Long Silk Poems
Long Silk Poems. Below are the most popular long Silk by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Silk poems by poem length and keyword.
THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
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Categories:
silk, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
Where Does the Butterfly GoWhere 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:
silk, holocaust,
Form:
Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems IxJuvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
silk, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Yosa Buson TranslationsYosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
silk, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
A Snow Queen TalePart 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE
silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from
the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.
winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.
the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.
her smile warms
the...
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Categories:
silk, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
silk, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Stardust and the Ivory CastleOnce upon a time there was a castle made of pure ivory. Pillars pale and barren, holding a surface of grace and elegance. This castle was the home of a mighty unicorn named Stardust. She...
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Categories:
silk, beauty, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
Cocoon
"Cocoon"
They say...
a New World
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind
the old unaware,
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect
strings of silk
in the air
glistening diamond nets
slick and sticky...
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Categories:
silk, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Sophisticated Lady - Small Town Girl - Both Audio and Text Versions“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
silk, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Sophisticated Lady, Small Town Girl“Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill the morning scream
That shatters little privacies she shares with no one else, and steals, with full impunity, her one recurring...
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Categories:
silk, loneliness, sorry,
Form:
Rhyme
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New ShiftI.
Treasures That May Be Found In Destiny's New Shift
( Mille viri sententia agere nescit donec suscipit calamum scribere.)
For a brief spell, I hung my hammock in the shade
of the ancient tall oak tree, that God's...
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Categories:
silk, appreciation, art, blessing, care, dedication, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Backhand
"Backhand"
You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall
To make sense of it all
as a child, the grief stolen
all too swiftly and replaced...
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Categories:
silk, child abuse, mother daughter, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Bartender Tales Ii: ChangesKerris spoke to Damian the junior
Bartender on the phone. "Yeah, it's
8 o'clock now. I'll be there at 9 to
Open. Meet me there at that time."
He smiled happily thinking...
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Categories:
silk, beautiful, blue, engagement, friend, friendship, heart, life,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
TozzathPellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank,
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombadalias,
whose lacey petals flutter
like the wings of long-dead...
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Categories:
silk, death, fantasy, girl, magic, word play,
Form:
Free verse
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:
silk, culture, freedom,
Form:
ABC
Candy Girl - 2
"Candy Girl" - 2
He had been watching her from the far end of the Ice Bar, where he was sitting propped up on an ice ledge which was cushioned in plush Reindeer hide and Yak...
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Categories:
silk, adventure, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Magdalen Christmas Eve Mass 1984Busy time very frustrating watching my
husband and ciro gargano go over the
blue prints over and over again during
the 1984 elections for lake county Daniel
Furlan Bobby Thompson Ernest Fisher Ciro
was looking...
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Categories:
silk, america, christmas, city, evil, faith, fire,
Form:
Free verse
Now and Then and Now Again1
Though still within our infancy,
we strive to thrive, but woefully
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...
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Categories:
silk, corruption, culture, environment, money, pollution, racism, religion,
Form:
Monorhyme
Random Acts of KarmaThe mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and many other homeless people lived), and stopped to give him...
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Categories:
silk, grandchild, hope, humanity, inspirational, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
The Whips of History - 1This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education,
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simple fright,
I use jasmine...
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Categories:
silk, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 5
The appearance of his old friend brought new thoughts of his mother and, Nordgrend, the town in which they spent the last few years. Raðulfr, was a truly kind man and he was...
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Categories:
silk, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
A Friendly GoodbyePoem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano
he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes
that inhabited the clean air
that once use to live there.
he made...
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Categories:
silk, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
Hold the PhoneHold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend!
I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean,...
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Categories:
silk, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money, student,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 33 -Part 1-My dreams were of the dire Queen
I had allowed her reign over me, callousing my heart,
She was inside me, laughing
Having crawled in
My walls closing, as she filled my soul
We were one, yes for a time,...
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Categories:
silk, adventure, confusion, growth, heart, inspirational, relationship, visionary,
Form:
Epic
Cocoons Hibernating In SummerI made a U turn at dusk as dark night creeps upon me
I tried to catch my breath from the horrible smell that was stifling me inside
I did not know which way to turn...
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Categories:
silk, america, angel, christian, community, environment, insect, truth,
Form:
Narrative