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Best Ceremonial Poems

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


Premium Member True Colors
Eyes are the windows of a soul and they say ‘Love is blind’
But how do you describe colour to a sightless person?

Such depths to your...

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Categories: ceremonial, color, friendship love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member We Are One
We Are One


Dear Ancient Sister
I hear your distant calls finding me on a gentle breeze
You have lived in my dreams for many seasons

My voice 
Your...

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Categories: ceremonial, blessing, celebration, community, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cherokee Tears
Cherokee Tears

ceremonial drums' rhythmic heartbeat
impassioned tribal chants
echo in Smoky Mountain mist before dawn

tortured spirit of an ignoble president
Andrew Jackson seems imprisoned here
haunted by wailing ghosts...

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Categories: ceremonial, native american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gentle Summer Rain
She writes about Fall's beauty in the rain 
The falling raindrops' dance ascribing thence 
Bespoken verse that lightens her refrain 
before the time they met...

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Categories: ceremonial, beauty, care, creation, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Wind Talker
‘neath the halo of a full moon
Wind Talker gives music to the night
flute carved from a fallen tree
 
he plays to the dwindling forest
trees that...

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Categories: ceremonial, native american,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pass the Peace Pipe
In the twilight spirits come to play,
listen closely to what they have to say.

In the early dawn, they will sit with you,
and greet the sun...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ceremonial, spiritual, star, sun,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member This Old Oak-Tree Smiling Through My Balcony
This old oak-tree smiling through my balcony
Sways and swings cheerily, a happy emissary,
Budding new vigor upon tiny greenish leaves
Adorning exuberance of idyllic new morning, 
Quivering...

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Categories: ceremonial, imagery, nature, tree,
Form: Verse
My Slutty Aunt's Wedding
I shook my head
Knew the day’d be messy
Some poor sap
Was marrying my Aunt Bessie

She’d slept with half of Brooklyn
Flaunting her exploits all through town
The mayor,...

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Categories: ceremonial, satire, wedding, wedding,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am Me, Set Me Free
I am given to you by Creator Himself
My Limbs long to grow straight and tall
Bathed in sunlight from above, paying homage
Fulfilling my God given task
From...

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Categories: ceremonial, cancer, creation, environment, health,
Form: Ode
Potter's Wheel
Thousands of gentle caresses, soft touch, 
From the potter’s hands to properly guide
Tenuously stretching sides he might crush, 
If too much pressure his fingers provide....

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Categories: ceremonial, art, children, parents,
Form: Sonnet
Autumn's Ceremony
>>>
cavorted about as elfin brides
under a saffron maple tree^^^^
Dressed in prism-hued layers
of chiffon in ethereal shimmers
and delicate silken...

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Categories: ceremonial, autumn, fairy, wedding,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Picture Perfect
(Gentle Summer Rain)

Listen to:
light pouring silver gray
enriched thoughts fall from the sky
complete path towards-
Blissful, Delighting Peace
small ceremonial rain dance.
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Gentle therapeutic rain
on a warm summer day.
falls...

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Categories: ceremonial, beautiful, beauty, dance, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member -----Night Train------ -Reverse Poem-
Adrift is smoke, that rises into the shape of a question mark...
Blurring the vacant night, with a ceremonial arc

Tomorrow, under a different sky, in a...

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Categories: ceremonial, goodbye, lost love, sad
Form: Rhyme
Runaway Bride
At twelve years old
She sits in the cold
Engulfed by the dark
Sitting on an old tree trunk
By the edge of the silent river

From far she can...

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Categories: ceremonial, child, culture,
Form: Free verse
Under a Miccosukee Sky
Big Cypress stirs, heated by Miccosukee 
sky hung in spun gold. Rising in the east, 
morning sways with waves of river grass
as the elder paddles...

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Categories: ceremonial, culture, native american, nature,
Form: Free verse

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