Balance
Balance this please!
I'm on my knees.
Misplacing tens of thousands of people.
Legal tax paying people with families,
Across the seas.
Balance this please!
Businesses left to float,
While others begin to bloat.
Balance this...
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Categories:
howl, 12th grade, anger, anti
Form: Free verse
Lies
Lies, lies, lies!
Nothing about but lies!
Cannot tell a lie,
Then nothing is believed as the day goes by.
Hearing a lie vibrates in my ears!
Rattles my brain just past my eyes.
Fabulous Forty Lies,
I've...
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Categories:
howl, 12th grade, anger, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Isolate
The world turns,
Another country went away.
Not dissolved,
Just to disappointed to stay.
I am embarrassed,
To admit where I travel from.
Fellow travelers all say, " It's not you personally that turned away."
I feel responsible...
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Categories:
howl, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Beast
The Beast is in the yard.
Says he's a vegetarian,
But I wonder at the blood.
He has a verbiage that means naught!
As a Beast,
He eats a lot.
My neighbors, friends, and workers disappear!
Their wives...
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Categories:
howl, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The HuntIt was a strong opponent,
it fought against us very well.
Many of us were slaughtered
before it finally went down.
Again and again it tried to run,
but we chased it down each time.
We will never give up the hunt.
We will always persevere.
But this one had surprised us;
it flashed its hardened steel.
It cut down many of the pack
and deflected...
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Categories:
angst, animal, death, howl,
Form: Free verse
The Storm
The storm is rising.
Dogs shiver with the thunder.
Cats hide in lightning flashes.
People lose their way.
The tide is coming.
Sweeping away hopes and dreams.
Families struggle.
No food or shelter to protect the vulnerable ones.
...
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Categories:
howl, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Sea RemembersThe sea remembers all it cannot keep,
Each wave a story, crashing into shore,
Its secrets held in silence, buried deep.
A sailor's prayer, a widow’s dreamless sleep,
The driftwood echo of a lover’s lore—
The sea remembers all it cannot keep.
It sings of storms and treasures lost in sweep,
Of shipwrecked years and voices heard no more,
Its secrets held in...
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Categories:
boat, howl, husband, imagery,
Form: Villanelle
Homeless
Missed the ones
Not seen
Sleeping in the culvert
By the stream
Sounds carrying
Rodents scurrying
The ones not seen
Furry
Measuring each tiny step
Silence thundering on
Quietly rising
...
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Categories:
howl, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Winding Up
Spools for a day.
Wound up with what they say.
Tighter and tighter.
The insanity won't go away.
A year or two marinating.
Chaos has won.
Then the spring becomes undone....
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Categories:
howl, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Oscar
In the mountains, lived a special pup
He was gentle, kind and so amazing
His antics were true, never made up
My meals he was forever appraising
He often seemed to be star gazing
In the hills, where this guy was born
There lived a kitten with dark gray fur
He often felt her exasperating scorn
His life went by so fast, it’s...
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Categories:
howl, animal, appreciation, cat, dog,
Form: Quintain (English)
Categories:
howl, weather, wind,
Form: Haiku
Stardust on Autumn Leavespale yellow shards of brittle glass
shatter under my feet
as I stroll along this grey patchwork of concrete
and if the world stutters precarious on its spurious axis,
I pay it no mind
the ice of my pupils melts into inky lashes
that bleed cold down my face
and in my head,
I conjure a universe where
every contradiction, every illusion you...
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Categories:
autumn, goodbye, howl, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
A living hellish nightmareA living hellish nightmare...
only just began early today
November 6th, 2024,
when my eyes frightfully espied
glaring headlines bespoke horror
conjured, portended and yielded
worse fate than being gratefully dead
after the polls tallied up the votes
beaming none other than
pudgy hugely crass blimp
as the forty seventh president
of the United States of America.
Before delving into worse case scenario
regarding the...
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Categories:
howl, america, angst, animal, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
The Hunt of the Wolf a songArooooooo
this lonely wolf
Arooooooo
this lonely wolf
out on the hunt
the night is dark
what to find
what to find
tonight
the drunks stagger
that will not satisfy
the taste is gamey
though they put up little fight
I seek a battle to last all night
Arooooo
will it be you tonight!
Arooooo
this lonely wolf
Arooooo
this lonely wolf
Should I accept the truth
the perfect company for a romp is rare
they...
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Categories:
howl, animal, confidence, courage, cry,
Form: Lyric
The BansheeWhere legends lurk
And dark tales abound,
This killer wails ...
A horrible sound
She cries and cries
Still, none ever see,
The creature they call
The old banshee
And if you hear her
Late one night ...
You will not live
To see daylight
Some say she drifts
Over castle walls ...
Amid Ireland's hills
Letting out deathly calls
And some say this
... She is but, free,
To roam and...
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Categories:
cry, death, howl, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Howl Poems
Definition | What is Howl in Poetry?
Poems Related to Howl
moan, growl, groan, yelp, wail, roar, whimper, hoot, outcry, shriek, bellow, clamor, lament, whine, bawl, bay, keen, shout, quest, bark, blubber, yowl, yell, weep, scream, ululate, yip,