Long Usurper Poems
Long Usurper Poems. Below are the most popular long Usurper by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Usurper poems by poem length and keyword.
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:
usurper, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The True Mother
“The True Mother”
What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow
bleed out Life’s dreams
rust crumbles to dust
Virulent apathy spreads
Betrayal’s destruction
hand...
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Categories:
usurper, betrayal, imagery, love, mother daughter, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Fadwa Tuqan Translations
Fadwa Tuqan has been called the Grand Dame of Palestinian letters and The Poet of Palestine. These are my translations of Fadwa Tuqan poems originally written in Arabic.
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by...
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Categories:
usurper, allah, culture, earth, love, nature, voice, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Poet of Palestine: Fadwa Tuqan
English translations of Arabic poems by Fadwa Tuqan aka "The Poet of Palestine"
Enough for Me
by Fadwa Tuqan
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Enough for me to lie in the earth,
to be buried in her,
to sink...
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Categories:
usurper, allah, arabic, culture, nature, poetess, poetry, writing,
Form:
Verse
White Noise and the Motherload of Dark Matter
"White Noise and the Mother Load of Dark Matter"
underneath the static
what exists
is never seen nor heard
for what it truly is
the eyes and mind
retaliate in the deciphering
the invisible return
each night and...
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Categories:
usurper, dark, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Neigh say being corralled and cult shod
Neigh say being corralled & cult shod
"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I
bring death to tyrants.”
Above the fray of twittering,
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified,
yet vilified...
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Categories:
usurper, 12th grade, age, allusion, america, fate, history,
Form:
Free verse
The Tear
“The Tear”
How many oceans of salt
does it take to form a tear?
Unrelenting waves of sorrow
pounding a broken heart
hears the howl of sharp beaked foolish flying monkeys
ignorant feeding frenzies swallow whole lost families
swept...
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Categories:
usurper, dark, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Requiem For A Motherless Child
The weeds have sheathed the garden from its care as more nails than wood appear of a house lacking adjectives. A sun liberated from scathing entrapment amongst an overburdened forest whose boughs are heavily laden...
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Categories:
usurper, appreciation, black african american, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Was Saul a Deeply Flawed Intellectual Snob
Was Saul a Deeply Flawed Intellectual Snob (Perhaps a Prude as Well)?
Does Christ's Protest Still Ring True Today?
Part 1:
I'll state my aim clearly, "I come, not to praise Paul (Christ honored?) but bury
usurper? Profane, anti-Christian's...
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Categories:
usurper, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
Understood
"Understood"
My feet stand solemn
grounded they're barefoot
sinking in the undertow,
feeling what’s real
my toes grip the past
while the slow words
wash it irrevocably away
the ego sashays
and hangs that Faust in the wardrobe
Locks it away
turns the...
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Categories:
usurper, journey, love,
Form:
Free verse
Tears Of A Clown
Against a willowy wailing backdrop of inner chaos,
an indignant incendiary mask stifles the simmering cauldrons,
of a stoic stage clown post lachrymose performance wearily stunning yet stung,
or the surreptitious posture of the laugh it off as...
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Categories:
usurper, angst, anxiety, august, confusion, deep, emotions, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Incessant flagellation no longer torments nor assails psyche of mine
Incessant flagellation no longer torments nor assails psyche of mine...
until courtesy amazing grace interceded
in the doggone guise
of Canis lupus familiaris
unwittingly timely deliverance
videre licet as an unconditionally loving
emotional support animal.
Emotional and financial crucifixion
synonymous with...
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Categories:
usurper, adventure, angel, anger, anxiety, blessing, crush, death,
Form:
Free verse
The Bloody Tower
THE BLOODY TOWER
I am so trapped a phantom princess, on an ethereal plain, spiritually
Forgotten in isolation's domain, in hell's chamber of brick and mortar,
In this imprisonment of the unjust, I'm the innocent accursed, in England's
Bloody...
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Categories:
usurper, betrayal, fantasy, gothic, halloween, history, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Reprobate of a Draconian State
There's tyranny taking place in the United States.
Fear of it becoming a Draconian State is not just a threat.
It's reality, thanks to the presidential powermonger
whose hunger and thirst for rulership are evident
in the hypocrisy that...
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Categories:
usurper, america, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Some Questions and Some Answers Q and A part one
Q: When the Lord Jesus Christ destroys the old heaven and the old earth, will he
completely destroy it by fire?
A: He will destroy it by fire...
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Categories:
usurper, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Cross references verses to the Seven mysteries of Paul according to Robert Breaker part five
# 7 Isaiah 14:12-17 (Breaker mentioned that five times Lucifer wanted to sit as God
on this throne but didn't mention the actual verses.) "How you have fallen from
heaven, O Lucifer," son of the...
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Categories:
usurper, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Zarathustra Gave Me the Green Light Part Two
from conscionable, fashionable,
and inimitable laudable official,
regal unequivocal x all did (re: exalted)
gratuitously justifiable management,
this citizen banker does hint intend zealous altercation,
but bestir commonwealth, dutifully engineering
fairness, given hover into jaundiced keeper
LivingSocial lee,...
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Categories:
usurper, america, anger, angst, betrayal, conflict, discrimination, fate,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hidey Holes
Where did you find safety when you were a child,
?Did flight also help you, I wonder my friend?
?I felt like it did me, but that was because
?My mom didn’t try hard to suss...
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Categories:
usurper, childhood, father, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Tears in Vacant Rooms
Written: March 05, 2025
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As the final petal droops
upon quivering leaves,
while the soul begins to decay
akin to the evening lights
fading into a coffin.
Tears flow quietly across...
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Categories:
usurper, analogy, death, fear,
Form:
Free verse
The Big Blues and Baptismal Alice
“The Big Blues and Baptismal Alice”
In the land of the dirty politician
Steely resolve was borne bidding
farewell to thinly veiled conceit and division
that particular brand of milk had long in the tooth turned sour
in her red-hot...
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Categories:
usurper, courage, freedom, imagery, journey, love, woman, women,
Form:
Free verse
A Private Invitation To He--
Gambler, I am not
watcher of gamblers be
One stood to depart
approach I, to engage
So I whispered
and he listened
"I saw you cheating."
He said, "That's absurd."
"I saw you praying."
...
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Categories:
usurper, allusion, analogy, games, imagery, integrity, life, vanity,
Form:
Narrative
Desolate Dynasty
Encased in an isolated castle of an old fool’s paradise,
A decaying dagger rests upon a distressed oak table.
Frayed book pages scatter across termite-riddled floors.
The calligraphy carries echoes of triumphant...
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Categories:
usurper, dark, fantasy, heartbroken, imagery, poets,
Form:
Free verse
The Uncanny Stranger
The stranger is strange, pariah, leper sounds offbeat,
Neither truculent, nor relevant, all destined to encounter the doomed relic;
The bizarre outlander, alien to stimulate the instant pulse-beats!
The uninvited hobnobber, one despises to welcome in routine...
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Categories:
usurper, fate, fear, grief, hate, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
Athaliah
She hailed from the kingdom in the north named Israel.
This woman must have had her beginnings in hell.
She was wicked princess of Ahab and Jezebel.
Intemperance nearly led to great Judah’s death knell.
A heathen worshipper of...
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Categories:
usurper, religiondeath, woman, death, Grandson,
Form:
Rhyme
A Hole, New Dimension, E T
The in-sense of dying night falls
in...
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Categories:
usurper, art,
Form:
Rhyme