Long Supersedes Poems
Long Supersedes Poems. Below are the most popular long Supersedes by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Supersedes poems by poem length and keyword.
In the Middle of the Night
I woke up in the middle of the night with tears running from my eyes. I woke up in the middle of the night because my spirit cries
It is not the tear that falls when...
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Categories:
supersedes, celebration, community, confidence, courage, england, environment, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
The Andromeda Strain Part I: ILMO - my son
I thought of writing about another High School Social Studies book report. This is an intriguing piece riddled with a complicated set of circumstances. I chose to write it as a short story as it...
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Categories:
supersedes, mystery, science fiction,
Form:
Narrative
Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate
Though a Democrat, I play the devil's advocate...
after reading the article
(published in the July + August 2024
issue of Mother Jones)
titled Raging bull - Donald Trump's
pugilistic spokesman has taken
campaigning to a whole new level of low.
Beyond...
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Categories:
supersedes, america, boxing day , celebrity, football, high school,
Form:
Rhyme
Elusive Ephemeral Ethereal Expansive Eye I Witness Timelessness
Elusive ephemeral ethereal expansive eye (I) witness timelessness
Analogous to Möbius strip -
measured passage of existence
seems to defy any beginning or end
(unless Artificial Intelligence
supersedes developers smarts
of computer technology
evincing brain power
designing sophisticated machines
that enslave their...
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Categories:
supersedes, absence, africa, animal, birth, computer, creation, earth,
Form:
Free verse
A Drop of Sacrifice
For a long time, the northern sea unleashed fear in the hearts of the residents living close to the coastline. The hazardous hurricanes of war riding the chariot of whirlpools swooshed everything in their vicinity...
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Categories:
supersedes, hope, joy, peace, symbolism,
Form:
Haibun
Hair Washing Heralded Huge Happening
Earlier today April 4th, 2022,
which supersedes bald faced headlines
pointing finger and
Putin blame for Bucha killings
squarely on head & shoulders
of Russian autocrat, née
yours truly lathered
his hirsute higglety-pigglety
thinning oily tresses.
Hark….the herald angels...
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Categories:
supersedes, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, april, dad,
Form:
Free verse
Escape To Egypt
Escape to Egypt
(Matthew 2:13-15)
People centred decision making in all walks of life,
Has been mobile since the ‘90s, when the human fife,
Became rational equality and the dissemination of info,
From the web, that internet that made the...
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Categories:
supersedes, appreciation, atheist, history,
Form:
Quatrain
Magnify Me
I may be small
But the Lord will make me big
He who turns a boy into a man
Magnify me
He who turns a midget into a giant
Magnify me
I may be a fool
But the Lord has made me...
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Categories:
supersedes, destiny, god, power, universe,
Form:
Ballad
Glorious mud
A simple recipe of water, silt, soil and clay
Nature's potion; so powerful, so useful, so dangerous
Uncontrollable and untethered is this egalitarian mixture
Loved and loathed by human and animal
Low tide, the muddy shores of the Victorian...
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Categories:
supersedes, environment, fate, life, natural disasters, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Russian Roulette Is Our Safest Bet
This is a testament of time with a catchy little rhyme
A sign of all things that have come
The cracked dry wall calls with silence
It marks the final testing ground where I was found guilty
You sealed...
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Categories:
supersedes, song-baby, me, heart, sweet, longing, baby, heart,
Form:
I do not know?
Sad Is the Day
Sad is the day when,
At such a tender age as twenty,
A young woman must hang her head
And say…
I will never be loved again
Sad is the day when the smile is lost,
Forever,...
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Categories:
supersedes, angst, depression, lost loveday, heart, pain, woman,
Form:
Free verse
Book cause I spend an inordinate amount of time reading
Book cause I spend an inordinate amount of time reading...
out loud.
As a hypothetical argument
yours truly doth not aim
to be unfortunate recipient
of misguided, misjudged, and mislaid blame,
nevertheless I make dubious claim
and baldly recede (ha –...
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Categories:
supersedes, addiction, adventure, age, appreciation, best friend, books,
Form:
Rhyme
American Psychosis
American Psychosis
The sun, the Son,
ECLIPSED
Overshadowed by
Dark clouds of
Bloated EGO and ID
Me supersedes We
The people1
Will weep
DEADLY SINS
More than seven
In one
Narcissist ‘king’ of
WRATH, HATE, REVENGE,
Not a
‘Dish best served cold2
But with anger...
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Categories:
supersedes, abuse, america, bullying, corruption, extended metaphor, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Should I Quit Being a Poet
Written: September 1st, 2023
Would You Love Me If I Wasn't A Poet? ...
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Categories:
supersedes, analogy, appreciation, love, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The Keys To My Kingdom
Most of my writing is self-exploration
I write for release, not for you,
Not my drift here to say though that you do not count,
I do hope that you like it, I do.
Frequently I am seduced by...
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Categories:
supersedes, poetry, writing,
Form:
Quatrain
In This Time of Looming Dark, Look To the True Light
In This Time Of Looming Dark, Look To The True Light
World is dark and racing fast into hell
grab a coin, toss it in a wishing well
have some faith that our Father sees and hears
sad voices...
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Categories:
supersedes, art, creation, faith, spiritual, strength, truth, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
I Never Found Sense In Burning My Own Poems
You know, I planned on turning in early;
Put myself down to rest, but something
About the rhythmic tapping always gets the best
Of me. That nervous twitch that supersedes
Me physically. Drawing out the the words...
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Categories:
supersedes, angst, depression, devotion, growing up, happiness, hope,
Form:
Narrative
Husk
"Husk"
3 decades sucked out the marrow
Swallowed yesterdays
Spits out a Queen from the crumbling Tower
Ten of swords
High Priestess
Tarot
Husk arisen
Papillon Lefevre will be killed and bitten
Princess supersedes Queen to conquer Life
Through 'true' Love this is written
So...
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Categories:
supersedes, courage, health, hero, love, mother daughter, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Salt Craze
Food issues bring odd stealth
(not obsessed with broccoli
inexplicable phobia of brussel sprouts)
It's potato chip indulgence
...
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Categories:
supersedes, addiction, angst, food, fruit, fun,
Form:
Free verse
In a Moment
In the moment,
When a glistening
Snowflake falls to the earth
Washing the ground
In joy and wonder,
Peaceful silencing the
Darkness, the heartless
In the moment,
When a starry eyed thought
Lifts its smile, inspiring
The soul to embrace music
In notes of faith, stirring
Awake...
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Categories:
supersedes, appreciation, blessing, christian, inspirational, jesus, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Babylines
I have seen lines
all sought of lines
I have seen de horizon
under de sky, a sun ray as it plays-
I have seen majestic mountain ridge
with there geometric scribe
I have also seen
a cloud silver line as...
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Categories:
supersedes, caregiving, love, uplifting, education, creation, earth, smile,
Form:
I do not know?
Last Great Poem
I have stared at this page for too long now;
time urges me to relinquish my thoughts.
So this is it then; my last great poem; this mouth of silence and heart clotted with failure has...
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Categories:
supersedes, depression, introspection, sadwords, me,
Form:
I do not know?
This Is It Then
I have stared at this page for too long now; time urges me to relinquish my
thoughts.
So this is it then; my last great poem; this mouth of silence and heart clotted with
failure has...
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Categories:
supersedes, depression, hope, introspection, passion, words, me, time,
Form:
Blank verse
God Almighty
God Almighty, God of grace and goodness
your guide is always guaranteed to those who gain wisdom to exalt your name.
Omnipotent is what you are
but we learn no signs of overbearing
or pride or abuse of power...
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Categories:
supersedes, prayer, universe,
Form:
Acrostic
Rhyme
Rhyme
is not
the be-all
and the end-all –
the cadence supersedes, mellifluous.
Counting syllables, as superfluous
as the vowels
contained in
the word
queue.
Sounds
in chants
we danced to
before writing –
morae have primacy over meaning.
Rhythm takes precedence, despite your leaning.
And forced rhymes jar:
him and...
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Categories:
supersedes, poetry,
Form:
Tetractys