Long Obliterated Poems
Long Obliterated Poems. Below are the most popular long Obliterated by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Obliterated poems by poem length and keyword.
The Messenger
"The Messenger"
Love is rich with
venom and honey.
there was a female ...
snake,
it watched
with green-eyed
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest
the dove,
was white as snow,
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey
the dove
alone,...
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Categories:
obliterated, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Mayflower 2017
The hearts of white men are silently fuming
The spirits of angry widows steadily grow bitter
The bosoms of weeping mothers open wide
While the relics of the past kept washing upon our...
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Categories:
obliterated, abuse, betrayal, community, conflict, environment, immigration, people,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Metaphor of Outrage, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem: Metafora Del Desafuero
Metaphor of outrage, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Metafora del desafuero
( In celebration of...
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Categories:
obliterated, truth,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
One must possess the patience of Job,
“The patience of Job” applied as an idiom that means to have great patience or endurance in the face of suffering. It's used to describe someone who perseveres through many problems or hardships.
One must possess...
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Categories:
obliterated, 12th grade, adventure, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, gender,
Form:
Free verse
One generic baby boomer, a garden variety sexagenarian
One generic baby boomer, (a garden variety sexagenarian)...
offers his interpretation of critical race theory
I, (an articulate, charming, domesticated,
erudite, friendly, genteel, humorous, intelligent,
kind, learned, male, albeit modest – married)
with freshly clipped formerly gnarly toenails
discounts...
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Categories:
obliterated, 12th grade, abuse, africa, america, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Rhyme
My Friend Solidity
My friend Solidity and I grew up together, ...
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Categories:
obliterated, fear, friendship, prayer, trust,
Form:
Personification
Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene
All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(sweat and tears)
of San Gennaro devout wowed,
and/or...
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Categories:
obliterated, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush, earth, howl, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
Memorial Day 2024 origin of holiday
Memorial Day – 2024... origin of holiday
Strong and brave men and women
gave their level best
crème de la crème
strongest and bravest
leaving grieving significant others
with emotional agony
within treasured chest
o'er the redoubt
the...
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Categories:
obliterated, absence, america, appreciation, celebration, conflict, howl, memorial
Form:
Rhyme
Shattered dreams of New Canaan
Shattered dreams of New Canaan
no longer land of the free home of the brave,
original rightful occupants hoodwinked, petrified,
where diseases xeroxed
ambushed, crushed, extinguished,
squashed, trashed, wampashed,
the entire kit and kaboodle zapped
violent unwelcome intruders
celebrated acquisition or outright
annexation of...
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Categories:
obliterated, allegory, america, analogy, animal, betrayal, dark, hate,
Form:
Free verse
The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness
"The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness"
When the crime
was committed,
the writing
was already on the wall,
no one listened.
It climbed insidiously
out through the cracks
like a friendly tarantula.
that sad poet
I read today,
she writes
of...
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Categories:
obliterated, love, mother daughter, muse, war,
Form:
Narrative
More Beautiful Inside
“More Beautiful Inside”
That morning
we all
woke up
more beautiful
inside
all children
were safe
and happy
no longer needing
to hide like Summer
and the love inside
everyone aligned
caring for one another
a pathological kindness
bloomed like a virus
inside us
some say
the...
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Categories:
obliterated, i am, light, love,
Form:
Free verse
Strokin' - Part Three and Part Four
STROKIN’: PART THREE
THE FULLBACK
He was twenty-eight yards and
thirty-two seconds from the end of a career
He had broken several bones, had a permanent
limp, knew the burden of performance to be an
unforgiving weight like the heavy black...
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Categories:
obliterated, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Mean Jean
Some folks just don't have a life of their own.
Some live on other's problems.
Some live on other's dreams, and hopes for the future.
Some live on just being the antagonist to everyone else;
They are the worst...
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Categories:
obliterated, angst, conflict, feelings, memory, my children, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
The Ashes of Our Innocence
A song can be heard tonight
Swirling about me beating down my strength
Enfolding the whole of me with thick, terrifying captivation
That chokes a city with the roaring thunder of despair
Of the innocent obliterated in the unforgettable...
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Categories:
obliterated, faith, history, hope, inspirational, recovery from..., visionary,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Digital Prints
Digital Prints
When lightening had blighted their perilous shadows at break neck speed
Vision and mystery succumbed sprightly beyond recognition scared and scarred
Obliterated in illiterate darkness they were easy prey for shadow’s projections
‘Tinkerbell’ had lost her way...
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Categories:
obliterated, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
Gifts
Nascent pristine morning awakens charisma,
curtains of anxieties pulled aside-- oh look they reveal!
A whitewashed wall proudly flaunting the crayon drawing,
my daughter's innocent fantasies when she was nine.
Windows of paraphernalia bask in golden glory,
transparent dew drops...
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Categories:
obliterated, angel, god,
Form:
Free verse
A Tarnished Man's Soul
Hush the silence, hurt the ignorance,
Hurt in the silence, hushed by your loud heartbeat,
I couldn't fight for you, I wasn't strong enough,
You left me no choice, you pushed me away and pulled someone else close,
Now...
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Categories:
obliterated, absence, beach, boyfriend, universe,
Form:
Ballad
Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970s
Arcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020
Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade
(or substitute favorite creative soul)
how aforementioned illustrious artists drape
mesmerized amateur and/or
art appreciation...
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Categories:
obliterated, 11th grade, 12th grade, environment, father, growing
Form:
Free verse
Gobbledygook About Thanks Taking Formerly Known As Thanksgiving
Heretofore stuffing said scandalous fête
worst day of year turkeys do hate
though vegan lifestyle
sweeping culinary tables of late
though me and the missus
still omnivorous foods sate
palates sprinkled (of course
while mouths full with borscht,
and eyes wide shut)
with garbled...
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Categories:
obliterated, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
Cocoa(Nuts) In Punta Cana
Four palms, one taller, the other three measure the same.
Heavily anchored in sand, all are vertical climbers of this azure sky.
Eight new fronds per palm, the older ones neatly trimmed by man.
No cocoanuts anywhere to...
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Categories:
obliterated, funny, holiday, placessun, planet,
Form:
Narrative
Sendai People
SENDAI PEOPLE
Inside the school gym, people huddled in blankets:
In a corner were two women, three boys - one wearing a green belt
And judo pants ...
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Categories:
obliterated, epichouse, house, mother,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Just Another Day In My Man Cave
I always arise
at break of dawn,
when curtained solar
radiance openly drawn
upon a vast
wasteland, though thankfully
most (boot...
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Categories:
obliterated, 5th grade, age, art, culture, home, memory,
Form:
Free verse
We Fall in Love and They Have No Mercy
{"You mugged out all of the resonant voices whispering in your head, you summoned them to go noiseless against your cranium. You beseeched not to be an overthinker, nor to forge as one of them....
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Categories:
obliterated, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, anxiety, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Learning when how to close seat then
Learning when/how to close seat then...
flush... the toilet with good frisson!
Bull leave me you, though how bison
teen and juvenile
from a sixty four year old
married male no less!
(alternately titled long windedly
using lower case letters:
no matter...
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Categories:
obliterated, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, age,
Form:
Rhyme
Mild Temperatures Gradually Melt Snow
Mild temperatures gradually melt snow
I looked outside the bedroom window
here at B44 Highland Manor Apartments
today February 28th, 2021 low and behold
took stock of soundless grounded sideshow.
Barenaked lady, i.e. mother earth
partially sloughed off her downy soft...
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Categories:
obliterated, anger, conflict, crush, grave, grief, horror, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme