Long Table Poems
Long Table Poems. Below are the most popular long Table by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Table poems by poem length and keyword.
My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of TribulationI’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subside
My tears are diamonds in...
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Categories:
table, angst, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night Before Christmas EveThe night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
table, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
RumorsRumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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Categories:
table, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
Sunday Evening SpreeI see people moving, but going nowhere
I see people moving with their hands thrown in the air
I see people moving but they have nothing to share
Bags and pans, old kettle, and old man
The scavenger, the...
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Categories:
table, betrayal, community, cute love, education, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Narrative
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
table, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tea Party"Go on forth young graduates,
And show us who you are
You're now our future leaders
We know you will go far"
And so commencement ended
Pictures done and people changed
Now, off to private parties
All orderly pre-arranged
But four young girls...
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Categories:
table, america, future, graduate, graduation, life, sad, society,
Form:
Epic
Yellow Winged AngelI.
He was patient very-very
with child's tenderness in eyes
yellow winged angel's unwary,
He was living quiet in skies.
Without disputes, without roughness,
without want to weep and moan,
He was dreaming among heartless
building cloud castles alone.
He was waking up...
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table, abuse, angel, angst, philosophy, solitude, yellow,
Form:
I do not know?
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are...
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Categories:
table, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Poems About MothersPoems about Mothers
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more than "much."
So more than "much, " much more...
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Categories:
table, child, children, love, mother, mother daughter, mother
Form:
Rhyme
Epitaph For a Palestinian ChildEpitaph for a Palestinian Child
by Michael R. Burch
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
This poem has also been titled "Epitaph for a Child of...
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Categories:
table, absence, bereavement, conflict, death, discrimination, eulogy, funeral,
Form:
Epitaph
Poems About Fathers and Grandfathers IiiPoems about Fathers and Grandfathers III
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there is no time for a ticker-tape parade
before bed, no award, no bright statuette
to be delivered...
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Categories:
table, family, father, father daughter, father son, fathers
Form:
Rhyme
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s dreams
rust crumbles to dust
Virulent apathy spreads
Betrayal’s destruction
hand...
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Categories:
table, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"
Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere
someplace relevant to go
Ghosts commune in this place
disowned long ago or walked
off the...
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Categories:
table, muse, poems, poets,
Form:
Narrative
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...
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Categories:
table, arabic, poems, poverty, prison, race, racism, song,
Form:
Free verse
First They Came For the MuslimsFirst they came for the Muslims
after Martin Niemoller
First they came for the Muslims
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Muslim.
Then they came for the homosexuals
and I did not speak out
because I was...
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Categories:
table, culture, discrimination, faith, god, islamic, truth, usa,
Form:
Free verse
The Tender Weight of Her SighsThe Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
table, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
Urbane History LessonsI have a hardbound copy of
"The City of Hartford 1784-1984"
although most of this coffee table story
of unfortunate events
takes place between 1850 and 1950s,
before and after the UnCivil War,
and,
like the U.S. Catholic Church
and many MainLine Protestant...
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Categories:
table, caregiving, city, health, integrity, meaningful, universe,
Form:
Political Verse
CleansingsCleansings
by Michael R. Burch
Walk here among the walking specters. Learn
inhuman patience. Flesh can only cleave
to bone this tightly if their hearts believe
that God is good, and never mind the Urn.
A lentil and a bean might...
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Categories:
table, holocaust, prison, race, racism, violence, world war
Form:
Verse
Chapter 92 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family AffairsNext day new school day.
Amadeus was the first to
Wake then he woke DJ and
Damali And all three went for
The showers. Twenty minutes
Later they woke everybody else
Including the adults. The Hakim
Children...
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Categories:
table, beach, christmas, emotions, family, first love, leadership,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 86 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Young Solomons Exclude DesharahDate December 31. 2040
Damian Stood on the ground floor
Of the new Mansion while
GrandDad Hakim rested In the
Living room watching TV. The
First level was half complete.
Damian thought the pace needed
Quickening. He would have...
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Categories:
table, angst, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 100 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Big Barbecue Celebration of Life Mass Invitations ContinuesWhile family Mingled with one
Another and strangers the party flowed
Smoothly. Music was enjoyed.
Everybody indulged. With a little
Champagne some wine and juice.
The bar also served smoothies.
Adults mingled. Delilah Mallory
Mother Daughtry and Amaliah...
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Categories:
table, 4th grade, birth, child, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 97 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Times and ProjectsDate: December 2042
Early afternoon, Damian was
Busy in his den planning the trip
To Trinidad. He called CJ first
To confirm his commitment to
The project. "Hey brother you
Still on for that trip we spoke
About."...
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Categories:
table, absence, allusion, earth day,
Form:
Alliteration
Arthurian PoemsAt Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch
That night,
at Tintagel,
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery,
and the unholy thundering of the sea...
In his arms,
who is to say how much she...
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Categories:
table, england, romance, romantic, true love, violence, visionary,
Form:
Verse
Poems About Children VPoems about Children V
Pan
by Michael R. Burch
Among the shadows of the groaning elms,
amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves
Once there were paths that led to coracles
that clung to piers like loosening barnacles
where we cannot return,...
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Categories:
table, autumn, baseball, child, childhood, children, dog, sports,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 95 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Just Summertime Birthday CelebrationsThe kid who often was lost in
The sauce Joshua! His
birthday was in June. He became
The strong silent youngster with
The youngest kids.
A small Celebration was held in
Josh's honor party at...
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Categories:
table, birth, black love, children, confidence, devotion, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration