Best Mortal Poems
Below are the all-time best Mortal poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mortal poems written by PoetrySoup members
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...
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Categories:
mortal, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...
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Categories:
mortal, beautiful, peace, star,
Form:
Verse
The EndThe End
Seeing through these cold dead eyes now,
This world looks much different.
The scars of one’s life entire,
Appear now for all to see.
What once meant everything,
Really...
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Categories:
mortal, change, death, god, heaven,
Form:
Lyric
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...
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Categories:
mortal, death, evil, family, fate,
Form:
Haibun
How Do I Hold the WindOn 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:
mortal, grief, longing, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Giving Godly GraceGrace-full is the lily born of virtue’s milk
Inspiring me with petals pure in my hour of need -
Vow and vim of passion vivid and...
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Categories:
mortal, appreciation, faith, god, jesus,
Form:
Acrostic
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:
mortal, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin 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:
mortal, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
My Poems Are Children To MeMy poems are conceived, not within the womb,
which long time now has been devoid of seed.
My poems are born from a need to be heard:
my...
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Categories:
mortal, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Texian Macabre ArenaThe First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...
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Categories:
mortal, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form:
Ballad
The Monroe MoonIn glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon...
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Categories:
mortal, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form:
Free verse
Gnarled ShadowsThrough shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare,
Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...
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Categories:
mortal, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
The Tower RebuiltI shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...
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Categories:
mortal, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
The Amorous Mystique - a Collaboration With Robert LindleyCan it be, into this world we are dropped
from heavenly streams that have never stopped?
With sweet hope gifted to our souls delight,
oceans of love and...
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Categories:
mortal, appreciation, romantic love, sensual,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
mortal, bereavement, goodbye, soulmate, storm,
Form:
Rhyme