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Ritual Poems - Poems about Ritual

Ritual Poems - Examples of all types of poems about ritual 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 ritual.
Premium Member Yen for zen
...Those practicing Tantra urge us to celebrate, albeit in an aspect of childlike trust and surrender, whilst Buddhists lay emphasis on emptiness, essentially negating play of aversion and desire an......Read the rest...
Categories: spiritual,
Form: Sestina



April 6 Beverage, libation, liquid, Daily Ritual Drinks Drink
...April 6—Beverage, libation, liquid… Daily Ritual Drinks Drink in the morning I drink a cup of snarling hot coffee while watching the news. in the afternoon I shift to tea either earl......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, drink, time,
Form: Ode
Cloaked in misty judgments, we have dressed ourselves
...Cloaked in misty judgments, we have dressed ourselves, Finding in condemnation a kind of sacred and dignified sport. An inert paradigm, where blame is like a talisman That people wear proudly, bel......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Among the forests of ideas that get lost in dense fogs
...Among the forests of ideas that get lost in dense fogs, On high cliffs, beliefs carved into the mountain's root, We stand bound by incantations, by formulas we recite like a litany, With hearts fu......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the secretive corners of the soul
...In the secretive corners of the soul, Where you are guided by the whispers of loss, There hides the seed of poetry — A precious stone born from the unseen pressure of pain. An ancient ritual in a......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



At the crossroads of time, where April flinches in buds parted
...At the crossroads of time, where April flinches in buds parted, Spring dwells in the temple, a priestess in a procession of timid lights. A gentle breeze blows, carrying dreams stormy on the orbit ......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Great Saint George
...George faced the two ships of splendorous light Entreated, and vowed to shatter the false gods Openly soldiering on, through Christ’s name Rome, heard this bright name and brought their wheel o......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, christian, courage, endurance, england,
Form: Acrostic
Magnum Opus
...In case you haven't noticed I'm a poet verbal usage explosive, Wrote it to show I'm potent while showing I'm still unfolding, With words I manage verbs the action within observed, Then swerves I'm......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, art, beautiful, cool, creation,
Form: Rhyme
My second life
...Within his moment, I wouldn't change a thing, my life right now is earnt, I got here on my own merit, proud of all the things I've learnt. Oh but that thought of what if, what an offer! If I c......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, appreciation, change, for her,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Milk Delivery ephemera poetry
...In the morning light, a milk bottle stands, A relic of bygone days, in my trembling hands. Embossed with nostalgia, a link to the past, From the dairy farm, where memories last. As a little gir......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, change, childhood, history, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Daydream Drumbeat
...I was a bed and mattress tester, a dream job like that of a yellow moon. I tested the comfort of beds, pillows, etc., for night is ever coming soon. I studied sleep patterns too, like viv......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, beauty, day, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
No Brave New World
... In the meta-versed binaural wish song beats, skid row streets of the bottomless pits of Metropolis/ Thebes, you are quardoned off and printed in a likeness wronged-vaped, winged to the w......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, art,
Form: Rhyme
Beneath The Altar
...The fruit juice drips momentarily beneath the alter filling the crevices and corner, while the sound of impatient traffic rolls down the street honking horns and disrupting the peace. A strange sound......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, baptism, caregiving, city, community,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hemmed in by belief
...Born into a culture, conditioned by belief, we pray as we are told, deepening delusion, from birth till we grow old. Born into a culture, following ritual, we trust the holy book but if we ......Read the rest...
Categories: faith, religion, spiritual,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member Tuscany Evening
...Italia we strolled the country side throughout the villages of Tuscany peeking through stone ways above garden nooks of Lucca catering to the soft and sensual galleries of floral canvases tha......Read the rest...
Categories: ritual, beautiful, inspirational love, writing,
Form: Free verse

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