Best Drum Poems
Below are the all-time best Drum poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of drum poems written by PoetrySoup members
Healing Power of the Drumyour labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done
I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and...
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Categories:
drum, inspirational, native american, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Listen For the Drum
listen to the drum,
talking to the dance
listen to the elders,
whispering their chants
listen to the hooves, pounding on the plain
listen to the birds, prophesying rain
listen...
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Categories:
drum, appreciation, culture, environment, native
Form:
Rhyme
Fifty-Three Shades of Greyin the uncoloured tint of another everyday
amongst the spit polished waxed apples
tightly packed in burlap bags
they walked like minded
in their own burly wrap
oblivious to the...
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Categories:
drum, child, community, conflict, dad,
Form:
Free verse
EmergentAnd yes, she will rise and conquer
She is queen of her own destiny
Her spirit is indomitable
Her eyes aflame with passion
Her warrior heart beats...
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Categories:
drum, beauty, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
New World OrderThe Rulers wield their silver shields,
wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...
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Categories:
drum, drug, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Music To My EarsEffervescent elation arises and dances to ancient echoes; the rhythm of the drums heartbeat.
Champagne notes bubble into the night sky; night music of...
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Categories:
drum, animal, bird, dream, image,
Form:
Free verse
In Soft Glowing Mistress Flame of the Beauty's Breath - a Collaboration With Susan AshleyIn Soft Glowing Mistress Flame Of The Beauty's Breath
- a collaboration with Susan Ashley
In soft glowing mistress flame of thy beauty's breath
your heart swears...
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Categories:
drum, art, beautiful, desire, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Manipulations Of FateI wait—
here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me free me
here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end...
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Categories:
drum, death, fate, life, lost
Form:
Free verse
WinterWith his icy fingers he stole my smokey breath,
laid a sheet of slippery freezing cold by my feet
and then whispered in my ear right to the...
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Categories:
drum, winter,
Form:
Personification
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...
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Categories:
drum, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's LibraryToddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...
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Categories:
drum, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
- In Norwegian It's Called - Lykken I Livet -How blessed I am that you are in my life
Amazing grace whistles through the valleys one tune
You make my body sizzle with your kisses
Fireflies light...
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Categories:
drum, beauty, celebration, heart, love,
Form:
Couplet
When the Flowers of Youth FellWhen the Flowers of Youth Fell
Winter stayed late that year
courting Spring with a fury.
Beautiful gifts of snow
and dazzling ice, he gave her.
It was during such...
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Categories:
drum, seasons, time, war,
Form:
Free verse
Mundane Matters of MortalsAlas
how they suffer
poverty seeds disease
like a puddle breeds mosquitoes -
the sickly buzz is everywhere..
the dirge of the drudge
nowadays damn near everyone in...
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Categories:
drum, dark, death, loss, planet,
Form:
Free verse
Organic EcstasyIt had been a day full of miraculous detail.
Freezing rain played the ground like a kettle drum.
Trees snapped and flowers curtsied
before engaging in a...
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Categories:
drum, nature, planet,
Form:
Free verse