Best Lesser Poems
Below are the all-time best Lesser poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of lesser poems written by PoetrySoup members
Children of a Lesser GodI’m tired of knowing
That because of my race
Because of where I live
Because of my last name
I’m part of the band…
The children of a lesser God
I’m...
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Categories:
lesser, god, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Cry of the CityWe will walk then, you and I
When daylight shuts her weary eye;
Down the streets where beggars sleep
And drug crazed addicts spend their keep.
On streets that...
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Categories:
lesser, life, prayer, time, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tribute To a Major ApplianceSub-titled: What’s in YOUR Fridge?
Please allow me to introduce myself:
My name is Ms. Fridge A. Daire
I stand tall among my lesser cohorts
and MOST of them...
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Categories:
lesser, funny, humorous, relationship,
Form:
Personification
DepressionUnending darkness floods the skies
alone in dreams my heart must weep
no words are spoken or even cried
such silence lives where shadows sleep
My pleas just echo...
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Categories:
lesser, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form:
Sonnet
shadows of sacrifice -
~ for the scores of casualties who fight the war at home … the silent war of broken hearts and families ~
...
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Categories:
lesser, absence, death, lonely, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
Course CorrectionLight the nation a new fire;
Awake the apathetic’s desire;
Like sheep to Shepherd’s crook;
We need a new course, old Book.
Our founders risked it all;
Starting with Lexington’s...
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Categories:
lesser, leadership,
Form:
Political Verse
nonetheless -
I sigh …
pushing warm, wordless weight
onto the twilight mist
where its folly hangs like old sackcloth
the silver-doubloon moon dripping
it’s wan wonder to daub
breath and bones alike...
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Categories:
lesser, lost love, moon, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
In This Time of Looming Dark, Look To the True LightIn This Time Of Looming Dark, Look To The True Light
World is dark and racing fast into hell
grab a coin, toss it in a wishing...
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Categories:
lesser, art, creation, faith, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
lesser, birthday,
Form:
Concrete
Categories:
lesser, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Sonnet 31 'How High the Bar That Makes a Poet Real'How high the bar that makes a poet Real!
(He walks in mists, and shadows of himself)
To be a poet, is to burn with steel
Set short...
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Categories:
lesser, funny, humor, humorous, poetry,
Form:
Sonnet
ResurrectionI rise from deep within the earth
out of pressured lavas
I rise above the level into
breathable realms
I rise following the risen
He who set my path and
monitors...
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Categories:
lesser, change, christian, easter, faith,
Form:
Free verse
A Quiet Place That I Sought When I was down in the dumps
I longed to be away from the din of the world
And a quiet place I sought
Nature has always...
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Categories:
lesser, happiness, peace, retirement,
Form:
Free verse
Equality At the Hands of MenMan so mighty and wise
still has to define this
that another living being's life
has the same value as his
Boasted, brazened
written in stone
raised above
these highest...
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Categories:
lesser, history, humanity, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
I That Once Rose To Greet Dawn's Sweetest VoiceI, Who Once Rose To Greet Dawn's Sweetest Voice
I, who once rose to greet dawn's sweetest voice
and with joys of life, made loving my choice
while...
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Categories:
lesser, art, deep, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme