Long Possess Poems
Long Possess Poems. Below are the most popular long Possess by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Possess poems by poem length and keyword.
Fairer, IndeedWOMEN ...
Truly amaze me ... they possess the super-human
strength to birth a child - one of the most painful
and demanding physical and emotional feats of end-
urance known to our species - yet they have the
self-confidence...
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Categories:
possess, appreciation, humanity, love, wisdom, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
possess, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
possess, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Medieval Poems IvMedieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
possess, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich FriedWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
possess, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Rumi Translation: the FieldThe Field
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Far beyond sermons of right and wrong there's a sunlit field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lazes in such lush grass
the world is too...
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Categories:
possess, earth, green, islamic, rights, soulmate, sound, words,
Form:
Epigram
Rumi Translation: BirdsongBirdsong
by Rumi
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Birdsong relieves
my deepest griefs:
now I'm just as ecstatic as they,
but with nothing to say!
Please universe,
rehearse
your poetry
through me!
I choose to love you in silence
by Rumi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I...
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Categories:
possess, bird, music, poetry, poets, song, universe, writing,
Form:
Verse
An Ordinary Girl - Translation From TagoreSharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...
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Categories:
possess, life, loss,
Form:
Narrative
With All His Love -The Acrophora Style~ With All His Love ~
(Acrophora)
L o ve and Care with all of your heart and soul
O n everything always Seek the Lord
V alue Love, all you...
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Categories:
possess, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs
“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and...
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Categories:
possess, dark, destiny, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Nowhere Else To GoNowhere Else To Go
Welcome to Israel: Land of Hope.1
(The land of Zion and Jerusalem.)2
Where prophets walked and prophesied,
For their God, our God:
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.3
And the Lord spoke to Abram, and he...
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Categories:
possess, bible, education, history, jewish,
Form:
Verse
Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic ParkerThese words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
possess, beauty, emotions, love, passion, romantic, sensual, soulmate,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
A Poem of RuthThe tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a distant, unknown land:
Once so secure, yet now compelled to roam;
Once...
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Categories:
possess, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Love Brings Hope - the Tigerjade Style~ Love Brings Hope ~
( Tigerjade )
~O~
Love brings Hope
Helps me cope
It's great when you possess them all inside your heart
Life without them, truly hard to continue, start...
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Categories:
possess, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Love Brings Hope - the Tigerjade Style~ Love Brings Hope ~
( Tigerjade )
~O~
Love brings Hope
Helps me cope
It's great when you possess them all inside your heart
Life without them, truly hard to continue, start...
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Categories:
possess, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Rhyme
On the Need To Avoid Being Envious: Canto Xvii, K161, K162 of the Thiruk-KuralOn the need to avoid being envious: Canto XVII, K161, K162 of the THIRUK-KURAL, Translation with Commentary
[ ENVY, of course, knows no racial nor ethnic boundaries, but I wouldn't be wrong, I dare say, ...
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Categories:
possess, evil, hate, jealousy, racism, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
A Welcome Intrusion - 2nd HalfThis is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
The 1st HALF can be...
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Categories:
possess, father son,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 75 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Let the Game BeginDJ and the Damian squad rushed
The house. "Dad we're gonna
Play CRUEL BALL!" Amadeus
Gave notice. Damian said, "Oh
Yeah." He put his hands on both
His sons shoulders and said.
"Fellows first of all it's...
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Categories:
possess, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Glory To Thermodynamics In GeneralGlory to thermodynamics in general...
and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly
spoiled with trappings
of Western Civilization.
How ideal I imagine
to dwell in a self sufficient domicile,
where thrum of the central heater...
automatically activated
upon...
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Categories:
possess, adventure, appreciation, april, community, courage, desire, light,
Form:
Rhyme
PrologueWhether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be nothing more...
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Categories:
possess, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Modus Operandi of Psychopaths and SociopathsModus Operandi of psychopaths and sociopaths
They are all around us, seeking to destroy us,
if not to kill us, to maim us, for life
physically, mentally, emotionally
morally, financially.
They are the psychopaths and sociopaths!
Now psychopaths are rare indeed,...
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Categories:
possess, betrayal, bible, corruption, horror, humanity, psychological, war,
Form:
Narrative
Rabindranath Tagore Translations IiPatience
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
If you refuse to speak, I will fill my heart with your silence and endure it.
I will remain still and wait like the night through its starry vigil
with...
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Categories:
possess, dark, heart, night, silence, spoken word, stars,
Form:
Free verse
He Said, I SaidHow the housefly gets attracted to organic decay
and an infant child traces the voice of its mother
are nothing compared to the intense attraction
Michelle and I possess on the guy owning not a strand of hair...
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Categories:
possess, art, boyfriend, character, emotions, girlfriend, hello,
Form:
Epic
Kaleidoscope
"Kaleidoscope"
They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy
and far removed from
such an alien world,
would not possess the knowledge
of such terrible and ruthless, lusty
characters of strong will;...
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Categories:
possess, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
I'Ve Got To GoI’m on my way, I’ve got to go
(the reasons why you’ll never know),
whisked away in winter’s winds, your sleeping sighs remind me.
And I’ll ramble where I please,
sometimes slipping to my knees,
phantom memories a’ chasing close...
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Categories:
possess, cute, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme