Long Stele Poems
Long Stele Poems. Below are the most popular long Stele by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Stele poems by poem length and keyword.
Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.
Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1
(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)
He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw a ewe eat a yew.
I ate on the ait eight...
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Categories:
stele, word play,
Form:
I do not know?
Did I Say What I Said You SaidDid I say What I said You said
You said looking a little forlorn
a little redundant
the contradicting crosses in your eyelashes
thrusting forth the brazen prophet in you for the day
...
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Categories:
stele, grief, humanity, metaphor, psychological, spoken word, words,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
'On a Betrothed Girl' by Erinna translationThese are modern English translations of epigrams and poems by the ancient Greek poet Erinna...
On a Betrothed Girl
by Erinna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I sing of Baucis the bride.
Observing her tear-stained crypt
tell Death who dwells...
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Categories:
stele, art, death, girl, girlfriend, marriage, song, wedding,
Form:
Free verse
And the Mothers WeepAND THE MOTHERS WEEP
...
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Categories:
stele, anger, angst, death, eulogy, mother, repetition, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Ad Amore, IiBeatrice Discerno in te come s'agona
la libertate onde 'l superno seme
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Categories:
stele, angel, beauty, blessing, innocence, love, miracle, sky,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Love of Tiamatbehold now everything on this earth;
the fields with abundance of grain,
palm-grove harvests rich and fruitful,
the forests that separate kingdoms and the fires that...
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Categories:
stele, mythology,
Form:
I do not know?
On My DeathTo the gravedigger, dear sir
let the ivy grow and the rain fall in the stele
As a flower fall from Eden, I hear the angels sing
While I slightly twist and turn in the God’s acre, so...
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Categories:
stele, absence, death, fate, goodbye, heaven, miss you,
Form:
Elegy
Books Etched In StoneThe community cemetery adjoined
the rear fence-line of his property.
Broad, rolling green acres landscaped
with varieties of shrubbery and trees.
Monuments in lines, rows, and diagonal patterns.
Most of them simple, monolithic.
Carvings, etchings, and brief epitaphs
carved in...
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Categories:
stele, appreciation, memory, remember,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The SullivansTHE SULLIVANS, 1942
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
It was a cold blustery day in Waterloo
An Iowan winter with not much to do
A silent military mission was underway
Three warriors here with a chilling say
Can you point the...
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Categories:
stele, memorial day,
Form:
Rhyme
Alone In Scary SilenceThe moon veiled in a web darkness;
bejeweled in radiance starkness,
to delve into the dark only the prince of darkness.
I was alone in the silence weaves,
while childish, I walk through dried leaves.
With every breath my chest...
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Categories:
stele, allusion, child, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Circumspice 5Part 5 -- Si Monumentum Requiris …
Some tattered banners (from the Crimean War?
so who on earth was fighting – and what for?)
That Holman Hunt thing, over on the right,
with Jesus and His lantern...
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Categories:
stele, history, , memorial,
Form:
Couplet
the robin and the cemeteryThe robin redbreast is hardly afraid,
He is not afraid of cemeteries,
Seeing me, he lands on the grave of the Bouvier family,
Looks at me, then flies on that of Cécile Kerneis,
Since he is Breton, the bird...
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Categories:
stele, bird, death,
Form:
Free verse