Long Sweeps Poems
Long Sweeps Poems. Below are the most popular long Sweeps by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Sweeps poems by poem length and keyword.
Be of Good, Compassionate CourageDandelions…
They flutter, now I see
Fiery lions…
They're dancing with me
Sunlight…
Come out and shine down
Moonlight…
Shun out my darkened frown
I am the infinitesimal stars in the tranquil, terrestrial night
I am the scars minutes before the sunlit dawn...
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Categories:
sweeps, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Emo LoveWith this needle and thread I stitch the wounds Avril left
but with this blade I angrily carve a new
rough, short, jagged adjacent from the bone in my wrist
for a reflection of our relationship
and an outlet...
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Categories:
sweeps, anxiety, beauty, emo, i love you, jealousy,
Form:
Narrative
Burning LogsEach flame
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.
Each flame
unique in point of origin below
as ubiquitously flickering fading destinations above.
Yet...
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Categories:
sweeps, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Marina Tsvetaeva TranslationsI Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?
The wind...
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Categories:
sweeps, love, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, truth, women,
Form:
Free verse
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:
sweeps, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
And Still I Drive - Part OneStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
sweeps, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Translations of the Oldest Rhyming Poems In the English LanguageTranslations of the Oldest English Rhyming Poems
The Rhymed Poem aka The Rhyming Poem aka The Riming Poem
Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem from the Exeter Book, circa 990 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
(excerpt)
He who granted me life...
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Categories:
sweeps, england, poems, poetry, poets, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Song From Beyond the Stars: New Adventure[ ... story with context, a plausible universe with top and bottom
a coat of cosmos covering
over a subterranean protoverse of potential fields
a quantum cellar creating
the very big...
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Categories:
sweeps, adventure, destiny, future, imagination, journey, planet, science
Form:
Verse
EvolutionEvolution Not God
It is the case that there is no God,
He does not exist, he is not the one,
He is not there, he’s not everyone’s invisible puppet,
It is not personal, he is not the Son.
Evolution...
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Categories:
sweeps, animal, beautiful, change, cool, destiny, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Urdu TranslationsLast Night
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
translation by Michael R. Burch
Last night, your memory stole into my heart
as spring sweeps uninvited through barren gardens
as morning breezes revive dormant deserts
as a patient suddenly feels better for no...
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Categories:
sweeps, desire, hindi, longing, love, nature, passion, urdu,
Form:
Verse
That Somebody Is No BodyThat someone isn't the right one for me...
Yeah, I have to live with a broken heart of envy
I thought I was yours and then, I'm not anymore
I probably That someone isn't the right one...
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Categories:
sweeps, change, crush, desire, hope, hurt, love, missing
Form:
Lyric
KismatOver yonder pastoral realms, with heaving mounds of green
Birds of variegated colors shine, where.streamlets gleam with opal sheen.
In circles round, fleetfooted Zephyr sweeps the laurelled ground
With footfalls that loom, a sweet scented voluptuous sound
Which gently strike...
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Categories:
sweeps, beautiful, encouraging,
Form:
Verse
Not Seemingly SimulatedThough virtual reality wasn't new, I hadn't ever once tried it,
Yet the concept fascinated me, like beauty's mysterious secret.
It seemed that the new experience, would be one I would enjoy,
So in eagerness I scheduled a...
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Categories:
sweeps, adventure, color, fantasy, friend, fun, imagery, nature,
Form:
Couplet
What Day Brings - Poem En DuoGood Morning!
When the day sweeps
Away the last drop of darkness, ?
(Aurora with her cool breath, ?
Gently rising to her duties, ?
And with the sun as her companion, ?
Drizzling light into dark corners), ?
It reminds...
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Categories:
sweeps, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Letters To BurnI wander away into the wilderness of woe
I let the wistful winds blow
The sun is all aglow
Glide into me, happiness from afar
Am I still your ever-glistening star?
I am still left with this unmerciful scar…
I...
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Categories:
sweeps, angst, change, dark, deep, emotions, hope, hurt,
Form:
Lyric
RestRest now
O restless heart
released in ebb to flow
ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise! to beyond where breakers break long-suffering shores
pitiless the grind of...
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Categories:
sweeps, death, freedom, heaven, journey, life, spiritual, universe,
Form:
Free verse
We Are All NamelessWe are all Nameless
What else is there to do
but to tell you who I am,
but most of all,
what I wish to find.
I am not the cavalier of the sun,
but the caveat of phantasm.
I do...
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Categories:
sweeps, introspection, world, light, light,
Form:
Free verse
Sweepers Thought'si am a sweeper ,sweeps a yard of forty acers...
starts the day sweeping te falen leaves..
dirt of other peoples bad manners pf throwing dirt...
a supervisor who is a man of its own rules..
a...
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Categories:
sweeps, abuse, appreciation, community, conflict, encouraging, growth, innocence,
Form:
Rhyme
Star Wars Part 2She pressed a button on the console, the Mighty engines roared, the computer monsters flickered
as Moonblaster 5 space soared
She said, Cat Squad Eleven of Moonblaster 5 , its "All Systems Go"...
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Categories:
sweeps, adventure, planet,
Form:
Ballad
Poland IIA blitzkrieg wipes your innocence away
and only heaven’s hand can help you now.
Your counterparts lie trepid to the fray,
for they can sense the wolfen on the prowl.
Oh dear Poland, there’ll be no recompense
as death, unbridled,...
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Categories:
sweeps, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Minstrel of Moscow
"I follow the Moskva
and down to Gorky Park-
listening to the winds of change" - Scorpions
All the heads of state and their spouses (or significant others) have arrived and been seated for this, my last show...
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Categories:
sweeps, judgement,
Form:
Haibun
Shadows In Hiding - Collaboration With Jake PonceWritten by: David William Breidenthal and Jake Ponce
D: Blessed breeze sweeps over us
J: Whenever I leave the door ajar at night,
J: I felt myself grow pale from the humid howls
D: Gravity...
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Categories:
sweeps, angst, conflict, confusion, courage, depression, emotions, vanity,
Form:
Free verse
SorrySorry isn’t going to cover it
I miss you I must admit
Please believe in me for once
Still waiting for His response
Ooooh…ahhh…hmmm…
I’m still wrapped up in sorrow
I know there’s always tomorrow
Feed me your precious lies and lullabies
Oh...
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Categories:
sweeps, deep, depression, grief, lost,
Form:
Lyric
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru ZingLima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...
thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting from selfishness, I feel quite aghast.
Yes practically every word
needs be...
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Categories:
sweeps, absence, conflict, emotions, family, heartbroken, horror, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
Tribute To the WolfTribute to the Wolf
I am of your nation (Cherokee)
I have travelled far to find my family
(They are scattered across America)
Boundaries are now gone
I know you as you know me
My Mother taught me so
I know...
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Categories:
sweeps, native american, lost, people, children, lost, people,
Form:
Free verse