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Best Canticle Poems

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Premium Member Crystal Canticle
Fall softly, wee one, here ... fall softly
    to your repose, drift the dark like a
      ...

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Categories: canticle, appreciation, beauty, nature, snow,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sing No Canticle For Me
I hardly noticed the first tiny crack, 
through the deluge of tears I cried.
Perhaps too numb to feel the sting of pain
or the fissure exposing...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canticle, courage, emotions, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Canticle of Two Stars
Canticle of Two Stars

I hear the two stars singing
In daylight valleys of never ending tears
And through deep deserts of rushing storms
At midnight;
Companions on my journey,
Duets,
In...

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Categories: canticle, stars,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forest Canticle

This intricacy, this forest
fanfare of green life, flower 
and fungi, the creatures
that crawl its damp understory 
of bush and fern, and above,
the wing born marvel...

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Categories: canticle, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Breaths and Fireglow
in silence, we connect through gazes
knitted by starlit eyes ablaze
like dusk's luster wafting by the sill ...
and we need not ramble in paraphrases
of  night’s...

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Categories: canticle, inspirational, soulmate,
Form: Free verse



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: canticle, beach, bird, childhood, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sea In Life
It’s a wonderful feeling as you gladly air your sweet melody
The canticle of your ebbs is heard from your sweet glee
Children shriek with laughter as...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: canticle, future, hope, inspiration, ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silver Bells
Canticle of merriment
rings out the silver of bells
a tingle, a jingle chiming
wispy notes across frosty mist,
as hands clasp with a pealed language
warbling the same holiday...

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Categories: canticle, christmas, sound,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Kick the Can
Please,
  Feel free ...
    Kick me down the street
      Like a dented can - label ripped,...

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Categories: canticle, abuse, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Mellifluous
Music to my ears, so mellifluous
is the nightingale's song, ambiguous,
Give ear to her notes, they float on the breeze,
swirling through the air, they're tuned to...

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Categories: canticle, bird, song,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Love Song
Melodies pour out from my soul.
They float up towards the stars,
swirl in and around clouds, 
swerve, spiral and swoop like swallows
in search of their cozy...

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Categories: canticle, love, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Other Muse
Other Muse

Interwoven two inspirations at play
Wrapped in a beguiling smile of embrace
Lyrical rhythms enchant nature’s traits
Graceful melody roams music’s landscapes.

Through hymns thundering modal notation
Chants of...

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Categories: canticle, muse, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Angels Danced
The breath of Heaven is your sigh ... callow leaves of May tremble for its press on their cheeks, and giggle to slumber on pastel...

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Categories: canticle, angel, appreciation, beauty, earth,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Canto Xx Hell Translation
Of new pains new verses must be composed 
To give matter for the canto twenty
Of the canticle first, treating sunk posed.

I just was inclined with...

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Categories: canticle, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Shadow Trees
Shadow trees 
On gentle breeze, heave 
and lip the edges of a sanctuary 

Hallowed space, of union graced 
In liminal hour 
Protected 
where dappled light...

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Categories: canticle, imagery, introspection, journey, nature,
Form: Free verse

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