Long Vitae Poems
Long Vitae Poems. Below are the most popular long Vitae by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Vitae poems by poem length and keyword.
Oak
"Oak"
The guardians
stood around and
shook their heads
great thoughts
quivering
from the ground, roots up,
as if to walk
confidently
with great armies
yet hesitation
was witnessed
in their waving gestures
perplexed
and touching
green crowns,
there they...
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Categories:
vitae, dark, journey, light, symbolism,
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:
vitae, muse, mystery, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
vitae, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
The Fallen
“The Fallen”
Remote,
he sees himself
in the reflection of cold close
yet distant shop windows,
his final journey along the
Hard Time Road
walking alone,
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life
a million knives...
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Categories:
vitae, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Lux Vitae Love Stories of the Fey: In the Clouds
Lux Vitae Love Stories of The Fey:
“In the Clouds”
“What are you looking at Mum?”
“They come in the clouds you know”, she said to her daughter
“Every night, the same time, the numbers seem to grow,...
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Categories:
vitae, adventure, fairy, fantasy, journey, mystery, mythology, science
Form:
Free verse
Strange Ways, Here We Come
“Strange Ways, Here We Come”
the devil’s advocate
came waltzing
through my doors
“I had no choice”
the supercilious harbinger said,
“to intervene, to parlay away
something
not
mine
now
you're
doing time
not the criminal recidivist
nor usurping interloper
and their profound lies
every...
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Categories:
vitae, dark, death, grief, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
The Returning
"The Returning"
Inside us all
a strange forest
where light and dark
are fed to us by
curious creatures,
their unexpected gods
in thoughts and deeds
joy and fear
hate and love
belief and disbelief
inwards
our dreams
turn to
The...
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Categories:
vitae, muse, mystery, philosophy,
Form:
Narrative
The Over-Soul
“Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable
may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment
to acknowledge...
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Categories:
vitae, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Cherish Armour
"Cherish Armour"
She
wears
Her armour,
LOVE -
draped like chain mail
shields You
with Her heart
When She is drowning
She will throw You to the sure
safe for Your future
And She will cry of lost children
morbid oblivion,
damnation and...
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Categories:
vitae, daughter, journey, love, mother, mothers day, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
The Great Forgotten Language
"The Great Forgotten Language"
In the forest
Love shows
the way
spreading seeds
strange creatures
come forth
into the clearing
of a known self
some run away
spooked as if
the bare reflection
shows their undressed soul
confronting,
are the peculiar
ghosts risen, speaking
like...
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Categories:
vitae, humanity, love, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Exegesis
"Exegesis"
At 7 he was
thrown to the wolves
Bede marked his territory
hidden secrets
kept in the abbey
he escaped
went to war
where the unwanted trod
First regiment,
Vietnam
he took with him
like a comfort blanket
his Nicene creed and God
and on returning...
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Categories:
vitae, father daughter, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Blue Highway At the Cross Roads
"Blue Highway at the Cross Roads"
When the child
finds the imprints,
the child will place
its feet firmly
in the
Love
marked,
for the child alone
brick walls
along the
Blue Highway
to be smashed
like teeth -
to be
broken,
alone
in...
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Categories:
vitae, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Espousing Irreverent GreedEspousing irreverent greed
Crafted one year ago today
yours truly – hopefully self plagiarism okay
worse case scenario,
I would meet ill fate re: kenway
named after Assassin Creed
Black Flag's protagonist.
"Yo, I totally Kenwayed that guy."
by...
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Categories:
vitae, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, conflict, divorce,
Form:
Rhyme
The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves
"The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves"
In Theta waves
tumbling to
The Land of Dark Dreams
Trees will capture and save
the falling Princess and Queen
An Bee Cailleach
invisibilia simulacra viro
An Bee Cailleach scries heroes
incarnate falling in
The...
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Categories:
vitae, dark, daughter, fantasy, journey, light, love, mother,
Form:
Free verse
The Boadicea Blood Cup
"The Boadicea Blood Cup"
Didst thou think? Didst thou?
Didst thou think, at all?
That thou would remain untouched, unchecked, unscathed
Safely locked up away from mine wrath and thee, thy self-made grave?
Imprisoned in your Dark Lost Woods of...
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Categories:
vitae, daughter, home, lost love, love, magic, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Espousing Irreverent GreedEspousing irreverent greed
Passive stance, but aye agreed
and did promise to pledge troth
faster than greased lightning airspeed
once the missus temporarily
ceased menarche regarding monthly bleed
became in family way with child
thee eldest, whom one day may breed,
when permanently...
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Categories:
vitae, adventure, age, animal, beautiful, birth, child, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
Shrouded
"Shrouded"
found in the humanity
not in the divinity
many pilates
wash their hands
of this
long enough
for the clouds
to descend
then rise
fly away
criminal as charged
electric in the body
the mind already risen
the observer now crucified
takes notes
passionately...
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Categories:
vitae, dark, light, love, muse, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Butterflies
“Butterflies”
Sun shines its burning
star light into mirrors
reflecting upwards
captured and carried
the whispering watchers
observe poetic candour
in the fluttering wings
love molecules now
set in motion
are felt not seen
to heartbeats dancing
freeing...
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Categories:
vitae, freedom, humanity, love, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
My Beautiful Dreamer
"My Beautiful Dreamer"
My Beautiful Dreamer
“thinks she goes unseen”, Her.
she’s a million miles away
lost in the Lilacs and
Chantilly Lace of
her beautiful dream, her.
My Beautiful Dreamer
dreaming of a better home
sunrays and moonbeams
bigger yard, smaller city
a flashy...
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Categories:
vitae, child, daughter, freedom, home, love, mother, mother
Form:
Free verse
Lux Vitae
"LUX VITAE"
(A Christmas Poem for Georgia)
Golden Light guide her Home
Surround her with your Love
Give her Courage to always find Faith
in you Sacred One
Place your hand in hers
as she walks her lonely twisting foggy...
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Categories:
vitae, absence, daughter, god, love, mother, my child,
Form:
Free verse
How To Become 1
“How to Become 1”
the great resignation
calls dreams forth
when God knows
who we truly are
what we are
all worth
out in the open
without our lies
and finery
when titles
no longer
justify existence
no longer matter
the purpose of...
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Categories:
vitae, i am, light, love,
Form:
Free verse
Azoth
Written: March 05, 2024 For Edward Ebeh Contest
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Oh, Hermes, during historical eras of reign,
Greek...
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Categories:
vitae, history, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Snakes and LaddersPlease try and read with the rhythm, flow and spacing I created by use of the lower casing in place of full-stops and commas/breaths. Allow the words to dance...
Snakes and Ladders
I'm not perfect
Never can Be
in...
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Categories:
vitae, earth, emotions, growth, identity, light, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
The News SellerCallum is an old-fashioned man on the verge of becoming history’s memory
Ancient even in that he holds only one job but that is for privation of another
Sort of a whiz kid at what he...
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Categories:
vitae, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Christmas Wolves
"Christmas Wolves"
Winged ones
unseen
feathers of pure light
fold their warmth around you
as you walk
in solitary silence
throughout the cold
Christmas Dark Night
Warriors alone
wanting to take flight
always stay by your side
reciting good cheer
They will never leave...
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Categories:
vitae, angel, christmas, love,
Form:
Free verse