Long Persist Poems
Long Persist Poems. Below are the most popular long Persist by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Persist poems by poem length and keyword.
Potpourri of silly poemsIn most of my verse, my simple aim
is just sorta to enter tame.
Then, once inside ~
go completely hog wild ~
showing no reserve,
showing absolutely no shame.
"What do you think of my pup?",
I asked a cop as...
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Categories:
persist, giggle, poetry, silly, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Emo LoveWith this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...
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Categories:
persist, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
SeeSee
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
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Categories:
persist, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and SmilesHere and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
persist, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Sins of Supreme SuppressionNot to play any blame game,
in this our new co-evolutionary capacity
for LeftBrained Language CommunioNation
long become YangDominant associated
with monotheistic 'civilization',
aristocratic anthrosupremacism,
including Earth's newer colonizing history
of evolution by Orthodox Moral Elitism.
Processes of GodWord supremacy
became belligerently associated
with...
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Categories:
persist, earth, health, language, math, religion, science, sin,
Form:
Political Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiJuvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
persist, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break IiPoems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
persist, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 111 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Worries Orchestrations Population DisintegrationMolly sat on the backyard porch
Watching the kids play when Dolly
Emerged from the doorway and
Sat with her. "Hey sis how's it going
Girl! Dolly seemed jovial. Molly
Replied, "I guess it's going...
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Categories:
persist, color, daffodils, family, good morning, home,
Form:
Alliteration
The Penetralia Ruby QueenHark and listen well, if those foretoken in the eyes of hungers lust
Trapped in their illusion, trampling the Stars into dust
Forced with the detestation stench by the swamp of absolute disgust
Thou blackest scorpion be accursed,...
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Categories:
persist, allegory, beauty, creation, fantasy, god, inspiration, integrity,
Form:
I do not know?
The Witch At InvernessPlease take this time to steer your thoughts
To a wretched land of lochs and glens.
Where a village was tasked and the people fraught
At the woe and sadness life could send.
With the Dragons gone and the...
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Categories:
persist, adventure, children, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decided to post five...
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Categories:
persist, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Free-Verse EpicThus it begins—
A free-verse epic
Into the mind of
A writer and an idiot—
A romantic and,
Often a pessimist
Conjoined in arbitrary glory
Are the thoughts and words
Of one overly-worked mind—
Charismatic and, of course,
On the pushover, pitiful
And usually...
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Categories:
persist, beautiful, confidence, conflict, courage, deep, freedom, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Crow Ghost of Haunting FootstepsBreak my neck; snap it in two, snap it in half
don't give me that incredulous, frightened look as I ask
don't hesitate in front of me, please just do me this favor
so I gain a halo,...
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Categories:
persist, i love you, i miss you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Reflections By Commodore John Barry“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.” Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of...
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Categories:
persist, adventure, autumn, dedication, history, longing, military, sea,
Form:
Epic
Hope For RespectMy thought for this day,
although still early,
is respect for hope.
Respect for our interdependence
and respect for our challenging differences,
important, yet hopefully not as powerful
as our interdependent love for healthy life.
Yesterday
I noticed a brown cardboard box
in the...
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Categories:
persist, bible, caregiving, culture, health, hope, integrity, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Leonardo Da Vinci Poems, Epigrams and QuotesLEONARDO DA VINCI POEMS, EPIGRAMS AND QUOTES
These are my modern English translations of the poems, epigrams and quotes of Leonardo da Vinci. I believe the first six epigrams pertain to the current American election crisis...
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Categories:
persist, art, eulogy, nature, poems, poetry, silence, spring,
Form:
Epigram
Lost In the Mists, Parts I-IvLost In the Mists Parts I - IV
...
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Categories:
persist, mystery, spiritual, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Margins of PandoraTim’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:
persist, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
My Rightwing FamilyMy RightWing
all white male dominant
or venus invidiously envious
family
Is way quick to remain gated
away from drug
and alcohol
and automated arms dealers
and users,
black market buyers
and sellers
and renters.
Yet these same straight
boxer whitey patriarchs
are curiously too tidy comfortable
with...
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Categories:
persist, culture, earth, health, humor, light, power, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Tune Within Your Conscience Self PerceptionYesterday's gone, overcome & chose to live as if every day's the last. Make every second count. It's true not one thought can be replaced. Look ahead & embrace tomorrow. Hold strong within, steady yourself...
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Categories:
persist, art, beauty, blessing, inspirational, love, self, spiritual,
Form:
Concrete
Think Twice - Celine Dion TributeThink twice this world can be such a wicked place my sweet child.
It's all coming back to me now, the memories we shared.
Goodbyes the saddest word, be careful in a world so wild.
You used to...
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Categories:
persist, child, love, parents,
Form:
Pantoum
The Best Poet EverWouldn't it seem to persist an unspoken personal longing for perfection?
Is insinuated toward poetic supremacy; obviously . . .
I would feel confident in generalizing the presence within us all—to achieve god-like greatness.
I must say, that...
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Categories:
persist, adventure, art, beauty, character, courage, deep, how
Form:
Lyric
The Color of LaughterI was in a love affair with art, which had lasted for most of my life,
As beauty graces bush tree and field, whenever hued blossoms are rife.
I started painting at a young age, and had...
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Categories:
persist, art, color, fantasy, fun, imagery, life, nature,
Form:
Couplet
AppearancesThe distress... fatigue, combined with restlessness, tossing, and turning. Assuming I possess more energy than I truly do because what is worse, exhausting oneself or lying there, depleted? Many of us meet our end wishing...
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Categories:
persist, city, cry, dark, death, depression, pain,
Form:
Free verse
ExistenceAll that does encompass bespeaks wonder in everything
bubbling brooks and waterfalls does your glory ring
terrestrial and celestial ever fill our eyes with seeing
how can not it's splendor not fill our very being
raindrops in waters...
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Categories:
persist, bible, earth, god, life, nature, uplifting, visionary,
Form:
Quatrain