Long Poems About Respect
#respect
Long poems about respect. 300 words or more, most recently published poems first.
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
17th Apr 2024 10:01pm
17th Apr 2024 10:01pm
Stop feeding off the negative
Once a week I do a complete shave of my face
I look forward to the warm water, shaving cream and Gillette Razor taking every whisker completely off
As I looked at my face today, the only hair that was left was above my lip
I don’t call this a mustache because I’m not trying to grow one of those
As I stared at myself and looked at the hair above my lip
I said to myself,
what if I donned a toothbrush mustache?
For those of you that don’t know what a toothbrush mustache is,
look at the visual I attached to this story
Not a real attractive...
I look forward to the warm water, shaving cream and Gillette Razor taking every whisker completely off
As I looked at my face today, the only hair that was left was above my lip
I don’t call this a mustache because I’m not trying to grow one of those
As I stared at myself and looked at the hair above my lip
I said to myself,
what if I donned a toothbrush mustache?
For those of you that don’t know what a toothbrush mustache is,
look at the visual I attached to this story
Not a real attractive...
#hate
#kindness
#motivational
#respect
#tolerance
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10 Comments
Ahavati
Poem Published
11th Apr 2024 2:33pm
11th Apr 2024 2:33pm
Diagnosis
For Elisha
I.
I am sure you felt its shadow
locomotive smoke growing thicker
that plumule bomb
of hazardous waste
pulverizing the landscape
of your lungs
There are so many cliches
for a time like this. . .
‘Take care of you’
‘It will be alright’
‘I’m so sorry’
‘I’m here if you need me’
'What can I do'
But the truth is
it hurts to concentrate
on a war game
of chemotherapy
and radiation roulette
II.
...
I.
I am sure you felt its shadow
locomotive smoke growing thicker
that plumule bomb
of hazardous waste
pulverizing the landscape
of your lungs
There are so many cliches
for a time like this. . .
‘Take care of you’
‘It will be alright’
‘I’m so sorry’
‘I’m here if you need me’
'What can I do'
But the truth is
it hurts to concentrate
on a war game
of chemotherapy
and radiation roulette
II.
...
#support
#admiration
#respect
123 reads
Mrd
Poem Published
5th Apr 2024 9:52pm
5th Apr 2024 9:52pm
Kaddish for Allen Ginsberg's 27th DeathDay
5/30
Twenty-seven years now, Allen,
since I last saw you in Altus, Arkansas,
waltzing with Garcia Lorca down the aisles
amongst the watermelons
of the Circle M convenience store,
watching you glance slyly at
old Walt Whitman ogling
the check-out boy
at the counter,
apple-cheeked and angel-haired
how did you know he was
Caravaggio's Cecco,
reborn just to grin
winsomely at you
as the Bradford Pears began ...
Twenty-seven years now, Allen,
since I last saw you in Altus, Arkansas,
waltzing with Garcia Lorca down the aisles
amongst the watermelons
of the Circle M convenience store,
watching you glance slyly at
old Walt Whitman ogling
the check-out boy
at the counter,
apple-cheeked and angel-haired
how did you know he was
Caravaggio's Cecco,
reborn just to grin
winsomely at you
as the Bradford Pears began ...
#love
#gratitude
#admiration
#respect
#NaPoWriMo2024
90 reads
5 Comments
Maple666
Poem Published
30th Mar 2024 3:46pm
30th Mar 2024 3:46pm
Slow Burn .
Slow hands slow walks slow smiles and slow considered words spoken with thoughtfulness. How slow time works. How you see everything it's not just a flash in the pan. How you can see the stars hung as a serenade of heaven's backdrop to be a supporting act to a chorus of stars and the black hole of mediocrity just the same and take it not being swept away to much by either. How you don't get too carried away in your own dreams and all your sacrifices and not face the reality of a world which is made of more than you and I want . It’s you and I a two who learns the formula of one plus one...
#happiness
#love
#kindness
#gratitude
#respect
122 reads
6 Comments
poeticdelight
Poem Published
29th Mar 2024 1:16am
29th Mar 2024 1:16am
A while For The Wise
It is wise to dive headlong into the wild, close the blind eyes and open the clear mind,
it's wise to rise from the cluttered mind, infested with recycled clichés
and mindset and outworn rites..
Rise and stretch the feet that are turned frozen inside a cold seat, a mechanical heat,
won't ever warm the cold heart, sun is your hearth, lounge in the open airs
and gather as much as you can, while time is wide and the plains get greener and flat,
decked with poppies and daffodils and daisies, and so many fragrant seedlings.,
where little...
it's wise to rise from the cluttered mind, infested with recycled clichés
and mindset and outworn rites..
Rise and stretch the feet that are turned frozen inside a cold seat, a mechanical heat,
won't ever warm the cold heart, sun is your hearth, lounge in the open airs
and gather as much as you can, while time is wide and the plains get greener and flat,
decked with poppies and daffodils and daisies, and so many fragrant seedlings.,
where little...
#kindness
#courage
#inspirational
#respect
#emotions
107 reads
5 Comments
DetectiveOGasm
Poem Published
10th Mar 2024 8:16pm
10th Mar 2024 8:16pm
She/Her
From my first breath,
I was guided by women
My introduction to this world
in the arms of a mother,
followed by nurses
scrambling about
to quiet my confusion
The awareness of fear
a baby's cry
only to be calmed
by the feminine instinct
That respect,
starts with a mother
and branches out
to include the daughters
and sisters of Eve
if one is fortunate
to be nurtured
by the loving, maternal variety
On record came Blondie
On cassette, Joan Jett
and I was again mystified...
I was guided by women
My introduction to this world
in the arms of a mother,
followed by nurses
scrambling about
to quiet my confusion
The awareness of fear
a baby's cry
only to be calmed
by the feminine instinct
That respect,
starts with a mother
and branches out
to include the daughters
and sisters of Eve
if one is fortunate
to be nurtured
by the loving, maternal variety
On record came Blondie
On cassette, Joan Jett
and I was again mystified...
#women
#admiration
#respect
112 reads
2 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
6th Mar 2024 2:02pm
6th Mar 2024 2:02pm
A Beautiful Story For Ugly Children
One day a dog bit the index finger of his master
the dog ran off with a bloody finger,
before the master could catch him
the dog came to a river and went onto a wooden dock
the dog looked down into the water
he saw another dog with a bloody finger and a shadow of a man behind him
the dog had no idea what he was seeing
The master grabbed the dog by the collar,
wrestled with the dog for several minutes
the dog dropped the finger out of his mouth
the master picked up his mangled, chewed up index finger,
and went back home ...
the dog ran off with a bloody finger,
before the master could catch him
the dog came to a river and went onto a wooden dock
the dog looked down into the water
he saw another dog with a bloody finger and a shadow of a man behind him
the dog had no idea what he was seeing
The master grabbed the dog by the collar,
wrestled with the dog for several minutes
the dog dropped the finger out of his mouth
the master picked up his mangled, chewed up index finger,
and went back home ...
#dogs
#food
#fiction #respect
#fiction #respect
73 reads
8 Comments
oskar
Poem Published
5th Mar 2024 1:11pm
5th Mar 2024 1:11pm
once I was young
The Real Meeting.
We sat in a circle, fourteen of us,
pointing knees at each other, drinking
coffee,
trying to look relaxed.
Sweaty palms discretely dried
on trousers leg
One of the six women in the group
spoke - women are better at
airing their feelings than men- she
went on, a great length, about a life
of endless cocktail parties around
a swimming pool, posh wine at
an expensive restaurant,
of which I knew
nothing; fiddled with a...
We sat in a circle, fourteen of us,
pointing knees at each other, drinking
coffee,
trying to look relaxed.
Sweaty palms discretely dried
on trousers leg
One of the six women in the group
spoke - women are better at
airing their feelings than men- she
went on, a great length, about a life
of endless cocktail parties around
a swimming pool, posh wine at
an expensive restaurant,
of which I knew
nothing; fiddled with a...
#love
#kindness
#strength
#redemption
#respect
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0 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
2nd Mar 2024 10:20am
2nd Mar 2024 10:20am
Why aren't the police doing vital welfare checks on these very lazy but allegedly hardworking, so-called royals?
By Stanley Collymore
Lol! Principally because they clearly
wouldn't get very far with such a
proposition of mine! Since for
starters, all those vile monarchical serf
sycophants would instantaneously, be
maddeningly, up in arms - egregiously
encouraged, and similarly specifically
basically so by their decision makers
obviously in the rightwing press, and
electronic media; citing it as a rather
nefarious woke decision; but simply
more...
Lol! Principally because they clearly
wouldn't get very far with such a
proposition of mine! Since for
starters, all those vile monarchical serf
sycophants would instantaneously, be
maddeningly, up in arms - egregiously
encouraged, and similarly specifically
basically so by their decision makers
obviously in the rightwing press, and
electronic media; citing it as a rather
nefarious woke decision; but simply
more...
#hope
#motivational
#inspirational
#redemption
#respect
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0 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
27th Feb 2024 11:47am
27th Feb 2024 11:47am
This sham, self-serving and unending cry of anti-Semitism should be firmly and contemptibly ignored!
By Stanley Collymore
What right did the UK and USA
actually have to distinctively
and literally give someone
else's land quite obviously freely away
to others, who crucially, basically had
no right what ever, to be really there;
and who evidently, if truth be simply
and honestly clearly told neither the
United States nor essentially Britain
effectively, naturally wanted any of
this lot inside their own, respective
lands. And this really 80 years ago! ...
What right did the UK and USA
actually have to distinctively
and literally give someone
else's land quite obviously freely away
to others, who crucially, basically had
no right what ever, to be really there;
and who evidently, if truth be simply
and honestly clearly told neither the
United States nor essentially Britain
effectively, naturally wanted any of
this lot inside their own, respective
lands. And this really 80 years ago! ...
#courage
#motivational
#inspirational
#admiration
#respect
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GN101
Poem Published
26th Feb 2024 2:24pm
26th Feb 2024 2:24pm
I’m Going to Miss you Buddy
Be good, always be good
From the earliest of days you were there just to play, your spirit was just so good to start with
When we chose each other and I became master, I did not know all that that would entail
When you were young, you were carefree and dumb, much the same as your master
The mistakes that we made would one day be paid, but at the time there was nothing greater
But even back then I knew as you grew, my heart would one day have its day of disaster
Still for now we were proud, young, strong and stupid, all the...
From the earliest of days you were there just to play, your spirit was just so good to start with
When we chose each other and I became master, I did not know all that that would entail
When you were young, you were carefree and dumb, much the same as your master
The mistakes that we made would one day be paid, but at the time there was nothing greater
But even back then I knew as you grew, my heart would one day have its day of disaster
Still for now we were proud, young, strong and stupid, all the...
#sadness
#love
#grief #respect
#grief #respect
111 reads
2 Comments
poeticdelight
Poem Published
25th Feb 2024 11:07am
25th Feb 2024 11:07am
Live Like A Bird
Vivez comme un oiseau
Je pense qu'il est temps d'écouter les oiseaux
tellement oubliés, à cause de ce temps qui s'enfuit
Alors, ainsi, un coq qui chante, ou un chardonneret
devient hélas ! un cri plein de malheur et de bruit
N'est-il pas toujours agréable de se lever très tôt ?
plein de fraîcheur, de vigueur pour écouter les oiseaux
la nature dans sa plus belle apparence, sa vraie peau
au lieu de se creuser la tête avec de la « Morning Techno »
''Michel Fugain chante''
Fais comme l'oiseau
Un oiseau vit d’air...
Je pense qu'il est temps d'écouter les oiseaux
tellement oubliés, à cause de ce temps qui s'enfuit
Alors, ainsi, un coq qui chante, ou un chardonneret
devient hélas ! un cri plein de malheur et de bruit
N'est-il pas toujours agréable de se lever très tôt ?
plein de fraîcheur, de vigueur pour écouter les oiseaux
la nature dans sa plus belle apparence, sa vraie peau
au lieu de se creuser la tête avec de la « Morning Techno »
''Michel Fugain chante''
Fais comme l'oiseau
Un oiseau vit d’air...
#happiness
#motivational
#admiration
#respect
#emotions
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