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Best Licit Poems

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


Santa's Visit
Santa paid you a visit
  Asking your wish not licit
    Wishes come true in surprises
      Dream...

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Categories: licit, dream, giving, humor, prayer,
Form: Tail-rhyme



Premium Member Splash Bang Reflection
Splash Bang Reflection


W ~ hen it has hit home with a big splash bang or silent reflection that time

E ~ lapses and fireworks are for...

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Categories: licit, philosophy, song,
Form: Acrostic
Vignette of Amy Jade
What wild glee behind your tame grin lurks?
What shy sun fears to breach your heart’s horizon?
And to against your hidden teeth of 
Alabaster gleam. Bestowing...

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Categories: licit, cheer up, depression, faith,
Form: Free verse
Unrelated Danger
Is it not one but all the same,
That we too want in this love-toss game?
Heart-felt glows and satisfying chatter,
To be atop life with a never-ending...

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© Jesse Day  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: licit, abuse, family, innocence, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Great Interfaith Revolutions
Executive Summary:
To optimize Great Faith Revolutions,
combine all toxic ingredients 
of Make America Great Again,
and then feel
then hear
then do
then say
then cooperatively touch
then develop a compassionate taste
for...

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Categories: licit, faith, gospel, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse



A Soul Awakened
Wasting a Monday morning mooning
Till dawn creeps west in a slowly crawl
Across cunning cliffs of clouded sky
Bade dawn drawn down to noon bye
Bears a clear...

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Categories: licit, inspirational, me, morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Philosophy of Integrity
Is also a metaphysics of integral co-relationships,
which would make an even worse title
for drawing you into
our shared land of bicameral consciousness.

Philosophy of scientific method
could also...

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Categories: licit, community, environment, health, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Letter To a War Belligerent
I can apprehend your thirst for annihilation
Your appetite to proliferate terror
To gratify your alter ego
To guarantee your supremacy

To drop bombs on beings above suspicion
To burn...

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Categories: licit, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Red Justice But Green Peace
HeteroSapiens have bipolar developed
miraculous capacities
to stretch and blur
legitimate moral peace initiatives
subordinate to licit legal judicial systems

Judiciously approved punishment
for misdemeanors
felonies,
cardinal
and moral
and carnal
and original sins
requiring flat fees
regardless...

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Categories: licit, culture, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Treasuring the Educator
A former friend of mine
tricked me into becoming
something I am not

The volunteer President
of our condo association,
a position I clearly cannot afford
midst trifling disassociations.

We were starting...

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Categories: licit, education, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Harken To Halcyon Ways
So a feint hope seeps through,
Though she won't wait.
And I am taken aback.
Sit, watching the entrancing eyes
Reflect an odd transcient light.

Well now I slowly grow
Feel...

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Categories: licit, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dear Nationalist Republicans
I'm worried
you have over valued
your favorite deceptively entertaining 
disformed
dis-eased commodity,

DisInformation's strategic value
and disvalue
and misvalue
depreciatively revaluated
against long-term resonant
and resilient democratic constitutional
win/win eco-political wealth
of USA patriotic empowerment
for...

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Categories: licit, bullying, conflict, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Sycophancy
Sycophancy they celebrate
Insolvency they worship
Profligacy they cherish
Grandiosity they love.

Impudence remains a force 
To reckon with 
Indolence rewarded 
Amidst pomp and pageantry
Intolerance to dissent
Views became the...

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Categories: licit, education, life, people,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Healing Unusually Cruel Justice
Everything 
and everyone 
we have ever legitimately loved,
we will lose.

Mentally embracing
facing this problem
of biological mortality
is half of our potential
multigenerationally licit grace.

The other half,
more redemptively front
and...

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Categories: licit, destiny, health, humanity, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Defending Democratic Doglives
Dear Thom the Train
Attorney Page,

Defender of all Creatures
here below
in these DisUniting States
of throwback uncivil disunion,

What is your root foundation
for a constitutional argument
that all living residents
of...

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Categories: licit, culture, dog, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things