Long Asphalt Poems
Long Asphalt Poems. Below are the most popular long Asphalt by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Asphalt poems by poem length and keyword.
I feel in fuhrer rated and envious
I feel in führer rated and envious...
entrapped within webbed wide world
weft as a rump pulled stilts skein
at warp speed exhibiting
my heroic trumpian wiles
cuz he (johnny come lately) a then
exemplary hedonist, narcissist,
and polygamist dons
comical,...
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Categories:
asphalt, adventure, america, analogy, anxiety, conflict, crush, god,
Form:
Free verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Ix
Juvenilia: Early Poems IX
These are early poems of mine, written in my teens as a high school student and during my first two years of college.
Shock
by Michael R. Burch
It was early in the morning of...
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Categories:
asphalt, boy, child, childhood, high school, student, teen,
Form:
Rhyme
For All That I Remembered
For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
asphalt, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
The Remaining - Prologue: Terra Firma and the Bitumen
“The Remaining”
PROLOGUE: “Terra Firma and The Bitumen”
"The slow descent into Hell
Had led Her mind to escape to Heaven
Her firmament was Her Mind
Her body just a Shell"
Heaven for Her existed in The Dream
She called Her...
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Categories:
asphalt, angel, daughter, god, heaven, imagery, jesus, mother,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnets Xc-Xcvii
Sonnets XC-XCVII
Artificial Smile
by Michael R. Burch
I’m waiting for my artificial teeth
to stretch belief, to hollow out the cob
of zealous righteousness, to grasp life’s stub
between clenched molars, and yank out the grief.
Mine must be art-official?zenlike Art?
a...
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Categories:
asphalt, art, grave, grief, life, night, pain, smile,
Form:
Sonnet
Skin of Terror
Skin of Terror
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
(The stage lights come up slowly on Michael's face, which is crisscrossed with wrinkles from his fuming anxiety. He peers out into the gloominess at the wheel and tightly clutches...
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Categories:
asphalt, horror, mental health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Chapter 75 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Let the Game Begin
DJ and the Damian squad rushed
The house. "Dad we're gonna
Play CRUEL BALL!" Amadeus
Gave notice. Damian said, "Oh
Yeah." He put his hands on both
His sons shoulders and said.
"Fellows first of all it's...
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Categories:
asphalt, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration
The Peasants Truck
Everybody moved out of the country to get a taste of the shining city
Ripe banana, ripe plums, are perishing in Uncle Sam’s broiling sun
I cannot stand the scorching heat that is swelling up from the...
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Categories:
asphalt, angel, blessing, business, character, confidence, earth, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
Jack and Jill - The True Story
* Examples for the contest
Jack and Jill (the real story)
"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after..."
Of course, neither...
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Categories:
asphalt, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Road Trip
Time for a road trip, my dad, mom and us three kids all packed into our old station wagon. I guess it wasn't so old but it sure seemed that way at the time....
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Categories:
asphalt, memory,
Form:
Prose
Harvest Moon O're Withered Fields
...the village shivers a hive of restless souls
skin pricklin' with anticipation
as costumed runners fixin' to gather — hearts a-thrummin'
...
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Categories:
asphalt, autumn, culture, halloween, humanity, october, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Coms
C.O.M.S
Colors
Black, brown
Something that has been an issue since the beginning of time
Colors unite
Colors causes actions out of spite
Colors are all different shades
Colors has been one of the leading causes of death for decades
See i...
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Categories:
asphalt, anger, black african american, color, deep, growth,
Form:
Rhyme
The Unicorn and the Sticky Asphalt Jungle
"The Unicorn and The Sticky Asphalt Jungle"
Bedtime stories
now walk through fog
The Unicorn skips
on lines of sticky Asphalt
The father writes his play
The mother seen as absent
becomes deus ex machina
she will be the only one
to...
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Categories:
asphalt, freedom, love, mother daughter,
Form:
Free verse
My boots, still burdened with the dust of Carpathian trails
My boots, still burdened with the dust of Carpathian trails,
Silently slip over the gleaming tiles of an urban temple,
Where hipsters sip artisanal nectar on lazy Tuesday afternoons,
Under the impassive gaze of a Bucharest wrapped in...
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Categories:
asphalt, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Swimming Against the Current
[Note: You will see in the work below connections to other poems I have posted here. Those poems are tangents to this poem that more completely tell the tale of rise, pride, hubris, fall,...
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Categories:
asphalt, ozymandias, pride, sin,
Form:
Free verse
All Aboard
Who suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El." We hurdle head-long above asphalt blanketed streets that are determined...
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Categories:
asphalt, city, imagery, perspective,
Form:
Prose
In These Times of War
within these times of war
Within these times of war
Within the times of war
Silence of its terrors calling
Children play within their laughter
Now recedes in cries of torture
Screeching whistles scrap metal clusters
In murderous heat of summers day
rage...
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Categories:
asphalt, war,
Form:
ABC
Black August
I.
Hooded eyelids under heavy lashes
doin’ the rain dance like she’s Hopi
Mariah’s a Scientist
I turned a leaf into gold in the silence,
...
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Categories:
asphalt, allusion, august, black african american, identity, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Thirsty
Thirsty
I could tell right away he was up ta sum thin.
I could see it in doze beady eyes!
His wordz were smooth in a snake like sorta way,
my pappy says heze city smooth.
He don't look like...
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Categories:
asphalt, betrayal, corruption, death, future, money,
Form:
Prose
Chicago Life 101
Life 101 was taught to me in an old mansion in inner-city Chicago. ...
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Categories:
asphalt, care, chicago, house,
Form:
Narrative
Killing Her Song
killing her song
(for Adhimu aka Lawrence Hamm and Sheila Reid*)
by ‘bro. zayid’
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield,
Until I die…”
--Freedom Song
this is not rocket science…
no experts...
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Categories:
asphalt, prejudice, violence, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Killing Her Song
killing her song
(for Adhimu aka Lawrence Hamm and Sheila Reid*)
by ‘bro. zayid’
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield,
Until I die…”
--Freedom Song
this is not rocket science…
no experts...
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Categories:
asphalt, prejudice, violence, universe,
Form:
Free verse
We Danced at the Gas Station
This poem is featured on YouTube (The Convergence point with Dr. Ivan Edwards), bringing its words to life through spoken expression.
A gas station on the edge of the city,
Neon lights buzzing in the...
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Categories:
asphalt, adventure, beauty, dance, freedom, inspirational love, love,
Form:
Free verse
Wonderful Worthing Promenade Part 2
Candy floss, seaside rock, smoothies, and flags sporting
Union Jacks
Replace the old traditions of striped deckchairs
And Kiss-Me-Quick hats.
Chipwicks for our salt and vinegar fries
And their pole-and-line freshly caught local Cod;
The Vintners Parrot: For thick sizzling...
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Categories:
asphalt, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Symphony of Souls
In corners of the world, where rays smile bright,
There are furry friends, speaking souls in the light.
Cats that prance and dogs that bark,
In every heartbeat, they wait for us with a spark.
Dogs with a shining...
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Categories:
asphalt, animal, appreciation, blessing, courage, dog, heart, youth,
Form:
Rhyme