Long Strip Poems
Long Strip Poems. Below are the most popular long Strip by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Strip poems by poem length and keyword.
We Against the WorldI have this faith deep inside that my Father, my beloved Father, can mend my broken dreams
There's a purpose for us being on Earth
It serves us well to be good examples for the future Kingdom
We...
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Categories:
strip, deep,
Form:
Lyric
Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal MomentImpossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment
alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit;
ofttimes imagined as time thief.
Hence following vignette: quiet as a mouse lurks the time thief...
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Categories:
strip, 12th grade, analogy, butterfly, death, farewell, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Epigrams VEpigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
strip, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
ObservanceObservance
by Michael R. Burch
Here the hills are old and rolling
carefully in their old age;
on the horizon youthful mountains
bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
By dying leaves and falling raindrops,
I have traced time's starts and stops,
and I have...
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Categories:
strip, loneliness, lonely, longing, loss, lost, seasons, time,
Form:
Sonnet
CleansingsCleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
strip, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
Poems About Things That Break IiPoems about Things that Break II
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter.
Water and Gold
by Michael R. Burch
You came to me as rain breaks on the desert
when every flower...
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Categories:
strip, break up, depression, divorce, emotions, farewell, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Oncle Albert - Part 1Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats,
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple...
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Categories:
strip, flying, history,
Form:
Narrative
The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy TaleOnce Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia
This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them.
Why they hang about, instead of scurrying off.
A reluctant snake...
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Categories:
strip, fairy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
LegendLook up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...
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Categories:
strip, courage,
Form:
Narrative
If You Only Believe - the Balassi Style~ If You Only Believe ~
( Balassi )
~O~
Jesus is the only way
For Salvation any day
He can Forgive all your sin
If you ...
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Categories:
strip, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Canto Xxix Hell TranslationSo many people and the various sores
Intoxicated in such a way my eyes,
That wanted open to crying their doors.
But Virgil told : “What for you look this guise?
Why now your sight is so carefully brought
Down...
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Categories:
strip, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Sandy Hook Poems 1Sandy Hook Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch
Our hearts are broken today
for our children's small bodies lie broken;
let us gather them up, as we may,
that the truth of our Love may be spoken;
then, when...
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Categories:
strip, children, school, student, usa, violence, war, youth,
Form:
Verse
Starlight and Moonlight IiStarlight and Moonlight II
These are poems about starlight and moonlight, moons and stars, dreams and visions, illuminations and intimations …
Deliver Us...
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch
The night is dark and scary—
under...
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Categories:
strip, dream, love, moon, night, sky, star, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
PrefaceGreetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....
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Categories:
strip, allegory, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
MarlinoTwo, perhaps three miles out to sea, beyond the reef to Zapatillas,
Bocas’ dual sand-edged footprint jewels with jungle centre trees,
Francesco’s outboard boat heads out to Caribbean’s deeper blue.
Where sun burns softer gringo skin, but...
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Categories:
strip, fish, fishing, sea,
Form:
Narrative
Now and Then and Now Again1
Though still within our infancy,
we strive to thrive, but woefully
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...
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Categories:
strip, corruption, culture, environment, money, pollution, racism, religion,
Form:
Monorhyme
The Game of HockeyThe Game of Hockey
By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed by Canadians since 1875,
When the game was first played, on...
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Categories:
strip, hockey, sports,
Form:
Verse
Where Gladiators FoughtPart I
Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of light
The night is throbbing with the heat of our battle,
our...
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Categories:
strip, passion, places,
Form:
Epic
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 44“I apologize for any offense I have given to your wife,” DynDoeth.
DynDoeth just smiled. Joulupukki, after listening quietly since the meal began, spoke up.
“Seileach, Ceridfen has a wicked sense...
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Categories:
strip, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 33“Please allow me to answer that question,” he offered.
When Rian saw him his face went white. Is this a ghost? He questioned himself. Could it be? It looked like Erlenkönig but...
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Categories:
strip, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Comparison Between Byron and Me On FrancescaI was pushed to write this comparison after reading the poem on Byron by the souper poet Gary Bateman.
Wandering on internet I found the Byron's version of Francesca's words in CANTO V of Dante's Hell...
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Categories:
strip, fantasy, poetry,
Form:
Terza Rima
Margins of PandoraTim’s father had been a refugee once he put down his fight and his gun
The story is that he embarked on the very last ship leaving East Prussia
Under siege tanks and bombs from above fireworks...
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Categories:
strip, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
More Than Race-FDespite the day-to-day signs of man’s bitter degradation, there were many in the South who somehow still failed to see the endless pain of segregation. From the viewpoint of those who never lived there as...
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Categories:
strip, america, family, race,
Form:
Narrative
The Whiskey Bottle WishThe Whiskey Bottle Wish
One late summer night outside a saloon in the mid-west, an intoxicated Dusty Rogers, stumbles out of the Bar nearly taking one of the revolving doors with him. As he flutters...
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Categories:
strip, bible, drink, judgement,
Form:
Narrative
Rainer Maria Rilke: Second Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's second elegy from his Duino Elegies, which he began composing at Duino Castle in 1912.
Second Elegy
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Every angel...
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Categories:
strip, angel, art, desire, eulogy, god, love, passion,
Form:
Elegy