Long Recoil Poems
Long Recoil Poems. Below are the most popular long Recoil by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Recoil poems by poem length and keyword.
Fully Employed NowHumanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...
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Categories:
recoil, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
recoil,
Form:
Abecedarian
Halloween Poems IiCompleting the Pattern
by Michael R. Burch
Walk with me now, among the transfixed dead
who kept life’s compact and who thus endure
harsh sentence here?among pink-petaled beds
and manicured green lawns. The sky’s azure,
pale blue once like their eyes,...
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Categories:
recoil, dark, gothic, halloween, horror, magic, scary, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 12His words stung me, as the cries from the maelstrom seem to retort
Their scattered, foreign words and wails retching their say
I listened, almost mesmerized,
Pulverized
“Come,” Said he,
With threatening authority
Upwards, higher than the balcony from which we...
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Categories:
recoil, adventure, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, conflict, hope, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Phantom MechanismsMechanism 1
Part #1
The things outside of my window dry out my eyes. The egg that I saturated has mold on it. The moon decays when I speak. The stars are all just God’s germs. Lately...
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Categories:
recoil, mystery, me, night, people, me, moon, night,
Form:
Free verse
So Soft Is the Sonnet of WillowsThis is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it.
It is something I wrote a long time ago and I thought I’d just put...
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Categories:
recoil, life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Zolar the Inet God(after Edgar Allan Poe's "The Angel of the Odd")
It was a tidy day and I sat, replete, under vellux blankets.
Sadly, my tea was weak, the bottle of cinnamon whiskey
tantalizingly low, and my feet swelling above...
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Categories:
recoil, abuse, addiction, anti bullying, betrayal, bullying, horror,
Form:
Quatrain
Remorseless Sweaty PalmsRemorseless sweaty palms
despite being prescribed glycopyrrolate.
Though the angst riddled psyche of mine crafted youth, long since receded, ebbed in the past, infringement, impingement, and indecent wracking wrath of mental illness, that even as a middle...
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Categories:
recoil, 12th grade, anger, blue, care, crazy, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
recoil, world,
Form:
Rhyme
True GritMy name is Mattie Ross and I hail from Yell County
In the state of Arkansas living, on a ranch with family
At the age of fourteen I suffered personal tragedy
When my father Frank Ross was...
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Categories:
recoil, america, death, loss, murder,
Form:
Narrative
Last Turn of the Morning Carousel Forever Turn the Midnight Carousel Birthday Poem For MerryAm I just another antiquity
An artist who finds a natural home
Among the paupers whose graves are marked with serial numbers
Instead of headstones?
I hate gimmicks and dismiss them
Like any other moment of mediocrity.
The truth...
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Categories:
recoil, anxiety, death of a friend, depression, i
Form:
Free verse
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru ZingLima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...
thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting from selfishness, I feel quite aghast.
Yes practically every word
needs be...
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Categories:
recoil, absence, conflict, emotions, family, heartbroken, horror, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
No Eden HereNo Eden here, for there’s no snake;
There’s just a thief who likes to take
The labors of all our hard work.
My blood is boiling, half berserk
Near stripped of reason, one thing’s clear:
I’m settling the score...
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Categories:
recoil, humorous, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Malevolent Maverick Mailer-DaemonMalevolent maverick mailer-daemon...
wrought maximum monetary mayhem
within mein kampf
Incomprehensible inhumane
inquisitorial imp incarnate injudiciously,
ineffably, indescribably inflicted
inxs inexorable insidious injury.
Snake charmer also known
in the underworld as Harvey Specter
subliminally slithered,
and deftly insinuated himself
into body electric of yours truly
forever remotely...
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Categories:
recoil, abuse, america, analogy, anger, anxiety, betrayal, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
RafshropshireladI volunteered for service in the RAF in early 1942,
When I’d just become 18 and got three shillings a day;
I became a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner right through,
And was then sent home to await training, the...
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Categories:
recoil, courage, england, hero, history, political, remember, world
Form:
Quatrain
SpeakA smile crawls onto my face.
What a strange feeling to be happy.
I spot him within the crowded mass of zombies.
He flashes a smirk my way.
My cheeks flare a vibrant pink.
I can feel the warmth...
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Categories:
recoil, abuse, anxiety, change, for him, memory, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 12c the FireflowerChapter 12 (c) The Fireflower (continued)
So forthwith it was decided
That upon the next day’s dawning
They would send a party swiftly
Inland by a river valley
They would climb to highland forest...
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Categories:
recoil, adventure, africa, animal, history, mythology, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Like a Childsweet bundles of joy
symbols of forthright candor~
blooms in God's garden
As we traverse through the bends and curves of weary life, how we wish to retrace our steps to the childhood days when we were so...
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Categories:
recoil, childhood, growing up, kid,
Form:
Haibun
Hate Speach For Hollywoodthe new renaissance
pushed the envelope too far
actions speak louder than words
under my thumb from your torture
I must confess im obsessed
cant stop thinking about you
for one day
No need for us to buy records or movies
just disgusting
disgusting
couldn't...
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Categories:
recoil, musicme, me, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Once I Was Prince - Part Onefor Granny Letchumi (b. fin 19th C. - d. 1978)
Once i was a prince in your highbeamed palm-thatched house
timber and stone
of hardened mud and cold green shiny cement
in your village...
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Categories:
recoil, family, day, me,
Form:
Free verse
The Cowardice of the Taliban and the Silence of the Good MuslimsThe Cowardice of the Taliban and The Silence of The Good Muslims.
When hot lead tears the flesh of a 14 year old girl,
ripping through her skull,
leaving her to bleed out and die,
does Allah not recoil...
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Categories:
recoil, allah, daughter, faith, freedom, girl, girlfriend, god,
Form:
I do not know?
A Tiny Grain of Sand Part 4Breeze weakens, the wind release me a new path of life waits to be found
Your horizon of the sand is my past, out of view is my future we separate without a sound
The invisible hand that...
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Categories:
recoil, blessing, inspiration, meaningful, perspective,
Form:
Verse
King of FruitsDurians As king Of Fruits
When it is fruits season locally, everywhere there is an abundant display of all kinds of fruits…
In any given location, you’ll be spoilt for choices given the wide selection of fruits…
Of...
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Categories:
recoil, addiction, appreciation, community, food, fruit, joy, sensual,
Form:
Light Verse
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:
recoil, anxiety, satire, sleep, violence,
Form:
Verse
I Am JacobNot now the Egypt of my death for I
Have not seen my Bethel yet, nor have I
The coat of many colors made, let me meet
First the soft Rachel of my enslaved years
My heart for her...
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Categories:
recoil, faith, inspirational, peoplegod, me, autumn, longing, god,
Form:
Sonnet