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Best Reeked Poems

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


Premium Member Winter
With his icy fingers he stole my smokey breath,
laid a sheet of slippery freezing cold by my feet
and then whispered in my ear right to the...

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Categories: reeked, winter,
Form: Personification



Premium Member In Red's Silent Fury
Metallic city howls like a wounded animal
scraped by nocturnal vigils
of grandchildren and elders
emaciated like tuberculosis lungs
gasping from chug-chugs of tobacco soot...
and the face of a...

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Categories: reeked, anger, angst,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Phantom Horse
A phantom horse came galloping 
beneath a silver moon
across a field of recent war 
where corpses’ bones lay strewn.

With thunder in his hoof beats,
again and...

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Categories: reeked, war,
Form: Quatrain
Folly
with passion’s brilliant mediocrity
we sparked a flame with tragedy
it was our common fantasy

what a candid lie we chose to sing


while watching worlds were turning
we rubbed...

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Categories: reeked, betrayal,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I Am the Grinch
I am the Grinch

I am I am, you know that I am
The Grinch of Grinch's and so
Don’t call me Sam
For Sam I not am
I am...

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Categories: reeked, children, christmas, life, love,
Form: Classicism



Premium Member The Mythical Fisher Woman - Inspired By Contest
I encountered her on a dark stormy night
Her huge trout like lips were a scary sight
Strands of white spittle formed on angry lips
huge folds of...

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Categories: reeked, beach, fantasy, humorous, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Common Man
The traveler reeked of weariness,
His companion was Fatigue
Wear upon his clothes suggest
He'd come a million league.

Gaunt were eyes deep set and brown
Above his cheekbones high
His...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reeked, america, conflict, corruption, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Old School Desk
Today, meandering through the clutter of the local antique store,
I almost tripped and fell over an object partially hidden on the floor!
My hands came to...

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Categories: reeked, nostalgia, school, school, me,
Form: Rhyme
Birth of Rebellion
He was young, small, perhaps malnourished
Looking out from deep set eyes, rimmed with neglect
I could see, he wanted ...
To know why?
To know what? ... I...

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Categories: reeked, child, life,
Form: Free verse
Privilege
Privilege
When the privilege first was given
When it was still crisp and new
When it had all others craving
For which is granted a small few
Then you reveled...

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Categories: reeked, confidence, work,
Form: Ballad
The Bullingdon Club
The Bullingdon Club

In the hallowed halls of Oxford's elite,
A secret society did convene,
A gathering of privileged retreat,
A club known as the Bullingdon team.

With tails and...

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Categories: reeked, adventure, angst, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Day That Music Died
Lament
The day that music died, singing wept.
Into the sea of melancholy voice crept.
Each word spoken reeked with pain.
When could we ever be whole again
Under the...

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Categories: reeked, music, music, music,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Queens Conjurer
All things that glow and move,
all things that change and pass,
I gather their delight
as in a burning-glass;
Judith Wright

The Queen's Conjurer
1.
'Given to magic and uncanny arts'
'Art...

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Categories: reeked, betrayal, dark, mystery, wisdom,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Flicker of Hope
The abyss so deep so profound
It didn't thwart our efforts
It made us strong of mind
Gave us a sense of unity
To see thru the light
At the...

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Categories: reeked, america, dedication, new york,
Form: Narrative
Bridge
This is a small part of story that I am working on to be published in my book of 12 stories. 





She resumed in trekking;...

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Categories: reeked, adventure, hope,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs