Long Riff Poems
Long Riff Poems. Below are the most popular long Riff by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Riff poems by poem length and keyword.
The Plagueas the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...
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Categories:
riff, society,
Form:
Quatrain
Saturday, September 23, 2023Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you
fall Equinox...
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Categories:
riff, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Bipartisan ImagesThere remains,
among cherished riff-raff,
old trope
tropical wet and warm
reproducing images,
Sadly resilient
and madly resonant,
About organic holes
and tumescent poles,
full-flowering
young
green feminists
of feckless zero-empty wombs,
glacier valley lows
merely reflecting
volcanic mountain peaks
1's and 0's
blushing co-binaries
of upright monotheistic YangPower
never
ever yielding to...
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Categories:
riff, games, health, integrity, light, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Mind's Eye I am paying tribute to Joe Bonamasso's song Mind's Eye
with my own inspired lyrics, this song is a jewel and Joe's haunting playing
on his Gibson guitar is like a light gleaming in...
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Categories:
riff, song,
Form:
Lyric
No Politickin' In Soup CreekThe oldest citizen of Soup Creek, Nopaul E. Ticks, posed to show his support for the town council's ban on politicians.
I hear that nasty Trump feller, wants to stump in Soup Creek.
He wrote to Mayor...
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Categories:
riff, community, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Letter To Ronald Hull On His Comment On Diary Notes: Lament At DawnLETTER to RON" Diary Notes : Lament at Dawn - A Year Ago Yet Now No Change "
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
8/19/2018
"Quite a lament! The state of Paris at dawn. Just the thought of sewage seeping...
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Categories:
riff, conflict, immigration, paris, political, race, writing,
Form:
Free verse
This Nonestablishmentarian Iman Kant RiffThis nonestablishmentarian (Iman) kant riff!
Otherwise titled as: Thanksgiving
nothing more'n gobbledygook
we stuff ourselves with.
Mine suburban outpost
approximately thirty seven plus miles
southeast of where liberty bell marks
history upon cobblestone streets
where sounds of silence
from walking...
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Categories:
riff, america, autumn, celebration, food, life, thanksgiving, thanksgiving
Form:
Rhyme
Graffiti HieroglyphsLearned or learnt not to quit ...
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Categories:
riff, on writing and wordsmay, today, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Inspection Time 2018Inspection Time 2018!
Understandable dear reader,
how this scribe bull lime
me bloke omitted mention of
one bedroom flat as
reason nigh rote this rhyme
Ma faux pas faw...
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Categories:
riff, 10th grade, 11th grade, 4th grade, 8th
Form:
Free verse
Rumpelstiltskin Rebranded As Outre Designer Couturethe daughter of a miller abducted, exiled, held
locked as prisoner didst bawl
achingly, effusively, indubitably murmured plaintively
quite riotously didst call
out for help, when stalked with facing john deere reaper
with nary a blues clue...
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Categories:
riff, abuse, allegory, anger, art, daughter, fate, freedom,
Form:
Imagism
I Always Will...RodgerSuch an interesting color, Rodger -
Green - like our mysterious calico eyes?
Yes?
You?
An idiot savant submits
into me - a blooming
garden of emerald delights? Like our
first encounter - regulated and raw (green).
Drawing our hunter-hued
curtains closed and tittering
in...
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Categories:
riff, loss
Form:
Free verse
Gamboge RomanceMy silent serene soul softly craves your candles of crystalline calm.
Your gallant greens of golden glow gently beam with bumbles, bashing blissful thoughts in a thundering whisper.
Our chemistry and connection is madly enchanted in...
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Categories:
riff, angel, beautiful, beauty, deep, desire, devotion, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
Moderate Debauchery, Part Ii...When we heard of his loss we took it hard,
at first it was very hard to believe,
and it made me double my efforts to
moderate my own debauchery.
But within a year it all began again,
this time...
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Categories:
riff, addiction, celebrity, endurance, music, sad, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
Conscious Magical Dreaming To EternitySweet dreams are fantastic and enchanting,
The golden wings of brightness are quite chanting,
The natural beauty of songbirds is like fairy dust,
In this dream, I broke down with joy and bust.
Oh, dream! The ominous curved shape...
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Categories:
riff, analogy, confusion, dream, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
The ImmigrantsThe Immigrants
By
Elton Camp
Mexican man, father of three
Feed, clothe them, would he.
But a job is not to be found.
Not in his own hometown.
To the north he will go
Jobs to get, he’s heard so.
Come here you cannot...
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Categories:
riff, satirework, jobs, may, work,
Form:
Rhyme
Moderate Debauchery, Part IWhen I was fifteen my friend 'Riff' and I
started our very own garage band,
and for the first year we truly stank,
but I've always been a dedicated man.
I pushed Riff, and we quickly got better,
soon started...
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Categories:
riff, addiction, celebrity, endurance, music, sad, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
HumilityDoes an ‘act’ that gets praised by a stranger reveal an act’s worth
Or reflect more the generous heart that observes? To feel love’s
Sure a gift, a response I return, no receiver can earn.
All the...
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Categories:
riff, faith, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Autumn Equinox 2018I riff flecked about thee august
Autumn Equinox 2018,
this polymath learned why,
September Equinox
will be at 9:54 PM,
...
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Categories:
riff, 11th grade, 8th grade, autumn, dad, dedication,
Form:
Elegy
The Bandits RendezvousThe Bandits Rendezvous
By Franklin Price
9/1/2019
Once upon, a Far East time, in nineteen sixty eight
The GEEIA squad made history on a non-remembered date
The plan had come together to build a club house new
When it was completed,...
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Categories:
riff, military, war,
Form:
Couplet
Crossroads Corners CafesOnce I got there I realized that I couldn't have found a more suitable spot to finish the novel that I started but then was stalled, just like the depressed economy in Detroit I fled...
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Categories:
riff, travel, writing,
Form:
Prose
Funkin At the Chickin ShackFunkin AT THE CHICKEN SHACK – Tony Adamo - 1990
Jimmy Smith was laying down an incredible riff on a wall of kinetic sound that was oozing out of my car radio. I was on...
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Categories:
riff,
Form:
Lyric
3121 Ce - the Wrapes of GrathThe wrapes of Grath adorn the path that slammer klingks had tread
when turning spades in everglades to flosticate the dead.
Along the way the snorbels bay at freebled sprutelned
that boogeymen had once again uphove above the...
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Categories:
riff, humanity, peace, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Life In a Tent - Out of a SuitcaseI have tasted new lands as I’ve traveled this Earth,
would leave prejudice (often) with dust shoes pick up.
No, not loam like the Dust Bowl knew (God knows our shame),
the clear-cutting of forests, Paul Bunyan (with...
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Categories:
riff, faith, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Never Land Part 6The birds of pray are on their way, in every beak the Word
(of ptomaine tomes by gnarly gnomes) whose meaning is obscured;
they roost aloof on every roof, obscene but always herd,
to tell the tale of...
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Categories:
riff, drug, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Awaking Recently RevisedI find waking up a challenging, time consuming chore
As I rather enjoy cavorting with kings, queens and wanton whores.
I admit I’m drawn to royalty and “Riff-raff” now and then
Even Jesus used to hang...
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Categories:
riff, inspiration, introspection, philosophy, uplifting, daffodils,
Form:
Rhyme