Long Recognised Poems
Long Recognised Poems. Below are the most popular long Recognised by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Recognised poems by poem length and keyword.
The Messenger
"The Messenger"
Love is rich with
venom and honey.
there was a female ...
snake,
it watched
with green-eyed
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest
the dove,
was white as snow,
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey
the dove
alone,...
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Categories:
recognised, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Snapshots From a Child's West London
I remember my cherished Wolf Cub pack,
How I loved those Wednesday evenings,
The games, the pomp and seriousness of the camps,
The different coloured scarves, sweaters and hair
During the mass meetings,
The solemnity...
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Categories:
recognised, child, childhood, children, england, friendship, london, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T Wignesan
Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
...
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Categories:
recognised, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Splat
Splat
Explosions do not always signify combustion but often combustion arrives after many years of layering the layers and tightly packing. Thus meaning that a fried piece of fat could slip and burst out of the...
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Categories:
recognised, africa, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Jailbreak At Milton Creek
There was a rumour that outlaw Kyle was to be sprung from jail
But Sheriff Koplin got wind of it and he'd make sure they'd fail
That day Queeny Holly and her gang rode into town,...
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Categories:
recognised, america, humor, violence,
Form:
Narrative
Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer's Poem Thaye Yashoda By T Wignesan
Translation of Oothukkadu Venkata Subba Iyer (circa 1700-1765)’s « THAYE YASHODA » by T. Wignesan
This devotional song and poem in Tamil (the principal Dravidian language which has spawned over twenty languages in the southern Indian...
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Categories:
recognised, god, mother, religious, universe, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Touched by God
As we’re transformed by God’s benign bliss flame,
what’s imbibed must be assimilated,
else we will have only ourselves to blame,
wandering earth with ego inflated.
With each breath intake, we are grazed by bliss
but unless we be still,...
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Categories:
recognised, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Biography Mark Hurlin Shelton
Mark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton...
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Categories:
recognised,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Conditions of Living
The Conditions of Living
Stark organisations of my observations
Respond to beauty with pure elation
Instead of chronic devastation
Process the abject consternation
From contrived over-saturation
And acute mass manipulation
That should be in legal confiscation
Truth found...
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Categories:
recognised, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Platitudes of Exactitude
Platitudes of Exactitude
Platitudes of exactitude redefining my whole attitude
Don’t want to seem rude but I can’t help but conclude
That the truth will protrude
From a form that just wants to be misconstrued
Everything...
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Categories:
recognised, international, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Chuck Jennings
The bombing of Pearl Harbour was the turning point for me
That day I enlisted in the army, despite protests from my family
I tried to reassure them by saying that everything would be fine
And after six...
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Categories:
recognised, america, death, soldier, world war ii,
Form:
Narrative
Brideshead Revisited
I lay awake in that dark hour and was reflecting on my life
From all the travelling I had done to the breakup with my wife
I was an architectural painter and was very successful too
And after...
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Categories:
recognised, england, memory, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
Centurio Romanus Sum
Centurio Romanus sum,
et nolite flere non commovebitur.
I am a Roman Centurion.I do not weep or tremble.
But I have wept some bitter tears before this end of week.
Yes, I have wept some bitter tears hot rolling...
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Categories:
recognised, bible, christian, death, easter,
Form:
Rhyme
Disorientation
DISORIENTATION
Me always disoriented both...
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Categories:
recognised, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Les Protecteurs - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's the Protectors By T Wignesan
Les Protecteurs – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “The Protectors” by T. Wignesan
(Note: Oodgeroo never claimed to write poetry à la manière des poètes occidentaux; she said - without mincing words – her lines were sheer...
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Categories:
recognised, bullying, character, conflict, culture, discrimination, humanity, judgement,
Form:
Free verse
Love at first sight
I asked her
do you believe that as soon as any man walks into a room and he’s eyes fall so completely upon someone like you he can fall in love?
at first
she didn’t answer
she just...
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Categories:
recognised, appreciation, love, love hurts, sweet love,
Form:
Rhyme
Time to Believe
Time slips by as the wind whispers through the trees,
Waving hands fly like the movement of the breeze
And families pray for those they love, all because,
Time gave hope, time restored, welcome home;
Yet every blessing stems...
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Categories:
recognised, allegory, christian, encouraging, faith, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Lady Vanishes - 2025
The man I married always said he loved me for my mind
Pretty soon I met his friends and left my own behind
It wasn’t long before he said that ‘wife’ was short for ‘minion’
And then one...
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Categories:
recognised, abuse, judgement, song,
Form:
Lyric
Simple Synchronization X
Weary weapons wearing writhing works wonderfully wreathed wigs...... Oh wow how magnificent the yellow radiance of a piece of straw. Leaning bending learning. Admire nit a wisdom curl if a pitch of ball. Throw away...
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Categories:
recognised, baseball, bird,
Form:
I do not know?
Informant speaks Alan King my first time buying weapons pregnant for the Fbi Chicago field office
It was Indian summer 1985 Fbi Alan King arrived we sat sipping lemonade as i prepared lunch for my two girl pregnant with my third child hoping for a boy this time laughing on the...
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Categories:
recognised, allah,
Form:
Rubai
Nothingness
“Nothingness”
Words
lines drawn
unending
dusk
to
dawn
characters recognised
transcribed
in the mind
where voices unheard
plant meaning
wild ivy grows
and snakelike
moves
outside the lines
electric
we become strange
symphonies sublime;
engraved in time
most rocks crumble
dissolve,
life has no need
for unnecessary
rhyme
beginning of...
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Categories:
recognised, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Translation of Eric Mottram's the Nerves of Proust and Sitting Bull By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram's The Nerves of Proust and Sitting Bull by T. Wignesan
Excerpts from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eric Mottram’s poetry” by Clive Bush,...
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Categories:
recognised, america, french, memory, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Queen
“Several Queens in mythology, history, nature , games are recognised as special since ancient Era and has become famous gaining popularity.” - Poet.
QUEEN
So many...
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Categories:
recognised, 7th grade, 8th grade, , hinduism,
Form:
List
Like a Thief In the Night -Thinking of September 11th
Another morning I got up and my thoughts returned here. Just wanted to put something of
the memory that lingers still today from scenes we saw of September 11th. Scenes we would
like to but will...
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Categories:
recognised, caregiving, confusion, death, dedication, depression, faith, history,
Form:
Free verse
A History of War Allies and Enemies
Britain used to war with France and then the USA,
Allied with the Russian keeping Napoleon at bay
2 wars fought in 1812 Europe and North America
all in all no one did better, all...
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Categories:
recognised, history,
Form:
Rhyme