Long Responds Poems
Long Responds Poems. Below are the most popular long Responds by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Responds poems by poem length and keyword.
Employment TraumaMy protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples
Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.
He has been out of his calming,
regular custodial collared routine,
for over...
Read More
Categories:
responds, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
Universal Credit UnionStepped inside Bucky's Universal Credit Union today
to ask what could I invest in
with least risk
and greatest potential for self-optimizing return?
He invited me to sit down
to consider cooperative transactions
as our intentional understory
camouflaged within our ecotherapeutic relationships,
like...
Read More
Categories:
responds, earth, nature, psychological, science, spiritual, western,
Form:
Free verse
Just Doin' My Translation JobIt's all frustratingly LeftBrain relativistic,
even nihilistic in its darker
ruminating
paranoid about chaotic outcomes form,
said Einstein's post-millennial ghost.
So its all synergetic fractal 4D equivalent SpaceTime,
said Fuller,
in co-arising nondual P = N(NP)/2 (0)-Core response.
Interesting you should...
Read More
Categories:
responds, creation, health, humor, love, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Psychotripic Theory of EverythingCompassion co-arises nondually
internal-external.
Today I want to talk about possibilities
for integral polycultural dynamics,
which are systemic relationships,
correlations,
between LeftBrain deductive ego-mind,
RightBrain inductive eco-body,
and a boundary between these bicameral landscapes,
which we call unconsciousness.
The feasibility
and health value
of recognizing this...
Read More
Categories:
responds, community, political, psychological, science, spiritual, western,
Form:
Free verse
Dillen's Continuing Dmv AdventuresI wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.
Background Review:
One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...
Read More
Categories:
responds, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Yangyyolks With Yinyin-WhitesStart and end each day,
and life,
with a taoist egg.
I doubt my eggs are religious.
No, but they are natural,
organic incubators,
co-arising nondual yolk form
with transparent regenerative function,
cosmological purpose, maybe,
if you're a chicken,
or a turkey,
or a...
Read More
Categories:
responds, analogy, culture, earth, food, health, math, science,
Form:
Narrative
The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes
"The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes"
“Well, where would you suggest I commence? Should we begin with the concept of pasteurize?”
This said to the earnest listener, who views the protagonist with a bon vivant confused expression. To...
Read More
Categories:
responds, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Chapter 75 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Let the Game BeginDJ and the Damian squad rushed
The house. "Dad we're gonna
Play CRUEL BALL!" Amadeus
Gave notice. Damian said, "Oh
Yeah." He put his hands on both
His sons shoulders and said.
"Fellows first of all it's...
Read More
Categories:
responds, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Echoes of Mom's Great Earth DayA transitional skill
my Mom taught me,
good to use when I start to feel at-risk,
somehow and anyhow,
whether in my relationship with her,
or with Earth’s more kosmic garden of naturally wild and domestic spirits.
Remember to ask permission...
Read More
Categories:
responds, beauty, community, earth, humanity, humor, love, mother,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Taotime MasteryHungSau
always do your best to reveal
only what is already both known and loved,
nature’s kindness and justice,
truth as beauty,
love as abundantly rich healthy life
and death.
But,
what do we love about death?
Should I not know any probable response
I...
Read More
Categories:
responds, blessing, earth, health, love, nature, spiritual, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Being BobBeing Bob
Bob, is just an ordinary guy in every sense of the word. Five ft eight inches tall, a little on the chubby side and has lost most of his hair. No one pays much...
Read More
Categories:
responds, angst, anxiety, character, confidence, desire, environment, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
Strange Ways, Here We Come
“Strange Ways, Here We Come”
the devil’s advocate
came waltzing
through my doors
“I had no choice”
the supercilious harbinger said,
“to intervene, to parlay away
something
not
mine
now
you're
doing time
not the criminal recidivist
nor usurping interloper
and their profound lies
every...
Read More
Categories:
responds, dark, death, grief, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
The Truth Is Here Somewhere:1: Echo PoemAn Echo Poem
Original: This Much I Know – Poem by Lora Colon of PoemHunter
Reprinted here with permission.
Soon the sun will set in this valley
Where I’ve roamed for many a year,
So many questions left unanswered,...
Read More
Categories:
responds, betrayal, loneliness, love, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
My Renegade Sunday School TeacherAunt Mary was a small and wiry mother
of six;
four by birth
and two by informal adoption.
She sang in a small querulous voice
yet spoke boldly
filled with loving EarthMother
indigenous wisdom choices.
Aunt Mary was a serenely quiet mentor
and suspiciously...
Read More
Categories:
responds, christian, education, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Lifeboat the Hippo's TalePart 4
Now by the end of the day, it was easy to say,
The Hippo was gracious and kind.
With no desire to offend, it seemed a genuine friend
And...
Read More
Categories:
responds, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 39 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Master Plan Ii ContinuesDuring the next months both
Delilah and Mallory attended
Many family events. Molly
Was already 6 months
pregnant while Dolly was
4 months pregnant.
And Damian was happy.
Damian Junior Was then
3 years old and attended...
Read More
Categories:
responds, business, child,
Form:
Alliteration
Earth Day VoicesVoices of creation speak Type A and Type B,
and polyglot dialects through Z,
somehow under what lies in shadow
from B through Z,
anyway, Type A conscious I am alive
in this indoor moment
awake but not directly sun-absorbing...
Read More
Categories:
responds, culture, earth, earth day, health, language, light,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Friends Speak - An Echo Poem(Brian Johnston speaks to Lora Colon)
Getting older don't you wonder
What your life is all about?
Wages earned don't leap to haunt me
Like my dreams of fighting trout -
Lightning flash and...
Read More
Categories:
responds, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Listening For SustainabilityMy daughter,
with Fetal Alcohol crippling emotional intelligence damage
and Cerebral Palsy perpetual TerribleTwo
"is too many,
because Earth is all about ego-defiant me"
has taught herself
to attach her lips,
and sometimes her wet licking tongue
when she is feeling particularly needy
and/or...
Read More
Categories:
responds, appreciation, community, earth, environment, health, integrity, together,
Form:
Political Verse
The ConversationDark, the night morphs slowly toward dawn.
In its last vestige, the moment in which night becomes morning,
he speaks to me.
I refer to him as "he" only to supplicate my own delusional need
to believe that a...
Read More
Categories:
responds, death, time,
Form:
Free verse
Shoveling I-CyclesHe said he planned to freeze to death.
Did he mean to have his body frozen?
Stored to hatch again later,
leftovers out of time's deep freezer of waiting.
No, not that.
He responds with undeniable dismissal,
this would not be...
Read More
Categories:
responds, death, deep, life, love, nature, relationship,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Dissolving Heart
“The Dissolving Heart”
How many keys
played for seeds
bleeding a life
read, received
cast out
in the left field
planted in the heart
of karma to become
new life reflecting
inwards out to another
holding the echoing
music kept safe...
Read More
Categories:
responds, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Just Passing ThroughBang! Bang! Bang!
The sound of gun shots echoing in the air
Shattering windows and, smashing glasses
Sending people pouring out in the street
Gun shots penetrating the clouds
With a message that is very loud
People are...
Read More
Categories:
responds, business, change, city, death, deep, destiny, emotions,
Form:
Narrative
Light SystemsIt was Economic Earth
Gaia who taught WinWin me
Yin-diminished Taoism.
It was ego/eco-centric Permaculture Designers
WinWin DNA-with-RNA CoGoverning HealthCare Workers,
and not so much
Competitive FIGHT-MAKES-RIGHT retributional politics.
Instead, restoration
redemption
resiliently healthy love
WinWin GoodNews theology
deep listening with inside Sacred Ecology
of YangGod with...
Read More
Categories:
responds, caregiving, environment, gospel, health, integrity, power, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
The Flood, Christ's Death(Necessary, Sufficient – Why? How?)
Was the ‘Death of Christ’ needful? Can ‘Mind of God’ change?
Might the rainbow then signal ‘Repentance,’ a sign
God does grow and responds too, to changes wrath wrought?
Were there souls saved by...
Read More
Categories:
responds, faith,
Form:
Rhyme