Long Rancid Poems
Long Rancid Poems. Below are the most popular long Rancid by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Rancid poems by poem length and keyword.
FlintFlint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...
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Categories:
rancid,
Form:
Abecedarian
Rejection Slips 2Rejection Slips 2
The Shape of Mourning
by Michael R. Burch
The shape of mourning
is an oiled creel
shining with unuse,
the bolt of cold steel
on a locker
shielding memory,
the monthly penance
of flowers,
the annual wake,
the face in the...
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Categories:
rancid, beauty, death, desire, life, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Free Verse IiNucleotidings
by Michael R. Burch
“We will walk taller!” said Gupta,
sorta abrupta,
hand-in-hand with his mom,
eyeing the A-bomb.
“Who needs a mahatma
in the aftermath of NAFTA?
Now, that was a disaster,”
cried glib Punjab.
“After Y2k,
time will spin out of control anyway,”
flamed...
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Categories:
rancid, angel, child, childhood, children, family, time, world,
Form:
Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
rancid, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
Inception: Trade Me Prosperity - Collab With Mikey Part 4Blossoming
Effulgent sun proffers love
Clambering…
My brain makes me wonder if you remember the times shared
Back to the blessed times, I recall that you would listened, be worried about me, and, at the time,...
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Categories:
rancid, emotions, words,
Form:
Free verse
New Menu at Milton Creek's Aces Restaurant*** Notice to the residents of Milton Creek ***
Tom serves as mayor. never complaining, so he gets what he requests
No blood in his steak, apple pie with sweet cream. Aces cooks that meal
to perfection...
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Categories:
rancid, people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Malkavian the SecondThe constant assault of the silence on his senses is intense
Hands clenched in fist he wished for noise and bliss
Buddy stopped talking and drinking he begins pacing as he’s thinking
Tired from walking he...
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Categories:
rancid, dark, drug,
Form:
Alliteration
Gold Is Your SoulGold is your soul
The drive there will be boring.
The arrival so momentous!
The disappointing greeters;
The sights not quite as expected.
The smell at times will be rancid.
The art of it all will be lost.
They will say “Welcome...
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Categories:
rancid, art, journey, music, paris, romance, solitude,
Form:
Bio
The Postelection SurveyThis is not really a test.
More of a survey,
so there are no right or left answers.
Did you mean to say
Answers are both right and wrong?
Yes.
Isn't that what I said?
Not quite, but go ahead.
How would you...
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Categories:
rancid, health, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween GagChief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...
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Categories:
rancid, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
Swimming Against the Current[Note: You will see in the work below connections to other poems I have posted here. Those poems are tangents to this poem that more completely tell the tale of rise, pride, hubris, fall,...
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Categories:
rancid, ozymandias, pride, sin,
Form:
Free verse
South Africa 2019A country of dreams has burst its rainbow at all ragged seams
In a state of affairs illusion of fusion and widespread delusion
The constitution hallucinates as night settles scores of deceit
Bereavement takes its toll in anger...
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Categories:
rancid, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gagat Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
As a Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got the brilliant idea
for his sole son to be dressed
with one of a kind getup.
Missus Shaner...
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Categories:
rancid, 5th grade, adventure, autumn, character, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Noticed Your Tribulations -Part 2-Hm, well, I see you need to give yourself a lot more credit
Than you give yourself daily – you’re modest, I do admit
You have a witty and clever side in you deep down
What about...
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Categories:
rancid, appreciation, beautiful, dedication, emotions, encouraging, endurance, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White TrashChief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”
As Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got brilliant idea
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua
putrid offal getup.
Missus Shaner (talon clawed,
shriveled relic...
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Categories:
rancid, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Thus Says HeThus says He who guards the gate,
The atmosphere is stagnant,
Stagnant with discontented gluttons,
Tangled with tricks and deceptions,
Soaked with indoctrination,
And charged with foul breath.
Thus says He who guards the gate,
The atmosphere is saturated,
Saturated with dirt...
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Categories:
rancid, angel, change, success, truth, , cute,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 9“You play on my every weakness from my past,
As a heart-wrenched spirit of truth caresses your comrades
They are perturbed as you are by the magnificent light,
To challenge your heart, is to render the fight…”
A...
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Categories:
rancid, adventure, deep, desire, night, passion, scary, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Woman of the Wasteland Ii of IiiThere he sits that monstrous hypocrite. There he dwells as I wash these dishes, his dishes. There he slouches, watching his games, his news, his crap. I try and think to dream past my own...
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Categories:
rancid, absence, abuse, allegory, allusion, america, analogy, anger,
Form:
Free verse
Self Portrait Dedicated To Leon Trotsky ContestSELF PORTRAIT DEDICATED TO LEON TROTSKY (by Frida Kahlo)
...
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Categories:
rancid, allegory, art, political,
Form:
Free verse
I Guess SoWhen we were young,
I held my long tongue
Foolishly sheepish
Life is a sea full of fish
Good times spent with you mindlessly
Boy, I don't feel guilty for being your minion of troublesome crime...spent so playfully...
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Categories:
rancid, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
DadBreath...
I sit looking at this page, thinking about you.
My first memories of so very long ago.
I was four and you and some friends sat in the living room
of our house on the corner. ...
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Categories:
rancid, dad,
Form:
Elegy
Ready, Aim, FireI’m mad as H E Double Hockey Sticks, flummoxed, and more than a little scared
Kids are being shot in their own back yards, makes me sick to my stomach
Mommas and daddies taken in handcuffs...
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Categories:
rancid, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
rancid, forgiveness, judgement, power, spiritual,
Form:
Epic
Inside a '72 EconolineInside A ‘72 Econoline
This old green van has a musty smell to it,
Like a pair of sweaty rancid socks
Mixed with half-empty beer cans.
It’s a banged up thing, this ’72 Econoline.
Scratches and mysterious dents
Cover its...
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Categories:
rancid, desire, girlfriend,
Form:
Free verse
Regretting Cake Takes TwoRegretting Cake Takes Two
Rachael looked sheepishly like a hawk in disguise claws clenched meticulous sharpened
yet hidden her sullen face pressing wrinkled no motion frosted lips the icing on the cake
It had meant to be such...
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Categories:
rancid, freedom,
Form:
Free verse