Long Decimate Poems
Long Decimate Poems. Below are the most popular long Decimate by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Decimate poems by poem length and keyword.
My Life With PetsJUDY…
Judy was a German Shepherd from my newborn days
I’ve seen some pictures, black and white; she had a friendly gaze
I wish I could remember her as I sit here and write
Alas I just have photographs,...
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Categories:
decimate, cat, dog, pets,
Form:
Rhyme
Advice To the Earthling, From What You Would Call An Alien BeingFrom all worlds and time’s eternal outer reaches,
Where the Creator is perceived to dwell.
You try to learn what your told He teaches,
Regarding Life, the Universe, Heaven and Hell.
The soul is a precious, beautiful place,
Where you...
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Categories:
decimate, allusion, analogy, earth, extended metaphor, judgement, meaningful,
Form:
Rhyme
Moscow IIt caters to an arrogance of hate
when war becomes a method of despite.
Through vile contempt, he seeks to cultivate
a dogma that defines inhuman blight.
The devil’s plan has given due consent
to let annihilation be the goal.
Let...
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Categories:
decimate, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Moscow IIIAnd all the world would change forevermore,
for solitude’s content has come undone.
Its island bliss could harbor it no more
as destiny unleased the rising Sun.
The sleeping giant woke to see its rays
unfurl their wrath...
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Categories:
decimate, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Midway IWhen all the stars from Heaven fell to Earth,
a light was quelled beneath the mantled dawn.
The aftermath lent anger in rebirth
when apathy was scorched by Nippon brawn.
A swift emergence reckoned in retort
by orchestrating strength to...
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Categories:
decimate, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Poland IHumanity is destined to dissolve
when fear consumes the minds of timid kings.
Such pandering lets lunacy evolve
and impotence is forced to face its sting.
An evil wind, with blustering conceit,
embarks to stage aggressions at your gate,
‘tis but...
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Categories:
decimate, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Elegy To Lost ChildElegy to Child Lost
...
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Categories:
decimate, allegory, baby, birth, care, child, daughter, introspection,
Form:
Elegy
Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant sun’s rays
The honey less flowers kiss the dying bees’ goodbye
Never...
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Categories:
decimate, environment, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Hiroshima Seventy Seven Years Since August 6th 1945Hiroshima – seventy seven years since August 6th, 1945
Given the nuclear weaponry arsenal today
August 6th, 2022, our collective ability
to lay waste major metropolitan areas
would make unleashing atomic warfare
synonymous with the ways and means
to annihilate, decimate,...
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Categories:
decimate, angst, anniversary, anxiety, august, dark, death, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Mistletoe
The sun upon my face blinds me as my boat rocks gently
through the rolling swells that lap against the hull.
The sound of the droning engine mesmerizes my mind
bringing a dreaminess to this bright cool...
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Categories:
decimate, christmas, holiday,
Form:
Prose
The Rapist TherapistTherapy is afraid of me,
I'll write it down for you to see.
The mental examination process of my necropolis,
Abomination of mental stability, into a thought abyss.
If you think before you act, you're ability surly...
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Categories:
decimate, i am,
Form:
Rhyme
I Care Not a Fat Hairy Fig21.
I care not a fat hairy fig
For your task to decimate
And predicate my world
With such villainy and hate.
You evaporate the sunshine.
You bring nigh the distant gloom.
Like a pestiferous browsing parasite
Intent on some impending doom.
Crawl! Crawl...
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Categories:
decimate, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
Pursuit of our HappinessWe all deserve Love and Light, Joy and Happiness. But that doesn't mean we can hurt others along the way. Let's try to show Empathy and Compassion, Dignity and Respect in our dealings with others....
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Categories:
decimate, conflict, feelings, heaven, light, love, relationship, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Synthetic SelectionExplode the galaxy
iron out this wrinkle in time
Cheapen a poor mans rich taste in fashion
it’s habit to be a creature of design
When the delicate send out the search party
start by scanning the various roadsides
follow the...
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Categories:
decimate, artlost, lost, me, planet,
Form:
Free verse
That Cellar DoorThere is a woodpile in my in-laws’ cellar, and some coal, but other rumored things also.
And it has been there a long time since anyone tripped down these broken concrete steps.
Maybe twenty or thirty years;...
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Categories:
decimate, moving on,
Form:
Free verse
Your Orders From the Captain General of EurasiaTo the Mighty Eurasian Troops, I see,
Thus, listen to your Capitan-Generals Who commands thee,
I, your Capitan-General wants to speaks,
Keep in mind that Civilizations run but ideologies go and commit none!
The Claws of the Dragon have...
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Categories:
decimate, america, freedom, international, military, political, usa, war,
Form:
Political Verse
My RegretA broken shell, a living hell, and all I'm left with now is my regret.
Better days ahead were a pipedream after our relationship crumbled. Countless arguments. Disagreements. Every day! For my life, I can't...
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Categories:
decimate, emotions, lost love, memory, pain, relationship, writing,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Obsessive Constraints Part OneThy birth on January 13th –
cervical contractions
would not abate
the pesky master (papa), strove
to synchronize seminal bait
thence, forty-two weeks
after ma...
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Categories:
decimate, growth, hate, hurt, self, stress, teenage, youth,
Form:
Bio
The Devil Is In the DetailsThe Devil’s watch has started and the time is consummate
A strange and tranquil calmness mocks our terrifying wait
There, just beyond our window moves like fearsome reprobates
A pair of tortuous demons meant all Hell to perpetrate
We...
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Categories:
decimate, grandchild,
Form:
Monorhyme
Morning Rush HourThe image of morning mapping from the four cardinal points at the center of
busy pedestrians running ups and down to the bottom of their energies,
Chasing the note they never designed to decimate
ownership.
The...
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Categories:
decimate, courage, perspective, remember,
Form:
Alliteration
Connie's Gift"A Poet's Gift" you wrote three years ago -
the arc of your poetic heart to tell.
You spoke of deep emotions in the soul
invoking tears to well and hearts to swell.
You had a gift. You were...
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Categories:
decimate, poetry,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Commandment Battlement - Part Three -The Queen's henchmen penetrate professionally the porous perimeter,
as a Phyrric victory I pacified your Lady's legion,
for both in the open,like charriots missing riders,decentralized command,the measure,
I, like you maneuver behind the superior shelter of Praetorian's...
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Categories:
decimate, war,
Form:
Epic
Ants Ants AntsIn every crevice where I look
Every cranny, every nook
Creeping, crawling in their hoards
It’s my world they head towards
Swarming over every leaf
Numbers that defy belief
Out of holes, from under rocks
Now they’re even in my socks
They’re...
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Categories:
decimate, angst, humorous, insect,
Form:
Rhyme
This Land God BlessedI must declare America used to be
Somewhere people still cared
Where our rights were still fare
More and more all you see
Are the tempers that flare
So many of its people unaware
Dirty laundry
Aired into nightmares
All the fake news
Feeding us false...
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Categories:
decimate, america, bible, devotion, god, peace,
Form:
Rhyme
Determined DistasteTrim whims and streams of screams in the dream
Blown in the undesirable direction
That irks initiatives to draw the cream that floats on the rim
Where your life suffers from offers of misdirection
Meant to frustrate rates at...
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Categories:
decimate, poems,
Form:
Free verse