Long Pensively Poems
Long Pensively Poems. Below are the most popular long Pensively by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Pensively poems by poem length and keyword.
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
pensively, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather
I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re:
long in tooth sexagenarian
nostalgic for the following imagery
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...
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Categories:
pensively, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration, confusion, halloween, natural
Form:
Free verse
Rush Amid the Rapids Published
The 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:
pensively, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
Dear Friend, Waiting For You
flying over Gulf of Mexico
...
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Categories:
pensively, best friend, bird,
Form:
Personification
Weird Fake News
Weird "fake" news
This pencil necked geek
did hair thru the long grapevine
actually following false tidbit
originated within imagination i.e. mine,
while stationed at Macbook Pro
laptop - time already inching close
to hour of rise and shine
yikes still no bloody...
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Categories:
pensively, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, grave,
Form:
Free verse
A Goose Tale Is Not a Gooseberry
A goose in a noose got loose today. At last. At times he had watched as bodies of his fellow feathers had been brought out of the shed having walked in just fine. On the...
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Categories:
pensively, baseball,
Form:
I do not know?
Come, You: the Death Poem of Rainer Maria Rilke
Come, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, you—the last one I acknowledge; return—
incurable pain searing this physical mesh.
As I burned in the spirit once, so now I burn
with you; meanwhile, you consume my...
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Categories:
pensively, cancer, death, depression, fire, health, pain, surreal,
Form:
Verse
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: Love Song
Liebes-Lied (“Love Song”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
How can I withhold my soul so that it doesn’t touch yours?
How can I lift mine gently to higher things, alone?
Oh, I would gladly find...
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Categories:
pensively, dark, love, muse, music, song, soulmate, space,
Form:
Verse
More Magnificent Monuments
When we pleasantly stroll down
the streets or boulevards
of any historical city or town,
we stops pensively and reflect deeply
by the magnificent monuments erected for the great;
and reading the engraved words,
we are astonished by the accomplishments
of...
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Categories:
pensively, history
Form:
Narrative
I Pen This Promise With a Diamond Tip
The best lines always evade me;
I can never say what must be said
to you,
to her,
to them...
to myself.
Mortality whispers in my ear.
Mortality dances about my seer
Allows it. Justly, for justice
folding up my life's essence,
putting...
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Categories:
pensively, absence, love, pain, surreal,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Homeless Man Named Sam- Part 3
He’d had a hard life, with lots of worries and many medical bills to pay
It all started he said, when his wife became ill, on that sad, spring day in May
He tried to...
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Categories:
pensively, angst, caregiving, devotion, faith, friendship, inspirational, loss,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Postface Interlude
evening mist curls
slowly up the rugged path
pondering life journey
The old man sat quietly. He was pensively weighing his actions and the balance of right and wrong in his life. Finally realizing there were better...
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Categories:
pensively, feelings,
Form:
Prose
The Last Thirty Minutes
The old man sat quietly. He was pensively weighing his actions and the balance of right and wrong in his life. Finally realizing there were better things to do he simply told God he...
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Categories:
pensively, age,
Form:
Haibun
Join Me In Making Our Planet Our Safest Haven
Join me in making our planet our safest haven!
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You may be wondering what I am pensively looking at that far!
It's the new world where I want to take you from where we are!
It's a place...
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Categories:
pensively, care, desire, dream, imagination, time, visionary, world,
Form:
Free verse
April 3 Poems
April 3 Poems
Humor keeps us sane
it is a piece of what we need to do
to prevent us from getting
the dreaded corona virus
coming up your nose
Pensively prompt - unpublished
creative talents unleashed
First Kiss with My wife
It...
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Categories:
pensively, anxiety, april, poems,
Form:
Free verse
The Cold Red Bud
Sent to his on tree in truth and fabled firewood topped ...
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Categories:
pensively, allegory, death, faith, forgiveness, life, religion, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Ash Groves
Ash Groves
“Down yonder green valley where streamlets meander
When twilight is fading I pensively rove,
Or at the bright noontide in solitude wander
Amid the dark shades of the lonely Ash Grove.
‘Tis there where the blackbird...
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Categories:
pensively, family, music,
Form:
Lyric
Clark Simmons
Since I was the oldest of three sisters with a mum,
As my dad had died when I was at an age young,
I thought I’d join the navy to help out my family,
But I...
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Categories:
pensively, appreciation, conflict, death, hero, history, racism, world
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Chosen Hearts
A heart has chosen.
Sitting on a park bench she smiled a flirtatious
Bright eyed style.
Their second time
A park bench.
This heart knew she had a chance
At spontaneous ROMANCE.
SHE moves in CLOSER catching the light
In his...
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Categories:
pensively, beautiful, beauty, dark, day, desire, good morning,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Quasi Mote - Oh Ephemeral Transit Across Proto Zones
Quasi Mote - Oh Ephemeral Transit Across Proto Zones!
Strictly speculation from this mind,
who contemplates stripped down version
bajillion eons ago
cosmic bit sized dots
pinwheeled thru spatial void
repulsed and/or attracted
colluding (putin on the Ritz)
infinitesimal show stopper
devoid of prior...
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Categories:
pensively, creation, dark, fruit, god, history, imagery, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Wild Rose
WILD ROSE
The wind is quiet, wearily quiet this evening,
(and they say that winds do not age)
and I,
I am fondling the wild rose
with the inexplicable hope
that I shall find your tear on its petal.
Since you have...
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Categories:
pensively, love, night, old, lost, dark, dark, lost,
Form:
Free verse
Peaceful Times By This Calm River
Huddled among massive rocks,
at the bottom of a barren cliff,
breathing in the strongest aroma of jasmines,
watching hordes of seagulls hover over an abandoned ship;
pensively and attentively spending peaceful times by calm river,
geese see me and...
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Categories:
pensively, adventure, animals, nature, peace, sea, seasonsnature, me,
Form:
Sestina
Boots On the Ground
Saddle up! Saddle up! It time to go.
I heard the Sergeant’s call
I held by rifle against my chest,
And vowed to give my all
It’s time...
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Categories:
pensively, conflict, destiny, fate, military, war,
Form:
Rhyme
13
13 bottles sitting on the wall
Suddenly there are twelve
But I didn’t hear the first one fall
12 bottles sitting straight
Now there are 11
The twelfth exploding in seething hate
11 bottles sitting in a row
Unperturbed by the passing...
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Categories:
pensively, absence, missing you, mother, prison,
Form:
Terza Rima
NOCTURNAL NATURE
Pensively promended I, as impetuous as a poet
To accumulate few jocund inkling on dusk
For sure, not as a bard
But,as a novice to nature
Stalked I, bare-footed anigh lake
Jabbed some spines beneath my foot
Yon reconnoitred I, do...
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Categories:
pensively, nature,
Form:
Free verse