Long Stalk Poems
Long Stalk Poems. Below are the most popular long Stalk by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Stalk poems by poem length and keyword.
Rum N Raisin 3 - the Cat Who Fell To EarthRaisin liked to make her bed upon a shelf up high
She said she likes the feeling that she’s almost in the sky
One day she fell and bonked her head and Rum could only stare
And wondered...
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stalk, cat, fantasy, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Narrative
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet IiMy most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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stalk, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Ancient HaikuThese are translations of some of the oldest Japanese waka, which evolved into tanka, renga and haiku.
While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
—O no Yasumaro (circa 711), translation...
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stalk, culture, imagery, inspiration, international, metaphor, nature, poetry,
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Haiku
Haiku Translations of the Oriental MastersGrasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
—Yamaguchi Seishi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, fallen camellias,
if I were you,
I'd leap into the torrent!
—Takaha Shugyo, translation by Michael R. Burch
The first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow...
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Categories:
stalk, animal, beauty, imagery, nature, philosophy, world,
Form:
Haiku
Pablo Neruda TranslationsI 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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stalk, love, romance, romantic, romantic love, spanish, women,
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Sonnet
Sonnet Lxxxi-LxxxixSonnet 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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stalk, dream, earth, flower, moon, music, night, stars,
Form:
Sonnet
Perhat Turson: Elegy TranslationPerhat Tursun
Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry...
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Categories:
stalk, brother, eulogy, magic, prison, spiritual, violence, wine,
Form:
Free verse
Giantvillism and City of the Bean People Part 1INTRO
A wonderful world it is contemplated Jake as he planted his seed to grow his beanstalk. He knew that this beanstalk would nourish many so he watched it grow. One day he awoke and the...
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stalk, appreciation, best friend, birth, business, celebration, courage,
Form:
Ballad
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 25
Erlenkönig also pushed forward the idea of the Council of Six.
Which was a wonderful idea in theory. The council eventually became the
most powerful force in the Elfin Clans, one representative from each of...
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Categories:
stalk, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Surviving Chronic EclipsesI was on my ambivalent fence
about who to watch watch the solar eclipse,
my alcoholic allies
or the designer THC corporate investors.
Wherever it was,
we read excerpts from two permaculture designers,
to get our minds ready for this great...
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stalk, culture, gender, health, humor, integrity, math, seasons,
Form:
Political Verse
Unquotable Quotes: Paris the Last Week of the August Reprieve- Xxxv Part TwoUnquotable quotes: Paris, the last week of the August reprieve – XXXV Part Two
II
The first signs reek tell-tale
Buffer-to-buffer...
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Categories:
stalk, august, autumn, farewell, lost love, winter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 2I awoke the next day, with a soft smile,
Not awakened by the screeching and the moaning of the demons beside,
But of the intense breathing of my collaborator,
Crouching above me, glaring me down with eyes abhorred
Though...
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Categories:
stalk, adventure, beauty, change, confusion, courage, deep, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Love MeLove me and come close to me
Love me and dine with me
Love me and dance with me
Love me and sing with me
It is such a wonderful feeling to wake up this morning
To wake up with...
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Categories:
stalk, assonance, beautiful, best friend, blessing, crush, desire,
Form:
Free verse
A View From a WindowAs dawn unfolds today beyond my fractured windowpane,
a breeze beguiles the ashen drapes. Like snakes they slip aside,
revealing wanton worlds that race and run aground, insane,
immersed in scenes obscene that savants strive to mask and...
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Categories:
stalk, peace, people, political, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Like DewdropsIf I had ears to hear ...
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stalk, cool, earth, friendship,
Form:
Personification
Through Their EyesThrough Their Eyes
The Poetry Murders Part 3 in the series
Murder She Wrote
It was a dark night with a full moon
The alley narrow, my hopes high
My footsteps echoed in the ears of the invisible
I quicken my...
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Categories:
stalk, funny, grave, hilarious, history, imagery, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Children's PoemsPicturebook Princess
for Keira
We had a special visitor.
Our world became suddenly brighter.
She was such a charmer!
Such a delighter!
With her sparkly diamond slippers
and the way her whole being glows,
Keira’s a picturebook princess
from the points of her...
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Categories:
stalk, children,
Form:
Verse
Remnants of a Saturday NightSunday morning early, five a.m to be
precise, my mind awakes, then gently succours
the body to arise from one’s mundane sleep. I
then transfer to Britain via 1ZB, listening
to the English football commentary, it’s worth
the lack of...
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Categories:
stalk, me, morning, people, social,
Form:
Free verse
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About PoiWelcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mouth....
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stalk, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture, food, motivation, together,
Form:
Narrative
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots ViStrategically placed when raised
Upwards
By your masterful and well
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing
Skylines
That frown down with arrogant
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous of
This just and tolerant island.
To study and pontificate upon...
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Categories:
stalk, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
CryI walk around the edge of paradise
I stalk you with my universe eyes
Let’s walk in unison in Sorrow Town
But, nothing’s going to weigh us down
Let go of me, for I can survive on my own
Obviously,...
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Categories:
stalk, cheer up, deep, depression, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
Venus and the Soldier AntVenus politely introduced herself to the passing soldier ant,
The ant did gaze for long, at the pretty crimson plant-
Impressed by Venus's beauty, it listened to her talk,
And even thought them pretty, the seven leaves upon...
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Categories:
stalk, fantasy, feelings, children, friendship, imagery, insect, life,
Form:
Rhyme
O' BaobabO' Baobab! O' Baobab! O' Baobab
Ace of the furnace, finest of the dynasty
You strut your breast high
And ply strain against the yearn,
Against the fire, the desire for sigh
Haughty, you stand, before the...
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Categories:
stalk, africa, mystery, myth, nature,
Form:
Free verse
TenchThere is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun,
barred by spindle trees and the last
of summer's brindled reeds
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
Damp leaves hide...
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Categories:
stalk, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
A Day In the ParkIn the park, I’d been all day
Reading all my time away
On a park bench did I sit
Until the sky became twilit
As light for reading began to wane
I heard the tapping of a cane.
And looking up,...
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Categories:
stalk, dark, evil, fear, horror, scary,
Form:
Rhyme