Long Velvet Poems
Long Velvet Poems. Below are the most popular long Velvet by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Velvet poems by poem length and keyword.
Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"
Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys
praying
preying
hungry hearts
count the days
wasting away
in all that preying
for prayers
to be answered
children become
strangers
reading
strange words
finding
themselves puzzled
genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to
fumbling
mouths closed,
swallowed hole
in the...
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Categories:
velvet, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Epic
The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
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Categories:
velvet, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Short Stuff: EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
velvet, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
THE LAST GOODBYEThis is for the Contest - 'Titanic - Fare Thee Well' Sponsored by Tom Woody.
...
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Categories:
velvet, death, inspirational, loss, love,
Form:
Narrative
Blue Shotgun Lantana
"As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire
"Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns."
Charles Baudelaire
"Smell is a Word. Perfume is Literature."
"There are...
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Categories:
velvet, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
An Bee Cailleach
“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh tú a chaitheamh.
Briseadh an tost seo”
"An Bee Cailleach"
She lives to...
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Categories:
velvet, fantasy, imagery, joy, life, love, magic, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
velvet, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The Sleeper and the Supernaturalist
"The Sleeper and The Supernaturalist"
The Sleeper
shone as she walked
through the Woods
shining alive
like nothing
natural could
caught
in the moonlight
unaware
the innocent
red-caped roses stared
the trees whispered,
"beware, beware"
barefoot softly
the Supernaturalist
transfigures instead
from under shine
she bares...
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Categories:
velvet, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Veiled"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
gave her mother forty whacks,
when she saw what she had done,
gave her father forty-one,
she washed herself from a watered pail,
she claimed their lies and vicious tales,
she pled not guilty and moaned...
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Categories:
velvet, allusion, analogy, evil, father daughter, imagery, murder,
Form:
Narrative
Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My BowMerov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!
In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senior English class
one night in Nineteen Sixty-One. Assigned just...
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Categories:
velvet, blessing, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...
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Categories:
velvet, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Sarah’s OriginMy eyes stare straight,
fixated on something in the distance,
humming a song that would send chills,
if you ever got the chance to listen.
A padded cell and a straitjacket,
the doctor giving one of his ‘visits,’
his moans...
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Categories:
velvet, dark, death, gothic,
Form:
Epic
Echoes of the Angel's FallenInvocation to the Muse
From the gleaming skin of life’s underbelly,
sin unreconciled, formed from Nephilim seed,
fleet footed jokers mask pawns into flight;
To the epistle of the Most High.
For in the beginning, the true and only...
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Categories:
velvet, allegory, angel, christian,
Form:
Epic
Home Sweet Hell"That also has a steep drop off the far side of Home Sweet Hell" said my soulless guide as he pointed in the direction of the nearby screams.
I could see what resembled silhouettes or...
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Categories:
velvet, anxiety, death, future, life, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Rush Amid the Rapids PublishedThe greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
velvet, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
Spring Festival
Symbols cry in dry ice theater -
the expanse of aesthetic visa-
drawn-
from the romance of the silvery eye -
as it golden advances the lid of covenance
in dynamic enzyme.
Open faced type interpreted-
interpreter-embossed embol-
in...
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Categories:
velvet, beautiful, god, love,
Form:
Epic
Part 1: Confusion of the MuseThe large, bright Winter moon shone it's heavenly light over and out amongst the snow-covered city. The city was large, the city was noisy. It was midnight and the bustling still urged on. People ached...
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Categories:
velvet,
Form:
I do not know?
My Daughter the Need a Walk From the Dark Side, Into the DarknessMy Daughter
My beautiful Daughter, walks life’s paths alone,
She does so, by design – not of hers – on her own.
She travels heavily !, from place to empty space,
from space to vacant place – in what...
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Categories:
velvet, daughter, girlfriend,
Form:
Rhyme
Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"
Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten sweet sap bleeding burgundy all over
amber gold wild bush...
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Categories:
velvet, art, life, muse, psychological, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
gildedThis happened last Fall, during Thanksgiving break.
Lisa and I were at the MET (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), with her family, at an exhibit of Art Deco sculpture. Lisa and I came out of a...
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Categories:
velvet, art, dad, daughter, fashion, fun, humor, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Monsters In My Head
"Monsters in My Head"
the small gods
inside of us
worry too much
they speak in tongues
that never know the
depth of what is real or not
for tongues
they never think
they just have a taste for blood
trading gossip...
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Categories:
velvet, dark, i am, light, war,
Form:
Narrative
Fall
"FALL"
I wrap
my Autumn world
around you
Calliope turning
raising the
season’s poetry,
I am she
returning
dancing
with Summer’s
dying leaves
Twirling you up into
my warm golden brown
symphony
hear me sing,
whispering notes,
holding keys
towards you
you're approachable
reaching...
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Categories:
velvet, autumn, symbolism, winter,
Form:
Epic
Justice In the Quest For LoveI saw how martyrs longed for love, and so began the play of my flitting heart
A strange girl had I become, with airs of fickle dream,
My heart an embodiment of wonder to all that dared...
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Categories:
velvet, beauty, birth, change, inspiration, life, light, love,
Form:
Narrative
the 3rd floorThis was last Saturday night. We were at a rooftop party in downtown New Haven thrown by ‘DocHouse.’ Doc-House is kind of a frat-house, owned by Dr. Melon, where he and seven doctoral students live....
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Categories:
velvet, humor, school, social, student,
Form:
Free verse
The Emasculation of Man
"The Emasculation of Man"
The world goes by loudly
emasculated man
sees nothing
for what it’s worth
ignorant and
pumelling chests
gorilla armies
neanderthals
small brained
with closed fists
power hungry
greed-fuelled
knowing all
blind to the
supernatural
natural course...
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Categories:
velvet, humanity, i am, pride,
Form:
Free verse