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Long Scop Poems. Below are the most popular long Scop by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Scop poems by poem length and keyword.

Where Does the Butterfly Go

Where Does the Butterfly Go?
by Michael R. Burch

for the children of the Holocaust and the Nakba

Where does the butterfly go
when lightning rails,
when thunder howls,
when hailstones scream,
when winter scowls,
when nights compound dark frosts with snow ...
Where...

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Categories: scop, holocaust,
Form: Verse

Let Me Give Her Diamonds

Let Me Give Her Diamonds
by Michael R. Burch

Let me give her diamonds
for my heart's
sharp edges.

Let me give her roses
for my soul's
thorn.

Let me give her solace
for my words
of treason.

Let the flowering of love
outlast a winter
season.

Let me...

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Categories: scop, valentines day,
Form: Verse

Medieval Poems Iii

Medieval Poems



Deor's Lament (Anglo Saxon poem, circa 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Weland knew the agony of exile.
That indomitable smith was wracked by grief.
He endured countless troubles:
sorrows were his only companions
in his frozen...

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Categories: scop, england, grief, poems, poetry, poets, sorrow, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Deor's Lament

Deor's Lament

(Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem circa the 10th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Weland endured the agony of exile:
an indomitable smith wracked by grief.
He suffered countless sorrows;
indeed, such sorrows were his bosom companions
in that frozen...

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Categories: scop, destiny, england, fate, old, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Verse

Prayer Poems by Michael R Burch

These are prayer poems by Michael R. Burch, along with a few hymns. There are also poems on the subject of God and religion—Christianity in particular. 



I Pray Tonight
by Michael R. Burch

I pray tonight
the starry...

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Categories: scop, allah, christian, god, jesus, poems, prayer, religion,
Form: Rhyme

Widsith the Far-Traveler, Part I, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem

Widsith was a traveling minstrel who "sang for his supper" but may have been prone to exaggeration...

Widsith, the Far-Traveler, Part I of III
anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 680-950 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Widsith the...

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Categories: scop, adventure, music, poetry, poets, song, travel, words,
Form: Free verse

Viking Kenning's Field

where bones are picked cleaned by talons crook's of raven-wives                         ...

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Categories: scop, change, education, history, poetry, words, write, writing,
Form: Free verse

The Game of Thrones

O Self Righteous Mew Martyred Lost
 unto
Dragons breath, and roasted lots 
amongst the spit and gradually heated pots
 crows, counted among the cost,
counting zeros,
onesies and Aftermath of Astral Thoths
Line by line
 into perdition we go...

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Categories: scop, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Translation: Wulf and Eadwacer

Wulf and Eadwacer
ancient Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 960 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

My clan's curs pursue him like crippled game;
they'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack.
It is otherwise with us.

Wulf's on one island;...

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Categories: scop, animal, england, longing, lust, passion, violence, women,
Form: Alliteration

The Spirit of Christmas, Dover, Arkansas

In our little Arkansas Dover town, we never clown around, about the sacrifice
Christmas is about Christ, and his great love, which suffices 

We live and let live, to our charities we give, for in heaven...

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Categories: scop, inspirational, love, upliftingheaven, day, heaven,
Form: Rhyme

if i were or wuz

.

                 i wanna write 
              ...

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Categories: scop, art, blessing, celebration, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry

Jabberwocky Redux

Jabberwocky Redux
 
                  After reading too much Aquinas
 
Would an aphid reside in an onager’s ear
if the onager’s...

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Categories: scop, confusion
Form: Free verse

Let Any Agnostic Provide a Reply

Let Any Agnostic Provide a Reply

		After reading too much Aquinas

Would an aphid reside in an onager’s ear
if the onager’s master spoke Twi?
Or a Gascony scop with a leper elope
if a civet leapt out of a...

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Categories: scop, faith
Form: Free verse

mine zonez

.

        
       Their were hern
   ‘mongst        known
      ...

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Categories: scop, beautiful, corruption,
Form: Carpe Diem