Short Retching Poems

Short Retching Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Retching by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Retching by length and keyword.


Drowned

From unconsciousness
I rise, sputtering
Warm liquid erupting
Belched from the lungs
Choked out, retching
Airways blazing
Rasping, gasping
Writhing for oxygen

That time I fell asleep
In front of the telly
With a mouthful of tea :)


Premium Member That Pretty Young Stranger

It seems bloody retching but fatefully true
When somebody fetching is fatal for you
You flee from the danger but fractured you find
That pretty young stranger has captured your mind

Submitted to the Rithimus Divisa 7 Poetry Contest
From "Thru Maritime Miles"
Sponsored by Gregory R. Barden
September 29, 2020
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Biting Word

The words wakes up
Snapping bits and bits
Of the created world
Consiously using the darkness
As a sure guide
Slowly stretching 
this retching darkness 
Loaded with pure worded bile
Stealthily flowing outwards 
to the seemingly awaiting world
All Crests up in fading expectation 
As each words carves his niche 
Taking crunchy bites 
From every unconscious soul
Form: Narrative

Towers of Shame

Academicians …
masticating and
 grinding their ‘truth’
Spewing out
what they would have us swallow
in gagging choking egotism
Regurgitating it back
in the toxic chunder
of a narcissistic reality
Papering the walls
of modern thought
with the bibs of their retching 
As they hide within
their ivory towers
—festering in mass 

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: September, 2023)

Premium Member Delightful

pie delightful, delectable appealing, appetizing, appeasing sweetness, sugariness, acidity, acerbity retching, regorging, regurgitating brackish, brinish fly
NB: This is purely my own reaction to eating flies. I understand it’s quite the delicacy to some. To each his own ... :) 14 January 2023 Delightful Diamante Poetry Contest Sponsored by Caren Krutsinger
Form: Diamante


Premium Member The Higgins Boat

The Higgins Boat
gray-green heaving seas men retching and gagging oh Lord don’t let me die Jesus let me live to go home rancid smell of sweat and urine putrid scent of soiled pants could I make it could I survive will I do my duty salt spray crashing into the boat sobs for mother muffled explosions like thunder coxsun counting down destination Omaha the steel ramp opens
war

Kvetching

If all your basic needs are met,
Your bills are paid, no cause to fret,
Whatever food you want, you’ll get – 
It’s then you can be kvetching.

For if you have no place to sleep
And hunger makes you want to weep,
The only thoughts your mind can keep
Might deal with budget stretching.

It takes some chutzpah to complain
When others’ lives are filled with pain,
Yet human nature can’t refrain
From some entitled retching.
Form: Rhyme

Hands Off

Enraged raw and spitting Love warped beyond identity Ten fingers ready to in-dulge Sick offerings real men can't abide Scarring rosette flesh once, always Memories etched eternal Blasphemers amuck, still free Where is the Newberry blade Cast upon ogres smiling with glee Revulsion retching tears without salt Anguish of hopeless helpless men Protection eludes soul aching ire Never settle for less than hellfire
Form:

Premium Member Blowout

The image could not be more clear:
the blowout from a diaper,
recoiling from my precious child
as though she were a viper.
Olfactory assault enough
to bring you to your knees,
the onesie soiled, arms raised, she cries
for you to help her, please.
Shaking, sweating, retching and forlorn,
gagging in the sink, “Who gave our daughter corn?”

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For the “Form I - Imagism - New Poem” Poetry Contest Sponsored by Constance La France Written on 03/07/2022
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Imagism

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