Long Passport Poems
Long Passport Poems. Below are the most popular long Passport by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Passport poems by poem length and keyword.
Who Put Luebella Down the Wych Elm
"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"
There are rumours
about me, some
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart
shaped planchettes
unanswered questions
in the woods, crackling
within the sounds of leaves
invisible dead things speaking
underfoot...
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Categories:
passport, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Uyghur Poetry Translations
With my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.
Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Asylum seekers, will...
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Categories:
passport, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
Our Arcade 1985
Is how it all began our beautiful thing we both knew it was arcade concealing it the way we did and was we wrong for protecting the jukebox the many simple pleasures hidden treasures would...
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Categories:
passport, allah,
Form:
Quatorzain
All things that scrub the ground
All things that scrub the ground like an old musty couch I saw you there seated with my very abusive ex husband wearing my under garments wrapped around your head I wondered just what you...
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Categories:
passport, allah,
Form:
Kyrielle
Prizes For Ultimate Sacrifices - Part One
Prizes for Ultimate Sacrifices
prizes for the abstemious for abstinence chastity ?
the countless...
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Categories:
passport, howl, inspirational, metaphor, passion, satire, spoken word,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Such Tenderness, For the Mothers of Gaza
Such 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:
passport, angel, arabic, baby, caregiving,
Form:
Sonnet
Confidential human source arson murder of nine federal bureau of investigation mental health diary
Diary from 1984 I witnessed thee unthinkable this resulted in the fbi warning me my life was in danger my children lives were in danger that's when I began wearing wires pregnant buying weapons and...
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Categories:
passport, allah, arabic,
Form:
Kyrielle
Margins of Pandora
Tim’s father had been a refugee once he put down his fight and his gun
The story is that he embarked on the very last ship leaving East Prussia
Under siege tanks and bombs from above fireworks...
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Categories:
passport, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Mahmoud Darwish English Translations
Mahmoud 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:
passport, allah, arabic, judgement, race, racism, rights, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
I'm dying and it's okay
I'm dying and it's okay because I get to die my own death being me without my identity thief jay townsend johnson henry climbing into my window searching for my passport birth certificates marriage certificates...
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Categories:
passport, allah,
Form:
Manqabat
Jack the Ripper
I Jumped up suddenly out of my bed
With Jack the ripper spinning in my head
And the word cabinet kept floating in my bed
I had a very serious message to deliver
But I don't know who to...
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Categories:
passport, america, angel, beautiful, culture, england, international, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Rue Saint-Honore
It's the weekend (Friday night). Lisa and I are hangin’, music’s playing, and we’re rummaging through my suitcase, for an outfit option, for me, tonight. Call it cliché, but we like going out - and...
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Categories:
passport, fashion, friendship, fun, humor, mental health, paris,
Form:
Free verse
The Immigration Officer Asked Me
"The Immigration Officer Asked Me."
I was asked where are you coming from?
I answered I ran away from the war in my
country.?
I was asked how many years the war lasted?
I answered there was war for sixteen...
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Categories:
passport, poetry,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Dark Twisted Dreams
I've been having the nightmares for a while now each night,
Although I know in my heart there is no chance of escape;
I really pray that this night will be...
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Categories:
passport, dream, fear, horror,
Form:
Narrative
The Waitress
We came walking blind bends at dusk,
An overhanging fig picked fresh.
No pavements, just a nervous trust
that drivers would skirt our single line.
Hugging the roadside with torches lit,
Phones swung glowing to the ground...
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Categories:
passport, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Brace For Impact
I'd finished work early so I went, to pick the kids up from school
I thought this time tomorrow, we'll all be bathing in the pool
We were travelling tonight on a family vacation to Spain
I put...
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Categories:
passport, children, family, flying, sea, wife,
Form:
Narrative
And Libya Saw Our Weaknesses
and my CNN opened on a breaking news on a dark street in Libya, about Nigerians chained to be sold as slaves.
the television slide and roved over,
their tears shattered and their blood spoke of pains...
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Categories:
passport, abuse, africa, anger, art,
Form:
Blank verse
Peanut Jam Questions the Boards
The uniform on the floor was to be washed, dried then ironed but the scones that the pig ate meant that a walk to some hidden caves was achieved but only after the recycling was...
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Categories:
passport, appreciation, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
Retirement
No more faxes, no more phones ...
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Categories:
passport, funny, retirement,
Form:
Free verse
No Longer Fit For Work
No more faxes, no more phones ...
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Categories:
passport, age, funny, old, retirement,
Form:
Alliteration
The Art of Escape
Do you still wonder
now that you’ve been washed out
into fate’s unforgiving seas
why you were sentenced to a life
you swore was in the wrong body?
Living in the wrong body is a natural crime
The price
To live...
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Categories:
passport, anger, anxiety, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Narrative
Walking On Sunshine
Call me little miss Dorothy from the wizard of Oz fame, for today I’m
Clicking my ruby red shoes, on the golden bricks on the sunshine path,
Ain’t no wicked old witch going to slow me down,...
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Categories:
passport, adventure, fantasy, imagery, imagination, inspirational, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
The Way Side
They left their lovely home to fulfill a promise that was not found, one big happy family board up their house pack their luggage in the back of a truck and went in search of...
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Categories:
passport, business, community, environment, international, nature, river, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Rule of Threes Two
Hope in me and mine
Surrendered to Christ's lifeline
The gospel design
Satan's stronghold fell
His counterattack to quell
Standing saints repel
Just two percent more
That competition calls for
To heighten your soar
Debtors on the run
For His water, soil, and sun
Only the...
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Categories:
passport, bible, life, perspective, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Just What You Need
They gather in groups waiting to go through the border; missiles are flying in the air and people are running everywhere .
They have been standing there for a couple days waiting to cross over but...
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Categories:
passport, america, betrayal, children, dedication, endurance, environment, freedom,
Form:
Narrative