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Best Outmoded Poems

Below are the all-time best Outmoded poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of outmoded poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Earthfirst
America First
speaks a RightWing monocultural intention
currently championed by Trumpians
and Republican Aristocracy of Evangelism 
Tea Partiers,
by xenophobic paranoids
and sociopathic pharisee fascists,
by economically blind
deaf
and angry 
bigoted
terrified shouters;
just...

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Categories: outmoded, anger, community, fear, happiness,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Tax Decoder Ring
As we bring in spring the thing I mainly dread,
Is preparing overbearing taxes for the Feds.

If I had the power to empower anything,
I’d shower that...

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Categories: outmoded, political, visionary, power,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Problems of Success
Old misunderstandings of how Earth
and Her species
evolve,
regeneratively and degeneratively change,
sometimes in revolutionary expansive/implosive quick and great transitions,
but more traditionally in slow-grow emergent spacetime development,
are often...

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Categories: outmoded, culture, earth, health, mental
Form: Political Verse
Yesterday Has Something To Teach
We look at the distant days
And call them outmoded,
We look at the present days
And say yesterday has faded.

This we often say in a clamour
That carries...

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Categories: outmoded, africa,
Form: Didactic
Iron Horse, 1840
These grassy margins under sky of blue,
so peaceful. Then a rumble, sudden blast – 
can you stand your ground as the train roars through?

Here’s Progress....

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Categories: outmoded, history, nature, sky,
Form: Villanelle



Premium Member Obsession
Obsession

Obsession with "O's"

Oh, obsession’s obfuscating oligarchy
Oceans of oblivion
Outrage in ostentatious obsession
Overrun in hurricanes named obdurate and obstinate
Overtures of oxidized compulsive orchestration in
Obbligatos overflowing obituaries -
Overbearing...

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Categories: outmoded, angst,
Form: Free verse
Red Pill Poem
You say we’re all one thought away
from seeing a woman and having a rape,
then proclaim we’re patriarchal monsters
if we act like gentlemen on a date.
You...

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Categories: outmoded, anger, culture, meaningful, men,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Risque : Reloaded :
useless she goaded 
                  his libido eroded 
...

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Categories: outmoded, allegory, drug, humor,
Form: Tanka
Faces In the Night
I see many faces appearing in the night 
Societies outcast oblivious to perils 
which accompany their plight 
Dressed in dingy costumes, Masquerading as 
Creatures weary...

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Categories: outmoded, community, endurance, identity, inspirational,
Form: ABC
Unsung Threnody For a Well Sewn Hero
Bare skull and cross bones
     existence on the peripheral
     outskirts of poker flats
lives a slip of a...

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Categories: outmoded, 12th grade, america, celebration,
Form: Ballad
Be Still
Life had accelerated
to a dizzying pace
do this-
go there-
a madcap race
that made no sense
no reason or rhyme
but you never noticed
for who had the time?

You meant no...

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Categories: outmoded, faith, i am, people,
Form: Free verse
Clubfoot Tango
Sometimes it's like a bloodletting
and the womb is the target.
Open your legs and let me be
sucked up into the bloodstream.
Come, we will walk hand in...

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Categories: outmoded, angst, introspection, love,
Form: Blank verse
Betise
Blunt brain such stale dogma holds
Tighter than crags hug dewy molds; 
She spurns sparks Reason confers, 
And terms sanest wit profitless fuss. 

Sweetest rank her...

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Categories: outmoded, adventure, allegory, allusion, anger,
Form: Didactic
Allow Me To Fly Once Again
With the spirit which inspired me to be my real self
Allow me to fly once again
The dreams seized by your unrealising mind lies still in...

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Categories: outmoded, adventure, allusion, anger, anti
Form: Free verse
Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uqZhnqHMAg


The orchestra strains to be symphonic --- a bee in a tin box.
Cigar smoke thunders, molecules of sound wilt
only to be dialed up through brass...

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Categories: outmoded, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things