Best Penitent Poems
Below are the all-time best Penitent poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of penitent poems written by PoetrySoup members
All In a Day At the LouvreMagnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime -
majestic pyramid attracts my eye,
mystique draws me in
O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art,
every square inch...
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Categories:
penitent, art, paris, travel,
Form:
Free verse
A Glimpse of LightMy rueful spirit was gowned in a silken shroud of white.
Was there no chance my penitent cries had been heard?
I searched his pensive eyes for...
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Categories:
penitent, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
The Devil Has No HornsIn Simple words
The devil has no horns
She wears smaug balm, Oh, Lord of the Rings
She sleeps in El Dorado Street, the Hotels of Svengali
She...
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Categories:
penitent, analogy, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Induced InterludesInduced Interludes
Twilight disrobes a soundless star
It claims some gentler theme from me
Caught lingering in a unified bestilled embrace
Beneath a unique spotlight of its gleaming afterglow
...
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Categories:
penitent, fantasy, metaphor, surreal,
Form:
Free verse
Love Is Hard To FindLove surrounds us…though people take it for granite
Oh, but we’re unaware of it! We’re ignorant of it at times of tribulation
Vibrant, vermillion roses float in...
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Categories:
penitent, grief, longing, lost, love,
Form:
Acrostic
LullabyLullaby
Moonbow cradle songs
Sing through sheer corona mists
In grace notes of acapella hues
While golden lunar lentos
Of twilight lunar rainbows,
Crowning Luna’s full face,
Arch with andante’s touch
Like...
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Categories:
penitent, moon, night, sleep,
Form:
Free verse
WillowLoose green tendrils hanging low
kiss the soft green earth, the bough
kneels with the wind as if in prayer,
a penitent so humble, so...
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Categories:
penitent, nature,
Form:
Verse
Rhymes For Shared TimesRHYMES FOR SHARED TIMES
Maintain shared possessions - clean, tidy and in working CONDITION
Share responsibilities, or allocate them in a fair and balanced PARTITION
Keep your promises...
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Categories:
penitent, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Hi StormIn mania, the body unbinds itself.
The skeleton’s dense marrow becomes hollow,
an avian adjustment. It is accelerated evolution.
Fluttering and floating in a slew of thoughts
like nervous...
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Categories:
penitent, brother, drug, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Second ConditionalGrammar Series
SECOND CONDITIONAL
If I were a gambling man as my sin;
(I confess an occasional flutter)
Then if I had an acceptable win,
I would buy myself...
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Categories:
penitent, language,
Form:
Rhyme
Absconding MuseMy muse blew a fuse
Without excuse fealty did recuse
In jilting fashion without compassion
Tendered passion did stingily ration
Lofty discourse from pen did divorce
With no remorse...
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Categories:
penitent, funnymetaphor,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
A Person's Worth and MeasureA Person’s Worth and Measure
A person’s life is sacred in God’s eyes,
For we all know that God tells us no lies.
God views a...
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Categories:
penitent, allegory, change, god, inspiration,
Form:
Couplet
The Glory of GodMerciful is God!
Therefore, repent thou sins and worship his glory.
Satan is purgatory.
Merciful is God!
Why be penitent and continue to sin?
Satan is agony.
Merciful is God!
By grace,...
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Categories:
penitent, baptism, bible, blessing, faith,
Form:
Verse
Anchorite At the Gate of HeavenANCHORITE AT THE GATE OF HEAVEN
Not heeding brute reality, nor matter’s bane
I kneel at the door of heaven, a suppliant,
Transcribing words of wisdom, like the...
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Categories:
penitent, allegory, blessing, religion,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
penitent, city, conflict, corruption, faith,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue