Long Poems About Pop Culture
#PopCulture
MusicallyMrM
Poem Published
4th Mar 2024 5:33pm
4th Mar 2024 5:33pm
Pagan Coloures (by Musically Mr M and Monovox128)
#PopCulture
#pagan
#sensual #passion
#sensual #passion
86 reads
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crystalcolumz
-Shannon-
-Shannon-
Poem Published
16th Feb 2024 4:11am
16th Feb 2024 4:11am
A Penchant for Rat Meat
Leonard stumbled stiffly down La Cienega Blvd. as if on stilts, yellow sandals clapping against the soles of his dry calloused feet. A nylon rope held his greasy jeans up, and the ends bounced around his knees. He held a cigarette the way a child would hold onto a pencil, and inhaled deeply on the cheap tobacco.
It smelled rank, like a garbage can or an ashtray that hadn’t been emptied for a week. Yet, he didn’t gag or choke or cough. He blew a small white thin plume of smoke into the air that dissolved like vapor. The concrete was discolored, the asphalt warm, and the sky as...
It smelled rank, like a garbage can or an ashtray that hadn’t been emptied for a week. Yet, he didn’t gag or choke or cough. He blew a small white thin plume of smoke into the air that dissolved like vapor. The concrete was discolored, the asphalt warm, and the sky as...
#horror
#PopCulture
61 reads
4 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
23rd Nov 2023 1:45pm
23rd Nov 2023 1:45pm
Even Reds Get Moon-eyed On Saturday Night
Now, you have me at the video store. And I was promised the first pick of the movie. I have a yen for something with a socio-political subtext. Here, is one, ‘The Trial’ an Orson Welles movie based on the Kafka novel. That is my choice.”
“How Kafkaesque, but watching a guy accused of a nameless crime sounds kind of dreary.”
“No not at all! You just have to get in the right mindset. Paranoia can be healthy in small doses like salt on French fries.”
“Then what about ‘Rebel Without A Cause?’”
“My urban rebellion has a cause. But...
“How Kafkaesque, but watching a guy accused of a nameless crime sounds kind of dreary.”
“No not at all! You just have to get in the right mindset. Paranoia can be healthy in small doses like salt on French fries.”
“Then what about ‘Rebel Without A Cause?’”
“My urban rebellion has a cause. But...
#romantic
#politics
#PopCulture #feminism
#PopCulture #feminism
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Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
20th Nov 2023 00:28am
20th Nov 2023 00:28am
FILM REVIEW Thanksgiving (2023)
I just saw Thanksgiving, the new slasher film by Eli Roth, and it was fun. Featuring a great cold open wherein a Black Friday sale leads to a deadly rampage of greed in a small town, we cut to one year later as a slasher in a Pilgrim hat and mask starts insisting on the real reason for the season, one mutilated corpse at a time. It therefore becomes incumbent upon Jessica (Nell Verlaque), daughter of the owner of the store where the stampede took place, to solve the mystery with help from local sheriff Eric (Patrick Dempsey) and boyfriend Bobby (Jalen Thomas Brooks) before they end up in the...
#PopCulture
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Isgyppie_
Poem Published
25th Oct 2023 5:29am
25th Oct 2023 5:29am
Healing is a Long and Twisted Road
When I started to heal
I didn’t realize how
Uncertain
It would feel
That the stages of
Self repair so clearly mapped out
By scholars
Felt like they hit
All at the same time
And as I began to
Search for myself
Unsure of myself
I’ve unsuppressed feelings
And they roar
And I want to scream
But I’m healing
And I need to keep level
Or I should be
secretly I’m still ...
I didn’t realize how
Uncertain
It would feel
That the stages of
Self repair so clearly mapped out
By scholars
Felt like they hit
All at the same time
And as I began to
Search for myself
Unsure of myself
I’ve unsuppressed feelings
And they roar
And I want to scream
But I’m healing
And I need to keep level
Or I should be
secretly I’m still ...
#healing
#PopCulture
130 reads
4 Comments
goldenmyst
Poem Published
11th Sep 2023 1:07pm
11th Sep 2023 1:07pm
Frenchuality
Frenchuality
John comes home with some unsettling news. “Gloria, my TV land wife is with child and wants to be a stay-at-home Mom.”
“You called her wife instead of the leading lady.”
“Think but this, and all is mended, that every pout advertises some lipstick and each wink is a sales pitch for mascara, while kisses are the promise of a lost passion to find its song again with Aloe Vera skin glow.”
“Your kissy-face costar is a sore subject, but not so different from me. You need a new girl on the set.”
...
John comes home with some unsettling news. “Gloria, my TV land wife is with child and wants to be a stay-at-home Mom.”
“You called her wife instead of the leading lady.”
“Think but this, and all is mended, that every pout advertises some lipstick and each wink is a sales pitch for mascara, while kisses are the promise of a lost passion to find its song again with Aloe Vera skin glow.”
“Your kissy-face costar is a sore subject, but not so different from me. You need a new girl on the set.”
...
#love
#marriage
#romantic
#PopCulture
#sensual
197 reads
4 Comments
SonderNinja
BenjaminEC
BenjaminEC
Poem Published
9th May 2023 1:05am
9th May 2023 1:05am
Selachophilia
from 2014
Aye!
Let them come...
those rude & angry points
of misplaced palaver,
let their tongue stones conjoin
to appreciate teeth.
(I only wish to love & die with the sea,
to garden in my coat shagreen.)
Subconscious breeze, blackened under
the blue-grey bullets, like a shark
of words with a silken pirate...
an eye on the coast, in the crabgrass,
a salt-licked high on the skin of a mountain:
a...
Aye!
Let them come...
those rude & angry points
of misplaced palaver,
let their tongue stones conjoin
to appreciate teeth.
(I only wish to love & die with the sea,
to garden in my coat shagreen.)
Subconscious breeze, blackened under
the blue-grey bullets, like a shark
of words with a silken pirate...
an eye on the coast, in the crabgrass,
a salt-licked high on the skin of a mountain:
a...
#love
#PopCulture
#CallToAction
360 reads
3 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
16th Nov 2022 3:26am
16th Nov 2022 3:26am
The Wonderful Naffness of Things
And when the Russian bombs
evaporate us all I’ll think not of
great art or love perhaps,
but the wonderful naffness of things.
1970s sitcoms that lasted one series,
starring John Inman as
a fish-and-chip merchant
who goes to run a bonbon factory,
the jokes so bad they make you smile less.
Channel 4 “youth programming”
that’s really just pathetic pranks
like taking strippers home to mum
and windmilling your cock at passing cars.
The Coke and cooked breakfasts
my mum would bribe me with ...
evaporate us all I’ll think not of
great art or love perhaps,
but the wonderful naffness of things.
1970s sitcoms that lasted one series,
starring John Inman as
a fish-and-chip merchant
who goes to run a bonbon factory,
the jokes so bad they make you smile less.
Channel 4 “youth programming”
that’s really just pathetic pranks
like taking strippers home to mum
and windmilling your cock at passing cars.
The Coke and cooked breakfasts
my mum would bribe me with ...
#war
#humankind
#PopCulture #art
#PopCulture #art
158 reads
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Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
30th Sep 2022 12:53pm
30th Sep 2022 12:53pm
FILM BIN Amusement (2008)
A chunk of bottom-of-the-barrel trash, Amusement is a nonsensical pseudo-slasher film that often feels like it was loosely cobbled together from bits and pieces found at a studio backlot. Embarrassingly, though, it was probably someone's "vision". (You know a horror film's bad when even genre-obsessed websites like Bloody Disgusting and Gore Press are calling it "disastrous" and "incoherent".) Wikipedia describes it as an "anthology", but I'm tempted to say that that's just a polite way of saying that the story doesn't hang together. It is divided into chapters, much as Quentin Tarantino...
#PopCulture
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nightbirdblue
enbyblue
enbyblue
Poem Published
11th Aug 2022 3:01pm
11th Aug 2022 3:01pm
Slaughtering Song Lyrics / Unusual Remixes
Part 1:
Aladdin’s “A Whole New World”
+ “Reading Rainbow” mashup.
Books can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me, honest, now when did
You last dream of books to buy?
Books can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over, sideways and under
On a magic carpet ride
A whole new world
A new fantastic book to read
No one to tell us “No!”
Or question us
“You sure you need another?”
A whole new book
A dazzling place we never knew ...
Aladdin’s “A Whole New World”
+ “Reading Rainbow” mashup.
Books can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me, honest, now when did
You last dream of books to buy?
Books can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over, sideways and under
On a magic carpet ride
A whole new world
A new fantastic book to read
No one to tell us “No!”
Or question us
“You sure you need another?”
A whole new book
A dazzling place we never knew ...
#lyrics
#parody
#funny
#LifeAsAWriter
#PopCulture
376 reads
4 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
6th Jul 2022 2:10pm
6th Jul 2022 2:10pm
My Culture Fix - 06/07/22
The book I'm reading
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers, a debut by a Victorian literature PhD about a New York restaurant critic and "female psychopath", a psychological phenomenon which she discusses in the first-person narrative, stylised as a sort of prison diary. She's a cannibalistic serial killer, in her early 50s. The book, therefore, is comparable to both American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Hannibal by Thomas Harris, though in my opinion more interesting/funnier than the former and less pulpy than the latter.
The book I wish I had written
Breakfast at...
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers, a debut by a Victorian literature PhD about a New York restaurant critic and "female psychopath", a psychological phenomenon which she discusses in the first-person narrative, stylised as a sort of prison diary. She's a cannibalistic serial killer, in her early 50s. The book, therefore, is comparable to both American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Hannibal by Thomas Harris, though in my opinion more interesting/funnier than the former and less pulpy than the latter.
The book I wish I had written
Breakfast at...
#books
#PopCulture
#culture #nonfiction
#culture #nonfiction
213 reads
3 Comments
JAZZMANOR
Poem Published
12th Jun 2022 9:22pm
12th Jun 2022 9:22pm
Start of Showtime, NBA on the rise
Rise of a dynasty Cali style
running, high flying at the Forum
coinciding with my interest in ball
at least on the court filled with decorum
Professor Westhead with the run and gun
tailored made for flashing to the hoop
fast break so beautiful in execution
as if a video played on loop
Start with the “Cap”, Kareem Abdul Jabbar
most consistent scorer ever to play
don’t overlook defense and shot blocking
with a sky hook many a game did he save
Marty Byrnes tenure with the Lakers
brief so not a lot was...
running, high flying at the Forum
coinciding with my interest in ball
at least on the court filled with decorum
Professor Westhead with the run and gun
tailored made for flashing to the hoop
fast break so beautiful in execution
as if a video played on loop
Start with the “Cap”, Kareem Abdul Jabbar
most consistent scorer ever to play
don’t overlook defense and shot blocking
with a sky hook many a game did he save
Marty Byrnes tenure with the Lakers
brief so not a lot was...
#PopCulture
#admiration
274 reads
3 Comments
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