Best Descent Poems
Below are the all-time best Descent poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of descent poems written by PoetrySoup members
Once Upon A Time In Milton CreekThe sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...
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Categories:
descent, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative
Tis You‘Tis You’
It’s a tempestuous, wuthering, wuthering day
as I set forth exuberant and merrily on my way.
I pause to hearken to the symphony of sound
as natures...
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Categories:
descent, love, romance,
Form:
Idyll (Idyl)
Love Song To My Rose"From deep within my heart
I always catch the scent
of my Beloved. How can I
help but follow that fragrance?" By Rumi
I am a...
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Categories:
descent, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Arikara Born
I like many others have lived in our dreams
In this world where I lived amongst forests and streams
Where the Great Plains stretched and our rivers...
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Categories:
descent, america, childhood, places,
Form:
Rhyme
QuietusIn a mire brewed
betwixt puddles of hell and mute dissent
a martyr wades -
weighed down by chains of shame and disdain
alas the thirsting self-absorbed...
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Categories:
descent, angst, conflict, dark, depression,
Form:
Free verse
A Promise I Can'T KeepThe sun was setting with a breeze
Seductively sliding behind the trees
Watching his descent
Was quite the event
I witnessed a day to night striptease
He left me with...
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Categories:
descent, sunset,
Form:
Limerick
The Same SkyI sit alone on a dark, lonely night
As tranquil moments gently enfold me
Gazing at stars sprinkling the sky so bright
As my dreams float upwards and...
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Categories:
descent, dream, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Christmas Miracle In the Ghetto (Co-Written With John Moses Freeman)Peering at the radiating faces of happy families
So much joy emanates from well-to-do children’s sparkling eyes
Wish I could replace the grief, put smiles on the...
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Categories:
descent, family, holiday, hope, upliftingme,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
descent, december, father daughter, how
Form:
Free verse
Breaking the SurfaceA millstone around my neck and weight about my feet
drag me down so deeply
that I’m being pulled toward something. . .
something from...
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Categories:
descent, allegory, hope,
Form:
Free verse
How I Miss YouI miss you
With every longing breath
That pants in sweet silence.
With every insatiable spark
that ignites my being
And with infinite tears of all my life
That...
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Categories:
descent, passion, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
The Dog, the Pig and the Cat - RepostI thought I’d repost this because of the state of the world today and because
it might help someone see things a little differently or...
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Categories:
descent, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
Go Ask AliceWith enlightenment, not inhalation,
drawn from Jefferson Airplane's (Starship?) 'White Rabbit.'
(written by Grace Slick)
A Monotetra ~
Don't be drawn into that fairytale
with the Cheshire Cat's...
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Categories:
descent, grief,
Form:
Monorhyme
RainI am summer rain for whose arrival you eagerly await.
Sitting on your porch, you watch my descent.
As I mix and mingle the elements, kneading pulverized...
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Categories:
descent, nature, rain, summer,
Form:
Personification
Apollo 11Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin
were the three that made up the crew
to be the first men to set foot on the moon
was what they were determined...
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Categories:
descent, historyjuly, success,
Form:
Rhyme