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Best Bowing Poems

Below are the all-time best Bowing poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bowing poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Crepe-Myrtle Flowers
Eventide’s misty winds gently oscillate
Colorful clusters of crepe-myrtle flowers
Crowning atop rows of elegant tree-trunks
Blooms lavender, pink, red, and purple
Hanging in air from tips of twigs...

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Categories: bowing, flower,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member It Came Upon a Prophecy
May be sung to the tune of  It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

It came upon a prophecy
   in ancient days foretold
that to...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bowing, christian, christmas, jesus,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Enlightenment
Quietude endows hushed mystical space
Admonishing words have no role to play—
Look how in solitude its posture bends
Bowing in deference to calming intellect.

Listen to the utterance...

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Categories: bowing, deep, endurance, introspection, peace,
Form: Free verse
No Sign of a Whine, a Smiling Mother
My heart I set on a dear companion
the cherished imprint on my soul, profound
how safe I felt in a tough kind bosom!
though I ceased to...

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Categories: bowing, best friend, blessing, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Something's Amiss POTD
I was a successful, scientific explorer, traveling to the remote, distant lands,
Bettering noble lives of many, like budding, green spring which understands.

And every day held...

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Categories: bowing, dream, fantasy, feelings, happiness,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Eyes Open
Mi Madre
Lung of Life
Heartbeat of the universe
Birth of consciousness

Mirror of the heavens
Grains of sand
Beneath my tender flesh

How glorious to gaze upon you
I weep with the...

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Categories: bowing, appreciation, devotion, environment, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sculpted Shades of White
Starlight pierces ebony
above sculpted shades of white.
And moonbeams soften the scene,
gilding night with golden light.

Donning a crystalline dress, 
Nature's a picture of grace.
And draped in...

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Categories: bowing, beauty, imagery, nature, winter,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Inside a Japanese Garden: With Added Note
cherry blossoms fall
confetti cast to the wind
tumbling to the ground

orange koi swimming
summer rain upon the pond
lotus of soft blush

bamboo whispering
their voices sing at twilight
serenade the...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bowing, environment,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member a bird and a boy -
one day as a boy, I went down to the sea
clambered o'er rocks way out to the bluff
stopping to search in a tide pool for...

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Categories: bowing, beach, bird, childhood, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death Said To the Rose
Who bade your life to live as such
pervading hearts with perfumed nose?
As down thy petals tempt the touch
when all for passions sake you're chose.

With lifetimes...

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Categories: bowing, death, rose,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Honor Sent To Great Bard, Alexander Pushkin Second Tribute Series, Fifth Poet
(Honor Sent To Great Bard, Alexander Pushkin
Second Tribute Series, Fifth Poet)

(1.)
Poetry Gave Its Deep Rich Brilliance Unto Thee

Bard, what bright Light graced thy soft serenades
In...

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Categories: bowing, appreciation, art, creation, dedication,
Form: Sonnet
Chains of Colonialism
Chains of Colonialism        

With guns they came
With whips and chains
Chains to capture the Dark Continent
Chains snaking across Africa
Africa...

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Categories: bowing, africa, discrimination, people, racism,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member Paint Me a Dream - Eve Roper Tribute
Blank canvas
lies naked, cold and pale.
Master painter
paints a dream,
so a man without sight can see.

Master painter's palette enchants.
Sleeping grey pigments weep,
flowing crimson reds drip as
mellow...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bowing, analogy, dedication, tribute, ,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seduction In Spring - a Haiku Garland
Cherry Blossoms Bloom 
Resplendently dressed in Pink
Seducing the Spring

Glory unfolding 
They release their sweet fragrance
Pirouette and twirl

Music from the breeze 
With limbs so graceful swaying
Blushing...

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Categories: bowing, appreciation, beauty, dance, flower,
Form: Haiku
Come To Harvest Home
Come oh come to harvest home you thankful!
Rouse your tongues for your barns, so big and bountiful;
All grains and gains are safely gathered in with...

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Categories: bowing, devotion, faith, holiday, thank
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things