Best Sestina Poems
Below are the all-time best Sestina poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sestina poems written by PoetrySoup members
Sestina To SpainIberia, you took my breath away
with fiery gypsy spirit and romance;
with ancient Moorish history and grace;
with everything there is of you to see;
to hear and...
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Categories:
me,
Form:
Sestina
When Madness Rides On MoonlightDays pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...
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Categories:
god, life,
Form:
Sestina
The Stars and Beyond
As we speculate the clear evening sky
Iridescent with gems, which we call stars,
Alive in our hearts stir the endless dream
To unwind and solve the puzzles...
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Categories:
adventure, space, stars, universe,
Form:
Sestina
When Madness Rides On MoonlightDays pass into the weakest of loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath the colored brush of Van Gogh. He links.
Comets trail snowfields of...
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Categories:
lovegod, light, god, life,
Form:
Sestina
Will You Catch MeIf I should reach out, will you take my hand,
and hold me ‘til I reach that promised land?
Will you stay with me after tears have...
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Categories:
courage, depression, faith, loss,
Form:
Sestina
Divine Magnetism
I feel it in the hush of twilight's gentle glow,
where spiritual shadows dance in whispers.
An intangible force, unseen yet sincere.
A magnetism from realms where ego...
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Categories:
spiritual,
Form:
Sestina
There Is No Fear In LoveWhen I first realized that I loved you
I became afraid, for I felt exposed,
surrounded by the broken-down fences
I had painstakingly built as protection
for my...
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Categories:
love, love,
Form:
Sestina
When Madness Rides On MoonlightDays pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...
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Categories:
anxiety, art, depression, suicide,
Form:
Sestina
Celebarating the Adventure of Advent: a Collaboration With Kai Michael NeumannUniversal elegy grieves and yet embraces shifts of paradigm
New beginnings consciousness initiates comprehends and thus proceeds from
Illusion’s delusion collusions misconceptions in the irritating
Vortex whirlpool immanent...
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Categories:
adventure, community, universe,
Form:
Sestina
Revel JoyfullyIt was on a cold night in Bethlehem that hope was born
A babe lay in a manger as angels sang joyfully
Above the nativity a star...
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Categories:
happiness, holiday, upliftingnight, birth,
Form:
Sestina
A Cyclical LifeHere in the heavy depths of insolent woes,
We gesture and talk and waste our time,
Staking claim to each minute of our earthly life,
Running the hours...
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Categories:
life, lovewords, metaphor, beauty,
Form:
Sestina
That Was Then, This is NowYour paradigm's a relic and yes,
a plea from data's cemetery
While I sculpt luminaries on screens
a sable sea.
"Company loyalty!" a myth
spun in your...
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Categories:
dad, daughter, father daughter,
Form:
Sestina
Thinking of YouThinking of your smile makes my day,
So inspired to write a poem of what I feel,
Can’t take you out of my mind my dear.
In...
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Categories:
love,
Form:
Sestina
Life LessonI love being young, getting to ride the roller coasters.
The sound, tick, tick, tick, tick-like a heartbeat racing to the top.
Then, surprised even when you...
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Categories:
confusion, dedication, forgiveness, goodbye,
Form:
Sestina
Things We ThinkThings We Think
He said, “Every man is busy earning money.”
She said, “Is there anything more important than love?”
He said, “Is there anything more important...
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Categories:
death, love, money, space,
Form:
Sestina