Long Rote Poems
Long Rote Poems. Below are the most popular long Rote by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Rote poems by poem length and keyword.
Old Pharaoh - 2 of 2For Pharaoh still exalts himself and thinks he’s in control,
But if he won’t release my folk, he’ll pay a heavy toll.
Tomorrow I will bring down hail like Egypt’s never seen,
On plants and trees and man...
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Categories:
rote, bible,
Form:
Ballad
Bharathidasan's Pulikku Nay Enta Mulai, Translated By T Wignesan
Bharathidasan’s “Pulikku nay enta muulai” (To the Tiger, the Dog knows no safe dwelling!) translated by T. Wignesan
Bharathidasan (1891-1964) was a self-proclaimed disciple of the eminent Brahmin poet: Cuppiramania Bharathiyar (cf. two poems of...
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Categories:
rote, anti bullying, patriotic, political, racism, , literature,
Form:
Sonnet
The Skeletons and Songs of Samsara - 2In the heart where your naivety resides
you wonder what haunts the sun
and why pain enjoys your childhood eyes,
when you see warm blood run
then you know that death can color
and like you, death loves a dramatic...
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Categories:
rote, birth, death, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Categories:
rote, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form:
Free verse
The Armless AmbidextrianI. The Love of Minds
The volume on the desk,
The one not claimed by dust or burned
By light, will follow her to bed tonight.
Its pages will be turned and smothered,
Each in turn, so as not to...
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Categories:
rote, conflict, death, depression, desire, fear, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Darzet Countree Lad Be OiOi be nowt but an auld country hick,
we a liddle bit of gall, an a lotta stick.
Oi baint niver afeared to speak me mind,
nor critizise folks harshly iffen Oi find
zummit I don’t loik. Tis...
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Categories:
rote, immigration, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
The monumental bane of OCD obsessive compulsive disorderThe monumental bane of OCD - obsessive compulsive disorder
As origin of Homo Sapien species surged ahead,
harboring nascent predominance
asper said primate reproductively bred,
(albeit via incremental fits and starts)
evolutionary forebears didst dread
Tom Tom Club former members
an American...
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Categories:
rote, adventure, africa, animal, anxiety, atheist, environment, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Finding Shelter During End TimesFinding Shelter During End Times (1)
Do you think you’d feel pride as the last soul alive
on a planet that dies as your knife pricks its heart
(not alone you’ve had help, the last lemming, perhaps,
to run...
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Categories:
rote, faith, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Recurrent Sneezing Fit Courtesy Freshly Mowed GrassRecurrent sneezing fit courtesy freshly mowed grass
circa June 20th, 2022
prompted me to stutter
self addressed rapid fire gesundheit
nsync with, spluttering
“I don't have any allergies!”
An infinitesimal slight speck tickled
nostril follicle – activated via an itty...
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Categories:
rote, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Church Reluctant, Church MilitantWe’ve marched along the watchtower,
And stepped across the wall,
We’ve looked for hearts of gold
And joined the band on the run,
The road we walk is rocky and narrow
As we step towards the gate,
And we sing songs...
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Categories:
rote, christian, conflict, destiny, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Something About Ed's Wife, Part II first met Ed’s wife when he moved in next door,
it was hard not to see such a beauty,
nearly six feet, with long, honey-blonde hair,
and skin as perfect as any movie.
Now I did not say...
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Categories:
rote, friend, life, loss, marriage, mystery, mythology, sad,
Form:
Narrative
Jigsaw Puzzle(Manifesto)
VIII … stop! - Skid! - Shift knobs, slide gears, vomit numbness, fondle!… the music of
guillotines!…
VII … unmannered retching! since everything is a percentage of death in motel prayer-nights
separated from unholy...
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Categories:
rote, socialdark, dark, love, giggle,
Form:
Free verse
Awakening Teary-Eyed Momentschildhood, creation, feelings, growing up, heaven, imagery, word play,
Awakening Teary-eyed Emotions © ...
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Categories:
rote, childhood, creation, feelings, growing up, heaven, imagery,
Form:
Verse
Of the Quandaries and Mystics In Divine ShamanismThe Shamans gather to discuss the oblivious reason
Dispel cruelty as fate opens for our unorthodox legion
Conformity’s blue armies will try to trap you and me in
Destroy notions preconceived, let the celebration begin
The mind is confused...
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Categories:
rote, allegory, confusion, devotion, faith, happiness, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Mnemonic Devices: Rhyme and Alliteration In the Thirukkural, Canto 4, K35Mnemonic Devices: Rhyme and Alliteration in the THIRUKKURAL, a random example: Canto 4, K35 by T. Wignesan
alukkaaru avaavekuli innaacchol naangkum
ilukkaa iyanrathu aram (refined, shorn of connective particles)
The way of vileness, self-congratulatory aid, ire and foul-mouthing...
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Categories:
rote, memory, poetry, tamil,
Form:
Epigram
The Legend of Leap CastleTHE 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:
rote, evil, halloween, history, holiday, horror, mystery, myth,
Form:
Free verse
A Lover's Letter - Part 2 of 4- continued from Part 1 -
and Feel Your Form and Supple Figure
Blessed With Such Restful Grace
… and Flow Into Your Being
Like Embraced Ocean Waves
I Wanted To Send You Words
Of How Deeply I Care
I’m Sending Words...
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Categories:
rote, absence, allegory, bible, christian, emotions, faith, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
Inspection Time 2018Inspection Time 2018!
Understandable dear reader,
how this scribe bull lime
me bloke omitted mention of
one bedroom flat as
reason nigh rote this rhyme
Ma faux pas faw...
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Categories:
rote, 10th grade, 11th grade, 4th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
Ill Wind OfIll Wind of
It comes replete with verve and belief
Full blown in its gusto and rote of surety
Yet its goal is to confound and mislead
And bury all the true faces of love
It’s an ill wind...
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Categories:
rote, life
Form:
Free verse
Gold FeverGold Fever
History will not record the bloated weight
Of this pious and bigoted race
Or count the fat and flaccid wealth
Of religions idolatry
Those pages have been scrubbed clean
By prosperous forgivingness
And the cruelty of established...
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Categories:
rote, faithfaith, political, perspective, , western,
Form:
Free verse
Recurrent Sneezing FitAn infinitesimal slight speck tickled
nostril follicle – activated via an itty
bitty, nitty gritty dirt band noah bigger
than a mole luck yule set in motion a
chain reaction, whence mine sensitive
proboscis honker...
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Categories:
rote, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse
Their Simple BeautyBaby birds, it's said, are born not knowing
their notes. They learn them from their mother's
throats in the way children learn their ABCs
at parental knees, muh muh muh becoming mother,
da da da,...
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Categories:
rote, death,
Form:
Blank verse
Children of XenophobiaChildren of Xenophobia
Children eating bullets and firecrackers
Beggars of smile and laughter
Silent corpses sleeping away fertile dreams
Povo* chanting new nude wretched slogans
Overstayed exiles eating beetroot and African potato
Abortions and condoms batteries...
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Categories:
rote, abuse, addiction, africa, allegory, anger, anxiety, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Thee Grim Reaper As Pedagogical Savior(fear not stalwart reader, the sword of Damocles just grazed thy chest when fate found us a place to call home).
to avoid the pitfall of prospective homelessness
which near future prospect
induces existential...
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Categories:
rote, angel, dark, destiny, farewell, horror, journey, obituary,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Double Blind 20-20
See what!
Don’t let a let a lot of
skyjack noise
cloud your IQ vision
Radar babies make sonar decisions
for the latest batch
of tech toys
They be so double...
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Categories:
rote, metaphor, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse