Long Understands Poems
Long Understands Poems. Below are the most popular long Understands by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Understands poems by poem length and keyword.
A Day Under the Sun
Blue Hunter's Moon of the Festival of Lights.
And the day of Vengeance of our Holy One to comfort all those who mourn.
Isaiah 61:3-11
I Proclaim the acceptable Generation or Year and Day of Yehoshua also known...
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Categories:
understands, blue, earth day, faith, growth, moon, rainbow,
Form:
Prose
Various Heresies
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
-Michael R. Burch
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Willy Nilly
Michael R. Burch
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it silly, Willy...
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Categories:
understands, atheist, christian, faith, god, heaven, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Verse
Willy Nilly
Willy Nilly
by Michael R. Burch
for the Demiurge aka Yahweh and Jehovah
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
You made the stallion,
you made the filly,
and now they sleep
in the dark earth, stilly.
Isn’t it silly, Willy Nilly?
Isn’t it...
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Categories:
understands, christian, creation, faith, god, spiritual, truth, world,
Form:
Verse
You Never Listened
You Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night the stars
shone, brightening the tears
in her eyes palely fetching...
You...
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Categories:
understands, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Water's Weakness
There is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin Yutang, trans.)
That weakness of mind and body overcomes strength
And uniting...
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Categories:
understands, power, psychological, water, western, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Gaia Out Speaks
Queen Gaia
of Earth's Shabbat
is here to speak today.
Unfortunately,
she can only sign,
and the only way she can see
is through our DNA/RNA fractally-balancing syntax,
so she has asked if she could respond to your questions
as she understands them
within...
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Categories:
understands, earth, gender, god, health, humor, love, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
The Inner Chamber
THE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
understands, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Song of Amergin: Translation
The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...
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Categories:
understands, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
UNAFRAID OF JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY IDENTITY THIEF
I DON'T FEAR YOU BREAKING INTO MY HOME PUTTING STICKERS ON MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES I GUESS YOU'RE STILL STALKING ME WHAT 23 YEARS YOU ARRIVED WITH THE GUNMAN WHAT A BLESSING YOU ACTUALLY CUT YOUR HAND...
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Categories:
understands, allah,
Form:
Naat
Beary Tales Episodes 25-33, Poet's Notes
Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved footnotes...
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Categories:
understands, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form:
Rhyme
STOLEN VALOR CRUEL AND VERY CRIMINAL INTENT 101 AIRBORNE SCREAMING EAGLES
STOP STOLEN VALOR AGAINST DISABLED WAR HEROS AND THEIR FAMILIES MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND MY WONDERFUL WAR HERO EXPERIENCING A HORROR NO MILITARY FAMILY SHOULD EVER ENDURE AFTER SEVERAL BREAK INS HOME INVASIONS RIPPING DOCUMENTS FROM...
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Categories:
understands, allah,
Form:
Naat
Dante's Divine Comedy Translation Canto Ix
That color vileness painted on my face
When coming back my duke to me I saw
His new squeezing inside much more took place.
He heedful stopped as man hearing to draw;
Because his eye could not reach...
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Categories:
understands, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Child of the King
I wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I believed in Jesus, a man of love,
But scared to death...
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Categories:
understands, blessing, christian, depression, devotion, faith, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Gadflies and Honeybees
Where to begin
in the middle of cold and dark
winter's solstice,
healthy green life's time
of impeachment,
excommunication,
dormancy?
Where does this all rightfully
and sacredly left end?
These are expansive gadfly questions,
problems,
issues of complexly dipolar reason,
leftbrain dominant
either-or thinking
we are either thinking or...
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Categories:
understands, culture, earth, green, health, integrity, political, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Scared of the Dark
I have been scared of the darkness below
The sun glows bright and the wind will blow
I have been unprepared for the worst again
The moonbeams glimmer above like my pen
Was in solitude for hours
Ideas sprouting like...
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Categories:
understands, angst, confidence, emotions,
Form:
Lyric
Bothyang and Alsoyin
It's hard to think in Either-Or Deductive,
while speaking and acting in Both-And Inductive.
For example,
If my Brother is kind and loving
(and he usually is),
and really not all that judgmental and condemning
with his wife and kids especially...
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Categories:
understands, christian, earth, family, health, history, humor, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
My Friend the Wise Doctor
Eu-e,
Eu-e-e,
Eu-e,
Bucky Fuller Big Bang.
U-C,
U-C-A-G,
U-C,
ribonucleic acid.
Yang-Yin,
Yang-Yin-Yin,
Yang-Yin
Bucky Fuller Big Brain
My Friend Bucky Fuller
came down to me today.
He said,
"Lao-tse's Time
grows not-not binomial
radiates fore
and gravitates aft
Space and Time
poetry as rhyme
Convex and Concave!"
My Friend Rumi Gloomy
said to me today,
"When you...
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Categories:
understands, nature, perspective, spiritual,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
My Brother--Nelson Mandela, Umtata, South Africa--Tribute Poem
Nelson Mandela, crossed my spirited mind today, a visionary legend of peace, love, equality, and unity of all people.
As a prevailer of great affliction, he was like a Greek God fighting for the—"Common man!”
I had...
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Categories:
understands, brother, confidence, dedication, discrimination, inspiration, motivation, strength,
Form:
Couplet
Session 2: Tech Support Notes From the Server Backup and Dead Chicken Case
The Almost Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent Tech God Oisin
Session 2: Tech support notes from the server backup and dead chicken case
“Hello this is Oisin. How may I help you this morning?” Oisin says in his polite...
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Categories:
understands, humor, satire, technology,
Form:
Prose
My X-Mas Wish To Santa, My Letter To Santa, Keep the Worst Buddy
SONNET 1
MY CHRISTMAS WISH TO SANTA
...
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Categories:
understands, appreciation, blessing, christmas, forgiveness, friendship, giving, truth,
Form:
Sonnet
Family Therapy
Feminist ecotherapists,
deeply immersed in polycultural ecology,
a systematic teleology of cooperative nutrition economics,
remain rarely flushed out from their safe spots.
A self-isolating,
often eremitic,
subspecies,
with shamanic nature-as-spirit tendencies,
our most articulate mentors often wander off
to pray for,
breathe and suffer and...
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Categories:
understands, addiction, endurance, environment, health, judgement, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Letter To Linda
Dear Linda,
It's around 6AM, and I just wanted to share ...
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Categories:
understands, family, friendship love, god, jesus, sister,
Form:
Free verse
9 DEAD BODIES BURNED ALIVE BY GARGANO LAYING IN THE HALLS
THE BODIES REMAINED IN THE HALLS DUE TO THE SMALL EXAM ROOMS NO DOCTOR COULD WORK IN SUCH A SMALL SPACE NO DOCTOR WOULD SQUEEZE A CROWD INTO A TINY ROOM IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN CIRO...
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Categories:
understands, allah,
Form:
Naat
Peace Rings True
Speak gently when you offer criticism,
but don't be so soft as to sacrifice the truth.
...
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Categories:
understands, beauty, community, culture, inspiration, peace, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
An Adverse World Unfurled
Suddenly, I constantly cough, cough, cough
I haven't had enough, for this life's so rough
My friend is right beside me and he truly understands
Where I stand and I thoughtfully fiddle with my hands
Oh,...
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Categories:
understands, angst, desire, emotions,
Form:
Free verse