Long Runes Poems
Long Runes Poems. Below are the most popular long Runes by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Runes poems by poem length and keyword.
The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
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Categories:
runes, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
runes, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Medieval Poems IvMedieval Poems IV
IN LIBRARIOS
by Thomas Campion
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Booksellers laud authors for novel editions
as pimps praise their whores for exotic positions.
Brut (circa 1100 AD, written by Layamon, an excerpt)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R....
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Categories:
runes, angel, mother, romance, romantic, rose, roses are
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
runes, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
For All That I RememberedFor All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
runes, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Chaucer Translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
runes, beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
Medieval Poems VMedieval Poem V
A Proverb from Winfred's Time
anonymous Old English poem, circa 757-786
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
1.
The procrastinator puts off purpose,
never initiates anything marvelous,
never succeeds, and dies alone.
2.
The late-deed-doer delays glory-striving,
never indulges daring dreams,
never succeeds,...
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Categories:
runes, earth, england, love, middle school, poems, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnets Xc-XcviiSonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
runes, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
runes, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 28The elves left separately and reconvened in the safe room. If Rian was aware of Joulupukki's presence in the Village, they did not want to give away what magic he had. When...
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Categories:
runes, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
A Weird Word Is Wyrd:The word Wyrd is Old English and means 'destiny'. From the same root comes Urd, one of the Norns, and the Germanic words Werth, Warth, and Wurth, which mean 'become'. The root word means 'to...
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Categories:
runes, mythology,
Form:
Narrative
Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”
Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its existence,
a kind of deactivation, fuzzy borderline hanging,
backing the art...
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Categories:
runes, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The StoneThe tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might
...
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Categories:
runes, body, death, fantasy, kiss, love, me, morning,
Form:
Ballad
Beloved Femme Fatale
“Beloved Femme Fatale”
Musk and Neroli satin skin spoons
Naked feet ‘neath The Pillars of Petra
She towers majestic above you, colours your grey skies
You are worshipping her on your knees
What does it matter, anymore? Before your eyes,...
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Categories:
runes, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Gnarled ShadowsThrough shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare,
Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace in my gut,
No slumber dreamt;...
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Categories:
runes, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic, horror, pain, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
White the Lowest Sky
"White the Lowest Sky"
Cries the Lowest Sky
tear drops fed as manna
o’er the littlest warrior
face raised to ultra Light
The 3
that sit in Ultra Gamma
there cries the lowest Sky
the voice that ever hears you
Cries the...
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Categories:
runes, freedom, love, trust,
Form:
Free verse
The Dragon StonesDragon visited the famous ‘Stones of Dragon’ at our Mayhem Falls Cave.
Hundreds come every year to see them, found here, in this hollowed enclave.
Dragon runes upon their face, they remained from a very ancient time...
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Categories:
runes, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form:
Light Verse
The Secret CircusThrough a wooded thick in a forest of New England,
There exists a secret circus called the Craft of Ringland.
Meandering through a meadow one night before the forest's mouth,
I heard a melody humming in the wind...
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Categories:
runes, adventure, fantasy, fun,
Form:
Couplet
The Payment, Past"Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows." - Native American Proverb
...
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Categories:
runes, adventure, age, analogy, time, travel, true love,
Form:
Epic
The Payment, PastHe stood upon a mountain, attending to her heart,
For surely such a hallowed sound would be
...
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Categories:
runes, journey, longing, love, soulmate, time, true love,
Form:
Epic
In the heart of the night, next to the unmoved clockIn the heart of the night, next to the unmoved clock,
She lies, with the pillow—a saline lake of pagan scents,
Mourning something that was never spoken.
Prisoner in the castle of shadows, where darkness
Bearer of chaos, stretches...
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Categories:
runes, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Never Land Part 1NOTE TO THE READER
Once Apun a Time
This yarn is a flossy fabric woven of several earlier warped works, lightly laced together, adorned with fur-ther braided tails of human frailty. The looms were loosed, purling frantically...
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Categories:
runes, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Would Love Breathe Forever? Sometimes, when
your sparkling spirit
waltzes with me
to the perfumed
periwinkle grooves
of saffron breezes,
I'm lost in a forever gaze,
within those
flickering ferns
of a nascent nightmare,
where I ain't any
velvet-purple orchid,...
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Categories:
runes, deep, emotions, flower, poetry, sorrow, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Tributaries Of Black Tulips - Collaboration with 'Ink Empress'
When heinous fangs
of life drain
the amethyst glow
flowing above
infected ripples of time,
I question the
chaos that claims
serenity through
saline serenade
of sirens, composed
with midnight ink
across a mazed face
of a starless canvas,
What if these...
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Categories:
runes, black love, dark, deep, meaningful, metaphor, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Hydrangea HideawayListen to the shifting winds
carrying musical meteors,
there soars floating
letters between
lyrical lines,
emanating runes
that reflect
revolving rhymes
of faith within
and beyond.
For we are more than
just spectators or actors,
in this theatrical life,
we are the assigned
maestros...
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Categories:
runes, faith,
Form:
Free verse