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Best Revolutionary Poems

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


Premium Member Texian Macabre Arena
The First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
 
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...

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Categories: revolutionary, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member The Tribute
Their mere weapon was their forbidden courage, hands barren with  no armaments, no ammunitions, marching towards the proud valley of death, dedication born from...

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Categories: revolutionary, appreciation, eulogy, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Course Correction
Light the nation a new fire;
Awake the apathetic’s desire;
Like sheep to Shepherd’s crook;
We need a new course, old Book.

Our founders risked it all;
Starting with Lexington’s...

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Categories: revolutionary, leadership,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member In the Seventies
I wore popular shin high white boots,
The top in rage of disco dancing queens.
The Bee Gees were the utmost in the clan
The alter of quantifying...

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Categories: revolutionary, fashion, grief, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Prince of Purple
Beneath the opal white moon, the crying doves shed their precious tears,
Causing the purple rain to fall, melting at the lavender notes of musical dreams,
Camelot’s...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: revolutionary, imagery, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Cut
A country yearns industry
from assiduous minds revolutionary,
cities conceived with mind set and skill
yet lay insipid in the body of Britannia
those in need of life’s blood,
akin...

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Categories: revolutionary, inspirational, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Do the Math
Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ... 
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights,
and their children’s...

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Categories: revolutionary, america, history, math, truth,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tattered Flag
The other day I sat beneath a sycamore tree on the court house lawn.
Old Glory fluttered in the breeze and to my eyes it was...

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Categories: revolutionary, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High
2017 - year zero

They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and...

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Categories: revolutionary, corruption, humanity, pain, parody,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Ordinary Man
I want to be inspired to write
    a song people really want to sing;
I want to be inspired to compose
  ...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: revolutionary, inspirational, on writing and
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Backhand
"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make sense of it...

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Categories: revolutionary, child abuse, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fate On the Feathers
When I met you in the language of lonely war
three feathers fastened to your breast breathing sore
many graves of gentlemen knew your score and the...

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Categories: revolutionary, dark, gothic, i love
Form: Epic
Premium Member Picking Participles
I was punctured by punctuations
The words you wielded with such disdain
A ravenous revolutionary
Pitilessly piercing deep into my vein

I pretended such positivity 
Holding happy forward as...

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Categories: revolutionary, abuse,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Bedknobs, Bell Curves and a Broomstick
"Bugger the "Group" mentality. I say burn it up with a revolutionary act, start your own Group. If you didn't exist, there would be no...

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Categories: revolutionary, character, courage, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Barefoot In the Bushfires of the Vanities
"Barefoot in the Bushfires of the Vanities"



Heat rises slowly to rapture flames licking and teasing
Blue Ghostgums to stretch and crack wide open
as Fire spreads molten...

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Categories: revolutionary, art, life, muse, psychological,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs