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Best Patriarch Poems

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


The Patriarch
i walk among the tombstones
all my elders have gone on ahead
and have left me
i have become
the patriarch
of our clan

walking with me 
are the ghosts of...

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Categories: patriarch, family,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Christmas Spirit
     "Christmas Spirit"
(Christmas Day in Italian Culture)



as a snowy blanket of white caresses in Winter's glow
and frosty icicles kiss windowpanes in...

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Categories: patriarch, holiday, christmas, music, celebration,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Au-Revoir Dearest Mummy
Something’s in life will always haunt us but sharing lessens the burden

AU-REVOIR DEAREST MUMMY

Hi Mom,
Please switch your computer on,
Wherever you are,
Perhaps you are that
Brilliant star,
That...

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Categories: patriarch, love, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Noah's Apprentice On the Ark
Mark Clarke was the gentlest man of Denmark 
Yet considered by all a most unlikely patriarch
He was proud being Noah’s apprentice on the ark

Mark was...

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Categories: patriarch, animal, bird, caregiving, dark,
Form: Monorhyme
Ripe Love's Spectrum
Autumn's arrival, ushering once more a door His harvest moon ? Dressed of pure..
Gold honourable's daughter her queen from Ophir virgins these, companions; entering
The King's...

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Categories: patriarch, angel, art, autumn, change,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Paddy
Paddy

His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short!  He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color...

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Categories: patriarch, dog,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Dreams of Bittersweet Glory
He dreamt of a ladder reaching heaven
   angels ascending, descending all night
Sensing a Divine Presence in the place
   Beth El -...

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Categories: patriarch, angel, bible, blessing, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Living In a Tear
Has my breath of life expired? 
My will congealed 
No longer is there a fire ablaze, only a mere pile of smoldering ashes Waiting for...

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Categories: patriarch, abuse, bereavement, conflict, deep,
Form: Verse
Have You Seen the Light
Have you seen the light of Him that shines brighter then the   
Aludra star of heaven's lair, and have you seen the rays...

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Categories: patriarch, appreciation, father,
Form: Acrostic
Creation's Fragility
Every aspiring artist
want's to be remembered
for what they were able to give to the world
not so much , like so many other's
what they are capable...

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Categories: patriarch, faith, life, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Old Oak Tree
The Old Oak Tree

Standing tall with your roots 6 feet under 
You have survived and thrived for 8 decades
Your branches still growing all the while...

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Categories: patriarch, birthday, blessing, grandfather, love,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Dante's Hell, Fourth Canto Translation First Part,
Fourth canto (first part)

The deep slumber was broken in my head
By a strong thunder, so that I woke up
As person forced to arouse from bed;

My...

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Categories: patriarch, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
* Yes
Untie the knot, patriarch,
the broken kiss was
intimidating.

The backhoe picks up the
devil, it was within you
when you were casting stone
at the fear.

The pagan was covered
with leaves
raw...

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Categories: patriarch, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Fundamentals Redefined
Fundamentalists compete with and through struggling evolution
as Transitionalists would further peaceful revolutions.

Fundamentalism:
A patriarchal-historical view
rooted in interpretation of sacred scripture
written by nondual co-arising NatureSpirits
dipolar appositionally rooted
of...

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Categories: patriarch, earth day, environment, history,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Earthy Empathy
You've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."

I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand

I love cooperative...

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Categories: patriarch, caregiving, gospel, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs