Long Refractive Poems
Long Refractive Poems. Below are the most popular long Refractive by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Refractive poems by poem length and keyword.
Healthy Politics As UnusualCreolization,
soars Dr. Jane Anna Gordon,
turns our co-empathic evolving democracy project
into a verbal,
active,
regenerative more,
degenerative less,
occasionally Elite-Pirates v NonElite-Prey revolution,
and even more unconsciously occasionally
Elite/NonElite Creolizing-SelfReGenerative
crave to grave
multicultural Earth experience.
What could all this Elite and NonElite...
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Categories:
refractive, beauty, body, community, culture, health, philosophy, power,
Form:
Political Verse
When We Were EightWhen you were eight years old
waking to another perfect day's dawn
what potential did you discover
with your co-empathy integrity
of left-deductive
with elder right inductive
communionations?
Who were you
as you stepped into morning's warm spring sun?
How were you one...
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Categories:
refractive, adventure, age, culture, home, love, paradise, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Bending LightWhen young, in playing out one day
a swinging stick got in my way,
it crushed my eye into my head
another inch and I’d be dead.
Back in 1952
there wasn’t much that they could do,
so when eye surgery...
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Categories:
refractive, anxiety, introspection, moving on,
Form:
Rhyme
Green Indigenous RevolutionDear Green Party, International
I suppose we don't actually have an international Green Party,
or even much of a national Green Party in the U.S.
where our religious meat is fed with bipolar national politics.
Anyway,
looking at Green Party...
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Categories:
refractive, green, health, humor, integrity, native american, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Strikingly NakedStrikingly Naked
By Odin Roark
Voicing the reflection one sees insures
the facade really is,
was,
must have been.
Time passes…
How smoky the reflection,
this aging...
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Categories:
refractive, truth, vanity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F l y i n g
a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth
and white purity
of Autumn’s ether -
he aviates
a clear troposphere...
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Categories:
refractive, autumn, bird, blue, conflict, nature, sky, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Perceptions What Will the Story BePerceptions
What will the story be ?
Into the mysteries of the observing mind
one has to ponder, wonder just what kind
of tales, stories, beliefs will we see unfold
as the projections, the perceptions are told.
Will they be of...
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Categories:
refractive, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Havenhis lean equine face with dust-brown eyes
defines hardship
a gaunt frame
undernourished
he squats on city pavement
there in the crook of his neck and shoulder
...
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Categories:
refractive, bird, blessing, city, life, poverty, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
OrangeOrange
This now time is a gift to graft a moment
In the mist,
Or how in the midst of circumstance;
Such volatility brews this even stance to render;
balance for the few;
What year is this bleak friend?
You who seeks...
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Categories:
refractive, devotion, faith, love,
Form:
Acrostic
Mastered PuppetsMastered Puppets
Of the voices thrown and never shown their cries travel well
A starving sewn with a bitter bone of their life a quiet quell
With larval lips that are losing grips where echoes only dwell
Their smile...
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Categories:
refractive, children, humanity, voice,
Form:
Rhyme
Radioactive HeartDarkness obscured your danger sign, imperceptible but not benign.
My dreams flowed into a high electric field, our minds taped and concealed--
Your heart was radioactive; all my emotions were refractive.
I sacrificed full support before the strings...
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Categories:
refractive, lost love, sciencebetrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
TransfixedWhen you stare at a full moon,
does it map a heart distracted?
does it...
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Categories:
refractive, beauty, emotions, feelings, friendship love, introspection, light,
Form:
Rhyme
The Fairy of the Fountain by Ida Rentoul Outhwaitedizzy distractions make for invisible whirl
centre of attention is this invisible girl
sky leopard spotted by his moon eye all seeing
a sweep of flower songbirds startled and fleeing
the peacock observes as she swishes into view
no longer...
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Categories:
refractive, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Maroonedthe light sways each break
cast upon waters wake
constant movement capture
waves reflecting shimmer
refractive glass splinter
mirage slicing a mirror
each simple twists of fate
swim deep in retreat
die beneath the stillness
a silent repose of agonies sleep
trapped in...
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Categories:
refractive, conflict, death, lonely, longing, lost, sorrow, water,
Form:
Free verse
The ApocalypseAs I peer into the mirror
Of my Refractive Telescope
Past the belt of Orion
I spy the approaching Apocalypse
A globular irregular comet
Flaring of its endless tail
Spreading dust across the galaxy
On a collision course for planet Earth
Turning away,...
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Categories:
refractive, science, planet,
Form:
Free verse
Terrestrial Journals IiiWalking through this dry parched land feeling as though I were cursed; or blessed?!
Tasting its malignant barren soils and enduring its parallels void empty winds
As a foreigner arriving at a distant city wherein, everything is...
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Categories:
refractive, hope, life, love,
Form:
I do not know?