Long Pilgrim Poems
Long Pilgrim Poems. Below are the most popular long Pilgrim by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Pilgrim poems by poem length and keyword.
We Against the World
I have this faith deep inside that my Father, my beloved Father, can mend my broken dreams
There's a purpose for us being on Earth
It serves us well to be good examples for the future Kingdom
We...
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Categories:
pilgrim, deep,
Form:
Lyric
Below the Horizon - Shallow Shame
Agony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...
Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...
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Categories:
pilgrim, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Instruction
Instruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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Categories:
pilgrim, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
Rum n Raisin 11 - One Hundred Million Years BC
Sneaking into the museum to avoid the sudden rain
Raisin said, “I don’t want to get soaked right through again,
It was bad enough when that truck through that puddle dashed
And you and me - but mainly...
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Categories:
pilgrim, adventure, cat, fantasy, time,
Form:
Narrative
Villanelle: No Man Can On His Own Escape Written Fate, For Thiru-Valluvar
Villanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate
For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of
the THIRUK-KURAL
Note: In my previous posts, especially on Canto 38, I...
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Categories:
pilgrim, beauty, character, creation, god, identity, truth,
Form:
Villanelle
Operation Money Jump
Thanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman, anarchist airborne,
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase broaching black motives,
Portland to Seattle, prison or criminal pantheon,
before...
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Categories:
pilgrim, america, history, mystery,
Form:
Epic
With you, the twilight changes, wandering through the silent dreams
With you, the twilight changes, wandering through the silent dreams,
With you, destiny wanders, hopes and promised goals.
With trembling boats at the shores, love urges us to be
Hostages to the droplets of waves and kings over...
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Categories:
pilgrim, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of Charity
An Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464
In Virgynë the swelt'ring sun grew keen,
Then hot upon the meadows...
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Categories:
pilgrim, allegory, christian, england, faith, prayer, religion, romantic,
Form:
Ballad
Looking Forward To Tomorrow
Looking Forward to Tomorrow
Verse 1: I had searched around for the love of mine for an awful long time
My heart is on fire with gracious desire
Don't drag me down with your lack of...
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Categories:
pilgrim, day, deep, depression, desire, friend, hope, love,
Form:
Lyric
A hundred tiny joys, a kaleidoscope of sensations blooming in my soul
A hundred tiny joys, a kaleidoscope of sensations blooming in my soul,
Warm water caressing my skin, a veil of mystery covering the world,
Birds chirping at dawn, a smile exchanged with a kind stranger,
The silence that...
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Categories:
pilgrim, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my nerves,
so I simply stood there observing his silence.
His philosopher...
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Categories:
pilgrim, angst, dark, life,
Form:
Prose
Hey Jude - Dedicated To Winged Warrior
Hey Jude, love is like a butterfly - just let it be.
You've got a ticket to ride, go where you should be.
Love is a revolution it shall set you free.
Don't live a life of sorrow...
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Categories:
pilgrim, love, music, tribute,
Form:
Pantoum
The Bell Tower That Leaned In
I. The Pastor’s Hand
At dawn’s brittle cusp—
he climbs, each step
a nail in time’s coffin
breath ragged
a Psalm torn mid-hymn.
The rope tastes of incense and...
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Categories:
pilgrim, allegory, bereavement, devotion, imagery, memory, metaphor, symbolism,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Letter to Sam Hunt
Dear Sam, hello it’s me, don’t fret
old friend whom I have never met.
I wrote a letter time forgot,
you may ask why, I ask why not?
A sad meditation of late
on our nation’s new police state -
its...
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Categories:
pilgrim, how i feel, perspective, writing,
Form:
Couplet
LET GO OF HER
LET GO OF THE LOOSE LADY:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES...
VERSE 1:
Have you undertaken any perspection,
Vividly over her actual perception?
Sometimes I get stuck to conflictions,
As this issue yields confussions.
I'm never okay with your conviction,
Though it comes...
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Categories:
pilgrim, 2nd grade, anger, betrayal, earth, emotions,
Form:
Lyric
Villanelle: Never Political But Spiritual the Ancient Indo-Chinese Pilgrim Ties
Villanelle : Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties
In Memory of the late pathologist (and amateur Astronomer)
Associate Professor CHONG Siew Meng, National University of Singapore*
Never...
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Categories:
pilgrim, race, relationship, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Villanelle
In the vast ocean of my thoughts, I try, I swear I try
In the vast ocean of my thoughts, I try, I swear I try,
To open my soul like a nocturnal flower,
To become that companion you can easily find in the night.
But often my ears are burdened...
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Categories:
pilgrim, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Naive Faith
Dripping wet weeping gold droplets imaginatively spun on elm trees,
a less than poetic splatter on saturated loose grit plain ground overtrodden
to stun the half asleep swooning sapphire riser to allegiance without pietism,
...
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Categories:
pilgrim, appreciation, august, beautiful, beauty, character, color, dedication,
Form:
Free verse
Last Turn of the Morning Carousel Forever Turn the Midnight Carousel Birthday Poem For Merry
Am I just another antiquity
An artist who finds a natural home
Among the paupers whose graves are marked with serial numbers
Instead of headstones?
I hate gimmicks and dismiss them
Like any other moment of mediocrity.
The truth...
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Categories:
pilgrim, anxiety, death of a friend, depression, i
Form:
Free verse
At Peace and In Sweet Awe of Bronze Shaving of New Rising Moon
At Peace And In Sweet Awe Of Bronze Shaving Of New Rising Moon
Night, its darkened whispers had come, its silence had fallen
there in the midst of Nature with its deep woods a'callin'
campfire burning and crackling,...
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Categories:
pilgrim, appreciation, art, blessing, earth, heaven, nature, sky,
Form:
Rhyme
Alpine Wind
It's too hot and humid for September!
Even dust specks descending in the room's sunlight
are beads of sweat running down my sides.
I bring pencil, crossword and ice tea
to this chair and table, these angled shutters,...
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Categories:
pilgrim, humor, longing, weather,
Form:
Imagism
Your Words Pale
I thought you the Master of Expression
Your verbal dexterity
Word play, a rarity: perfection
...
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Categories:
pilgrim, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Free verse
A Conversation With Walter Mitty
“Azure blue sky dreamer.
Where you bound today of mystifying days?
Can you hear me through that enigmatic fog?
Your Milky Way incarnate hyper trance phase.”
“Fellow wonderland adventurer.
I’ve been pole vaulting otherworldly golden orb frontiers.
As I...
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Categories:
pilgrim, art, beautiful, celebration, character, fantasy, humor, nice,
Form:
Rhyme
The Foe
The Foe
With strong arms, the warrior raises his crimson stained sword against the mighty Foe.
Death for the cause emboldens me in a strong clear voice he shouts.
The Foe peers down with its fierce coal colored...
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Categories:
pilgrim, confusion, corruption, health, poetry, sick,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Thomas the Jefferson's Train
In my dream
Thomas Jefferson pops out a pilgrim
in The Jeffersons family,
proprietors of Chinese laundries
on the best end of Main Street’s forested path
emerging toward Sanford and Sons
and Daughters Recycling Dump.
Here, midst polyglot stone soups
both informing...
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Categories:
pilgrim, culture, freedom, humor, political, race, religion,
Form:
Free verse