Best Recant Poems
Below are the all-time best Recant poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of recant poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Elephant and the AntThere once was a little mighty ant
Who was extravagant and arrogant
Known to be exorbitantly militant
She was so combatant and petulant
They nicknamed her My...
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Categories:
recant, allegory, animal, change, cute,
Form:
Monorhyme
Let Me TranslateLet me translate
My love for you
From written.... to spoken....to touched
From syllable sensuality
To physical functionality
From verbal to nonverbal virtual reality
Or better yet
Let me translate them into...
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Categories:
recant, language, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Christmas Eve of OldA sacred song of long ago
is sung with reverence, high and low
Sweet harmonies that the angels hear
is the music of a Midnight Clear
A velvet night...
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Categories:
recant, happiness, music,
Form:
Couplet
The Dead Man and the Loud HenI shall delete my existence says the dead man
No more do I breathe
No more shall I rant
Although often I recant
I shall delete all my poems...
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Categories:
recant, children, hilarious, muse,
Form:
Light Verse
Forever To EndeavorThere is a phrase of words be praised
I’ve heard somewhere before;
Down amongst the dirt and weeds
Of things we most deplore.
Which rob us of our...
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Categories:
recant, inspirational, introspection, life, words,
Form:
Rhyme
A Little Land That's Built On SandThere is a little land that's built on sand in the Middle East
To listen to the world complain, you'd think it was...
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Categories:
recant, america, immigration, international, islamic,
Form:
Rhyme
The Wormwood Portfolio
"The Wormwood Portfolio"
Reams of stories
riddled with worms
wood for burning
all the children
cover their eyes
tears smoked
into the lungs
gender fluid
propheticising
bitter water
electric brains
chipped like
fine-boned China
downloading
overloads...
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Categories:
recant, dark, life, light,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
recant, dark, halloween,
Form:
Triolet
It wasn't all that long ago, The State of the UnionIt wasn't all that long ago when covid
choked the world with it's grasp.
People became anxious, some belligerent, when
asked to merely mask.
While others stock piled toilet...
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Categories:
recant, america, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
A Feminist "can'T"Can't tell us can't
For our immense pleasure of a broad recant
Cause we know we can walk on the ceiling
While we know just what is the...
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Categories:
recant, on work and workinglife,
Form:
Free verse
Mother MaryMary
Jesus
Magdalene
Pure white Virgin cloth
Crosses, blood red where burned and lost
The Romans they had blind eyes
To the new world he would soon be born and rise
Soldier’s...
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Categories:
recant, allah, angel, bible, christian,
Form:
Free verse
The Trusted ServantAll the leaves turned and waved
Before the darkness turned them grey
And buried 'neath the scarlet sins
Were skies so red the poppy grins
"Heed not your torment"...
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Categories:
recant, allegory
Form:
Couplet
You'Re My Light - Davedas Concrete Candle Style~ You Are My Light ~
( Daveda's Hybrid Concrete Candle)
~O~
Dear
Lord
You're
My Light
You...
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Categories:
recant, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Living In the Middle EastYou put him in a cage
That pilot you shot down
Pour gasoline on him
And set him ablaze
And the world is silent...
That seventeen year old girl
Writhes on...
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Categories:
recant, violence, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Summer SunsetSequestered from mundane oration
Until this spell from Earth’s rotation
Meanders from my frozen gaze.
Melting clouds in pastel plush,
Evanescent waning rays,
Recant my vision’s wanderlust.
Slivered shards of ruby...
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Categories:
recant, sky, sun,
Form:
Acrostic