Get Your Premium Membership

Best Godwin Poems

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


My Father, My Dad
DEDICATED TO MY FATHER, (R) COLONEL WILLIAM C. GODWIN / 1931 - 1998


My voice is weak, my hand falters
As I attempt to speak of my...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, appreciation, dad, father, love,
Form: Elegiac Lyric



Mary and Frank
Mary Godwin -- soon to be Shelley --
Writing with Percy, Byron and Polidori
To create the scariest horror story,
Gave life to a monster of immortal glory....

Read more of this work...
© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: godwin, creation, gothic, horror, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Vietnam Victim
DEDICATED TO MY FATHER, (R) COLONEL WILLIAM C. GODWIN / 1931 - 1998



Leaving for a year
to nightmare and fear
he came to say goodbye
or at least...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, daughter, father, war,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Reason
In these Days, We prayed series...

The 7enth innatemeditation 


REASON




Brethren,

Do we believe that the same God,

Who has endowed us 

With sense, intellect and Reason

Has intended us to...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, deep, discrimination, fantasy, fate,
Form: Carpe Diem
Africana
Africana, a poem that details the pre - colonial, colonial and post -colonial Africa, her rich history, struggles and  unique cultural heritage in a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, africa, black love, books,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Elegy For My Father
Godwin Adizue Ibeh 
(1937-2017)


Mr. Godwin Adizue Ibeh
Aged 79 years
Was and is 
My beloved, doting father
“Is” because he remains
Spiritually present 
Present 
In my memory
Present 
In pictures and mementos 
Present 
In my dreams,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, death, eulogy, father, how
Form: Elegy
Mother
Mother


*yoruba edition*


'Better lose the saddle than the horse'.
Every mother's voice echo these 7 words 
To her child, not just out of love, 
Not entirely for...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, africa, birth, joy, mother,
Form: Ode
Mother -Igbo Edition
Mother


Better lose the saddle than the horse’.
Every mother’s voice echo these 7 words 
To her child, not just out of love, 
Not entirely for love...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, mom, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Ode
On Cultism
'From A LIth Book Of Tales'



On Cultism...



'Dodorima, Abankrier, Obuogede, Awumen,Omi'


Shout and chants that derails youths of their Concentration and goals in life.
Community brought us all...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, abuse, addiction, africa, birth,
Form: Didactic
The Risen Heads
THE RISEN HEADS

We know ourselves for long, since ages
A time we spent in a small kiosk as bar boys, in the weekdays
A time we spent...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, anniversary, friendship, inspirational, time,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Shrouded
"Shrouded" 

found in the humanity
not in the divinity
many pilates 
wash their hands
of this

long enough
for the clouds 
to descend 
then rise 
fly away 

criminal as charged
electric...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, dark, light, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Life
April 12, 2013


An ode to LIFE (AGBON)



The yesterdays,
The todays and even the uncertain morrows
In accordance to the law of nature
Are in a state of a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, birth, future, growth, life,
Form: Ode
Rhetorics On the Nigerian Church
A billion dollar structure to worship
An invisible God.
Why there are a billion persons 
Who go to bed hungry.
This God in whose image we were all...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, abuse, allusion, april, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Story of a Brother Efosa
'Going going gone 
Says the ticking clock
For each breaking day draws 
A man closer to his end.'
The true essence of time
 ...

Efosa, his mother had...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, art, assonance, birth, birthday,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Tell Freedom
In these days, we prayed -SERIES- 

"TELL FREEDOM" 

June 10, 2017

              ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: godwin, africa, freedom, time, travel,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things