Best Nuns Poems
Below are the all-time best Nuns poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of nuns poems written by PoetrySoup members
ObsidianAn almost stillness came about
as she strode into my door,
like breath itself refused to move,
fearful of touching her mysterious beauty
But her obsidian eyes betrayed her....
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Categories:
nuns, abuse, dark, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Doublethink Beliefs This Life
From a child taught Catholic creed,
drilled, drilled into me by school nuns;
those teachings will never recede,
but, since those days I have lived...
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Categories:
nuns, life,
Form:
Quatrain
Die Another Day“Die Another Day”
“Your mission, should you so deem it,
Is to infiltrate ALL Fluff Clusters in K.A.O.S. Headquarters
And bloody well steam it!”
“The Place is a hazardous...
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Categories:
nuns, fantasy, fun, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Snowflakes Melting Before the Diadem
"Snowflakes Melting before the Diadem"
Winter is coming
and what then?
the dreams frozen
snowflakes falling
we succomb
tongues out waiting
for manna,
pills swallowed
for the diadem
needles of pine
instead...
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Categories:
nuns, muse,
Form:
Narrative
The Epiphany Rose
"The Epiphany Rose"
All well and good,
the story unfolds;
the isolating madness
drew out the poets
in all the shunned
playing up and out
their origami
word games
something like...
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Categories:
nuns, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Thunder
The thunder sounds from far away,
wild wind runs before it carrying whispers
of the coming storm.
Clouds are dark and gray
like cloistered nuns escaping hell,
and bursting...
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Categories:
nuns, nature,
Form:
Personification
Bloodless - Tale of a Hero and the People He Died ForYou knew you were going to die. 1
And yet you came, thinking no matter how insane,
the man on the seat of power would never want...
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Categories:
nuns, change, corruption, hero, history,
Form:
Epic
You Can'T Hurt MeResounding echoes awaken the child
demons in the attic beckon unto him
stark fear grips his Vick's laden chest
shivers vibrate rusty springs of down
footsteps creak closer upon...
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Categories:
nuns, introspection, life, sad, education,
Form:
Free verse
Tibetan TearsMy heart aches for
Your hearts that break.
I shed tears mingling with
Yours for the forgotten years;
The tortured monks and nuns…
For your people who suffer...
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Categories:
nuns, abuse, angst, culture, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Sexy NunSister, sister sitting there so sweet
Looking so virtuous, acting discreet.
Any male would eagerly bow at your feet
You have no idea of your allure, you're without...
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Categories:
nuns, friendship, funny, halloween,
Form:
Monorhyme
Romance Day and NightRomance Day And Night
How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or...
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Categories:
nuns, romance, prejudice,
Form:
Narrative
Dancing At a TempleI am dancing
Twirling and whirling
Hands and face open to the sun
Lost in the infinite You
Draped in gauze and silks
Whirling and twirling
To the sounds of chants...
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Categories:
nuns, devotion,
Form:
Rhyme
Jaffna My JaffnaJAFFNA MY JAFFNA
===============
All I could see from where I am now,
Jaffna my birth place,
Core of my heart.
So I took my thoughts six decades back,
And saw...
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Categories:
nuns, first love,
Form:
Free verse
Second Row To the BoardSecond row to the board!
These words could not just be ignored
I’m thinking but a vintage few
...
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Categories:
nuns, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Angel's Christmas WishThere was a little girl named Angel.
Who had such a beautiful spirit and
was cute as she could be. Angel had
a heart of gold,...
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Categories:
nuns, abortion, baby, birth, girl,
Form:
Prose