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Best Paean Poems

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


A Paean To God
Now, at last, I finally understand:
I can never be complete within myself...
without You, my emotions betray me, 
my mind counteracts itself,
hope will flee me, despair...

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Categories: paean, allusion, angst, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse



A Paean For the Marx Brothers
THE MARX BROTHERS or The Unimportance of Being Earnest

I will praise the brothers Marx for their absurdity
As all ‘fools’ who mask high wisdom with the...

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Categories: paean, happiness, hilarious,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member to sail the sky -
* For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness *

                  ...

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Categories: paean, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Walk of Love
The Walk of Love    			

With you now entering this heart enchanting with rose petals
You’re the sweetest flower dancing tunes inside one’s mind
Once...

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Categories: paean, allegory, emotions, feelings, i
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Aspens Quake: Hexsonnetta
The copse of aspens quake.
Horses graze and cows laze
as languid summer splays
emeralds in its wake,
low fields to overtake
the prospect's cyan glaze.

Immutable the sun
in lambent saffron...

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Categories: paean, imagery, nature, summer,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Journey Companions: the Friend Sonnets Part Ii
HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of...

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Categories: paean, friend, hero, places, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Kissing In the Rain
rain’s paean is played
with  lover’s tender kisses
cold breeze sways with grace

water on the ground
symphony of crystal drops
kisses warmth their heart

moonlight smiles with glee
dark clouds...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paean, kiss, love, nature, rain,
Form: Haiku
Beata Agustin
You certainly know where she stands
She's placed her whole life in God's hands
Whatever the form
Her faith is the norm
She builds on the rock not the...

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Categories: paean, faith,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member That Ancient Darkside of All Hallow's Eve Past
That Ancient Darkside of All Hallows’ Eve Past

As in the fabled medieval times of centuries in the deep past,
It’s time once again to celebrate the...

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Categories: paean, dark, evil, fantasy, god,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Laughter Is the Best Medicine
I know a creative soul named Jan
She births laughter - it’s surely her plan
Giggles must shadow her
Her wit creates a stir
She’s funnier than most any...

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Categories: paean, appreciation, fun, funny, giggle,
Form: Limerick
Jan's Pans
She writes of the stuff in the loo,
amused by the odour of poo -
she has me in fits
describing her sh.ts
(though others believe it's taboo...)

written 19th...

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© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paean, nature,
Form: Limerick
Wails of a Song
The coda of mourning jays vibrates
In bittersweet tracks when daybreak scans
An almost whipping backdrop, hushed
By low warbles from birds’ paean;
Indistinct as dusty sketches—
Throaty on a...

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Categories: paean, bereavement, cry, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Limerick On Valsa George
Valsa is a fairly new poet to PS! I am enjoying getting to know her through her poetry. The limerick is her funny side but...

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Categories: paean, funny, tribute,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member My Forever Friend
 
Chantelle Anne is my poetic friend,
our friendship will never ever end;
we both like poems quite dark,
she is my own meadowlark ...
and I pray our...

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Categories: paean, friendship,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Caren Krutsinger
She is the reigning queen of poetry soup
Producing a plethora of poems at will as from a mill
Children or adults, she fits into every group
A...

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Categories: paean, appreciation, encouraging, friend,
Form: Rhyme

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