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Best Canonized Poems

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


Ode To a Canonized Oak
You stare as if you know
how my blood runs through my veins.

What wood are you?
Did you not come from a clan
of massacred trees
chiseled by an...

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Categories: canonized, faith, parody,
Form: Free verse



Angels
~ANGELS~


Within the abusive abyssal air, I greet you with a prayer
Within weathered winded wear, I defend in your despair
Thru calamitous city crumble I find you...

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Categories: canonized, angel, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Joan of Arc, For God and Country
Joan of Arc – For God and Country

On the feast of the Three Kings was born,
a baby girl, in 1412, under the sign of Capricorn....

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Categories: canonized, christian, courage, destiny, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Wrapping It In Purple - For Prince
WRAPPING IT IN PURPLE
-For Prince

Black onyx handsome, 
Small is beautiful, 
Soft campy creature, 
Definite in feature, 
All chiseled, boned, 
Talents honed,  
And used for...

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© Edlynn Nau  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canonized, loss, purple, rap, star,
Form: Elegy
Star-Crossed
“The heaventree of stars” (in Ulysses as said Joyce)
“hung with humid nightblue fruit” (ah that Bloomian voice)
could evoke a masterpiece the world has come to...

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Categories: canonized, analogy, art, creation, fantasy,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Joan, Maiden of Orleans

She was born, Jeanne d'Arc and nick-named, The Maiden of Orleans;
             This is...

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Categories: canonized, cute, history,
Form: Narrative
Behold a Nation
Let's presume all is well
Though we know truly in our minds
That we are still crawling
Like a snail under its shielded carapace.

Let's presume it is well
Though...

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Categories: canonized, adventure, confusion, fear, inspirational,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member It Ain'T All That Bad
I sank into the depths of marbled 
Frustration.
Canonized in furrowed gasps,
I claimed my own footsteps were thieves.
We all skulk slunk-shouldered to the same sorrowful shore.
Though...

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Categories: canonized, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
The Right To Be Lazy As a Virtue
Whenever in the company of his trusted friends
St. Paul Lafargue had always said:
"I sure hope I never get a sainthood someday
- That would be supremely...

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Categories: canonized, anti bullying, philosophy, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Saint Joan of Arc the Maid of Orleans
“Saint Joan Of Arc The Maid of Orléans””
“Jehanne la Pucelle”

Joan of Arc a pious peasant farmer's daughter
In her times alone, she spent it in adoration
~
Ten...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canonized, inspirational, woman,
Form: Free verse
Shalom
  

"Great Pleasures awaits those who follow the path of the Earthstar,
who adhere to the laws of nature, to the real self,
who abide in...

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Categories: canonized, religion, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Heaven's Messiah His Lion And, Judah
Always finding the quite of stillness; peaceful waters her, reflections....
Be it here or, perhaps there ? Assembling their higher educational think tanks
Joey bought a condo...

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Categories: canonized, angel, art, autumn,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Three Sonnets Inspired By My Reigning Ex
            Warmly dedicated to SMJ

      Three Sonnets Inspired by...

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Categories: canonized, girlfriend,
Form: Sonnet
The Status Quo
It really is a sweet device,
for we invoke it often as ally
or enemy--grasping at straws
to place it in its proper pigeon-hole
and thus to clarify intent.

And...

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Categories: canonized, truth,
Form: Free verse
Armegeddon Prayer
Have you ever found yourself stranded in the tract
between what you think is fiction and what you think is fact?
And whipped so hard with the...

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Categories: canonized, religious,
Form: Couplet

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