Long Contraband Poems
Long Contraband Poems. Below are the most popular long Contraband by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Contraband poems by poem length and keyword.
Artificial Iris
"Artificial Iris"
Orwell was lurking in the background, somewhere;
the dream was eerily familiar,
the words and their meanings, read in Syntax,
once read between pages of hardcopy in school
were aptly ignored -
however,
our Overlords were...
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Categories:
contraband, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
A Ghetto Conversation
Hey bruh,
haven’t you heard,
ain’t you read the news?
The White House is gonna eradicate
the fear infested inner city blues
That Trump fella says,
he’s got his poison pen ready to use
He says black folks got nothing...
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Categories:
contraband, culture, prejudice, truth, word play,
Form:
Verse
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:
contraband, allusion, august, black african american, identity, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
No Pirate’s Lament
When the ocean’s calm and shiny it be joyous to behold
When the spyglass sights Port Royal there be good rum to be sold
When a pirate holds the spyglass and his ship be filled of gold
Might...
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Categories:
contraband, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Its Not Over Yet
It’s not over yet so don’t get up and fret, it is not over yet until all is in place and everyone is ready for the big race.
You have put a fake face on...
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Categories:
contraband, change, community, courage, education, environment, horse, humanity,
Form:
Narrative
Howami Hmm Good Question
Howami? hmm... good question,
but for some unknown reason
more tired than usual...,
without daily twenty four hours
proper rest, I feel haggard.
I strongly suspect (a hunch acquired
upon returning home
after visiting Notre Dame)
deep sleep interruptions...
attributed to uncontrollable need:
tap a...
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Categories:
contraband, 12th grade, dream, happiness, humor, riddle, strength,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Erotica - January 2nd, 2017
this culinary humble verboten pie eating older mwm
in sore want of coital aid
with no intent to rile nor up braid
certainly not prompt ye to call military enfilade
nor cause nerves to get...
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Categories:
contraband, adventure, age, desire, dream, fantasy, longing, sexy,
Form:
I do not know?
Old Fogies: Part Ii
But a strange change happens
at early nightfall
in those stuffy rooms and halls
and it suddenly becomes clear
all was not as it seemed
old folks transformed
so cunning and keen
sparkling iridescent
playful, plucky, pleasant
flagrantly libertine!
Like children slowly scampering
out of bed...
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Categories:
contraband, age, community, crazy, humor, humorous, people,
Form:
Free verse
Das Furer Trumpeting Totalitarian Triumph
Call me a pacifist activist deploring insanity of war,
never a Fitbit moon-unit soldier of military industrial
complex, this articulate baby boomer verily stupefied,
openmouthed, dumbfounded at inane ill logic to send
best and brightest, or even those boasting...
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Categories:
contraband, 11th grade, 12th grade, america, fear, how
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Uncertainty
There cannot be two identical things in the world. Two
hydrogen atoms
offer infinite locations within their shells for electrons.
Thus, nothing can be definitely eventually known.
All to the good
because golf and chess and basketball, as well as
mathematics,...
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Categories:
contraband, basketball, bird, history, hope, language, math, world,
Form:
Verse
My Nose Is Hard
Murk Rammer froze as he felt the nuzzle
of a snub-nosed thirty-eight’s deadly muzzle.
Louis The Retch poked it into his back.
“The jig’s up, Rammer. I ain’t cuttin’ no slack.”
Murk had been tricked by a double-crossing dame,
alias...
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Categories:
contraband, mystery, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
City of Hope
What a city I murmur to myself looking at its map.
We approached the city known as Dis,
with its vast army and its burdened citizens.
At last we reached the moats
dug deep around the dismal city.
What destroys...
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Categories:
contraband, animal, city, grief, hope, love, poetry, wisdom,
Form:
Verse
Perserverance Breeds Success
PERSERVERANCE BREEDS SUCCESS
Jss One was an insult, I cried
Like time should hit full stop,
My breakfast was sweet without
Salt,
My parents tasted like this evil
Citrus,
I continued to hide like Air Force
Was only for my seniors.
Jss Two arrived...
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Categories:
contraband, artsweet, sweet,
Form:
Ballade
Trash Rappers
One thing I'll neva do is provide a pre-packaged product for you
I'm quality food, so mouth shut, shallow and chew
Speaking in tongues. I came to shower people with love
like, you're not breathing enough,...
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Categories:
contraband, rap,
Form:
Free verse
Beam Curvature
feeling his vitamin injection a new adventure begins
a slapstick epic of unfathomable implication here unfolds
as the rat gnawed curtain rises at Ye Bone and Gristle
among the clattering of wooden pints of bitter ale
the floor show...
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Categories:
contraband, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Mowed Down Field Day With Redacted Mueller Report
Attorney General William
Barr black marker in hand
kept promise to censor vital
details of Mueller Report
swift as Usain Bolt candidly,
grandly, lustrously, roundly
youthfully blocked out more
rapid than an elegant eland
vibrantly, regally, magically,
and gracefully skirts borderland
which favored topography
constitutes grassland...
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Categories:
contraband, anger, animal, freedom, humorous, missing, passion, sick,
Form:
Political Verse
Good News Came My Way Today February 21 2021 Courtesy Late Father
Good news came my way today February 21, 2021 courtesy late father
Papa - purportedly named
after paternal grandmother
Sadie, her mom's Yiddish name
Basia Brana (or Brandla),
she took two B letters and
found American boys' names
that kind of echoed
her...
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Categories:
contraband, absence, appreciation, celebration, dad, death, dream, father
Form:
Rhyme
Take What Is Yours
The Don, the Boss, El JEFE, El Patron mas feroz.
Born and bred to relinquish the rules, exploit the fools, and elude the FEDs
Andando sin cuerda en los calles...
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Categories:
contraband, people, sin, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Silent Screams
My heart torn apart by a love gone south, poorly taped together with blow and green,
Methaqualone was the only spackle of my survival
Lori was smart to leave, for her own safety, health and welfare, the...
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Categories:
contraband, loss, love, recovery from..., for her, heart,
Form:
I do not know?
Modern Shaman
Charcoal tar and gold brown tobacco
are both packed into a paper stick pressed
firm and trusting to the lips of a modern shaman
inhaling a cloud of harsh, strong, bold, and bitter barbs
that caress the tongue and...
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Categories:
contraband, visionary
Form:
I do not know?
The black hole of DC
“My name is Jonathan Mellis, I'm solitary confined
In a D.C Jail, where they destroy your mind
They call solitary confinement “the hole”.
They drop you in and let time erode your soul.
It’s hard to cope with...
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Categories:
contraband, abuse, hope, loneliness, mental illness, patriotic, prison,
Form:
Lyric
Curriculum Vitae
She calls herself Bunny Boucher, but she was born Veronica Chermak. She’s tall and leggy with a body that looks tidy, yet lived in. She’s high and tight, but flexible like a strong rubber band...
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Categories:
contraband, sensual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Misfortune of a Poor
Hey blokes…do you really know what life is…?
Like living in the ghetto…any memories of Soweto…?
Maybe you can’t…make me a chant…
Yes…I know…because I grow…
In the streets…where my feet…
Would meet…the dead…and the underfed…
Where food variety was scarcity…like...
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Categories:
contraband, analogy, anger, appreciation, change, dedication, growing up,
Form:
ABC
Like Tupac Like Mohbad
?•?LIKE TUPAC LIKE MOHBAD?•?
Pain persists; Mysterious exit.
Tupac & Mohbad's demise calls for justice.
Tupac reigns in death & we await his rise,
Mohbad's the first superstar buried twice.
Juxtapose their life & departures.
Death became their untimely captors.
1996,...
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Categories:
contraband, 1st grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Yet Not Broken By the Blues
....in retrospect
There were mirrors there
Behind it, where all the Jews would hide
How can someone blame the black despair?
All You were, was a mirror over there
Flooding naked imagery
Flowing naked mercury
Proof there were no fa-ked lies
Unless...
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Categories:
contraband, anti bullying, holocaust, mirror,
Form:
Free verse