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Canon Poems - Poems about Canon

Canon Poems - Examples of all types of poems about canon 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 canon.
Ever Yours
...Mere repetition With no meaning As though romantically Went on mechanically It seems to be better than A hypocritical canon Wherein love corrodes An atom bomb of lies explodes. We no long......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse



Love Sex War
...May We Make Love At The War Front? May I Know You While Iron Leads Flies Over Our Heads? May I Know Why Our Bodies Tangle In The Grass; Soaked By Bloods, Sweat & Tears Of Soldiers Of Love? May ......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, addiction, adventure, africa, age,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member I Planted Something New
...It’s the breath I need but can’t reach Arms extended as far as they can reach But the superhero is late this time and can’t save me Plan ahead they say so you can make time to smell the flower thi......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, confidence, dream, faith, growth,
Form: Rhyme
The Temple of the Butterfly
...I am the void I am the wrath I am the undulating sun seraph In the temple of the butterfly The shadow is my alibi ~moths, in rooms full of angles circle, languishing slow as death caugh......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, death, humanity, silence, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 12-31-23: A Number's Existential Crisis
...'Twas the twilight of the year, a twinkling tiara, December 31st, digits dancing dunes in the Sahara. One, two, three, one, two, three, it's a prance, A numerical Irish step dance, given a whimsic......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, celebration, hilarious, holiday, humor,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member If It Wasnt For Poetry
...From the very depths of my inner being I cherish poetry, without the written verse I’d be impoverished as a person, literary projects spur me on to otherworldy epic peaks, an open channel with f......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, art, august, celebration, creation,
Form: Free verse
Ode To Tennessee
...Oh Tennessee, bard divine, what gems you've given, Of truth and pain from your wrecked life riven. Though critics scorned, your genius shone In shabby rooms where oft alone, You typed amid ......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, appreciation, art, celebration, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Let's Say No To Suicide
...World at times is a spring of mirth And at times a root of melancholiness, Gaiety and ruth are ineluctable quirk of nature Where it leaves no beings unbrushed. Bight trice would shimmer some days......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From the Earth's Depths
...Written: September 24, 2023 _____________________________________________________________ In the dawn-like haze—a shriek was heard, An echo so shrewd, yet birdless, oddly slurred I......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, analogy, angst, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Door Unlocked, Please Close Behind You
...The church door was unlocked So I went inside Many pews had spider web barriers in place Yet the linen was clean and ironed Dates of mass clearly on the door The bell ropes looked new and clean ......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Elusive Pursuit Endeavoring To Craft a Great Poem
...Elusive pursuit endeavoring to craft a great poem I (analogous to a rolling stone) confess, no deliberate intent, yet often wonder what spurs me to nudge, goad, coax, et cetera semblance of rea......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, 12th grade, adventure, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Labyrinth of Sighs
...Labyrinth of Sighs Wondering through a labyrinth of sighs More platitudes with attitudes that never question why A litany of afterthoughts about where we go when we die An emboldened range ......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Essence a Freed Verse
...ESSENCE  in a  gift for telling details  be it  the connotations of expressions or  found in a  fresh approach of formative or  imagining so extraordinary & personal with  an especi......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Fourth of the Month of May
...On this the fourth of the month of May aboard Slave One or the Millennium Falcon we step inside a galaxy far far away; Nostalgic like a big kid at play with a call sign like Red Five or Echo......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, emotions, fantasy, tribute,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Skelton Bones
...Down in the crypt where the caskets lie And dust stirs up when trucks go by Giggling sounds, not moans and groans From the tomb of Skelton Bones When the trucks go by no more No light peeks be......Read the rest...
Categories: canon, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

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