Long Swirls Poems
Long Swirls Poems. Below are the most popular long Swirls by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Swirls poems by poem length and keyword.
For All That I Remembered
For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
swirls, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 34
I listened to his heart profusely,
For a beat like his was much to ponder
I often wondered, his thoughts, and,
A light in me knew, with wretched wonderment
What the whispers in his mutterings meant to me
They...
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Categories:
swirls, desire, destiny, endurance, feelings, heart, leadership, psychological,
Form:
Epic
Uyghur Poetry Translations
With my Uyghur poetry translations I am trying to build awareness of the plight of Uyghur poets who are being sent to Chinese "reeducation" concentration camps.
Elegy
by Perhat Tursun
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Asylum seekers, will...
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Categories:
swirls, allah, culture, discrimination, faith, islamic, race, racism,
Form:
Free verse
A Night On a Wharf
A Night On A Wharf
The couple decide to walk. The boardwalk still lit at this late hour guides them. They walk hand in hand,..whispering softly with small talk...solemn.,. lonely , yet together. The walk is...
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Categories:
swirls, blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Juvenilia: Early Poems Viii
Juvenilia: Early Poems VIII
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school and college student.
Moon Lake
by Michael R. Burch
Starlit recorder of summer nights,
what magic spell bewitches you?
They say that...
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Categories:
swirls, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles and Squeaks.
Moo! Quack! Giggles tumble and bump.
Flaps...
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Categories:
swirls, adventure, books, childhood, imagination, literature, mystery, teen,
Form:
Narrative
The People with Wings
The People with Wings
It was a huge photograph of an eye – an amazing eye that now drew everyone to Mecca. It was said to belong to one of the ‘People with...
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Categories:
swirls, fate, future, myth,
Form:
Haibun
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 28
The elves left separately and reconvened in the safe room. If Rian was aware of Joulupukki's presence in the Village, they did not want to give away what magic he had. When...
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Categories:
swirls, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
First Glance Embrace
FIRST GLANCE EMBRACE
(HER STORY)
...
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Categories:
swirls, beautiful, business, fantasy, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Passion of Convention
PASSION OF CONVENTION
...
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Categories:
swirls, life, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
Shame and Guilt Sabotaged Mine Healthy Growth
Shame and guilt sabotaged mine healthy growth...
and let yours truly not forget emasculation
that prickly emotional immobilization
whereby these lovely bones
subject courtesy senescence
upon cremation reduced to obliteration.
Inching closer to mortality
linkedin with concomitant
subtle deterioration of body...
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Categories:
swirls, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
swirls, art,
Form:
Shape
Easter Sunday
(Notes:
1. Ancient esoteric teachings state that
"The Christ" is the divine blueprint for the man
imaged in the likeness of God. This is the divine
destiny for each soul that walks the path of life.
2. ...
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Categories:
swirls, celebration,
Form:
Couplet
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 11
In 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...
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Categories:
swirls, age, analogy, crazy, growth, life, light, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
For Shame
The inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it reaches
Possessing her every inhalation – exhalation - it envelopes her...
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Categories:
swirls, betrayal, environment, natural disasters, peace, pollution,
Form:
Free verse
Slow Hand - An Erotic Romance
Walking past each other and just by chance
My heart skips a beat and my knees turn weak
Your eyes lock with mine in a fleeting glance
In a ricochet of emotion I just cannot speak
Our time...
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Categories:
swirls, lost love, lust, romance, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~
i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is me
hopefully you want to hear
my voice in its totality
~the prologue~
just...
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Categories:
swirls, angel, beauty, love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
On the Seas of Night Potd
I loved sailing upon the blue sea, and I was never too far from it,
As one who knows sweet cravings, is seldom far from chocolates.
In my previous much loved vessel, I had sailed a thousand...
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Categories:
swirls, adventure, fantasy, nature, night, planet, space,
Form:
Couplet
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 25
I was restless all the night,
The demoness softly singing a haunting tune
The Holy Spirit sifted in swirls around me,
And she touched with her claws its essence with strange wonder
I awoke to his songs strong and...
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Categories:
swirls, courage, gothic, heart, light, lost, love, truth,
Form:
Epic
Another Day In Dreamland
Another day in dreamland
Wake up. Watch the sun ease in the light
like the day before, goin back, and on some more.
Cuddle with the reasons why while I collect
my unconscious back from the sky.
Okay, get...
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Categories:
swirls, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Miss Little Insane
When it's all 'gone,' we're 'cryin' for love' and affection.
'Coast to coast' 'this life' is 'the only one' we get to live,
yet in your 'imperfection' I saw my 'steady' reflection.
Like the 'big sky,' for you...
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Categories:
swirls, love hurts,
Form:
Pantoum
A Tulip Grows Under An Evergreen - Inspired By the Poets At Poetrysoup
A
fine
Parrot Tulip
in vibrant intensities
with unique undertones
of green acquirable only in a
few forests. A ruby red swirls within
its petals beckons awareness of those very
strokes that live in the lustre of your shapely...
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Categories:
swirls, beautiful, beauty, earth, light, love, romance, romantic,
Form:
Shape
The Flood, Christ's Death
(Necessary, Sufficient – Why? How?)
Was the ‘Death of Christ’ needful? Can ‘Mind of God’ change?
Might the rainbow then signal ‘Repentance,’ a sign
God does grow and responds too, to changes wrath wrought?
Were there souls saved by...
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Categories:
swirls, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
The Age of Summer Love Was Kismet Kissed
The Age Of Summer Love Was Kismet Kissed
(a Sonnet duet)
Our summer love began in Gemini
with sultry eves of wooing escapades,
and as the moon did swoon as it drew nigh
my lust you stirred with strumming...
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Categories:
swirls, art, heart, love, passion, relationship, romance, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Going For a Drive Then
Going for a drive then? What now? Yes.
Conglomeration of Mr and Mrs Mooses were sitting near the central reservation on the dual carriage way. They had ordered some fruit, wine, beer, and some milky cream...
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Categories:
swirls, age,
Form:
I do not know?