Long Terminal Poems
Long Terminal Poems. Below are the most popular long Terminal by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Terminal poems by poem length and keyword.
Father Time's Interview
Hi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?
False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...
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Categories:
terminal, allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Making Curious Space For Love
It might take a more comprehensive review
to explain why I thought it would make sense
to read
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger:
Using DBT Mindfulness
and Emotion Regulation Skills to Manage Anger
(Chapman and Gratz)
AND
Evolutionary Enlightenment:
A New...
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Categories:
terminal, anger, culture, fear, history, love, universe,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
An Affective Disorder, the Doctor Said
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie's number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worked hard,...
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Categories:
terminal, anxiety, mental illness, , 8th grade, ,
Form:
Prose
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...
~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...
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Categories:
terminal, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form:
Free verse
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
terminal, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Hubert Might Go Upstairs But Not To Rome
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it.
"I'm going upstairs," Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself out...
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Categories:
terminal, marriage,
Form:
Prose
Harriet Harris nee Kuritsky
Harriet 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:
terminal, america, anniversary, celebration, death, emotions, funeral, in
Form:
Rhyme
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:
terminal, fate, future, myth,
Form:
Haibun
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 25
Erlenkönig also pushed forward the idea of the Council of Six.
Which was a wonderful idea in theory. The council eventually became the
most powerful force in the Elfin Clans, one representative from each of...
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Categories:
terminal, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Come post presidential election 2024
Come post presidential election 2024...
heil to the Wharton chief firebrand -
more worrisome than an ovarian cyst
every race, religion, nationality,
gender, creed, et cetera with impunity dissed
brigand able, eager, ready and willing
to punch contenders throwing...
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Categories:
terminal, 11th grade, 12th grade, america, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Terminal
A couple of months ago, my wife received news that there was an ...
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Categories:
terminal, faith, family, grief, prayer, sick,
Form:
Verse
Knowledge Is a Genie Once Let Out of the Bottle It Cant Be Put Back
1
Profound insight climbing the mountain
The higher you go the more beautiful view
Opens up wide spread in front of you
You see the world under your feet
Overwhelmingly liberating experience
Shocking overpowering, and scary
You play walking on...
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Categories:
terminal, allusion, deep, humanity, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th, 2004
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004
Often these days
(closing in on the eighth
anniversary of eighth orbit
around mister sun),
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share
how one and only...
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Categories:
terminal, absence, anger, atheist, courage, death, fate, may,
Form:
Free verse
Comparisons
COMPARISONS
I sit here now back on my bed
Bandaged and still quite sore
I think back to my Mum and Dad
And all they both endured
My Dad he died of cancer
My Mum of MND
Both were unpleasant ways to...
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Categories:
terminal, appreciation, bereavement, cancer, courage, health, mum,
Form:
Rhyme
Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, nee Kuritsky gave up the ghost May 5th, 2004
Twenty years elapsed since Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 5th, 2004
Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz twenty years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal...
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Categories:
terminal, absence, adventure, appreciation, destiny, journey, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
November 13th 2021 Happy Eighty Sixth Birthday
November 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday
to my long deceased mom...
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky
My mother succumbed to a terminal illness
two score minus three orbitz passed away
no matter she fought tooth and nail
to keep ovarian/uterine...
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Categories:
terminal, absence, age, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, creation, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Something He Sees While Praying
I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor...
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Categories:
terminal, god,
Form:
Prose
ReVisions of SugarPlums
Could we see and hear and feel and think better
more ubiquitously and cooperatively
and inclusively
if DreamTime speaks in naturally eco-logical language
of motion as emotions
co-empathically accessible
to all RNA/DNA informated
integratively regenerative
co-arising ecosystemic Ego-programs?
In our dreams
we all speak the...
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Categories:
terminal, culture, destiny, dream, earth, language, nature, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Mother Dearest Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004
Mother dearest Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004
Often these days
(early May 2021)
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz seventeen years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal...
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Categories:
terminal, absence, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, death, eulogy, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Stranger Than Fiction Part 1
My name is Tom Cunningham, I’m retired now but thirty six years ago I had a very strange experience that I have never mentioned to anyone until now.
It was November the seventh, nineteen eighty six,...
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Categories:
terminal, religious, scary, world war ii,
Form:
Prose
Harriet Harris Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost May 4th 2004
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004
Often these days
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to share one son,
cuz fifteen years after mother succumbed
courtesy of terminal illness
I still reckon how...
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Categories:
terminal, 12th grade, absence, loss, may, mother, son,
Form:
Elegy
Simulations and Symphonies
Simulations and Symphonies
Discussing life inside a simulation
Amalgamating strife with signs of humiliation
Confronting life with positive configurations
An enchanting wife that doesn’t need invitations
Caring for what others naturally overlook
A watchful parent, a well written book
Beauty that...
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Categories:
terminal, corruption, courage, integrity, international,
Form:
Rhyme
The Clock Collector
Life is sacred and not a sport, but ...
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Categories:
terminal, inspiration, life,
Form:
Verse
Nudging Recreation Along
What are fair and effective nudges
for too much freedom of wounding weaponed speech?
Maybe equal freedom to listen nutritionally
and not speak toxically?
What's a fair response
to competitive over-investment in fear-mongering--
Threats to hold your breath 'til everyone sees...
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Categories:
terminal, celebration, earth, health, humor, integrity, nature, society,
Form:
Political Verse
Victim Or Victor
Phoenix and Phoenicia
They had both been victims of their own sad minds stories lost told and untold
narratives to be re-authored livid experience lived in silence meaning smeared in
crusted mud slung in terminal slots shots executed...
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Categories:
terminal, change, , cute,
Form:
Free verse