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Best Riotous Poems

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


Finding Happiness In Everyday Pleasures
Finding Happiness in Everyday Pleasures

Happiness is bathing in glorious, golden sunshine,
absorbing the beauty of sunsets deliciously divine.
Dancing through cool droplets of silvery rain,
feeling cleansed, refreshed,...

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Categories: riotous, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme



Teats of Love
From a distant village, where forest lining the edges, where nature dancing with wild rhythms, where human existence have usual conflicts with minacious wild life,...

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Categories: riotous, animal, cute love, love,
Form: Haibun
A Plate of Disorder
A Plate of Disorder

Are you ready to Disorder Sir?
What can I tempt you for a starter,
May I recommend the Turmoil Soup?
Garnished with Havoc Green Tartar.

For...

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© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riotous, anger, confusion, food, mental
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Night Street
The dank petrichor of grainy night,
meters stand like gravestones, 
the obsidian avenue slick as a sapphire,
windowed granite rising in sharp cut shadows,
wind gusting, tumbleweed clouds...

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Categories: riotous, imagery, night, rain,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Soupercilious

My Favorite Things comes to mind...


a random assortment, a jumble of words
a quotient of portions, quotidian served
quixotic strivings of the great deca-dense
obscured in meaning, eschewing...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riotous, humorous, parody,
Form: Rhyme



Wind Song
In my chair near the window
I can hear the wind howl through
the brick, and echo off concrete
as it passes its rumors fro and to.

The whisper...

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Categories: riotous, song, wind,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Whypt Syllabubs
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but...

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Categories: riotous, desire, love, lust, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Revisiting My Park
Luneta, I used to almost venerate you once
but glassy skyscrapers have put you away…
still, I kept the fragrant lawns deep in my bones,
with Muppet tricks...

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Categories: riotous, nostalgia, places,
Form: Dramatic Verse
What's It About For You, Then
What’s it about for them, then
Loneliness, poverty, pain
Bang of the bailiff at the door
Death in a ditch in the rain

What is it like for the...

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Categories: riotous, blessing, children, christmas, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Art of Morning
Upon rising, awakened by 
ripening scent teasing my nose, 
trilling my lips and tongue, – my taste buds opening
to bird-like songs as dawn's light breathes...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riotous, art, creation, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Nirvana
Attune yourself to see the miracle of music.
Merging with the dance is truly ecstatic.
Hey! Swing, sway and frisk, every way it’s fantastic!

Stir your senses, I...

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Categories: riotous, addiction, dance, dedication, devotion,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Odd Lovers
"Odd Lovers"



I feel your reign o’er my warm skin
your eyes cast their burning cerebral majesty
sharp diamonds cool blue sky twinning rays 
the same time dawn...

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Categories: riotous, moon, sensual, sun,
Form: Romanticism
Boot Licks
slithering snakes run silent

sleeping snakes lay deadly

awakened venom ready

while reigning as prone giants



breathe upright fools gather tolls

exhale hate and hued discord

bow in ranks to thy...

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© Sona Wilae  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: riotous, allegory, america, change, leadership,
Form: Quatrain
Unmasked

Inside a boisterous tavern,
a-light with drunken gaiety
of spilled ribald laughter,
he quietly sits alone ...
gently cradling his mead darkly
Brooding thoughts of past paid coverings
buzzes inside his...

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Categories: riotous, dark, death, judgement, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Upon the Sand
A small and delicate seashell
tossed upon the shore
tumbled by the tide
ne’er as lovely as before

her long and restless journey
on riotous tides and drift
has cast her...

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Categories: riotous, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs