Long Response Poems
Long Response Poems. Below are the most popular long Response by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Response poems by poem length and keyword.
An Uppercut I RememberDad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
response, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant "Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli."
At first, no one could remember who started the...
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Categories:
response, memory,
Form:
Prose
Mom's UnderGround PeaceTrainA transitional skill
my Mom taught me,
good to use when I start to feel at-risk,
somehow
anyhow,
whether in my relationship with her,
or with EarthDays more kosmic travels
through naturally wild
and domestic spirits.
Remember to ask permission
before...
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Categories:
response, beauty, community, earth, humanity, humor, love, mother,
Form:
Political Verse
Solo PerformanceIt had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.
This separation had been scheduled to...
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Categories:
response, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Sins of Supreme SuppressionNot to play any blame game,
in this our new co-evolutionary capacity
for LeftBrained Language CommunioNation
long become YangDominant associated
with monotheistic 'civilization',
aristocratic anthrosupremacism,
including Earth's newer colonizing history
of evolution by Orthodox Moral Elitism.
Processes of GodWord supremacy
became belligerently associated
with...
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Categories:
response, earth, health, language, math, religion, science, sin,
Form:
Political Verse
Father Time's InterviewHi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?
False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...
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Categories:
response, allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Caregiving Stories RepriseWounded Sacred Dementia: Part Two
Dementia's derelict WinLose SocialWorker
suboptimizingly hesitates
when I tell her
I have not changed my mind
about not adopting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
into my vulnerable home
with a seven-year-old AfricanAmerican boy
blind
and unable to defend himself,
or even run...
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Categories:
response, caregiving, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Our Earthcafe CoopIn one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.
But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in Thought Experiments
about what would my optimal Eden Paradise.
restoring peace and...
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Categories:
response, business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Water's WeaknessThere is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin Yutang, trans.)
That weakness of mind and body overcomes strength
And uniting...
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Categories:
response, power, psychological, water, western, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Chapter 92 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family AffairsNext day new school day.
Amadeus was the first to
Wake then he woke DJ and
Damali And all three went for
The showers. Twenty minutes
Later they woke everybody else
Including the adults. The Hakim
Children...
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Categories:
response, beach, christmas, emotions, family, first love, leadership,
Form:
Alliteration
My Love My AllWorld's Longest Love Poem (second edition)
Title: My love my all
Edited by Izunna Okafor
Editor's Note:
Out of their ardency, eighteen poets and poetry lovers identified with the need to give the 2020 Valentine celebration a poetic taste...
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Categories:
response, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Flash Mob ApplicationI'd like to apply for a permit
for a protest march
on the Washington Mall.
Lovely idea.
But, we're only issuing Mall permits
for Song and Dance Events.
I think this might be a violation of my Rights
to Free Speech.
I see...
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Categories:
response, america, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, music,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 108 -- Damian Dj Delilah Mallory Damali Cj: the New Temple and Djs BirthdayDate: January 4 2046
Damali and DJ were active in the
Small house sprucing up for their
Day. "Hey happy birthday partner!"
Damali jostled DJ. In the main house
Now 11 morning time. Damian had
Plans...
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Categories:
response, color, confidence, deep,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 99 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Dj Damali Nyaf and Rico: the Celebration-- Mass InvitationsDate: April 2045
An excellent April afternoon blooming.
Damali is now 19 years old this
Day. Damali was thinking of his future
Stretched out at his study desk.
He had been enrolled for a year...
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Categories:
response, granddaughter,
Form:
Alliteration
Superior Courts of Ecological JusticeWhat evidence do we have that businesses receive financial as well as other nutritionally healthy benefits,
by co-investing cooperatively within health-developing community cultures?
What are financial benefits for faith-in-health communities
both internal to corporate anthrosupremacist monocultural...
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Categories:
response, culture, earth, health, humor, judgement, political, race,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
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...
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Categories:
response, earth, nature, psychological, science, spiritual, western,
Form:
Free verse
Contract Against GreatnessIn Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold ZeroSum accounting Souls.
If the perfectly powerful pure patriarchal patriot
were your...
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Categories:
response, culture, health, integrity, mental illness, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
To Be a Friend PleaserI heavily recall two times when I had made you cry,
Both of which bewildered and moved me
My response was that of disbelief, and regret
And never, upon recalling,
Have I felt more of the need to...
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Categories:
response, change, character, confusion, devotion, friendship, growing up,
Form:
Narrative
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...
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Categories:
response, creation, health, humor, love, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Trump's Intake InterviewHello,
you've reached the EcoTherapist Cooperative.
How can we help you
without bringing harm to Others?
That's a question I've never thought about.
I'm calling for the National Republican Party.
We would like to hire an EcoTherapist
for a consultation
during the 2020...
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Categories:
response, america, caregiving, earth day, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 111 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Worries Orchestrations Population DisintegrationMolly sat on the backyard porch
Watching the kids play when Dolly
Emerged from the doorway and
Sat with her. "Hey sis how's it going
Girl! Dolly seemed jovial. Molly
Replied, "I guess it's going...
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Categories:
response, color, daffodils, family, good morning, home,
Form:
Alliteration
Permacultural TrustThe organic building of a coordinated artist
begins with reconstructing competitively clumsy LeftBrain technicians.
Whether learning to play the piano
or learning to communicate in some new language
or learning to adopt,
and/or adapt,
norms and nuances of some new cultural...
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Categories:
response, art, birth, bullying, earth day, giving, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 15 -- Damian and Polly: 2025 Another Year With PollyA cool February evening Damian was
Asleep. He felt somebody rubbing
His chest. "Leave me girl." Polly
Rolled out of bed and announced
"Damian, you should move in with me!
I want you to move in! Wake up...
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Categories:
response, friend, good night, happiness, passion, women,
Form:
Alliteration
Have Faith - the Egg Timer Style~ Have Faith ~
( Egg Timer )
~O~
Lord wants you live right
Have Love Faith Hope
Enjoy Peace
Always
Too
Too
Always
Enjoy Peace
Have Love Faith Hope
Lord wants you live right
Just Believe in God
Love with all heart
Worship Pray
To Him
Too
Too
To...
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Categories:
response, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
SunGod's Original IdeaI'm not much of a writer,
more of an activist,
a doer,
timeless doing.
Anyway, my Yang side,
which you AnthroTribes might re-cognize as EcoJustice,
emerges from my PositiveYang/NotNegativeYin
Win/Win Balancing
compassionate/pleasant
dialectically dipolar
co-binary appositional
positive/negative co-relational,
co-arising leftmind/rightbody hemispheres
of enbrightening light
and empowering...
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Categories:
response, earth, health, sun, time, trust,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum