Get Your Premium Membership

Best Cumbrous Poems

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


A Butterfly Inside
I feel a butterfly inside;
its wings are cramped within my breast.
The weight of flesh, o dull cocoon,
prohibits my free flight. At best
I only soar inside;...

Read more of this work...
Categories: cumbrous, butterfly, death, freedom, metaphor,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Morning Symphony
Written: June 26, 2023
______________________________________________________________

The morning's rising sun looms above the hills.
My breath catches in my throat and fulfills.
Warblers are an attractive bonus to the garden.
Their delicate...

Read more of this work...
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cumbrous, analogy, appreciation, beauty, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Echoes of War
In Memoriam of brave, lost souls during the First World War

Our insides churn, nostrils flare, with the pungent stench,
Order given to leave our sanctuary and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: cumbrous, world war i,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet For Winds of Change
SONNET FOR WINDS OF CHANGE

Cross cirrus sky swift brush strokes paint mares' tails
Tree tops are in restless susurration,
While cumbrous clouds traverse in vapour trails
Mead grass...

Read more of this work...
Categories: cumbrous, life, nature,
Form: Sonnet
The Shape of Wings
Another day spent  
in my throbbing head. 
This day, a tightening noose, 
a smothering sheath of  
white, sterile gauze 
once loose.  
Moments...

Read more of this work...
Categories: cumbrous, bird, body, freedom, pain,
Form: Free verse



Sonnet For a Windy Day
SONNET FOR A WINDY DAY 

‘cross cirrus sky swift brush strokes paint mares' tails
O'er restless tree tops’ anxious susurration,
The cumbrous clouds traverse in vaporous trails
Below,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: cumbrous, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Chosen Colours
Whoever claimed sorrow be blue 
and crimson - rage would be 
are not aware the darkened hues 
that dwell inside of me 

Sad - I'd...

Read more of this work...
© Judy Bonin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cumbrous,
Form: Rhyme
Sin's Benison
It comes as something of surprise.
We need the broken figurines.
the malice we expressed,
the heart forever bound in cords
constricting its magnificence.
It seems
the pure, transcendant, holy orb
that...

Read more of this work...
Categories: cumbrous, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Harbingers of Hollow
Harbingers of Hollow 


In my habitual haunting hysteria
I digress to an abandoned area
Voids of dimming dissolving glow
The hermetic harbingers of hollow

Landscapes of secluded shadow
In cathedrals...

Read more of this work...
Categories: cumbrous, conflict, confusion, depression,
Form: Couplet
Prologue To Eternity
I draw into the artificial womb
and travel from the day upon my breath 
until dimension fades, a silent shift
occurs, and there is no more self...

Read more of this work...
Categories: cumbrous, time,
Form: Free verse
Thunderstorm.
Tunneling deep into the eyes of one another
A channeling of a mutual respect and despotic hatred
High above nearly visible a clash between the two
Exploding in...

Read more of this work...
Categories: cumbrous, adventure, angst, visionary, engagement,
Form: Free verse
Chosen Colors
Whoever claimed sorrow be blue 
and crimson - rage would be 
are not aware the darkened hues 
that dwell inside of me 

Sad - I'd...

Read more of this work...
© Judy Bonin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cumbrous, art, me,
Form: Rhyme
Poems about Science 6: Evolution
POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 6: EVOLUTION

Singularity
by Michael R. Burch

Are scientists confounded like the ostrich?
Heads buried in the sand, they shout, *Preposterous!*
This universe, so magical, they say,
proves...

Read more of this work...
Categories: cumbrous, earth, life, light, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Poems about Science 4: Birth and Evolution
POEMS ABOUT SCIENCE 4: BIRTH/EVOLUTION

Simultaneous Flight
by Michael R. Burch

*The number of possible connections [brain] cells can make exceeds the number of particles in the universe....

Read more of this work...
Categories: cumbrous, bird, flying, light, science,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things