Long Prevail Poems
Long Prevail Poems. Below are the most popular long Prevail by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Prevail poems by poem length and keyword.
Cymbric Vale
I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
prevail, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Summer Solstice 2025
Summer Solstice 2025
Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun.
This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year
for people living
within the northern hemisphere.
Just shy of the supposed...
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Categories:
prevail, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty, dedication, earth, summer,
Form:
Free verse
The Storm Is In the Calm
The angles are in the storm
Just before the break of dawn
Sending a message to everyone
Telling them to remain calm
The angels are singing out loud
They want to break the treacherous cloud
and relinquish that awful...
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Categories:
prevail, abuse, america, angel, anger, betrayal, community, england,
Form:
Narrative
Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)
The student stands where shifting sands of thought
Once firm with reason
now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes
a threadbare fading strand,
A quest for wisdom
in this digital land.
Sage:...
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Categories:
prevail, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Turkish Poetry Translations Ii
Turkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
prevail, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With Commentary
Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
prevail, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
prevail, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
The Philistine Troops Gathered Up For War
The Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...
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Categories:
prevail, bible,
Form:
Rhyme
The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
prevail, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Attempts At Lifelong Friendships and Holy Matrimony
Introduction: once again I incorporate
my trademark penchant
to fabricate fictitiously
portions of the following poetic endeavor
can you care to
discern fact from fiction?
Attempts at lifelong friendships and holy matrimony...
Shot thru with figuratively cankerous nub,
cuz yours...
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Categories:
prevail, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Wonderful Women
Mary was a virgin girl:
With big dreams and aspirations!
An angel came to visit her:
With honor and salutations!
Troubled by his sayings:
She did not know what to think!
The angel said to Mary:
My dear, no need to shrink!
Mary...
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Categories:
prevail, inspirational, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice Adventure
Continued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure
When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the day might bring
Their guns were charged and ready and...
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Categories:
prevail, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Gingerbread Cottage Fright
At the edge of a wood, in days of summertime,
Lived Hansel and Gretel, once upon a time;
Whose dear father, a poor woodcutter,
Could no longer earn their bread and butter.
Late one night, a conversation overheard--
As from...
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Categories:
prevail, children, family, fantasy, happy,
Form:
Rhyme
All That Was Sparta
Our lusty voice was in the tramp of narrow, winding,
Scree-littered, deep-rutted roads;
Ravens, uttering guttural croaks, slow-wheeling above
...
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Categories:
prevail, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Tasting Africa, One L----Ick At a Time - Part 1
Tasting Africa (One L****ick at a Time) Part 1
(Though the title's a joke, my limericks are not!)
1. Life's Always an Adventure (Morogoro)
Can one's life be that safe when all live in a zoo -
Friend on...
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Categories:
prevail, africa, appreciation, journey, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Sound of Silence - Lady Hawke - With Darren White
Synopsis
The lovely Lady Isabeau and her lover, medieval French Knight Etienne escape to flee the lustful advances of wicked Bishop of Aquila causing them to run afoul of him. The evil-bishop places them under a...
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Categories:
prevail, betrayal, desire, emotions, evil, love, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Cavemen
Ugg and Ogg, on a rock they sat.
The pair were in hiding from the sabred cat.
They had hunted for a whole week long.
But, recently it had all gone wrong.
The ladies were waiting...
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Categories:
prevail, funny, humor, silly,
Form:
Verse
Doing absolute zero endeavors
Doing absolute zero endeavors
Earlier today March 28th, 2025
(thee hour now fifteen minutes
after eight o'clock at night, cuz
yours truly & wife paced back
and forth from one room to the
other wearing out rugged groovy
Tuesday (three day) experienced...
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Categories:
prevail, absence, adventure, angel, angst, humorous, joy, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Lincolns Lesson Learned
Hard driven by the embarrassment,
...
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Categories:
prevail, america, beautiful, blessing, community, integrity,
Form:
I do not know?
K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With Commentary
K373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...
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Categories:
prevail, appreciation, bible, christian, fate, philosophy, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 28
Quietly, the memory of my grandfather manifested itself,
In the colors and shimmers of the Holy Spirit,
I saw his human face,
The familiar lines, the flesh,
The pair of oceanic eyes, slowly blinking
Smiling,
Like a heavenly beam
Splashing...
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Categories:
prevail, allegory, analogy, deep, emotions, humanity, meaningful, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
2020
At first, it wasn't my father's Oldsmobile.
Then, there came a longing for a new identity
with an invasion of one morphing after another.
Next thing I knew, there was 'no' Oldsmobile.
It seems that so many things started...
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Categories:
prevail, america, anxiety, christian, christmas, god, hope, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
I Got Friggin Heebie Jeebies
I got friggin heebie jeebies
Cuz buzzards circle o'er me
eyeing these lovely bones prithee
id est Roy L. T. Canard, Si
hence impossible mission
to be lovey dove vee.
Vague remembrances of dream
which recurred with frequency
transfixed by...
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Categories:
prevail, angst, anxiety, betrayal, community, environment, faith, how
Form:
Rhyme
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Translations
Mehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish National Anthem.
Snapshot
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
prevail, dark, death, earth, grave, life, war, world,
Form:
Ghazal
Chalk Dust and Stardust
Amidst the chaos of chalk and dreams deferred,
We ask ourselves, where can we find the spark
In this labyrinth of rote and rigid words?
The burden we bear, a future stark
We've trudged through dusty classrooms, yearning
For wisdom...
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Categories:
prevail, education,
Form:
Free verse