Long Swell Poems
Long Swell Poems. Below are the most popular long Swell by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Swell poems by poem length and keyword.
Cymbric ValeI believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...
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Categories:
swell, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
swell, confidence, courage, encouraging, endurance, hope, muse, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Liquor of Lament: My Glass Is Half FullVerse 6: I've given up love countless times
I needed to pay up for my heartbroken crimes
I already repented for my sins that made my high hopes paper-thin
Don't you feel that envy from deep within?...
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Categories:
swell, addiction, cute love, deep, depression, desire, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Justice Is Crying In the StreetOh my soul what hails you?
Oh my soul what awaits you?
Oh my soul why are you in despair?
Oh my soul I have not deserted you
Oh my soul I have something to share
Oh my soul I...
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Categories:
swell, anti bullying, conflict, courage, desire, discrimination, education,
Form:
Free verse
Limericks Vii - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, AbsurdLimericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd
There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:
There was a lewd whore from Nantucket
who intended to pee in a bucket;
but...
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Categories:
swell, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, sexy, smile,
Form:
Limerick
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
swell, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Millie's Christmas WishMillie's Christmas Wish
Winter Vacation was coming
The kids were all set
They were thinking of Christmas
And the gifts they would get
But, Millie sat waiting
Thinking of nothing but snow
Watching the class clock
That was moving so slow
They did arts...
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Categories:
swell, 5th grade, adventure, america, childhood, christmas,
Form:
Epic
Healthy Politics, and Sex, and ReligionI hope I know what is healthy sex,
in an experiential kind of way,
and a trans-biblical swell known sway,
and I can imagine a world with healthier,
more cooperative, politically empowering days,
but I am clueless about healthy religion,
which...
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Categories:
swell, health, humor, philosophy, political, religion, sensual, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Canto Xxi Hell TranslationSo bridge to bridge, of other things speaking
Of which my comedy does not take care,
We walked; and reached the top, when seeking
For watching the next slit, then we stopped there
Malebolge to see and crying vain;
And...
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Categories:
swell, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic ParkerThese words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when the length of the years and age will climb
I will...
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Categories:
swell, beauty, emotions, love, passion, romantic, sensual, soulmate,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Canto Xxvii Hell TransalationAlready was straight up the flame and steady
To speak no more, and yet away it went
Being the sweet poet to let it ready,
When another, which followed in ascent,
Made us to turn our eyes to top...
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Categories:
swell, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Same Ol' Song and DanceAs I look back across more musical times
of rhythmic reflections,
ceremonies and commemorations
of each dawn and dusk eremitic liturgy,
if that is not an oxymoron
of sound and sight,
song and dance,
tragically sad, yet also bilaterally bound with happier...
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Categories:
swell, community, dance, humanity, humor, integrity, love, music,
Form:
Political Verse
Phoenix I feel so damn trapped in rage
Like a rainbow lion in a cage
I feel so much pain in my brain
And it's driving me quite insane
Numb my solace shame
Get me feeling more...
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Categories:
swell, 11th grade, 3rd grade, 6th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris nee KuritskyHarriet Harris née Kuritsky...
Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the month of June 1955,
not quite half...
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Categories:
swell, america, anniversary, celebration, death, emotions, funeral, in
Form:
Rhyme
Selected Lyrics From the Imaginary Invalid After graduating from UF, in the early '80s I wrote the book, lyrics and score for a musical adaptation of Moliere's farce Le Malade Imaginaire ("The Imaginary Invalid") and have decided to post five...
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Categories:
swell, funny, humorous, parody, satire,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
New Year Poems INew Year Poetry
Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed,...
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Categories:
swell, birth, celebration, change, firework, january, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
MY MEDICATION LIST MEDICAL HEALTHCARE TREATMENT FOR A CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCE USAJUSTICE DEPARTMENT MEDICAL RELEASE MEDICATION LIST MEDICAL CARE FOR A CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCE INFORMANT FOR THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
PTSD RESULTING FROM WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI MEDICATION KLONOPIN BUSPRIONE LEXAPRO 20 MG...
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Categories:
swell, allah,
Form:
Naat
Bothyang and AlsoyinIt's hard to think in Either-Or Deductive,
while speaking and acting in Both-And Inductive.
For example,
If my Brother is kind and loving
(and he usually is),
and really not all that judgmental and condemning
with his wife and kids especially...
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Categories:
swell, christian, earth, family, health, history, humor, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
You and I Know How To GlowV. 1: I have been grimacing lately
I have been loving you extremely
I’m looking forward to going to Oregon
We welcome the sun, we welcome the sun
Pre-chorus: God, have mercy on my weary soul
Have mercy spiritually speaking
Passion...
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Categories:
swell, hope, how i feel,
Form:
Lyric
FICTIONAL BIO:FICTIONAL BIO:
The missus asked me
(hitherto known as her bozo)
just mere moments ago
to craft humorous poem to glow
nsync with the shiny nose of Rudolph
keeping syncopated metrical flow
thus methought to crow
about being equally as foolish
streaking naked outside...
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Categories:
swell, adventure, allegory, courage, cute, hair, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry ScribesGoodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes
My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousness runnel
carving, gouging, and liquidating topography
qua zee mow toe natural formed...
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Categories:
swell, adventure, angst, april, body, father, hair, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Farewell FinaleEnjoy our parting day
the young girl child,
now full-grown wise Elder,
reminded me,
the brother she had taught to flex male muscle
without overbearing her Sister Gaia powers.
On this classic sun-baptizing fragrant May morning,
reflecting this same gently caressing day...
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Categories:
swell, age, earth, goodbye, loss, love, sister,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Story of HistoryThe Story of History
Beyond those beaten days’ depleted daylight
Beyond the bathos of a pandemic bondage
With the resurrected sashay’s charmed night
Down in the dumps at the pretentious proscenium
A ...
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Categories:
swell, history,
Form:
Free verse
A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth ISwept up into piles; everywhere
Abouts; in collected heaps all
Around.
It is almost as if the drab
Streets were strewn...
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Categories:
swell, philosophy, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
Soliloquio Del Individuo By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour for writers in Spanish), four times nominated for the...
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Categories:
swell, allegory, humanity, loneliness, philosophy, psychological, world,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue