Long Rasp Poems
Long Rasp Poems. Below are the most popular long Rasp by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Rasp poems by poem length and keyword.
Pequot River Land Trust
Once,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
rasp, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Various Heresies 4
Various Heresies 4
I, Lazarus
by Michael R. Burch
I, Lazarus, without a heart,
devoid of blood and spiritless,
lay in the darkness, meritless:
my corpse?a thing cold, dead, apart.
But then I thought I heard?a Voice,
a Voice that called me from...
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Categories:
rasp, america, bible, christian, faith, god, jesus, usa,
Form:
Verse
Canto Xxvii Hell Transalation
Already was straight up the flame and steady
To speak no more, and yet away it went
Being the sweet poet to let it ready,
When another, which followed in ascent,
Made us to turn our eyes to top...
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Categories:
rasp, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Beast of the Cave
When I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as those wings unfurled
Within my long travels I happened to meet
Two...
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Categories:
rasp, adventure, dark, death, evil, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished
the wild magic of this place;
this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps
into
Afterlife
..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I long to join again
in my brethren’s song..
fading sunlight falls in...
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Categories:
rasp, animal, death, fate, grief, howl, longing, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
In the Hush of My Sanctuary
In my sanctuary’s hush where Poe’s tales I clasp
Into his world I plunge with a breath, a rasp.
Beneath the creaking floorboards a heart's pulse
In my mind, my mind, oh it throbs and gasps;
Suddenly then I'm...
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Categories:
rasp, death, fear, halloween, heart, horror, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
My Goddess of Home Furnishings
My Goddess of Home Furnishings
I watched you floating in your usual way, always in song..,
though you could not see me.
From between the racks of Men's clothing..,
at the department store where we both...
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Categories:
rasp, angst, fate, innocence, judgement, life, light, longing,
Form:
Verse
Planche de Chair Cuite
She was not invited
She was arranged
They never wanted Jasmine
not the woman who brought basil-clean hands
and pomegranate soap
who harmonized soliloquies into pastries
while they offered only
hinges rusted shut
She was not guest
She was garnish
Not...
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Categories:
rasp, betrayal, death, gothic, grief, horror, loneliness, marriage,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
N'Iron
strife riven island corner, rough hewn by rival visitation
vexed, looking in, looking out, on the edge of places to go
thrang in thrall of other realms, banners furling, batons flung
across...
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Categories:
rasp, community, culture, destiny, history, hope, humanity, places,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Gradations of Color
Hydration day’s a month away.
Online belonging company’s an hour from
startup stardom. Titration hors-d'oeuvre
Viewfinder pigeonholed
to rooftop tourist
traps ruin’d carriage holy woods
Hollywood's margins, Carousel 13.
Things You’ll Bury:
molasses sourdough flowers crypto-
currency...
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Categories:
rasp, absence, addiction, age, allegory, allusion, america, woman,
Form:
Free verse
The Dark Spot In Your House
Did you ever
see a dark shadow
in the corner
of the ceiling
and thought you
could almost
...
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Categories:
rasp, angst, death, imagination, urban,
Form:
Free verse
The Defeat of the Ice King
The Ice King stood mockingly
The Shadowfire in his cold bony hand
The snow fell
On the land
Upon his freezing hell
Send me a knight!
With the courage to take this gem!
Otherwise I will shatter its' heart
In front of...
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Categories:
rasp, life, philosophy, visionary, war, light, light, strength,
Form:
Ballad
A Love Story
Her beauty will be known for all the ages,
Deserving of its story in these pages.
A fathomless flame in eternity rages.
A rhapsody is her name sung by Angels.
Silken hair matching the suns golden hue.
Mirror the seven...
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Categories:
rasp, beauty, black love, dark, heartbreak, sad love,
Form:
Lyric
Him Too, Or the Drowning Femenist, Part I
Dylan Carston was a well-off young man,
thanks to a large and health trust fund,
his father was a true Wall Street ace
and had been quite generous to his sons.
Dylan had set himself up in Miami
after years...
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Categories:
rasp, abuse, anger, beach, dark, men, satire, women,
Form:
Narrative
Oracle of Giza
A new day perhaps, of immeasurable tin, sound of din
A hurricane noise, a thrall of riotous cuts, although thin
The blood-curdle choke of rage from before
Now purchased like plasma from the needle store
Go hump yourself, If...
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Categories:
rasp, 11th grade, absence, allusion, aubade, blue, christian,
Form:
Abecedarian
Wave of Fantasy
Let’s sail away to Acapella,
A celebrity haunt owned by Penn and Teller.
I shall act as your prince, you’ll be Cinderella
When we’re sat on a beach in Acapella.
It’s not as sexy as Cannes or as dowdy...
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Categories:
rasp, celebrity, fantasy, guitar, imagination, music, voice, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Garden Guests
A post from the past.....just trying to put down all the ones I have written but deleted when I left the site for a while......this is almost too long, but I couldn't find which animal...
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Categories:
rasp, animal, earth, education, kids, garden, insect,
Form:
Rhyme
Honeybee
i love the early morning rasp of his voice
the birthmarks and burn scars
midsummer skin
i love the sticky rash of lust
the way a heart ticks until it implodes
the sugar soaked kisses
i do not love the way...
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Categories:
rasp, anger, anxiety, dark, love hurts, poems, spoken
Form:
Free verse
The Wooden Cask
I want to tell you a story that will not end with the glory,
Of a good friendship gone gory, come on drink the drink from my flask.
You have backstabbed me through my worst, so...
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Categories:
rasp, death, fantasyme, drink, me,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
To See Marlena, Part I
Conley Pratt slouched over the horn
of a battered and trail-worn saddle,
been on the run for several hours now
after being caught rustling cattle.
His side ached, caked in fresh blood
from where a large bullet had struck,
he heard...
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Categories:
rasp, betrayal, death, devotion, history, lost love, love,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Word Game Conversation (Part 2)
to cut down tridents of false truths that men gather ......they peace and plan for
tomorrow, but I can't understand why they have such a nothing plan
in power the rich....they control us all....but...
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Categories:
rasp, computer-internet, friendship, philosophy, water, me, power, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Words of a Dying God, Part Iv
...‘But for existence to continue on
a deity must always exist,
and each will consume all that went before,
then remake it, so that all will persist.
‘That is why you die, and why you struggle,
and though the process...
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Categories:
rasp, depression, god, life, sad, spiritual, universe, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
As I Plot Just One More Day
As I Plot Just One More Day
Desperate as the waking at blackest dawn
I seek only moments within eternity,
for the day upon me is long
and I do not ponder its end
Forever that blackened door beckoned
in...
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Categories:
rasp, appreciation, art, dark, deep, life, perspective, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Under the heavy aegis of passing time
Under the heavy aegis of passing time,
Centuries have become a burden weighing upon the moment,
We are more severed from purity than all the ages,
Corpses of empires, our own decay surrounds us.
History extinguishes under our exhausted...
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Categories:
rasp, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Echoes Of The Silent Shore
There come those nights—you know the sort:
The ones where the moon is a tear-stained cheek, pressed to heaven’s passenger seat window,
Toying with the tides to the rhythm of some melancholy song that only she knows.
She’s...
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Categories:
rasp, love, metaphor, moon, nature, sea,
Form:
Free verse