Long Sanctioned Poems
Long Sanctioned Poems. Below are the most popular long Sanctioned by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Sanctioned poems by poem length and keyword.
Strange Justice DreamsIt is a strange dream
in which an animal rights advocate
is swamped with questions
from Chief Justice Roberts.
A vicious dog,
trained to attack humans
with politically incorrect audacity
to trespass against his white supremacist Master,
has been imprisoned
and sentenced to...
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Categories:
sanctioned, caregiving, earth, health, humor, peace, mental health,
Form:
Political Verse
The Square Root of BeirutThe Square Root of Beiruit
Ten men bending while theyre pretending to be near the ending
A capitalist nightmare glares like rotten fruit
The squate root of Beiruit
No it isn’t fair, so they’ll start to loot
The soldiers are...
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Categories:
sanctioned, introspection, life,
Form:
Rhyme
As I Watch Myself Unfold Without LoveHe/I/they/all/we/none knowing sit/sats he/she thoughts he/she witnessed he/she held a behold as to what the hell a corporeal ring of things once unbeknowinest to him/her was about,: thought provoking, yet undeterminate in any reason with...
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Categories:
sanctioned, age, appreciation, grief, remember, sad love, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Tyranny Counts the Ballots“Never forget
everything Hitler did
in Germany was legal.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
drop by drop lady liberty bleeds
red on white and blue
common sense vexatious
verboten spins askew
“We can and we must
write in the...
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Categories:
sanctioned, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Humanity of HorsesMy internal experience of depression
today shames
external ecology of elation,
all I might know as warm extended family
of profoundly peaceful impressions
still bare surviving
at end of this slow-fading thread.
This morning
one Epictetus sentence
speaks of blaming left-hemisphere dominant GodVoices:
"People are...
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Categories:
sanctioned, anti bullying, depression, health, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Mark My WordMark my word...
Das führer Donald Trump will return with a vengeance
Trump wracked up an impressive
$122.00 million war chest
accumulating $82.00 million
merely proffering impish grin
between January and June of 2021;
now he sets his sites and will...
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Categories:
sanctioned, 12th grade, abuse, america, betrayal, bullying, dark,
Form:
Rhyme
Achab, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel's Achab By T WignesanAchab*, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Achab by T. Wignesan
One man alone stands erect before the king, and speaks
A man
Alone
The king is not accustomed to being confronted face to
...
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Categories:
sanctioned, loneliness, words,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Red Justice But Green PeaceHeteroSapiens have bipolar developed
miraculous capacities
to stretch and blur
legitimate moral peace initiatives
subordinate to licit legal judicial systems
Judiciously approved punishment
for misdemeanors
felonies,
cardinal
and moral
and carnal
and original sins
requiring flat fees
regardless of capacity to pay,
imprisonment,
enslavement,
lynching,
beheading,
burning at the stake,
chemical injections,
Capital disembodied punishments
NOT...
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Categories:
sanctioned, culture, earth day, health, peace, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Under the Bridge In Del Rio, Texas UsaUnder the bridge in Del Rio are stopped, stuck, stationed
Thousands of migrant Haitians, not Ukrainians
Frankly, if they were the latter, they wouldn’t be sanctioned
Detained, abased, mistreated and deported like Haitians
Like herds of cattle to detention...
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Categories:
sanctioned, africa, america, anti bullying, black african american,
Form:
Rhyme
Coalition of the WillingCoalition Of The Willing
It was a merciless day;
A Day of Infamy.
The Coalition of the Willing: The United States,
Great Britain, Australia, and Poland;
Disrespectful of International Law,
And the United Nations,
Attacked Iraq on March 19, 2003,
Claiming that the...
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Categories:
sanctioned, conflict, history, murder, war,
Form:
Verse
The Crying GrassThe crying grass
(for the late Victor Jara,* Pablo Neruda
and Salvador Allende)
by ‘bro. zayid’
In this stadium
of footlaunched spotted balls
of what should be promising soccer stars…
In this stadium
reeking with the stench of terror
and the numbing...
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Categories:
sanctioned, memory, violence,
Form:
Free verse
You Have Been CautionedCAUTION:
the contents of this coffee cup may be HOT
please be careful not to burn yourself or others
the contents may also be wet
spillage may result in slipping hazards
the shorting out of...
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Categories:
sanctioned, satire, social, may,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sacred HolesDeath leaves a sacred hole
where once lived a whole relationship
with both potential future
and a now more cherished past
Still seen
and heard
and smelled,
tasted and felt, sensed
and incensed
through an echoing hole of darkly bitter loss.
I would be a...
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Categories:
sanctioned, birth, death, health, integrity, loss, love, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
Driver of VictoryVictory at the Hippodrome
They were hiding their stalls out of sight near the race course at Olympia
No signs but everyone knew where they were under cover of dubious propriety
On track for instant wealth and gratification...
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Categories:
sanctioned, conflict,
Form:
Verse
Empire Emphatically Enforces ExerciseFitness guru (grew)
to an abrupt screeching halt,
i.e. did dramatically abate,
whence significant block of time,
I formerly did allocate
(within recent past)
...
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Categories:
sanctioned, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, fate,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
TerrorsmithsNow the enemy is a vague foggy ghost
brought so readily and intimately to the forefront
those well-known unknown faceless pernicious enough
a hidden host in a wanted posters photograph
come they have to invade your homes
to run their...
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Categories:
sanctioned, corruption, history, society,
Form:
Free verse
Where Would You Be If They Seized Every ThingWhere would be if they seized everything we own? Our houses or our apartments to be given to their favorites! Leaving us with only the clothes on our backs! Starving the seniors, harvesting the organs...
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Categories:
sanctioned, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
Miri Junior Squash Open 2015Here in far off Borneo, junior squash players are gathered in numbers...
Young and energetic, these are Malaysia's young hopefuls and contenders...
In the numbing heat within this immense hall, the muted thuds of hard hit balls...
Interrupt...
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Categories:
sanctioned, america, appreciation, april, community, encouraging, children, success,
Form:
Narrative
Exploring Human Sexuality In 1969A man named Ai was sent to Gethen on a ship in the solar orbit,
he was the first mobile who had the ability to mindspeak-
He spends two years in Karhide convincing them to join...
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Categories:
sanctioned, humanity, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Every Picture Tells a StoryIt seems that, more and more, I feel myself being drawn to face the dreaded realization that I am certifiably mentally ill, not just depressed, or anxious, or emotionally exhausted, but deluded, my sensibilities having...
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Categories:
sanctioned, allegory, art, dark, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
From a Georgia Dream To Love In TennesseLips of cherry, full, to show a lovely smile, she; with a tan of golden brown
Her silk worthy hair, a light shimmering brown, forming around her beautiful face
A face of innocence, without a blemish,...
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Categories:
sanctioned, devotionbeautiful, heart, old, beautiful, heart, love, old,
Form:
Narrative
Das Furer Trumpeting Totalitarian TriumphCall me a pacifist activist deploring insanity of war,
never a Fitbit moon-unit soldier of military industrial
complex, this articulate baby boomer verily stupefied,
openmouthed, dumbfounded at inane ill logic to send
best and brightest, or even those boasting...
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Categories:
sanctioned, 11th grade, 12th grade, america, fear, how
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Witch and the JudgeA Witch must confirm the Powers in her possession
Before performing an anticipated condemnation
The guilty Judge, rendered immobile and speechless
Wets himself, cowering, trussed and helpless
As the Witch intones the Powers’ sacred Creed
That she has sworn to...
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Categories:
sanctioned, lifeevil,
Form:
Rhyme
Sun-Block - Joseph OsitaSUN-BLOCK ( Collaboration with Joseph Osita )
by~JOSEPH OSITA & I~LINDA (p.d.)
Your sunset-sanctioned skin ignite melody to boredom world
Your gently pearling smile charm the attention of morning sun.
Your charmed souls burn in nuclear...
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Categories:
sanctioned, devotion, me, light, light, me, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Kelps ReportThe Talus Series Is a type of competition that
uses breaks(referee calls for)
to start and posture(beginning)
and reposuture.
Both teams draw a ticket and a coin toss
accredits a team's draw. if team one draws (45 minutes)...
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Categories:
sanctioned, business, sports,
Form:
Bio