Long Parable Poems
Long Parable Poems. Below are the most popular long Parable by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Parable poems by poem length and keyword.
Political ArtistryBrilliant writers
have recommended to younger students,
to only write if they cannot live without doing so.
Elder successful icons of artistic expression,
dance,
voice,
drama,
sculptors
have similarly advised apprentices,
do not do as I have done
unless you could do naught else.
But what...
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Categories:
parable, art, beauty, health, leadership, parents, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Thc OrdinanceI am fairly new to this Norwick community.
If I recall correctly
we have about forty thousand households here
where the Connecticut River
conjoins the Mohegan and Iroquois Rivers;
originally deep rich virgin eco-forest
of and for harmonic rhythm and...
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Categories:
parable, community, earth, family, growth, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Ecotherapeutic JusticeWhen passion plants a multicultural seed,
then justice flourishes a polypathic trusting flower.
Permaculture and polyculture,
grow holistic cause-effect karmic significance
for our physical, and mental, political and spiritual health.
Permacultural, as I intend it this morning,
refers to...
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Categories:
parable, blessing, culture, earth, nature, philosophy, political, religion,
Form:
Narrative
Today's Journey Through Covid-19As I woke up this morning I was thinking of what should I do through COVID-19 pandemic.
I said to myself, “I want to go for a walk.”
While walking along the street, people were passing with...
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Categories:
parable, africa, baptism, beautiful, christian, courage, poems, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
Desert, Wilderness, StormTHE DESERT THE WILDERNESS THE STORM
I am parched, my back is arched,
my body racked with pain,
Nothing green in sight,
my thirst, my plight,
eyes playing tricks on me again.
An illusion of rest beside...
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Categories:
parable, christian, destiny, god, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Asked and Answered - An Echo PoemHOW I WOULD DESCRIBE MYSELF
People often say to me
“What can you tell me about yourself”
guess it’s my duty to explain to them
and so I look them in the face and reply
My...
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Categories:
parable, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Upon Waking
“Upon Waking”
Slumber has its upsides
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard,
cacophonous
pecking at each other
and at the ground…
Elsewhere,
like dull background noise
through the fog of dream
the sound of the gamble...
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Categories:
parable, gothic, muse, poets,
Form:
Narrative
My Thing IsMy thing is,
Yang dear,
EarthMother
is much RNA-green older
than mammalian red-DNA Yang.
Yes,
seniority breeds long-term nutritious merit,
I remember this history lesson
from your creation by fairy tale,
how WinWin Paradise YinYin
wonder invited Yang's Patriarchal CoPresence.
Well said,
dearest,
which is exactly why EarthMother
needed...
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Categories:
parable, color, earth, health, history, humanity, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Scantily-Clad In the Garden of S W EdenSCANTILY-CLAD in the GARDEN of S W EDEN
Here I stand, all alone, scantily-clad in the garden of S W EDEN.
Wondering if the Original Garden still remains untilled and uneven.
Wondering how that Serpent knew of the...
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Categories:
parable, adventure, beauty, betrayal, bible, nostalgia, symbolism, trust,
Form:
Verse
The Great Forgotten Language
"The Great Forgotten Language"
In the forest
Love shows
the way
spreading seeds
strange creatures
come forth
into the clearing
of a known self
some run away
spooked as if
the bare reflection
shows their undressed soul
confronting,
are the peculiar
ghosts risen, speaking
like...
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Categories:
parable, humanity, love, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Another Better World
"Another Better World"
These little sins
you smoothly skip across the waters of fairweather lives
like darkness hidden underneath deadly white lies,
like throwing pebbles casually across The Lake of Tears
that reflect rippling rings rapidly racing outwards...
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Categories:
parable, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Climatic ParableOnce within our time,
SkyPrince and SunGod talk,
as usual,
endlessly actually,
sending their radiant messages
out toward mutually gravitating receivers,
no Yins allowed to pitch;
just catch integrative flow.
SkyPrince wonders if SunGod might consider turning down his heat,
and wanders aloud as...
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Categories:
parable, allegory, earth, earth day, fire, nature, sky,
Form:
Free verse
Who I AmI wish I could be clearer too
But when a mirror comes to view
I find reflections blur the tons
Of promises I've yet to keep.
The virtues to which I aspire
Just kindling in God's cleansing fire
A testament to...
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Categories:
parable, life,
Form:
Rhyme
A Meditation On 'Giving In God's Will'I could be way off base, but I think that ‘Control’
and ‘Graced Giving’ are opposites, poles that can’t meet
in a space with dimensions, where sanity floats
and integrity lives (for one can’t buy a gift!)
‘Good Samaritan’s...
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Categories:
parable, faith, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Beware the YeastBe careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked, “You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about...
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Categories:
parable, fate,
Form:
Free verse
I Spoke To a ChristianI spoke to a Christian
who told me, that's not in the bible
"you're going to hell"
what ever happened
"To judge not that you be not judged"
Refusing to hear, what I had to say
yet what I...
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Categories:
parable, inspiration, international,
Form:
Narrative
BalancePerhaps people will argue with me
saying that's your interpretation
But I did not write the bible
Thou shalt not kill
appears to me means
we should not kill anyone
I don't know how you can
interpret it any other way
It did...
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Categories:
parable, inspiration, international,
Form:
Narrative
If I Was GodIf I was God
I'd be angry with the world
I'd be angry with Christians
Because I told them
How to overcome the world's problems
first they were to go out into the world
and become fishers of men
then they...
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Categories:
parable, inspiration, international,
Form:
Narrative
WhyThe Question of why
one three letter word
why did you climb Mount Everest
because it's was there
Dad why do we have thunder and lightning
with knowledge of the time
perhaps his father answered
because theirs a God in the clouds
hitting...
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Categories:
parable, inspiration, international,
Form:
Narrative
AustraliaI think
my gift from God
is to deliver
his final solution
To the world
I have been telling
people my idea
based on ten dollars
per week
but his Idea
was the tithe
ten percent
ten percent of every ones wage
belongs to...
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Categories:
parable, inspiration, international,
Form:
Narrative
Paradise ReforestedSeeds, like mentors, are germinators.
Generation wears two faces,
as does development,
positive and negative,
regeneration and degeneration.
Some seeds are healthier than others.
Some are positively deviant, robust,
and others are negatively deviant, flawed,
unbalanced,
missing an exegetical median mark,
some would see as...
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Categories:
parable, art, creation, earth day, environment, health, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Connecting the dots, the parable of the ten virgins, part ten Q and AQ "Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps
and went out to meet the bridegroom. Matt.25:1 as, Jesus Christ, our bridegroom...
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Categories:
parable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Connecting the dots, the parable of the ten virgins part eleven Q and AQ Why did the five wise virgins tell the five foolish virgins to go the sellers of the oil?
A They would have not have enough oil to be able to trim their...
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Categories:
parable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Jesus and the rich young man and His disciples Matthew 19:16-30 NKJNow behold, one came and said to Him,"Good Teacher, what good thing shall I
do that I might have eternal life?" So, He said to him,"Why do you call Me good?
No one is good but One,...
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Categories:
parable, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Don'T Let the Stuff You Get, Get Youwe all have worldly possessions, we all have some stuff
those material things of which we can't seem to get enough
you never realize how much stuff you've got until you have to move out
an overabundance of...
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Categories:
parable, devotion, funny, inspirational, introspection, life, people, day,
Form:
Didactic