Long Styx Poems
Long Styx Poems. Below are the most popular long Styx by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Styx poems by poem length and keyword.
Frequency
“Frequency”
we are separated
from the others
by a thin membrane
electromagnetic
we are receptors
unignited ununited
only tuned into our own
frequency
existing to be lit
the fuses touching
reaching delicately
that which we do
and do not see,
believe
answers embedded
in tablets read...
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Categories:
styx, future, humanity, muse,
Form:
Narrative
EpitaphsEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
styx, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
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:
styx, 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:
styx, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Juvenilia: Early Poems ViJuvenilia: Early Poems VI
An Illusion
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was as hushed as the breath of a bee
and the world was bathed in shades of palest gold
when I awoke.
She came to me with the sound...
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Categories:
styx, poetry, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Book of Changes
"The Book of Changes"
Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves
always seen to be
swimming upstream
against the current
thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive
before words, they are cast
in the...
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Categories:
styx, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
styx, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Early Poems IJuvenilia: Early Poems by Michael R. Burch
Smoke
by Michael R. Burch
The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells within (the din was in)...
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Categories:
styx, kid, poetry, poets, teen, write, writing, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Apocalyptic Poems IThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...
The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch
“Dust to dust ...”
I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of dust and bone
where all men become,
at last, the same color...
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Categories:
styx, earth, earth day, environment, future, humanity, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RINGLegacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.
Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and right alm
seeking succor Out Of Human Bondage
invisibles shackles bind head,
shoulders, knees and...
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Categories:
styx, abuse, age, angst, anxiety, city, depression, earth,
Form:
Free verse
The Pain of LoveThe Pain of Love
by Michael R. Burch
for T. M.
The pain of love is this:
the parting after the kiss;
the train steaming from the station
whistling abnegation;
each interstate’s bleak white bar
that vanishes under...
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Categories:
styx, age, bereavement, death, farewell, funeral, pain,
Form:
Verse
The Whips of History - 1This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education,
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simple fright,
I use jasmine...
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Categories:
styx, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Monsters In My Head
"Monsters in My Head"
the small gods
inside of us
worry too much
they speak in tongues
that never know the
depth of what is real or not
for tongues
they never think
they just have a taste for blood
trading gossip...
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Categories:
styx, dark, i am, light, war,
Form:
Narrative
How I Got Rich and What Happened ThenWritten in summer of 1976.
I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.
We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed with hay
And talked of pending corporate plans
And willow-haired orangutans.
I spent...
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Categories:
styx, business, humor, humorous, money, nonsense, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Existential Crisis Still Encompasses Mein Kampf Valentine's Day 2022Existential crisis still encompasses mein kampf Valentine's day 2022
The following lines written disjointed fashion
attempting to mimic strategically
moving pieces erratically on chessboard
ideally yielding ultimate resultant checkmate
opposing men captured for the queen to use.
Jurassic throwback terrible...
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Categories:
styx, angst, endurance, february, how i feel, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
The Monochrome Echo Chamber
"The Monochrome Echo Chamber"
How many Roads
to "IT"
Black
as Black & White?
or Unicorns and Rainbows?
Unitarian 1 and only 1
Trinitarian 3 exist in 1
An answer
arrives
unheralded
Reversed in Time
Something
has lit the fuse
Something...
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Categories:
styx, color, dark, humanity, i am, light, science,
Form:
Narrative
The SentinelTHE SENTINEL
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
I took the elevator to the lobby of the small hotel
I’d been here six days the ennui was starting to tell
I’d been sent to cover an international gathering
Sessions so long and dull...
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Categories:
styx, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were MortalAchilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Part One- (Years Before Troy)
Achilles* woke, his slain foes calling out his name
hearing merciless woes, his sharpen sword they blame
looking at the heavens he saw the moon glowing blood...
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Categories:
styx, courage, fantasy, hero, history, mythology, symbolism, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Resurrection Machine
In the purple shadows of the black's monoliths, where an ancient echo calls forth, at the blurry forge of "Ralkon Dis",
a salient dragon from mystery's petra cliffs drifts you...
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Categories:
styx, art,
Form:
Rhyme
A Quiet RiverAlong a quiet river to nowhere were styx lean like broken crosses. The wind is gentle with a sent of quite decay or is that brimstone in these sinister currents, that spin! A black river...
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Categories:
styx, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy, angel, anger, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetic Prognostication Proves Itself Pathetic Pablum Part OneDespite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer avails two alms
seeking succor asper Somerset Maugham.
Mom mee whiz able to sic cure human bondage,
boot metastatic carcinoma snatched such balms
when tethered in utero umbilical connection,
etched bromide, which...
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Categories:
styx, anger, confusion, crush, faith, humanity, imagery, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Belles Lettres
“belles lettres”
It’s a slow drifting
off, that moment
before you dive
into the dark
you surface
to find a boat
surrounded by
shining pearls,
Styx, a mirror
reflecting
otherworldly stars
hypnotic,
you trail
your long
pale slender fingers
in...
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Categories:
styx, dark, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
RenegadeShare with the handle that holds you forget how to mold ya its important
to blend beyond the means a special taunt to provide naturally through barriers
in much soght after eternity bend the knee a good...
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Categories:
styx, art, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Hypothetically, What If I a Born Again AtheistHypothetically, what if I (a born again atheist)...
tentatively took page from playbook of devout believers...
Allowing, enabling, and providing
cautious optimism to abound
thus easing grief instead
reason to rejoice found
once corpse cremated
or buried underground.
Whereby reincarnation will eventually...
mitigate grief...
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Categories:
styx, 12th grade, bereavement, cry, death, father, god,
Form:
Free verse
The Tumid River of Acheron , the Journey, Final RevisionThe Tumid River of Acheron (the journey)
Part One- Final revision
Darkly, the tumid rushing waters flow
where any man most wisely fears to go.
Liquid blackness singing in epic pain
torture, misery and cries of the insane!
Echoes...
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Categories:
styx, art, creation, dark, death, grief, mythology, religion,
Form:
Rhyme