Long Phrasing Poems
Long Phrasing Poems. Below are the most popular long Phrasing by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Phrasing poems by poem length and keyword.
My Inner Voice Told Me
A plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem-encrusted sequestered vaults impervious on mountain peak percentage practical basis,
when express benevolence enjoins the ultimate in empirical assessment ...
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Categories:
phrasing, care, character, dedication, deep, encouraging, feelings, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Film Noir
Film Noir
By the lampost at night
with the pale moon shining bright
but obscured by the fog
I saw her in the harbor
standing where my boat lay moored
but she knew that
her azure eyes beckoned me to come
smoke from...
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Categories:
phrasing, remember,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Know That I Am There
It's the best I can do to explain myself
is standing in between it all, so I can view both sides.
Who are you to say that a summer days more beautiful
than the dead of night?
You profess...
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Categories:
phrasing, faith, growth, how i feel, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Then Came the Lady In Blue
Then Comes the Lady in Blue
(“...But to the sound of his passing/he sings. It is a kind of triumph/that he grieves— thinking of the white lilacs in bloom, profuse, fragrant, white in excess of...
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Categories:
phrasing, character, faith, god, poems, poetry, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Eric Clapton Inspiration
Eric Clapton (born March 30, 1945, in Ripley, Surrey, England)
British guitarist who influenced rock.
Later became a famous singer-songwriter.
Clapton was born to a teen mom and a Canadian WWII soldier in England.
His grandparents mostly raised him.
He...
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Categories:
phrasing, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history,
Form:
Bio
Between Wavy Lines
Qu'ry this: a chivalrous charlatan, I,
Dareth feign to pen thy prop'r aspect?
...
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Categories:
phrasing, beauty, metaphor, sensual, sexy, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Element Water
It took place shortly after and the stage was set
before words before ink before heavenly breath
There was a rain on the parade
of eternal...
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Categories:
phrasing, allegory, allusion, bible, deep, religious, spiritual, water,
Form:
Free verse
The Error, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem: El Error
The Error, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : El Error
for Miguel Delibes
(There are just some words and phrases in this translation that I might yet want to modify or substitute with other alternative phrasing. T....
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Categories:
phrasing, life, world,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Who, Why, What, Where, When
Who, Why, What, Where, When?
Take a meme, and make it clean by belief, engagement,
God meme, Santa Claus or denim jeans are fundamentals,
They offer a magic carpet to all partakers into fulfilment,
When we...
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Categories:
phrasing, faith, god, happiness, identity, jesus, perspective, religion,
Form:
Quatrain
Other Than You-- (Part I)
Again I am at my favorite coffee shop, sipping cappichino wanting
to write about something other than you.
Wanting half-heartedly to move to a different page in my life.
Needing someone else to fill...
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Categories:
phrasing, angst, introspection, lost love, me, night, prayer,
Form:
I do not know?
fallen down -
my angel, fallen ...
gossamer linen, violet lace
...
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Categories:
phrasing, imagery, metaphor, muse, passion, sensual, soulmate, true
Form:
Rhyme
twixt thy wavy lines
qu'ry this:
a chivalrous charlatan, I
dareth feign to pen thy prop'r aspect?
aye, f'r thy legitimate contours art
yet ov'rwhelmingly stagg'ring to the gazeth
and if beheld by the ingraft
m'rtal, thus, wouldst rend'r those
folk stunn'd to reticence …
such provocative...
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Categories:
phrasing, analogy, old,
Form:
Free verse
A Taxpayer Speaks
A TAXPAYER SPEAKS
Years ago when filing tax forms reared its proliferating death’s head
I cursed, perspired, and thought about moving to a foreign homestead
As a low-income taxpayer I felt too unimportant to hire an accountant
So I...
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Categories:
phrasing, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Between the Wavy Lines
Qu'ry this: a chivalrous charlatan, I,
Dareth feign to pen thy prop'r aspect?
Aye, f'r thy legitimate contours art yet
Ov'rwhelmingly stagg'ring to the gazeth,
And if beheld by the ingraft m'rtal, thus,
Wouldst rend'r those folk stunn'd to reticence.
Such...
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Categories:
phrasing, love, metaphor, passion, romantic, writing,
Form:
Free verse
King Pleasure bebop jazz singer
King Pleasure bebop jazz singer vocalese hipster/
a legend he was/
a master at writing lyrics to solos of jazz instrumentalists such as the lyrics to Charlie Parker's "Parker's Mood"/
His scat singing was genius...
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Categories:
phrasing, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word
SONIC HENDERSON
JOE HENDERSON’S PROLIFIC OUTPUT AS EITHER A SIDEMAN OR LEADER/
IS SHEAR SONIC VELOCITY OF MUSIC COMING FROM HIS TENOR THINKIN' MIND/
NO HALF-STEPPIN HERE BRO/JOE’S INSIDE-OUTSIDE APPROACH GOT YOUR BACK TO EVERY SIDE HE PLAYED ON/
TO...
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Categories:
phrasing, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word
Elegy For Lady Day
ELEGY FOR LADY DAY
'For all we know, this may be only be a dream
We come and go like the ripples on a stream'
Thus it was you sang with body wracked and failing
Yet with that unmistakable...
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Categories:
phrasing, eulogy, inspiration, memory, missing,
Form:
Elegy
Worms
I often leave words scattered in front and behind,
judged too simple, without phrasing profound,
I choose and discard like
soured grapes picked too late or too soon,
from each story, prose, or improvised rhyme.
Bid me write the...
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Categories:
phrasing, allegory, analogy, creation, discrimination, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Life is a Song
"Life is a song," I find it intriguing,
how often the roads we journey upon
allude to lyrics like variant moods of songs.
Some days I endeavor to sing,
but the words come out all wrong.
Orchestral phrasing...
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Categories:
phrasing, life, song,
Form:
Free verse
A Word Or Three
Death ...
Death is NOT the enemy
It is but the longest part of eternity
The essential part that gives life its preciousness and value
It is the body's rest, the spirit's release, and the soul's freedom
When we again...
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Categories:
phrasing, addiction, death, emotions, introspection, life, sad, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Milt Hankins - Reposted
From the Bluegrass, a poet named Milt
Took great care with the poems he built.
With both nuance and pace,
Gave the muse merry chase,
Graced the page with the ink that he spilt.
His posting are indeed a delight;
His...
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Categories:
phrasing, appreciation, sorrow,
Form:
Limerick
Not To Be Neglected
Waiting for petrichor to rise ...
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Categories:
phrasing, blessing, inspirational, love, poems, poets, words, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Old Song's Magic
There, that songwriter-singer again,
this late-night song-talk show on TV,
he must be in his mid-forties still,
but looks much older than seventy.
...
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Categories:
phrasing, nostalgia
Form:
Narrative
For Andrea Dietrich
Say something nice, and a short little while
She will respond with kind words and a smile.
True to her nature, she always will say
Something so nice that I cannot repay.
Bright and unique, every contest that's new
Challenges,...
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Categories:
phrasing, bird, happiness, inspiration, ocean,
Form:
Couplet
A Nation Cries Out
Shed blood, protection of innocence, a badge of honor
An oath was made
Defense of liberties and freedoms
Restrictions placed, standards no more
Chaos and anarchy knock at our doors
Forlorn morals; a time forgotten
Democracy is dead, the people have...
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Categories:
phrasing, america, analogy, betrayal, character, corruption, family, history,
Form:
Free verse