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Best Lat Poems

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


My Heart Is Sick and Sad
Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, born at the close,
defeat your only destiny.
Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain, sometimes the strong
are chosen to fight the hopeless wars.

You began to lose before...

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Categories: lat,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member Seagulls
Going on a tram to Lattes*,
the tram rails winding this and that,
but first, Montpellier was seen.
Tall buildings, cream and white,
and the sight of seagulls
near bright...

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© Julia Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lat, bird, memory, places,
Form: Light Verse
Wonder
Habitually, feeling an itch to write,
I’m introspective: sitting at the table
over a blank sheet, cherishing my blight
and rust, I think: “What if I'll not be...

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Categories: lat, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nathaniel Bains
Nathaniel Bains was a kindly man but had little brains
He was as skinny as a lat
Lived in a small country village
And a bird nested in...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lat, character, fun, funny, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
Metadata
remember it's not the "actual" data
it's only the metadata, but we
never met a data we didn't love
there's treasure in detritus debris

with intense Holmesian determination
we'll be...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lat, computer, internet, introspection, society,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member The Snowflake That Sank the Titanic
The Snowflake That Sank The Titanic

It all begins with a single snowflake
(Each one in itself is unique)
Brought about through evaporation,
And returned by the force of...

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Categories: lat, education, fate, history, remember,
Form: Verse
Lost At Sea
The ship was atoss on the ungallant sea
The swells took a toll as the hull strained and cracked
It would be fair time afore it sought...

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Categories: lat, sea, weather,
Form: Free verse
Flagellum
FLAGELLUM
                        ...

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Categories: lat, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Marat and Charlotte
(A somnambulistic drama in four acts)

Actors:

Jean-Paul Marat; 
Charles Barbarou;
Charlotte Corday;
1st Philosopher;
2nd Philosopher;
The Commentator’s Voice.

Act 1. A tavern. Two philosopher sit at the table; 
Marat sits...

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Categories: lat, death, life, love,
Form: Blank verse
Commissum - Sonnet
my love, into thy hands I trust my heart,
for you to keep it safe, away from tears,
until the day when we shall be apart,
when we'll...

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Categories: lat, loveheart, heart,
Form: Sonnet
Fas - Tanka
seeds of paradise
sowed in the palm of my dream
gave birth to rainbows...
i was given wings of light
to fly among memories...


fas (lat.) - fate...

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Categories: lat, life, philosophy
Form: Tanka
Dead Memories
Dead Memories


Do you miss me?
Who are you?
Do you still love me?
Why do you ask?
Do you still think I'm wonderful?
I do not know 
Am I how...

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Categories: lat, art, devotion, friendship, passion,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Classified Part Two
We turned off before reaching Kings Lynn and headed down a road that would take us to Henderson Aerodrome a local flying school, we were...

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Categories: lat, science fiction,
Form: Prose
Ad Amore, Iv
Beatrice:  Tu miri a la funestia de l'austeria 
               ...

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Categories: lat, beauty, blessing, heart, hope,
Form: Terza Rima
Ad Amore, Ii
Beatrice Discerno in te come s'agona 
                  ...

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Categories: lat, angel, beauty, blessing, innocence,
Form: Terza Rima

Book: Reflection on the Important Things