Long Riots Poems
Long Riots Poems. Below are the most popular long Riots by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Riots poems by poem length and keyword.
Indignation 1-6-21How dare you desecrate the Capitol with urine and feces!
Even filthy pigs refuse to defecate near their own dwelling place.
How dare you flaunt confederate flags, grim reminders of our bloody history,
Alongside swastikas, hate symbols...
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Categories:
riots, anger, discrimination, emotions, hurt, prejudice, racism, violence,
Form:
Free verse
The Breakfast Program and MeIt was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold
civil rights riots plagued my little...
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Categories:
riots, america, beautiful, black african american, chicago, memory,
Form:
Free verse
FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION CRISIS TEAM OF CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCESCRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP
AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN...
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Categories:
riots, america, analogy, anxiety, forgiveness, hero,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Resistance On the Iberian PeninsulaResistance On The Iberian Peninsula
“Liberté, égalité, fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity),”
Scream French revolutionists as they guillotine monarchists heads, 1
Then crown Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France, 2
Who commands the French forces in wars raged across Europe.
The Grande...
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Categories:
riots, education, freedom, history, irony, patriotic, war,
Form:
Verse
February 29th, 2024February 29th, 2024
Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...
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Categories:
riots, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form:
Rhyme
DelightAt once she paid a visit. In her colorful dress, so revealing and appealingly suited to her slendern torso. I to gaze the door way, mine heart pounded viciously, a death knock. I was...
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Categories:
riots, appreciation,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Drunk Tank ShankI once spent a week in the drunk tank
couldn't handle the spirits that I drank
the cuisine wasn't half bad
we even had a few laughs
but I had to guard my butt with a shank
……………………………………………………………………….
It used to...
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Categories:
riots, drink, joy, tribute,
Form:
Limerick
2020At first, it wasn't my father's Oldsmobile.
Then, there came a longing for a new identity
with an invasion of one morphing after another.
Next thing I knew, there was 'no' Oldsmobile.
It seems that so many things started...
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Categories:
riots, america, anxiety, christian, christmas, god, hope, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
Sometimes: a Random Poem, Part IiSometimes I wonder what is the point
To life, the universe and everything?
Then I remember that the venture is joint
With extraterrestrial beings
Sometimes I want to believe in UFOs
And visitors from outer space
I wonder if they will...
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Categories:
riots, allegory, allusion, analogy, fun, mental illness, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
riots, america, patriotic,
Form:
Free verse
Fire Cypher 2 For My HatersThis is a lethal ink injection.
I know I’m blessed to have rejection
Haters in my life
only lead to introspection
Understand
I’m still the man
Who are you to question
I agree to disagree
With all your...
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Categories:
riots, art, hip hop, rap,
Form:
Rhyme
Gateway TownGateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within the lawn-jockey, pink flamingo neighborhoods of moral decay.
T.S, Eliot,...
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Categories:
riots, allusion, city, class, longing, racism, slavery, urban,
Form:
Rhyme
Baha OkA synchronised swan chime is very pleasant in a cool breeze but sampling an electric blanket supper is just not that amazing. Nor is it justifiable in a spring turreted garden. Gardeners grabbing gates greedily...
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Categories:
riots, adventure, africa, animal, appreciation, baptism, beauty,
Form:
I do not know?
TwistedThey had his life story twisted as he plotted his death in advance
outsmarting his enemies evading cops and *****es
People hated him they wanted him dead
They said that he was good for nothing
Humiliated him showed him...
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Categories:
riots, sad, death, care, people, care, death, life,
Form:
I do not know?
No Protest No War!No War No Protest!
Colors of red, green, black, and white
spread on the east side of one campus
On the other a wave of white, and blue stars
A flock has gathered
The atmosphere seems peaceful
Tents resembling...
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Categories:
riots, courage, hope, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
WANNABE ACE ROTHSTEIN THE CARNIVAL BOSSYOU CLAIM TO BE ACE ROTHSTEIN A BOSS
COMMITING HIEST ON DISABLED ELDERLY
PERSONS BREAKING INTO MOBLE HOME
GOLF CARTS AND MEDICATION BOXES
RETRIEVING ANTIDEPRESSANTS HIGH
BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICINES HEART
MEDICINES AND VIAGRA PUSHING THESE
MEDICATIONS...
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Categories:
riots, freedom, remembrance day, spoken word, vacation, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Holding You~***Part One of Vanish Away the Anguish series…read Part Two, Leaving You. Thanks***~
It’s horrendous…
This loneliness
Finding it hard enough to extraordinarily express
Myself when people don’t mind how big of a mess
I’ve been in…for an awful long,...
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Categories:
riots, angst, betrayal, emotions, endurance, hope, words, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Tropical TopicalTaming a tropical topical tree? Taking a trunk? Telling a tailor? Traversing a tale? Many ideas. Much like the ideological dramas of a beach front. Wavelength of winds. Movements if the tides. Coconuts can jump...
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Categories:
riots, absence, allah, angel, beach,
Form:
I do not know?
Silent MajoritySecrets are anxiously being kept with a behavioral struggle, as one of the special few enters the room; obviously preoccupied with his thoughts. Bottom teeth are nipping his upper lip tucked tight, rope acting as...
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Categories:
riots, betrayal, fear, metaphor, power, silence, society, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Vietnam In '68Vietnam in '68
By Franklin Price
08/10/2020
January '68, I arrived at Cam Rahn Bay
Found out this place, in Vietnam, was the best place I could play
Ground bound, in the Air Force, and living on the beach,
On a...
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Categories:
riots, america, history, war,
Form:
Couplet
Flying Highin loving memory of my nephew, Eric
Jones, who is now flying with the
angels
I was a professional kite flyer, and had won big contests and tournaments,
As the one who has glimpsed a dream, and hasn't ever...
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Categories:
riots, career, fantasy, flying, imagery, nature, sky,
Form:
Couplet
A Matter of Heart, a FableIn the far-away land of Fiddlesticks, in the town of Balderdash, there lived a group of peaceful, loving Whatsits - a creature known to truly never ask a question of science, and would casually ...
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Categories:
riots, analogy, care, conflict, encouraging, fantasy, feelings, inspirational
Form:
Prose
Simple Synchronization XWeary weapons wearing writhing works wonderfully wreathed wigs...... Oh wow how magnificent the yellow radiance of a piece of straw. Leaning bending learning. Admire nit a wisdom curl if a pitch of ball. Throw away...
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Categories:
riots, baseball, bird,
Form:
I do not know?
A Lie-Nobody Tried To Save the JewsNote I did not ever say this......another poet did...
His statement inspired me to pen this Poem.
Nor does he know that people of all religions and from
all other countries volunteer a few weeks a year...
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Categories:
riots, death, humanity,
Form:
Couplet
Jan and the Sheriff - CollaborationThe new sheriff of Poetry Soup
Rode into town on a horse named Snoop
Jan was on his wanted list
And the gang she did enlist
In writing lim'ricks about poop
He found...
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Categories:
riots, fun, poetry,
Form:
Limerick