Long Vera Poems
Long Vera Poems. Below are the most popular long Vera by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Vera poems by poem length and keyword.
Currents
Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm that wells within?
How can the ocean not be blue,
not buck with the clapboard slap of tide,
the clockwork shock of wave on rock,
the...
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Categories:
vera, assonance, extended metaphor, language, metaphor, music, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Vacuum
Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch
Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...
leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are unable to know
that once intrigued us so.
Come then, let us...
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Categories:
vera, education, extended metaphor, farewell, first love, graduation,
Form:
Free verse
Love Poems Iii
LOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
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Categories:
vera, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Self Reflections
SELF REFLECTIONS
These are poems about mirrors, images, self-image, reflections, impressions and self-reflection.
Self Reflection
by Michael R. Burch
for anyone struggling with self-image
She has a comely form
and a smile that brightens her dorm ...
but she's grossly...
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Categories:
vera, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Instruction
Instruction
by Michael R. Burch
Toss this poem aside
to the filigreed and the wild tide
of sunset.
Strike my name,
and still it is all the same.
The onset
of night is in the despairing skies;
each hut shuts its bright bewildered eyes.
The...
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Categories:
vera, extended metaphor, fantasy, happiness, hope, hyperbole, i
Form:
Pastoral
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet Ii
My most popular poems on the Internet (II)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
vera, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
vera, baby, birth, children, extended metaphor, feelings, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
The Tender Weight of Her Sighs
by Michael R. Burch
The tender weight of her sighs
lies heavily upon my heart;
apart from her, full of doubt,
without her presence to revolve around,
found wanting direction or course,
cursed with the thought...
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Categories:
vera, creation, depression, divorce, farewell, goodbye, sorrow, sorry,
Form:
Sonnet
For All That I Remembered
For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
vera, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Things That Break I
Poems about Things that Break I
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
vera, break up, depression, goodbye, leaving, loneliness, lonely,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems About Things That Break Iii
Poems about Things that Break III
These are poems about things that break and/or shatter: a bubble, glass, a mirror, a twig or tree limb, a thunderstorm, cities and towers in times of war, old...
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Categories:
vera, break up, farewell, pain, relationship, society, solitude,
Form:
Rhyme
Her Destroyed Defenses
He had tore down all of her defenses in a matter of minutes, he was the first man who even got that close to her. She never felt vulnerable before in her life, depent on...
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Categories:
vera, depression, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse
Row Houses
Newfoundlanders can row, you should see some of'em go,
when they puts a punt on a pond.
But I don't like this mess, all this Race foolishness,
I'd never seen so much goings on.
If you wants to...
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Categories:
vera, courage, funny, hero, uplifting,
Form:
Ballad
You Must Think I'M Dumb
You must be laughing your head off at me thinking I'm so stupid that I don't know what is really going on, sorry to bust your little bubble but I know what is exactly going...
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Categories:
vera, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
What Happened To Him
He once had begged her never to leave him, he once stated that her couldn't and wouldn't live without her. He twice declared that he had chosen to be with her, because he loved her...
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Categories:
vera, depression, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
What Happened To Him
He once had begged her never to leave him, he once stated that her couldn't and wouldn't live without her. He twice declared that he had chosen to be with her, because he loved her...
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Categories:
vera, depression, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
Se La Mia Tempesta
Non ci sono labbre piu' dolci
che hanno un sapore divino,
che sciolgono il cuore piu' freddo
e piu' triste che ho cercato di conquistare
con frasi ingannevoli che non avevamo effetto;
oh, avrei voluto tanto amarla e adorarla
piu' di...
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Categories:
vera, absence, anxiety, conflict, fear, loneliness, pain, storm,
Form:
Lyric
Veras First Poem
Hi everybody, my name is Vera as some of you already know, and I am the wife of Peter Duggan. I came on this site to cheer Peter on, and also to read some poetry...
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Categories:
vera, anger, angst, change, war, drug,
Form:
Narrative
a letter
I got a text from one of my professors yesterday saying, ‘Please stop by my office at 6 pm tomorrow.’ It didn’t say why. This was the first day after November recess, had I missed...
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Categories:
vera, appreciation, humor, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
She Is Stronger Than He Knows
He plays his little tricks behind her back thinking that she has no clue as to his plan, so he sits back and continues to play his little tricks. He tells her that he loves...
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Categories:
vera, anger, betrayal, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Yuliya's Father's Cottage Part 2
We enter through the glassed-in porch
And I feel even more at ease,
Remembering that as a child
My own room once had been a porch
But there are even more windows here
With glass on all three sides.
Old...
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Categories:
vera, love,
Form:
Blank verse
From Queen To the Maid
In the blink of an eye I went from being called the wife to now being called ing maid or slave, it really hurts and cuts me all the way down to my soul. I...
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Categories:
vera, anger,
Form:
Free verse
The Joys of Getting Older
The Joys of Getting Older.
We may all be getting on a bit
But lets not forget for some more fortunate
The joy of it
You don’t have to bounce up and down in bed no more
And when...
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Categories:
vera, age,
Form:
Verse
One Year Ago
Well, it has been one year since I joined Poetry Soup.
I smile now, because I have met this wonderfully diverse group.
August 7th, 2013 was a day that would change my life.
I finally found the place...
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Categories:
vera, anniversary, appreciation, friendship, inspiration, poetry, poets, thank
Form:
Couplet
Winter Lillies
Your eyes are aglow
Leading through them
vines
Mysterious thoughts
Wondrous skies
What are you thinking?
I want to know
Rose petal cheek
Drop of dew falls from your eye
What memories pain you so?
I wish to unlock your troubled past
I'll walk through...
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Categories:
vera, depression, inspirational, love, death, house, death, house,
Form:
Lyric