Long Purview Poems
Long Purview Poems. Below are the most popular long Purview by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Purview poems by poem length and keyword.
Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I
"Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watched with their faces vexed.
The women...
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Categories:
purview, crazy, funny, giggle, howl, humor, silly,
Form:
Limerick
My Last Las Vegas Ces
My Last Las Vegas C.E.S. (1)
(A Memorial Poem)
I long counted Steve Bristow a friend (1) and we'd fly off to lunch
some days (Steve would get 'hours in' he needed for license - small planes).
It was...
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Categories:
purview, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Lifeboat the Atheist's Cloak
Part 8
The Atheist awoke to find himself still in the boat
With his dream lost to the heat of the Sun.
And quickly took note, 'Peg Leg' had stolen his cloak
...
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Categories:
purview, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
A Canadian's Letter To Americans: a Thousand Points of Light
A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! !
Once a beacon of democracy
A shining light on the hill
The ‘American Dream’
Anyone can ‘make it’
Never more than aspirational
Structurally delusional
Always susceptible to its
Achilles heel of...
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Categories:
purview, conflict, corruption, leadership, power, racism, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
Mighty White the Us
Mighty White the US!
How ‘white’ whites are who worship Sun and think a tan line’s fine
though folks whose skin is darker tone won’t see a valentine!
Let’s say proof’s real, fear’s justified, and poverty breeds crime,
but...
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Categories:
purview, character, family, history, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The humble cockroach
The humble cockroach -
Survival of one wreath speck table insect,
(poll ease pod din me Elmer Fudd speak)
thus earning hardy laurels
nsync with inxs of standing kudos
ranking as bajillion year old species
scientific name: Periplaneta americana
(Linnaeus) Insecta:...
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Categories:
purview, america, animal, creation, dark, light, nature, spanish,
Form:
Free verse
Where
We see ourselves as that fire across the land;
a wall of words to wall out hurt or pain.
We create a story among ourselves to entertain,
experience awareness as a finger of approaching throb.
It is us we...
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Categories:
purview, baptism, birth, celebration, creation, destiny, inspiration, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Stance River - 19
Through April and May not a single Indian has been noticed
along all the serpentine bends of this rambunctious river,
however I feel we are being espied by a jealous warparty
immortal in it's protection of this pristine...
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Categories:
purview, adventure,
Form:
Epic
October 7th, 2023 Upon Third Anniversary of Mine Papa's Passing
October 7th, 2023 upon third anniversary of mine papa's passing...
Death no longer jars, nixes,
and rattles mine sense and sensibilities
without pride nor prejudice
no matter (even with marginal persuasion)
wit and wisdom of Jane Austen ill...
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Categories:
purview, adventure, age, america, anniversary, april, dad, death,
Form:
Rhyme
The Warlord Wars No More -1
Clemency is a quality that I never understood
until after I crucified the Cilician pirates on Pergamus,
amusing isn't it, that I see mercy where brutality stood,
Death has a heartbeat for all of us,
there's no greater mystery...
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Categories:
purview, history,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
October 7th, 2022 Upon Second Anniversary of Mine Papa's Passing
October 7th, 2022 upon second anniversary of mine papa's passing...
Death no longer jars, nixes,
and rattles mine sense and sensibilities
without pride or prejudice
no matter (even with marginal persuasion)
wit and wisdom of Jane Austen ill...
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Categories:
purview, absence, adventure, celebration, death, father, father son,
Form:
Rhyme
Ideally Primed To Write
...Ideally Primed To Write...
Fallow wing on figurative
awk kill lees heal
of: "My on call (Uncle)
Muse Never Sleeps"-
which hoop fully
...
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Categories:
purview, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
23rd Psalms: Path to Righteousness
Mom of 13 siblings was the last to pass. Behind a hung draped sheet that parted the bedroom she was in, from the living room, she saw Grandpa prepare wooden crates used to pack mangoes,...
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Categories:
purview, bible, death, faith, family, growing up, prayer,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
It Was the Word After All
Wrapped into a cocoon of impenetrable meaning and faith he followed the light
Doom and gloom had once shadowed his library of dreams and contentment
Scattered in his loony resemblance of a rational mind words rearranged reason
Analyses...
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Categories:
purview, books,
Form:
Free verse
Who's Right: Echo Poem 1
(Different Perspectives)
Rock Bottom
In pure original science
I know the true facts
Behold what is left of me, oh if the whole world could only see
Dear skies are the truest blue
In the...
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Categories:
purview, depression, perspective,
Form:
Blank verse
Jerusalem, the Jugular - Part One
You can't imagine what its like to march on a sacred city,
to plunder and pulverize a Peoples' promise to Deity,
demolishing centuries of lavish labor, wasting offspring of ancient heredity,
destroying flesh, scriptures and stone with a...
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Categories:
purview, war,
Form:
Epic
Death Jars, Nixes, and Rattles Mine Sense and Sensibilities
Father now journeys
into afterlife destination alone,
October 7th, 2020 mid afternoon
with Earthlings ministration did attone
where night envelops his lovely bones
rendered devoid of any groan
courtesy Roxanol (morphine)
and Ativan finding him prone
to experience painlessness, and no
his dying wish,...
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Categories:
purview, absence, confusion, dark, death, destiny, father, heartbroken,
Form:
Rhyme
Time Swirled Messages
Each poem’s a web that I hang (time-smoked adage
that swirls in the sky) and dream seasons rare eyes!
With no thought of entrapment or hope of ingesting,
rhyme longs more to bless you, verse whispers, “Hello.”
Heart’s a...
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Categories:
purview, faith, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Remembering Neethu Panicker - Chapter 5
Chapter 5
They both sat in stunned silence with tears falling down
The boy entered, saw them, and hightailed it.
For a life time it seemed the two women just hugged
Till the boy’s mother sobbed, “Ah, she’s gone...
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Categories:
purview, death, friendship, life, love, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Heaven
Heaven ...
I have imagined a wondrous place
a realm of joy and peace and comfort, eternal
where those we've lost
gather us to their care and fellowship
in a purview of empathic resonance and mirth
where light finds every corner
and...
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Categories:
purview, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Saga of Henry Wiggins - Part I
That night old Henry rose up off his bench;
Evening's light growing dimmer as the sun set in the west,
Throwing stabs of light on the old village common -
Masked strangers on the pavement mocking the night.
Lighthearted...
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Categories:
purview, conflict, corruption, deep, people,
Form:
Free verse
Jerusalem, the Jugular -1
You can't imagine what it's like to march on a sacred city,
to plunder and pulverize a Peoples' physical promise to a Deity,
demolishing centuries of lavish labor,
wasting offspring of ancient heredity,
destroying flesh, scripture and stone
with...
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Categories:
purview, history,
Form:
Epic
Get That Trumpeting Miscreant Yucca Puck Out of the White House
Fast forward at least two score
Earth's orbitz round the sun
approximately the year 2040
history already wrote him off
as thee worst president
(based on numerous metrics)
of these United States.
Now toggle back to today
November 17th, 2020
the forty fifth commander...
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Categories:
purview, abuse, america, conflict, fear, golf, history, november,
Form:
Free verse
Cinderfella
Standing in the wings, on the periphery
of her cultivated world, inhibited only by
station and space, my head slowly spins
into her orbit, my eye lids twitter nervously,
my titillated ears vibrate, my hands tremble,
inner being disassembles, kneeling...
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Categories:
purview, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The Wolf - Part 2
...... Part 2 ......
With snout upturned the moon’s discerned
as well as wafts a wendin’
and muzzled growls and shriekin’ howls
mark wolves in quests unendin’.
With fragrant hint, the wolf’s a’ sprint,
the pack begins t’ rally –
in swift...
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Categories:
purview, nature,
Form:
Rhyme