Long Unction Poems
Long Unction Poems. Below are the most popular long Unction by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Unction poems by poem length and keyword.
Epitaphs
Epitaph 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.
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It's not that every leaf must finally...
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Categories:
unction, bereavement, death, death of a friend, depression,
Form:
Epitaph
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting present company, of course!)
When editors reject my poems, did I slip...
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Categories:
unction, death, desire, family, heart, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Peace Prayer
These are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
unction, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Rejection Slips 1
Rejection Slips
With over 5,700 publications if I count poems that have gone viral, I suppose I shouldn’t complain … but I do have some poems that have never been accepted for publication. Here are a...
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Categories:
unction, day, love, memory, night, rose, seasons, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Philosophical Rhythmic Duality
Philosophical Rhymthmic Duality
Imminent calamity collides with structured debate
Virulent profanity confides with punctured ingrates
An insolent generation of insanity resides with a debunked hate
The innocent audacity presides over the opinions that rank and rate
Alchimedes...
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Categories:
unction, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Balls To the Wall
spend your day expressed by grace ordered from a Payton place
cheer each moment from the edge of the setting sun a very well done
climb each pillar of thought and deed to reach forth every bit...
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Categories:
unction, art, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Stricken With Turbulence At About Seventy Two Inches
Stricken with turbulence at about seventy two inches
Yours truly issuing a deafening rebel yell
bursting forth with such might
courtesy cooking under pressure
analogous to volcanic upswell,
forcing me quickly to flap vestigial wings
(at the speed of sound)
while simultaneously...
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Categories:
unction, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Birth of Healthy Newborn Greater Than Cumulative
Yuletide pageants vis a vis merry go round revisited
healthy progeny regaled being alive
analogous to children ecstatic twenty-five
on December exhaling joie de vivre at dive
in into neat stack of wrapped gifts, when...
what! out of thin...
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Categories:
unction, 10th grade, 11th grade, appreciation, creation, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Hiccups
Hiccups
An involuntary spasm
of the diaphragm
and respiratory organs,
with a sudden closure
of the glottis
and a characteristic
sound like that of a cough.
Rather mundane topic
lest one cursed
with said minor inconvenience
that...
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Categories:
unction, 12th grade, anxiety, blue, cheer up, drink,
Form:
Rhyme
Yuletide pageant merry go round
Yuletide pageant merry go round
Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two plus seventeen carousel rides resonated
veritable pantheon of pagan rituals
and...
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Categories:
unction, angel, appreciation, birth, celebration, chanukah, christmas, december,
Form:
Free verse
Grace
Grace is supernatural gift from God bestowed on us through the merits of Jesus Christ for our salvation.
"[Grace is] a supernatural gift of God to an intellectual creature, bestowed with a view to eternal life......
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Categories:
unction, christian, city, god, jesus, people, spiritual, world,
Form:
Light Verse
Children's Poems III
Children's Poems III
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there...
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Categories:
unction, boy, child, childhood, children, family, father, girl,
Form:
Rhyme
Straight Up Star Wars
Yo,
I was in an empire, part of the rebellion,
I was luke and han solo,
Takin' photos, of a world in love with chedda'
Prayin' all day for things to get betta'
Askin' Yoda in the sky for some...
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Categories:
unction, black-african amerstar, me, star,
Form:
Free verse
' Does East Meet West ... ' (A Galileo Moment)
‘ Does East Meet West ? … ’ ( A Galileolian Moment)
( Metaphysical Poem # 6 )
Does East and West, At One Moment Meet
Somewhere, at a Rendezvous Discreet ?
…...
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Categories:
unction, allegory, education, introspection, life, scienceimage,
Form:
I do not know?
Lord God, You Are My Prosperity Source
January 13 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 37-39
Key Verse – Genesis 39:23 … The LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE...
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Categories:
unction, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Yuletide Pageant Merry Go Round Second Time
tender petsmart impact, where world wide web populated
with sacrificial pacification sans deity
via oblation, immolation, flagellation appeasing Dominatrix
borrow wing, vis a vis amalgamated viz Roman sol invictus
wrought fiery brimstone tempting those who dared
assert contrary...
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Categories:
unction, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Flint That Ignited My Fire
Each night lurid visions danced before me in the dark
staring with eyes of an eagle, sharp beak of a hawk.
I woke, and in the mirror, my face was white as chalk,
screaming with the brazen voice...
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Categories:
unction, angst,
Form:
Rhyme
The Sacraments In General
A Sacrament is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace
There are 7 Sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist or Communion, Penance or Confession, Extreme Unction or Anointing of the sick, Holy Orders and Holy...
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Categories:
unction, christian, god, jesus, people, prayer, spiritual, world,
Form:
Free verse
The Escape Artists
(1 Tim 6: 19)
Look Into The Painting
and What Do You See?
Is It A Destination
Or Is It A Journey?
Is It Where You’ve Been
or Where You’d Like To Go?
Now, Only You Can Say
What Picture(s) To You Shows
And...
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Categories:
unction, emotions, feelings, future, happiness, journey, society,
Form:
Light Verse
Otis Trench
This article is about the underground lyricist and outlaw musician. For other uses, see Zoltan Goliath, Brent Scorn, Lydia Fox, C. Günter Marrow, Elzbieta Bienga (disambiguation).
Otis (Trench Mouth) Trench was born with pneumonia in a...
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Categories:
unction, allegory, character,
Form:
Epitaph
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY SOVEREIGN HEAD
November 9 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Corinthians 11-12
Key Verse – 1Corinthians 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman...
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Categories:
unction, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Cosmic Climax
It's much too close in here
for loneliness,
or companionship.
Either way,
I grow too small
non-existent
non-essential
undervalued domesticity with insufficient commodity,
just another over-populating parasite
underneath Earth's glamorous backside;
Suppressed incubator within a more integrating place
of nonverbal language
and full-octaned relationship toward outside
somewhere,...
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Categories:
unction, birth, creation, desire, destiny, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Humans and I
Ones who wage,
Ones who rage,
Ones who take,
Ones who pay,
Ones who craze,
Ones who rave,
Ones who crave…
Ones who fear,
Ones who breathe,
Ones who give,
Ones who need,
Ones who will,
Ones who weave…
Ones who plead,
Ones who beg,
Ones who beseech,
Ones who entreat,
Ones...
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Categories:
unction, animal, art, bird, change, dark, death, how
Form:
Free verse
BiCulturing Passion Seeds
We are born remembering
DNA's sacred syntax,
cryptic receipts with multigenerational redemption value,
to redeem integrity through this incarnation's
fully functional root and crown potential
For ecological
politically co-intelligent
co-operative economic practice
with polyculturally unconditional intent
Mutual subsidiarity of peace
compassioning just rightness
declared...
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Categories:
unction, analogy, baptism, courage, creation, culture, longing, paradise,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
weapons
I’m a weapon of mass destruction
the kind that doesn't appeal to societies seductions
I am all about kingdom construction
The word of God is my daily instructions
I get an unction, how to function
Steering clear of...
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Categories:
unction, christian, evil, faith, life, society,
Form:
Rhyme