Long Grist Poems
Long Grist Poems. Below are the most popular long Grist by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Grist poems by poem length and keyword.
Reclusive AccountabilitiesI am sick of excuses to avoid responsibility
and I am, today, sick with excuses to avoid responsibility
with "I'm just a mortal human. I make mistakes.
I judge situations and relationships,
assess potential risks to care and nourishing...
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Categories:
grist, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, race, stress,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
grist, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Fr Time CommentariesA few words about my good friend, Fr. Time, perhaps over-invested
in developing this language and these dialects of evolution.
Not to blame someone for doing too good a job,
but why shine so much light on...
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Categories:
grist, earth, god, health, light, nature, time,
Form:
Narrative
The RantGone now are the wondrous minds of old,
whose era treasured learning over gold,
And humble were the thoughts and words of these,
who, trothed to truth, would now be left displeased,
by hurried tempers bent on winning wars,
neglectful...
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Categories:
grist, people, philosophy, political, society, truth, universe, wisdom,
Form:
Didactic
Sacred Lakes
“Sacred Lakes”
There is magic
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo
busy under cover of autumn leaves
turning burnished topaz gold
idling unrushed roll over
in honeyed slumber
turning back hands
to face a time of
blushing...
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Categories:
grist, journey, love, magic,
Form:
Romanticism
Deciphering Crossword Puzzles, Cryptograms and Scrabblegrams Once Favorite PastimesDeciphering crossword puzzles, cryptograms and scrabblegrams once favorite pastimes
Livingsocial at 324 Level Road
circa post high school graduation
found yours truly voluntarily holed up
for an inordinate amount of time
within familiar four walls of his bedroom.
He preferred solitude versus
interacting...
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Categories:
grist, 12th grade, angel, anxiety, books, boy, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
A Trite Nihilistic OccasionA Trite Nihilistic Occasion
This doodling Yankee
(boot noah dandy)
doth newt lack chutzpah,
tries to finagle Fitbit
fitting figurative footwear,
that ideally Fitzhugh
like custom made glove snugly,
terrifically, unequivocally matching,
thence...
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Categories:
grist, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
A Trite Nihilistic Occasion - Part OneThis doodling Yankee (boot noah dandy)
doth newt lack chutzpah,
tries to finagle Fitbit fitting figurative footwear,
that ideally Fitzhugh
like custom made glove snugly,
terrifically, unequivocally matching,
thence handily solving Finger hut issue,
when...
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Categories:
grist, deep, earth, fantasy, goodbye, holocaust, humanity,
Form:
I do not know?
Chicanery Grabbed Lustfully Repeatedly YupChicanery grabbed lustfully repeatedly - yup!
While merrily bobbing along
the boulevard of broken dreams,
which in truth measured
no more than a furlong
think envisioning myself top banana
analogous to bull headed Donkey Kong,
I felt on top of my game,
which...
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Categories:
grist, abuse, age, america, analogy, anger, animal, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
Still Binge Reading Bertrand RussellStill binge reading Bertrand Russell...
9/8/2020
I plunge further into
erudite epistemological philosophication
courtesy said renown British polymath,
philosopher, logician, mathematician,
historian, writer, social critic,
political activist, and Nobel laureate.
Whew! His treatise
A History of Western Philosophy Quite profound
grist for intellectual mill
yours...
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Categories:
grist, 12th grade, adventure, age, america, appreciation, growth,
Form:
Free verse
Dereliction Possibly Fake News Read All About ItDereliction (possibly "FAKE NEWS") - read all about it!
2020 presidential election
already promises seat of pants suspense
hint of (post apocalyptic) coming attractions
see – https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/09/25/
probe-into-discarded-ballots-becomes-campaign-
outrage-fuel/24630731/
supposed poll worker(s) accidentally
(yea right) fomented kerfuffle
imposible mission witnessing
transgression Republicans wont muffle
reasonable rhyme...
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Categories:
grist, abuse, anger, bullying, corruption, father son, future,
Form:
Free verse
The Poet SpeaksToday December 27 two thousand nineteen
Start time: at sixteen minutes
after seven o'clock post meridian
End time: nine minutes after
nine o'clock post meridian.
Where the outer limits as Guiding Light
regarding twilight zone,
vis a vis edge of night
i.e. est...
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Categories:
grist, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Ephemeral Online MomentEphemeral online moment...
Yours truly plagiarizes himself with zeal
courtesy mental cogs and rusty wheel,
thus no literary crime committed to steel
I broadcast material shown thru rickety
black and white Roman Times newsreel
forthwith shoddy wordplay exempts me
against copyright infringement...
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Categories:
grist, absence, earth, imagery, inspiration, journey, life, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Return of the TykeReturn Of The Tyke
Tyke, tyke, tyke' they’d chant to bait the bairn.
But insult hurled at Yorkshire folk is water off a back.
Take it, use it, grind it through the crank
As fuel for the fire, grist...
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Categories:
grist, dedication, inspiration, mountains, race, senses, spiritual, strength,
Form:
ABC
The Greatest Show From Hell~The Greatest Show from Hell~
A circus quietly drifted through our town,
causing everyone here to curse the ground–
where they toiled to set~up their ghastly show.
They passed the town, demonic eyes aglow—
~*~
†
No jugglers, tight ropes...
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Categories:
grist, gothic, horror, sin, symbolism, , Lullaby,
Form:
Prose Poetry
On Learning To Become a GuruOn learning to become a guru...
The following artfully crafted back in the day
(actually poetic endeavor presented below
written a few scant years ago) in response to
unexpected positive feedback received on
the most popular social media platform.
Unbeknownst to...
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Categories:
grist, adventure, age, appreciation, blessing, devotion, february, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Ephemeral Social Media RendezvousEphemeral social media rendezvous
"Abort, Retry, Fail?"
(or "Abort, Retry, Ignore?")
essentially spells does not compute
in bobbing spongy mindscape
of your friendly martian
donned with square pants,
when he experiences unresponsiveness
from Homo sapiens
whose interpersonal offline etiquette
indicative as...
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Categories:
grist, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Rhyme
Warning: Tree Rings To Jump ThroughLike cyclops (with one eye), like octopus (arms that encompass),
the wound of lost elm limb (a bull’s eye to witness home playground),
stares down what would harm me, the sun’s rays that burn! Trunk’s strong branches
and...
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Categories:
grist, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Okay What Fiend Stole Thy Body ElectricThine distorted reflection rippled
within rain maker's pool
upon a midnight clear
full moonlight sonata
flooded shallow abyss,
cleaved fractal structures of silence
reverberating deathly hallow from 'ere
to infinity, whence...
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Categories:
grist, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, mental
Form:
Free verse
Time Swirled MessagesEach poem’s a web that I hang (time-smoked adage
that swirls in the sky) and dream seasons rare eyes!
With no thought of entrapment or hope of ingesting,
rhyme longs more to bless you, verse whispers, “Hello.”
Heart’s a...
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Categories:
grist, faith, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
A Civil War Battlefieldthe field is given a name
battles are about where they disappear
the ones that walk away
don't know where the hell they are
...
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Categories:
grist, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Second Third Fourth Stimulus ChecksSecond, third, fourth... stimulus check(s)...
ah... the stuff a dream come true would be made!
Such would constitute,
the closest phenomena
approximating winning the lottery
cuz yours truly never blessed
winning sizable, nor
minuscule amount of money
beset with one after another setback
token...
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Categories:
grist, angel, celebration, fate, father, freedom, humorous, hyperbole,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Okay What Fiend Stole Thy Body ElectricOKAY? WHAT FIEND STOLE THY BODY ELECTRIC!?
thine distorted reflection rippled
within rain maker's pool upon a midnight clear
full moonlight flooded shallow abyss,
cleaved fractal structures of silence
reverberating deathly hallow from 'ere
to infinity, whence magic...
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Categories:
grist, allegory, bereavement, depression, evil, muse, stress, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Blandishments Eroded Invaluable Necessary Treasured AlmsBlandishments eroded invaluable necessary treasured alms
Existential nihilism rent psyche asunder
courtesy unforeseen deadly bombs
lobbed by computer hacker and scammer
rolled into one nasty,
short and brutish lout,
whereby his aggrieved targeted victim
experiences absolutely zero qualms.
Though common horse sense
I generally...
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Categories:
grist, absence, abuse, angst, anxiety, betrayal, blue, bullying,
Form:
Rhyme
Shucking Evil In Favor of GoodShucking Evil In Favor Of Good...
(courtesy of tasseled colonel corny maise aye aire)
Challenge more difficult than threading
camel thru eye of needle, hence catchy title
scotched, and I aim to endeavor and steer
away from task surpassing
defying...
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Categories:
grist, angel, blessing, devotion, faith, funny, growth, humor,
Form:
Free verse