Long Audience Poems
Long Audience Poems. Below are the most popular long Audience by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Audience poems by poem length and keyword.
Faded In Xoxo Oxox Fadin' OutA special dedication to Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love" song in her album "Beyoncé", which came out in 2013.
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I took a cat nap...yah put on your classic, clever-mini cap
drank that sorrow sap, my companion...
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Categories:
audience, deep,
Form:
Lyric
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:
audience, faith,
Form:
I do not know?
Kaos In -Part 5- Final PartHate the feelings of ew's and ugh's...let's pause before we put our paws on this unmanageable cause with silent applause (quiet interest or hushed enthusiasm)
What's the cause of these negative, gross, worthless flawful laws that...
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Categories:
audience, abuse, deep,
Form:
Free verse
Short Stuff: EpigramsEpigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
audience, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
State of the Art IvState of the Art (IV)
These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry.
Hearthside
by Michael R. Burch
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep...” — W. ...
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Categories:
audience, art, muse, poems, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Epigrams VEpigrams
Autumn Conundrum
by Michael R. Burch
It’s not that every leaf must finally fall,
it’s just that we can never catch them all.
Piercing the Shell
by Michael R. Burch
If we strip away all the accouterments of war,
perhaps we'll discover...
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Categories:
audience, giggle, humor, humorous, irony, literature, word play,
Form:
Epigram
Poems About Poems IvPoems about Poems IV
The Toast
by Michael R. Burch
For longings warmed by tepid suns
(brief lusts that animated clay),
for passions wilted at the bud
and skies grown desolate and gray,
for stars that fell from tinseled heights
and mountains bleak...
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Categories:
audience, allegory, allusion, appreciation, art, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Fortunes Re ToldFORTUNES READ the sign displayed
TRINKETS, CHARMS AND SPELLS
The store had not been here yesterday
shades of candles, books and bell
Drapes were hung from side to side
The windows all were dark
Where was this place a day ago?
Just...
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Categories:
audience, surreal,
Form:
Epic
Climates of Ballistic ManagementSenator Fuller,
a permaculture designer
turned architect of exterior landscapes
then public sector architect
of EarthShip cooperative interior landscapes,
is with us today
to tell us about why he supports Sanders,
at this point in time,
although he is making no commitments about...
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Categories:
audience, destiny, earth, health, humor, peace, political, true
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Bone Idol[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...
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Categories:
audience, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Tips For Modern PoetsDear Novice Poet,
Welcome to the wide open wonderful world of poetry! Today more than ever before, a poem can easily be whatever you want it to be. The rules are simple. There...
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Categories:
audience, write,
Form:
Prose
Translation of Eric Mottram's Courbet: Elegy 8 By T WignesanTranslation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan
Blanches oeuvres ouvertes
résident dans les jours
la surface du banc de travail est noire
les géraniums-lierres
les fougères et les adragans
accumulent leurs oeuvres et jours:
La toile noire de Courbet
un...
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Categories:
audience, america, art, creation, philosophy, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
LegendLook up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...
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Categories:
audience, courage,
Form:
Narrative
No Happy EndingBright lights, big city...
bright lights, big city dreams...
please just take me away tonight
Let me rest on your elegance tonight
I have no energy left to spend in reality
so please knock me unconscious
just to be in the...
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Categories:
audience, friend, friendship, hate, heartbreak, irony, jealousy, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Exegesis of Original IntentThe ugly head of the Original Intent issue
co-arises with what were our ForeFather Patriarchal Patriots
thinking and feeling to leave out prohibitions against antiChristian degeneracy,
and to put in permissions for antiChristian degeneracy.
No.
Wait.
That's not right.
We could not...
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Categories:
audience, body, destiny, earth, health, humanity, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
The Dancing: the Last DanceWas it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
audience, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Eric Mottram's 28th Legal: Letter Jan 2, 1966 By T WignesanEric Mottram on the American literary and cultural scene during 1965-66 while he was the recipient of the American Learned Societies’ award for a year. (begun in the last post and to be continued)
January 2,...
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Categories:
audience, america, art, creation, culture, music, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Rush Amid the Rapids PublishedThe greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
audience, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
Child of the KingI wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I believed in Jesus, a man of love,
But scared to death...
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Categories:
audience, blessing, christian, depression, devotion, faith, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or BeastMoby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne....
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Categories:
audience, angst, character, conflict, muse,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Children of Gaza Lyrics: I"The Children of Gaza" Lyrics: I
These lyrics were written by Michael R. Burch and were adapted in places to the music by Michael R. Burch with input from composer Eduard de Boer.
World premiere, April 22,2017,...
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Categories:
audience, child, child abuse, childhood, mother, mother son,
Form:
Lyric
Jean-Louis Barrault As I Lay DyingHeavy storm was sweeping dark Paris streets
Lit with dim lights that dreary November night
With ghostly shadows lurking in the corners
Cold wind dancing with dirty wet leaves fallen
In the water pools in the middle...
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Categories:
audience, allusion, art, death, french, imagery, life, philosophy,
Form:
Ballad
Sick Art
"Sick Art"
I walk the streets
still and quiet
I do not lie
I do not betray
what the heart belies
pickled kidneys
I am a ghost
of my former self
ears lent to hear
the sweet music
of the sounds so fraught
caught up...
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Categories:
audience, dark, horror, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Easter Origins"Worship in spirit and truth"
With Easter approaching, many people Christian and non-Christian are exposed to this celebration and may have questions concerning the various teachings, rites, rituals and traditions that are promulgated by public worship...
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Categories:
audience, bible, christian, easter, god, gospel, jewish,
Form:
Didactic
Once Upon a ReservationBack in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...
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Categories:
audience, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse