Best Laymen Poems
Below are the all-time best Laymen poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of laymen poems written by PoetrySoup members
Escalating the Muse
"Escalating the Muse"
Written on the body
passive complacence
stretches sharp ink
etched pain in the soul
then real beauty
from the
Book of Truth,
a page moored
in transparent...
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Categories:
laymen, muse, truth, writing,
Form:
Free verse
IntrospectivelyUnderstanding myself, and towards developing introvertedly
The parameters of today, yet most lay dormant inside of me
Questioning the how, as in such, the extended...
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Categories:
laymen, depression, faith, fear, feelings,
Form:
Acrostic
ScarecrowsInnocent child,
wake up from your rainbow colored dreams,
listen to the red feathered rooster,
it crows the early dawn's burden,
hang on me,
dance along with the swaying golden...
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Categories:
laymen, betrayal,
Form:
Ballad
The Oracle At Tibetan Stok Monastery-W“Patients, carefully wash your hands and mouth
As the spirits are offended by our smells
And get yourself clean of the defilements”
Thus Matho announced the arrival of...
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Categories:
laymen, religion,
Form:
Narrative
Limericks of Physics - 1To love Physics one just has to care
For the universe heart described there,
Relativity's Laws
Are much like Santa Claus,
Einstein's Tensors just floating on air.
Brian...
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Categories:
laymen, science, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen - Xxiv Part OneUnquotable quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen* – XXIV-Part One
The Uhr-Father of the embodiment of spiritual power since the Middle Ages must certainly have been the...
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Categories:
laymen, allegory, heaven, humanity, leadership,
Form:
Epigram
Notes On Tears of JerusalemNotes:
I was listening to some music, by a famous singer, about this story, can any guess the song?
I find it interesting in light of...
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Categories:
laymen, history,
Form:
Light Verse
MagiclessIt's early November '91,
and I quite can't remember,
ever,
feeling this humbled, seeing
Magic stumble,
off his shiny crown,
and the little boy
Who once glared...
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Categories:
laymen, basketball, celebrity, hero, how
Form:
Free verse
Back With Poetry VengeanceBack with poetry vengeance,
Don’t fear this, Transcendence
Or from the Abyss?
Elohim’s Prince,
Or a Demonic Word Smith with written myths?
These flames destroy man’s deceitful tactics...
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Categories:
laymen, allegory, meaningful, metaphor, poetry,
Form:
Epic
I Sat Beside a Dead Foxriver. gold
liquidcopper sheen & skypulp
mashed upon fatrocked banks
refracted beams;
reflections.
The kid squeal.
The rowers chirp "hello"
[multiple oar-chasm] we bridge it
with a languid arm-sigh tooing, no fro....
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Categories:
laymen, animals, family, father, happiness,
Form:
I do not know?
Asides Within a Last BreathThree lying deacons
swim in a handbag -
and a lone, celibate pastor
paces longingly bemused.
Michael, the Arc Angel,
poses silently,
in dusty Gabbana drag,
cursing the lipstick-painted...
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Categories:
laymen, introspection
Form:
Free verse
Quack's ProgressArriving from unknown somewhere
He set up clinic in the market square
Declared he could cure any disease
Using herbal drugs of plants and trees
Townsfolk being credulous
Soon to...
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Categories:
laymen, imagination, inspirational, introspection, drug,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Ode To 9/11This day shall be in remembrance of all the lost souls.
Each one remembered proudly on every flag pole.
This day shall be in remembrance to the...
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Categories:
laymen, dedication, devotion, education, faith,
Form:
Ode
True BrotherhoodThe helmsman sings a merry song:
Haec est vera fraternas,
and downs a cup of something strong,
Hick, vera, hick, hick, fraternas.
The sailors dance a lusty jig,
forsaking sails,...
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Categories:
laymen, autumn, brother, death, song,
Form:
Ballad
The Poetic ReedemerTHE POETIC REEDEMER…
To my fellow colleagues.
Devout, aspiring.
With wise words of great magnitude
Sent forth, I speak my mind
I built barricades, lest you leave this behind
The masses...
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Categories:
laymen, devotion, leadership, poets, tribute,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme