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Best Delphic Poems

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


Delphic Bee
Singing pollen songs
Lips anointed with honey
Priestess of Delphi
Filling her pollen basket
Propolis giving comb love...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: delphic, animals, nature
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Delphic
  The forest is my loyal friend, a Delphic shrine to me- Ralph Waldo Emerson   

When fleeting feathers of ostrich ferns
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Categories: delphic, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Delphic
Quote: The forest is my loyal friend. A Delphic shrine to me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The forest is my sanctuary, a sphere of peace, a realm of...

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Categories: delphic, deep, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Delphic
Quote: “The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.” Emerson

Forest, a Delphic shrine, 
In woods where shadows dance in dappled light, 
The...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: delphic, nature,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Soul Mirror Eyes
 
Written: January 07, 2024
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eyes are soul gates    ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: delphic, analogy, appreciation, dream, extended
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Know Thyself
Know Thyself
(one of the two Delphic commands of Apollo)



For years before the narrow windows of my senses
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Categories: delphic, god, me, world, voice,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Birth of Democracy
1.
Once upon a very long time in the eleventh century B.C.
There was a king in, Athens, who ruled both land and sea

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To all was known...

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Categories: delphic, courage, love, patriotic,
Form: Couplet
Leonidas, King
From Heracles immortal line sprang Kings of Agiad
The blood of Gods and heroes in mortal flesh thus clad
And such was Leonidas, half brother to the...

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Categories: delphic, history, inspirational
Form: Epic
Premium Member Nothing In Excess
Nothing in Excess
(the second Delphic maxim of Apollo)



A mixture of the brute and the divine
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Categories: delphic, philosophy, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Apollo, I Am
APOLLO   
        

Apollo God of light, I Am
        a...

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Categories: delphic, life, mystery, nature, passion,
Form: Narrative
The Raven
On a dark, gloomy, depressing winter night
Something came that was to be such a sight
On my very life's blood it could surely draw
In it's black...

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Categories: delphic, faith,
Form: Lyric
Promised a Poesy Garden
In the shadows of a
    darkly relinquished night,
 an unrelenting musing beast struck
       presenting a proposition,
...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: delphic, allusion, art, assonance, fantasy,
Form: Alliteration
A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode of Paolo and Francesca
As Hermes once took to his feathers light,
When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept,
So on a Delphic reed, my idle spright
So played, so charmed, so...

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Categories: delphic, art, imagination,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Path To Purple
The Path to Purple


Crimson chakra at the base the sacred perineum short lengths waving
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Categories: delphic, color, love,
Form: Free verse
Dont Ignore the Signs
They should envy me for they'll never know
The traits you fear to publicly show
The vast enigma you keep deep inside
The things you don't say in...

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Categories: delphic, love, blue,
Form: Rhyme

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