Long Portico Poems
Long Portico Poems. Below are the most popular long Portico by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Portico poems by poem length and keyword.
The Sandless Sand Castle
The Sandless Sand Castle
Let me tell you about my eldest brother.
I am: the "Scram!", the "Beat it!", the "What you looking at?!", and the "Turn around and watch the movie!", younger brother. As you can...
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Categories:
portico, beach, beautiful, brother, celebration, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Diary Notes: Lamentable Laissez-Faire
Diary Notes: Lamentable laissez-faire
…the lêche cul is
back
...
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Categories:
portico, anti bullying, august, conflict, judgement, paris,
Form:
Free verse
ST FRANCIS AND ST CLARE : TWIN SOULS : PART 2
no turning back at nineteen years of
age with bonded Love no eyes could
see or earthly arms could hold dear
into a fold of aligning human Heart
with Divine injunction none could part
self dies...
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Categories:
portico, allegory, allusion, character, courage, endurance, extended metaphor,
Form:
Epic
Poor Pandora
We ponder Pandora as the person preordained
to unleash a plethora of plagues upon our persons.
But here's what I heard:
Pandora had two sisters,
Persephone and Proserpina.
Pandora perused poetry
while Persephone practiced petite-point.
But Proserpina possessed the predilection
for picking...
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Categories:
portico, allegory, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Arthur Rimbaud: Song of the Highest Tower translation by Michael R Burch
Song of the Highest Tower
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch
Let it come, let it come,
The day when all hearts love as one.
I’ve endured so long
That I’d even forgotten
The pain and the terror.
I’ve visited heaven,
And...
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Categories:
portico, brother, child, childhood, heart, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Corinna Translations
CORINNA
I come to sing of heroes' and heroines' courageous deeds.—Corinna translation by Michael R. Burch
Mount Helicon, father of fair offspring, friend of the wayfarer, beloved of the Muses!—Corinna translation by Michael R. Burch
Terpsichora calls me...
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Categories:
portico, father, friend, hero, rose, song, voice, woman,
Form:
Free verse
San Luca
He walks, rosary in hand, up the steps.
His tread is broken, fragile, and the joggers
Might hear his breath, each sharp inhalation,
Each hissing exhalation, were it not for their
Own breathless haste, their...
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Categories:
portico, angst, lost love, love, me,
Form:
Narrative
Termites At Christmas
Termites at Christmas
They’re just little insects,
they were swarming by the hundreds one day,
through the backyard, as we sat in lawn chairs,
through the portico and on past our faces they flew,
the sunlight behind their soft bodies...
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Categories:
portico, change,
Form:
Free verse
North Woodward
Like Moses fleeing Egypt
and finding refuge in Midian
I was a stranger in a strange land.
Having fled Chicago in ‘84
I journeyed east to the
unpromised land of Detroit.
8 Mile Road.
“I'm a man
I'm a make a new...
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Categories:
portico, life, urban
Form:
Free verse
Dream Weaver
Dream Weaver
The weaver sits before the threshold of the daystar
Upon a carpet dyed in ebony spread across an alabaster porch,
Hidden by a cape of ivory shimmers,
In between twilight’s caress and the palest...
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Categories:
portico, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Brompton Cemetery
A place of sorrow that brings such comfort,
One of death yet cherished by the living,
The lines of tombs and ancient burials mean naught,
Compared to the hidden glories beneath the covering,
Tree of stately age and unerring...
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Categories:
portico, appreciation, bereavement, death, life, london, love, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Paradox of Civilization
In Jordan’s desert, a building façade
has been carved into the face of a vertical cliff.
Stairs leading to the structure are lined with lanterns.
Looking up, a view standing right of center,
stone appears orange near...
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Categories:
portico, arabic, art, christian, islamic, places, symbolism, travel,
Form:
Free verse
A Traditional Housewife
Fourth in the Mother's Day Poetry Contest
The woman married at a young age
to the eldest son of a farmer-
my maternal uncle and neighbor.
Usually, she woke up early at the crow's caw
and swept the dirt...
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Categories:
portico, 1st grade, woman,
Form:
Free verse
The Balcony
I watched happily as he stepped foot on my terrace,
All night we talked and he made my heart race.
But every time the night ends we had to part,
Bid our goodbyes, as the day will now...
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Categories:
portico, allusion, betrayal, blue, break up, dark, death,
Form:
Narrative
In Honor of You -
Invited into Her circle
of five points,one for each
of the qualities She crystallizes,
truth as fire, earth as nourishment,
body in water, lights in air, and ether as love,
in Her center a sacred thought having origin in primal...
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Categories:
portico, devotion,
Form:
Romanticism
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Twenty-Eight
The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Eight
Other media meanwhile busy with who’s sleeping with whom
Relying on New-Sweep and Thyme to make loud front-page zoom
Mainly of those who leapfrog into top power palaces
On whether de...
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Categories:
portico, allegory,
Form:
Rubaiyat
The Park
My park to me was not see-saws nor swings
instead, a treasure chest of stranger things.
A marble grave, 1891, well kept
where 'Tiny', estate owner's dog now slept.
The long gone Manor House front Portico
and where the star...
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Categories:
portico, childhood,
Form:
Rhyme
The Injured, Desolate Jericho
Where silhouetted sentinels silently stand in vain
bleeding shades of layered shame on blight-lined highways below,
their ghostly shadows remind us of dreams we dared to drain.
Interred on unkempt plots, crumbling...
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Categories:
portico, america, city, community, jobs, loss, political, poverty,
Form:
Villanelle
Roses and Carnations
ROSES AND CARNATIONS
Roses and carnations, a lively
Imitation, of life’s full-bodied wine.
Different, yet parallel.
The embodiment of Cupid’s strike.
~
Riveting roses, sensual & aromatic.
Hourglass form, like lover’s hips
And crimson lips. She’s introverted,
Felicitous and faithful.
A dozen in her dainty...
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Categories:
portico, flower, love,
Form:
Personification
Jerusalem
The holy city prized for ancient fame
With silent walls she wails in agony
For centuries ungodly conflicts reign
Her priests and prophets mourn captivity
Unqueened, for her ravished sanctuary
Political pawn is what she became
Religious and unfeigned hypocrisy
Heads bow...
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Categories:
portico, city, jesus, jewish, sad,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
My Moon
Can you bring me the moon
No no not the plumper one
But the fingernail...
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Categories:
portico, beautiful, beauty, moon,
Form:
Free verse
How It Crumbles
A couple of ruins leave the cathedrals
nave and portico;
it is always molting season,
mice and beetles help
they nibble and gnaw,
wind-laborer’s, labor,
their whiplash backs bent,
to lever slates and all things loosened.
The sanctified, they guard their stony hearts
but...
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Categories:
portico, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Death Sentence
{"I convicted myself into a death sentence when it came to dote on, bear the witnesses because they saw me alleviate the tears nobody had reconciled or dared to wipe away; they simply did not....
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Categories:
portico, absence, abuse, addiction, angst, anxiety, deep, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Biblical
The skies turned dark, the thunder boomed
And lightning zagged above,
A prelude to a celebration
Of two souls in love.
The hail poured down and bounced around
And sparkled on the grass.
We huddled in the portico
In hopes that...
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Categories:
portico, wedding,
Form:
Rhyme
Recognition
She daintly lifted the brush,
And applied the last finishing blush,
She had already shimmering attire on,
Now she slunged carousingly the costly fur also on,
The gong rang for her,
And she alerted her steps to stage,
The moment she...
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Categories:
portico,
Form:
Free verse