Long Reeds Poems
Long Reeds Poems. Below are the most popular long Reeds by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Reeds poems by poem length and keyword.
VacuumVacuum
by Michael R. Burch
Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...
leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know
that once intrigued us so.
Come then, let us...
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Categories:
reeds, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
State of the Art IvState of the Art (IV)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ...
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Categories:
reeds, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
reeds, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
reeds, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
This World of DewTHIS WORLD OF DEW
This world?
Moonlit dew
flicked from a crane's bill.
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Seventy-one?
How long
can a dewdrop last?
—Eihei Dogen Kigen, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Dewdrops beading grass-blades
die before...
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Categories:
reeds, age, art, autumn, bereavement, death, life, time,
Form:
Haiku
And Still I Drive - Part OneStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
reeds, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About RegretRegret
by Michael R. Burch
Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear . . .
once starlight
languished
in your hair . . .
a shining there
as brief
as rare.
Regret . . .
a pain
I chose to bear . . .
unleash
the torrent
of your hair . ....
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Categories:
reeds, memory, pain, remember, sad, sorrow, sorry, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over
amber gold wild bush...
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Categories:
reeds, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Love Has a Southern FlavorLove has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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Categories:
reeds, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your old pair of getaway feet gives
a different walk of...
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Categories:
reeds, africa, america, grief, racism, slavery, song, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Jane Eyre CrownThis is a Crown of Sonnets I wrote about one of my favorite books and movies (the version in 1943 with Liz Taylor, who was only 11 had a small role, Joan Fontaine and Orson...
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Categories:
reeds, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"
“She fits the bill”,
they say it
insouciantly
visions of being
carried in the beak
of a bilious pelican
where it builds
its rudimentary nest,
it uses sticks and debris
no stones, yet,
from irreverence
thrown at it
no higher...
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Categories:
reeds, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Renee Vivien TranslationsRenee Vivien Translations
Song
by Renée Vivien
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
When the moon weeps,
illuminating flowers on the graves of the faithful,
my memories creep
back to you, wrapped in flightless wings.
It's getting late; soon we will sleep
(your eyes...
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Categories:
reeds, analogy, image, imagery, love, metaphor, surreal, symbolism,
Form:
Sonnet
To Hunt the BugabooWith the morning crisp and frosty
and the Earth yearning for autumn's heat.
Darkness gave way to a fractured dawn
as the Sun rose in the East.
The forest became warm...
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Categories:
reeds, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The Monroe MoonIn glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon hunger;
their dewy eyes blurred by the sawdust of stardust
pseudo-princess-pleasure-seekers
—drama daring...
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Categories:
reeds, age, beauty, lust, moon, romantic love, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
TenchThere is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun,
barred by spindle trees and the last
of summer's brindled reeds
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
Damp leaves hide...
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Categories:
reeds, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
Seeds
"Seeds"
Blue reaches reflections
touching ripples
tears in time ephemeral
caresses fragrant Green my canopy
opens the light
inside me
cracked eggshell
golden-yoked sunshine
pale turquoise kintsugi
splintered paths inside my mind
in the smallness
of me
something
quietly blooms
ragged yet refined
a gecko...
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Categories:
reeds, muse, romance, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Beautiful HalvesYou rock me wildly
To the black rhythms of juju music from the radio;
Drinking horn in hand.
Not too drunk to tread
The course of blue, warmth
And moaning shadows behind batiste curtain.
Waves...
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Categories:
reeds, romance, romantic, romantic love, sensual, silly, smart,
Form:
Free verse
Memories of a Green BeretMemories of a Green Beret
“Where have all the soldiers gone, Long time passing,
Where have all the soldiers gone, Long long time ago,
Where have all the soldiers gone,
Gone to graveyards, every one.
When will they ever learn?
When...
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Categories:
reeds, history, nostalgia, veterans day, violence,
Form:
I do not know?
Badnews SuspensionIt helps me to optimize possible health-improving wealth outcomes
by temporarily suspending disbelief
we have each chosen to be spiritually reborn into
each and every WinWin opportunity
to optimize mutual healthy-wealth
naturally developed for cooperatively-owned
and integratively managed
personal enrichment
extending families
and...
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Categories:
reeds, games, health, history, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
The SeekerTHE SEEKER
A weaving’s blending is spun within the soil of the discontent,
Legends are the roots of cultures, stories woven within the
Fabrics of societies, but the colors of truth reveal the shocking
Details of wrong deeds,...
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Categories:
reeds, betrayal, conflict, dedication, fear, halloween, holiday, horror,
Form:
Free verse
Laws of Deepening GravityLaws of co-gravitation
are more like mutual invitations
originating with NewBorn memories
wombed by MotherEarth's DNA
WinWin empty Reed of Paradise potential.
Vocational streams of gaming wealth
held in healthy mindbodies
WinWin revering
and LoseLose fearing
co-incarnate journeys toward ever more healthy integrity
and wealth-cooperative...
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Categories:
reeds, appreciation, courage, culture, deep, education, health, history,
Form:
Political Verse
Spring Time DanceThe winter solstice has passed, so the spring dance can begin at last,
and everyone is invited, from every tree as far as the eye can see.
To each and every flourishing flower, the buzzing bees and...
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Categories:
reeds, daffodils, dance, earth, easter, fairy, green, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
BruceBruce
A lumbering man,
audibly achily, stepped to the
floor’s center.
Had there been a spotlight, he’d’a shone.
His arms unfurled.
His hips spun.
His soles, silent
as he padded here,
then twisted to place a foot there.
A phoenix swooped, festooned in fire’s...
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Categories:
reeds, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Autumn At SunsetAt twilight’s ease of dusk the autumn leaves do flutter in the
Evening breeze, trickling downwards across inspirations canvas,
Creating a multicolored cascade at sunset, a leafy rainbow clasping
From the tree tops heights, than blowing wildly astray...
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Categories:
reeds, adventure, animal, autumn, beauty, creation, inspirational, nature,
Form:
Free verse