Long Proffer Poems
Long Proffer Poems. Below are the most popular long Proffer by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Proffer poems by poem length and keyword.
Enough
Enough!
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that I don’t want to die;
I shall be glad to go.
Enough of diabetes pie,
and eating sickly crow!
Enough of win and place and show.
Enough of endless woe!
Enough of suffering and vice!
I’ve...
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Categories:
proffer, body, cancer, death, health, irony, mental illness,
Form:
Light Verse
Enheduanna Translations
Enheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
proffer, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi
World 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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Categories:
proffer, evil, holocaust, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Marcel Moreau's a L'Amour By T Wignesan
Translation of the Elegy: On Marceline Desbordes-Valmore - À L'amour - Poem by Marcel Moreau Translated by T. Wignesan
Reprends de ce bouquet les trompeuses couleurs, (Take back the dubious colours...
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Categories:
proffer, absence, hate, heartbreak, irony, love, passion,
Form:
Quatrain
The Exaltation of Inanna
The Exaltation of Inanna: Opening Lines and Excerpts
by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon I of Akkad and high priestess of Inanna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lady of all divine powers!
Lady of the resplendent light!
Righteous Lady...
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Categories:
proffer, faith, god, light, religion, religious, sin, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky...
Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the month of June 1955,
not quite half...
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Categories:
proffer, america, anniversary, celebration, death, emotions, funeral, in
Form:
Rhyme
Lament To the Spirit of War
Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
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Categories:
proffer, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian
This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.
Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless poets put a mask on.
Encryption can be used to mask...
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Categories:
proffer, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination, metaphor, passion, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Designed Evolution - Revisions, By God
Designed Evolution?
As Blue Sky’s dreams take root in fields like Daffodils
That blossom knowledge Love does serve all human souls,
Their truth grows wild across our lands! Oh, every crevice touches strands
Where Evolution has a chance...
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Categories:
proffer, faith, life, love, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring also known as vernal equinox arrives March 20th, 2025
Spring (also known as vernal) equinox arrives March 20th, 2025
at 5:01?AM in Northern Hemisphere
out of hibernation,
sans mancave, I will climb
eastern standard time,
when calendrical, celestial,
and chronological prime
airy factors mark
onset of temperate clime
mitt, also coincides with
'super worm...
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Categories:
proffer, adventure, beautiful, bird, birth, inspirational, march, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Spring Equinox Arrives March 20th, 2023 At 5:24 Pm
Spring equinox arrives March 20th, 2023 at 5:24 PM
Despite what outside temperature registers
(even absolute zero), the official arrival
of spring occurs, when thee eel hip tic
of coe phish hunt holy Mackerel
becomes tangential to barenaked ladies
barren...
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Categories:
proffer, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, celebration, daffodils,
Form:
Free verse
Positively Stunning
I used to be obsessed with fashion, caring far too much about clothes,
Like the sun whenever he's coming and going, is striking vanity's pose.
I lavished absurdly upon my wardrobe, in excess of what was practical,
Like...
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Categories:
proffer, fantasy, fashion, growth, love, magic, people, vanity,
Form:
Couplet
I Am Ill Eke Quipped To Dusk Hoover Dawn Ting Task of Badinage
I am ill eke quipped to dusk hoover dawn ting task of badinage
Indentured gumption forsaken
courtesy each pulled wisdom-tooth
this hug gust aspiring writer..., albeit youth
fool looking imp posse Hubble wordsmith,
(i.e. the babbling dad) coon sitters...
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Categories:
proffer, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, beauty, confidence, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th, 1935 - May 4th, 2005
Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
untimely death sentence ordained
approximately six months prior
to mother dearest celebrating
her seventieth birthday,
though the last three years of her life
impacted courtesy hysterectomy
to remove...
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Categories:
proffer, absence, age, anniversary, birthday, death, family, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Sea of Roses
“Nobody`s life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.” Yoko Ono
**************************************************************
...
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Categories:
proffer, feelings, heart, life, love, paris,
Form:
Rhyme
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky circa November 13th
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th,
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday
of dear ole mom, who succumbed,
lost lease on life
nearly...
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Categories:
proffer, absence, age, america, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Rhyme
The Name and Blue Sky On a Sunlit Friday Morning
"The Name and Blue Sky on a Sunlit Friday Morning"
“There is something missing,” he announced.
“Oh,” She said, “in what way?”
“Well, “Love”? I wonder where it is, in all of this?”
A breeze moved hauntingly through the...
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Categories:
proffer, faith, home, i am, imagery, love, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
High School Sadness Sans Shana Aubrey Harris - Part One
How quick capitalone two-step flickr ring imperceptibly,
kneaded asper byte
sized LivingSocial ties, linkedin and massaged viz MineCraft flight
of fancy outlook with plenti full confidence, faith,
and inherent lettered oblations...
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Categories:
proffer, absence, adventure, age, angel, anniversary, beautiful, blessing,
Form:
Ballad
Harriet Harris Circa November 13th 1935 May 4th 2005
Harriet Harris circa November 13th, 1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)
Test teasing prophylactics embarrassing
purchase never made at local drugstore
unsurprisingly, obviously, invariably...
birth control taboo subject, best to ignore
subsequently intercourse...
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Categories:
proffer, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Elegy
The Arrogance of the Present
How, I wonder, do present people not
realize that what they do has been done?
That all their new fads, their new ideas,
have all had their day under the sun.
That we have lived without religions,
that gay unions...
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Categories:
proffer, humanity, people, philosophy, political, truth, vanity, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Rosh Hashshana 2023
Rosh Hashshana 2023
Began at sunset
on Friday, Sept. 15,
and ends at sunset
on Sunday, Sept. 17.
No matter yours truly an atheist,
I consider myself
fascinated with my Semitic ancestry
(maybe unwittingly genealogically
linkedin with unsuspecting...
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Categories:
proffer, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
We Conclude: the Trimming of the Christian Tree
We conclude" The Trimming of the Christian Tree
Times a wasting
Thanksgiving’s growing near.
We’ll soon drag out the plastic tree.
The family will trim it here.
Strips of Cloth
Clean swaddling cloths. And what of these?
To wrap the...
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Categories:
proffer, bible, birthday, christmas, religious,
Form:
Rhyme
The Atlantic Ocean An Unrelenting Mistress
The Atlantic ocean...,an unrelenting mistress
More'n ten thousand leagues under the sea
next to an octopus's garden in the shade.
OceanGate manufacturer
of the Titan Submersible,
which vessel that set out to reach
Titanic shipwreck with five passengers
officials believe the suffered
a...
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Categories:
proffer, abuse, analogy, anger, anxiety, bereavement, bullying, corruption,
Form:
Rhyme
The Shadows Following Apparitions
like shadows they follow us
they tell their stories
on pages
that may or may not
be seen, or read,
we a'muse them -
"we", of course, are truly inconsequential
in the greater scheme of things;
they are like ghosts
echoing...
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Categories:
proffer, poets, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Master Valluvan, the Long-Misunderstood Tamil Mentor - Part Three
Part Three
Whether or not relations with the uncultured enamour
Do not seek to succour what should sour
What does it matter if you gain or lose inferiors
Who feather their own nests and leave you in a mess
Those...
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Categories:
proffer,
Form:
Free verse