Long Ritz Poems
Long Ritz Poems. Below are the most popular long Ritz by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Ritz poems by poem length and keyword.
The World Is a Small Plane
I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times.
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...
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Categories:
ritz, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love, self, strength,
Form:
Narrative
Carver
The Trial.
Arthur, Sammy, Davis, Junior, Stevie Wonder, Bob, Mick, Sue, Carver. You are being charged with the partial demolition of a listed building. Endangering the life of one, Mavis Stepney. How do you plead.
Not...
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Categories:
ritz, adventure, humorous, prison,
Form:
Free verse
Shaggy Dog Limericks: the All-Time Best -- Vote For Your Favorite
The Spaniel
A Spaniel that uses its head
Can tell when its owner’s unfed
So instead of a duck
That is down on its luck
Will deliver a pizza instead
The Afghan Hound
The Afghan’s a dog groomer’s...
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Categories:
ritz, animal, cat, cute, dog, fun, humor, pets,
Form:
Limerick
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Recluse by dint of circumstance
Proud anonymous troglodytes
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.
He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny,
and tetchy ugly villain)
scurried into dark...
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Categories:
ritz, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form:
Free verse
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near Reality
Half a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…9…8…3..2..1…
Found me linkedin at the end of...
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Categories:
ritz, age, america, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Hiroshima eighty years since August 6th, 1945
Hiroshima – eighty years since August 6th, 1945
About fourteen and a half years
before my birth,
yours truly not even a twinkle
in the eyes of his then
young father and mother
the former born April...
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Categories:
ritz, age, angst, anniversary, august, conflict, grave, history,
Form:
Free verse
Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow
Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow
Initially written March 18th, 2023
and revised exactly two years later
tweaking the poem here and there
courtesy adding or subtracting Nabisco
National Biscuit...
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Categories:
ritz, absence, adventure, analogy, birth, humorous, jesus, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Urgent Message To Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone Age
Though I wrote no book
attention summoned to look
at following--->>>
Urgent message – to send Mephistophelian madman back to stone age
predicated upon past and present, I gauge
will offer ogre golden opportunity
to rewrite anarchistic playbook...
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Categories:
ritz, abuse, america, bullying, conflict, dark, depression, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Grew Up With Awesome Parents
Your face was red and blue…hope you feel good again
When I saw you, you obviously, abruptly coughed
I couldn’t help, but remember that…I’m feeling 7 out of 10
When I saw you smile, I knew you...
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Categories:
ritz, angst, anxiety, youth,
Form:
Free verse
ah, wassailing!
We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon.
It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild and change-filled hours. One minute, seemingly, you’re in a picture...
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Categories:
ritz, christmas, holiday, humor, new york,
Form:
Free verse
Dramedy of Errors
Walking from the horrid old motel, and out into the smaze,
a suffocating day, worsened now, by a mocktail shade of smog
in mockumentary proportions, she flounders in a fog.
Too dazed by crazy sitcoms that seem...
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Categories:
ritz, anger, heartbroken, lost love, people, relationship,
Form:
Prose
It's a Mad Hatter's World
A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole where bunnies ware
Waist coats and fancy pocket watches!
Empty tea cups,...
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Categories:
ritz, adventure, character, fantasy, imagery, imagination, inspirational, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Unsolved Criminal Mystery Modest Prevarication
Unsolved criminal mystery...modest prevarication
Found yours truly
a grateful dead head
convenient scapegoat dejure
Norristown police officers
fingerprinted me for
casual postal employment
linked to vicious brutal crime
someone else who shared
identical name and fingerprints as mine
the latter of corpse far...
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Categories:
ritz, absence, abuse, anger, april, bereavement, bullying, cry,
Form:
Free verse
A Perfect Place I Knew
Arabella’s 18th birthday
Darling granddaughter of mine
A special treat
A unique ‘do’
A celebration for just us two
At a perfect place I knew
Board a train to the metropolis
hail a cab through London’s streets
we approach our destination
and our excitement...
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Categories:
ritz, birthday, celebration, grandchild, grandmother,
Form:
Free verse
Empire Emphatically Enforces Exercise
Fitness guru (grew)
to an abrupt screeching halt,
i.e. did dramatically abate,
whence significant block of time,
I formerly did allocate
(within recent past)
...
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Categories:
ritz, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, fate,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Trump Poems and Epigrams V
Trump poems and epigrams V
The prez should be above the law, he sez,
even though he’s no longer prez.
—Michael R. Burch
Mercedes Benz
by Michael R. Burch
I'd like to do a song of great social and political import....
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Categories:
ritz, america, political, presidents day, today, usa,
Form:
Epigram
Putting On the Ritz
I pulled up to the Stork Club in a bright Red Coupe Deville. I must admit I felt a bit of pride as I tossed the bell hop the keys. I said "Keep it close...
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Categories:
ritz, blessing, chicago, cool, crazy, drink,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Heretic condemned to burn at stake
reprieve eleventh hour granted clemency
commuted death penalty
criminal sentenced solitary isolation
rat infested dungeon ultimate punishment
doled out after protracted proceedings
courtesy amazing graceful puffed dragon
unwittingly delivered merciful respite.
Cowled ascetic busied himself
exotic gaseous/ liquified...
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Categories:
ritz, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, betrayal, earth,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Sis Boom Ba
Your chlorinated water comes through colluded rusted pipes ;
your city taxes you to clean it up;
your house is torn down so they can build a strip mall;
they ridicule you and at the school...
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Categories:
ritz, america, celebrity, character, community, conflict, destiny, endurance,
Form:
Ballade
Grease Monkey Rings
It took him two trips to set it all up.
He kept it simple just the way
he thought she'd like it..
A basket of fruit and ritz crackers
ham and cheese sandwiches,,,
and her favorite
a giant wedge...
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Categories:
ritz, relationship, roses are red,
Form:
Free verse
Putin Non Gmo Gluten Free Cheese On the Ritz
Though a wimpy, tiny, and puny
(smaller than a breadbox) Ogre
whereat my portable minuscule
fingerhut size adobe abode ex
posed to Strunk and White raw
grammatical elements of style,
I counted Flip (Wilsonian) view,
to camouflage myself anytime
and anywhere as significant...
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Categories:
ritz, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, america,
Form:
Free verse
Theres a Pedophile In the House
There's A Pedophile In The House...
(ah...ah...ah...ham eye white...???)
OMG,... and he looks...
SAY WHAT??? just like me???,...
absolutely NO WAY!!!,
would this sensitive,
respectful, "FAKE"...
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Categories:
ritz, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, flower,
Form:
Elegy
Send Mephistophelian Madman Back To Stone Age
Impossible mission, nonetheless
eschatological, diabolical, critical...
dire straits betokens armageddon.
Come Tuesday, November 3, 2020
mandatory voting obligation to oust
horrible malevolent commander in chief.
Spanish and English writing on border wall
bespeaks impending apocalyptic windfall
weapons of mass destruction concomitant ashfall
brinkmanship ticks...
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Categories:
ritz, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse,
Form:
Political Verse
And Ignoble Prize Trumpeting Hubris Awarded To
And ignoble prize trumpeting hubris awarded to...
Bourgeoisie donning ersatz
overstuffed ego freezer bewigged pate
"FAKE" grotesque humanitarian
bribed corrupt judges will vindicate
jimmied cracked corn
land of "milk and honey"
red hot button he spoils to activate
countdown to Armageddon
leaving nation prostrate,
all...
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Categories:
ritz, 11th grade, 12th grade, abuse, fire, freedom,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance Second Cell
Artfully dodging explosive solutions
pretending shackles restrained prisoner
lobbed pseudo Molotov cocktails
kindly, loosely, and mutinously linkedin
liberal short (make believe) chain
leashed faux abysmal isolated confinement
former courtly poet,
who consumed prison fare
equalling bread and thin gruel
poetical,...
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Categories:
ritz, abuse, adventure, allegory, america, blessing, celebration, corruption,
Form:
Free verse