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Best Cyclical Poems

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


A Cyclical Life
Here in the heavy depths of insolent woes,
We gesture and talk and waste our time,
Staking claim to each minute of our earthly life,
Running the hours...

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Categories: cyclical, life, lovewords, metaphor, beauty,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member Cyclical Dance of the Cousins
Dorrie Ann left Herman again.
It happens on a cyclical schedule.
October, January, April and July.
A quad-yearly thing.
We cousins take her in.
Knowing in a day or two...

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Categories: cyclical, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cyclical Progressions
The wind waits for no man,
Nor tarries on steps of his fortune.
The tax man equates his ledger,
Ever wary of time that brings him none.
Great cities...

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Categories: cyclical, allegory
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Little Miss Spring
They say it's a time to slip in the mud, and begin anew.
Kick off the dust of yester ...
      and...

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Categories: cyclical, adventure, appreciation, beauty, crazy,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Faerie Felt Awe Surrounds the Lake
Daffodil majorettes lead the spring parade
Mom fox had lured out a reluctant kit
Verdant grasses are growing lovely shade
For dainty dulcet purple violet

Gentle nurturing rain from...

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Categories: cyclical, flower, spring,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Around the Corner
Around the corner (20141010)

What’s around the corner?
What’s just beyond our view,
For the soldier and the foreigner,
What’s ahead for me and you?
Two terribly tired turtles
Which wearily...

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Categories: cyclical, family, fear, future, life,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Maudlin Mary
Modeled by the     skilled and clumsy hands
of artists and artisans into an ideal state of she-ness,
a penniless waif appears  ...

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Categories: cyclical, allusion, symbolism, woman,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Eos - Call of the Dawn
On the seventh ray
Of the fourteenth sun
Death hath come twofold
Arose a Titan in this age
Amidst this nimbus looms darkness
Betwixt the ash and sage

Approach cyclical ritual
Dousing...

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Categories: cyclical, birth, change, death, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Restoration
Peace to all of the inhabitants within and without the universe
Respect to all existence both stagnant and dynamic
No desire to understand only to observe and...

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Categories: cyclical, freedom, health, introspection, stress,
Form: Free verse
Torturous Twenty Four.
Forlorn in midnights vastness
Twinkling cousins as patient companions
She covets him
Her blushing glow pacifying the empty night
Descending toward dawn
Anxious Lingering

He will come for her…

Slowly the stars...

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Categories: cyclical, hope, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form: Epyllion
Premium Member Free Will Vs Destiny
Free will whose
An egoic ruse
Please excuse
Offered clues

The mind body enigma
An outer form we call jiva
Inner layer soul or Atma 
All within God or Paramatma

This preamble...

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Categories: cyclical, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dreams Aroma

Aroma 
of 
long-held 
     dreams

ethereal
    tomes 
of 
   longing  
beyond 
   understanding 
with...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cyclical, analogy, appreciation, dream,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Games We Play
Yang, dear.

Yes, my lovely Yin.

Why do you map Game Theory
onto EcoFeminist Political Theory?
It comes across as either just confusing
or, even worse,
vaguely sexist.

Really!
How sexist?

Well you seem...

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Categories: cyclical, birth, games, gender, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Defined By Time
Memories mark moments of time, passing like a carousel
  A bitter day in January Challenger exploded
  Hopes for the future of our space...

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Categories: cyclical, history, lifetime, day, time,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Storm
The storm comes less often now,
Come it does.
Cyclical… Circular… predictable in its pattern.
It’s been a while dear friend.
 
      ...

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Categories: cyclical, bereavement, best friend, brother,
Form: Ode

Book: Reflection on the Important Things