Long Sanctuary Poems
Long Sanctuary Poems. Below are the most popular long Sanctuary by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Sanctuary poems by poem length and keyword.
Constructive CritismThere's consequences in all we say and do
Go forward and walk your walk and I'll go ahead and talk my talk
Quite distraught due to the fact that you're too good to be true
I...
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Categories:
sanctuary, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Deception Part 2 - Translation From TagoreThis is the second part of Rabindranath Tagore's Narrative poem - Phanki (Deception). The first part has been already posted.
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Categories:
sanctuary, life, women,
Form:
Narrative
THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
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Categories:
sanctuary, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
sanctuary, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers I
I translated the first six Native American poems for my father when he chose to enter hospice and end his life by not taking dialysis …
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
sanctuary, father, father daughter, father son, fathers day,
Form:
Rhyme
Solo PerformanceIt had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.
This separation had been scheduled to...
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Categories:
sanctuary, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Enheduanna TranslationsEnheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
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Categories:
sanctuary, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Visit To AntietamAlone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes gathered
in terrible rituals mid fire and smoke
darkening the sun.
From distant...
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Categories:
sanctuary, america, conflict, history, together, war,
Form:
Ode
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
sanctuary, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
A Wisp of ThoughtThere was a glimpse of time unknown to man
The things none may ever describe
All wrapped within this wall of thoughts
For if a moment of my thoughts are clear
They are not my thoughts at all
Never again...
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Categories:
sanctuary, beautiful, dream, grief, lonely, lost, metaphor, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
sanctuary, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Thank You Lord - the Bell Style~ Thank You Lord ~
( The Bell )
~O~
Day
By day Love
Pray Praise the Lord
When in need of friend
He's always there for me
You show Your Love Goodness
To...
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Categories:
sanctuary, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Bleeding Before Rome -2Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
sanctuary, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
A Night On a WharfA Night On A Wharf
The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...
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Categories:
sanctuary, blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViiiJuvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...
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Categories:
sanctuary, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 36I sung all the night with the Devil,
It seemed harmony had found itself spooning with dissonance
Not indeed needing to be one or the same
Yes—the light indeed could sustain itself in the midst
Of what then was...
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Categories:
sanctuary, appreciation, dark, desire, endurance, inspiration, literature, meaningful,
Form:
Epic
The GiftFrom the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...
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Categories:
sanctuary, allegory, holiday, hope,
Form:
Prose
The Stela Epic, Part 1 of 8The Stela Epic by DR. Mohammed F A Alrazak
The grains of sand, the drops of rain, makes the stage for souls to play
The prints of feet on rocks were wonders and arts as the...
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Categories:
sanctuary, culture, freedom,
Form:
ABC
Medical Madnesshttps://gigglespoet.com/#jp-carousel-66 My scars from a misdiagnosis are my armor
Lord, old memories plague me in the darkness
And as they rear their ugly head
They only remind me of all that I've lost...
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Categories:
sanctuary, abuse, bereavement, betrayal, birth, courage, endurance, faith,
Form:
Quintain (English)
The Exaltation of InannaThe Exaltation of Inanna: Opening Lines and Excerpts
by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon I of Akkad and high priestess of Inanna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lady of all divine powers!
Lady of the resplendent light!
Righteous Lady...
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Categories:
sanctuary, faith, god, light, religion, religious, sin, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Lament To the Spirit of WarLament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
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Categories:
sanctuary, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
Dystopia Town Will Be Damaged By Ascended FrownWhere’s a hero when we need one?
Get rid of the villain with a silly, little gun
I ricochet like the bullets that hit Superman,
But he was shielded best he can…best he can…
Driving through dystopia town, dystopia...
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Categories:
sanctuary, angst, dark, emotions, grief, happiness, hope, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
June 12th 2017 Transition Revisited and Revised Today 4 2 2021June 12th 2017 TRANSITION revisited and revised today 4/2/2021
While scrolling over outdated docs
(i.e. namely OpenOffice documents)
derrière seated upon hard backed chair,
yours truly came upon following poem
to share with anonymous readers,
whereby slight modifications
got made to...
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Categories:
sanctuary, adventure, angel, anxiety, blessing, conflict, husband, july,
Form:
Rhyme
If You'Re Like MeFear of Climate Success
If you're like me,
which probably already reduces the size of my captive audience
to Zero,
Regardless,
if we're like we used to be
when we were born
with all the potential integrity neurons
of the uniting universe,
Through childhood...
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Categories:
sanctuary, childhood, green, health, integrity, nature, psychological, time,
Form:
Political Verse
Greenpower DreamsLast night I dreamed.
I dream--
sometimes too athletically,
fertile regeneratively,
viral, positive and negatively
and in-between sub-climax performing
some wins and some perpetual losses
more ambiguously back and forth, up and down, in and out,
and not nearly sensual...
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Categories:
sanctuary, culture, education, health, integrity, peace, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse