Long Refute Poems
Long Refute Poems. Below are the most popular long Refute by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Refute poems by poem length and keyword.
Rum N Raisin 3 - the Cat Who Fell To Earth
Raisin liked to make her bed upon a shelf up high
She said she likes the feeling that she’s almost in the sky
One day she fell and bonked her head and Rum could only stare
And wondered...
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Categories:
refute, cat, fantasy, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Narrative
The Bone Idol
[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...
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Categories:
refute, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
refute, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Translation of Dante's Hell Canto Xv
Now we along one of hard rims are brought;
And a thin spray on the brook is fixed,
So shield to rims and water is begot.
As Flemings, Cadsand and Bruges bewixt,
Fearing the high waves pouncing...
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Categories:
refute, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
My Thing Is This
As hapless vapors of decay, surround us, suffocating the fecund earth. A blanket of suffocating grey, born from the diseased aspirations of humanity. We, the self-appointed masters of a planet in shambles, gaze upon the...
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Categories:
refute, corruption, education, environment, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Living With a Myth
Living With A Myth
How dares one to speak of disability and live with it to tell the story narrate
...
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Categories:
refute, society,
Form:
Free verse
Cladestine
THE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.
Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined...
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Categories:
refute, corruption, death of a friend, depression, emotions,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Rhymes For Shared Times
RHYMES FOR SHARED TIMES
Maintain shared possessions - clean, tidy and in working CONDITION
Share responsibilities, or allocate them in a fair and balanced PARTITION
Keep your promises and earn TRUST
Be as truthful as possible and do not...
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Categories:
refute, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Village On the Water Vi
But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered
In the reverberating stillness of the
Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the warring mongol;
His impassioned lusts -- his...
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Categories:
refute, celebration, community, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Continuum - Part One
Protruding from new fallen rock, where fossil hunters play
And casting long its shadow, as the night gives way to day
This femur from an ancient beast that walked here long before
Perhaps an isolated find… most likely...
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Categories:
refute, future, humanity, time,
Form:
Narrative
Halloween Tale, Poetic Dream of Raven, Poe and I
Halloween Tale, Poetic Dream Of Raven, Poe And I
(Not a contest entry)
When into an unearthed slumber I fell
An accursed storm came with its black tail
Within isles of swirling doom and gloom
I woke, a prisoner in...
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Categories:
refute, dark, dream, evil, halloween, imagination, october, raven,
Form:
Narrative
Being Right
being right all the time can be very boring ...
if always right, perhaps you may have little to say
that's problematic for all-powerful beings, godlike creatures
the rest of us engage...
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Categories:
refute, art, philosophy, religion, science,
Form:
Verse
No Pirate’s Lament
When the ocean’s calm and shiny it be joyous to behold
When the spyglass sights Port Royal there be good rum to be sold
When a pirate holds the spyglass and his ship be filled of gold
Might...
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Categories:
refute, sea,
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:
refute, angst, fate, innocence, judgement, life, light, longing,
Form:
Verse
A Tale of Cosmos - Part 2
the Universe, a self-defining everything
but then, what of the Cosmos wherein we all dwell?
that big bang blast, forever on a far-flung fling
from beyond and within which, lurks heaven and...
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Categories:
refute, philosophy, science, universe,
Form:
Verse
A Journeyman's Plea
The great poets begged for muse and not for moments stolen.
We lesser mortals cup in hand beg, not for attentions’ span nor
cause to celebrate, but Time; a worthy goal.
Seconds spent pondering half-held slow bled moments
shuffling...
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Categories:
refute, angst, atheist, break up, dark, death, depression,
Form:
Free verse
Beneath the Rubble of Hate
Written: May 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Michael Fulkerson
Quote: “Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is...
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Categories:
refute, angst, hate,
Form:
Free verse
France II
Let hope rely upon your Maginot
for swift retort has choked your Gallic might.
It crushed your will beneath its undertow
as diligence receded in the fight.
Your flailing forces teeter on defeat
and any hint of truce shall be...
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Categories:
refute, world war ii,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Con'Vince' the Man
PROLOGUE:
For what's in a name,
That Shakespeare untamed,
A lyric gained fame,
But when it became,
A different ball game,
For one who's insane.
Yet if twin Yanks say 'Gogh' , 'tis equivalent
might meant, to be, like 'goes',
Dutch disagree, cite, annunciation,
could...
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Categories:
refute, art, emotions, mental illness, passion, sad, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rigamarole of Traitors
The US Marshall is a tedious branch, that can be manipulated over a process of a deadly undergoing investigation. The perpetrator was very elusive from the get-go. He boards a US Marshall plane rigged to...
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Categories:
refute, addiction, betrayal, conflict, hope, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Three Sides to Every Story
There are three sides that form every triangle
and not always are they of the same equal proportion.
There can also be three sides of many a story told,
and stitched with tenuous threads that loosely dangle.
Each strand...
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Categories:
refute, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Vincent Van Gogh
Decades of art, and some as oil paintings,
whereat, had most work made in just the last two years.
Persuades the heart, of similar taste, seems,
fair that, Van Gogh's work may be the best than of...
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Categories:
refute, art, character,
Form:
Lento
An Atheist's Rant For God
I woke up this morning with this thought in my mind,
there must be a God somewhere.
In school, I was taught that there is no God
so, I never gave the subject much thought.
But I started to...
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Categories:
refute, atheist, faith, imagination, inspirational, religion, science, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Just One Day
It was just an ordinary maze of a day unlike so many others
An array of multitude hanging from intersections of fortune
Aberrations cul-de-sacs opposites shadows cautious anticipation
Tentative expectations inspiration expiration holding their breath
Tim was aware that...
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Categories:
refute, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Select Which Effect Is Correct and More
Should Select Which Effect Is Correct
What you should do is detect and select,
Which one you want and can be correct,
That does adapt,
Without mishap;
Willl energize an effectice efficient effect.
Jim Horn
Heading for the magic number 666.
Jack,...
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Categories:
refute, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick