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Best Lifeblood Poems

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


Premium Member How Do I Hold the Wind
On the edge of silence 
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit...

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Categories: lifeblood, grief, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member listen to life -
have you not heard me?

borne upon the air at dusk, dancing ... I have whispered you in a million voices
    still, you...

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Categories: lifeblood, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: lifeblood, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...

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Categories: lifeblood, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
Will Shepard
The day Will Shepard shot my dog
His barn burned to the soil;
The flames licked at the Autumn sky,
The smoke as black as oil.
I dropped the...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lifeblood, animals, cowboy-western, death, loss,
Form: Verse



The Artist
Stillborn
a mood of aberrant colour
a stain on the Artist’s worlds
a heart pulsating with pain
a wide range of intense ardour
mixed  on a fine palette
and a...

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Categories: lifeblood, art, dedication, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Country 'Tis of Thee
You, my homeland
Are of a beauty unrivaled
From one coast to the other
Your plains and rolling hills and pointy peaks
Cry to the heavens of freedom
Your jagged...

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Categories: lifeblood, america, appreciation, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cutting My Losses
Atmospheric grayscale mirrors my mood
where rainbow pastels are loath to intrude,
monochrome perverse looms ‘cross universe -

black powder train, mind is gun barrel gray
cold dispassionate muzzle...

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Categories: lifeblood, anxiety, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ancient Shadows Awaken Into God's Light
Ancient Shadows Awaken into God’s Light

Underneath the deep seabed the stirring sands of time have passed on.
Ancient shadows continue to haunt all of us from...

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Categories: lifeblood, dark, dream, evil, faith,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Birth of a Swan
Out 
of the darkness

star-lanterns’ beam finds an awakening dream - 
a strewn snowy stream 
gracing the depths of the black swan night


Earthbound

from the realm of...

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Categories: lifeblood, birth, december, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cherry Blossoms
March is wrapped in a fleece of snow
on which Dawn cast a golden glow.
But a robin's chirp says hello
promising Winter will soon go;
as spring showers...

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Categories: lifeblood, 10th grade, beautiful, change,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The White Roses Died With You
White dove's wings flutter in crepuscular light
As I visit your gravestone's marbled sadness
To let my soul linger through the long night
Still, the loneliness now measured...

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Categories: lifeblood, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Living On Poetry
I live on poetry
Instead of money
Means and ends reversed
To alter the curse

Lifeblood runs thick
As stoic veins bleat out
Their passionate terrain

I will die knowing
What life means
So...

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Categories: lifeblood, happiness, on writing and
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Precious
Every person matters
No one more than another
Our lifeblood is red
  We are all brothers

Human beings are precious
Be they black, white, or yellow
If you don't...

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Categories: lifeblood, humanity, life,
Form: Rhyme
Promises In September's Magic, Collaboration With Nik Canada7
“Promises in September's magic”
“promesse nella magia di settembre”

Sweet September arrives again, 
hearing the celestial melody and 
symphony of a nocturnal wind 
calling your name, beneath...

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Categories: lifeblood, angel, autumn, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs