Long Refuse Poems
Long Refuse Poems. Below are the most popular long Refuse by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Refuse poems by poem length and keyword.
My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of Tribulation
I’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subside
My tears are diamonds in...
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Categories:
refuse, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Middle of the Night
I woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...
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Categories:
refuse, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
Fully Employed Now
Humanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...
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Categories:
refuse, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
A Love's Dialogue
Unique: I need someone to hold me and tell
me it's alright.
I need someone to hold my hands and feel
my pain.
I need someone to kiss away my pain.
I need someone to look into my eyes and...
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Categories:
refuse, allusion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Day Under the Sun
Blue Hunter's Moon of the Festival of Lights.
And the day of Vengeance of our Holy One to comfort all those who mourn.
Isaiah 61:3-11
I Proclaim the acceptable Generation or Year and Day of Yehoshua also known...
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Categories:
refuse, blue, earth day, faith, growth, moon, rainbow,
Form:
Prose
Healing Systemic Trauma
Can you make any sense of
systemic racism?
No more common sensory sense than
too much patriarchalism--
all leftbrain-rightwing dominance
oppressing sacred Earth's
polyamorous win/win systems
promoting resiliently wealthy
resonant polyculturing health
Care given
as kind received
in fruitful wombs,
like apple cores in transition
from refuse
toward rebirth
Maybe...
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Categories:
refuse, addiction, beauty, bullying, culture, health, history, peace,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Limericks Iii - Grab Bag
Limericks III - Grab Bag
Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:
Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not to Bomb the Brits")
by Michael R. Burch
The English are very...
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Categories:
refuse, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, silly, war, writing,
Form:
Limerick
Chinese Translations Ii
Chinese Poets: English Translations II
These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty.
Tzu Yeh (circa...
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Categories:
refuse, body, desire, love, lust, night, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Albert Einstein Poems
ALBERT EINSTEIN POEMS
These are "poems" I created from Albert Einstein quotes, changing a word here and there for the sake of meter and rhyme...
A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
am I or are the...
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Categories:
refuse, light, love, poems, poetry, science, time, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translations
I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates...
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Categories:
refuse, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, spanish, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Revolutionary AnthroMatriarchy
Those who get,
get more widely.
Those who want,
want more deeply.
Normal slow-grown inter-religiously co-invested evolution
is not survival of the wealthiest and strongest species,
but thrival of the deepest win/win fit
with least panentheistic disruption required
within,
whether we speak...
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Categories:
refuse, health, integrity, love, political, religious, science, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix
Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
refuse, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our Tears
What 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:
refuse, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You Play
Every Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp...
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Categories:
refuse, aubade, beauty, dog, for her, fruit, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
I Promise
To my dearest,
On this day you turn thirteen, officially a teenager! This meaning you are on the very first stage of discovering yourself, your music tastes, your food preferences, your style of clothing and even...
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Categories:
refuse, beautiful, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse Iii
Salve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
sometimes we still touch,
laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...
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Categories:
refuse, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Indignation 1-6-21
How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags, grim reminders of our bloody history,
Alongside swastikas, hate symbols...
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Categories:
refuse, anger, discrimination, emotions, hurt, prejudice, racism, violence,
Form:
Free verse
A Poem For My Algebra Teacher
I know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried not to retract,
but after so many tears
I have...
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Categories:
refuse, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal, children, confusion, family,
Form:
Free verse
Lucifer Gets the Gig
“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
Anatole France
"I heard you wanted to see me Boss?", Lucifer asked.
"I can always see you Lucifer", replied God. "No, I...
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Categories:
refuse, heaven, satire, universe,
Form:
Prose
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
refuse, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Prose Poems Ii
Prose Poems II
by Michael R. Burch
These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems...
briefling
by Michael R. Burch
manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (quick!, spawnanewBrood!); then, likeamayfly, he’s suddenly gone: plantfood.
bachelorhoodwinked
by Michael R. Burch
u are charming...
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Categories:
refuse, poems, poetry, rose, roses are red, world,
Form:
Prose
A Poem For My History Teacher
I wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
refuse, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
No Recanting
May we be 'so graced' as to relinquish any faith, ...
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Categories:
refuse, christian, forgiveness, god, political, pride,
Form:
Verse
A Walk On the Beach
I went again today ... to that place, the allurement overwhelming ... the one
we called "ours" so tritely, "mine" before you, "mine" again now, (tho' others
have doubtless staked claimed - ages before and since). I...
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Categories:
refuse, heartbreak, lost love, ocean, passion, solitude, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
God's Love Brings Light - the White Light Style
~ God's Love Brings Light ~
(White Light )
~O~
God's
Love brings Light
And His Light is bright
With God there's never darkness
Go to Him and He gives me Hope, Peace
I smile
I put God first
Best...
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Categories:
refuse, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse