I heard you say that you still trust President Trump
to do almost as good a job as he says he is doing,
despite all the lies,
because "they all do that",
just say whatever the audience of...
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Categories:
npr, absence, anxiety, health, humor, integrity, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Higgsthe god particle concedes to a universal mass
as predictably, it announces its presence
taking the holy sacrament from under its glass
beliefs from before so consigned obsolescence
we now think we know - no...really, we do
how the universe...
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Categories:
npr, imagination, inspirational, introspection, science, god, god, universe,
Form:
Quatrain
Unboundedfor Malala Yousafzai
A mere demigod won't do
to feel the fear that
a young woman, a little girl
can put into a righteous man
Horrific are the thinly educated
some holy book might have related
if thought of by the deity...
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Categories:
npr, education, imagination, inspirational, introspection, people, religion, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dilettante Diaries: In Stasis, Black Iris
The Dilettante Diaries: "In Stasis, Black Iris"
Oriental Lily's
Stamen bleeds
blush ochre dust
like icing sugar
duelling tongues
sweet captive
musk
over stagnant
white pure perfume
Stains soft feather fingerprints
sweet bruises across warm velvet skin
imprints a new story
a...
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Categories:
npr, art, freedom, imagery, psychological, romance, sensual, symbolism,
Form:
Romanticism
Democratic PovertyI was listening to NPR yesterday
on my way to small green group ministries,
when I heard post-millennial Republicans
favor apartheid
while the contemporary urban-green Democrat
favors laziness.
I don't know if this includes intellectual laziness,
lack of rigor,
and laziness about ecotherapeutic...
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Categories:
npr, caregiving, green, health, integrity, leadership, love,
Form:
Political Verse
It Was I…thirteen miners…
…only one survived…
…still clinging to life...
...with a history of violations...
It wasn’t West Virginia.
It was I.
And I’m taking the day off.
I know it won’t rhyme,
But I’ve been pummeled.
Run through...
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Categories:
npr, allegory, death, philosophy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
HandsTo Philip Lavine (1928-2015 USA)
I saw the announcement.
The one of your passing.
It’s just that it came to me
among all other messages,
one that said you had left for
other lands,
but I did not stop
to look at...
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Categories:
npr, poetry, poets, solitude, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Another Daypale pink is the pre-dawn sky
"pink sky in mourning..."
today will be a pre-proceeding
- for some it will be the same
for some it will purvey monumental,
tsunamic, quaking, flashing innocence
as a muffled buzzing and pounding followed
by eerie...
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Categories:
npr, child, death, dedication, grief, introspection, loss, time,
Form:
Narrative
Dub Dub Dubone short score and five ago
it wasn't so - that streams
flowed in airless wires
that Dolby heard symphonic
on hand phones was absurd
that art could be a part of everyone's day
meals smartly delivered - have it your...
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Categories:
npr, anniversary, internet, introspection,
Form:
I do not know?
Clumsy Oafin her people’s wisdom,
The author said,
"No Native language has
a cognate for “human” as
separate from other beings."
The NPR interviewer sighed and
became excited by the unity
of all things and the serenity
implied in this foreign paradigm.
I’ve read enough...
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Categories:
npr, angst, anxiety, nature, perspective, philosophy, social, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Dented and Painteddismissively lined as "dented and painted"
protesting violence and raping of women
those self-appointed, oh holy and sainted
can we turn another cheek and forgive them?
to relate to another with an iron-bar
to relate to another with utter...
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Categories:
npr, angst, forgiveness, introspection, loss, peace, political, tribute,
Form:
Quatrain
Another DayThese old bodies,
Clutched
Like paper bags
Full of food,
Soaking wet
In a steady rain,
The bottom falling out,
Sent
Into the parking lot
Leaning
On
The wobbling heels,
The wheels of shopping carts.
You see,
The doctor’s office had been moved
To the shopping center
Next to Kroger
For optimal...
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Categories:
npr, america, anxiety, destiny, farewell, health, judgement, life,
Form:
Free verse