Long Rune Poems
Long Rune Poems. Below are the most popular long Rune by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Rune poems by poem length and keyword.
The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist
"The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist"
The Sleeper
shone as she walked
through the Woods
shining alive
like nothing
natural could
caught
in the moonlight
unaware
the innocent
red-caped roses stared
the trees whispered,
"beware, beware"
barefoot softly
the Supernaturalist
transfigures instead
from under shine
she bares...
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Categories:
rune, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
rune, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Me and Me FirstThat soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick,
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First"
(To mesmerise people He needed...
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Categories:
rune, political, society, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the FaceGrant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face
blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth
of the late...
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Categories:
rune, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Silence of Thistle Truthseasons keep m o v i n g
and s w i r l i n g
memories keep f l o w i n g
and s h i f t i n g
through...
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Categories:
rune, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Peril Us Aye Grant This To Be a Civil Yet Hurried Lee Red(Alternately titled always look on the bright side of life)
Armageddon wold be a morbidly amazing,
concluding (reign of Homo Sapiens)
fascinating albeit simultaneously catastrophic boon
dog gull to accompany
...
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Categories:
rune, 10th grade, 12th grade, future, howl, image,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till He Gets Blue In the Faceblowing balloons signaling 158 years since Appomattox
(Alternately titled always look on the bright side of life)
Armageddon would be morbidly amazing,
concluding (reign of Homo Sapiens)
fascinating albeit simultaneously catastrophic boon
dog gull...
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Categories:
rune, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, april,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The End of Summer
“The End of Summer”
In those days
they watched for signs
in the heavens
numbers connected
the ways that
weighted the scales
written in the stars
a woman gave birth
to a dragon’s tale
in a beehive cluster
distant, yet,
oh so familiar
Praesepe,
in...
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Categories:
rune, humanity, religion, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Arthurian Poems IiNote: the "dd" in Welsh names is pronounced "th."
Merlyn's Birth
by Michael R. Burch
I was born in Gwynedd,
or not born, as some men claim,
and the Zephyr of Caer Myrrdin
gave me my name.
My father was Madog Morfeyn
but...
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Categories:
rune, england, literature, magic, myth, romance, romantic, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
Distant Pipes Lament - Part-1Into a vortex chemically unbalanced,
Soft velvety dark smooth to the touch.
My heart broken asunder my Souls' pain enhanced,
All darkness Inverted oh so much.
Soft velvety dark smooth to the touch,
Outside reality searching space.
All darkness Inverted oh...
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Categories:
rune, emotions, feelings, metaphor, romance, sad love, seasons,
Form:
Pantoum
Orchid Oxymorons"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~ Rumi
Dear Diary,
I’m a hopeless romantic,
a sentimental sonnet
scribbled...
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Categories:
rune, emotions, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Allama Iqbal Translation: the Tulip of SinaiExcerpts from "The Tulip of Sinai"
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Withered Roses
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
What shall I call you,
but the nightingale's desire?
The morning breeze was your nativity,
an afternoon garden,...
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Categories:
rune, desire, flower, garden, heart, hindi, love, urdu,
Form:
Verse
The Maze and the MinotaurIn searching for a heart of gold,
with standards higher than I deserve.
I lost my way.
Lost sight of the truth, what would truly make me happy.
I imagined- the mold, the form she should take and...
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Categories:
rune, 6th grade, evil, games,
Form:
Free verse
Nova
A celestial dance, infinite grace
in the grandeur of
ancient yearned place.
A Red Giant lassos
his pearly bride,
keeps her from roaming the desert face.
A vow is exchanged, a cosmic bond living,
alive with...
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Categories:
rune, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Sun PoemSun Poem
by Michael R. Burch
I have suffused myself in poetry
as a lizard basks, soaking up sun,
scales nakedly glinting; its glorious light
he understands—when it comes, it comes.
A flood of light leaches down to his bones,
his feral...
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Categories:
rune, poems, poetry, poets, summer, sun, sunset, sunshine,
Form:
Free verse
Allama Iqbal TranslationsALLAMA IQBAL TRANSLATIONS INTO MODERN ENGLISH
Excerpt from Rumuz-e bikhudi (“The Mysteries of Selflessness”)
by Allama Iqbal aka Muhammad Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like a candle fending off the night,
I consumed myself, melting into tears.
I spent...
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Categories:
rune, fear, garden, grief, love, rose, roses are
Form:
Verse
Allama Iqbal Translation: CordobaExcerpts from "Cordoba"
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Withered Roses
by Allama Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
What shall I call you,
but the nightingale's desire?
The morning breeze was your nativity,
an afternoon garden, your sepulchre.
My tears...
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Categories:
rune, death, destiny, god, hindi, life, love, urdu,
Form:
Verse
Allama Iqbal Translations 2ALLAMA IQBAL TRANSLATIONS INTO MODERN ENGLISH
Ehad-e-Tifli (“The Age of Infancy”)
by Allama Iqbal aka Muhammad Iqbal
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
The earth and the heavens remained unknown to me,
My mother's bosom was my only world.
Her embraces...
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Categories:
rune, garden, heart, hindi, mother, rose, star, urdu,
Form:
Verse
Seven Seas Voyage ContinuesWith every gust of wind, secret taboo,
secreting a web a cocooned prison
of liquid knowing, flowing,
emulsifying impossibly old and new.
In the beyond of the known, stair-stepped,
desert bone flashed into
your consciousness a confident cajoling.
To...
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Categories:
rune, art, beauty,
Form:
Epic
Breathe ContestBreathe
Sponsor: Mystic Rose
When the night claims you like a wayward leaf of old
and it takes you to the caves where anything turns gold
...
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Categories:
rune, love, passion,
Form:
Quatrain
Selfish Lovelove is the most selfish want
if all my needs were being met
if all my wants were fulfilled
would i still need love
would i need presents
if thats what love is?
is it a state of mind
a helping hand...
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Categories:
rune, angst, love, people, visionary, love, drug,
Form:
Free verse
BreatheBreathe
When the night claims you like a wayward leaf of old
and it takes you to the caves where anything turns gold.
You don't ask any questions and you don't dare breathe.
You just follow...
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Categories:
rune, image, muse, new year, poetry, together, usa,
Form:
Quatrain
Breathing With Mystic RoseWhen the night claims you like a wayward leaf of old
and it takes you to the caves where anything turns gold
you don't ask any questions and you don't dare breathe
you just follow her,...
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Categories:
rune, feelings, passion,
Form:
Quatrain
''Breathe''
When the night claims you like a wayward leaf of old
and it takes you to the caves where anything turns gold
you don't ask any questions and you don't dare breathe
you just follow her, like...
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Categories:
rune, fantasy, romance,
Form:
Quatrain
COLOURFUL LAMENTCOLOURFUL LAMENT
I combed cool waters of your
baby blue crystalline Jewel as you
waded waterfall waves washing
my stellar rainbow rays
Arching it melted into the warm
womb of transducing tangoing Earth
Her Violet Flame devoured...
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Categories:
rune, allegory, blue, color, deep, desire, humanity, inspirational
Form:
Free verse