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Best Praying Poems

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


I Saw a Praying Mantis
I saw a praying mantis as I went about my day
The brightest green, the coolest form
and I just had to say

“Please tell me of your...

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Categories: praying, prayer,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart
    "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"



Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...

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Categories: praying, death, death, god, death,
Form: Rhyme
Her Masterpiece Is Her Story
Her paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.

One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...

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Categories: praying, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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: praying, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
Welcome To a Brand New World, Song Version
Welcome to a brand new world

Verse 1
How are you feeling right now?
Is there still a yearning in your heart?
You're probably like, ten million or more,
praying...

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Categories: praying, christian, earth, gospel, hope,
Form: Lyric



So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: praying, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...

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Categories: praying, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin Lane
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: with Lin Lane

Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that...

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Categories: praying, appreciation, art, creation, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Humanity Keeps Bleeding
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato

Politicians keep lying
Hate keeps breeding
Jets keep firing
Babies keep dying
Mothers keep crying
Homes keep tumbling
Hope keeps crumbling
Time keeps ticking
Injustice...

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Categories: praying, humanity, introspection, war,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member - Just Be Grateful -
Praying for the day I meet  heaven 
You being there sharing this moment
In paradise here I come with open arms 

Listening to the song...

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Categories: praying, beauty, blessing, dream, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hope, a Little Remained
Hope, A Little Remained

She walked the creaking floors of the rat-infested room,
trying to remember what tragedy had sent her to this shabby place.
Her heart felt...

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Categories: praying, anxiety, dark, emotions, fate,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member To All the Pens I'Ve Lost Before
To all the pens I’ve lost before
That rolled off my desk and, on the floor
I’m glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the pens...

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Categories: praying, humor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Dark Side of October
The Dark Side of October

Late October moon is waking, through this cemetery shaking,
shaking as the cold wind breaking, walking ‘neath an old oak tree.
Stones like...

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Categories: praying, dark, horror, october, scary,
Form: Rhyme
My Angel of the Waters
My angel of the waters 

Dancing in the flame beneath a flickered candle's light
Moving between shadows on the floor
My every thought now focused on the...

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Categories: praying, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tattered Pages
In the recollections of my journey thus far, the tattered pages of my life flutter
in my mind.  Like snapshots of times and places in...

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Categories: praying, life, memory,
Form: Haibun

Book: Reflection on the Important Things