Long Outlives Poems
Long Outlives Poems. Below are the most popular long Outlives by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Outlives poems by poem length and keyword.
Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1Tell me, my friend,
does infinity not unsettle your reason,
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?
Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you...
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Categories:
outlives, beauty, christian, easter, faith, longing, science, universe,
Form:
Lyric
Iron LadyShe’s dead
But will always stay alive
A beacon for everyone with a gripe
Thatcher snatcher was their war cry
When with apparent vigour
She tore asunder all society held dear
A divisive strong willed fighter
With femininity covering a steely frame
She...
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Categories:
outlives, political,
Form:
Free verse
An Ode To Life, Part IiLife shows its frills if ye dwell on fair side,
Perceive it with a poet’s perspective—
Life’s negatives seen with eyes positive,
Let not life’s dangling duals take a free ride.
If sin there be, it...
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Categories:
outlives, journey, life,
Form:
Ode
Magnus AnnasMagnus Annas
Summer's sensuality
New leaves green with love
Mark the ritual's beginning
A ritual old as the unmarked time
That passed before us all,
In which we were called to spring, to dance
Butterflies and mindless acrobats
Like flowers silently chanting Carpe...
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Categories:
outlives, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
The End of an Era: A Letter to Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin Netanyahu,
you once stood as a symbol of Israel’s resolve,
but power gained through fear and manipulation
is a flame that burns its master first.
You rose through the ranks
on speeches of security and pride,
but history has already...
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Categories:
outlives, conflict, god, history, judgement, sorrow, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
God's God's Only LoveGod's God's only Love,
Be it separate, integral,
More than idea
Can Holiness be who He is?
Or perhaps who God wants to be?
Dream somehow bigger than He is?
As only my purpose
Has chance to outlive me,
If God does exist...
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Categories:
outlives, god, love, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Surreal StepsIn the shower I start to cry
Tears of joy,
All the sad ones have dried
Feels amazing to feel loose ends sewing together
Imagine in a few years, my blanket will be jammed pack
Unattainable dreams I had...
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Categories:
outlives, faith, growing up, happiness, work, fire, fire,
Form:
Rhyme
Sounds We Cannot HearFeel the silence therein
The stillness of a scent that permeates
The scant wave that reverberates
in what once faithful people called by name a soul
when shaking palsy— tremors the spotted head
the mottled hand
That held once...
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Categories:
outlives, howl, nature, space,
Form:
Free verse
The Cruelty and Consequences of HateIn a town where the whispers grew sharp as a blade..
Where anger took root in the words people made.
A boy flung a stone made of slander and spite..
And a girl threw it back in the...
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Categories:
outlives, anger, bullying, evil, feelings, forgiveness, hate, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme
The Year Had Started BravelyThe year had started bravely,
With assurances anew
With life and hope anew
O, but the knave – he played me,
With assurances untrue!
To contemplate it slays me -
His promises untrue!
Yet years drone on like drumbeats,
The monotony of years
The...
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Categories:
outlives, death, depression, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Let Us PrayFor Ojemakinde Blessing Oluwapelumi
Our father
Let her days go farther
Who art
Enriching Thy words in her heart
In heaven
To fulfilling her career's dream work in Devon
Hallow be
Grace to caress this decree
Thy name
Bring her and her destiny out...
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Categories:
outlives, age, art, best friend, birthday, celebration, crush,
Form:
Couplet
Re-LieShower me not with
Such sweet sour emptiness
From your wagging tongue of lies
For this earth beneath my foot
Could be a sinking land for loot.
Like you did told our fathers
To drop their brains back home
And...
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Categories:
outlives, africa, international, political,
Form:
Narrative
The Lion of BurkinaIn the dust and drums of a battered land,
Rose a flame from the heart of golden sand.
Ibrahim Traoré, son of the soil,
With hands unbought and feet unsoiled.
Not born of palace nor Western mold,
But of Sankara’s...
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Categories:
outlives, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Always LosingIn a café’s hush, two lovers as pawns,
at dawn’s closed gate before it dawns.
They clutch a paper, creased and thin,
their vows on trial for breathing sin.
The soldiers come with boots of dust,
their eyes demand, “Obey...
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Categories:
outlives, political,
Form:
Quatrain
Dane Earmarked-WThe year 2000 about to done with,
and only the Atlantic Ocean divides us.
Now around me the snow falls.
If I could see you in months,
I shall turn the months in snowballs.
All January will sever me,
A step...
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Categories:
outlives, love, me,
Form:
Lyric
Kiddie PornDo you trust in the future enough to have kids,
Or is family - flailing of heart split in two?
Is it more symptomatic of life on the skids
Could it be that a child's an extension...
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Categories:
outlives, life, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret of Emotional Mist
The Secret of Emotional Mist
Evincing nothing, she remained mute
To nuanced intimations of intimacy.
There was nothing left to conclude but that
The greatest prison is boredom,
The greatest torture --- betrayal.
Thus we parted in the concrete now
Leaving behind...
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Categories:
outlives, angst, marriage, relationship,
Form:
Blank verse
Life and DeathMany plan to live for ever
But can only try
Death always visits
No matter how hard we cry
Faith in longevity is ill-judged
Life spans vary
Time rolls by
One day we are welcomed
Another we have to say goodbye
To be...
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Categories:
outlives, death, life,
Form:
Prose
A Poet To His BelovedAll the praises you pick along the streets
Go confirm before a new-bought mirror,
And if those rare glories you all find true
Then know she’s near that beauty shearer.
Who’s time, the unerring author of loss and decay.
And...
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Categories:
outlives, love,
Form:
Verse
I Am OldThe time has arrived so soon,
When I am eighty-year-old,
When I am bald with shining head,
When I have nice smile with new dentures,
When I have new hearing aide and new pair of glasses,
Will you still love...
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Categories:
outlives, love, old,
Form:
Free verse
Precepts of the Aegis-Holder
"Precepts of the Aegis-Holder"
no gorgons here
but 3 of one, yes?
shields raise
back the dead
to life
and phoenix
from the ashes
spreads its burning wings
feathers of blue
now gold, tra-la notes,
messages burning
rising upwards, it sings
and...
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Categories:
outlives, family, love, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Rhetoric's Memetics Science PeotryThere was a man a man in the box do not mime the selfish meme touching things he can not see in his own cage...
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Categories:
outlives, allegory, animals, faith, forgiveness, love, nature, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Scorned ElephantSCORNED ELEPHANT
Squat and stuck
On the flat wetted
Skid-streaked take-off strip
Snub-nosed Jumbo sprawls about dissipated
Under the beery stares of uncouth deriding youth.
Swine scorn a pearl, greedily grubbing for acorns.
How can they know lustre...
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Categories:
outlives, allegory,
Form:
Personification
AbundanceSet your sights well on goodness here,
Thoughts that you dwell spark fiery cheer.
Begin fond quest with a bold heart,
Focus your zest on fancy art.
Know that full store of good and grand,
Seize ever more life's spice...
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Categories:
outlives, blessing,
Form:
Couplet
Though Time Outlives This Mortal FrameWhen time escapes the confines of my mind,
This sullied birdcage (though touchstone),
I stretched to breakpoint on some days,
(Confining yes, but not outgrown).
Will I remember earthly realm,
My animus to pain be blind,
Accept my homeless overwhelm,
Will Rose...
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Categories:
outlives, faith,
Form:
Rhyme