Long Reopen Poems
Long Reopen Poems. Below are the most popular long Reopen by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Reopen poems by poem length and keyword.
Zen Death Haiku
Zen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
reopen, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Apocalyptic Poems Ii
These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
Beast 666
by Michael R. Burch
“... what rough beast ... slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”?W. B. Yeats
Brutality is a cross
wooden, blood-stained,
gas hissing, sibilant,
lungs gilled, deveined,
red flecks on a...
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Categories:
reopen, earth, earth day, environment, future, visionary, weather,
Form:
Rhyme
Zen Death Haiku Ii
Today, catching sight of the mallards
crying over Lake Iware:
Must I too vanish into the clouds?
—Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch
This world—
to what may we compare it?
To autumn fields
lying darkening at dusk
illuminated by...
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Categories:
reopen, death, imagery, life, nature, symbolism, visionary, world,
Form:
Haiku
Halloween Poems Ii
Completing the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch
Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...
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Categories:
reopen, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Michelangelo: Modern English Translations
MICHELANGELO: Modern English Translations
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) is considered by many experts to be the greatest artist and sculptor of all time. These are modern English translations of his poems and epigrams by Michael R. Burch.
SONNET:...
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Categories:
reopen, art, beauty, light, love,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Riding Sixties Shotgun
I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...
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Categories:
reopen, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form:
Political Verse
Scantily-Clad In the Garden of S W Eden
SCANTILY-CLAD in the GARDEN of S W EDEN
Here I stand, all alone, scantily-clad in the garden of S W EDEN.
Wondering if the Original Garden still remains untilled and uneven.
Wondering how that Serpent knew of the...
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Categories:
reopen, adventure, beauty, betrayal, bible, nostalgia, symbolism, trust,
Form:
Verse
Sinai Campaign, 1967
Sinai Campaign, 1967
“Operation Focus” sees Israeli jets streaking, 1
Attacking Arab fighter jets and air force bases, 2
Thus attaining dominance over Middle Eastern skies,
While IDF ground divisions launch into action. 3
Israeli tanks (Pattons, Shermans, and Centurions)
Blitzkrieg...
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Categories:
reopen, education, history, jewish, war,
Form:
Verse
Six Missed Children
A tragic tale about the six kids who were kidnapped on a Halloween night, preludes the trick or treat in the street were Halloween was going to be celebrated after twenty years of the disapparition...
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Categories:
reopen, dark, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
Are We Safer Now
Joy in mourning
opens this new eye day.
Am I OK?
Healthy?
Compromised
yet survive able
air inhaling
"Death, tonight,
or some tomorrow,
my life's inevitable
closed,
no longer curious,
final answer."
Warm, wet exhaling,
"My moisture, too,
dying to reopen
yet another deep breath
resurrecting dawn."
Is my heart still beating
safe...
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Categories:
reopen, dark, death, health, integrity, life, light, sad
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Forgotten Gifts
She sat in her little cottage
Her ears tuned
Her body alive
Waiting…
Waiting for that knock on the door
Anytime now
She pulled back the frilly curtains
And peered out at the gathering dusk
The time when most of her visitors
Would knock...
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Categories:
reopen, giving, poetry,
Form:
Narrative
Time to Believe
Time slips by as the wind whispers through the trees,
Waving hands fly like the movement of the breeze
And families pray for those they love, all because,
Time gave hope, time restored, welcome home;
Yet every blessing stems...
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Categories:
reopen, allegory, christian, encouraging, faith, life,
Form:
Free verse
Reopen the Country Reserve the Graves
As the cases keep rising
The Death toll crawls ever closer
Piercing the peak of the mountain
Toward the stars in the sky
Ready to come crashing down
As they burn out from the arrow's touch.
While the stars burn out...
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Categories:
reopen, anger, angst, anxiety, corruption, political,
Form:
Free verse
2015
Starched tears stream, crust
over like a spoiled sweet on
pink cheeks, flushed,
from suffocated time,
gasping for air,
I shatter at his words like brittle rust,
crushed to dust,
mind meek.
Fifth time this week.
Shallow breaths to Karma Police,
struggle to...
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Categories:
reopen, abuse, addiction, anxiety, emo, emotions, hurt, poetry,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Matsuo Basho English Translations: Spring 1
Matsuo Basho Haiku: English Translations of haiku about seasons, spring, rain, moon, flowers, blossoms, wind, river, etc.
Blame the rainy season
for my absence,
old friend Moon.
—Matsuo Basho, translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
For yet a little while,
the pale...
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Categories:
reopen, flower, moon, rain, river, seasons, spring, wind,
Form:
Haiku
Sting
The sting in my throat when I swallow that pill
You know the pill.... that they say is hard to swallow
The knot in my stomach and my heart
As my mind replays the hurt ,...
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Categories:
reopen, confusion, feelings, life,
Form:
Free verse
Zen Death Haiku Ix
ZEN DEATH HAIKU VIII
These are my modern English translations of Japanese Zen Death Haiku.
Since I was born,
I must die,
and so …
—Kisei (1688-1764) , loose translation/interpretation of his jisei (death poem) by...
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Categories:
reopen, age, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst, animal, autumn,
Form:
Haiku
Infidelity
I don’t deserve
This kind of punch to my pride
You used your best left hook, uppercut and jab to my ego
Here desperately griping the corner of the ring
Unable to believe the idea
That he ever felt that...
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Categories:
reopen, lost love, words, me, light, light, me,
Form:
Bio
Today Not Tomorrow
I have been untrue
To myself and to my heart
I waited for the questions to answer themselves
I waited for the possible to become probable
I cowered down behind shadows
Even they shied away
I cowered down behind lies
Even they...
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Categories:
reopen, dedication, depression, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, inspirational, lovetime, day,
Form:
Free verse
Used
Open your mind
Open your heart
Look at your life
Mine was torn apart
Loving you by day
Dreaming of you by night
I have nothing to live for
Just one last fight
You slept with my best friend
Behind my back
Creating so...
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Categories:
reopen, depression, forgiveness, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, lost loveme, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Awakening
In ancient looms of my homeland,
Fairies once shuttled across threads of rainbows
Weaving folklores of gods and goddesses.
Our tapestry needed no haberdashery of
Brabubahanas and Chitrngadas or a vijay panchali,
For no tantric-needle knitted our folktales.
I want to...
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Categories:
reopen, 6th grade, abortion, absence, abuse, adventure, africa,
Form:
ABC
Grand Reopening
Several weeks ago, I passed a church ...
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Categories:
reopen, christian,
Form:
Verse
In the twilight of my consciousness, where shadows weave secrets into the fabric of the wind
In the twilight of my consciousness, where shadows weave secrets into the fabric of the wind,
I contemplate the whispers of time, its sweet deception that it heals all wounds.
For time heals not; it is but...
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Categories:
reopen, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
I'D Look Better Without You
You told me that no one else would want me
I believed you and began to feel ugly
Obeyed all your rules so that your hands, feet & UFOs didn't meet my body
People tried...
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Categories:
reopen, recovery from...me, love, me, mother, sleep, time,
Form:
I do not know?
Mindfullness Class
OK, mindful class,
past time to reopen our nurturing nests,
our nutritional mouths
and good-natured ears
and fertile reverse reserves
of not Lose/Lose
EarthMother Health-Wealth Care.
First,
we define our variables,
bilaterally co-arising
recreating
bipartisan dipolarities
Depolarizing
bipolar competing aggravations
replacing Old School co-gravitations
cooperative structured spatial out-forms (x-Yang)
and compassionate...
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Categories:
reopen, appreciation, education, health, humanity, humor, peace, senses,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum