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Retreat Poems - Poems about Retreat

Retreat Poems - Examples of all types of poems about retreat to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for retreat.
Premium Member DAWNs DELIGHT
...I’m out of mind and sound is dawn’s delight. A trip, I take, around huddle of trees. The splice of pink and purple cane is sweet. With warbling voice, blackcap chorus excite. Break of lull’by, ......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, bird, day, sky,
Form: Villanelle



Premium Member Moscow II
...As swift assaults endeavored to prevail, the magnitude of death was asinine. ‘Twas such a toll above a measured scale that no explicit value could define. As battles raged, no exploit could surmo......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Moon at Glut
... Lunar nymphs crawl out my ear Tickle songs ... at a midnight fair Fill their cans with Crystal Clear Drink up the moon, giggles flare It's time to play on grass for hair Running 'round witho......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, fairy,
Form: Monorhyme
Under the veil of night, where the flames dance like ancient spirits
...Under the veil of night, where the flames dance like ancient spirits, And the clouds float like ethereal dreams across the mysterious sky, Gaze deep into the fire, enveloped by secret shadows, And......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love’s Haunting Pursuit
...Lost in labyrinthine lanes of midnight's embrace, Where ghostly gas lamps gleam, casting silhouettes of grace, Their luminescence lingers on cobblestone veins, Chattering footsteps echo, bound in ......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, dark, gothic, hope, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme



Under the infinite sky of our destiny, the waves of souls stir
...Under the infinite sky of our destiny, the waves of souls stir, A sea of average spirits, drifting aimlessly on the waters of silence, Lacking that aristocratic individuality, as demanded by Christ......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member And That Is War
...There’s no film set There’s no Tom Cruise Everyone dies In front of you And that is war They give you a gun Sent off with the meat Shoot you in the back Cos we never retreat And that......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Too Close To The Edge
...Standing on the edge, feeling the pull of the unknown, The abyss below me, a fear that has grown. Should I take the leap into the depths below, Or step away from the edge, where the fear won't sho......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, courage, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Why People Who Drink Become Violent
... In the twilight’s amber glow, Where secrets of the bottle flow, Reason dims, and shadows creep, In liquid courage, demons sleep. A whisper in the mind’s retreat, Echoes loud, distorting be......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shackling His Tongue
...I am frustrated and annoyed by his ticking, or perhaps it should be labeled the 'tocking' By the never-ending tongue wagging clicking in the language better known as 'clocking' Must Gra......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, time,
Form: Rhyme
Sailor's nocturne
...The ottava rima stanza in English consists of eight iambic lines, usually iambic pentameters. Each stanza consists of three rhymes following the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c. The form is similar to t......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, poetry,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member As Humid Night Turned Into Day
... As humid night turned into day, my eyes I lifted to the gray and what I saw gave me a turn. Emboldened blaze of rising sun! Clouds parted, scurried fast away and left the dawn to seek its ......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, cool, day, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Traversing this realm of consciousness, where the sun is a stranger
...Traversing this realm of consciousness, where the sun is a stranger, Some stuff their ears with gales of light, fleeing from themselves, But there are souls whose song thrives under the moon, scorn......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the zodiac of poets with furrowed brows, born from the shadow of the world devouring the moment
...In the zodiac of poets with furrowed brows, born from the shadow of the world devouring the moment, I am tired of narrow verses, of word sculptures without soul and echo. Poems that whisper, halt -......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Value for Life
...When law and order broke down on the street, And people run riotous, with no retreat, Looting and destroying city's core, Youth, in their recklessness, yearn for war. But only those who've witn......Read the rest...
Categories: retreat, death, scary, violence,
Form: Rhyme

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