Long Retro Poems
Long Retro Poems. Below are the most popular long Retro by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Retro poems by poem length and keyword.
Free Verse IiiSalve
by Michael R. Burch
for the victims and survivors of 9-11
The world is unsalvageable ...
but as we lie here
in bed
stricken to the heart by love
despite war’s
flickering images,
sometimes we still touch,
laughing, amazed,
that our flesh
does not despair
of love
as...
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Categories:
retro, body, desire, kiss, love, together, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
My Sweetest Gift, a Childhood MemoryMy auntie came to visit when I was three, but nearly four.
I proudly and lovingly wore her name gifted to me, a sweet legacy.
I...
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Categories:
retro, angel, childhood, love,
Form:
Free verse
Devils Rhapsody in Blue
Hypocrites sucking off the silicone tit
of the antichrist spirit.
Man infestation from the pit of
deliriot.
In hallowed halls of discord, whispers echo,
the chorus of the damned proletariat,
a venom, seeping...
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Categories:
retro, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael NeumannUniversal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent void of false containment
Enlightenment modern postmodern retro visionary futuristic aspirations
Resound...
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Categories:
retro, adventure, community, universe,
Form:
Sestina
Once Within a MomentOnce within eternal Time
a coffee ground
of full-spectral
spacious consciousness,
Might sink in cold water cups
Yet rise to surface in warm oil sublime
joyously buoyant juice
Happiest to float atop
a hierarchy of divinely positioned selection
station
static inquisition
Yet again,
to an...
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Categories:
retro, analogy, earth day, health, integrity, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 1The following is a collection of selected critiques of the work of Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench from a variety of media outlets. The views expressed therein
are entirely unsolicited, uncompensated and unexpurgated,
representing the...
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Categories:
retro, mythology,
Form:
Prose
The Night I Fell Like RainYou had that future retro look: two thousand seventeen,
There was a slow and sultry permanence, a little slouchy lean
As you eased out of the taxi before it shot off to the right,
Who could have...
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Categories:
retro, destiny, water, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme
Post Post ModernismPost post Modernism
Who wants modernity in any case whether
...
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Categories:
retro, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Secret Drawer
This Time Last Month
A customer
Opens door
Bell lets out two rings
That smell of books
Telescopes
Globes and other things.
Travel guides
Atlases
Maps strewn everywhere
Customer
Breaks fourth wall
Speaks as if you're there:
"I got upset when I first heard
this shop was closing...
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Categories:
retro, business, family, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
In My Deepest FantasiesSunday cockcrow nascent promulgate aural essays reveal,
laissez-faire luscious lustrous buoyant raptures,
radio behemoth prompt to that untamed erudite fantasist,
me the one possessing rippled rampant penchant,
for titanic exploit extraordinaire beyond dimension heftiness,
a stimulant patently innocuous...
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Categories:
retro, celebration, character, confidence, destiny, dream, imagination, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Fashioned FortitudeA mirror never reveals
fallen secrets sewn with soulful sequins;
time unmutes raven melodies within,
tawny tunes of truth~
I once spoke in colorful dialects.
Now, I trust just...
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Categories:
retro, gothic,
Form:
Free verse
Erotic Poems IErotic Poems I
Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch
Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.
Erotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch
I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained...
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Categories:
retro, body, clothes, desire, love, lust, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Rhyme
I wish I hadOnce upon a silent summer eve,
as fine vermilion lines,
between bleeding moonlight,
swiftly sailed across
my darkness and I,
sakura springs sang
dulcet melodies of
a deathless devotion,
incised within...
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Categories:
retro, angst,
Form:
Free verse
In the Fecal Folly of the Scheme of Things Puke Poetic, SorryOMG this is what I think as I am reading?
thus pus poems and yes they stink
simple in word mire contrivances with
rancid rhyme scheme redundants that
exude explanatory expectorants spouting
word wormy willy wally whilst...
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Categories:
retro, adventure, dedication, judgement, philosophy, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm Part 21how the else you going to progress
if you don't Sherlock Holmes the mirror
look what we've become
men hunting each other
for sport money and babes
an insane ability to believe anything
and that's all there is to it
you...
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Categories:
retro, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Never Mirror Marriage Unrequited UnplentyCan u take boy me for what I am or do u need to fabricate an ego estrogen entity
to fit yr fee fakemale forum in twat time present and id/ego absent intensity. Do tell...
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Categories:
retro, dark, introspection, judgement, marriage, voyage, wife,
Form:
Free verse
Tapeta LucidaWalking through the glittering iridescent sea ...
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Categories:
retro, adventure, beautiful, introspection, light, romantic, sea, sun,
Form:
Rhyme
Theater of Utter Charm Part 24what do you need to be told
to make you capable of pragmatic liberation
which could be the foundation to a new
assessment of the inevitable
darkness is our measure but never our limit
its manic prism reflects everything all...
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Categories:
retro, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Riffs In TimeTwo soldiers. One fancies himself a punk rocking soldier of fortune and the other, nicknamed hillbilly, because he lost his shoes, they plan a trip anarchist cookbookrecipe fear and loathingbeyond culture shock We journey...
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Categories:
retro, addiction, america, crazy, culture, drug, environment, travel,
Form:
Haibun
Unshackle My Verse: CypherThe newest reality show, on Imagination Response Operations Network or (IRON)and it is called Reclamations and is...
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Categories:
retro, adventure, computer, evil, fantasy, freedom, inspirational, war,
Form:
Free verse
Jazz AliveSpoken Word Poetry: JAZZ ALIVE
Man alive, and this ain’t no jive, I’m diggin’ on jazz to stay alive/
East Coast rhythms from the 50’s and 60’s, in the heart of the city, where the music breaths/
Up...
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Categories:
retro, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word
Errata IErotic Errata
by Michael R. Burch
I didn’t mean to love you; if I did,
it came unbid-
en, and should’ve remained hid-
den!
***
Less Heroic Couplets: Marketing 101
by Michael R. Burch
Building her brand, she disrobes,
naked, except for her earlobes.
***
Negligibles
by Michael...
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Categories:
retro, crush, desire, funny love, giggle, hilarious, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Frigidaire -
oh hello-
my name is frigidair and I am
a (retro) refrigerator
for food
I have been in this apartment
since 1950
a nice kitchen but I cannot...
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Categories:
retro, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Lost Causes RemasteredSanta Clauses were to be molten and reshaped into Holy Cross bunnies
on a mega 3D printer but then the app somehow went...
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Categories:
retro, easter,
Form:
Free verse
The Love I Seethe For My SonsIn my life thus far I have lived the following enhances of verbal helping experiences learned in 7th grade from Mrs. Aumond; Is am are was were be being been have has had do does...
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Categories:
retro, analogy, caregiving, divorce, feelings, introspection, truth,
Form:
Free verse