Long Yore Poems
Long Yore Poems. Below are the most popular long Yore by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Yore poems by poem length and keyword.
Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
yore, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Juvenilia: Early Poems VJuvenilia: Early Poems V
Poetry
by Michael R. Burch
Poetry, I found you
where at last they chained and bound you;
with devices all around you
to torture and confound you,
I found you—shivering, bare.
They had shorn your raven hair
and taken both...
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Categories:
yore, poems, poets, teen, teenage, write, writing, youth,
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:
yore, beauty, blessing, love, nature, peace, prayer, time,
Form:
Free verse
The Making of a PoetThe Making of a Poet
by Michael R. Burch
While I don’t consider “Poetry” to be my best poem—I wrote the first version in my teens—it’s a poem that holds special meaning for me; I call it...
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Categories:
yore, art, love, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Verse
The State of the ArtThe State of the Art (I)
by Michael R. Burch
Has rhyme lost all its reason
and rhythm, renascence?
Are sonnets out of season
and poems but poor pretense?
Are poets lacking fire,
their words too trite and forced?
What happened to desire?
Has...
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Categories:
yore, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, romantic, writing,
Form:
Verse
The Moon As a Metaphor For Your MouthThe Moon as a Metaphor for Your Mouth
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a...
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Categories:
yore, candy, love, metaphor, moon, romantic love, sweet,
Form:
Sonnet
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
yore, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
yore, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Likeness Ssenekil: Part 1*Image of Many Meanings by KWC.
Likeness ssenekiL: Part 1
(HOMONYMS: Homophones & Homographs)
He'll heal his heel.
They sow so they sew.
His aide aid with an ade.
You saw a ewe eat a yew.
I ate on the ait eight...
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Categories:
yore, word play,
Form:
I do not know?
Dante's Divina Commedia Translation Canto ViiiI tell, to follow, that long trait before
We reached the back foot of the tower tall,
Our eyes went up to the top core
For two little flames we saw install,
And another responding from so far
That...
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Categories:
yore, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Spring Festival
Symbols cry in dry ice theater -
the expanse of aesthetic visa-
drawn-
from the romance of the silvery eye -
as it golden advances the lid of covenance
in dynamic enzyme.
Open faced type interpreted-
interpreter-embossed embol-
in...
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Categories:
yore, beautiful, god, love,
Form:
Epic
War Is a War CrimeOnce wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones.
The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...
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Categories:
yore, war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Mine psyche riddled with dybbukMine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
yore, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety, boy, fate, grave,
Form:
Rhyme
The True Knight -POTDPOTD 9th April 2018
Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even in modern times.
She’s a queen who sees her lover...
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Categories:
yore, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
A Whistling Girl and a Crowing HenA Whistling Girl and a Crowing Hen
By Elton Camp
“We keep thet big flock o’ chickens fer eggs and meat,” Milas explained to his niece Elvira visiting from the city. “We git...
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Categories:
yore, humorous,
Form:
Prose
Stricken With Anguished NauseaStricken with anguished nausea
Written three years ago tomorrow,
yet superimposed (likened to
emotional palimpsest) upon
mental state of yore
recent post traumatic stress
triggered courtesy war
torn legally tendered greenbacks,
where enemy bonded, heisted, and netted
mine...
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Categories:
yore, abuse, age, analogy, angst, anniversary, anxiety, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With DybbukMine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...
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Categories:
yore, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Rhyme
RewindRewind
By Julia Shaw
At seventy-two my life has been so very fine,
That I'd like to push a button and just rewind.
I'd go back to my wedding day so exciting
And marry again the man I found so...
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Categories:
yore, appreciation, child, daughter, life, nostalgia, time, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
Self Help Addict Needles Unsuspecting ReaderSelf help addict needles unsuspecting reader
Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow
scouting about for carrion
scavenging for dead animals
and rooting about...
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Categories:
yore, 12th grade, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety, april,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am Me, Set Me FreeI am given to you by Creator Himself
My Limbs long to grow straight and tall
Bathed in sunlight from above, paying homage
Fulfilling my God given task
From the dawn of creation, in the Holy Books I’m told
A...
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Categories:
yore, cancer, creation, environment, health, inspirational, nature, planet,
Form:
Ode
As a Kid and BeyondAS A KID AND BEYOND
did I ever wonder?
what my upbringing brought for me;
and did it disappoint
or just bring feelings to resurface,
but never sensitivities
of deep down and personal,
and did I really care
of what there was...
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Categories:
yore, childhood, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes Writers - XxxviiiUnquotable quotes: Writers – XXXVIII
for Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoieski
who let not even hope sustain them and who used their...
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Categories:
yore, creation, england, imagination, inspiration, judgement, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Translation of Mat Pokora's Je Suis Tombe By T WignesanTranslation of Mathieu POKORA’s « Je suis tombé, tombé, tombé » by T Wignesan
(NOTE : I just thought I’d translate the lyrics (see the French original herebelow) of this lilting catchy tune not just because...
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Categories:
yore, french, happiness, love, love hurts, romantic love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hay Un Dia Feliz By Nicanor Parra, Translated By T Wignesan
Hay un dia feliz by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan
To come by a happy day
(In this poem, Parra maintains lines of...
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Categories:
yore, childhood, family, father, feelings, music, nostalgia, philosophy,
Form:
Quatrain
Hands Down Unto the FloorOpening the Drawer
Letting out my there's-my-phone Roar
Destined to live life to the fullest
Relevant determination of the writer flows in my good blood
Envy not, competition - so be it
Amphibious animals corner me as if I'm...
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Categories:
yore, crazy, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, how
Form:
Free verse