Long Uproot Poems
Long Uproot Poems. Below are the most popular long Uproot by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Uproot poems by poem length and keyword.
We Are Brothers
WE ARE BROTHERS
1.
Don’t look at me as though I am an alien or stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy fly out of your eyes,
...
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Categories:
uproot, love, peace, prejudice,
Form:
Epic
Inception: Lighten Up My Load - Collab With Mikey Part 7
I esteem your presence
Glowing with glee
At times, you do say things without thinking
I’m the god of distress –
You’re leaving me breathless
Cutting me down like I’m some decaying tree
You don’t see how...
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Categories:
uproot, deep, freedom, grief, happiness, hope, hurt, words,
Form:
Free verse
Inception: Uproot Me Free - Collab With Mikey Part 6
Stimulating ideas pop into your head
You need a pen…you need a piece of lined paper and you gave it your best shot to pass the difficult test
It looks like you’re outtah luck…you received an F...
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Categories:
uproot, appreciation, hope, uplifting, drug,
Form:
Free verse
The Market Place
I have been trying to pen this verse for the past two weeks but
Someone was standing in my way and my mind went astray
Can’t you see that it is a brand new day?
Winter has subsided...
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Categories:
uproot, change, character, courage, environment, metaphor, money, truth,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
uproot, bible, birthday, christian, future, god, jesus, time,
Form:
Free verse
We Are Brothers Ii
Don’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.
I am your neighbor.
Don’t call me a foe, an antagonist, or a rival,
Don’t roll up...
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Categories:
uproot, cute, immigration, love, peace, prejudice,
Form:
Free verse
We Are Brothers Iii
Don’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.
I am your neighbor.
Don’t call me a foe, an antagonist, or a rival,
Don’t roll up...
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Categories:
uproot, peace, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
A Tornado Named Karma
I hope that you have barricaded your doors and sealed your windows up tight, because there is a train barreling down these tracks that is about to uproot your life
The plan is already in motion,...
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Categories:
uproot, anger, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
Broken Planting Oaken Trees
We have tree traditions,
still accessible in diverse backward
and forward
reforesting cultures,
of planting a commemorative tree
when a great and portentous series of loving events
comes to its untimely rest.
Recently
my middle son's lifetime friend
decided it was time to travel...
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Categories:
uproot, caregiving, heartbreak, loss, lost love, suicide, tree,
Form:
Free verse
The Other Side
Missiles are flying over there and they are having fun over here, people are dying everywhere and they are having party down there. I have asked myself the question, what am I doing wrong why...
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Categories:
uproot, change, community, science, success, voyage, wisdom, world,
Form:
Narrative
The Kisses That Go Beyond Lips
When my lips meet yours, I feel our souls entwine,
In a special way that isn’t worth the wealth of my words
Leaving me with a yearning for more…
With insatiable desire
Just kiss me again and my heart...
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Categories:
uproot, kiss, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Hindu Anarchy Coming To India: Canto I-Farmers Farewell
A common confrontation between
Man and animals
From the wild, are pigs roaming farm lands
Destroying the crops
Of pöor farmers, it’s indeed a
Problem in Indian states
With forest borders, acute in her
Many smaller states.
In larger states where lands are...
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Categories:
uproot, betrayal, culture, farm, poems, poetry, political, satire,
Form:
Free verse
I Found Flowers Growing In My Ruins
“I found flowers growing in my ruins”
Once in a dark cave their lay aside devastated ruins
The chains of weeds of my strongholds and failures that had over grown my deflated plans,goals and dreams
Confusion...
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Categories:
uproot, growth, inspirational, life, motivation, passion, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Greatest Generation
Being privileged to have known scores of
Americans known as 'the greatest generation',
I attest to the reality of their greatness.
Herein, greatness will not reference those who went
off to war to defend the interest of their country,
but...
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Categories:
uproot, america, family,
Form:
Narrative
Comb Your Hair
Dear sister I have been mistreated but surely not defeated
The fit are unruly and those who rule unfit to wear their minds along their brow
Pitted and fallen are we claimed she
Uproot all the timid, surely...
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Categories:
uproot, art, bible, black african american,
Form:
Ballad
Suburban Blues
Well, get up on time,
See your days pass by.
Don’t ask questions,
To leaders of suppression.
Cause court is in session.
Obey this do that,
When you go out,
Don't wear hood or hat.
Ah, eat more Tyson food
City gave us a...
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Categories:
uproot, abuse, change, corruption, future, humanity, imagery, passion,
Form:
ABC
Your Rather Fearless, Heartfelt Name
Crystalline teardrops formulate into sorrow
It emerges into delicate exquisiteness before the sunrise of tomorrow
Sparkle my lovely darkness and captivate me with delightful, dainty dissonance
Feed me your radiance and bring me to evanescence pastures from a...
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Categories:
uproot, beauty, desire, emotions, encouraging, endurance, fear, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Echoes From Niyi Osundare's Voice
The world is an egg waiting to be broken
Nothing bad should worth of a humble tears
Not even the pangs of loneliness as icy ball
Nor the fangs of self-pity as winter bears-
The tyrant was ask when...
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Categories:
uproot, abortion, africa, america,
Form:
Free verse
Phoenix of Hope
Amid the white patches of that mauve gracious dusk,
I bask in an awaited dawn since I found myself from a lost world
to win over my innermost conflicts at last,
I remember the spirit that rejoiced my...
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Categories:
uproot, hope, spiritual, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
A Robbed Scholar
"Pack the chairs,no souls will be entertained here",
Politics is stealing the future of scholars,
The faith is rather picking blemishes from religious pillars,
Can't make it plain to them of my changed mind,
Grew up along the coast,
Education...
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Categories:
uproot, allegory, bereavement,
Form:
Alliteration
Time Is the Master
Time is the master
These are the words that I hear
Time is the master
My mother's words kept ringing in my ear
Patience keep testing my soul
Patience is knocking at the door
Time is the master
Time settle the...
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Categories:
uproot, art, change, character, city, faith, time, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
His Half a Heart
When he blew into my life,
I was a flower, just starting to bloom.
With high velocity,
...
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Categories:
uproot, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
When Mother Comes
When mother comes,
Tell her the song in my throat is dying,
Tell her we will no long arise to sing that
"We are the leaders of tomorrow" rather
We are breaking out from the tradition from
She has cupoard...
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Categories:
uproot, abuse, africa, art,
Form:
Free verse
After the Storm
Overnight the calm was shattered asunder
as lightning, presaging rolls of thunder,
reverberated across the darkened sky,
flashing warnings heavy rains were nigh.
Next Nature’s pyrotechnics, in awesome display,
turned the black sky of night, into day!
As the deluge began...
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Categories:
uproot, nature,
Form:
Narrative
We'Re Cleaning House
A simple man, I don‘t need much, I use few words; I’m Joe.
I once framed houses, now drive trucks. That’s all you need to know.
I love my wife and think she’s great, but one thing...
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Categories:
uproot, wife, workold, wife, clothes, old, poetry,
Form:
Couplet