Long Rubicon Poems
Long Rubicon Poems. Below are the most popular long Rubicon by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Rubicon poems by poem length and keyword.
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
rubicon, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
The Warlord Wars No More -2Pay heed to those deeds from whence the heart must confess...
You're far from Rome Proconsul Caesar...
As they say, "All roads lead to Rome" Ariovistus
and all tresspasses are treated as threats of war...
My recent conquest of...
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Categories:
rubicon, history,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Skinwalker
"Skinwalker"
That one’s mind
is like a scene from Chagall
dreams flow like blood bleeds
across the cortex page curtain call
an audience with the silent speakeasy
cerebellum with its swift
matter-of-factness
logically guides the fingers
to dance across keys...
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Categories:
rubicon, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The Man In the MirrorWho is the man in the mirror that stares back at me through eyes of blue that can scarce seen behind lenses reflecting bright light?
Those eyes appear so young and vibrant, though cast behind a...
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Categories:
rubicon, age, celebration, courage,
Form:
Prose
Antinatalist PoemsAntinatalist Poems
Habeas Corpus
by Michael R. Burch
I have the results of your DNA analysis.
If you want to have children, this may induce paralysis.
I wish I had good news, but how can I lie?
Any offspring you...
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Categories:
rubicon, baby, birth, child, child abuse, childhood, children,
Form:
Rhyme
Fecund Gamine Enthralls SeamenA cupola shin, prickly dick creed, hoary
testes tossed, master baiting ova all eel trades
crossed the fecund Rubicon and ejaculated
olly olly oxen yawping, in utero seminal raids
with phallic coup d’etat...
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Categories:
rubicon, adventure, age, anxiety, baby, birth, child, humanity,
Form:
I do not know?
Following My Guided Path Every Step of the WaySuffering from the I'll effects of
terminal overloading of my brain
operation at full capacity
The strain is palpable and starting
on my face to show
These city streets and skyscraper
building floor wall's
I fear are leading me...
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Categories:
rubicon, butterfly,
Form:
Free verse
Rubicon CrossingI have been writing since a child ...
my little stories ... made my family smile
but as I grew older I wrote deeper
...
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Categories:
rubicon, devotion, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Rubicon CrossingOwning the ability to strikingly be on a rough road.
Need the pride to cross the hazardous paddled rowed.
Caesar energetically settled on a terrible decision.
Cross a no-return line for Rome's dictator to goad.
When...
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Categories:
rubicon, analogy, bereavement, change, culture, depression, discrimination, river,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Jerusha's RubiconFamily unity, ties bound with conditions
Cult peoples kept from alternate climates
Narrow track administered to every woman
Mother of two, Jerusha determined to fight it
Prospect of allowed departure non existant
Packed full backpacks for herself, Cain, Ismail
Heart...
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Categories:
rubicon, betrayal, care, caregiving, change, character, children, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Don't Set Me Free and Then Cry For MeDon't set me free and then cry for me
I'm your precious dove; think before
Springing me from the cage, lest you feel
...
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Categories:
rubicon, allegory, freedom, metaphor, relationship, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Through the galleries of dreaming, where evening strings its somber beadsThrough the galleries of dreaming, where evening strings its somber beads,
The echo of a twilight stifles discreetly on the plain bound for eternal crossing;
Floating, floating over the velvet of darkness seeking its release.
Diaphanous sages, adorned...
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Categories:
rubicon, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The RubiconIn the mist of the journey’s penultimate mile,
at the edge of the fading fulcrum of future obscure,
at the door-step of dusk the sunset swansong resonates
for the forlorn essence silhouetted in confounding stillness.
The twirling threads of...
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Categories:
rubicon, analogy, sin, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Blowing BubblesIf she had to cross the rubicon for lack of sorting colours
A Rubik’s cube remained an unsolved puzzle
If numbers granted her the wish to live another happy day
Sudoku would refuse transformation from a maze
If chess...
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Categories:
rubicon, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Destinations UnknownRunning full throttle and redlined ...
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Categories:
rubicon, adventure, allegory, devotion, freedom, future, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
Through the galleries of dreaming, where evening beads its somber pearlsThrough the galleries of dreaming, where evening beads its somber pearls,
An echo of twilight suffocates discreetly across the plain towards eternal passing;
It floats, it floats over the velvet blackness seeking escape.
Ethereal sages, adorned with the...
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Categories:
rubicon, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Rubicon Crossingit was the day of her birth
when she stood at the Styx
naked but with all bags packed
with immanent sadness and joy
too young for being ambiguous
she let out a scream and let down
a reflex for simply...
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Categories:
rubicon, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Leaving the AtticI left my mind tangled in the cob-web of my attic
filled with dust-covered books
to stroll to the basement of my coal-stained thoughts...unarmed
but still a witness to it all
though my searching eyes be plucked from...
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Categories:
rubicon, literature,
Form:
Free verse
Baptized In RhetoricStanding atop your plateau as if divinity has made you a martyr with in the eyes of your deceived people, with a mighty rant as you pound your fist and whip the tranced crowd into...
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Categories:
rubicon, war, war, war,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
View from the CultI gave them all my riches,
I gave them all my fame,
I gave them all the things I loved
That caused me woe and shame.
Now I sit here penniless,
With no one else to blame,
Attempting to achieve...
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Categories:
rubicon, community, conflict, how i feel, moving on,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tenebrific FateHer final days, a mercilessly cold, never-ending night
Her eyes have grown so weary, always averting from the light
That used...
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Categories:
rubicon, dark, death, deep, fate, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
The Unsupervised Stop SignIn the mist of the journey’s penultimate mile,
at the edge of the fading fulcrum of future obscure,
at the door-step of dusk the sunset swansong resonates
for the forlorn essence silhouetted in confounding stillness.
As the twilight time...
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Categories:
rubicon, life, sin, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Autumn AfterglowThe fire logs glow, flickering to and fro
in her eyes he sees champagne dreams of love
the soft adagio plays a velvet tune of jazzing blow
right atop the hearth, she's fitted like...
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Categories:
rubicon, romantic love,
Form:
Rhyme
The JourneyIn the invisible flare of the insane times
when all the bridges I build are burning behind,
I wish to walk the remnant miles
across the Rubicon of the doomsday fear.
I’ll go to the untamed wilderness of yonder,
where...
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Categories:
rubicon, journey, life, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The Realm of Wisdom-MFrom the obscure fossilized Neanderthal time,
humans moving on evolution’s trajectory,
scaled the heights of intelligence summit,
emerged as the most creative living species.
Insecure in the unsure orbit of life,
the collective psyche falls in the self center,
sucked...
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Categories:
rubicon, community, humanity, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse