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 ValeI 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
The Storm Is In the CalmThe 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
Turkish Poetry Translations IiTurkish 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
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
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional 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
IronbarHe 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 WarThe 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 Plagueas 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 MatrimonyIntroduction: 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 WomenMary 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 AdventureContinued 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 FrightAt 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 SpartaOur 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 1Tasting 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 WhiteSynopsis
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 CavemenUgg 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
Lincolns Lesson LearnedHard 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 CommentaryK373 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 28Quietly, 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
2020At 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
Logic of Time's UnunfoldingI imagine the ecological sciences
as interior formal, and not so formal, systemic voices,
speaking of biological sciences
as exterior systemic function,
biology evolves what ecology resolves,
Ecology refines healthy regenerative biological reasons
for cooperative ecotherapeutic intent,
political practice,
design,
and economic development
of...
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Categories:
prevail, community, culture, earth, nature, science, time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
I Got Friggin Heebie JeebiesI 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 TranslationsMehmet 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
Secret Love - 2nd Place Contest WinIf you spill your secrets to the breeze,
Don't blame the wind for laying them to light.
Once said, words are disclosed, even to trees.
And claim peace in the leaves that rustle and fight.
Whispered tales of a...
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Categories:
prevail, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Island NationsIn a sense
each person capable of understanding these words
and those who speak diverse languages together
are island nations
splitting in two
by love
or fear
or both.
I have been concerned about the U.S. island of fundamentalist Christians,
formerly part of the...
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Categories:
prevail, christian, health, hope, islamic, love, peace, usa,
Form:
Political Verse