Long Retains Poems
Long Retains Poems. Below are the most popular long Retains by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Retains poems by poem length and keyword.
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
retains, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
Love Poems Iii
LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
retains, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Fahr An' Ice
Fahr an' Ice
by Michael R. Burch
From what I know of death, I'll side with those
who'd like to have a say in how it goes:
just make mine cool, cool rocks (twice drowned in likker),
and real fahr...
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Categories:
retains, death, drink, fun, humor, humorous, light,
Form:
Light Verse
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
retains, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Burning Logs
Each flame
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.
Each flame
unique in point of origin below
as ubiquitously flickering fading destinations above.
Yet...
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Categories:
retains, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Employment Trauma
My 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...
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Categories:
retains, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
Otomo No Sakanoue No Iratsume Translation
To a Daughter More Precious than Gems
by Otomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaven's cold dew has fallen—
and thus another season arrives.
Oh, my child living so far away,
do you pine for me...
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Categories:
retains, child, childhood, children, daughter, girl, mother, mother
Form:
Tanka
Earthfirst
America First
speaks a RightWing monocultural intention
currently championed by Trumpians
and Republican Aristocracy of Evangelism
Tea Partiers,
by xenophobic paranoids
and sociopathic pharisee fascists,
by economically blind
deaf
and angry
bigoted
terrified shouters;
just the opposite of dumb,
yet not cooperatively mindful either
of our global...
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Categories:
retains, anger, community, fear, happiness, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Humility
Humbleness
(Free Verse)
Humble is a man who prefers
To take fresh air in his garden
Than waste his time in a pub,
To be dressed in simple clothing
Than in expensive high class dresses
That bursts a whole in his...
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Categories:
retains, appreciation, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Bard of Ancient Smyrna
After enjoying a pleasant walk, I then spent an hour at a park,
And I relished the dulcet sounds, of cheery airborne skylarks.
The blooms were so lovely, all sultry in the fervid sunshine,
And the hummingbirds were...
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Categories:
retains, adventure, age, fantasy, history, imagery, poetry, time,
Form:
Couplet
Money Where Your Mouth Was
Jesus help me,
cried Mother Earth
to Adam's Sacred Son,
I can't be birthin' all these ego-dominating babies,
gettin' on,
you know...
Makes me sad.
From "Mother Earth's Laboratory Journal", post-millennially self publishing
Money, like fertility,
is sexy,
needing attention
to continue regeneratively thriving,
health icons rooted...
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Categories:
retains, earth, humor, money, philosophy, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
25
It’s Monday afternoon, the first day after Fall Break. Several of my suitemates are here, relaxing a bit before we hit the dining hall and then scatter, like debris from a bomb. There are a...
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Categories:
retains, friendship, humor, perspective, school,
Form:
Free verse
Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 3
Mitchell: At this level, as with the rest, one might also find those who have stumbled down from a higher step on the crystal staircase from dancing too many tangos in their Manolo Blahniks, as...
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Categories:
retains, allegory, society,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Rearview
When I was a history teacher, I had a passion for the subject,
Like the twilight descending silkily, as day and night connect.
Each day was a new adventure, as we explored different ages,
Broadening young minds. I...
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Categories:
retains, fantasy, history, memory, nature, teacher, time, travel,
Form:
Couplet
Direwolf, Dire Times
I watch the sun rise and once again bring another dawn, Another day in which we are alive. I stand 30 feet above the muddy ground, on the top of...
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Categories:
retains, animal, bible, community, fantasy,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Smoke And Mirrors - Channelling in the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe - A Musical Video- POTD
POTD June 15 2025
Smoke And Mirrors – Channelling in the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe
When regulation picks at pillaged dreams
The searchlight shines its brutal beams
As shadows spill its borrowed light.
judgement retains its fractured fight.
A blind...
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Categories:
retains, anxiety, emotions, identity, inspiration, metaphor,
Form:
Ballad
Faith
"The righteous shall live by faith"
Romans 1:17
Posted on Poetry Soup 12 January 2023
Contest no 1265 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand
...
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Categories:
retains, faith, fate, god, inspirational, life, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Amel Bent's Ton Nom, Translated By T Wignesan
Ton nom - New English Translation of Amel Bent's song "Your Name" by T. Wignesan
Je me raccroche aux détails du passé
Details of our past I cannot unclasp
?Nos souvenirs le sourire aux lèvres
A smile steals...
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Categories:
retains, cute love, devotion, memory, sweet love, true
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Lorca Translations I
Lorca Translations I
Gacela of the Dark Death
by Federico Garcia Lorca
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I want to sleep the dreamless sleep of apples
far from the bustle of cemeteries.
I want to sleep the dream-filled sleep of...
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Categories:
retains, dark, death, heart, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Azoth
Written: March 05, 2024 For Edward Ebeh Contest
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Oh, Hermes, during historical eras of reign,
Greek...
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Categories:
retains, history, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Fire Mother
Cold morning greets the weary eye clouds drape the horizon in gray
I turn around avoiding the sight I cannot stand with a dreary pale day
And then I feel it on the nape of my neck...
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Categories:
retains, art, happiness, health, hope, inspirational, life, mother,
Form:
Lyric
The Legend of Leap Castle
THE LEGEND OF LEAP CASTLE
In the dark shadows of the ancient past,
Creatures move within the kingdom of darkness,
Hidden illusions of faded forms of existence, roaming the hallowed
Halls in echoing’s of delusions, royal tombs shudder beneath
The...
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Categories:
retains, evil, halloween, history, holiday, horror, mystery, myth,
Form:
Free verse
The Askance Chapter 5 Part 5c
For the war to end between Gods, its humans they turn to rely
How ironic it can be for in my World, its Gods we chose to defy
And why all the irregular mishap to have to...
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Categories:
retains, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Definitions Continued(In Terms of Human Intelligence) - 1
Mathematics - a measure that shows the interactions between parameters such as (numbers,
letters) figures, signs, symbols, vibrations etc. i.e. basic units of languages and
measurements. A way-method of measuring the relationship between quantities, qualities,
intensities, vibrations e.t.c....
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Categories:
retains, on writing and wordsrelationship,
Form:
I do not know?
sensory grass
sensory grass
tickles your toes
soft pokes
every word is a stroke
of a blade
not a brush
a lawnmower in the distance
breaks the silence
what the hell…
the smell of fresh-cut grass
and the moisture
that lingers on its smell
you know…retains it
(like the soft...
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Categories:
retains, appreciation, beautiful, dream, happy, imagery, nature, peace,
Form:
Prose Poetry