Long Tempt Poems
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Nemesis, Confrontation and the Rejoined Battle, Now Completed
Nemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed
(Nemesis) - Part One
O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with dark universal might
As grief bearer, humanity to smite!
Dar'est thee enter,...
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Categories:
tempt, art, creation, faith, humanity, light, meaningful, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
kiss -
your silken skin gleams opaline
bathed in Luna's soft wash of cornflower - like a
porcelain Madonna by Michelangelo
conjured to life by the magic
of moonlight
your eyes open just long enough to
affix mine, and affirm I'm in a...
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Categories:
tempt, kiss, passion, romance, romantic, sensual, sexy, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Just Be Thankful - the Linked Style
~ Just Be Thankful ~
( Linked )
~O~
Just be thankful
J
Thankful for all
U
All that you have
S
Have in your Life
T
Life that God gives
...
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Categories:
tempt, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy Tale
Once Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia
This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them.
Why they hang about, instead of scurrying off.
A reluctant snake...
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Categories:
tempt, fairy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Prose Poems
Prose Poems
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost?lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight, vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars immeasurable and void. Something uncapturable is...
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Categories:
tempt, animal, child, childhood, children, magic, rose, science,
Form:
Prose
one kiss
* This was the first poem I ever entered into a contest, and it won! (Thank you to poet/judge John Hamilton). It is about a very brief moment, and all that our minds can process...
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Categories:
tempt, analogy, kiss,
Form:
Free verse
Week 2 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Herman Hesse'
Brian’s Poet of Note – ‘Herman Hesse’ Week 2
This week I thought I would discuss translating poetry from another language. I just finished retranslating from German this poem ‘Stufen’ from Hesse’s famous novel ‘The Glass...
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Categories:
tempt, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Didactic
The Skeletons and Songs of Samsara - 2
In the heart where your naivety resides
you wonder what haunts the sun
and why pain enjoys your childhood eyes,
when you see warm blood run
then you know that death can color
and like you, death loves a dramatic...
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Categories:
tempt, birth, death, life,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 22
The great Sabbath day descended, though not in my heart and mind
On this new day,
I imagined rays of God’s light shining generously upon the mountains,
Pools of living waters gurgling, and winds gently rustling trees
Wishing for...
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Categories:
tempt, beauty, bible, confusion, courage, love, lust, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
The Whips of History - 1
This whip is a relic of war
an instrument of severe education,
come now Avia, look how lovely and vulgar,
it is essential for you to appreciate it's intention,
feel it's supple weight, the simple fright,
I use jasmine...
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Categories:
tempt, christian, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Story of History
The 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:
tempt, history,
Form:
Free verse
The External World of The Internal
“The External World of the Internal”
when the Internal
finally woke up,
it was like all the words
in that book, flew at It
like flaming arrows,
an external barage, a tale,
of trading 10 for 50,
a...
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Categories:
tempt, humanity, muse, satire,
Form:
Narrative
You are my muse
I wonder: would you make me your mistress
lost in a world of poetry under your wings
I’ll celebrate heaven's gift; more to me a tortured love
wretched wishes: life's greatest anguish
our heaven's in sight, you see...
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Categories:
tempt, poems,
Form:
Cento
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 21
The waters of the Holy Spirit stirred with strength
And commenced to churn itself alive inside the well,
Forming a new maelstrom so radiant it seemed to rise in special presentation,
Roaring its heartfelt existence known
Our prince roared...
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Categories:
tempt, change, conflict, courage, devotion, inspiration, love, pain,
Form:
Epic
God Pty Ltd
Ancient sinister fires dwell in the savage creator's eye,
Soon his fire starter will be coming for a second try,
Choosing to believe, that which cannot be seen cannot be rude,
A cloak and dagger God who spies...
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Categories:
tempt, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
God Pty Ltd
Ancient sinister fires dwell in the savage creator's eye,
Soon his fire starter will be coming for a second try,
Choosing to believe, that which cannot be seen cannot be rude,
A cloak and dagger God who spies...
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Categories:
tempt, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
Week 2 - Stages By Herman Hesse - a Second Translation Revised
As ev’ry flower wilts and ev’ry youngster 11
Must age, so manifests each stage of living, 11
All wisdom blossoms too and ev’ry virtue 11
Enjoys its time, and cannot last forever. 11
At ev’ry call of life, the heart of man should, 11
(Without...
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Categories:
tempt, journey, life, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
Don'T Waste Time - the Mirrored Refrain Style
~ Don't Waste Time ~
(Mirrored Refrain)
Time goes by so very fast
Days and years are gone past
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock
Time passes...
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Categories:
tempt, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale By A Wishing Well
(In The Wastelands Of War)
Warm as breath on placid skin,
Soft as gentle summer rains,
Loud as natures angry clouds
That gather in ambushed lanes,
To confer with the wounded boys
Whose...
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Categories:
tempt, war,
Form:
Rhyme
The Three Enigmas of Turandot
The three enigmas of Turandot
The well of souls run deep in fabled lands of old.
Of China's ancient dynasty and the lost Great Tartary,
a ballad of love and loss that must be told.
The Emperor's daughter,...
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Categories:
tempt, crush, longing, love, moon, romantic love, sad
Form:
Narrative
Don'T Waste Time - the Mirrored Refrain Style
~ Don't Waste Time ~
(Mirrored Refrain)
Time goes by so very fast
Days months years are gone past
Tick tock tick tock tick tock
Time passes quickly,...
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Categories:
tempt, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Word-Heroic Crown of Sonnets
BEGINNINGS
The WORD was there before the dawn of time
the Trinity communed in sacred tongue
with sounds unheard, unspeakable, sublime
they uttered words of their unending Love.
With power in God's WORD the world was formed
and from His mouth...
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Categories:
tempt, beautiful, bible, life, love, universe,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Poem For Children
There is so many stories telling a child how to grow up, the difference between right and wrong. to follow the rules, to see in color, how to stand strong. But still, you are children,...
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Categories:
tempt, child, fantasy, children, kids, inspirational, magic, princess,
Form:
Narrative
Lifeboat To Hunt a Shrill
Part 5
They continued to fry under a blistering sky
With little water to stifle the heat.
When the Hippo put forth, "Considering our course,
We have entered the waters of...
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Categories:
tempt, adventure, allegory, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Perspectives Miscellaneous
Good new,good news He said to me
'I have the power to set you free'
'Come ,along this path we'll walk',
I listened closely as He talked;
Eternal life and 'new life' within
upon Him I place my sin,
peace,wholeness and...
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Categories:
tempt, life, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Fibonacci