Long Opus Poems
Long Opus Poems. Below are the most popular long Opus by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Opus poems by poem length and keyword.
Roses and LilacsWinter
by Michael R. Burch
The rose of love's bright promise
lies torn by her own thorn;
her scent was sweet
but at her feet
the pallid aphids mourn.
The lilac of devotion
has felt the winter hoar
and shed her dress;
companionless,
she shivers—nude, forlorn.
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Categories:
opus, desire, longing, love, nature, romance, rose, roses
Form:
Verse
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
opus, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Rush Amid the Rapids PublishedThe greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
opus, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or BeastMoby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne....
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Categories:
opus, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Font Din BlackFont Din Black
so u real???
Warning! The following choppy, batty,
dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy,
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy,
sketchy material prone to find the reader
dazed and bewildered, yet comfortably...
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Categories:
opus, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Free verse
November 13th 2021 Happy Eighty Sixth BirthdayNovember 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday
to my long deceased mom...
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky
My mother succumbed to a terminal illness
two score minus three orbitz passed away
no matter she fought tooth and nail
to keep ovarian/uterine...
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Categories:
opus, absence, age, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, creation, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Devil's Advocate Claims Teflon TrumpDevil's advocate claims Teflon Trump...
The demagogue reincarnate
feels gifted to reign supreme
captivates, glorifies, lauds,
renounces, yawps extreme
views bellows dogmatic fulminations
in an attempt to redeem
stolen 2020 capital one bid.
Which hunter (biden his time)
will reap grim...
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Categories:
opus, 12th grade, abortion, age, america, anger, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
I lacked emotions where others concernedBack approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder
if qualified to self diagnose
mein kampf psychological state...
I lacked emotions where others concerned.
That refrain replayed itself,
when wife picked up
(like a broken record),
where parents left off
before...
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Categories:
opus, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
A Souls Opus, I Wait Upon the LordI Wait Upon the Lord
With the most blessed life I can imagine even with all
the chronic illnesses and painful hours since
age 8 still I have known Christ to stand in battle beside me
while...
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Categories:
opus, christian, evil, faith, good friday, war,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fire Cyphersupercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Ice cold mic hold
A flow that’s so ferocious
a Higher level focus
Exposes my neurosis
bogus amateurs are hopeless
Yoga poses lotus
Possibly psychosis
Or Musical symbiosis
intelligent my opus
intellectual Hypnosis
Rhythm in fluid motion
My style...
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Categories:
opus, hip hop, rap,
Form:
Free verse
Creativity of UniverseSENSE OF UNIVERSAL CREATIVITY CONCEPT BEYOND COSMIC CREATURES REVIEW.
WHY, HOW, WHEN, WHO DESIGNED THE SYLLOGE KNOW HOW CREATOR ONLY KEN.
OBVIOUSLY, SINCE INCEPTION OF MACROCOSMOS INFINITY TIMES LAPSED THE COINER SELF EXISTENCE HYPOTHESIS GIST AND...
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Categories:
opus, adventure, allah, analogy, art, bible, birth, blessing,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Passion In Black and White - POTD - Erotic VersePOTD 7th Mar 2018
I trust you like the music video clip which enhances the poem
Like dark molten honey caressing her tongue
and soul food for taste buds addicted to caffeine
Coffee has its own excitation
The book has...
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Categories:
opus, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Narrative
The Secret Drawer
This Time Last Month
A customer
Opens door
Bell lets out two rings
That smell of books
Telescopes
Globes and other things.
Travel guides
Atlases
Maps strewn everywhere
Customer
Breaks fourth wall
Speaks as if you're there:
"I got upset when I first heard
this shop was closing...
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Categories:
opus, business, family, sad,
Form:
Narrative
All That 'I Am' - RevisitedAll That ‘I AM’ - Revisited
Let all that ‘I AM,’ yes, my pulp, seed, and cover,
from dreams long misplaced to the fears, I’m resisting
(though friends think them offal). My eye’s tears from mote
(that makes sparks...
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Categories:
opus, art, bible, faith, love, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Birthday Poem to MyselfBirthday Poem to Myself
by Michael R. Burch
LORD, be no longer this Distant Presence,
Star-Afar, Righteous-Anonymous,
but come! Come live among us;
come dwell again,
happy child among men—
men rejoicing to have known you
in the familiar manger’s cool
sweet light scent...
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Categories:
opus, birthday, dark, death, life, light, love, star,
Form:
Rhyme
A Pale Collection of EmptinessOne day I wish to know,
as the scars of devils do,
when your eyes, married to the auburn fox,
will remove their pantheon of petrified ghosts
and lay with me once again.
Lay with me again...
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Categories:
opus, bereavement, universe,
Form:
Elegy
Dump Trump the Demagogue Reincarnateto parlay view to unleash nuclear weapons on cue
destroying vast swaths of flora and fauna,
most inn no cent life forms pay hefty due
to assuage aggressively cruel, enjoyably
growling goal,...
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Categories:
opus, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form:
I do not know?
Nocturne Opus 9 Number 1This hasn't quite worked, so I'll have to revisit it. I listened to Chopin Opus 9 number 1 for inspiration and got lots of sprawling thoughts. I tried to put them into a Rondeau Redoublé...
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Categories:
opus, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Dump Trump the Demagogue Hitler ReincarnateCountdown to Armageddon precariously hinges
potential apocalypse outcome, mere smattering days away
if the brazen, fierce-some dragon doth don
trumps presidential throne -
ships with whistling ...
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Categories:
opus, allegory, anger, angst, anxiety, death, earth, emotions,
Form:
I do not know?
Ideally Primed To Write...Ideally Primed To Write...
Fallow wing on figurative
awk kill lees heal
of: "My on call (Uncle)
Muse Never Sleeps"-
which hoop fully
...
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Categories:
opus, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
To My Love Part 3 TbcNot that I pity myself
While holding a gun on my temple with this gentle discipline,
My identity is clear but my behaviour is doubtful
To the extent of brutish masculinity – defined as stubbornness.
Oh Majesty! of all...
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Categories:
opus, life,
Form:
Free verse
Can We Feel MusicCan We “Feel” Music?
By Carol Geyer
Can we “feel” music? Can the notes cool or warm us?
Soothing like green aloe balm, or warm as flaming Yule logs,
or as majestic as a fully leafed oak?
...
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Categories:
opus, music,
Form:
Free verse
A Mountain Void a MinerA Mountain – Void.
A Miner,
Observes this beauty, a Granite Monolith, looming ahead.
An image to light the eyes, brighten the soul – are fed
the belief that within the systolic, lies pure gold
at it’s heart – to...
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Categories:
opus, angst, inspirational, loss, life, old, light, prayer,
Form:
Rhyme
Putin Non Gmo Gluten Free Cheese On the RitzThough a wimpy, tiny, and puny
(smaller than a breadbox) Ogre
whereat my portable minuscule
fingerhut size adobe abode ex
posed to Strunk and White raw
grammatical elements of style,
I counted Flip (Wilsonian) view,
to camouflage myself anytime
and anywhere as significant...
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Categories:
opus, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, america,
Form:
Free verse
Etched Humanity
Written: April 24, 2024
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tread of life
...
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Categories:
opus, analogy, humanity, peace,
Form:
Other