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
When Madness Rides On MoonlightDays 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
Flight To MidnightO 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
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
A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupingsyou 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 DayHave 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 SoulThis 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
RestRest 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
To My ChildrenDrive 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
Theft of My Will To SurviveBlindly..
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
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
I wish I hadOnce 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
When Madness Rides On MoonlightDays 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
Delicacy In PainHer 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
Adrift On An Amber SeaIn 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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Categories:
compass, peace, sea,
Form:
Sonnet