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Best Lent Poems

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


Premium Member My Love She'D Lent
~ MY LOVE SHE'D LENT ~

I followed her where'er she went
Lured onward by her fragrant scent

She clasped his hand, a handsome gent
How could she know...

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Categories: lent, longing, love hurts, romance,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Last Goodbye
Inviting vibrancy as the season changed
Smiley faces bloomed, reopening dreams. 
Seeing you there marked a blessed event
Akin to magical when first time eyes met.

Breezing trees...

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Categories: lent, goodbye, imagery, love, nature,
Form: Verse
Evening Dew
When twilight's spectral fingers fold
Sweet blossoms of every hue;
Some half opened bud will hold
Its pearls of evening dew.

Touched with every sunshine hour
The eternal earth has...

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Categories: lent, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tomorrow Will Be
It’s never tomorrow. It’s always today -
at least in this moment it is, anyway!
So if you are saying out loud a big Wow,
you’re not in...

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Categories: lent, life, time,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Time Machine
Ride with me on my time machine to a different time and place
Return with me and let me see if I can put a smile...

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Categories: lent, nostalgiamom, me, night, candy,
Form: Couplet



Florida Keys Please
No litter, no rules, no society scent,
just peninsula pure soul content, ideally lent.
Awed and wowed with arms stretched wide,
I stand on Key’s narrow road, on...

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Categories: lent, appreciation, beauty, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eye Power- a Collab With Justin
You possess me with those eyes of pyromania
a tidal wave of temptation thrashing into my need for euphoria
romanticized on appetite for agile reckoning of kiss...

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Categories: lent, passion,
Form: Epic
Premium Member God Is Good
Once driving home, I did defy
A deluge from the darkened sky.
The bluster lent a tinge of fright.
But God is good, and all is right.

When soon...

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Categories: lent, faith, god, house,
Form: Rhyme
Parable of the Talents
The Master left to go away,
But, being wise and just,
He first called forth three servants and
Placed Talents in their trust.

According to their proven skills
He portioned...

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© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lent, allegory, bible, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trying To Grasp the Magnificent
I sense the fullness 
in fleeting moments
At those rare times 
I'm able to let go of me
The ebbs and flows 
of non linear thinking
when I...

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Categories: lent, blessing, creation, forgiveness, god,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Eve With My Sweetheart
My darling, my dearest, my loving man –
it is a perfect fire you have going,
the atmosphere is Christmas-cheer glowing.
I delight in you, me and our...

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Categories: lent, character, christmas, good night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retired
Throw me high, higher still
Let me breathe again, 
Let me gain
height, I will
Live, smile, laugh, be filled
        ...

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Categories: lent, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Admiring the Fall
We loved to traverse the dense forest,
Where birds continued as they chorused,
Admiring on one side the tall pines,
Breathing their best fragrance from their vines.

On the...

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Categories: lent, autumn, beauty, farm,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member This Moment
Quality of time, choose how it’s spent
This moment will never be again
It cannot be bought, borrowed or lent

Just a relived memory then
Cherish it, feel it,...

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Categories: lent, appreciation, time,
Form: Terzanelle
Premium Member Beauteous Affinity
I was a fashionable interior decorator, beautifying comfortable, loved homes;
And selecting wall paints, fabrics and furniture, like the sparkle of gemstones.

I worked closely with eager...

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Categories: lent, beauty, change, color, fantasy,
Form: Couplet

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