Long Scrawl Poems
Long Scrawl Poems. Below are the most popular long Scrawl by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Scrawl poems by poem length and keyword.
The Payload
"The Payload"
The payload
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly
of a ruinous pregnant cloud
bilious with buxom promise
it came crashing down
like school fish released
from the tight confines
of a course rope...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, fantasy, muse, mystery, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Love Poems IiiLOVE POEMS III by Michael R. Burch
These are love poems by Michael R. Burch about passion, desire, lust, sex, dating, relationships, devotion and marriage.
Violets
by Michael R. Burch
Once, only once,
when the wind flicked your skirt
to...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, desire, devotion, love, lust, marriage, passion, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
SnapshotsSnapshots
by Michael R. Burch
Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.
Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.
There...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, divorce,
Form:
Free verse
RipR.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is put to test
and the demons...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, death, dream, funeral, grave, judgement, sleep, sunset,
Form:
Verse
Ali's SongAli's Song
by Michael R. Burch
for Muhammad Ali
They say that gold don’t tarnish. It ain’t so.
They say it has a wild, unearthly glow.
A man can be more beautiful, more wild.
I flung their medal to the river,...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, boxing day , butterfly, discrimination, race, racism, tribute,
Form:
Verse
November 13th 2021 Happy Eighty Sixth BirthdayNovember 13th, 2021 - Happy eighty sixth birthday
to my long deceased mom...
Harriet Harris née Kuritsky
My mother succumbed to a terminal illness
two score minus three orbitz passed away
no matter she fought tooth and nail
to keep ovarian/uterine...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, absence, age, anniversary, bereavement, cancer, creation, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Each Day of Our LivesEach day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minerals,
‘cheap’s’ turned to ‘gold,’ not by Chemistry’s...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, humor, political,
Form:
Rhyme
A Bearded Man, Trees and Sea: Most Definitely the Mere Air#I was raised seeing images of a White Male, with a reddish beard, blue eyes or medium brown, depending on the Artist, as well as my neighborhood church along with numerous other entities; I would...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, adventure, appreciation, celebration, life, surreal, symbolism, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Paper Ghosts In An Upside Down WorldWritten words
Lines and verses
Poetry
Fragments of an author's soul
Frozen ink on paper
Entombed emotions
Imprisoned ideas
Trapped thoughts
Sentient silhouettes
Paper phantoms
Paper ghosts
School during a civil war
In six easy steps
A place of learning and reason
A propaganda soup cauldron
A refuge of normality...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, death, education, evil, nature, pain, poetry, war,
Form:
Free verse
Green Hell
As I fall into the buzzing altar of heavy
metal shifting sand, maw, swirling sheets,
illness drools plus plus halcyon?
drawn too many wrinkles...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, art,
Form:
Rhyme
The Evil EyeThe darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates and pries,
denouncing loathed dissenters to the keepers in the sky....
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, evil,
Form:
Rhyme
Emptiness - Soul Hunt
Written: April 27, 2024
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Seraphic, sibilant wisdom,
a grace-gorged vista,
...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, analogy, life, soulmate, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Citadel of CensorshipThe noblemen control the pen, indeed they own the farm,
but nonetheless exude finesse (and need I mention charm?)
with revenue to sate the few, exulting arm in arm;
for all the rest, they wish the best and...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter's Empress
Her adorned stars, crackling overhead
...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, art,
Form:
Rhyme
Swoon SongSwoon Song
by Michael R. Burch
In this ordinary swoon
as I pass from life to death,
I feel no heat from the cold, pale moon;
I feel no sympathy for breath.
Who I am and why I came,
I do not...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, absence, anxiety, bereavement, death, depression, destiny, funeral,
Form:
Verse
Completely DifferentIts so hard to be different in many ways unique, fresh, oblique
Confronting not conforming, defying not complying
Requires courage, conviction, confidence to be out there upfront emboldened.
Shedding the safe garments of compliance, the safe hat and...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, change, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
A Lonely/Lovely PathWhen I was a young woman
Just embarking on my own life
My grandmother departed and
Left me a special gift –
A small, delicately framed
Faded black and white photograph
Of a long foot worn path running
Through a tall...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, family, lifeme, family, grandmother, family, lonely, me,
Form:
Free verse
Time To Shower When Pervasive Odor of Ureic AcidTime To Shower...When Pervasive Odor Of Ureic Acid
Doth strongly waft, sting,
and nauseate about me
olfactory nose flying zone
bombarding cilia of
nasal passageway analogous
to displeasure wrought by
crashing, deafening, exploding,
ear splitting xylophone,
also synonymous isolated like
barenaked lady within
remote location of...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, appreciation, dad, father, health, paradise, self, uplifting,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Study At DawnSkylights warn and warm where acorns drip. The slight angle of acidity in the air can be measured accurately with a ruler or the nib of a ball point pen. Ball point pens are not...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, age, angel,
Form:
I do not know?
I Swearwell … you were there - you saw it all
you witnessed while I tried to scrawl
...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, analogy, beauty, longing, lost love, love, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
War ArtistWorld War 1
I scrawl these visions
in the light of exploding shells
and the grey sleep of a million corpses,
making my pencil the last witness
to the moments between life and death.
Truth shall guide my trembling hand
across...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, war,
Form:
Free verse
When Humanity CriesWhen Humanity Cries
Message in my angry pen
Peeps yearning for release
To scrawl on white walls
Venom from a ‘ball’ sting,
Bane in an irate pen
From a daring ken.
I yearn to hug The Hague
With stumps...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl,
Form:
Verse
By Now You Have Forgot' - To Whom It May Concern - Part 1Remember all the Wise Men on their knees upon your yacht?
With orphans on their backs they’d crawled (with others that they’d brought)
Through rubble on the highway sands and residues of Lot.
They came from severed cities...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, war,
Form:
Monorhyme
War ArtistWorld War 1
I scrawl these visions
in the light of exploding shells
and the grey sleep of a million corpses,
making my pencil the last witness
to the moments between life and death.
Truth shall guide my trembling hand
across...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, war,
Form:
Free verse
Our Trojan (4 Comrade Chima Ubani)The Trojan of our heroic struggle
The heroic struggle against chains
Which beckons with pains
That tends to make us insane
For we are already stained
As they offer us disdain
Nowhere but in the scorchy rain
From the cradle lipping...
Read More
Categories:
scrawl, inspirational, people, visionary, change, student,
Form:
I do not know?