Best Last Ditch Poems
Below are the all-time best Last Ditch poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of last ditch poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Blood Stained BridgeInto the timeless wood he fled, running from the night
While demons of his past gave chase beneath the pale moonlight
The man dressed in soiled rags,...
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Categories:
last ditch, allegory,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Writing's a DragThe Drag of Writing
A smidgeon of silly,
a scintilla of sad,
a wee gong of rhyming wit,
a sentence to start me
a participle dangling
a lead to bring me...
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Categories:
last ditch, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
last ditch, fruit, funny,
Form:
Limerick
Categories:
last ditch, angst, body, confusion, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Enter MuharramAnd when the Barking Dog died
We saw the new tzadik arise
His face kissed and adored by the Prophet
His rights stolen for profit
Inherited by the Increasing...
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Categories:
last ditch, hope, loss, religion, war,
Form:
Free verse
Cliche HeavenCliche Heaven
Be it as it may I'll try my hand at some clichés
and address the elephant in the room soon when...
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Categories:
last ditch, confusion, cool, crazy, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Scare TacticsIt was on one Tuesday arvo shopping at the hardware store,
When I noticed Vicar Prendegast come walking through the door,
He walked up to the counter...
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Categories:
last ditch, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Election Day FootlesElection Day Footles
Non-Voters
Passive
Asses
Unenrolled Voters
Selection
Defection
Last ditch pitch
Stand out
Hand out
Crumpled and pitched
Pamphlet
Spam-let
3/3/2016...
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Categories:
last ditch, humor, political,
Form:
Footle
The Fist of the Polygamous ChildAs war ends,
Another begins,
As peace is forced to stand,
So is fight empowered to stand.
Where blood strive against blood,
Where is the love in the blood?
''Blood never...
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Categories:
last ditch, absence, anger, bereavement,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Story of Snowball LathamDown in the white famed plains of Western Kentucky in the 19th century, Alpha Omega Latham was born. Days after his father was shot on...
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Categories:
last ditch, character, community, desire, dream,
Form:
Verse
New HorizonsI teeter on the brink of possibility.
The sun on the new horizon glistens
its rays on the undulating sea of change.
I gaze a...
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Categories:
last ditch, happinesssea, sea, sun,
Form:
Free verse
The SoilI had this old potted flower just sitting there on the window sill
And with each passing day and hour it was none the better...
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Categories:
last ditch, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
The Confession of Dodge MartinA lonely rider traversed the sand upon his sturdy mount,
Beneath a sky so filled with stars that no man might ever count.
A dangerous...
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Categories:
last ditch, cowboy-western, death, house, brother,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Attack of the Giant InsectsI miss the old time monster movies where the insects ruled the day,
Where disaster resulted from a mishap with a disintegrator ray.
Unleashing the wrath of...
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Categories:
last ditch, funny, for her, for
Form:
Light Verse
N'Ironstrife riven island corner, rough hewn by rival visitation
vexed, looking in, looking out, on the edge of places to go
thrang in...
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Categories:
last ditch, community, culture, destiny, history,
Form:
Dramatic Verse