Long Strike Poems
Long Strike Poems. Below are the most popular long Strike by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Strike poems by poem length and keyword.
King of Kings??1 Kings 5:3-5 NIV??
[3] “You know that because of the wars waged against my father David from all sides, he could not build a temple for the Name of the Lord his God until the...
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Categories:
strike, faith,
Form:
I do not know?
Mad Molly ShawThis is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar...
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Categories:
strike, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 29Somehow,
Forward, and headlong
I knew it was day again
There was a shift in the dark mutterings of the Devil,
Who now refused to sleep as I refused to sing,
Almost an anticipation in his voice,
As if he...
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Categories:
strike, adventure, bible, conflict, endurance, inspirational, love, war,
Form:
Epic
An Uppercut I RememberDad hit me only once, an upper cut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height,...
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Categories:
strike, father son,
Form:
Blank verse
Fully Employed NowHumanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...
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Categories:
strike, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Messenger
"The Messenger"
Love is rich with
venom and honey.
there was a female ...
snake,
it watched
with green-eyed
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest
the dove,
was white as snow,
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey
the dove
alone,...
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Categories:
strike, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
InstructionInstruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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Categories:
strike, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
Poems About Poems IPoems about Poems (I)
What the Poet Sees
by Michael R. Burch
What the poet sees,
he sees as a swimmer
~~~underwater~~~
watching the shoreline blur
sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles...
Both worlds grow obscure.
Muse/Goddess
by Michael R. Burch
“What will you conceive in...
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Categories:
strike, creation, god, muse, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Tawfiq Zayyad Translation: Here We Shall RemainHere We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.
Like brick walls braced against your chests;
lodged in your throats
like shards of glass
or prickly cactus...
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Categories:
strike, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Auschwitz RoseAuschwitz Rose
by Michael R. Burch
There is a Rose at Auschwitz, in the briar,
a rose like Sharon’s, lovely as her name.
The world forgot her, and is not the same.
I still love her and extend this sacred...
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Categories:
strike, holocaust, horror, tribute, truth, violence, war, world
Form:
Sonnet
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Vi - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich FriedWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried
After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch
Say this when you eulogize me:
Here was a man—now, poof, he's...
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Categories:
strike, holocaust, race, racism, truth, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 34I listened to his heart profusely,
For a beat like his was much to ponder
I often wondered, his thoughts, and,
A light in me knew, with wretched wonderment
What the whispers in his mutterings meant to me
They...
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Categories:
strike, desire, destiny, endurance, feelings, heart, leadership, psychological,
Form:
Epic
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
strike, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Let His Love Shine - Candle of Hope Style~Let His Love Shine ~
(Candle Of Hope )
Let
Love Hope
Peace fill heart
As walk with the Lord
In Him find best friend
May heart rejoice
Love the Lord
Worship
Him
Let your heart sing Him praises
With His Love be...
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Categories:
strike, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
BergfriedI. The Settlement
Hickory bark bluffs
at the blend of two
...
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Categories:
strike, adventure, allusion, metaphor, myth, native american, remember,
Form:
Narrative
History's Greatest Miracle PlayHistory’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...
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Categories:
strike, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
Old Pharaoh - 2 of 2For Pharaoh still exalts himself and thinks he’s in control,
But if he won’t release my folk, he’ll pay a heavy toll.
Tomorrow I will bring down hail like Egypt’s never seen,
On plants and trees and man...
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Categories:
strike, bible,
Form:
Ballad
My Spirit AnimalThe soul of the earth is wrapped up inside
And the spirit of God is walking beside me
The universe rests upon my shoulder
And I can feel its power moving all over
embracing the soul of man
And causing...
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Categories:
strike, 8th grade, blessing, character, encouraging, environment, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
strike, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs
“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and...
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Categories:
strike, dark, destiny, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Let His Love Shine - the Candle of Hope Style~ Let His Love Shine ~
(Candle Of Hope )
~O~
Let
Love Hope
Peace fill heart
As walk with the Lord
In Him find best friend
May heart rejoice
Love the Lord
Worship
Him
Let your...
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Categories:
strike, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My BowMerov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!
In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senior English class
one night in Nineteen Sixty-One. Assigned just...
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Categories:
strike, blessing, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Stardust and the Ivory CastleOnce upon a time there was a castle made of pure ivory. Pillars pale and barren, holding a surface of grace and elegance. This castle was the home of a mighty unicorn named Stardust. She...
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Categories:
strike, beauty, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
The Alaskan Oil PipelineThe Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
strike, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
How I Got Richer and What I Did NextHow I Got Richer and What I Did Next
I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they got me back (those post-empty-nesters)
by making fake deals I couldn't...
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Categories:
strike, allegory, funny, heaven, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme