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Best Compass Poems

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


Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weak, loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath Van Gogh’s brush, as he links.
Comet light passes twisting cypresses, a schizophrenic’s...

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Categories: compass, god, life,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Flight To Midnight
O albatross guide my loosed soul  
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal

persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark 
I...

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Categories: compass, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Oh Lord, As I Lay Down To Sleep
  Fear not of the undiscovered journey - 
   the souls’s compass will show you the way ~ the poet  

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Categories: compass, heaven, spiritual,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: compass, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Have a Lovely Day
Have a lovely day


Pushed now to the limit by a never ending whisper
Lost behind the meaning of a question I can’t hear
Dreaming of a day...

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Categories: compass, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme



This Gypsy Soul
This gypsy soul is on the road
It leaves castles far behind
It abandons ghostly mist
which sabotages the caravan of life
It passes along the mountainside
 by golden...

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Categories: compass, absence, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rest
Rest now
O restless heart
released in ebb   to flow

ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise!...

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Categories: compass, death, freedom, heaven, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To My Children
Drive mindfully, dear children, as you traverse hurdled highways of life,
Cognizant that adjacent to an oasis of joy, lies a desert brooding strife;
Assume charge of...

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Categories: compass, children, encouraging, family, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
This Gypsy Soul
 This gypsy soul is on the road

It leaves castles far behind

It abandons ghostly mist

which sabotages the caravan of life

It passes along the mountainside

by golden...

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Categories: compass, adventure, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Theft of My Will To Survive
Blindly.. 
I beseech you
for my eyes won’t adjust
to this shaded maze of despair -
neither the lantern’s flame 
nor a compass rose can help me now
in...

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Categories: compass, dark, depression, grief, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Absolute Truth: How Can it Be?
Absolute truth, both mystery… and paradox. 
“You make me wonder if you exist or not?”

The Greeks glimpsed you in circles and squares,
The medievals revered you...

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Categories: compass, faith, history, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I wish I had
Once upon a silent summer eve, 
as fine vermilion lines, 
between bleeding moonlight, 
swiftly sailed across
  my darkness and I, 
sakura springs sang 
...

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Categories: compass, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Madness Rides On Moonlight
Days pass into the weakest of loveless nights. The moon blinks.
The stars swirl beneath the colored brush of Van Gogh. He links.
Comets trail snowfields of...

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Categories: compass, lovegod, light, god, life,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Delicacy In Pain
Her reveries slant the compass of time: 1970s. Minefields now roar through blurred visions. She retreats into dots of space to live in the moment,...

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Categories: compass, memory, recovery from, uplifting,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Adrift On An Amber Sea
In quest to find respite and solitude
I drift on the light of an amber sea
It's there I pray in words of gratitude
for a life that's...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compass, peace, sea,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs