Long Question Poems
Long Question Poems. Below are the most popular long Question by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Question poems by poem length and keyword.
Echoes of a Shady PastAn icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
Read More
Categories:
question, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Twon icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
Read More
Categories:
question, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Poetically Pathetic CrowJust enough to make it just
I want this to be enough to make this
The last song ever, the last note ever
The last romantically, poetically sad excuse for an apology, epilogue
But I've already messed up the...
Read More
Categories:
question, lonely, longing, loss, lost, lost love, love,
Form:
Free verse
RumorsRumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
Read More
Categories:
question, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
Read More
Categories:
question, memory,
Form:
Prose
Sunday Evening SpreeI see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
Read More
Categories:
question, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Summer
“SUMMER”
Where
has Summer
gone?
The world
has lost
Summer
Sweet
little
dream
missing
all those other
beautiful
small dreams
seen as toys
small and
inconsequential
casually tossed aside,
disposable play,
things
pure shining lights
smiling eyes once so bright,
switched off,
'neath...
Read More
Categories:
question, abuse, child abuse,
Form:
Epic
Honey Bee Flying Around In WinterI have been reluctant to pen this verse
Because I don't understand what it was all about
I have been reluctant to pen this verse
Because I don't want anyone to get hurt
Morning comes and evening...
Read More
Categories:
question, angel, blessing, business, community, freedom, mythology, people,
Form:
Narrative
Letters For People Part 4Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
Read More
Categories:
question, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
Emo LoveWith this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...
Read More
Categories:
question, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
Blue Sky, Why
"Blue Sky, Why?"
stories speak to us.
inside our heart
is crying.
Blue Sky, Why?
why do children
holding sunflowers
watch their parents die
why do sweet children,
now war torn,
some the battle's orphans,
daily lose their lives
lying in their sick beds
bombed in...
Read More
Categories:
question, courage, humanity, leadership, light, peace, truth, war,
Form:
Narrative
LimericksLimericks
by Michael R. Burch
Clyde Lied!
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a mockingbird, Clyde,
who bragged of his prowess, but lied.
To his new wife he sighed,
"When again, gentle bride?"
"Nevermore!" bright-eyed Raven replied.
The Platypus
by Michael R. Burch
The platypus,...
Read More
Categories:
question, giggle, light, nonsense, parody, silly, smile, word
Form:
Limerick
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...
Read More
Categories:
question, animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Limericks Vii - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, AbsurdLimericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:
There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...
Read More
Categories:
question, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, sexy, smile,
Form:
Limerick
Starting With BeginningsLeft:
Let's start at the beginning
of your ecotherapeutic day.
I'm talking today with Fr. Time,
Earth's only fully self-ordained ecotherapist,
and recently published author of
"Journals of MotherEarth."
We have no corporate sponsorships to report,
although we are for sale
especially if you're...
Read More
Categories:
question, gender, health, humanity, humor, integrity, perspective,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViJuvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
Read More
Categories:
question, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Mom's UnderGround PeaceTrainA transitional skill
my Mom taught me,
good to use when I start to feel at-risk,
somehow
anyhow,
whether in my relationship with her,
or with EarthDays more kosmic travels
through naturally wild
and domestic spirits.
Remember to ask permission
before...
Read More
Categories:
question, beauty, community, earth, humanity, humor, love, mother,
Form:
Political Verse
Healthy Caring SystemsToo many times sadly
too seldom gladly
I must learn to trust
Earth's future more
Both Father Sun's timeless
rounds of enlightenment
and Mother Earth's
codependent rhythms
regenerating rich
empowering
soulful soil
and surfing seas
And this trusting more
impels healing trauma's lessons,
surviving hale and...
Read More
Categories:
question, culture, earth, earth day, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Limericks Iii - Grab BagLimericks III - Grab Bag
Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:
Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch
The English are very...
Read More
Categories:
question, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly, war, writing,
Form:
Limerick
Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a ProblemIt’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...
Read More
Categories:
question, grandmother, hero, space,
Form:
Rhyme
SeeSee
by Michael R. Burch
See how her hair has thinned: it doesn’t seem
like hair at all, but like the airy moult
of emus who outraced the wind and left
soft plumage in their wake. See how her eyes
are...
Read More
Categories:
question, age, goodbye, life, loss, time, women,
Form:
Sonnet
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:...
Read More
Categories:
question, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Albert Einstein PoemsALBERT EINSTEIN POEMS
These are "poems" I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme...
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the...
Read More
Categories:
question, light, love, poems, poetry, science, time, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Father Time's InterviewHi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?
False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...
Read More
Categories:
question, allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
Read More
Categories:
question, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet