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Riots Poems - Poems about Riots

Riots Poems - Examples of all types of poems about riots to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for riots.
Forest Mysteries
...Soon the forest would reveal its dark secret Poems are written. Music is composed. Ballets are staged. In enacting suspense-filled plays, each creature is engaged. Mysteries, like petals of blos......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION CRISIS TEAM OF CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCES
...CRISIS 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 LIVES ......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, america, analogy, anxiety, forgiveness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
1960
... Johnny Cash gives it away for free, John K says he would like to be Prez. Richard Nixon will run against him, so the republican party says. Lamar Cox gets 44th KO, ‘The Stilt’ scores 58 in o......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Warrior - Legend
... a gentleman from a grand, but time-worn oil-painting, unbelievably handsome in his forties, immaculately dressed in a formal grey suit, from the backdrop of a luscious tea-garden on a mountaine......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, inspirational, pride,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Chinamerussica
...(Medley: My Countries 'Tis O Thee) My countries misery creeps and all losers be of thee, I cringe And where our fathers lied and pilgrims took thei......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, america, analogy, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Political Verse



February 29th, 2024
...February 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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, 12th grade, age, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lee Anderson M P
...With integrity under fire recant and You'll be labled liar.' There are riots On the streets now' parades about The middle east, sad-guy just counts Up the fines, he gets from, his u l e z Low do......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, anxiety, betrayal, courage, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dark Ages
... She thinks in exotic colours that drip off her tongue like sharp shining jewels formed somewhere deep in the permafrost of her, the grey matter thrives in the lava somewhere rising inside......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, dark, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Waltz Of The Werewolves
...At high noontime, the tires are burning in the streets The sound of barking dogs is everywhere; the cats of hell smell Like never showered rats who are locked up in death row cells Where the air d......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, anxiety, deep, dream, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Insurrection - 2021
...Although we had feared it, we watch in disbelief, our country’s Capitol, symbol of democracy, invaded by those wishing to overturn the government. Throngs of seditionists in MAGA hats clog t......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, anxiety, corruption, evil, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tribute to Roger Ebert Film Critic
...Roger Ebert was a consumate wrter and movie critic. Internationally and in Chicago, where we met after the Chicago Riots. Each New years Eve, all his friends and to his famed, New Years Eve Part......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, absence, courage, death of
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Breakfast Program and Me
...It 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 brown mind sir......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, america, beautiful, black african
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Interlude
..."Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." Ralph Waldo Emerson In this performance we call life, my spirit searches for an interlude of peace. My poetic ......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Migraine Musings
...My mind spirals with murky metaphors In kaleidoscopic circles where Graphite moon-walks through magnified pain Reaching a piercing sphere noisier than A whirling maelstrom wrapped In fluore......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, emotions, poets,
Form: Acrostic
Freedom
...Feeling of relaxation. Home Riots reach an end at last Excitement built, yet tranquillity stays Emotions calm. Positive. Cozy Delight deluged throughout me Optimism and hopes high abov......Read the rest...
Categories: riots, emotions, feelings, freedom, hope,
Form: Acrostic

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