Long Preference Poems
Long Preference Poems. Below are the most popular long Preference by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Preference poems by poem length and keyword.
THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
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Categories:
preference, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
Rejection Slips 3Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
preference, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Eden and the FallPoems about Adam, Eve, Lucifer
Eden
by Michael R. Burch
Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone, unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat?
Fruit indecently sweet,
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...
Outcasts
by...
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Categories:
preference, bible, christian, creation, god, heaven, paradise, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Halloween Poems Ivthe Horror
by Michael R. Burch
the Horror lurks inside our closets
the Horror hides beneath our beds
the Horror hisses ancient curses
the Horror whispers in our heads
the Horror tells us Death is coming
the Horror tells us there’s no...
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Categories:
preference, dark, death, evil, grave, halloween, horror, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Red and Green ChristiansLet's start with a fundamental flaw of fundamentalist Christianity,
a literary flaw within literal non-interpretation of historical creation
and sacred development.
This is true of radical jihadist Muslims as well,
although we both know you think you're more special...
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Categories:
preference, addiction, bible, hate, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Today Is DifferentToday is assiduously
religiously different,
as I review our local RiverEast News.
Every week
Mike Thompson writes a solid Editorial
in a compelling voice.
I expect to only add
my hearty sacred
happy secular "Amen!"
Our nearly fearless Editor and Chief
calls for political "ACCOUNTABILITY!"
like...
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Categories:
preference, america, health, integrity, prayer, spiritual, spoken word,
Form:
Political Verse
Enlightening Systems"Overcoming misleading [economic and political] metaphors
that are physically [naturally, ecosystemically, phylogenically] in [and of]
your [ecological-organic embodied] brain
is never easy."
George Lakoff, The Political...
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Categories:
preference, blessing, humor, math, mentor, metaphor, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Yangyyolks With Yinyin-WhitesStart and end each day,
and life,
with a taoist egg.
I doubt my eggs are religious.
No, but they are natural,
organic incubators,
co-arising nondual yolk form
with transparent regenerative function,
cosmological purpose, maybe,
if you're a chicken,
or a turkey,
or a...
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Categories:
preference, analogy, culture, earth, food, health, math, science,
Form:
Narrative
Judging V MediatingJudging v Mediating,
like Teaching v Mentoring,
like Win/Lose Retributive Motives v Win/Win Restorative Motivators
like dogmatic Preaching v compassionately Communicating,
As felt
and appreciated by my LeftBrain dominant
RightWing hand
nurturing StraightWhite patriarchal
overpoweringly privileged
systemically elitist judgment
Branching, colonizing,
extending up and...
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Categories:
preference, community, culture, earth, environment, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Red and Blue Estrangered FamiliesDear Siblings Three,
I was reading a story
in which some siblings became estranged
after their parents died,
while others moved toward greater solidarity.
This is a variation on a diaspora story.
But, here growing physical distance
is seen more as a...
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Categories:
preference, earth, faith, family, health, integrity, religion, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
The Giant of LisbellawStood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
preference, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a ReservationBack in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...
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Categories:
preference, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Family TherapyFeminist ecotherapists,
deeply immersed in polycultural ecology,
a systematic teleology of cooperative nutrition economics,
remain rarely flushed out from their safe spots.
A self-isolating,
often eremitic,
subspecies,
with shamanic nature-as-spirit tendencies,
our most articulate mentors often wander off
to pray for,
breathe and suffer and...
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Categories:
preference, addiction, endurance, environment, health, judgement, political, psychological,
Form:
Political 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:
preference, art, boyfriend, character, emotions, girlfriend, hello,
Form:
Epic
Love You MessagesWhen the StraightWhite Patriarchal President
sent out his Praise and Thanks Message
"We love you"
to those who would cathartically enjoy beheading
VicePresident St. Peter's Pence
loves homophobic St. Paul,
This felt like too much tolerating
an unconstitutional intolerable
absence of basic...
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Categories:
preference, health, love, peace, political, power, race,
Form:
Political Verse
Disconnecting DogmatismOur humane-empowering species,
steeped in regenetic history
of human nature connecting
disconnecting
reconnecting
preconnecting,
Has an unfortunate tendency,
especially in Abrahamic historical traditions,
to imagine that our own religious tradition
is not only free of historical-cultural adaptation
but also the one supremely right-wing Way
orthodox Truth
healthy...
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Categories:
preference, culture, education, health, light, power, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Face Masks, Face Veils: Same Thinghttps://youtu.be/c1gNm21YzfI
When last I visited India almost a decade ago
I recall riding on my brother's scooter
as he drove me around town,
And I saw fully veiled Muslim women
half their faces veiled, masked in Niqab
driving scooters,...
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Categories:
preference, health, truth, , western,
Form:
Prose
The Instincts of InnocenceI reflect upon a word -
Innocence
To understand more fully what it means,
I think of what it conjures up for me -
childhood times -
those times when I believed all I was taught
from...
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Categories:
preference, innocence, religion,
Form:
Prose
You Never Left MeYou, never, left me
Parents
Separated
Children
Sent, away
Others
Stray
Out, of, sight
To, fight
A, living
Misery
Seemingly
Very, very
Wrong
Everything, gone!
Life
Isn’t
Right
Past
Insight
A, loner
Bi Polar
Without
Medication
To, boarder
Needs
Sedation
Any
Mind
Filling
Stimulation
Annulling
His
Sensations
Could
Cause
Dramatic
Fanatic
Inflation
Bi Polar stumbles, on
The, children’s, prison
Sensing
Grieving
He, plans, on
Just
Leaving
Until
Still…
He, remembers...
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Categories:
preference, crazy,
Form:
Epic
God's Zen VoiceOnce upon this time
I was listening to the Christian Fathers
retell traditional stories
of God's election and predestination.
Predestination
is like being born into royalty,
power,
privileges of humane Earth's regenerative grace.
Election is more democratic.
Selection based on God's vote for mercy,
apparently,
because...
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Categories:
preference, blessing, culture, gender, god, health, strength,
Form:
Political Verse
Speaking From Felt ExperienceEnjoying Earth's promised land
of compassionate
multicultural communion,
we share a preference for deep
rich soil
and fertile green-blue
resonating surf
As our bodies adjust
to rocky and prickly
either me
or not me space
And our minds flow
back and forth
through gooey both "me"
and organic neurosystemic...
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Categories:
preference, anxiety, community, feelings, health, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Beloved Complex CommunityMy fetal alcoholic bipolar:
“sometimes I experience low anxiety
and act like a happy drunk”
“sometimes,
like when entering new places
and situations,
I experience high anxiety
and act like a very bad
and mean-spirited drunk
with immense juvenile curiosity and overload,
near total...
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Categories:
preference, community, culture, discrimination, earth, environment, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Choosing Safe Hands and HeadsLike you,
I make choices each moment
of each day.
Apparently,
we review those choices each dreaming moment
of enculturing memory.
We choose within a range
of resonance
--regenerative
polycultural potential
for nurturing WinWin resolution--
or cognitiveLeft/affectiveRight dissonance
Dissonance between our
Left Ego's Interior Landscape,
a land...
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Categories:
preference, destiny, happiness, health, humor, love, nature, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
First Faces of ConflictPerhaps too redundantly,
and not quite octave-eloquently enough,
we have pictured Original Yang/Yin ReGenerative/DeGenerative CoArising Intent
as LeftBrain Patriarchal EgoDominant
with a preference for WinLose,
defined as Either-Or thinking
with fundamentalist vertical power hierarchical assumptions
that LeftElite will always remain conservatively On...
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Categories:
preference, earth, environment, health, humanity, humor, philosophy, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
My Heart's In the Write PlaceDear promising poet,
for me, modern poetry provides a peek into a poet’s inner world. Through this artistic medium, a poet speaks in expressive language of imagery and metaphor conveying varied textures of emotions and observations...
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Categories:
preference, encouraging, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Prose