Long Slate Poems
Long Slate Poems. Below are the most popular long Slate by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Slate poems by poem length and keyword.
Kaos In -Part 5- Final PartHate the feelings of ew's and ugh's...let's pause before we put our paws on this unmanageable cause with silent applause (quiet interest or hushed enthusiasm)
What's the cause of these negative, gross, worthless flawful laws that...
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Categories:
slate, abuse, deep,
Form:
Free 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:
slate, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
For All That I RememberedFor All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
slate, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
slate, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xc-XcviiSonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
slate, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
slate, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papaApril 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and file of...
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Categories:
slate, absence, age, anniversary, april, bereavement, death, father,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hustle - Both Audio and Text - W-ImageI was an avid billiard player for many years, and a very good one, and believe me, these old (and young) HUSTLERS are out there -
...
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Categories:
slate, humor,
Form:
Narrative
The Crow Ghost of Haunting FootstepsBreak my neck; snap it in two, snap it in half
don't give me that incredulous, frightened look as I ask
don't hesitate in front of me, please just do me this favor
so I gain a halo,...
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Categories:
slate, i love you, i miss you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Raid Versus WoeRaid versus woe
Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.
Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...
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Categories:
slate, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Rhyme
Love Has a Southern FlavorLove has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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Categories:
slate, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
Legacy of HiphopAnd that is why... this platform is here for answers they can't deny...
It's a truth within a complexity that is standing high...
Let us follow the roots and explore the depths of its grand design...
Cause every...
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Categories:
slate, deep,
Form:
I do not know?
God Wants You - the Diminished Hexaverse Style~ God Wants You ~
(Diminished Hexaverse)
God wants you a Winner
Choose good and not evil
Do what you know is right
Don't follow the wrong crowd
Clean ...
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Categories:
slate, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Heroic Crown of Sonnets - Part One
Our Year Of Months (January - July)
1. Intro
Divided into months is our Earth year;
fixed firm in space to meet with climate change,
relation with our Sun makes it so clear
we will be blessed with seasons that...
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Categories:
slate, daffodils, earth, seasons,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Make Do and MendMake Do and Mend,
Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And never ever lock it
But still so many struggled
To buy food...
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Categories:
slate, community,
Form:
Verse
Reaching Out To YouI feel like my life is a clean slate
When I’m reaching out to you
I feel you lingering in my thoughts...
You stitched up my insecure frame of mind
And stitched up the little pieces of memory...
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Categories:
slate, confusion, courage, fear, freedom, giving, journey, love,
Form:
Rhyme
April 9th, 2023 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed PapaApril 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed aloft united with spirit
of mine late...
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Categories:
slate, age, anger, anniversary, appreciation, april, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Word Fantasy In F Sharp Minor In 3 MovementsWord Fantasy in F Sharp Minor (3 Movements)
1
(Andante con moto)
Hey man. Take this.
I got it last night,
under a fractured street light,
with shattered pieces of clear glass, scattered
at the nexus of an obscure dark freeway...
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Categories:
slate, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
“Barking Up the Wrong Tree”
ghost gums
shed their bark
the min-min
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to
imprint and write
thoughts, like the
ripening welts of
green ants
small bites sting
subcutaneous and
meridional,
terra...
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Categories:
slate, morning, muse, nature, night,
Form:
Free verse
Twins of the Same Mind
In this life of what's to be,
we define life as what we see.
The thoughts of love and life we see,
are the driving force of what we believe.
Of the twins alive in me,
one is blind and...
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Categories:
slate, conflict, destiny, fate, solitude, together,
Form:
Free verse
The Ghost Dance Part VThe Ending at Wounded Knee
This is what happened:
Two worlds collided,
And the elder one died.
Pony soldiers and Indian police,
Triggerhappy and jumping at shadows,
Killed Sitting Bull at Pine Ridge;
His horse pawed the...
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Categories:
slate, betrayal, history, humanity, native american, remember,
Form:
Free verse
A New DawnTheoretical abstractions,
reductive hard word choices,
to describe and prescribe spiritual experiences
are unsatisfactory for daily consumption and absorption
as they reify exceptions to your Business As Usual,
which is probably LeftBrain patriarchally dominant.
Exceptional Left-Right bicameral ego/eco-consciousness,
of natureLeft-spiritRight nondual co-arising...
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Categories:
slate, deep, destiny, earth day, hate, health, love,
Form:
Political Verse
April 9th 2021 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed PapaApril 9th, 2021 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Elysian fields embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad more'n six months ago,
nevertheless melancholy
still plucks mine heart strings.
Mine psyche still situated awry
placid countenance...
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Categories:
slate, absence, angel, april, bereavement, birthday, dad, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh YesOh God Most High, oh yes…
I’ve done it again…
I admit…now, I’m in distress
Oh Lord, why did I sin that same sin over and over again?
Why did You allow this to happen to me? Where have...
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Categories:
slate, change, deep, desire, emotions, faith, hope, how
Form:
Rhyme
Gaia and Fr Time: True Informating ScandalGaia’s love first embraces Earth’s tribes
who then embrace Her back
through Gaia’s co-redeemer enculturation gift,
pay-it-forward grace of permacultured history,
karma of EarthTribe’s economy,
mutually-parasitic subsidiarity
embracing universally regenerate Host
in political-through-personal empowering solidarity
of EarthTribe's Eco-Passionate Universal Rights.
She paid the health...
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Categories:
slate, allegory, culture, earth, earth day, love, peace,
Form:
Narrative