Long Grimaces Poems
Long Grimaces Poems. Below are the most popular long Grimaces by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Grimaces poems by poem length and keyword.
Skin of TerrorSkin 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:
grimaces, horror, mental health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Compelling Confusion is so uncool -No Way? Yes Way-Crumbled like dust and I began to stumble like ashes with a gust of wind – that’s what I felt before exchanging smiles and goodbyes…
Oblivious obviously…removing the plank from my own eyes of deep-inside-prideful lies
Memorably,...
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Categories:
grimaces, angst, anxiety, community, confidence, conflict, confusion, desire,
Form:
Acrostic
Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”
Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows itself well deep
to be turned and touched,
substantially labyrinth
The Open
is lead
further in, and...
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Categories:
grimaces, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Just Sayin', Not Done Slayin'I don’t want you to think I’m a suicidal boy at night
I am constantly wandering around town all alone now
I don’t want you to think I’m calling wolf all the time
I’m just sayin’ — I’m...
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Categories:
grimaces, courage,
Form:
Lyric
An anticlimactic sexual eventAn anticlimactic sexual event...
with Barb Black née Beebee
to help set the ghost
of little Willy Brandt free
(a non German, but germane fellow
courtesy Craigslist classified
personals of mine invitee
she replied, I took liberty
to Google her first...
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Categories:
grimaces, 12th grade, adventure, betrayal, december, desire, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Picture Album Stories of My MomRhyme Quatrain
Telling tales or stories is a favourable pasttime;
But using pictures to tell stories of past and present,
Yours remind me of days not so recent,
And ones of grateful recline
To golden years so sublime.
Mother, telling...
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Categories:
grimaces, appreciation, blessing, caregiving, cheer up, childhood, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 23I conversed with the lone demon,
Who had asked for redemption on an earlier day
On this day her voice was mightier,
More brave, and powerful
She dared not sing in the presence of the Dark Prince,
But spoke freely...
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Categories:
grimaces, bible, change, conflict, irony, light, love hurts,
Form:
Epic
She Was Very PrettyShe Was Very Pretty
by Michael R. Burch
She was very pretty, in the usual way
for perhaps a day;
and when the boys came out to play,
she winked and smiled, then ran away
till one unexpectedly caught her.
At sixteen,...
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Categories:
grimaces, boy, daughter, girl, hair, heart, light, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
The Intricate Mysteries of BeingThe Intricate Mysteries of Being
An albatross flying across the Antarctic
A telescope monitoring the intergalactic
A horoscope sharing interplanetary
plastic
Let’s elope while we still think each other is fantastic
A quiet analysis of all that you...
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Categories:
grimaces, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
grimaces, allegory, bible, christian, death, jesus, life, tree,
Form:
Free verse
Virtuous VibesVirtuous Vibes
Have peace abide in me and you
May happiness brew so true
Who knew...
I’d be without a clue
But, with God,
Anything is possible
He does the impossible
He loves us sincerely
He loves us dearly
He loves us vibrantly
He loves us...
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Categories:
grimaces, angst, happiness, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Alpha PistolsAlpha Pistols
It’s a nice warm summer’s evening in 2004
The cool man was on top of the Manchester tower block
He fires down with various guns at his lower targets
There is a builders yard two hundred metres...
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Categories:
grimaces, anxiety, satire, sleep, violence,
Form:
Verse
In the chamber of silence where souls convergeIn the chamber of silence where souls converge,
Masks lie in wait, the nocturnal guardians of our being.
Adorned with grimaces and velvet smiles,
They are armors against the unknown arrows of the estranged world.
Oh, how they descend...
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Categories:
grimaces, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Attitude Gratitude Concerto and Cheeselife had written an etude in D minor and barely gave him a pass
D for defeat denial disintegration dour reprise of the inevitable
bottom of the class for society sang to its dominant song book
while he...
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Categories:
grimaces, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
The StormA re-post of poem 939895 that mysteriously disappeared from PS...
The early morning darkness oozes melancholy whispers
as enraged storm clouds enfold me in a final deathly embrace.
She has come for me.
I can feel her...
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Categories:
grimaces, dark, evil, nature, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Brave New WorldBrave New World
A 'world' it is and it spins around in mad circuits of loopy loops.
Has reached an infinite array of denominations in which foolish
insane clowns have taken over the asylum once more as bedlam...
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Categories:
grimaces, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Wordscape Triptych 1WordScape Triptych #1
Coming from the Underworld as a ghost, just sauntering out of the depths like you did;
With all the rest of us just watching and wondering what you were going to say;
Tell us...
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Categories:
grimaces, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
A PromiseThe first drop,
and each one after,
merge in a cluster of blissful storms
Flourescent
dreams lie in wait
for every rising degree of fervour
Scattered
sunshine ceases to blind compelling faith
Smiles prosper like figs
And the unremitting truth is
rooted...
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Categories:
grimaces, love,
Form:
I do not know?
In the labyrinth of memory, shadows dance on the walls of recollection, whispering untold storiesIn the labyrinth of memory, shadows dance on the walls of recollection, whispering untold stories,
And I, an eternal child, wander through the corridors of time, seeking answers in the eyes of those who raised me.
They,...
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Categories:
grimaces, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
The World is BleedingThe world is bleeding
We stand at the edge of a precipice,
Looking in fear on our Earth,
Boiling, bubbling, and steaming,
With pools of blood flowing.
Warplanes blanket the sky.
Volcanic sounds pierce the ear.
Booms of gun shots rent the...
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Categories:
grimaces, angst, death, war,
Form:
Free verse
Just Love RemainsI fear I'm losing patience in the midst of your neglect,
It keeps hounding me like stations of the cross ...
...
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Categories:
grimaces, family, forgiveness, health, life, love, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
His MotherShe yawns as she takes out each dart sharpens the tip and adds them back to pile.
This game has been going on for quite awhile.
She stretches as still she refuses to play.
Come what may.
Again he...
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Categories:
grimaces, child, love, love hurts, parents, teacher,
Form:
Rhyme
Mercy Street Is ClosedAt the end of Mercy Street
lies a forgotten wharf.
A single row boat is
moss covered.
The battered vessel is
moored and unwanted
like leprosy -
conducive to an invisible cancer.
Two splintered oars imitate antennae -
receiving distress signals
from no...
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Categories:
grimaces, recovery from...boat,
Form:
Free verse
Adeity Deliriumthe body has receded into a fetus,
imploding in thrombosis
in the parts also inside out
and in the microcosm of the eye
the retina retained a little or not at all
of the color that turned from gray,
from the...
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Categories:
grimaces, imagination, sad,
Form:
Free verse
THE DUSTY BOX OF MEMORIESTHE DUSTY BOX OF MEMORIES
I was not searching, but just stumbled on it
Across a dusty box of memories in my brain
Not the usual recollection of a pleasant time
But some events that never seemed to rhyme
Ones...
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Categories:
grimaces, memory,
Form:
Rhyme