Long Warms Poems
Long Warms Poems. Below are the most popular long Warms by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Warms poems by poem length and keyword.
The Breeze at Ease - with hardly any difficultiezDriven insane by sorrow, there’s no tomorrow to cure it…
Honestly, I’m in vain and so guilty…feeling way less than legit…
I’m holding you close in my optimism and its memories along with it
Torn apart by negative...
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Categories:
warms, angst, beautiful, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, how
Form:
Free verse
Zen Death HaikuZen Death Haiku
Brittle cicada shell,
little did I know
you were my life!
—Shuho, translation by Michael R. Burch
Returning
as it came,
this naked worm.
—Shidoken, translation by Michael R. Burch
As dew glistens
on a lotus leaf,
so too I soon must vanish.
—Shinsui,...
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Categories:
warms, age, autumn, bereavement, death, death of a
Form:
Haiku
WonderlandWonderland
by Michael R. Burch
We stood, kids of the Lamb, to put to test
the beatific anthems of the blessed,
the sentence of the martyr, and the pen’s
sincere religion. Magnified, the lens
shot back absurd reflections of each...
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Categories:
warms, allegory, allusion, analogy, crazy, fantasy, imagination, magic,
Form:
Sonnet
Self ReflectionsSELF 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:
warms, identity, image, imagery, metaphor, mirror, self, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
Peace PrayerThese are peace poems, prayer poems, hymns and lullabies I have written for family, friends and the world over the years ...
Peace Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
for Jim Dunlap
Be calm.
Be still.
Be silent, content.
Be one with the...
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Categories:
warms, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
Native American TranslationsNative American Translations
Cherokee Travelers' Blessing I
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I will extract the thorns from your feet.
For yet a little while, we will walk life's sunlit paths together.
I will love you like my own...
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Categories:
warms, america, earth, native american, nature, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Various Heresies 4Various Heresies 4
I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch
I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.
But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...
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Categories:
warms, america, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, usa,
Form:
Verse
Come Down, For Harold BloomCome Down
by Michael R. Burch
for Harold Bloom
Come down, O, come down
from your high mountain tower.
How coldly the wind blows,
how late this chill hour ...
and I cannot wait
for a meteor shower
to show you the time
must be...
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Categories:
warms, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
What Good Are Our TearsWhat Good Are Our Tears?
by Michael R. Burch
What good are our tears?
They will not spare the dying their anguish.
What good is our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence...
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Categories:
warms, child, child abuse, children, death, poverty, sick,
Form:
Free verse
A Snow Queen TalePart 1: FORE SIBERIAN FATE
silk wings wet -
angel on the lake.
starlight glitter
separates from
the golden wheat.
her docile hair,
prophecy of ice.
winter pink,
pinched cheeks.
ice skate scrapes -
flecks of flakes.
the snow queen
before her relentless
reign, a pretty thing.
her smile warms
the...
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Categories:
warms, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Reveren' Carlton Whitney - Both Audio and TextReveren’ Carlton Whitney was the pastor of our church, and someone I looked up to as a child.
Six foot six, with piercing eyes, a booming voice, and yet…his disposition, thankfully - was mild.
The very...
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Categories:
warms, character, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July MorningThe Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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Categories:
warms, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
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:
warms, autumn, symbolism, winter,
Form:
Epic
Having Enough-Remembering ThanksgivingI awoke to the familiar sound of dishes rattling in Mother’s kitchen and to the thick scent of coffee wafting through the air. I glanced out my bedroom window; the neighborhood was lit by the...
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Categories:
warms, thanksgiving, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Free verse
Nectar's NexusPondering the reflections on this windless day ...
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Categories:
warms, butterfly, destiny, life, love, science, time, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
The Stranger*Image of Thunder & Lightning by Pixabay.
The Stranger
My life warps by its beasts of woes
depression dogs my day
at night, stress drains my restless soul
the wrongs have no delay
Myself am I, forsook decreed
hope laid by things...
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Categories:
warms, allegory, encouraging, faith, meaningful, missing, mother son,
Form:
Rhyme
Rough Roads To RoamThe flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned)
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves through the night,
when the lightning...
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Categories:
warms, culture, earth, humanity, planet, world,
Form:
Rhyme
My Son's Poems 1 By Robert RoperMine own son
God, did bless me
sunshine that's mind
mine own heart's petals bloom
joy i did shed while i did see thee
in mine arms wast w'rthwhile
lullabies sung as thee didst lie in thy crib
meaningful mem'ries...
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Categories:
warms, love,
Form:
Free verse
Down a Piece and ThereThe country, people, and the village,
All equal, as if, for the first time,
All of that gave a fresher image,
Nay, 'tis but a relative vantage.
Save fresh road, to its left bears a sign.
"A few more...
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Categories:
warms, allegory, beach, childhood, grandfather, nostalgia, remember, travel,
Form:
Narrative
Twins of the Same Mind
In this life of what's to be,
we define life as what we see.
The thoughts of love and life we see,
are the driving force of what we believe.
Of the twins alive in me,
one is blind and...
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Categories:
warms, conflict, destiny, fate, solitude, together,
Form:
Free verse
The Beauty of the SeasonsSummer magic, Winter delight, Spring fresh, and beautiful Fall.
The diverseness of the assorted seasons tends to delight us.
Each has its own ambiance and nuances, after all.
Some years they arrive with less fuss and muss.
Summer is...
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Categories:
warms, seasons,
Form:
Chant Royal
A Flirtation With Love - Parts 1, 2, and 3 FinisA Flirtation With Love (Parts 1, 2, & 3 finis)
#1 Sue's Legacy (Has A Home In My Heart)
Sure, each touch that enjoins us to life has Love's sparks,
one less photon (warms retina), dies but informs
that...
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Categories:
warms, love,
Form:
Rhyme
I Could Never Be the RainMy life started with rain,
the steady stream of drops,
hitting the trees gently
and ending its descent to our world
on the wet pavement.
I am on the sidewalk,
sheltered by a makeshift roof and
a border of trees.
The...
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Categories:
warms, body, loneliness, longing, passion, rain, symbolism, voice,
Form:
Free verse
I Practice the Art of SeductionDay in, day out… I’m here
softly walking down
the corridors of your mind
a seductress in search of the room
where you hide your heart
The train of my lace gown trails behind me
my bare feet hardly making...
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Categories:
warms, sensual,
Form:
Epic
The Shelter - 2nd Half In Text - Plus Full Audio VersionNote: this is the 2nd HALF of this piece, a little too long to post as one poem, sorry. If you enjoy story-poems, it's definitely worth the read, believe me. (Or the "listen".)
“We learned of...
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Categories:
warms, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative