Long Silhouette Poems
Long Silhouette Poems. Below are the most popular long Silhouette by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Silhouette poems by poem length and keyword.
Be of Good, Compassionate Courage
Dandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown
I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...
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Categories:
silhouette, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Mad Molly Shaw
This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar...
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Categories:
silhouette, western,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hardships of Honesty - Neither Will I
I often surprise many people in many ways
With the words I say…with the actions I make…
It’s extraordinary how many seek high praise
With the words they say…with the actions they fake…
Neither will I…
Assume the worst in...
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Categories:
silhouette, angst, conflict, emotions, endurance, faith, hope, passion,
Form:
Free verse
That Long Evening
When you came to me...
Not that you wanted me. Oh, no! It was I who wanted you,
Your comfort... your caring... your
... compassion, your compassion...
Your body, beautiful and young, perhaps that as well at...
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Categories:
silhouette, feelings, lost, thank you,
Form:
Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translations
I love you only because I love you
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I love you only because I love you;
I am torn between loving and not loving you,
Between apathy and desire.
My heart vacillates...
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Categories:
silhouette, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, spanish, women,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnet Lxxxi-Lxxxix
Sonnet LXXXI-LXXXIX
Day, and Night
by Michael R. Burch
The moon exposes pockmarked scars of craters;
her visage, veiled by willows, palely looms.
And we who rise each day to grind a living,
dream each scented night of such perfumes
as drew...
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Categories:
silhouette, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
Once Upon a Halloween In the 50's
The excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With an old suit and hat of Granddads, I became a...
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Categories:
silhouette, nostalgia,
Form:
Prose
CREATIVITY- PERCEPTION-tenet 1x4
FOUR TENETS OF CREATIVITY
PERCEPTION PARTURATION PUBLICATION PARTICIPATION
INTRODUCTION
This short eBook encompasses my experiences of the creative in both art and poetry in particular.The content of each of the four...
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Categories:
silhouette, education, poetry,
Form:
Didactic
Part 1: Confusion of the Muse
The large, bright Winter moon shone it's heavenly light over and out amongst the snow-covered city. The city was large, the city was noisy. It was midnight and the bustling still urged on. People ached...
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Categories:
silhouette,
Form:
I do not know?
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over
amber gold wild bush...
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Categories:
silhouette, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
A Poet of a Thousand Words
A poet of a thousand words
The pen garnished by the flame
Like a sea no desire knows
And love becomes the same
As poet to my love for thee
I confess between the lace
Of time and every sorrow made
I...
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Categories:
silhouette, love,
Form:
Free verse
Ezra
This is an unfinished Heroic Crown of Sonnets dedicated to a friend's grandchild who was born with serious lower body issues 3 years ago...but he is so perfect and beautiful in every other way that...
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Categories:
silhouette, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2
PART 1: THE MEETING
Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went with shoulders bent (the storms around me howled)
until I met...
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Categories:
silhouette, fantasy,
Form:
Ballad
BLUE NUDE : Pablo Picasso: 1902
she rose from depths of his despair
followed an artistic youthful
D
...
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Categories:
silhouette, allegory, allusion, art, bereavement, blue, body, color,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Things We Should Start Romanticizing
• rainfall - the blue summer sky making up her mind/you riding your bike from your university to your dorm/wind in your hair, you smile as it plants kisses on your cheek/there has been always...
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Categories:
silhouette, art, betrayal, death, deep, emotions, heartbreak, pain,
Form:
Free verse
RED SEA
RED SEA
At the mouth I lay splayed
blood trickling, slowly dripping into soft mud or red Akashic ink
mud of my anus, ink of...
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Categories:
silhouette, allegory, body, color, courage, deep, emotions, imagery,
Form:
Ballad
A Paradox of Time Reborn
The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life but one lone phoenix flies,
Soaring precarious, close...
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Categories:
silhouette, allegory, creation, death, destiny, fantasy, fate, symbolism,
Form:
Blank verse
Billy the Penguin Finds Love
In a universe far far away
There lived a penguin, whose thoughts did weigh
Heavily on his mind.
He thought of a vast array of things big and small
But there was one facet he thought of most of...
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Categories:
silhouette, cute love, feelings, first love, heart, lost
Form:
Rhyme
Crow Fights The Raven
Beneath the pall of an eldritch moon,
...
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Categories:
silhouette, betrayal, bird, gothic, horror, metaphor, murder, night,
Form:
Free verse
African Dream
It must have been the darkest, deepest fate time create,
People saw and forgot the impact when history intervened.
We forgive and endure, but our minds will not forget
The Bizarre world trying to suppress our African...
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Categories:
silhouette, africa, allusion, character, dream, future, history, people,
Form:
Ballad
Paul Valery Translation of the Graveyard By the Sea
This is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery evoked in his best-known poem. From the vantage of the...
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Categories:
silhouette, death, french, grave, obituary, ocean, paris, sea,
Form:
Free verse
What I Met During My Trip To Birthday
As I was walking swiftly
Just to reach Bajoga early
To see what a hot birthday
Will be chucked in the day
Of 27th of the october,
I collided with a creature
Seemingly so calm in nature
And so educated by sanity
With...
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Categories:
silhouette, anniversary,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga
Oh Mondseer: the muck cob brie muenster saga...,
crafted when Wallace and Gromit
returned from their trip to the moon,
which I can prov-olone huck curd
(within Trump con feta ration) –
as cheesy poem...
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Categories:
silhouette, adventure, age, animal, blue, character, dog, humorous,
Form:
Free verse
Walking Down Main Street
Walking down Main Street
As the rain pours down and all the people are indoors,
I walk down Main Street, under my umbrella, alone with the world.
The moon is full, the air is cold,
But I am at...
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Categories:
silhouette, america, family, love, marriage, memory, places, romance,
Form:
I do not know?
Because He Lives
Feeding the soul glimpses of grace,
Treasured hope and lasting light, feelings
Forever penetrating the soul who knows…
Love is like the most beautiful star, glowing
Always showing its intentions, bound by emotions
Yet colored in hues of the most...
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Categories:
silhouette, appreciation, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, joy,
Form:
Free verse