Long Quartet Poems
Long Quartet Poems. Below are the most popular long Quartet by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Quartet poems by poem length and keyword.
Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My Bow
Merov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!
In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senior English class
one night in Nineteen Sixty-One. Assigned just...
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Categories:
quartet, blessing, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's 28th Legal: Letter Jan 2, 1966 By T Wignesan
Eric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)
January 2,...
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Categories:
quartet, america, art, creation, culture, music, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
A Harvest Quartet of Subtle Harmonics
Spring's Excitement
There are rhythms of Nature that no one controls
that farms use to advantage! Time's fishermen sailed
both with tides and fair breezes offshore in their boats
at each dawn and dusk's onshore brought home each day's...
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Categories:
quartet, farm, love, science, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
The Story of History
The 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:
quartet, history,
Form:
Free verse
Jazz Out
(Sam Trio stands at the mic, snaps fingers lightly, takes a drag on a Marlboro, and smiles to the crowd) Dig this, we’re going back in time, way back to the smokey jazz clubs and...
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Categories:
quartet, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word
The Leonardo 500
Leonardo more than a Renaissance man
artist? yes but -
sculptor? yes but -
musician? yes but -
anatomist? yes but -
cartographer? yes but -
scientist? yes but -
engineer? yes but -
inventor? yes...
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Categories:
quartet, art, imagination, inspiration, inspirational, science, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Three-Fifth Stooges Quartet
Moe
Larry
Curly
Shep
Joe
This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know
Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry and Curly passed my way
They were yukking it up,
talking clown...
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Categories:
quartet, fun, humor, parody, political, satire,
Form:
Light Verse
Cat 5
I saw a cat quartet within my dodgy dream,
Sorta started worryin' that I'd gone off the beam,
Really began to wonder if my mind was gettin' weak,
They had their own language that only they could speak.
While...
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Categories:
quartet, cat, dream, song,
Form:
Quatrain
Prelude
Tonight the act of naming fell through the floor.
We speak permeable solids inflect’d by light.
Things move indistinctly: a pine palette floats
momentarily from semi truck’s bed, crosses
its body with windshield; ovidian shift from a
Forest to an...
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Categories:
quartet, angel, art, assonance, beauty, myth,
Form:
Blank verse
Escapism for the readers
(A lone voice whispers)
Within this deep clearing, a mystical sanctuary surrounded by the long trees of Time's perpetual symphonies, we meet.
Within this clearing, sheltered from Storms
Inside this sacred sanctuary, within this journey
A place beyond the...
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Categories:
quartet, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Four
Like an allspice incensed quartet chorus,
the spirit of the living Word unveils before us.
Holy foundational page corners turn
in cardinal winds as red letters churn,
proclaiming the Gospel to each earthly corner,
through bolted borders, even reaching the...
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Categories:
quartet, bible, creation, deep, earth, music, spiritual, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
In Land of Cockaigne
I was driving home late one cold Winters night
It was minus ten and the moon shone bright
Then in my car headlights a young girl I did see
I swerved hard to avoid her and hit a...
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Categories:
quartet, car, chocolate, fantasy, girl, recovery from,
Form:
Narrative
Welcome To Eden Picture Perfect Countryside Village Serenity
The waters trickling under the
crossing bridge grows ever dormant
And on the one and only discernable
route into this village languishing beneath
there is a old rickety swinging sign that says
" Welcome to Eden "
We trust you enjoy...
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Categories:
quartet, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
The Final Brace of the Poetries I Meant As One To Post, But By This Could Not
It is generally thought of to be one of the myriad,
Guiding, governing, binding principles and precepts of all
Mature civilized countries that what horrors that they unleashed in
Vilest, bloodiest, convulsive conflictual combative martial
Confrontation, on their fellow...
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Categories:
quartet, adventure, allegory, anniversary, arabic, august, beautiful, beauty,
Form:
I do not know?
When First These White Walls Were New and Porcelaneously Gleaming
Spartan are the white walls were once hung draperies
And things papered, paneled, plastered...
Yet, 'tis so no more.
Now all is white and wan and sickly,
And the ghostly shadows of the accoutrements and impedimenta that...
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Categories:
quartet, absence, allegory, angst, anniversary, anxiety, art, bereavement,
Form:
I do not know?
The Devil Went Back To Heaven, Part Ii
...“ ‘There’s this Hitler guy who’s trying to kill
every fallen Jew that happens my way,
you think six million would’ve slaked his thirst,
but he still rants and raves, seeking to slay.
“ ‘And there is this Stalin...
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Categories:
quartet, evil, forgiveness, god, heaven, hope, religious, spiritual,
Form:
Epic
A Mandrake's Gesture: Vol I.
There upon the blasphemous
grassy knoll, a maiden,
her lovers' temptations
of the past.
Amidst a silky
silhouette, a dainty stroll
flaunting a crimson masquerade.
"Your invitations of subtle romance,
be they adventurous, unfulfilled,
shall we not exchange vespers?"
The...
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Categories:
quartet, loss, lost love, love, mystery, sad,
Form:
Epic
Ghosts of the Catskills
I stand inside a ballroom that stretches long before me,
it is a sitting room right now, formal chairs and setees,
tall windows stretch ceiling to floor, twice as tall as a man,
with velvet drapes sent from...
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Categories:
quartet, age, appreciation, beauty, history, imagery, lost, mountains,
Form:
Rhyme
Ode To The Sun
O glorious dear sun, sovereign of the day, in the sky above
you’re one whose radiance resembles a little of God’s love;
by nurturing all creatures in the world with your unique rays
and setting such a high...
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Categories:
quartet, appreciation, dedication, inspiration, nature, star, sun, sunshine,
Form:
Ode
Strokin' - Part One and Part Two
STROKIN’ – A QUARTET ABOUT AGING GRACEFULLY(?)
Strokin’: Hauling ass and working at it!
STROKIN’: PART ONE
THE SPRINTER
The aging Olympian ran a swift anchor leg
burning the first turn, striding the backstretch
like a big cat on the chase,...
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Categories:
quartet, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Spoken Word Poetry: A Groove Through Time
Spoken Word Poetry: A Groove Through Time
Man, you’re just a real gone cat/breaking the habit and diggin’ something new/
Your world spins fast with the beat/ your music collection—a limited edition on the...
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Categories:
quartet, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word
Open Call
Business is booming and there's no end in sight, Death came to a huge
decision tonight.
He called in his partners Pain and Sorrow and said "we're holding auditions
tomorrow."
"Auditions, Pain asked, what are you looking...
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Categories:
quartet, death, imagination, pain, time,
Form:
Free verse
Jazz Alive
Spoken Word Poetry: JAZZ ALIVE
Man alive, and this ain’t no jive, I’m diggin’ on jazz to stay alive/
East Coast rhythms from the 50’s and 60’s, in the heart of the city, where the music breaths/
Up...
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Categories:
quartet, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word
The Love and Lost Quartet - Part Four - Closure
i treated your loss just like death
grieving for you as i did my mother
i still wonder if the universe
wasn't teaching me a lesson in karma
for you were a personification of heaven
which surely meant there would...
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Categories:
quartet, hope, love, drug, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Back When the World Was Psychedelic
My grandmother used to bake pies
in the kitchen where I lived as a boy.
She would spend all day mixing
...
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Categories:
quartet, art, emotions, how i feel, imagery, time,
Form:
Free verse