Long Strident Poems
Long Strident Poems. Below are the most popular long Strident by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Strident poems by poem length and keyword.
Zen Death Haiku
Zen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
Read More
Categories:
strident, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
Dear Neighbors
Dear neighbors,
I realize we have not met,
other than the guy next door
but that doesn't really count
cause that was just to put up a fence between us,
and I have met Marvelously Mad Max,
behind me, on the...
Read More
Categories:
strident, baptism, health, heart, humor, passion, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Enheduanna Translations
Enheduanna is the first writer we know by name. She created the first poetry anthology and hymnal, circa 2250 BC, in ancient Sumer. She was the daughter of King Saragon the Great.
Lament to the...
Read More
Categories:
strident, god, moon, poems, poetess, poetry, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 36
I sung all the night with the Devil,
It seemed harmony had found itself spooning with dissonance
Not indeed needing to be one or the same
Yes—the light indeed could sustain itself in the midst
Of what then was...
Read More
Categories:
strident, appreciation, dark, desire, endurance, inspiration, literature, meaningful,
Form:
Epic
The Exaltation of Inanna
The Exaltation of Inanna: Opening Lines and Excerpts
by Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon I of Akkad and high priestess of Inanna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Lady of all divine powers!
Lady of the resplendent light!
Righteous Lady...
Read More
Categories:
strident, faith, god, light, religion, religious, sin, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The Daily Show and Tell
Dear Toni,
I saw you on The Daily Show
the other day
having your way
with Trevor,
or was it the other way around?
Not sure.
I'm also not sure where we first went wrong,
but I'm sorry for once having thought you...
Read More
Categories:
strident, family, health, humor, patriotic, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Lament To the Spirit of War
Lament to the Spirit of War
by Enheduanna (circa 2285-2250 BCE)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
You hack down everything you see, War God!
Rising on fearsome wings
you rush to destroy the land:
raging like thunderstorms,
howling like hurricanes,
screaming like...
Read More
Categories:
strident, allegory, analogy, conflict, death, soldier, storm, war,
Form:
Free verse
Conceits
"Conceits"
Such conceits
as veils between
our windowed worlds
torn torrential incomplete
mayst thou watch and learn
the one I spawned,
strength beats weakness
carried soft and harsh
one direction or the other
strength and weakness
both carried soft and harsh
ego and...
Read More
Categories:
strident, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Dreams I Translation of Etiemble S Poem Reves I By T Wignesan
The Deception of Free Verse: Dreams I, Translation of Etiemble’s L’imposture du vers libre by T. Wignesan
(From René Etiemble’s only poetry collection: le Coeur et la cendre: soixante ans de poésie (the heart and...
Read More
Categories:
strident, creation,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Crime Is Snowed Over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel S Il Neige Sur Le Crime
The crime is snowed over, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Il neige sur le crime
Are we buried under snow holding our silence
in what immense Cimmerian (collision) of terror ?
The mouth kept open in the shriek...
Read More
Categories:
strident, absence, devotion, war, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 35
His was,
A kiss of promise
A kiss of challenge
A kiss of power
And a kiss of doom
Where our lips had met
He was a threat, a strident peril
And yet a strange safety,
To which I held such visions
To which...
Read More
Categories:
strident, dark, deep, fear, fire, heart, light, romantic
Form:
Epic
Dionysus Markets Asphodel
Mayst tell them, though they leave a sacred land,
Where every inch with rich conception spanned,
With diligence, in Hades mayst they find
A path that to Elysian Fields doth wind.
So many burdens, all the Earth now mars;
So...
Read More
Categories:
strident, dark, myth, mythology, snow, sorrow, voyage, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Cycle Of Existence
On reflection, a shining mirror lays my core ethos bear,
inkling etched on mien can’t escape deep probing,
tilted jaw, gleaming eyes, vivacious aspect,
express an ardent quest for exponential flourish,
in this life of mine, and its...
Read More
Categories:
strident, birth, celebration, character, courage, deep, future, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Tears Of A Clown
Against a willowy wailing backdrop of inner chaos,
an indignant incendiary mask stifles the simmering cauldrons,
of a stoic stage clown post lachrymose performance wearily stunning yet stung,
or the surreptitious posture of the laugh it off as...
Read More
Categories:
strident, angst, anxiety, august, confusion, deep, emotions, sad,
Form:
Free verse
In My Deepest Fantasies
Sunday cockcrow nascent promulgate aural essays reveal,
laissez-faire luscious lustrous buoyant raptures,
radio behemoth prompt to that untamed erudite fantasist,
me the one possessing rippled rampant penchant,
for titanic exploit extraordinaire beyond dimension heftiness,
a stimulant patently innocuous...
Read More
Categories:
strident, celebration, character, confidence, destiny, dream, imagination, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
strident, forgiveness, judgement, power, spiritual,
Form:
Epic
Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 2
Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a celebrated Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.
CHIYO-NI POEMS ABOUT WOMEN AND DESIRE
How alarming:
her scarlet fingernails
tending the white chrysanthemums!
—Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation...
Read More
Categories:
strident, desire, flower, mother son, parents, passion, woman,
Form:
Haiku
Jaun Elia Translations
I am strange—so strange
that I self-destructed and don't regret it.
—Jaun Elia, translation by Michael R. Burch
The wound is deep—companions, friends—embrace me!
What, did you not even bother to stay?
—Jaun Elia, translation by Michael R. Burch
My nature...
Read More
Categories:
strident, city, hindi, love, memory, mystery, nature, urdu,
Form:
Couplet
Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor
by Michael R. Burch
for Kevin N. Roberts
The sea at night seems
an alembic of dreams—
the moans of the gulls,
the foghorns’ bawlings.
A century late
to be melancholy,
I watch the last shrimp boat as it steams
to safe harbor...
Read More
Categories:
strident, boat, dream, extended metaphor, fantasy, fishing, poets,
Form:
Verse
Paying the Bill
Paying The Bill
You may come to this some day
It may issue from nowhere
A moment un-strident
A loose flagging half remembrance
Something which neither carries
Nor contains
But a fickle shadow
Thin and as meaningless with an empty whimper
Not...
Read More
Categories:
strident, lost love, loveheart, heart, love, may, ,
Form:
Free verse
Hesiod: Ares translation by Michael R Burch
Ares
by Hesiod
translation by Michael R. Burch
Ares, exceeding all men in manliness, bronze-harnessed charioteer, golden-helmed gladiator, strong-armed spear-hurler, dauntless shield-bearer, courageous of heart, father of warlike Victory, able ally of Themis and Divine Law, dauntless defender...
Read More
Categories:
strident, courage, death, dream, father son, heart, night,
Form:
Free verse
Ophelia
POEMS ABOUT OPHELIA
Ophélie (“Ophelia”)
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch
On pitiless black waves unsinking stars abide
while pale Ophelia, a lethargic lily, drifts by.
Here, tangled in her veils, she floats on the tide.
Far-off, in the woods,...
Read More
Categories:
strident, betrayal, death, lost love, love, river, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Ocelots
"Ocelots"
It was during that time
they all decended into the lush fields of poetic madness,
swaying indolently with the other tall green poppies,
who for once in their small lives basked in noticeability,
their blooming heads bending...
Read More
Categories:
strident, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The Vessel pt 2 - Leviaethan
The Vessel pt. 2 - Leviæthan
I
'neath the grim pallor of a...
Read More
Categories:
strident, anger, betrayal, dark, dream, gothic, horror, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
Lion Dancing To a New Year
Lion Dancing To A New Year
It is that time of the year, you'll know it by the din reaching your ears...
Thunderous gong beats, clashing cymbals that's all you can hear...
It is a most riotous time...
Read More
Categories:
strident, appreciation, blessing, celebration, community, dance, fun, holiday,
Form:
Free verse