Long Refrains Poems
Long Refrains Poems. Below are the most popular long Refrains by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Refrains poems by poem length and keyword.
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
refrains, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
Tail Spin, RevisedThis page shows my writing process and is part of Poetrysoup's first workshop. The workshop's intent is to reveal how revision strengthens a poem. Constructive feedback can be a gift. Should any journal...
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Categories:
refrains, courage, fear, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
The Good GirlThe Good Girl
Penny has always been a good girl, now she is a good wife. She lives in a good neighborhood, drives a nice car, has two perfect children. Her husband is a doctor and...
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Categories:
refrains, passion, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Prose
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcomeI dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...
Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...
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Categories:
refrains, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Gone and Hopefully Permanently ForgottenBy Stanley Collymore
Never speak ill of the dead we’re constantly and solemnly
exhorted regardless of who they are or the life that
they freely chose to live, as they’re no longer
around, is the lame and unconvincing excuse
that’s...
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Categories:
refrains, funeral, life, woman, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Love Begets ResilienceBack in our preverbal day
of healthy regenerating time,
indigenous wisdom
pursued peak experiences
of cooperative pleasure,
deep co-empathic embrace.
Sometimes,
especially when this pleasure was sustained,
euphoric,
ejaculatory
and reverberating in resonant cycles
of deep wombed ecstasy,
procreation happened,
preferably in the spring
when new life is more...
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Categories:
refrains, earth, health, integrity, love, passion, religion, sensual,
Form:
Political Verse
Drifting On a CloudDrifting on the clouds I lie
With my head pointing
To yonder skies
In a sea of dreams
Where mind and spirit
Igniting natures prize
To feel like you are heaven bound
But feet standing firmly
On hallowed...
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Categories:
refrains, beautiful, nature, nature, time, beauty, heaven, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Recollections From the Golden Cree IiiBrackish-gurgling days that
Unobtrusively slid along
Past tussock grass and curled up
Balls of Fern...
Glued tightly onto structured vanes
Of outstretched frond.
Venerable Mosses reciting epic tales,
Measured throughout Metronomical
Strains,
Chanting methodically in harmonious
Downturn -
Wherein contained:
Foreboding dialects delivered...
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Categories:
refrains, growing up, , western,
Form:
Rhyme
Mascara WoesMascara smudged – through the tears
I see the rumbling truth being preached
By silent prayers, gentling peace…
Doubting the whispers of yesterday’s dream,
I fall to my knees, murmuring – tender
Feelings bleeding through veins filled with
Temptations, exposing...
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Categories:
refrains, conflict, december, emotions, feelings, growth, loneliness, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Elegy To Lost ChildElegy to Child Lost
...
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Categories:
refrains, allegory, baby, birth, care, child, daughter, introspection,
Form:
Elegy
Final FarewellTo my life that betrayed the butterflies~
within my chrysalis mind,
forgive my flawed dialect,
I no longer look upon sakura skies,
awaiting a ray of fluffy...
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Categories:
refrains, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
One Last DreamTo shivering seas
mirroring cracked crystals,
I am searching for a righteous rhyme,
to orchestrate eclipsed realms
with blue orchids
and plum blossoms,
singing sunflower symphonies
of blooming poetry,...
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Categories:
refrains, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
InterludeJourney Journal Page
INTERLUDE
By Leon Enriquez
By light of grace
Soul knows sure place
In time and space
Where echoes trace
Here for a while
Learn then to style
Poise that thus smiles
As grief greets wiles
~~~~~~~~
Show up with poise
As inner voice
Leaps above noise
Beyond...
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Categories:
refrains, devotion,
Form:
Quatrain
The 42 Inch HallwayThe 42 Inch Hallway
We’re stepping along the musty hallway now.
I am taking us on a fast-moving memory ride;
A mind-bending groovy slide to 1965,
When Dylan music was seeping loudly like a germ,
Down the green-carpeted hallway of...
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Categories:
refrains, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Within the White NoiseHave you ever pondered
shadows are made of
softness, they are not
hard surfaced like
those of us existing
outside of the white noise
unable to grasp -
the invisible,
that speak meaning to us,
whispering their sagacious...
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Categories:
refrains, mirror, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'
When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above
infected ripples of time,
I question the
chaos that claims
serenity through
saline serenade
of sirens, composed
with midnight ink
across a mazed face
of a starless canvas,
What if these...
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Categories:
refrains, black love, dark, deep, meaningful, metaphor, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Hydrangea HideawayListen to the shifting winds
carrying musical meteors,
there soars floating
letters between
lyrical lines,
emanating runes
that reflect
revolving rhymes
of faith within
and beyond.
For we are more than
just spectators or actors,
in this theatrical life,
we are the assigned
maestros...
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Categories:
refrains, faith,
Form:
Free verse
A Quiet ChildHe’s just six and a bubbling beauty
The love that he showers on his siblings abound
Filling his world with the charms and the dreams
Yet prefers to maintain a distance from those around!
He invents and creates the...
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Categories:
refrains, childhood, games,
Form:
Free verse
Alchemy of the AnswersAlchemy of the Answers
Belief in the beauty of unrequited love blooming
No relief as they replay the sounds of war looming
A chief at the mane of the horse he is grooming
A thief that...
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Categories:
refrains, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Season of SilenceWhen nature wilts into
a colorless haven,
metaphors of death sprout
...
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Categories:
refrains, life,
Form:
Free verse
Poet Who Exhibits Panache MeantPoet who exhibits panache - meant...
to tickle your fancy dear reader rabbit,
perchance European G-man double agent
regarding the following poem
with kick a$$, je ne sais quois
ingenious, humorous bent
even though reasonable rhyme
mebbe worth no mo' than ten...
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Categories:
refrains, 12th grade, confidence, endurance, hello, humorous, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Cadaverous Climate Controlled Cave CreatureCadaverous climate controlled cave creature
(Idea birthed, engendered, and germinated
from Lombok Indonesia earthquakes
On 5 August 2018,
a destructive and shallow earthquake
measuring Mw 6.9
(ML 7.0 according to BMKG)
struck the island
of Lombok, Indonesia),
rendering...
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Categories:
refrains, adventure, anxiety, august, conflict, crush, dark, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
Three Muses(Dedication: For Ann)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Man makes gods here to quench desire;
Urge and surge flood the pathway sight;
Sense hint and cheer in burning pyre;
Embrace warm blood in glimpse of light;
See phantoms near that play with fire.
Meet your true...
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Categories:
refrains, dedication,
Form:
Acrostic
He Brought Us MusicMany times when I would here a song, I would get an almost joyful longing, but I could never pinpoint the moment in my past that I wished for so deeply.
I would feel a certain...
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Categories:
refrains, devotion, religion, christmas, longing, christmas,
Form:
Blank verse
Unhinged PowerUnhinged power grasps, its hold so tight,
Unyielding, unchecked, chains corrode the soul.
Distorted truths, concealing in plain sight,
In shadows lurk, devouring the whole.
What slips unheeded, slipping in the dusk?
With eyes wide shut, we stumble through each...
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Categories:
refrains, history, perspective, philosophy, power, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse