Long Strands Poems
Long Strands Poems. Below are the most popular long Strands by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Strands poems by poem length and keyword.
A Love's Dialogue
Unique: I need someone to hold me and tell
me it's alright.
I need someone to hold my hands and feel
my pain.
I need someone to kiss away my pain.
I need someone to look into my eyes and...
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Categories:
strands, allusion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
HOT MILK DRIPPING
Contest : Alice through the Wormhole
Sponsor : Tom Woody
29. 7.26
______________________________
warm sun sweet liquid
dark moist hole bristles soft sand
wonder exquisite
...
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Categories:
strands, allegory, birth, change, character, child, death, heart,
Form:
Other
Family Poems
Family Poems
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more than...
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Categories:
strands, child, childhood, family, father, father son, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Children
Poems about Children
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same desk
where you sit now, and made a mess
of things sometimes.I wonder how
he learned at all...
He...
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Categories:
strands, boy, child, childhood, children, daughter, family, son,
Form:
Rhyme
Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)
The student stands where shifting sands of thought
Once firm with reason
now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes
a threadbare fading strand,
A quest for wisdom
in this digital land.
Sage:...
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Categories:
strands, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Beckoning
Beckoning
by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday the wind whispered my name
while the blazing locks
of her rampant mane
lay heavy on mine.
And yesterday
I saw the way
the wind caressed tall pines
in forests laced by glinting streams
and thick with...
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Categories:
strands, anxiety, break up, change, confusion, sleep, time,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets Lii-Lx
Sonnets LII-LX
The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch
How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s strangely lit beds, where the cold springs creak:
for there is...
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Categories:
strands, dream, flower, hair, longing, love, pain, sensual,
Form:
Sonnet
A Vain Word
A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch
Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands grey pearls
under moss-stubbled oaks, full of whispers, complaining
to the darkening...
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Categories:
strands, autumn, beauty, extended metaphor, grief, heartbreak, moon,
Form:
Sonnet
Orpheus
Slang..
Chick-fil-a = the best place ever
jade =
brooke = gorgeous
mishin = the boss, as in “You aren’t the boss of me.”
Orpheus
We’re on vaycay. School is OVER, COVID is over. We’re in New York City...
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Categories:
strands, humor, mothers day, new york, sister, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Designed Evolution - Revisions, By God
Designed Evolution?
As Blue Sky’s dreams take root in fields like Daffodils
That blossom knowledge Love does serve all human souls,
Their truth grows wild across our lands! Oh, every crevice touches strands
Where Evolution has a chance...
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Categories:
strands, faith, life, love, science,
Form:
Rhyme
The Armless Ambidextrian
I. The Love of Minds
The volume on the desk,
The one not claimed by dust or burned
By light, will follow her to bed tonight.
Its pages will be turned and smothered,
Each in turn, so as not to...
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Categories:
strands, conflict, death, depression, desire, fear, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part I
A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: I (810 of 1487 words)
#1: A Day...
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Categories:
strands, analogy,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Categories:
strands, art,
Form:
Shape
Me, Dreams, Reality
One bright night
In the Twilight of day
I awoken to a dream
With in a world of worlds
Not my self, but still the same
What was it? Never more
What year was it? Forgotten
One must be careful...
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Categories:
strands, adventure, age, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Desperate Message To Kim Jong Un
Pardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...
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Categories:
strands, abuse, dark, emotions, evil, hate, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends of galaxies
May it become the ‘Swan Song Poem’ of all...
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Categories:
strands, beautiful, peace, star,
Form:
Verse
Matty Mattel Doll Circa Mcmlxv
(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).
Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tubular fuzzy bendable contrivances
analogous to an outsize pipe cleaner)
until she became a tweener
my Matty...
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Categories:
strands, 1st grade, age, best friend, childhood, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
THE PRISMATIC SELF
Contest : The Prismatic Self
Sponsor : Daniel Henry Rodgers
Date submitted : 19/5/25
—————-
“Contests around track, contests for followers,
for best tasting wine, most exquisite
architectural design ~ endless
quests to become best versions of Self,
sharpen mind, mould...
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Categories:
strands, age, character, courage, destiny, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Bio
The Fly
NOTE: Some of you seemed to enjoy my stories from the past. Of course, posting this in the story folder is tantamount to burying it six feet under, as you know, so I'm posting it...
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Categories:
strands, angst, humor,
Form:
Prose
Zeitgeist
competing cousins, interbreeding homo-sapiens
hominins humming mostly human song
altruistic generalisers, ever close to dying ways
opportunistic, never staying long
self-aware, inquisitive, enlarging brains, empathising
real representative intelligence
modelling...
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Categories:
strands, destiny, earth, hope, humanity, philosophy, power,
Form:
Verse
Search For the Hidden Spark
The old man stood;elbows resting on the old stone wall
Wistfully he gazed over the snow laden field,
Watching the sheep nibble on bales of hay,
He thought back remembering his working day.
In his leather like work hardened...
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Categories:
strands, age, allegory, imagery, loss, magic, memory, riddle,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
I See You Looking At Me- Collab With Dm
I see you looking at me
There is an old pang in my chest
there where your hands used to caress
where your lips loved to roam
there where you called your home
There is an old flutter now
What is...
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Categories:
strands, absence, lost love, passion, relationship, remember,
Form:
Narrative
I See You Looking At Me - Collab With Em
I see you looking at me
There is an old pang in my chest
there where your hands used to caress
where your lips loved to roam
there were you called your home
There is an old flutter now
What...
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Categories:
strands, forgiveness, joy, lost love, love,
Form:
Narrative
Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces
Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces...
Fore score minus xv orbitz ago
from being centenarian
strong contractions forced me
to pass thru cervix,
buck naked bare lady,
I ranked as only grandson sharing
same surname as Aaron,
(mine paternal grandfather)
me the...
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Categories:
strands, 6th grade, 7th grade, abuse, age, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetry Anthology Part 1
Woven are these pages in poetic verse,
With bare threads of our deepest feelings,
You will find laughter, tears and remorse,
and words of wisdom, prayer and healings.
Krish Radhakrishna
The words herein form an anthology of love
From the...
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Categories:
strands, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, poems,
Form:
Rhyme