Long Reprieves Poems
Long Reprieves Poems. Below are the most popular long Reprieves by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Reprieves poems by poem length and keyword.
Olympic Desires Born, Gods A'Playing
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Olympic Desires Born, Gods A'playing
Poseidon arose, trident a'gleaming.
Mermaids danced, fallen hair a'streaming.
Olympic desires born, Gods a'playing
Mighty Zeus often on earth a'staying
There below mortals stopped a'praying
Hades play, man's evil a'repaying!
Poseidon arose, trident a'gleaming.
Mermaids danced, fallen hair...
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Categories:
reprieves, appreciation, art, creation, jealousy, mythology, repetition, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Go In Your Power
This is the story of Gideon as found in the book of Judges. Not a great warrior, not a great
leader, not someone with means. God picked someone no one else would have, and Gideon...
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Categories:
reprieves, devotion, faith, inspirational, religiongod, angel, angel, god,
Form:
Pastoral
I Feared That Soon the Snow Would Leave
I feared that soon the snow would leave,
As I watched the melting wreaths give way,
To the hand of time, come now to press,
The passing of my holiday...
Where the ghosts of Christmas just now past,
Their laughter...
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Categories:
reprieves, absence, family, freedom, holiday, new year, uplifting,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hunting the Nephilim, Part Ii
...He walked up and kissed her head so softly,
then said, “Good news, I’m off for the next few weeks.”
She said, “Mmm…and I’m betting that you’re are
thinking of all that you will do to me.”
He smirked,...
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Categories:
reprieves, angel, conflict, judgement, love, prejudice, relationship, spiritual,
Form:
Epic
Sin City-Las Vegas
On the streets of sin city, on the high roller's main drag,
Known as the Las Vegas Strip, a gentlemen phantom
Does stroll dressed in all black attire, striding forth with his golden Cain,
Flipping a silver chip...
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Categories:
reprieves, adventure, america, evil, halloween, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
The Plea, Heal Me After All That I Have Been Through
The Plea, Heal Me After All That I Have Been Through
You a heavenly body. So sweet
Your kisses would make this heart skip a beat,
Paying you adoration, shall be a great treat,
Since that summer, time and...
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Categories:
reprieves, art, deep, feelings, heart, love, passion, romantic,
Form:
Rhyme
Spring Flood 22-06-25
Last year the fields were dust and bone,
The rivers whispered in dirt and stone.
The sun stood high, a ruthless king
A crown of fire, heat never-ending.
It saw itself in glory and pride
And looked at the Earth...
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Categories:
reprieves, 12th grade, forgiveness, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
gone, the road back -
you gathered my mind - back streets, alleys ...
again ... one thought only, piqued by a sound, exquisite.
...
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Categories:
reprieves, farewell, forgiveness, history, perspective, relationship, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Brave Men Wade Into Shadows On Death's Ground
Brave Men Wade Into Shadows On Death's Ground
Power of one secret word can shatter all,
send men into war and deadly harms way.
Dead and dying on battlefields they fall
for dead glory and pittance of...
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Categories:
reprieves, conflict, dark, death, judgement, life, loss, military,
Form:
Rhyme
Strikingly Naked
Strikingly 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:
reprieves, truth, vanity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Empress of Ireland
THE EMPRESS OF IRELAND
Two mighty workhorses, colliding Titans,
Leviathans of the Saint Lawrence river.
Devastation’s maritime wrecking balls,
Slamming head on, even after the warnings
Sounding, had been given, by Captain Kendall.
Emerging on the starboard side, a distant...
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Categories:
reprieves, boat, death, imagination, inspirational, international, mystery, natural
Form:
Free verse
Gettysburg
Walk does he not the specter of death,
His saith raised high, even he himself has had
Enough killing, on the battlefield of Gettysburg,
Satan screams, stop sons of men, truly war
Is hell on earth.
Time's spiritual voices...
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Categories:
reprieves, america, history, imagery, inspirational, international, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Elusive Love - Restricted Love Under Slavery
No road elects to prune
a wavy path past mindless
parts of this life,
resembling our ghosts,
my love
I need no hearing,
no strings and
no sounds,
I need only hear your voice...
No love selects a raindrop's
teary glide,
that leaves a...
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Categories:
reprieves, sad love, endurance,
Form:
I do not know?
A Kiss
she leans back and points bare toes at clouds
chains creak their rhythmic squeak, hypnotic loud
taken aback, her hair sails slipstream flung
downstream freedom for a moment hung
in mid-air - earth's force gives up its grip
hands sweat,...
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Categories:
reprieves, growth, introspection, life, motivation,
Form:
Rhyme
Windchimes
“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
- Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
Soft wind caresses my cheek,
Carrying a gentle that is just what I seek.
Gusts of joy, falling...
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Categories:
reprieves, appreciation, autumn, god, muse, nostalgia, prayer, wind,
Form:
Couplet
Does Anyone Care
I know you're out there
I can hear you ... typing, rat-a-tat-tat
I echo it, but place with intent
each finger-step...
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Categories:
reprieves, appreciation, introspection, poetry, society, wisdom, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Where Bumbles Bounce
Demon, tread thee soft near me, I burn, your hellish progeny
Born of you 'midst bumbling ire - frozen stiff with spiteful fire
Every secret gained in treason begs to hone an edge of reason
Ragged smile, sharpened...
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Categories:
reprieves, analogy, deep, introspection, life, metaphor, symbolism, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
A Long Journey and Very Sad Look Back
A Long Journey And Very Sad Look Back
Looking back at those youthful follies invited
Days of sweet glory and thoughts of being knighted
Time sends back its memories of the lively ghost
My crazy younger self, that all...
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Categories:
reprieves, allusion, art, conflict, deep, memory, nostalgia, youth,
Form:
Sonnet
A Care To Spare
I know you're out there ...
I can hear you ... typing, rat-a-tat-tat
I echo it, but place with intent
each...
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Categories:
reprieves, analogy, care, metaphor, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Angels Fall, As I
Angels fall at your feet ...
- To savor the tang of truth - to kiss Heaven's visage
And sate horrid hearts, they feign...
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Categories:
reprieves, analogy, angel, introspection, love hurts, memory, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Shall We Dare To Venture Forth To Consult the Stone
Shall We Dare To Venture Forth To Consult The Stone
Whimsical wind that bloweth upon a cold stone
knoweth men are lost, ill consoled when left alone
yet upon resplendent dawn's great promise one finds
hope's first waiting of...
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Categories:
reprieves, art, creation, fate, humanity, nature, spiritual, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
Rain
I listened for the rain,
it emerged slowly now and again
from a crepuscular caliginus sky,
the tenebrous mist that trickled down lightly in the by and by
as if they were drops of salted...
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Categories:
reprieves, analogy, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
Drink Thee, Cool Water From Hope's Bright, Clear Streams, Part Four
Drink Thee, Cool Water From Hope's Bright, Clear Streams
( Hold True, Hope Shall Reward Thee )
Hope soars so far above earth's highest peak
miracles given the strong and the weak.
Rest...
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Categories:
reprieves, art, beautiful, blessing, heart, hope, integrity, miracle,
Form:
Sonnet
Foundation Found
These ideas are seduction for words as said suction is lucrative/
It frees high fees for reduction when he sped to a junction too seductive/
It’s an additive like a sieve to sift that’s imperative to give/
Bliss...
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Categories:
reprieves, angst, blessing, character, community, goodbye, growth, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Job of President
The Job of President
By Franklin Price
10/30/2015
The job of president in the Constitution is defined.
He really has no others except within our minds.
He is the commander and the chief of our military force
Commissions officers therein to...
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Categories:
reprieves, political, , cute,
Form:
Couplet