Long Restive Poems
Long Restive Poems. Below are the most popular long Restive by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Restive poems by poem length and keyword.
Free Verse IiiSalve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
sometimes we still touch,
laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...
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Categories:
restive, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Apocalyptic Poems IiiThese are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems about the earth, climate change, global warming, extinction events, and mankind's role on an endangered world ...
Polish
by Michael R. Burch
Your fingers end in talons?
the ones you trim to...
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Categories:
restive, earth, earth day, environment, humanity, nature, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Make Love To Me In That Ancient PlaceThe Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh,
trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves
lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra,
saying with thrill, the Jin of your Jihad...
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Categories:
restive, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form:
Epic
Inviting HillsO to tune in to good times of childhood—
To re-live gone-by years, not just to brood,
To lighten dust-laden baggage’s dead tare,
To unburden mind of deadwood afloat,
To fast-forward to dusky days of old,
To turn...
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Categories:
restive, childhood,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishmentDigging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
Quite an undertaking
to break ground
figuratively, and symbolically linkedin
while able bodied and mindedness
readies cemetery plot within Elysian Fields
although honestly, and truthfully
as an organ donor,
yours truly opts for...
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Categories:
restive, addiction, age, angel, atheist, blessing, creation, grave,
Form:
Free verse
Poems about Science 5: EvolutionPOEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 5: EVOLUTION
Fly’s Eyes
by Michael R. Burch
Inhibited, dark agile fly along
paint-peeling sills, up to the bright glass drawn
by radiance compounded thousandfold,—
I do not see the same as you, but hold
antenna to the brilliant...
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Categories:
restive, child, children, earth, life, light, science, sun,
Form:
Rhyme
Anywhere But Here
Written: November 27, 2024, For Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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Whimsical...
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Categories:
restive, analogy, character, identity,
Form:
Free verse
When Our Eyes First Met - a Collaboration With Frederic ParkerWhen our eyes first met, in an evening's glow of twilight
the moon was rising, the world disappeared
I saw only you
we enjoyed a calm gentle merriment
as love's breath crossed the unmeasurable distance
where we found a glistening...
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Categories:
restive, age, appreciation, love, memory, romantic, sensual, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Diana At the Ides of August, Part TwoShe's a Messenger, a standard bearer of a Message of Love. She's Love's unforgettable fruition and flower. With Her trusty hounds bounding along beside Her, She suddenly races ahead, crossing the beach, down...
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Categories:
restive, absence, bereavement, betrayal, courage, encouraging, faith,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sleigh DreamBundled in a horse-drawn sleigh
warm and snug on Thanksgiving Day
the children restless, we went on our way
as the shedding forest began to sway
and the gusts of wind set astray
the vestiges of autumn's display
that...
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Categories:
restive, autumn, holiday, nature, nostalgia, snow, thanksgiving, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
When Our Eyes First Met a Collaboration With Susan AshleyWhen our eyes first met, in an evening's glow of twilight
the moon was rising, the world disappeared
I saw only you
we enjoyed a calm merriment
as love's breath crossed the unmeasurable distance
where we found a glistening glimmer...
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Categories:
restive, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Epitaph of An Abdicator There sat in opulent xanadu, the
demagogue of empirical hedonism,
his granary once fuelled regal reign of epicureanism:
gregarious, restive, much-awaited successor of imperial dominion,
neurotic, obstinate, was the cynosure of...
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Categories:
restive, appreciation, education, eulogy, hero, history, inspiration, inspirational,
Form:
Epitaph
The Trilogy EndsThe brutalized girl breathed her last in faraway Singapore
She met her fate returning home, a couple of weeks ago
To shift the focus of the masses on an issue so emotive
And moved to a hospital in...
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Categories:
restive, angst, death, girl, girl,
Form:
Narrative
Captive Bird - 12 Bars 12 Dreams12 BARS
Twelve brazen bars, one frozen lock!
Confined, sublime, an ancient Roc
endures inside a barren cage,
her catacomb in sundown sage.
Of former days there is no trace
except displays of fallen grace –
Twelve dreams, abiding in her...
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Categories:
restive, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
The Pretenderthe notorious hotel...
monument to the greed of men,
it is a breathing stone-hewn titan -
looming over her, threatening pomposity,
selfishness threaded with egyptian cotton,
the cold stares of people from the upper leagues of life...
yet the young street...
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Categories:
restive, life, placessilver,
Form:
Free verse
Prayer-Propped WishesAssured by the Almighty, I wish to abide always in His authority
Blooming beautifully in His blissfulness’ bounty.
Cared for, I wish I could constantly convey compassion
Delighting the Director Who drives my divine devotion.
Enabled through Christ toward...
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Categories:
restive, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, prayer, spiritual,
Form:
ABC
RestlessRESTLESS
Oh my, the ghost still haunts the rest of my life
I cannot go back reminisce and picture
Where I’ve been into what extent I’ve delved
That after the euphoria I deemed loose
This thing now sometimes controls...
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Categories:
restive, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Bilocation
Written: January 26, 2024
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Rumi Quote ("Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because, for those who love with heart and...
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Categories:
restive, analogy, beauty, character, creation, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Lucifer"Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in heaven."
A thousand, million years had fled
then thousand million more,
yet it was still the morning.
And there stood one, Transcendent,
whom we call God and the...
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Categories:
restive, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
DreamsLast night while I lay sleeping, I succumbed to endless dreams.
Where my imagination was stretched, to limitless extremes.
Where mice and men and all such things, could freely fraternise,
and every God made glory, was set forth...
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Categories:
restive, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Mudlarking The Memory
Sun-soaked
spectral topography
sculpts with lattice
of longing
luminescent,
the veering valley
of my lucent life
undulating briskly
in plains of passion
with the cadence...
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Categories:
restive, analogy, inspirational, memory,
Form:
Free verse
CovenantCovenant
Barren, brown and dust,
The vast horizon line pushes on a meandering sky
Pulling away from desert’s still and lifeless form
Where life itself only dreams above this land devoid
Of earth’s abundant blessing,
Cheated of the ample bounty...
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Categories:
restive, dance, inspirational, life,
Form:
Free verse
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR INSTRUCTING US ABOUT WHAT HE HATESJuly 14 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 6-9
Key Verse – Proverbs 6:16-19 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue,...
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Categories:
restive, bible, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form:
Alliteration
Sedated HopeThe age of premonition and belief in false speculations…
A firm believer of the grace now devoted to inelegance…
All it stated was an untainted fib…
Darkened fiend now restive within…
Falling by the force of an ill-defined revelation…
Swimming...
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Categories:
restive, hope, dream, dream, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Nature's Plant UnmaskedAs wings of butterflies dance upon a vision
So curious about this pretty deadly bunch
Flowers of aesthetically blending colors
Sweet misted scent of a deep rainbow shrouded in
Rows and columns of purple and white fantasy
Peace...
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Categories:
restive, color, faith, flower, light, nature, smile, world,
Form:
Free verse