Long Smarting Poems
Long Smarting Poems. Below are the most popular long Smarting by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Smarting poems by poem length and keyword.
Please Help Yarn Hexed Door Neighbor
Please help yarn hexed door neighbor...
Yours truly pinned down by invisible
vestiges of coronavirus and
getting attacked from angry plague
of buttons, plus huge spools of yarn
grossly mistook me for human sock
to seal and line...
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Categories:
smarting, abuse, anger, bullying, character, december, humorous, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
Chief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...
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Categories:
smarting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris
The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris
I led a boring life.
The end.
All joking aside, now the epilogue.
As a bookish fellow born January 13th,1959
he attended school and got promoted
as a...
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Categories:
smarting, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Sophistication of sinister online skulduggery
Sophistication of sinister online skulduggery...
lurks within the outer limits of cyberspace,
where dark shadows eclipse edge of night
indistinguishable from the twilight zone.
Within the Internet binary size weavers loom
shuttlecock whizzes (analogous to a bad mitten)
at speed of...
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Categories:
smarting, analogy, angst, anxiety, betrayal, emotions, history, june,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
As a Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got the brilliant idea
for his sole son to be dressed
with one of a kind getup.
Missus Shaner...
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Categories:
smarting, 5th grade, adventure, autumn, character, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White Trash
Chief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”
As Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got brilliant idea
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua
putrid offal getup.
Missus Shaner (talon clawed,
shriveled relic...
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Categories:
smarting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing
Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...
thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting from selfishness, I feel quite aghast.
Yes practically every word
needs be...
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Categories:
smarting, absence, conflict, emotions, family, heartbroken, horror, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
Hindsight Always Equals 20 20
Hindsight always equals 20/20
Acuity absent amidst domestic turmoil,
passage of time nsync with diminished
pitched family emotional battles relieves
blinded insight allowing, enabling, and
providing painful awareness incumbent
to mourn the absent paternal maturity, I
reach out with genuine non petty...
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Categories:
smarting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Voting Without Aggravation
Voting without aggravation...
Otherwise known as
absentee ballot/ mail-in ballot
if ye read no further... please exercise
opportunity to cast ballot
obviously freedom to choose,
but take serious stock of human bondage
(desperately calling out
for their Maugham me)
regarding: economy, integrity, monetary, xyz...
Anyway,...
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Categories:
smarting, 12th grade, betrayal, freedom, humanity, miracle, motivation,
Form:
Political Verse
When Love Is Gone
Turn all the lights off
I will sink into my sad, dark room
I do not want to see memories shared with you in this room
in every corner of my room, I can still scent you
I can...
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Categories:
smarting, break up, loneliness, moving on, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Fierce Fictional Fraternal Fallout
That dormant feeling of insecurity arose,
when travel journal got thrust adjacent
to my tattered (holey tattooed) clothes
while I knew with crossed eyes
aroused anger from peaceful doze
my...
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Categories:
smarting, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters
Still smarting from stupid scamming fraudsters...
five months ago to the day
Twas the cusp of tooth thousand
twenty three summer solstice,
when yours truly (a fool
and his money went separate ways)
mine cherished nest egg,
I would immediately miss
lesson immediately...
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Categories:
smarting, abuse, age, anger, angst, baptism, betrayal, crush,
Form:
Rhyme
It Was a Little Disaster
I remember the mornings and nights and your funny ways
I remember the moments, the laughter, the smiles that lasted days.
And looking back on the happy thoughts you left behind,
I find that I'm not pushing things...
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Categories:
smarting, girlfriend-boyfriend, introspection, life, love, peace, teen, words,
Form:
Lyric
Read Poem For Title
Rather than contact tech savvy Macbook Pro technician
Computer technology a dog send
boot also a source of woe,
cuz prohibitive costs charged by technicians
to troubleshoot Macbook Pro
just recently sought out
self teaching methodology
perhaps oddly enough
even tapping into pantomime lessons
(mastering...
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Categories:
smarting, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, angst, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Bon Voyage In Your Life Journey Ahead
I, (though ye feel averse associating
with birth father) attest,
perhaps undeserving your vicariously quest
regaling, surmounting, and triumphing
storied Penn ultimate academic conquest
affirms his pride and joy at
stellar success no credit to this beastliest
inept papa, who winces with...
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Categories:
smarting, adventure, beautiful, devotion, education, hate, i love
Form:
Elegy
It's Rarely Sunny In Philadelphia Part 3
I'm still smarting from the Sixers devastating victory a few weeks ago.
It been raining the last two days, but today it isn't, just cold.
You know, just when you think it's in the bag, you then...
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Categories:
smarting, grief, longing, loss,
Form:
Prose
White and Crimson Scribbles
My crimson scribbles; there is no meaning, there is no feeling, and there will be no healing, not today at least…
Horizontal, never vertical for some reason. I cannot explain, though reasoning is out of my...
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Categories:
smarting, depression, feelings, mental health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Sunset Swansong
At the frail fringe
of the twilight zone
the dwindling day flushes
depleted
the halcyon horizon
with the last shower ...
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Categories:
smarting, analogy, life,
Form:
Free verse
January 13th, 2023
January 13th, 2023
After wishing upon a star
to garner a handsome windfall
as a positive fated birthday gift
lo and behold, these ears didn't deceive me,
cuz I discerned a partial telephone message
hinting at word winnings to good to...
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Categories:
smarting, adventure, anger, anniversary, betrayal, birthday, corruption, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Facebook As Confessional Minus Sexual Abuse
Past psychological development
describes zigzagging mama's yoyo
casually, aye publicize, (asper
mein kampf) personal woe
unpleasant memories indelibly
etched, jagged, scar outlined like ticktacktoe
solitary games invariable resultant
draw between every “x” and each "o"
metaphorical of course for this poetic,
formerly non opportunistic
generic...
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Categories:
smarting, 6th grade, 7th grade, brother, childhood, dad,
Form:
Bio
To Be a Light Amid All Cares
pain and suffering is all that I see around
though now I don’t have them to seriously confront,
yet a nameless unease weighs me down
at the sight of hundreds cruelly beaten down
how many, under eternal shackles, tied
and...
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Categories:
smarting, angst, cheer up, depression, hope, love,
Form:
Rhyme
My Ten Grands and More
One of my grandsons, name of Benjamin
He likes eating toast made with cinnamon
But uses his wits
To not eat his grits
Then excuses himself like a gentleman
Charlie thrives on competition
Out smarting you is his mission
Bear hugs
Tiny bugs,...
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Categories:
smarting, familyme,
Form:
Limerick
Cry No More, Penelope
They weave, they weave
They weep and they weave
Smarting under the persecuting whips -
Verbal, literal or carnal whips
They weep, they weep.
Locust-like they swarm the streets
To reach the factories before the sun settles well
In its diurnal rounds.
There...
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Categories:
smarting, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
Cumulative Grief Lingers Roundly
Extant autobiography devoid
of livingsocial, I berate
whatsapp pining now resultant
outcome coping poorly did create
courtesy, sans avast kindled
linkedin self denigrate
predicated series of unfortunate
events buzzfeeding ill fate
capital one after another pinterest
newpages writers block did generate
countless blank pages interspersed
with...
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Categories:
smarting, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 6th
Form:
Bio
Rite of Passage
Is it any wonder that on a recruit's first day of service he is befuddled?
From day one he's told to do things by the numbers and his brain is muddled!
From the moment he stepped off...
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Categories:
smarting, funny, day, day,
Form:
Rhyme