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Paeans Poems - Poems about Paeans

Fledglings in parental nest
...Way-lost as if we live in hoary past-- In epics of hist’ry poets have sung, In portraits of culture, hoisted on mast, Still, where are old glories, save on the tongue? One knows of few people......

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Categories: paeans, bird, history, old,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Elegy for Old Growth
...Elegy – 7-17-24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Elegy for Old Growth Through measures of metered melancholy The tattered winds sing a rent elegy, A pensive wai......

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Categories: paeans, death, life, nature,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member A Poet's Crush
... "A collaboration poem" Oh, to be a poet like me To be a muse, inspire, kindle someone's pen To be the one they come to for help and encouragement To be connected always by heart......

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Categories: paeans, art, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member LIFE
...Laughter and love ,sorrow and pain In times both good and bad Finding the strength to meet the day Ending with a headstone engraved Even after death there is life Faith leads us so to believe ......

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Categories: paeans, death, faith, hope, life,
Form: Acrostic
A prodigal son prays
...A begging bowl, I scarce can pay thy debt, Let me then indebted to thee remain For life, to cherish thy bounties I get, If I wish to give, wonder what’ll ye gain? So then, I opt to sing paeans ......

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Categories: paeans, prayer, son,
Form: Sonnet



To flowers once said dour thorns
...I For long faulted as wicked causing pain, And condemned as crooks of a cruel kind— Old prejudice or heartless brain’s refrain, Repeated ad nauseam a point to grind— An error all the same of ......

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Categories: paeans, flower,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Melancholy's Garden
...Lost in a wistful arbor, where malaise blooms, Mists flower in hypnotic bleak violet dusks Shades of brooding melancholy Bruise my treasured bouquets of dreams And plod through ponderous mists ......

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Categories: paeans, garden, sad,
Form: Free verse
Lobster
...Life is so cool On seas and oceans Best steamed, served over a pool Sweet and sour delicacy of paeans Throat where its brain rests Engulfed head where stomach and kidney nests Ripping teeth in ......

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Categories: paeans, creation,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Winter Winds Quiver
...winter winds quiver winter winds quiver when ice mists ride on torrents ~ cloudy vesper veils solstice zephyrs glaze meadows with crystal glitter ~ vanilla moons rise raw breath of......

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Categories: paeans, wind, winter,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Seraphim Blessing
...He fell to earth like a meteor wielding his fiery sword but unlike seraphim he was not here to cleanse the wicked Soulless & motherless he would unleash his wrath upon the world A wall ......

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Categories: paeans, angel, appreciation, blessing, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Music of My Soul
...Music of My Soul The earth ever composes mystical arias for me That taste the splendor in thunder’s profusion, Then touch the silent metronomes of lyric waves free To hypnotize my pulse in mov......

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Categories: paeans, earth,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Premium Member Earth Music
...Earth Music The earth ever composes mystical arias for me That taste the splendor of rolling thunder, To touch the silent metronomes of lyric waves That hypnotize my presto pulse in movements ......

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Categories: paeans, earth, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Wand'Ring Minstrel Breezes
...The rapturous oceans roar And shout their praise in gospel waves That crash and smash Against a cold and distant shore. The mountains sigh and moan, Lift suppliant arms, sing paeans and psalms......

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Categories: paeans, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Inspired Poet
...A weaver of words in deep quiet reflects In his mind’s prism, many a thought deflects Within him the rainbow colors of passion rage He scripts songs of beauty and rhyme on page after page He ha......

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Categories: paeans, emotions, passion, song,
Form: Rhyme
Synonym For Love, This Bench
...Synonym for love ah this bench, For many a dream dreamt on bench, The refuge of a last resort— Felt by all that sat on this bench, Of two happy souls’ hearty tales, Filled to brim with joy b......

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Categories: paeans, eulogy, love,
Form: Ghazal

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