Long Scholar Poems
Long Scholar Poems. Below are the most popular long Scholar by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Scholar poems by poem length and keyword.
Fully Employed NowHumanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...
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Categories:
scholar, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Laughter, Giggles and SmilesHere and Hereafter
by Michael R. Burch
Life’s saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ...
wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
Laughter’s Cry
by Michael R. Burch
Because life is a mystery, we laugh
and do not know the half.
Because death...
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Categories:
scholar, cheer up, children, family, giggle, joy, smile,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems XiJuvenilia: Early Poems XI
Myth
by Michael R. Burch
after the sprung rhythm of Dylan Thomas
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and...
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Categories:
scholar, boy, poems, poetry, student, teen, teenage, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sufi Dream Poem-Theory: Cosmontological Uni-BallCosmology + Ontology = Cosmontology
NEW Cosmontological Principle: Be SO SO humble!
>>> SEE NOTE BELOW
A Sufi Dream-Poem--Our purposefully "proto-conscious" UNI-ballish recycling?
By: Moji Agha
Started on Oct. 26, 2020
You know?
Being a microtubular cosmontologically proto-conscious
goofy sufi...
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Categories:
scholar, creation, destiny, imagination, mystery, planet, science, stars,
Form:
Free verse
Uyghur Poetry TranslationsWith my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.
Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Asylum seekers, will...
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Categories:
scholar, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
An Ordinary Girl - Translation From TagoreSharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...
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Categories:
scholar, life, loss,
Form:
Narrative
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
scholar, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan
Blanches oeuvres ouvertes
résident dans les jours
la surface du banc de travail est noire
les géraniums-lierres
les fougères et les adragans
accumulent leurs oeuvres et jours:
La toile noire de Courbet
un...
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Categories:
scholar, america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 87“I don't know anything about that. I just do what I must.”
Bréagán's smile was sad but understanding. He knew what it was like to be pushed to do what seemed impossible. He...
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Categories:
scholar, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Why I Don't Celebrate Christmas - Fiction
Grandma died when I was 18 years old, on Christmas day. I never really got to know her well, since the family had pretty much kept their distance from her due to her 'weird religion.'...
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Categories:
scholar, christian, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
Shaggy Dog Limericks: the All-Time Best -- Vote For Your FavoriteThe Spaniel
A Spaniel that uses its head
Can tell when its owner’s unfed
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck
Will deliver a pizza instead
The Afghan Hound
The Afghan’s a dog groomer’s...
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Categories:
scholar, animal, cat, cute, dog, fun, humor, pets,
Form:
Limerick
The Light of Reckoning -2The Roman administrators came for the wealth of our worship
demanding that I crack the church's coffers wide open
for their needs, for the Empire's desperate embellishments,
in place of gold I presented the poor
I told the onery...
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Categories:
scholar, creation,
Form:
Epic
My Brother--Nelson Mandela, Umtata, South Africa--Tribute PoemNelson Mandela, crossed my spirited mind today, a visionary legend of peace, love, equality, and unity of all people.
As a prevailer of great affliction, he was like a Greek God fighting for the—"Common man!”
I had...
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Categories:
scholar, brother, confidence, dedication, discrimination, inspiration, motivation, strength,
Form:
Couplet
Divine Comedy Translation, Hell Canto XiOn the extremity of a tall bank
Of big broken stones in round circle done
We reached up a more cruel clutter flank;
And there, for the horrible and strong stun
Of rotten stench which the deep...
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Categories:
scholar, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Terza Rima
A Trick My Father Learned In PrisonI’m not saying my father hated the English, God forbid. If he were still alive, he’d hate to hear me say that. He’d correct me right away and say he didn’t hate the English. Truth...
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Categories:
scholar, ireland, prison, war, , western,
Form:
Prose
Harvest InfernoTake me to the tombstone
let me touch the gray stone that stands
where life could not
I will put my face to that touchstone of deaf thunder,
What happened to your breath baby brother,
what happened in...
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Categories:
scholar, birthday, creation,
Form:
Epic
No God of MineCement, sand and gravel, blood, body and soul
Eternity bred from hell's darkest hole
Combine gruesome aggregates, hydrate the mix
Mould them and dry them, then stack up the bricks.
Thought in advance and precision laboured
Set automatic, eternity savoured
No...
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Categories:
scholar, halloween, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflection MindsetI I’m constantly rehearsing
On my versing
Never sliding or swerving
My Rhymes play
Like a wordsmith
I’m Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult
Remembering to stay humble
And claim my guilt and my fault
The Wisest Man once said what’s...
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Categories:
scholar, bible, black african american, god, growth,
Form:
Free verse
The HookerIt was in the mists of morning, beneath the rising morning sun,
We had come to conquer Ft. Langley, It was me and Al and John.
We had all teed off quite nicely, on number one I...
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Categories:
scholar, fun, golf, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation: Ech Day Me Cometh Tydinges ThreEch day me cometh tydinges thre
"Each Day Three Tidings Come to Me"
(anonymous Middle English poem, circa the 13th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Each day I’m plagued by three doles,
These gargantuan weights on my...
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Categories:
scholar, angst, anxiety, death, depression, england, fear, sorrow,
Form:
Couplet
Soul Stance River - 36 - Final" Damn you, let go my gun! "
The morning hasn't even yawned yet
and a terrible tussle is in my sight,
Drouillard is wrestling his rifle from the hands of this Indian thief
and the Field brothers are...
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Categories:
scholar, adventure, culture, dedication, desire, heart, history,
Form:
Epic
The Nocturnal Delight of Mephistopheles - Part TwoTHE NOCTURNAL DELIGHT OF MEPHISTOPHELES - PART TWO (CONTINUED):
The stage was now set . . . from nowhere, Mephisto handed me a missive in
Medieval Latin to read. He said, “Young poet, the hour is...
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Categories:
scholar, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween, horror, magic,
Form:
Narrative
The Peanut Butter StrikeTHE PEANUT BUTTER STRIKE
In my last year at school I was made a prefect,
Why I don’t know for I was no model scholar
But thinking back and taking the time to reflect,
I’m happy to have fond...
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Categories:
scholar, humor, school,
Form:
Rhyme
Non Labor Relations Day September 1st 2023 PoemNon labor (relations) day September 1st, 2023 poem
Aye dream of Genie (as a lad din)
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania -
keystone state abbreviated as Pea Yay,
this stupid non huge poem
deployed courtesy scholar
really...a boot nuttin
butta an overrated allay
zee good for...
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Categories:
scholar, 12th grade, adventure, angst, appreciation, autumn, break
Form:
Rhyme
She's Like the MoonI'm not good at moon guessing,
but God created many a blessing;
and the moon is just one of them.
I'm neither scholar nor theologian,
but I observed that God made the
heavenly bodies, making no mention
of gender. The words...
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Categories:
scholar, gender, moon,
Form:
Verse