Long Whitman Poems
Long Whitman Poems. Below are the most popular long Whitman by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Whitman poems by poem length and keyword.
Radiance, For Dylan Thomas
Radiance
by Michael R. Burch
for Dylan Thomas
The poet delves earth’s detritus—hard toil—
for raw-edged nouns, barbed verbs, vowels’ lush bouquet;
each syllable his pen excretes—dense soil,
dark images impacted, rooted clay.
The poet sees the sea but feels its meaning—
the...
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Categories:
whitman, earth, light, love, poems, poetry, poets, words,
Form:
Sonnet
Come Down, For Harold Bloom
Come 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:
whitman, books, culture, discrimination, education, extended metaphor, literature,
Form:
Sonnet
Poems About Dylan Thomas
These are poems about Dylan Thomas, as well as poems "for" and "after" Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was one of my favorite poets from my early teens and has remained so over the years. I...
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Categories:
whitman, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, words, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Myth, After Dylan Thomas
Myth, after Dylan Thomas
by Michael R. Burch
Here the recalcitrant wind
sighs with grievance and remorse
over fields of wayward gorse
and thistle-throttled lanes.
And she is the myth of the scythed wheat
hewn and sighing, complete,
waiting, lain in a low...
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Categories:
whitman, autumn, faith, grief, life, myth, october, september,
Form:
Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37
I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
whitman, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
Artificial Iris
"Artificial Iris"
Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar,
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pages of hardcopy in school
were aptly ignored -
however,
our Overlords were...
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Categories:
whitman, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
PS Atheists Get Your Own Dirt
Part I
Rock n Roll came through the slave trade
The Hippies and Moonies said “We’ve got it made”
“Rock n Roll sounds came from the jungle” [Lennon said]
The blues helped through the struggle
The rhythm and the movements...
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Categories:
whitman, conflict, culture, history, philosophy, society, visionary,
Form:
Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 28
Quietly, the memory of my grandfather manifested itself,
In the colors and shimmers of the Holy Spirit,
I saw his human face,
The familiar lines, the flesh,
The pair of oceanic eyes, slowly blinking
Smiling,
Like a heavenly beam
Splashing...
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Categories:
whitman, allegory, analogy, deep, emotions, humanity, meaningful, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Desperate Message To Kim Jong Un
Pardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...
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Categories:
whitman, abuse, dark, emotions, evil, hate, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 20
It was a bitter morning, the ground hotter upon my flesh
I kneeled at the center of the pit on the twentieth day,
Remembering a tune sung so long ago,
A great song grieving for the incessant wars...
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Categories:
whitman, growth, heart, life, loss, mystery, pain, war,
Form:
Epic
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
From blank screen to logorrhea, I write with confused adumbrations
Methinks hmm, perhaps
I admittedly self plagiarize and quite aware
aforementioned amalgamated, conglomerated,
fabricated, jerry rigged, and organized
eye gripping titled
poem already aired a year plus ago,
though revisiting...
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Categories:
whitman, absence, adventure, business, endurance, fish, grief, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
whitman, dark, light, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
Deep In Newly Disturbed Soil, Lies My True Love
( “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them” – George Eliot.)
Deep in newly disturbed soil, lies my true love
'neath a canopy...
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Categories:
whitman, death, deep, depression, heartbreak, loss, pain, sorrow,
Form:
Elegy
Translation of Eric Mottram's Twentyeighth Legal By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s TWENTYEIGHTH LEGAL (Part One) by T. Wignesan
N.B. If any one is interested in reading the continuation of the extracts of letters that Eric Mottram wrote from America during 1965-66 to...
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Categories:
whitman, america, creation, culture, film, race, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Invisible
"Invisible"
Trapped
within
4 Walls
A ghost
escapes
it's prison
through
unlocked door
beyond
freefall
a bird
now soars
The Ocean
calls the wild
Sargasso in
Me
Rochester’s
Mirage
ecstatic
Bacchae
Maenad
possessed
submerged
Blue-Green
(Ladylabyrinth/2020)
for my daughter,
Georgia
“Come Near Me” / Massive Attack – Ghost Poet
https://youtu.be/KY0TZQTwwbk
“There is...
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Categories:
whitman, imagery, psychological, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea I Write With Confused Adumbrations
From Blank Screen To Logorrhea, I Write With Confused Adumbrations
Methinks hmm, perhaps
aforementioned conglomerated eye gripping titled,
poem already aired
though revisiting said theme
downplayed as thoughts blare
though similar content
invariably communicated,
sans trademark Pi Seine fishtail career
as applies to other...
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Categories:
whitman, adventure, beautiful, celebration, confidence, humorous, husband, innocence,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - the Memory
Light—I was barely even myself, but some light…
Her light—no my own enemy Himself!
—The Lord Eternal!—
How could I let this happen to me? –
And I could feel my hand around her tiny arm,
Anxiously awaiting...
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Categories:
whitman, assonance, conflict, confusion, courage, giving, war, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 4 With a Clive Bush Comment By T Wignesan
Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 4 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry
Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eric Mottram’s...
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Categories:
whitman, england, poetry, poets, political, , memorial,
Form:
Free verse
Rental Rebate Plus Affordable Rent
Rental rebate plus affordable rent...
One benefit living at
Highland Manor Apartments
until decrepit and bent...
constitutes qualifying for reimbursement
direct deposited into checking
as chump change event,
hence one generic grateful gent
feels self satisfied as Clark Kent.
After wing and prayer
granted courtesy...
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Categories:
whitman, america, beautiful, blessing, encouraging, happiness, humorous, march,
Form:
Rhyme
Define Your Moment
......define the moment or the moment will define you....
Quote...
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Categories:
whitman, motivation,
Form:
Free verse
Multiplicity of the Self
“I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman
**************************************************************
...
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Categories:
whitman, inspirational, life, self, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Who's Got Trouble
I’ve never put a candidate’s bumper sticker on my car before—
why not take sides—what are you waiting for?
Death puts a stop to daily low intensity warfare but in the meantime—
...
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Categories:
whitman, america, art, city, dog, science, war, water,
Form:
Verse
Everybody Knows That Nobody Knows
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT NOBODY KNOWS
The Paleolithic Era was a long time ago.
It consisted of a few years in a row.
That's pretty standard as eras go.
I don't know what happened,
but there's one thing I...
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Categories:
whitman, fun, history, humor, parody,
Form:
Rhyme
William Blake Poems
dark matter(s)
by Michael R. Burch
the matter is dark, despairful, alarming:
ur Creator is hardly prince charming!
yes, ur “Great I Am”
created blake’s lamb
but He also created the tyger
and what about trump and rod steiger?
The Echoless Green
by...
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Categories:
whitman, brother, children, creation, dark, day, night, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
America's Hypocrisy Or the School of Resentment
are you free, humanity, by power of love
or in chain by love of power or by lack of it?
a student of The School of Resentment asks…
back in time,
at such dominant spaces
called...
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Categories:
whitman, community, home, native american, natural disasters, power,
Form:
I do not know?