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Best Bow Down Poems

Below are the all-time best Bow Down poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bow down poems written by PoetrySoup members


Fragile Is Life
"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades, except love....

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Categories: bow down, death, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Rum n Raisin Special - Seeking Milton
Their human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with...

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Categories: bow down, cat, remember,
Form: Narrative
Great Barrier Reef
Pacific beauty, garland of shimmering pastels  
Textures and colors astound, deep in your ocean heart 
Your court is larger than any kingdom on Earth...

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Categories: bow down, adventure, beauty, ocean,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Your Time To Shine
What will you do when it’s your time to shine?
Do you have all your words written down in your mind?
Have you planned for the day...

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Categories: bow down, day, god, inspirational, son,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Revel Joyfully
It was on a cold night in Bethlehem that hope was born
A babe lay in a manger as angels sang joyfully
Above the nativity a star...

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Categories: bow down, happiness, holiday, upliftingnight, birth,
Form: Sestina



Seven Kingdoms
			I

The Holy Bible said seven kingdoms would arise,
then like windblown grains of sand, fall to the dust
Six kingdoms have come and gone, blinked their eyes
and...

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Categories: bow down, judgement, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Christmas With Christ To Look Upon His Face
To Look Upon His Face
Nativity of Jesus


Oh! Starry twilight this December night
Guiding light glows so up high
Moonlit shadows slow dance
Shooting stars flashing close by

Angel's sweet...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bow down, angel, baby, inspirational, night,
Form: Quatrain
Sacrifice
It was during WWII
Japan ruled 
Koreans obeyed

Japan ordered
All Koreans
Walk up to Shinto Temple
And bow down to the picture
Of their emperor

Are you kidding?
My father scoffed
My God...

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Categories: bow down, brother, sad, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Fools Rush In
This is where I come to cry....
I hold my breath, my mouth is dry
with dreadful words too hard to tell

This is where I come to...

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Categories: bow down, introspection, war, world,
Form: Free verse
Dear Lord Hear My Plea
Dear Lord hear my plea!

Since the dawn of time...
has reigned cruelty...
Man has chosen war,
know not what it's for,
when will there be peace?


Why can't humans learn?
Lessons...

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Categories: bow down, god, gospel, hope, humanity,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Bill Disney - Dizzy
If you ever drive through our small Oregon Town
You won't help but notice the house that's run down
A man called Bill Disney lived there for...

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Categories: bow down, death, fire, funeral,
Form: Rhyme
Her Lover
Moving quietly so not to wake her,
My lover half covered sighs like a purr,
We have had our pleasure
And now it's time for me to leave.
But...

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© Alan Short  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bow down, lovelife, home, home, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Windswept Through the Eyes of Poets
"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly 
become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... 
it all fades, except love....

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bow down, poets, wind,
Form: Free verse
Abyss of Loneliness
i sit here
aside the lake
grounded
in thoughts
alone

the full-moon rising
casts a lambent light
on the watery stage
where the orchestra
of night normally plays

there is no song
falling off cricket's wings
no...

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Categories: bow down, night, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oklahoma Stands For Women's Rights
Oklahoma just passed an executive order
About the obvious disorder
Of letting men break through the border
Called a women’s bathroom door
Which has always been there for
Keeping out...

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Categories: bow down, angst, courage, family,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs