Long Waged Poems
Long Waged Poems. Below are the most popular long Waged by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Waged poems by poem length and keyword.
King of Kings??1 Kings 5:3-5 NIV??
[3] “You know that because of the wars waged against my father David from all sides, he could not build a temple for the Name of the Lord his God until the...
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Categories:
waged, faith,
Form:
I do not know?
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
waged, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
911, 20 Years Later20 years ago, ...
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Categories:
waged, america, new york, september, war,
Form:
Verse
The White Tomb Trembles* For J.K. Rowling *
~
now, deliberate your hearing
to bring back the pages...
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Categories:
waged, evil, fantasy, magic,
Form:
Epic
Quest of the Heart: Chapter OneOf Ghosts and Fiends in Twilight
The sun sank low on the darkening horizon
Grey mist hung adrift over the land thickening
A cold, brisk autumn wind held and embraced me
With my horse’s pace and that of...
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Categories:
waged, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Gods For PowerIf God
and gods
and other paternal powers
resource love,
and not hate
And if we believe
that love fades
with encroaching fear
Which can overwhelm
personal
and professional
and economic
and local
through global
therapeutic,
and not traumatic,
peace passion experience
And if god
and great paternal rulers
and warriors
and...
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Categories:
waged, courage, earth, god, health, passion, peace, power,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Moving On Part Two Part ThreeMoving on ???
I have come to wonder – as time passes – why ?,
the lady brings tears to my heart – makes me cry.
This lady who took in hand, in holy of holies, in mouth,
resurrecting...
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Categories:
waged, friendship, prejudice,
Form:
Rhyme
AfghanistanHow interesting. A contest about Afghanistan.
Afghanistan sits landlocked between Pakistan on the East
and Iran on the West with a population of 39 million. It's enemy ...
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Categories:
waged, america, military, political, soldier, war,
Form:
Verse
Memory of BonesThe table is old and worn
nicks and scratches
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving dinner was hosted
the plump turkey as dry as yesterday
many wars...
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Categories:
waged, allegory, analogy, angst, anxiety, art, childhood, christmas,
Form:
Free verse
Demons Do ExistDEMONS DO EXIST . . .
You can't spend all your time stuffing them in your bottom drawer
In time they will all work their way out and when they do, it's war
Thousands of years of...
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Categories:
waged, crazy, humorous, imagination, metaphor, muse, nonsense, scary,
Form:
Epic
All AboardWho suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El." We hurdle head-long above asphalt blanketed streets that are determined...
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Categories:
waged, city, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Prose
Resurrection Machine
In the purple shadows of the black's monoliths, where an ancient echo calls forth, at the blurry forge of "Ralkon Dis",
a salient dragon from mystery's petra cliffs drifts you...
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Categories:
waged, art,
Form:
Rhyme
My Dear Sweet Lost Child Daughter of My Wasted Youth a Confession Part 2I wonder ?, have pondered ?, have analyzed the boxes,
the cages, the walls my little Girl, my young Woman,
finds herself packaged in, trapped in, stuck behind,
believing that they have come into being...
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Categories:
waged, daughter,
Form:
Free verse
True StoryTrue Story
We were there in the beginning with the Father and His son, His Spirit all around us… in a world all of our own.The other angels, spiritual beings, created just like you and...
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Categories:
waged, bible, christian, creation, faith, gospel, history, truth,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Hyperbolic Quasi Autobiographical PrevaricationHyperbolic quasi autobiographical prevarication...
caricature sketch of person best known to yours truly
What began as an honest
to goodness attempt
to craft personal truthful profile
evolved into a fictional poem
manifested into the following.
Despite the onslaught of paparazzi,
I...
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Categories:
waged, adventure, appreciation, best friend, celebration, character, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Michael CollinsIt has often been said that empires come and go
And from the beginning of time that has been so
Empires ruled with terror and an iron fist
Taking brutal action against those, who tried to resist.
On the...
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Categories:
waged, england, ireland, soldier, war,
Form:
Narrative
Coalition of the WillingCoalition Of The Willing
It was a merciless day;
A Day of Infamy.
The Coalition of the Willing: The United States,
Great Britain, Australia, and Poland;
Disrespectful of International Law,
And the United Nations,
Attacked Iraq on March 19, 2003,
Claiming that the...
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Categories:
waged, conflict, history, murder, war,
Form:
Verse
Silence and ShoutsSilence and Shouts
I listen to him breathing. If it’s labored, I ask, “Are you okay?”
And from over the rings of walls of silence he has built around himself,
He implores, “You hear so poorly,...
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Categories:
waged, feelings, god, happiness, health, history, pain, silence,
Form:
Narrative
Solitary Rituals of Mourning the Write Way RightSolitary rituals of mourning the write way, right?
Papa... bless his (your) heart and soul,
impossible mission your second born
sole male heir cingularly communicates,
viz his avocational crafted poem, since
written words, mine metier
write most pained words
with great difficulty,...
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Categories:
waged, 12th grade, absence, death, eulogy, father, memory,
Form:
Elegy
The River of LifeI wish I could immerse myself
in the pages of history, time,
and deep reflection...letting go
of everything I think I know
and give myself another chance
to clarify my perceptions and beliefs
in the river...
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Categories:
waged, bible, books, history, humanity, life, travel, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Stranger Than the Days We NeedWhat is it that makes us human ? It's not something you can program, you can't put it into a micro chip. It's the strength of the human heart; the difference between us and machines....
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Categories:
waged, conflict, confusion, corruption, society,
Form:
Free verse
My Lai Massacre 1968Against communist Vietnam a war was waged
For almost twenty years fierce fighting raged
The French came first then the U. S. arrived
Communism had grown and it had thrived.
Most American soldiers served with distinction
Carrying out...
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Categories:
waged, war,
Form:
Narrative
Arianhod's Descent, Part IHistory of the Elder days, up to the Battle of Rose Dawn
In the Elder Days, when the world was young
Gernot and the Fallen ones attacked the light of Ior.
Aki the father would have it nought,...
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Categories:
waged, adventure, poems, writing,
Form:
Epic
Better Late Than NeverIt was like reading a movie script, a familiar one though
I was playing the hero, with my alter ego playing the villain
They were up against each other, always in a conflict
While the hero was always...
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Categories:
waged, anxiety, appreciation, dark, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Thanks For Your HelpAll her belongings fitted into a suitcase and a small carry-on bag.
After 18 years, my helper was going home for good.
During those years, not a dime ever went missing in the various apartments we’ve called...
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Categories:
waged, appreciation, family, goodbye, loss, memory, old, retirement,
Form:
Prose