Long Olive Poems
Long Olive Poems. Below are the most popular long Olive by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Olive poems by poem length and keyword.
More Pickles Than OneFor ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple, so there can be no excuse,
that the pickles in this...
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Categories:
olive, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
olive, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Bleeding Before Rome -2Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
olive, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
4th Generation Soda Jerk -- Both Audio and TextThis is one excited kid and one PROUD father...
I took my son to the lumberyard last Tuesday afternoon. The day itself, though toasty, was the best in quite some time.
And when we’d finished shopping -...
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Categories:
olive, father son, relationship, youth,
Form:
Narrative
Domestic Abuse and Abuse of PowerAfter witnessing a murder meant for me after surviving a car bomb igniting my skull crushed my face bruising my brain i received threatening calls from my husbands mistress I'd reported break ins strange behavior...
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Categories:
olive, abuse, anxiety, beautiful, love hurts, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Remember WhenRemember when you were very young, ...
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Categories:
olive, fun, games, life, love, remember, today, youth,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
I Want a DoggyOh how I want a doggy,
a bundle of love and fur. ...
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Categories:
olive, dog, friend, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Frog Prince - Part 1A funny frog called Mr Snog,
once lived beside a slimy bog,
he was a most peculiar fellow,
his hat was red, his boots were yellow,
his waistcoat was an olive green,
the strangest sight you’ve ever seen,
no matter where...
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Categories:
olive, allegory, fairy, humorous, metaphor,
Form:
Light Verse
Categories:
olive, car, kid, red, snow, vacation, weather, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Such Tenderness, For the Mothers of GazaSuch Tenderness
by Michael R. Burch
for the mothers of Gaza
There was, in your touch, such tenderness—as
only the dove on her mildest day has,
when she shelters downed fledglings beneath a warm wing
and coos to them softly, unable...
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Categories:
olive, angel, arabic, baby, caregiving,
Form:
Sonnet
Packed Up PachydermYou know when I think about it now and what I have to do,
a lot of you folk out there would have a bit of envy too;
you see I'm a 'lacky' for a vet, well...
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Categories:
olive, humorous,
Form:
Epic
Categories:
olive, crazy, dream, humor, sister, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Attitude with latitudeAttitude with latitude
originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic
Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours truly
psyche asper paternal overture
toward aforementioned offspring
smitten with opprobrium
figuratively smacked upside...
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Categories:
olive, abuse, anger, anxiety, betrayal, family, father daughter,
Form:
Free verse
What's Love Got To Do With ItI started out life as Anna Mae Bullock, ...
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Categories:
olive, child, cry, hurt, music, song, woman, world,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Party In the Snow2020 has been a year of blue, ...
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Categories:
olive, blue, christmas, cry, fun, new years day,
Form:
Rhyme
Hold the PhoneHold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean,...
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Categories:
olive, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money, student,
Form:
Free verse
The Job - Part 2On the plane I meditated or at least I tried to. Most of the time I get a seat to myself. These days it’s just a ****ing Greyhound in the sky. I...
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Categories:
olive, death, desire, first love,
Form:
Narrative
Ill Fated AddressAN ILL-FATED ADDRESS
Being on holiday in Athens was truly the best 21st present
my parents could have given me, stayed with my granddad,
felt great, I traveled on my own, no more an adolescent.
Sad that I...
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Categories:
olive, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Worth the Wait - Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationThis piece was inspired by a true story about a man who searched for several years to find, and buy back, a very particular car that had originally belonged to his grandfather, to then give...
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Categories:
olive, inspirational, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Mahmoud Darwish English TranslationsMahmoud Darwish English Translations of Arabic Poems
Palestine
by Mahmoud Darwish
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
This land gives us
all that makes life worthwhile:
April's blushing advances,
the aroma of bread warming at dawn,
a woman haranguing men,
the poetry of Aeschylus,
love's...
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Categories:
olive, allah, arabic, judgement, race, racism, rights, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Velvet Glove CompartmentAge 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:
olive, adventure, age, birth, celebration, deep, devotion, feelings,
Form:
Prose
Loveshine - Chapter 2 - From Sunset To SunriseYou’re my Phoenix from the start in flight
You stole my only melody
Made it stronger, baby
Loveshine, I still love you
I love you true
I love you, I do…
What about you?
Only His time tells…
Will you free me like...
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Categories:
olive, devotion, emotions, endurance, fear, feelings, hope, lost
Form:
Lyric
The LightQuote By Poet: "Some pets are people in fur coats"
I had a calling, ...
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Categories:
olive, child, dad, dog, love, sleep, true love,
Form:
Personification
Categories:
olive, autumn, bird, new year, snow, spring, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Fast and Cheap She SaysWhat ever is fast and cheap you say...
You are so funny -
this is not a fast thing -
to do a video montage of 5 minutes
may take me a lifetime
as I move from inspiration...
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Categories:
olive, art, celebration, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse