Best Great Divide Poems
Below are the all-time best Great Divide poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of great divide poems written by PoetrySoup members
Great DivideA great divide is here
Not, the Grand Canyon
Or our weather from East to West
Or even North to South
But, it is the divide amongst our...
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Categories:
great divide, encouraging, life,
Form:
Narrative
God and Man - the Great DivideCompare the evidence of a real divide
so far apart are truly God and man
the comparisons are really traumatic
consider all that covers this great span
God is...
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Categories:
great divide, god, humanity, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Abbi of BacabiShe left one day, her Kiowa village
And stood proudly in the sun
Beneath the Tabletop Mountains
And walked among the golden sea
Of waving grass, fearless and...
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Categories:
great divide, art,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Of the Life, the Great Loss, the Solemn PleaOf The Life, The Great Loss, The Solemn Plea
Across the cold chasm of that great divide
were flung the salty tears I could not hide
and epic...
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Categories:
great divide, art, fate, introspection, life,
Form:
Romanticism
Compadre
We’ve shared the trail, kicked up some dust,
An’ stood a storm or two.
We’ve rode the plains, the wide frontier,
The easy trails were few.
You’ve listened like...
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Categories:
great divide, animals, cowboy-western, death, friendship,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
The Last Gold LeafThe last gold leaf hangs on the bough;
summer is just a memory now.
You, too, have gone, my golden friend;
our summer days came to an end.
We...
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Categories:
great divide, absence, bereavement, death, farewell,
Form:
Elegy
The SeekerAct 2, Scene 4.
The Salisbury plain. Within a henge, a watchfire burns. The Seer approaches The Seeker.
Take heed, my friend, our part in cosmic cheat
Plays...
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Categories:
great divide, humanity, life,
Form:
Sonnet
BecauseBECAUSE
You opened up my eyes,
They turned towards the skies,
Clouds higher than I’d ever seen
The grass so green.
BECAUSE,
You opened up my eyes
You offered me first prize,
To...
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Categories:
great divide, pollution,
Form:
Rhyme
Stairway To HeavenI'll build a stairway to heavens gate,
Climb the spirals into the great divide.
There your name I'll defiantly state,
I'll wait until they let me come inside.
As...
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Categories:
great divide, imagination, loss, sad, voice,
Form:
Rhyme
Pass'If'Ick, At:Land:Ick-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pass.if.ick
while listening to the Pacific
w)aether(, (woe)ter from eyes
pool into the soul
wanting to gush, saever--
to create a great divide
between memory and heart,
forcing to un-feel
in a dumb...
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Categories:
great divide, absence, allusion, feelings, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Burnt Remains Lost Without PeaceDarkness you have a funny way of shading the light
colour coding from such a pit spinning the web of deceit
clouds within suffering victims...
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Categories:
great divide, betrayal, color, conflict, death,
Form:
Terza Rima
Dysfunctional Inner PeaceThe scorpions creeping out from words slowly, acutely framing
where judgement claims the higher position unconditionally
lone vulture hanging over its unsuspecting prey ready to pounce...
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Categories:
great divide, conflict, deep, prejudice, pride,
Form:
Quatrain
Why Hides the Sun His Face As In DefeatLXXVIII
Why hides the sun his face as in defeat?
The day is done and this ninth hour had come
As sorrows flood with tears that grace...
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Categories:
great divide, death, forgiveness, god, good
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
great divide, peace,
Form:
Narrative
Dysfunctional Inner PeaceThe scorpions creeping out from words slowly, acutely framing
where judgement claims the higher position unconditionally
lone vulture hanging over its unsuspecting prey ready to pounce...
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Categories:
great divide, analogy, character, feelings, mythology,
Form:
Quatrain