Long Reading Poems
Long Reading Poems. Below are the most popular long Reading by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Reading poems by poem length and keyword.
The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
reading, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
The Injury of Fury~~**This poem is super long, but it took me hours to write. I hope you all enjoy reading this as I have enjoyed writing it wholeheartedly.**~~
Awful anger expressed in verses
Didn’t give me blessings, but curses
I’m...
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Categories:
reading, anxiety, courage, deep, depression, desire, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
Free verse
More Pickles Than OneFor ten months now I’ve brooded over coming second place
in the pickle section deeming, it no less than a disgrace.
It was written plain and simple, so there can be no excuse,
that the pickles in this...
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Categories:
reading, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Deception Part 2 - Translation From TagoreThis is the second part of Rabindranath Tagore's Narrative poem - Phanki (Deception). The first part has been already posted.
...
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Categories:
reading, life, women,
Form:
Narrative
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part iSic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine
("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after assassinating Julius Caesar.
Alternatively...
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Categories:
reading, 10th grade, adventure, allah, anger, appreciation, birth,
Form:
Free verse
After All Is Said and DoneI wrote this random rap song just yesterday! Have a blast, reading it! :D
"We shall all be like magnets,
Connecting to God's Laws in perfect symmetry
We shall all shine as the sun,
Glorifying the son of...
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Categories:
reading, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, hope,
Form:
Lyric
I Can'T Just Change Overnight Part 1(Inspired by my sister, Laura Breidenthal’s poem called “The Dream in His Eyes” and also, inspired by Disturbed’s song “Forsaken”. Special thanks to my sister for such an awesome poem and the writer that wrote...
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Categories:
reading, angst, dark, deep, depression, desire, loneliness, words,
Form:
Free verse
Willy NillyWilly Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it...
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Categories:
reading, christian, creation, faith, god, spiritual, truth, world,
Form:
Verse
Doggerel IDoggerel I or Nonsense Verse
A$$tronomical
by Michael R. Burch
Einstein, the frizzy-haired,
proved E equals MC squared.
Thus, all mass decreases
as activity ceases?
Not my mass, my a$$ declared!
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good,
half the Bible
is libel.
I came up...
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Categories:
reading, dog, hilarious, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, nursery
Form:
Limerick
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
reading, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Frequency
“Frequency”
we are separated
from the others
by a thin membrane
electromagnetic
we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own
frequency
existing to be lit
the fuses touching
reaching delicately
that which we do
and do not see,
believe
answers embedded
in tablets read...
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Categories:
reading, future, humanity, muse,
Form:
Narrative
THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
reading, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
The Strange Case of Ft
"The Strange Case of F.T."
They say the dead don’t talk
the stories I have calculated
to deliver a saving grace
confessional shared amongst
my equal peers, or so I deem
you somewhat sometimes seem,
less than me, you...
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Categories:
reading, dark, horror, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Free Verse ILozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held you in...
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Categories:
reading, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life, love, relationship, together,
Form:
Free verse
This Is Feminist UsIt's peaceful here in my backyard.
The crows sound happy
with warm October sunlight.
I just read about a deadly gathering in Las Vegas.
Absence of sun-drenched peace.
Inconvenient this time of lost loss.
Death is always inconvenient,
even when invited.
A veteran,
about...
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Categories:
reading, anger, fear, humor, integrity, mental illness, military,
Form:
Political Verse
Restoration TownsI was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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Categories:
reading, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Watering Gaian GraceOne of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating
Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements
Well fed and watered
to empower and enlighten interfaith
action and reflection,
song and dance
liturgical and fire-circle
contemporary-indigenous wisdom
Is to explore together
how and...
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Categories:
reading, caregiving, community, earth day, education, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
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:
reading, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Yosa Buson TranslationsYosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
reading, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Chapter 99 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Dj Damali Nyaf and Rico: the Celebration-- Mass InvitationsDate: April 2045
An excellent April afternoon blooming.
Damali is now 19 years old this
Day. Damali was thinking of his future
Stretched out at his study desk.
He had been enrolled for a year...
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Categories:
reading, granddaughter,
Form:
Alliteration
To Be a Friend PleaserI heavily recall two times when I had made you cry,
Both of which bewildered and moved me
My response was that of disbelief, and regret
And never, upon recalling,
Have I felt more of the need to...
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Categories:
reading, change, character, confusion, devotion, friendship, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
Green Democratic EmpathyI don't think it's just me.
I find myself challenged to change LeftBrain cognitive beliefs,
languaged abstractions of personal feelings,
perhaps because it is not possible to change Right Brain's
Elder feelings of co-passionate trust
where dipolar co-arising positive pleasure
is...
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Categories:
reading, education, health, history, integrity, political, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Cooperative Family PoliticsI think he's talking about a cooperative bicameral political system,
with "How to talk to the other side".
And what could that possibly mean, dear Yang?
Well,
I was watching this Ted-talk from Marin,
by Robb Willer, as I anciently...
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Categories:
reading, culture, earth, family, freedom, health, humor, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Heres Why My CV Needs WorkNAME: Phil Latio.
QUALIFICATIONS: LLB (Law) PhD (Medicine) & FSC (Federation Starfleet
...
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Categories:
reading, humorous,
Form:
List
Everyday ChristiansI would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody of Christ.
I would further imagine
both he and George Washington,
at least...
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Categories:
reading, body, christian, culture, earth, health, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse