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Succession Poems - Poems about Succession

Succession Poems - Examples of all types of poems about succession 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 succession.
DAYAN
...Let me tel you a story of a dayan Devastated beauty carrying her broken heart Being a victim of decline Willing to cut her throat with a knife Immense blood is swelling from her neckline Dynami......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, anxiety, betrayal, courage, dark,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Find To Purpose
... A conch shell idles on a serendipitous shoreline a nearby sea furthers as an ebbing tid......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beach,
Form: Verse
In the temple of silence where you mourn your absence
...In the temple of silence where you mourn your absence, The walls dance in shadows of bitterness, Chalices of dreams shatter with resistance, In search of the eternal flame of the altar. Not even ......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang
...Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang Ever since a young lad irritable bowel syndrome in my humble pinion wracked lower abdominal area gurgled and ballooned gastrointes......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, 9th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Simple Simon
..."Simon Edy, known as Old Simon, (1709-18 May 1783) was a London beggar who may have served as an inspiration for a popular nursery rhyme. He lived in a derelict "Rats' Castle" in the rookery of Dyott......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, allusion, analogy, appreciation, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Christmas in the Mountains
...The Franklin Mountains are a succession of jagged peaks, as if the earth had sprouted the spiny backbone of a monstrous, petrified beast. Each tip pierces the horizon, creating a chaotic symphony of ......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, christmas, december, mountains,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member OPEN VERSE 13-14
...RESPONSES microcosm show  in a still life exotic   emblems in     magnificent detail creative   durable meaning a closer   experience the   essence of succession so characteristic......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, poetry,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Life's Untorn Page
...I moved to San Francisco from across the bay in early 1977. At 19 years old, dad got me a two-bedroom house in the San Francisco suburb known as the Ocean District. It was the type of home that adjoi......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, america, analogy, bereavement, children,
Form: Other
Premium Member Interlude
..."Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." Ralph Waldo Emerson In this performance we call life, my spirit searches for an interlude of peace. My poetic ......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Stare Stabbed Me -
...A stare stabbed me – My eyes darted – a presence Loomed large, electrically. A horned owl was my assailant. A rest in a mesquite tree Made a meeting of chance. Through the glass door – The d......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, animal, strength, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a Fiddle
...Fretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle After experiencing a severe, albeit violent near lethal bout of irritable bowel syndrome (yesterday night August 30th, 2023) triggered courtesy dulcola......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, abuse, angst, anxiety, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Letter To My Unborn Child
...To My Darling Unborn Child Today I signed papers that would allow you to be brought up by a loving family who desperately wanted a child just like you. Please don’t think that I relinquish all ri......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, birth, child,
Form: Other
Premium Member Why Are We Here
..."Line of inquiry: given that we are a soul having a human experience, reincarnating life after life and that too with memory of past lives erased each time we take birth, what is the purpose of this ......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Grew On Me
...I was a fashionable horticulturist, for elegant flowers keep eternally in style, Like the saffron sun, coming and going, always causing dark skies to smile. Plants were a jade preoccupation, long......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, appreciation, beautiful, career, color,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member St Francis Hospital New Years Day 2017
...St Francis Hospital New Years Day 2017 A New Year, a New Start Blocked from my memory is a segment of time. (a few days) I retain only angelic sounds from six songs, running not in succession bu......Read the rest...
Categories: succession, death, god, jesus, life,
Form: Narrative

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