Long Prickly Poems
Long Prickly Poems. Below are the most popular long Prickly by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Prickly poems by poem length and keyword.
I feel in fuhrer rated and enviousI feel in führer rated and envious...
entrapped within webbed wide world
weft as a rump pulled stilts skein
at warp speed exhibiting
my heroic trumpian wiles
cuz he (johnny come lately) a then
exemplary hedonist, narcissist,
and polygamist dons
comical,...
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Categories:
prickly, adventure, america, analogy, anxiety, conflict, crush, god,
Form:
Free verse
Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
prickly, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Poems About DogsPoems about Dogs
This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently caressing his head,
I acknowledge his company.
This simple recognition gives my...
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Categories:
prickly, animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Pequot River Land TrustOnce,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
prickly, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
prickly, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Bodhisattva TeaseDo you share my concern
that your happiness and healthy life
are too ephemeral,
short-lived?
No! Why? Do you know something I should know?
Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive
EarthAgapic energy for healthy life,
despite the...
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Categories:
prickly, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Sonnet Lxxxi-LxxxixSonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
prickly, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
prickly, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Various Heresies 5Various Heresies 5
Tonight, Let's Remember
by Michael R. Burch
July 7,2007 (7-7-7)
Tonight, let's remember the fond ways
our fingers engendered new methods to praise
the gray at my temples, your thinning hair.
Tonight, let's remember, and let us draw near...
Tonight,...
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Categories:
prickly, creation, earth, god, heaven, spiritual, wine, women,
Form:
Verse
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
prickly, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You PlayEvery Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp...
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Categories:
prickly, aubade, beauty, dog, for her, fruit, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Spineless In the RunningWas this a bold endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
In one sense I was caught between two poles apart concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish
difficult decision.
A decision that may...
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Categories:
prickly, age, august, beautiful, care, city, creation, fate,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fr Time's Curious AmbiguityFr. Time, are you a monopolistic universalist?
Yes, but also a polycultural evolutionist.
Are you an outgoing kinda Yang guy?
Yes, but in an out/integrity balancing kindness
of an in/outgoing co-passionately healthy communicator
way,
Easier to share life's co-operative win/win
comprehensively...
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Categories:
prickly, destiny, earth, humor, identity, nature, political, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Time After TimeFr. Time, thanks for coming back again today.
Well now, you know I always have plenty of time
for Ms. Integrity!
Thank you for that rather cloying and creepy response.
I talked to FireGod a few days ago,
were...
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Categories:
prickly, god, humor, life, love, psychological, space, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Story of HistoryThe Story of History
Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With the resurrected sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps at the pretentious proscenium
A ...
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Categories:
prickly, history,
Form:
Free verse
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy GrowthShame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.
Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...
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Categories:
prickly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Desert RoseI was driving to Utah, because I had gotten a promotion;
And chose the scenic route, so as to put things in motion.
I had been traveling from Los Angeles, to Salt Lake City;
And the scenery along...
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Categories:
prickly, beauty, faith, fantasy, inspiration, lost, purple, rose,
Form:
Couplet
GrimfreeNote:
Dear Chris,
I could go into souls as mindbody identities with interdependently co-arising individuation/reconnection processes, also known as living, and in/ex-carnation, but my gut says to go to your 4-soul prototype that has been useful in...
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Categories:
prickly, birth, creation, culture, deep, destiny, happiness, health,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Surviving Chronic EclipsesI was on my ambivalent fence
about who to watch watch the solar eclipse,
my alcoholic allies
or the designer THC corporate investors.
Wherever it was,
we read excerpts from two permaculture designers,
to get our minds ready for this great...
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Categories:
prickly, culture, gender, health, humor, integrity, math, seasons,
Form:
Political Verse
Lost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacyLost libido as rez erected cockamamie Shtrungool haint no prickly fallacy
The following pastiche
poetically pricked prick,
whereby fantasy courtesy Eros
(????) cow licked
country bumpin videlicet hick
bullied who consider me
on account of a dinky dick.
Me primate...
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Categories:
prickly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
PolyNomial CoBinary Math ProblemsThe problem of PolyNomials,
equivalent or not?
with Not PolyNomials
hides a geometric bilateral
not-no means yes
polynomial assumption
that was profoundly channeled by ZeroCentric Bucky Fuller's
universal whole systemic Synergy.
1 Polynomial v 0 NotPolynomial
assumes if we could distinguish NP...
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Categories:
prickly, dark, humor, integrity, math, relationship, science, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Why Multicultural Education MattersThe Twelfth Principle
Cooperatively adopt
and responsively adapt
for creolizing acclimation,
best climate and landscape health practices.
The U.S. today
reweaves two points of national nurturing departure,
both taught in schools
and history books
and multicultural sciences
and scents
and sounds.
LeftBrain dominance,
here in post-millennial enculturing lands,
remembers...
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Categories:
prickly, caregiving, forgiveness, health, history, native american, patriotic,
Form:
Political Verse
Father Time's Surprising Taoist IntimationsTell me,
Father Time,
if you would share this space
it would mean everything to me
to us, so kind
Choosing healthiest seasons
for your highest priority,
comprehensive
social-political-economic-cultural issues:
1. Chilling domestic economy
flat-line trends,
2. International peace intent
and springtime praxis,
3. Continuous...
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Categories:
prickly, analogy, culture, earth, games, humor, psychological, time,
Form:
Narrative
Three Colored PigsOnce upon a ZeroTime
we suffered great terror and loss.
People,
animals,
and plants
refused to speak kindly with each other
because of a Big Bad Wolf
named Ms. Climatic Change
by her delightfully demented transparents.
Most all credible scientists in that day
were...
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Categories:
prickly, dream, earth, health, humanity, humor, integrity, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Positive Political ProblemsMy fundraising problem with positive psychology,
said the good health doctor,
it is too social science squishy,
not leftbrain dominant enough,
Suspiciously ecofeminist
for natural science pathologists
Straight-White privileged proctologists
urologists
bicamerally challenged cardiologists.
I must concede
not ecopolitically erect enough
correct indeed
said the nervous
trauma...
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Categories:
prickly, addiction, caregiving, health, integrity, mental illness, political,
Form:
Political Verse