Best Cistern Poems
Below are the all-time best Cistern poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cistern poems written by PoetrySoup members
Broken CisternHe told me his story, how much he loved her
And all his dreams were rainbow stairs to gold
In their little village their hopes on his...
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Categories:
cistern, lost love, war
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Drink Thy Own Water From Your Cistern"Drink thy own water from your cistern" Bible- Proverbs 5:15
Drink water from your own cistern
Let your fountain be your concern
Leave not your wife ever.
Rejoice in...
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Categories:
cistern, bible, inspirational,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
The Gift To God, I Gave To Give -To myself to I, to God I asked
what nature of sample shall I give,
the tribute must be something, already possessed
and not a thing to be...
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Categories:
cistern, devotion,
Form:
Ode
SexyMy neighbour her name is Matilda
She used to step out with a builder
She loved the exotic, but became quite neurotic
When his lovemaking no longer thrilled...
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Categories:
cistern, humorous, sexy, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
Geishapitty-pit-pat, pitty-pit-pat ...
dark attic, echoing ... tenderly
rain on tin roof above,
her nana's voice, ages hence -
lives ago, really ... calling …
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Categories:
cistern, imagery, longing, memory, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Remember Your Creator In Your YouthLight is sweet and good for the eyes to see the brightness of the Sun,
For if someone lives a thousand years, may they rejoice in...
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Categories:
cistern, age, anger, beauty, blessing,
Form:
Narrative
Flash DanceIntuition is to reason
as a black hole is to space
A cistern of discovery
—void of distance, time, and place
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)...
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Categories:
cistern, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Land of the FreeOh, Land of the Free
You have presumptuously deemed yourself the mouthpiece and policy maker
Of the world
How overconfident
How impudent
Who makes you...
...
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Categories:
cistern, allegory, history, mystery, philosophy,
Form:
Elegy
Categories:
cistern, faith, inspirational, life, love
Form:
Triolet
Either Be a Believer Or Non-Believer, But Be a Good Person*What Gods there were
I did not know then,
And was not concerned with them.
But I do know now,
HE can come to us in any form.
Attacked by...
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Categories:
cistern, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Perpetually LostOf the many roads that I have taken
the many words which I have forsaken
Never could my passion bring
The lonely heart from which my...
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Categories:
cistern, confusion, deep, lost, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Uncertainty of HeartFiery Temptress and pure daughter of desire
Do not invoke within me a deep well of unearned lust
Is it love that you've unearthed
Show me your...
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Categories:
cistern, addiction, desire, emotions, heart,
Form:
Free verse
A Pancake DashA view from a teaspoon selection is very spellbinding indeed. Half a cup of multicolumns and a pint of milk singing and swaying together. It...
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Categories:
cistern, adventure, appreciation, aubade,
Form:
I do not know?
The Battle of the Toilet Is WonThat’s it the battle is won, the toilet can fight no more
Three weeks ago the flush would overflow.
And kept leaving a puddle on the floor
I...
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Categories:
cistern, funny, water, water,
Form:
Epic
Categories:
cistern, cat, fear, fish,
Form:
Haiku