Best Meted Poems
Below are the all-time best Meted poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of meted poems written by PoetrySoup members
Seven Kingdoms
I
The Holy Bible said seven kingdoms would arise,
then like windblown grains of sand, fall to the dust
Six kingdoms have come and gone, blinked their eyes
and...
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Categories:
meted, judgement, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Whips of History - 4Injustice is just an inconvenience until it is proven...
When the sun hit their helmets it startled the very souls of the natives
a signal upon their...
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Categories:
meted, history, passion, poetry,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Meeting Expectations of a Realist-WPassions for expectations with life were none
Till the teenage accepted life as it came anon.
Went to gym, played games, attended school
Swam in the open sea,...
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Categories:
meted,
Form:
Bio
The Aberdare Ranges KenyaDawn, when silence falters
And the trees of the range-
Are tucked in a bucket of fog
Marching dawn, whose beauty never alters,
I tuck myself in blankets...
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Categories:
meted, africa, mountains, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
meted, nature,
Form:
Fibonacci
Whom Do We Trust
Whom Do We Trust
Written: by Miracle Man
7/21/2019
Every now and then, we all lose our bearing,
Facing days that become gloomy, often despairing.
We only check our compass...
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Categories:
meted, god, life, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
Living Right
Living Right
Written: by Tom Wright
6-30-2016
If clothed in righteousness by his blood,
divine wrath, we will never have to face.
Though trials come upon us like a...
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Categories:
meted, god, jesus, judgement, prayer,
Form:
Lyric
Out Discipline‘Out’-discipline!
“Teacher, beaten by student.” “Student stabs another in squabble.”
“Teachers found without Lesson Plan.” “Noise level unbearable.”
Unfortunately, these would only be a few of the...
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Categories:
meted, education,
Form:
Narrative
The Aberdare Ranges KenyaDawn, when silence falters
And the trees of the range-
Are tucked in a bucket of fog
Marching dawn whose beauty never alters.
I tuck myself in blankets like...
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Categories:
meted, africa, animal, beauty, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Howling At the Moon
Black market product truckload ...
illegal cargo of tax-free merchandise,
and plenty boxed liquor of trouble
Leather clad tattooed dirty violet blonde
riding shotgun,
with a Rambo knife hugging...
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Categories:
meted, allusion, dark, death, violence,
Form:
Ode
In the Season of Hope ThereofIN THE SEASON OF HOPE THEREOF
In the season of hope thereof,
There seems to be
Little justice, peace and love
Meted out to you and me;
Except for what...
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Categories:
meted, allegory, analogy, christmas, imagery,
Form:
Sonnet
If Ever I Had a Country: LxxivIF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXIV
IF ever I had a country proud of its sacred Soul Patrie
And if ever by a long shot...
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Categories:
meted, education, graduation, prison, religion,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Quality of MercyThe Quality Of Mercy
'The quality of mercy is not strained'
wrote the bard of bards in his day
may be he meant it was unrestrained
and the Creator...
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Categories:
meted, brother, caregiving
Form:
Verse
Sonic YouthArsenals of axes brought by the crate
Pedals increasing experimental
Trashy dissections of raw cityscapes
NYC rockers gone transcendental
Static blasts shredding the off-key high pings
Maracas hit toms...
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Categories:
meted, guitar, integrity, music, sound,
Form:
Sonnet
The Whistling SoldierA soldier that served in the last Great War
Is remembered in stone and in wood,
One of thousands who died and had to endure
What no man...
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Categories:
meted, conflict, courage, death, remembrance
Form:
Rhyme