Short Rhetorical Poems
Short Rhetorical Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Rhetorical by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Rhetorical by length and keyword.
Wouldn't
It be nice ...
If people spent
As much time talking
TO each other ...
As they
Do talking
ABOUT each other?
Categories:
rhetorical, people, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Ambivalence
Apparently vague
Contradicting, contrasting, confusing
Embedded rhetorical ambiguity
Alluring, enigmatic puzzle
Irony
-Nov., 10 20,19
Categories:
rhetorical, art, imagery, irony,
Form:
Diamante
Metaphorical and Rhetorical
Had lasted forever and was historical;
Is something else and metaphorical;
What a mess;
Had to guess;
Effectively written and metaphorical.
Jim Horn
Categories:
rhetorical, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
What might a poet say in just six lines?
It might be rhetorical
or metaphorical.
It might be satirical,
or confined by rhythm and rhyme~
or perhaps it's unbound like my passion for you!
Categories:
rhetorical, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Their flashy words so rhetorical
Nothing new, just all historical
Words pregnant with deceit
Costumes mailed, in receipt
Unmasked, see... most are identical
For Carolyn's "Election Humor Contest"
Categories:
rhetorical, life, people, political, sad, social
Form:
Limerick
Little Bo Peep, taxed out of her sheep
How many does Big Oh need to keep?
Leading them about
With rhetorical shout
Over pomp and circumstance knee deep
Jun 26 2010 For Carolyn's "Follower" contest
Categories:
rhetorical, funny, political
Form:
Limerick
Dick the dog dangles his balls for all to see.
I greet him on the way.
"How they hanging Dick?"
The question is rhetorical.
"Bark once if I smell immortal."
Dick pisses on my leg
while his owner speaks of Keats.
Categories:
rhetorical, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Lost in deep blue.
Stuck in a mood.
Find the sunshine.
What to choose,
A frame of mind.
Open new views,
Just so much time.
Go in win or lose.
Move on with style.
Whatever ensues.
Endeavor to peruse.
Rhetorical Exercise.
Categories:
rhetorical, analogy,
Form:
Rhyme
Knocking on my brain
In dead of night
A word--THE word
I sought.
But the light is out
And all is silent.
No pen in hand or
pad on which to jot
A groggy, rhetorical question
"No, I shall not."
In the morning
I've forgotten.
Categories:
rhetorical, poets, words, writing,
Form:
Free verse
I
it was midnight in a perfect world
as a child my mind swirled
with ideas as domestic troubles stirred
from an early age, innocence unfurled
how can a man learn to live happy in this world
as to which we were so randomly hurled?
Categories:
rhetorical, analogy, feelings, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Rhyme
A dash of rhyme there
Soupcons of metre here and there
Chiasmus crosses
With alliteration in abundance
Hints of rhetorical questions?
Yes
Similes with style
A pinch of personification
Throw them all together
And what have you got?
Poetry soup!
Categories:
rhetorical, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
How fickle the electoral wind!
only yesterday a sure winner
but now a picture of despair.
Experience means nothing,
rhetorical prowess is best,
more like elocution contest.
Lack of substance is alright,
just talk and you are made
or end up politically dead.
Categories:
rhetorical, loss, political,
Form:
Verse
Lost the path.
descending through a swirling fog.
Cliff hanging, rock hugging.
To fall now
would add six seconds of time
down to the end of it all,
but not to fall
only to grip and stay
on the edge of a rhetorical question
that would really be a path lost.
Categories:
rhetorical, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The pedagogue, perched perilously atop his platform
Spouts slithering slander about a certain storm.
Rousing the rebels with rhetorical roars;
He warns the watchmen of worldwide wars.
He asks allegiance from his allies,
And creates chaos with his country's cries.
Categories:
rhetorical, confusion, history, war,
Form:
Free verse
his signature sound
in spoken-word poetry
rythmically chanted
rhetorical styles
unique form of expression
flow, theme to the ryhme
creative wordplays
freestyled live in the battle
lightly strike the crowds
~ a poem 'bout rap, which I do love too ;)
Categories:
rhetorical, hip hop, music, rap,
Form:
Haiku
hate me, then
if we never stirred
or tried to mix
how can you say
we will never blend
how can a baker
denounce a dessert
as not being cookie
ready if she turns
her oven off to him
how does an egg hatch
in the midst
of rhetorical questions?
connie pachecho
4/8/17
Categories:
rhetorical, confusion, sad,
Form:
Free verse
.
Melodramatic
Rhetorical
mistakes
Eyne hear
ears see
hands taste
tongues think
hearts speak
Reprehend
“never query the veracity
of a poet's
pen”
Categories:
rhetorical,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
H.F.
My German girl leaves me yesterday.
My heart cries more and more with rhetorical promises.
It makes me a tiger with sparrow’s bound; I knee in front of her;
My tears split with poetical senses
Such as the last drops hammering over the floor
And all underneath me disappears under my weight.
Categories:
rhetorical, nostalgia, pain,
Form:
Free verse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
If a question is old and historical
Can it still really be rheotorical?
This is what the whole Republican
campaign is turning into as well as
spinning wheels designed to confuse.
What do you think? Or is that a
really a rhetorical question.
Categories:
rhetorical, humorous,
Form:
Couplet
Poet Vehicles Used
Or is that second hand?
What’s yours?
Chaucer trotted on a horse
John Betjeman via choo choo trains
The knowledgeable Omar Khayyam by camel
Well my preferred transport a fast motorbike
Am I mad or are we all mad?
Poet vehicles not used in this piece: Rhyme, rhetorical devices, and patience!
Categories:
rhetorical, angst
Form:
I do not know?
"How am I supposed to feel
About the things going on?
How am I supposed to feel
About you telling me who to love?
How am I supposed to feel
About the life of mine you control?
How am I supposed to feel
About the lie I live?"
"Well I think you should feel like..."
"SHUT UP! You dimwit those were all rhetorical question's!"
Categories:
rhetorical, angst, confusion, life, people, teen
Form:
I do not know?
rhetorical questioning
became the norm within
this malfunctioning affair
never truly wanting a
genuine answer to be
declared
with a glaring stare
spread across the eye's
of resentment
words foaming from
the mouth filled with
such disdain
cultivated an atmosphere
of emotional hostility
causing the death of love
Categories:
rhetorical, age,
Form:
Lyric
Quarrelsome Questions
quickly quirky quips
quash quandaries quietly
quells querulous qualms
Right Results
rapid repartee
repress rhetorical rants
ribs rabble - rousers
Sweet Success
swiftly satires skill
silences sophistries spin
stuns subversive scorn
8 / 4 / 2020.
Categories:
rhetorical, word play,
Form:
Alliteration
I can turn my rhythm into
stanzas
my lyrics will be In imagination,
I can turn my words to melody
my words will be in classical
opinions,
I can turn my ideas into
metaphor
my vision can be invisible,
I can turn my precious time
to old one
my lines will be number,
I can turn my hooks into riddle
my sounds will be rhetorical.
Categories:
rhetorical, africa, age, america, art, baby, black african
Form:
Sonnet
hate love
Broken heart,
Tears dripping,
Red eyes,
Wet handkerchief
Lost love
Rhetorical questions
Sweet sad memories
Broken promises
Can bare the pain
love
Unfulfilled wishes
Cursing all day
Wishing 4 amnesia
I hate love
No reason to live
Lord take my breath away
She was my purpose
life
Stephen mastel
2019
Categories:
rhetorical, anger, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse