Long Assailed Poems
Long Assailed Poems. Below are the most popular long Assailed by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Assailed poems by poem length and keyword.
The Dance of Salome
The Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,
for tonight we revel in kindred friendship."
Herod strolled onto the terrace, nearly stumbled in...
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Categories:
assailed, dance, daughter, moon, mother daughter, night, sin,
Form:
Narrative
Smog
I gaze upon a moon so full and bright beneath my feet
The stillness of unbroken waters where reflections meet
The creaking and the straining as the old bridge wants me rid
Shall not give me cause to...
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Categories:
assailed, horror,
Form:
Narrative
The Flood, Christ's Death
(Necessary, Sufficient – Why? How?)
Was the ‘Death of Christ’ needful? Can ‘Mind of God’ change?
Might the rainbow then signal ‘Repentance,’ a sign
God does grow and responds too, to changes wrath wrought?
Were there souls saved by...
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Categories:
assailed, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
An Involuntary Shudder
VII.
An involuntary shudder as I watch her
Spread ...
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Categories:
assailed, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
My Final Curtain Call
I'm sorry momma.
I'm sorry father.
I couldn't be the man you raised.
You instilled me with morals and values,
from which I chose to stray.
I chose to leave those college days,
just to be on the streets stuck in...
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Categories:
assailed, father, lost, mother, parents, poems, urban,
Form:
Free verse
Sun Setting Over the Dark Green Fringe of a Shivering Lake
Sun setting over the dark green fringe of a shivering lake on the last day of winter
An old man still unbent sits on a deserted wooden bench
with the load of his cares...
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Categories:
assailed, bird, loneliness, song, spring, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Electorate Witnesses Wounded Beast
Electorate witnesses wounded beast...
flailing, lurching, and writhing in throes of agony
Trumpets blare acknowledging
crack hunters lucky strike,
i.e. bullseye salvo shot at
innocuous yet brutish
and nasty looking Homo sapien
courtesy elite militia incapacitates,
(yet doth not kill) mortal enemy.
Tis a...
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Categories:
assailed, absence, autumn, class, evil, fate, humanity, november,
Form:
Political Verse
Prevarication Invites Animadversion Plus Aggravation
After beguiling charisma,
damnable excoriations fixedly,
gamely, horribly, insult jesting,
kibitzing, loosely mindless nattering,
outlandish pablum, quintessentially
representing senseless trumpeting,
unswervingly vapid wordy
X-DOUBLE-MINUS
yawping zest.
If ye did not already guess from thee
above blimey claptrap, Das English flap
doodle glib human incorporates jokingly,
kookily,...
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Categories:
assailed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Light Verse
Brine of the Anxious Marinator
Come sit and I will serenade
A sad, colossal flub,
A tale about a marinade.
(Well, truthfully a rub)
It is a long and sordid tale;
Not sure where to begin.
My sensibilities assailed,
Yet I must jump on in.
The task at...
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Categories:
assailed, anxiety, silly,
Form:
Ballad
Devin's First Deer, Part I
Devin crunched slowly through the frosted grass
as he made his way down his grandpa’s field,
it was the morning after Thanksgiving
with a chill that was bracing and real.
While most of the state was crowding the stores,
causing...
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Categories:
assailed, adventure, autumn, family, farm, grandfather, growth, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Seas of Time and Fate
Ife my love I dream that time
Should haunt or hesitate to be
A whisper exquisite till it requites
With love every rose upon the sea
Then memories wake each crimson blossom
Sometimes aspiring till when free
If my love on...
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Categories:
assailed, love,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
assailed, faith, god, life, spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain
Blueprint of fingerprints and plans?
Do you remember ever holding your deeds.? Paper
Links to real estate freehold' an epitome; one seed.'
Of human independance.? Be that what it may be? In
A bundle of actions' often tersely displayed dotted
Lines on draughtsmans paper-like...
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Categories:
assailed, education,
Form:
Rhyme
Nightmares
Nightmare are dreadful things
They creep into subconscious minds
And tear at sanity's fragile strings
Turning our thoughts to things unkind
I was a teacher of children small
And loved the years I spent with them
But soon after leaving...
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Categories:
assailed, child, dark, dream, scary, student, teacher, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
God Has His Reasons
It is very easy to see all the tragedy in this mans world.
Understanding for now it belongs to the spiritual evil master God’s plan unfurls.
Children, elderly, innocents are starving and carnal man does nothing.
Letting this...
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Categories:
assailed, faith, father, evil, father, love, power, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
To flowers once said dour thorns
I
For long faulted as wicked causing pain,
And condemned as crooks of a cruel kind—
Old prejudice or heartless brain’s refrain,
Repeated ad nauseam a point to grind—
An error all the same of humankind,
Yet, thorns for sure,...
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Categories:
assailed, flower,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Our Qt Savior
In the cold of the morn with a crisp cloudy day…
A flat tire assailed a young girl, as she went on her way.
Young and full of life but definitely overwhelmed…
She was late for work and...
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Categories:
assailed, adventure, angst, art, caregiving, faith, fear, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
I made a good impression today April 19th, 2023
I made a good impression today April 19th, 2023...
getting fitted for a new pair of dentures
at Liberty Dental in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania;
The tab picked up courtesy
Aetna Medicare Advantra Cares (HMO D-SNP).
Unfortunately said outcome
represents the exception
(regarding measuring...
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Categories:
assailed, 9th grade, anger, anxiety, april, blessing, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Saint George and the Dragon
When I spotted Saint George in a van,
I feared that his horse might be lame.
Or worse, in a Doggomeat can,
when hurt in some chivalric game.
Saint George, it appeared was not happy,
now carried around in this...
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Categories:
assailed, england,
Form:
Verse
The Funky Train 2
The nation is very rich indeed
But,
Wounded out of loss direction;
Wounded out of lack of ambition,
Weeping out of lack of impulse;
Wounded out of lack of imagination,
Ingeniously exhumed...
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Categories:
assailed, urbanloss, cry, loss,
Form:
Free verse
His Emma Nance
loving male, natural of pleasure, quintessentially
rendered suitable to us via way ova our darling daughter.
tis the blessing of this average, contemplative damn
ejected flotsam globular human impish jokester kooky lamb
misunderstood nonestablishmentarian outlier praises quality ram
rod sterling...
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Categories:
assailed, angel, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, boyfriend, crush, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Behind The Screens
Cultivate the ability to transcend for you were
born to rise
in the eyes of the creator from the beginning
Know that you're always winning as you're the
embodiment of the creative principal
that brings everything into being
What you're...
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Categories:
assailed, inspiration, introspection, perspective, philosophy, teacher, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Poems Omega Minus - Parts One and Two
I
For once he banished all birds
from the air
not just Mynas tick-picking
on twitching backs
but all birds, unnamed
and high bred
with each wave of...
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Categories:
assailed, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Deadened Frisson Explains
Absent Motility Against Staid Inertia
impossible to describe listlessness
bedeviling this body electric aye attest
motivation to counter glumness
seizes motility temporarily
to stave off...
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Categories:
assailed, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, angst,
Form:
Lyric
Monsoon Girl
She recall her day when she sat by the window
And saw the defiled sky to brace up on with spiritual phantasm
Of some demonic begrudges – amassing and making
The flushing spirit of the late evening merriments...
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Categories:
assailed, depression, happiness, imagination, life, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme