Long Versed Poems
Long Versed Poems. Below are the most popular long Versed by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Versed poems by poem length and keyword.
Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or BeastMoby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne....
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Categories:
versed, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
'continental Drift' - the Metaphor'Continental Drift' - The Metaphor
In the seventies (1), few people dreamed ‘it’ was true,
guessed by scientists first when rough coastlines compared (2)
matched like parts of a puzzle (a jigsaw), found place
that joined ‘drop-offs’ waves hid...
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Categories:
versed, faith, science,
Form:
Rhyme
The Giant of LisbellawStood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
versed, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Love Has a Southern FlavorLove has a Southern flavor: honeydew,
ripe cantaloupe, the honeysuckle’s spout
we tilt to basking faces to breathe out
the ordinary, and inhale perfume ...
Love’s Dixieland-rambunctious: tangled vines,
wild clematis, the gold-brocaded leaves
that will not keep their order in...
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Categories:
versed, desire, longing, love, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Sonnet
K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With CommentaryK373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...
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Categories:
versed, appreciation, bible, christian, fate, philosophy, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
Enduring Spinning: Agriculture, Culture and WarYou can feel it spinning
...
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Categories:
versed, culture, environment, farm, future, history, peace, water,
Form:
Verse
Me and Me FirstThat soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick,
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First"
(To mesmerise people He needed...
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Categories:
versed, political, society, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Dr Fuller's Unitarian CommunityLet's start with one shared understanding:
life is a more dynamically relational synonym for "nature".
So when we ask,
What is the purpose of life?
we are also asking,
What is nature's purpose?
which sounds similar to asking if evolution is...
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Categories:
versed, anger, death, destiny, fear, life, nature, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Discard Flat Packs Have FaithDiscard Flat Packs Have Faith
There is a God of the Universe parallel that is and I call
her freedom ‘Come into my space’ she seems to contradict
‘do not be afraid’ to fall off that...
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Categories:
versed, god, universe,
Form:
Personification
RoadMy acquaintance with poetry in general and the simplistic literary brilliance of Robert Frost in particular, came at a relatively early age. My mother would ambivalently imply that I was too young to remember, however...
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Categories:
versed, age, perspective, , cute,
Form:
Bio
Addiction To Suffering LoveSo, she said,
much to everyone's BusinessAsUsual
StraightWhiteMale
surprise,
Sew,
I run into your aversion
to unpatriarchal Principles of Reversion
whenever I deeply listen
to your dark passions first,
then redial,
notice,
[occasionally speak]
as if I trust what I can win/win hear
in PreVersed
unrehearsed response
To liberal GoldenRule...
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Categories:
versed, analogy, health, integrity, light, peace, power, social,
Form:
Political Verse
Double SetupDouble Set Up
The first lump was the scariest in 1983.
I had found it in the shower.
Two other major surgeries I've already had that very year.
I was thirty three.
A mammogram back then...
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Categories:
versed, cancer, health, woman,
Form:
Free verse
No Brave New World
In the meta-versed binaural wish song beats,
skid row streets of the bottomless pits of Metropolis/ Thebes,
you are quardoned off and printed in a likeness
wronged-vaped, winged
to the wilderness by their covens,...
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Categories:
versed, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Bicameral CovenantsMay supreme Force
become You.
How is whiteness
like straightness?
she asked
And how is maleness
like left-brain dominance?
he responded.
It seems,
to usually curious
and always ancient
right with left dipolar ecofeminist Us,
Contracts are secular agreements
designed to improve mutual odds
of losing less value
as...
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Categories:
versed, bullying, community, gender, health, integrity, racism, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
The Ringing Sea Was privileged to have sedentary on the seashore in seraphic poetic submersion;
the ringing sounds from the distant horizon made me entirely lost in speculation;
when the sounds of waves from far nimbly...
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Categories:
versed, appreciation, beach, blue, character, dedication, deep, devotion,
Form:
Personification
The Making of a Faerie QueenThe tender ceremony with full honors welcoming baby light faeries was tastefully
And artistically played out on midsummers eve, an ethereal night, it would seem.
Her parents, and grands were dressed in full colonial faerie attire. They...
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Categories:
versed, fairy, imagination, magic, miracle, myth, paradise, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Work Hat Or Flirt Hat - Satire- - - An observation of true events - - -
- - (insatiable person's search) - -
Aiming to embellish my identity
Rural persona branches further
Tight city existence not meant for...
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Categories:
versed, adventure, change, funny, humor, humorous, satire, silly,
Form:
Light Verse
Excerpts from GilgameshHe Lived: Excerpts from “Gilgamesh”
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I.
He who visited hell, his country’s foundation,
Was well-versed in mysteries’ unseemly dark places.
He deeply explored many underworld realms
Where he learned of the Deluge and why Death...
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Categories:
versed, death, death of a friend, depression, god,
Form:
Rhyme
The Gun-Hand's Revenge, Part IiII.
In the week that followed that cold, hard scene,
Reno settled in and got down to work,
he did tie up loose ends for the estate,
but mostly in the saloons did lurk.
Listening hard for any rumor,
even if...
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Categories:
versed, adventure, history, hurt, judgement, loss, murder, violence,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
The Gist of PredestinationPredestination is a fundamentalist Christian doctrine which says that god helps, or helped, you think when deciding whether or not to believe in him through his son Jesus. Basically, the statement made by believers is...
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Categories:
versed, angst, appreciation, character, friendship, god, meaningful, mentor,
Form:
Haibun
All Have Been GoneBased on the famous linguist, poet Humayun Azad Sir's poem "SAB KICHU NOSHTODER ODHIKARE JABE". However, it is not an exact English translation from Bengali. Edited in different places with tense. Apologies for any mistake...
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Categories:
versed, life, world,
Form:
Free verse
Yacht Club Dreams- Part IShe couldn’t believe he was real
But there he was…
Chatting away with someone
Who was from his realm
Modern day aristocracy
The clothes, the very air around them
Screamed of wealth
Power
She squirmed in her seat
Her discomfort mounting
Feeling out of place
But...
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Categories:
versed, dream, feelings, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Learning when how to close seat thenLearning when/how to close seat then...
flush... the toilet with good frisson!
Bull leave me you, though how bison
teen and juvenile
from a sixty four year old
married male no less!
(alternately titled long windedly
using lower case letters:
no matter...
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Categories:
versed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, age,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poem For MichaelMyself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision
to respond to you
our multi-versed
mathematical magician
Because even I know
all things aren’t equal
I don’t know...
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Categories:
versed, abuse, angst, discrimination, identity, language, leadership, voice,
Form:
Rhyme
Learning When How To Close Seat ThenLearning when/how to close seat then...
flush... the toilet with good frisson!
(alternately titled long windedly
using lower case letters:
no matter tidily bowled over based
upon real events, perhaps subject devoid
of literary merit and/or taste
no embarrassment, cuz
I got nothing...
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Categories:
versed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form:
Dramatic Verse