Long Restrain Poems
Long Restrain Poems. Below are the most popular long Restrain by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Restrain poems by poem length and keyword.
Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 HoursPoem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours
Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women,
based upon a character
in The Impertinent Curious Man,
a story within a...
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Categories:
restrain, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Rilke Translations IiCome, You
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
This was Rilke’s last poem, written ten days before his death. He died open-eyed in the arms of his doctor on December 29, 1926, in the...
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Categories:
restrain, tribute,
Form:
Verse
Everyday ChristiansI would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody of Christ.
I would further imagine
both he and George Washington,
at least...
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Categories:
restrain, body, christian, culture, earth, health, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
restrain, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Rainer Maria Rilke Translation: the PantherThe Panther
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
His weary vision's so overwhelmed by iron bars,
his exhausted eyes see only blank Oblivion.
His world is not our world. It has no stars.
No light. Ten thousand...
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Categories:
restrain, allegory, analogy, animal, cat, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Sonnet
Divine Comedy, Second CantoThe day was going off, and the brown air
To the terrestrial animals gave rest
For their labors; and only me was there
Just ready to withstand the war at best
Both of the journey and of the torment,
Which...
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Categories:
restrain, fantasy, proposal,
Form:
Terza Rima
Driving Alone Through the Sand Hills of NebraskaMy love is light (a fairy kiss?)
Like the pressure of...
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Categories:
restrain, lost love,
Form:
Blank verse
Rainer Maria Rilke: First Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Rilke began the first Duino Elegy in 1912, as a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, at Duino Castle, near Trieste on...
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Categories:
restrain, angel, beauty, desire, metaphor, universe, visionary, voice,
Form:
Free verse
The Tea LeavesPart 1
Genecia, was an angry girl. Actually, Genecia was always angry, 24/7, 365 days a year. This was even reinforced by her own mother, who told her often enough
Genecia, you were born angry. Well, if...
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Categories:
restrain, emotions, journey, love,
Form:
Free verse
Canto Xxii Hell Translation Part 2(continued previous part 1)
The duke then: “Tell now: of others indeed
Some Latin among sinners do you know
Behind pitch?”. And he “I had to secede,
It’s not much, from one who near had to stow.
I...
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Categories:
restrain, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Sad Seasonally Affective DisorderSAD Seasonally Affective Disorder
Some are prone to depression in winter when days get shorter when
less light enters the brain through the eyes and thoughts become darker
I am also affected and when news gets explosive when...
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Categories:
restrain, conflict,
Form:
Light Verse
Memorial Day May 29th, 2023silently wailing analogy to Moby Dick
regarding how yesterdays
prurient laced introductions
to rhyme in retrospect embarrassingly blows.
Herewith to enliven anecdote ever further,
I inject humorous tidbit
just gimme moment to unload and reach
into psychological metaphorical knapsack
particularly...
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Categories:
restrain, absence, america, angel, anger, beautiful, bridal shower,
Form:
Free verse
This Passionate MomentRed hot and cool Green peace
passions bring us to this sacred
synergetic EarthTime
More dialogue regenerative
when cooperative
so more redundantly competitive
when endless debate degenerative
Less producing fruit
of Future's healthy
integral
Whole OpenSystemic
secular and sacred
indigenously wise potential.
Thriving individual subsystems...
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Categories:
restrain, caregiving, culture, earth day, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from their sempiternal dreams of a free land.
Their bare weapon...
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Categories:
restrain, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom, hero, history, independence
Form:
Free verse
Daddy's Little GirlShe was eighteen
Graduation Day
Valedictorian
The Girl got Straight A’s
Mother says, 'I’m proud of you.
Your hard work is gonna pay.
I know it's been a long road
But you've carried your load."
The girl looks over her shoulders
And scans through...
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Categories:
restrain, abuse, child abuse, conflict, education, encouraging, growing
Form:
Free verse
What Day Brings - Poem En DuoGood Morning!
When the day sweeps
Away the last drop of darkness, ?
(Aurora with her cool breath, ?
Gently rising to her duties, ?
And with the sun as her companion, ?
Drizzling light into dark corners), ?
It reminds...
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Categories:
restrain, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Unassailable PurityIn a moment
Ten turns to twenty,
Then, thirty to forty,
Then, fifty to sixty…
In a moment…
Blessings are forgotten,
Sometimes simply ignored…
While hope is found in hearts
Who know the meaning of real love,
Love that abides in the soul…
Who knows...
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Categories:
restrain, blessing, christian, faith, forgiveness, god, hope, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Exsquisite MelancholyTime is like a shadow bright
It fades and never can requite
A lip, a shade, a palest kiss
The sorrow that my heart did wish
Clasped upon the rose and chain
When fate cannot...
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Categories:
restrain, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Canto Xxvi Hell Translation Part1Enjoy, Florence, because you so great are
That on seas and ground your wings you flutter,
And down in hell your name around spreads far!
I found five, among the stealers’ clutter,
Your citizens which then made me ashamed...
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Categories:
restrain, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
A Hairy LamentA HAIRY LAMENT
I've been bereft since you abandoned me
You provided comforting you see.
When I lay my head to sleep at night
I wish you were here with all my might.
Was so good to have...
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Categories:
restrain, self,
Form:
Couplet
Apocalypse Boko HaramLast night,
when laid i my head to rest,
dreamt i a dream
dreadful;
I wept,though i was a deep in sleep,
I saw a baobab tree with three branches,
on it lays the colony of three birds of the
air,
of...
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Categories:
restrain, violence
Form:
ABC
Touching With KindnessSome parents and cooperative school teachers
and classroom and bus aides and drivers
are discussing government regulations
restraining transportation providers
from providing therapeutic touch,
because of an over-compensation
for emotional dysfunction behaviors
leading to appallingly irreverent touch.
Toxic touch critical events
predict long-term non-lifegiving,
non-wellbeing...
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Categories:
restrain, anti bullying, caregiving, children, community, discrimination, health,
Form:
Political Verse
The Others Part 1I have been staying awake for as long as I can.
I have been doing this till I come up with a better plan.
I have been going and going till I can no longer stand.
I have...
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Categories:
restrain, anxiety, confusion, depression, emotions, lost, sleep,
Form:
Rhyme
Eli JahOh soothsayers of Beth El
who prophesy in the name of Jehovah
but disregard ...
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Categories:
restrain, bible, faith, hope, inspiration, truth, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
Paper-Cup Porsche: True Tale From the Mental WardOf all the kooky Coo-Coo's in the nest, Charlene by far was my favorite. Poor Charlene had virtually lost her mind after the sudden tragic death of her son, and because of that, and in...
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Categories:
restrain, black african american, crazy, humorous, memory, smile,
Form:
Narrative