Long Successor Poems
Long Successor Poems. Below are the most popular long Successor by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Successor poems by poem length and keyword.
Divine Comedy, Second Canto
The day was going off, and the brown air
To the terrestrial animals gave rest
For their labors; and only me was there
Just ready to withstand the war at best
Both of the journey and of the torment,
Which...
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Categories:
successor, fantasy, proposal,
Form:
Terza Rima
Translation of 'The Story' By Kama Nasser
The Story
by Kamal Nasser
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I will tell you a story ...
a story that lived in the dreams of my people,
a story that comes from the world of tents.
It is a story...
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Categories:
successor, arabic, betrayal, christian, conflict, courage, devotion, religion,
Form:
Free verse
Resistance On the Iberian Peninsula
Resistance On The Iberian Peninsula
“Liberté, égalité, fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity),”
Scream French revolutionists as they guillotine monarchists heads, 1
Then crown Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France, 2
Who commands the French forces in wars raged across Europe.
The Grande...
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Categories:
successor, education, freedom, history, irony, patriotic, war,
Form:
Verse
Au Revoir Oh Perilous Freedom
Au revoir oh perilous freedom...
Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.
Ever since the notions
of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
coalesced within the mindscape
attributed to one
or more...
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Categories:
successor, age, america, anger, anxiety, bereavement, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
Entrepreneur
In a sense everything is a seed of it's successor
The universe is change, life is judgement
Those aren't my words, they're a famous author
The rest of these are and what I think he meant
Before you demur...
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Categories:
successor, books, change, culture, encouraging, inspiration, society, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
MY Capt'n
TIS thine bottled tat's tasked whence be thine edge
Be naught in wallows dew supine vogue cast
Youth triumphed hour as a young promised fledge
Barkeeper, be thoust days numbered--till asked
All stand 'tis proper thine talents measure
Skills they'd...
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Categories:
successor, appreciation, character, destiny, father son, friendship, growing
Form:
Chant Royal
The New Pope, Benedict Xvi
His name is Joseph Ratzinger, the new pope Benedict XVI,
Installed as the two hundred sixty-fifth pope since foundation;
he’s a staunch defender of orthodox Catholic doctrine;
he’s German, an accomplished polyglot and theologian,
a good friend with sincerity...
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Categories:
successor, dedication, faith, father, hope, inspirational, thank you,
Form:
Narrative
These Are the Days of Elijah Collections
OH! These are the days of Elijah!
In the midst of the Jordan river!
Elisha watched as his mentor
was taken away into the heavens.
In a fiery chariot! The Lord God
took the tired old prophet home
to have him...
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Categories:
successor, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Verse
About black magic
One evening, BB and I sat on the couch,
We talked about many topics including black magic.
The voodoo, curses and dirty tricks.
You were calm and listening,
When I told you I was born
With some basic strange...
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Categories:
successor, evil, june, magic, marriage, memory, myth,
Form:
Free verse
Psalm 119 Revelation Happy Sunday Praise
I
Psalm 119 is a Sabbath praise song (Judaism). It is so for me, too, though I'm a Christ - follower, saved by Jesus Christ.
This Psalm or song, about a thousand years in use before Jesus...
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Categories:
successor, bible, environment, jesus, jewish,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Boadicea
BOADICEA
FIRST STANZA
Boadicea!
Oh Boadicea!
I mourn for you!
Since the day you left us
Our lives has been blue
To defend Britain from the Romans
You laid down your life
And saved your people from the Butcher’s knife
Liberty and justice was all...
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Categories:
successor, epicday, day,
Form:
Epic
For the Children
On the brow of manhood I bore you
Dreaming of a successor to my throne
Invested wind and echo full of dew
Native prince, that was ever all I own
Knowledge and experience to make
Wealth out of nothing, like...
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Categories:
successor, familyparents, prayer, love, me, parents,
Form:
Acrostic
Glossary
amuck - adverb.flailing in all directions, about, around - His ideas ran amuck.
brang – verb, past tense.bring – You ring, you rang, I bring, I brang.
chipps - noun, plural.an asset for selling, a favor owing,...
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Categories:
successor, hilarious, humor, humorous, word play, words, writing,
Form:
ABC
Stones
What is the stone for, Jacob?
Surely the Lord is in this place,
But I did not realize it!
I saw His stairway in my dream,
This is the Gate of Heaven!
I will set this stone as sacred,
And pour...
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Categories:
successor, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Mary In Holy Quaran Chapter19 Part1
Surah Maryam
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Kaf. Ha. Ya. A'in. Sad. (1) A mention of the mercy of thy Lord unto His servant Zachariah. (2) When he cried unto his Lord a...
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Categories:
successor, religion, religious, day, son, me, people, wife,
Form:
Verse
SHUT THE DOOR
Shut the door, shouted by a leader within
Against the son of the soil, claim to be all powerful
Powerful enough to face, the lion face to face he claimed
Forgetting his ancestral shrine is right in...
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Categories:
successor, africa, confusion, crazy, culture, freedom, growth, judgement,
Form:
Epic
Words of a Dying God, Part Iii
...‘I belonged to a species like your own,
born of a mother of flesh and blood,
our people were guided by our own god,
who had lifted us up out of the mud.
‘We were an impossible old species,
with...
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Categories:
successor, depression, god, life, sad, spiritual, universe, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
The Time of the Summer Solstice
The Time of the Summer Solstice
Drums pulsing solemnly presage the break of dawn,
bonfires ablaze dot this auspicious June morn.
On the shores of Albion, Druid priests converge,
as Earth, Sea, and Sky do mystically merge.
A...
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Categories:
successor, celebration, religion, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
ECHO MAN MY NAME
I am a time traveler,
I travel incognito,
I am immortal,
Have traveled worldwide,
From the beginning of time,
So this is no nursery rhyme!
I see your planets devastation,
My message,
Hope, peace and unity.
My home is a far away...
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Categories:
successor, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Beloved Sarah
You wore your vernix like a crown on a budding successor
Head held up high and then there was an almighty scream
I cut the chord and crowned the royal moment with a kiss
The inauguration of Princess...
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Categories:
successor, birth,
Form:
Free verse
The Serial Leech
THE SERIAL LEECH
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
He Was Here Today Promised Pie in the Sky
But We’ll Soon Discover its Just Another Lie
They’ll Say Anything That to Them Is a plus
But Once They Are in They ...
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Categories:
successor, betrayal, corruption, integrity, leadership, political, trust,
Form:
Rhyme
The Epitaph of An Abdicator
There sat in opulent xanadu, the
demagogue of empirical hedonism,
his granary once fuelled regal reign of epicureanism:
gregarious, restive, much-awaited successor of imperial dominion,
neurotic, obstinate, was the cynosure of...
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Categories:
successor, appreciation, education, eulogy, hero, history, inspiration, inspirational,
Form:
Epitaph
Christmas 2022
Christmas 2022 is fast approaching
Where has the year really gone
Well after two years of covid isolation
Boris resigned his prime minster position
He got us through brexit
And a pandemic
This wasn't enough
For government and...
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Categories:
successor, christmas, december, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
63 Bucks
I thought I could save you for a lifetime and pass your immeasurable stock down to my offspring. Yet another investment that returned a seed. How false this conclusion has turned out to be; a...
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Categories:
successor, family, i miss you, joy, memory, men,
Form:
Free verse
Hail the King of Napoli
HAIL THE KING OF NAPOLI (1)
The Chronicles of the old king, Diego.
An epitaph of his statue reads: "When I go,
I go away from you then this badge
loses honour and beats dead with no urge"
Like...
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Categories:
successor, 1st grade, writing,
Form:
Rhyme