Long Reflecting Poems
Long Reflecting Poems. Below are the most popular long Reflecting by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Reflecting poems by poem length and keyword.
Be of Good, Compassionate CourageDandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown
I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...
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Categories:
reflecting, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Woman: The Flame that Lights the WorldIn every dawn that breaks anew,
In every dream, and skies of blue,
A woman’s strength, steadfast and true,
Guides the world in all we do.
Through ages past and times untold,
Their stories rise, so brave, so bold,
In quiet...
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Categories:
reflecting, inspiration, literature, meaningful, memorial,
Form:
Narrative
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
reflecting, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
reflecting, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Fahr An' IceFahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch
From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...
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Categories:
reflecting, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s dreams
rust crumbles to dust
Virulent apathy spreads
Betrayal’s destruction
hand...
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Categories:
reflecting, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About Poems IvPoems about Poems IV
The Toast
by Michael R. Burch
For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...
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Categories:
reflecting, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems XJuvenilia: Early Poems X
These are early poems written in my teens and twenties.
Regret
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...
and show me
once...
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Categories:
reflecting, age, child, children, dream, teen, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Why LifeWhy does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of gift-it-forward light,
some longer,
some shorter
before naked covered night.
Why life?
To uncover...
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Categories:
reflecting, adventure, earth, earth day, farm, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
reflecting, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Fishy Science School of Geometric ArtsMath speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.
Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right as at least not not ecologically wrong,
ecopolitically suboptimal perhaps,
yet at...
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Categories:
reflecting, adventure, earth, life, light, math, science fiction,
Form:
Political Verse
Early Poems IJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
reflecting, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New ShiftI.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
reflecting, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of NebraskaMy love is light (a fairy kiss?)
Like the pressure of...
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Categories:
reflecting, lost love,
Form:
Blank verse
UnleashedI got up this morning in a good mood
searching for solitude in the distant skies
And watching the clouds rolling by
I stopped and listened to the sounds around me
While contemplating my sacred destiny
Barking dogs and...
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Categories:
reflecting, appreciation, confidence, future, happy, loneliness, love, places,
Form:
Narrative
Jesus Messiah As Climate BodhisattvaTo my sisters,
and narrow-way brothers,
in Jesus Christ
as Supreme UnitingWealthyStates
sustainable legal/moral Savior
I reached U.S. voting age during the 70s.
During this time,
the Religious Right
and Republican Party Center
were about the same place;
not distinguishable,
inscrutable, perhaps.
In strong conserving defense of...
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Categories:
reflecting, appreciation, christian, culture, health, history, love, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
My Holy Bible - the Free Style~ My Holy Bible ~
(Free Style )
My Holy Bible
Is very nice
It fills my soul
With love divine
It tells me
That God is true
And shows that
He loves us too
God our burdens
He wants to bear
The Lord for us
He's always...
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Categories:
reflecting, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
You'Re My Light - Davedas Candle Style~ You Are My Light ~
(Daveda's Hybrid Concrete Candle)
Dear
Lord
You're
My Light
You give
Love Hope
Peace Joy
...
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Categories:
reflecting, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Wise EldersWise Elders are patient,
fully embrace compassion's communication
and health care
of climates and cultural landscapes,
animated persons,
sacred spaces,
organic places,
panentheistic plants
and monotheistic planet
impassioned hopes
and pleasant dreams
rebuilding positive faith.
Wise Elders co-passionately listen
for karmic grace of love peaks
overflowing.
If Wise Revolutionaries...
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Categories:
reflecting, 5th grade, caregiving, class, health, time, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
What Kind of People Are WeWhat Kind of People Are We
In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the question I shall
discuss in this narrative. Rather, I shall consider...
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Categories:
reflecting, conflict, fear, humanity, immigration, international, poverty, war,
Form:
Narrative
Doctors of Industrious DivinityDear Bishop Michael Cote, Doctor of Divinity
through pre-historic untold ages
through reborn renaissance stages
through industriously energetic praises
through enlightenment phases
through empowerment dysphasia
Some of us lesser health care practitioners,
good faith social workers,
teachers,
parents and grandparents,
uncles and aunts,
and ecofeminist inter-religious...
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Categories:
reflecting, christian, green, health, nature, passion, power, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
The People with Wings
The People with Wings
It was a huge photograph of an eye – an amazing eye that now drew everyone to Mecca. It was said to belong to one of the ‘People with...
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Categories:
reflecting, fate, future, myth,
Form:
Haibun
Artifacts of DestinyEach ego identity,
whether of busy bee
or slacker sloth,
recreates its uniquely sacred eco-Other,
mutually capable of Win-Win intentional experience
and memory
toward appreciating capital investments
in further living, not deadening, artifacts
through each personal life
both cooperative and competing
so far.
So
every shrinking...
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Categories:
reflecting, destiny, humanity, identity, integrity, psychological, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
New Year Poems INew Year Poetry
Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed,...
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Categories:
reflecting, birth, celebration, change, firework, january, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
Strange Creatures and the Forest of Egregore
“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore”
Where do we go -
when our rosebuds
stop still in the cold,
unwanted,
along the unopened road?
we walk into the
forest alone,
there we meet
strange creatures -
some say
they...
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Categories:
reflecting, dark, light, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse