Best Archetype Poems
ArchetypeThe rock has iris rainbow overtones
with pins and needles on our wandering feet
and irradiates flowers and trees that absorb
radio clear and light-dark energies
The hummingbird sucks them
the insect pricks them
the cow gulps them down in its grass factory
Insects don´t understand brainy birds…
Who...
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Categories:
archetype, animals, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Imagism
ArchetypeThe anointed Jesus comes with the Power of God
and the working of prophecy will he complete
he will trod the habitable beneath his feet
till the nations shall know that Jehovah be laud
All things spoken of him will come to pass
with a shout he will to earth...
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Categories:
archetype, dedication, devotion, faith, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Absolute ArchetypeI am the rock and the water…
I am the stillness and the rapid motion…
I am beaming with illuminated light and shadowed by empty darkness…
I am the pull of gravity and the push of the oceans tides…
I am his strength, his unwavering will, his firm...
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Categories:
archetype, faith, introspection, love
Form:
Free verse
Manu and the FishManu strolled to his stainless sink
To wash his hands and have a think.
He reached for soap, a bar was handy,
A square pink cake that looked like candy.
He ran the water, fresh and cool,
And in his hands, it formed a pool.
Then, out of the water, to...
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Categories:
archetype, animal, fish, friendship, hindi,
Form:
Rhyme
Sappho's RoseOur English Rose
by Michael R. Burch
for Christine Ena Burch
The rose is—
the ornament of the earth,
the glory of nature,
the archetype of the flowers,
the blush of the meadows,
a lightning flash of beauty.
This is my translation of ancient Greek epigram by Sappho of Lesbos. It was originally titled...
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Categories:
archetype, beautiful, beauty, earth, flower,
Form:
Epigram
OutlawRed lights close behind me, a road block up ahead.
Slow down or accelerate, either way I'll soon be dead.
The gun is in my pocket but no chamber has a round
And if I let them catch me they'll put me in the ground.
And oh, I gotta...
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Categories:
archetype, myth,
Form:
Rhyme