Long Presses Poems
Long Presses Poems. Below are the most popular long Presses by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Presses poems by poem length and keyword.
FlintFlint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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presses,
Form:
Abecedarian
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak VinerWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems V - Ber Horvitz, Yitzkhak Viner, Franta Bass
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes....
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presses, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo LeviWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find
warm food,
welcoming faces...
consider whether this...
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presses, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan
(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms,...
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presses, england, poetry, political, power,
Form:
Free verse
The Good GirlThe Good Girl
Penny has always been a good girl, now she is a good wife. She lives in a good neighborhood, drives a nice car, has two perfect children. Her husband is a doctor and...
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presses, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Prose
Celena, Brave Celena- Part 2Their rending cries, when all is still, reecho in the moonlight;
They lie about in fitful slumber on the ground at noonlight,
Their virgin hair spread in the dust; for nothing really matters:
Who then will see their...
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presses, assonance, bible, courage, daughter, farewell,
Form:
Narrative
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...
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presses, absence, age, america, anniversary, april, bereavement, cry,
Form:
Rhyme
Portrait of a Hanging
With the opening of my fortress cell,
solemn-faced men come locust invading in
Their mouths smile not, and eyes neither grin
as ceremonial words pursed lips expel
A deer thought escapes ... my life nears its end!
And I feel...
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Categories:
presses, dark, death, horror, imagery, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
To War, From Youthoh youth in all its callow shades
is from our hope, precisely made
...
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Categories:
presses, war,
Form:
Epic
Yoga In Poem a Novel Approach Step 4Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 4
PADMASANA- LOTUS POSE Step 04
Posture - Sit on any flat comfortable ground or carpet/Rug/Durry. Stretch your legs in front of you loosely. Hold your right foot ...
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Categories:
presses, health, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
CrimeIs to borrow a quote from a hero plagiarism or is it in honor of his memory
Is to but recite the intelligence of a general man forgotten to forever etch it in history
Is it a...
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Categories:
presses, hero, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
How I Write a PoemNote: To view the final poem refer to my poem 'We Are So Drawn...'
Here's my work product for this sad, strange poem that I've just completed. I
include the syllable and rhyme scheme notation I...
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Categories:
presses, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
A Slice of Life a Day In the Life Part 2A slice of life / a day in the life
Out in the elements – almost every day, training,
weather, sunshine, cloudy – B. C. fate – raining.
Seventy five reps, twenty times over my head,
on my back,...
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Categories:
presses, life, planet, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Inferno In the SkiesShe has been planning this vacation for more than a year, she has so much love to share, she could not get any of it so she has to give away all of it. Sometimes...
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presses, adventure, business, courage, cry, family, fire, happiness,
Form:
Narrative
Consonant Like a Vow ElConsonant Like A Vow (el)
Now ma nada twirly (to early) twittering
condolences to the esprit de corps, qua
(just recently) late John McCain, and his
surviving family suddenly damning original
way word odd did see,...
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Categories:
presses, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, america,
Form:
Free verse
Purr, No Chance To DreamThe worst of the bright-cracks have passed.
The tumultiest of the bucketiest of the rains have proved not to last.
The cat has chirp-purred his way into a damp-fur snuggle.
It’s Price is Right...
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Categories:
presses, cat, morning, rain, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Crow In LoveStop! Stop the presses! Halt, please listen to me
I have an announcement! I think...I think I'm in love
If only there was a crowd to tell, a mountain to shout from
but all who can hear are...
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Categories:
presses, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
IllusionsDripping darkness, doubt, despair
Melancholy, secrets kept
From the heart who knows only
To breathe and believe, to see
What is good and kind and alive
To give – what is moral, upright, polite
Like the miracle of angels passing by
On...
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Categories:
presses, addiction, angst, anxiety, conflict, depression, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Rule of Threes SixThe real fealty
Fellowship with Deity
Not aseity
Where is His power?
Do not let His will sour
Why you don't flower
Man is not the cure
His righteousness is manure
God-Man must procure
Can't laugh off this One
Demons in the swine are done
To...
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presses, bible, muse, religious, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Ber Horvitz Translations of Holocaust PoemsTranslations of Holocaust poems by Ber Horvitz aka Ber Horowitz
Der Himmel
"The Heavens"
by Ber Horvitz
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
These skies
are leaden, heavy, gray ...
I long for a pair
of deep blue eyes.
The birds have...
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Categories:
presses, holocaust, horror, race, racism, violence, war, world
Form:
Verse
Are We Not Flesh By: Kevin Mitchell Aka Kevin GuruAre we not flesh?
with scars of the heart?
Needing are we
to confess our
darkness?
As it is foretold
Darkness was upon
the deep
Ether, and
Thought became Word then Sound
Then came light.
Are we embraced
by Seen and unseen
Forces?
That if we speak
As God...
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Categories:
presses, beauty, creation, fate, fear, god, growth, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Free Cee Was the Lords Will To KillWAS THE LORD'S WILL TO KILL?
The following is an accurate account,
Recounted verbatim and voiced by a machine that brings down a lot of trusting fools
A dissertation delivered by this dude who was just following...
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Categories:
presses, angst, allah,
Form:
Quatrain
CarcassEarth crosses her heart at midnight
Shaking loose dust upon battered edge
Scorn mocks the piercing night as daylight
Moves swiftly with open jaws waiting for a fight.
I can recall the days when she was in full...
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Categories:
presses, community, computer, cousin, dark, daughter, emotions,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Free Cee I Said To Burn Thost Mittens, Not KittensI SAID BURN THOSE MITTENS, NOT KITTENS
So isn't it cute the way newborn kittens can't open their eyes
eyes like the government has on all of us...................
pass a red light...
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Categories:
presses, angst, sweet, red, sweet, , cute,
Form:
Quatrain
My Lovers Beyond CompareI greet you, oh mighty Sun!
You who warm us everyone
You who glow to make things grow
You who melt all ice and snow
You are a most mighty one
For you rule the sky, oh Sun
But my Lover...
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Categories:
presses, dedication, love,
Form:
Personification