Best Mitre Poems
Below are the all-time best Mitre poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mitre poems written by PoetrySoup members
Life Is Like a Chess Match"Life is like a chess match
To win you must be swift and able to maneuver
Yes, life and the chess match are very much...
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Categories:
mitre, evil, god, life, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Antique StoreI took my periodic stroll through the local antique store today.
I stumbled over things and stepped 'round clutter to make my way!
I looked for clocks...
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Categories:
mitre, funny, old, old,
Form:
Rhyme
The PhysicianAt the end of a dry, harsh August, as
Autumn slowly descends upon Whitechapel,
I begin my vicious practice.
From Buck’s Row to Hanbury Street,
I make each...
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Categories:
mitre, abuse, crazy, gothic, murder,
Form:
Lyric
Earth-WomanI am woman and I have borne the Torah on a gold cloth
over my shoulder.
I have consecrated its dust-leadened parchment,
cradling the scrolls into...
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Categories:
mitre, christian,
Form:
Free verse
The Epitaph of An UnbelieverWhere would you like to be buried they asked
Well really that’s not my concern
It won’t bother me if I’m under a tree
Or stuck on a...
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Categories:
mitre, funeralme, music, me, music,
Form:
Couplet
Oh DeathOh Death, grant me organic mirth
Return to earth ‘neath lifeless moon
Undo the tendrils that hold sway
Allow embrace of Mother’s womb
For I am now but skin...
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Categories:
mitre, dark, death, life,
Form:
Sonnet
The Snake Charmer
He dresses in robes, carefully coiffed
He enters the nave, mitre is doffed
He preaches a tale, to eager sheep
He fleeces their wool, his tithe to...
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Categories:
mitre, allegory, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
SomewhereThe mitre of us
We live, due by our own rules
Skeptical beliefs
Tender tawdry tantrums
Misty colored trifles...
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Categories:
mitre, age, allusion, dedication, wisdom,
Form:
Tanka
The Pompous CeremonyThe lightly fizzing mood
I've felt all day
and fenced within a grin
is at odds
with the stoppered
solemnity of this pompous
ceremony I've had to attend
and is...
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Categories:
mitre, humor, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Old SoulIn that we are all a vassal to age
no sceptre or mitre can set us free,
and no fealty can old time assuage
...
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Categories:
mitre, age, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Murphy's Law of Governmentsoundbyte politics
mitre box propaganda
angles distorted
Peter Principal vitae
all cutters from rotten cloth...
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Categories:
mitre, america, anger, betrayal, cancer,
Form:
Tanka
Spring In the AirSpring Is In The Air
Seasons changed as revolutions circled in the wider scheme
of matter with great things to come and wonders gone past
Summer in unforgettable...
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Categories:
mitre, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
I Know You Wont Believe Me, ButGood morning my dear, are you still awake?
Yes, I know it's quite late but let me make
it quite clear its not entirely my...
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Categories:
mitre, drink, humor,
Form:
Free verse
God Meant Need His Consentwhat God may have meant
will always need my consent
give up things for Lent
(Mitre Box)
we would search and search
for place where new priest can...
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Categories:
mitre, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Haiku
Snapshot of CambridgeThis is a poem about the University city of Cambridge in the UK , although I have only been there a few times , I...
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Categories:
mitre, england, graduate, poets, student,
Form:
Rhyme