Long Tones Poems
Long Tones Poems. Below are the most popular long Tones by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Tones poems by poem length and keyword.
Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
tones, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Messenger
"The Messenger"
Love is rich with
venom and honey.
there was a female ...
snake,
it watched
with green-eyed
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest
the dove,
was white as snow,
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey
the dove
alone,...
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Categories:
tones, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
A Taste of My Varied GenresA Sample of some of the genres I write it...Nature, family, depression...just a taste...just a taste. These are all reposts and can be found along with these titles:
The Sound of His Breathing (Written about my...
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Categories:
tones, poetry, , cute, , Lullaby,
Form:
Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 34I 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:
tones, desire, destiny, endurance, feelings, heart, leadership, psychological,
Form:
Epic
Turkish Poetry Translations IiTurkish Poetry Translations II
Çanakkale Sehitlerine
"For the Çanakkale Martyrs"
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Was there ever anything like the Bosphorus war??
The earth’s mightiest armies pressing Marmara,
Forcing entry between her mountain passes
To a...
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Categories:
tones, autumn, god, love, sea, time, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 16 -- Damian Hakim Polly Dolly and Molly: Damian's Plans and Family TimeMarch 2026
The final weeks of the CCC plan:
Damian and Polly planned the
Copy Cat Club convergence with
Molly and Dolly. The meet was postponed
A few times until everything was set.
Damian and Dolly knew one another...
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Categories:
tones, allusion, best friend,
Form:
Alliteration
Dream 1: 4 Weeks In Positano
"Dream 1: 4 Weeks in Positano"
Kisses long linger warm lips tasted intense
so sweet like cured Valencia Oranges
lips liquored triple sec not dry drunk on love
softly grazed, then held long
slow, deep, warm and wet
The story is...
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Categories:
tones, dream, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
The Penetralia Ruby QueenHark and listen well, if those foretoken in the eyes of hungers lust
Trapped in their illusion, trampling the Stars into dust
Forced with the detestation stench by the swamp of absolute disgust
Thou blackest scorpion be accursed,...
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Categories:
tones, allegory, beauty, creation, fantasy, god, inspiration, integrity,
Form:
I do not know?
LegendLook up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...
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Categories:
tones, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at its heels
Their acid blistered paint work but it...
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Categories:
tones, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Dante's Divine Comedy Iii Canto Translation“Through me you enter the city of woe
Trough me you enter the eternal pain
Through me you go to people lost below.
Justice inspired my highest factor reign;
I was created by act of divine,
Supreme wisdom and the...
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Categories:
tones, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Anticipation of RealitySo cramped ...
Strain to move,
Flex and budge in tiny increments ...
That's the limit.
Constantly testing, trying,
Pushing, pressing ...
Constrict, exert, constrict, struggle,
Spin slowly, push ...
That's it. That's all.
Nothing more.
But it helps ... relief,
A body sigh ...
But only...
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Categories:
tones, birth, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
The OutlanderI am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, fished, and created shelter
For their...
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Categories:
tones, change, childhood, community, history, home, journey, remember,
Form:
Ballad
Reyinning YangImagine,
said Yin to distraught Yang,
never able to get quite enough of himself,
never enough time to fully become his ego-potentiality,
imagine this day opens a new rhetorical event,
a new day of conversation between you,
as Ego,
and those you...
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Categories:
tones, creation, health, nature, political, relationship,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Travel Light* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. My...
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Categories:
tones, child, children, loss, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
travel light -Her small angelic face ...
Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds,
is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the
layers of dust and dirt and explosive residue that now...
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Categories:
tones, child, conflict, courage, war,
Form:
Free verse
An Epic Love For WomenI know you're not here
but you are in my heart
so
you are always with me
i'll just slip into you
with these words.
I know
there are mountains
dwarf the cities below
peaks that stride above the...
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Categories:
tones, beauty, celebration, dream, heart, love, magic,
Form:
Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 22The 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:
tones, beauty, bible, confusion, courage, love, lust, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July MorningThe Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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Categories:
tones, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 1Don't you think that this title is darkly divine?
But, of course, there will have to be weirdness that’s funny,
Though my nightmares are many and have complex arcs
There’s some risk here I might have to work...
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Categories:
tones, anxiety, crazy, fun, funeral, holocaust, humorous, life,
Form:
Quatrain
An Early Mornings TaleOne morning early a Dad and his son Tom went for a walk in the country, they journeyed
through the still mist looking for flowers for the boy's Mom, but they did not see many.
Just then...
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Categories:
tones, celebration, emotions, family,
Form:
Narrative
Babylonian Anthem
Thou, O king, hast made a decree,
that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer,
and all kinds of musick, shall fall
down and worship the golden image:
And whoso...
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Categories:
tones, bible, patriotic, religious, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Bucky Fuller's Holonic GhostLet’s say the number 1
iconically speaks in Left-Yang Universal Language,
root of ecosystemetrics,
while PlaceHolder (0)
bicamerally dreams in Right-YinDiPolar ReGenerative PolyCultural Action,
health-flow of autonomic, enthymematic thought and awareness
influenced by feelings of EarthCentric BiCameral Consciousness
as Plan A,
so...
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Categories:
tones, earth, earth day, health, humor, political, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
Aroma PoetryMother nature oh! Rose of roses!
Mother of all flowers' and smell,
Ylang Ylang! You don't know what it causes!
An aphrodisiac turns you on like hell!
Sandalwood with its masculine warmth poses,
Rosemary clears the head, you can tell,
Peppermint...
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Categories:
tones, beauty, flower, rose, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Mehmet Akif Ersoy TranslationsMehmet Akif Ersoy: Modern English Translations of Turkish Poems
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy (1873-1936) was a Turkish poet, author, writer, academic, member of parliament, and the composer of the Turkish National Anthem.
Snapshot
by Mehmet Akif Ersoy
loose English translation/interpretation...
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Categories:
tones, dark, death, earth, grave, life, war, world,
Form:
Ghazal