Long Swarming(a) Poems
Long Swarming(a) Poems. Below are the most popular long Swarming(a) by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Swarming(a) poems by poem length and keyword.
Poems About DogsPoems about Dogs
This Dog
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Each morning this dog,
who has become quite attached to me,
sits silently at my feet
until, gently caressing his head,
I acknowledge his company.
This simple recognition gives my...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), animal, dog, friend, friendship, heart, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
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...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
Pablo Neruda Translation: Every Day You PlayEvery Day You Play
by Pablo Neruda
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Every day you play with Infinity’s rays.
Exquisite visitor, you arrive with the flowers and the water.
You are vastly more than this immaculate head I clasp...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), aubade, beauty, dog, for her, fruit, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
2020 RevolutionNumbers, numerals,
like words,
combinations of letters,
mean something,
sometimes more secular,
sometimes more sacred ecological.
Numerals and letters share sacred iconic human-intelligence root systems
within a bicameral ecology of mind-body nonduality,
both RightBrain matriarchal empowering flow of integrity (Czikszentmihalyi)
and LeftBrain patriarchal Yang...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), beauty, culture, earth, health, math, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Watering TerrorI'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love overpowers competing fears
about scarcity of time,
and other resources,
and anger about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a regenerative resource,
CoPresence Source,
raised to believe the Golden Rule
is most effectively...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), anger, destiny, fear, hate, love, power, violence,
Form:
Epic
One DayOne day not so long ago
I walked
Never alone
For the world
Is always my home
It was a late
Spring snow
Yet I felt
Invisible red roses
Offering sweetest perfume
To my nose and soul
There’s such warmth
In snow-filled winter
No bitterness
No...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Fire God Speaks OutAngry FireGod sneers sarcasm,
"Not warm enough yet?"
"Still too much clean water and air
and other healthy stuff,
like sun-baked red chili peppers?"
Excuse me,
I was under the impression
that I invited you for my interview,
which would involve me asking...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), culture, destiny, fire, health, religion, science, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Nothing Happen Before the TimeI could see the sun rising in the East
Pulling up something that is very deep
I could see the sun rising in the East
Hanging over the first beach
I left the house at six am
Before the sound...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), adventure, blessing, courage, encouraging, endurance, freedom, happiness,
Form:
Narrative
StormThe day was fine and sunlit,
Decorated by several clouds
drifting aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky.
Chorused by gentle puffs of the morning breeze,
Sending leaves on the streets twirling like
ballerinas in a dazzling and mesmerising dance.
and...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), courage, fear, metaphor, natural disasters, school, ,
Form:
Imagism
Paul and SarahHe was born in backwoods Missouri.
1840 the year he arrived.
Conflict, sickness and hard times prevailed.
Through it all he grew strong and survived.
Skills to live were a gift from his father.
Faith in God from his mother...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), adventure, america, blessing, journey,
Form:
Rhyme
Human Being With a SoulWe are human being with a soul
We were taken from the North and South Pole
And left in a basket at the flagpole
If all the relics in history were unfold
You would discover that the real threshold
Is...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), body, bullying, change, community, conflict, faith, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is -- is over, in the stormy, swarming...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), death, evil, family, fate, life, love, violence,
Form:
Haibun
Storm ConcreteThe day was fine and sunlit, Decorated by several clouds drifting
aimlessly in the radiant ocean-blue sky. Chorused by gentle
...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), school, storm,
Form:
Concrete
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 11In a sudden nodding shift,
I was lifted into the air by the hard wings of the Devil
His putrid stench waking me from what seemed all dream
And upon a balcony of singed vine and blackened soot,
He...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), age, analogy, crazy, growth, life, light, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Inception: Lighten Up My Load - Collab With Mikey Part 7I esteem your presence
Glowing with glee
At times, you do say things without thinking
I’m the god of distress –
You’re leaving me breathless
Cutting me down like I’m some decaying tree
You don’t see how...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), deep, freedom, grief, happiness, hope, hurt, words,
Form:
Free verse
Me and Me FirstThat soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick,
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First"
(To mesmerise people He needed...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), political, society, world,
Form:
Quatrain
25 - Bee-RealBee-Real
As I flew up, into the air,
I looked back one last time at the hive.
All the bees were standing there.
Some were happy and proud to see me go; some were still crying.
As they held...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), flying, friendship, imagery, insect, journey, joy, memory,
Form:
I do not know?
The Grove of Unconditional LoveVerse 1:
There’s one life to live,
So give it your all
Mistakes were made…just forgive
The past and stand tall
Mistakes were made…come on and move on
Hoping you’ll save me before I fall
Our future are in...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), deep, emotions, happiness, hope, loneliness, memory, words,
Form:
Lyric
Stories of Grace and PathologyI hope it would not be a parody of Michael Morrell’s political scientific position
to suggest all relationships are political
and all political relationships fall somewhere on a spectrum
between perfect co-empathic trust,
nutritionally and regeneratively favored by creolizing...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), blessing, gospel, health, history, political, religion, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Village On the Water ViBut we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered
In the reverberating stillness of the
Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
His impassioned lusts -- his...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), celebration, community, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Stricken With Turbulence At About Seventy Two InchesStricken with turbulence at about seventy two inches
Yours truly issuing a deafening rebel yell
bursting forth with such might
courtesy cooking under pressure
analogous to volcanic upswell,
forcing me quickly to flap vestigial wings
(at the speed of sound)
while simultaneously...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
You Still Pass Through MeSlipping Away Contest
Sponsor: Becca Teagan
"SLIPPING AWAY" -Switchfoot
Remember coming home at four in the morning
Before the sun was up
Back when the east was a fire of gold
Just waiting for the rest of the sky to fall...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), death, sad, suicide,
Form:
Lyric
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the FaceGrant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face
blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth
of the late...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Red Sky At NightOnce upon a nightime grim
all creatures of Earth dreamed
our Mother was not enough for everyone,
just "me."
This collective nightmare thunderously rolled out
dark implications:
Earth is insufficient for our needs!
We live in Closed Systems of immunity,
heading toward decay!
EarthTribe...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), earth, forgiveness, freedom, health, peace, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 10“Clap your terrible wings, vivacious serpent of old!
Imagine my plight as dangerous as your spite,
Stomp your clawed feet on these prison floors,
Peace shall always follow the sink of your fangs…”
Silenced were the wailing demons round,
Crouched...
Read More
Categories:
swarming(a), adventure, confusion, growth, imagination, psychological, senses,
Form:
Free verse