Best Receptacle Poems
Below are the all-time best Receptacle poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of receptacle poems written by PoetrySoup members
Eternal Life and the Total Self
Life is but a fleeting whisper echoing through time,
never dying, always being- magnificent and sublime.
The body's a receptacle, a superficial shell,
but in it dwells the...
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Categories:
receptacle, death,
Form:
Rhyme
The Prostitution of Her Love“I’m not a machine, you know.”
He says huskily
As she places her chocolate tipped breast
Within inches of his lips
Tantalizing him
She just smiles, breastfeeding him
His treat
And...
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Categories:
receptacle, husband, love, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
What's In the UrnWhat’s In The Urn
Strangers offered me to join them in a drink
I met them on a mountain edge while skiing
They seemed like friendly normal people...
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Categories:
receptacle, adventure, animal, anxiety, conflict,
Form:
Quatrain
A Promise To God (Co-Written With John Moses Freeman)Come December 21, two thousand and twelve
On the winter solstice, mankind may burn in hell
As man's Creator, I've sent multiple warnings
Nostradamus, the Mayans, Hopi Indians
All...
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Categories:
receptacle, devotion, faith, forgiveness, upliftingworld,
Form:
Rhyme
A Grand American TraditionVoting day at long last has arrived.
Scrambling through closet,
a cavernous space in accumulation.
In the deepest darkest corner,
purpose achieved,
garnering my three by five inch...
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Categories:
receptacle, poetry, political,
Form:
Free verse
Smart and Final ProseDaylight fades, a city pulsates, and traffic is reflected in store windows.
Hurrying headlights come out of the darkness.
They crisscross like dueling knights....
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Categories:
receptacle, peoplepeople, red, city, people,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Categories:
receptacle, abuse, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Sing Today - O Sing This DayO thousand Tongues sing, sing of Christ
Jesus, Chosen vehicle, human receptacle
Of fatherly fondness, for who would be wise
Admitting we do what we ought not, not...
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Categories:
receptacle, bible, christian,
Form:
Alliteration
ProphetProphesies by seers may be derided and prophets may be lampooned. But time may prove them right" By Poet.
There was none to listen...
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Categories:
receptacle, judgement, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Mother's ApronsI remember so well the calico aprons that my Mother wore.
She made them from feed sacks that Father needed no more.
She wore them mainly to...
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Categories:
receptacle, nostalgiaclothes,
Form:
Rhyme
The Prostitution of Her Love“I’m not a machine, you know.”
He says huskily
As she places her chocolate tipped breast
Within inches of his lips
Tantalizing him
She just smiles, breastfeeding him
His treat
And...
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Categories:
receptacle, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
One Body In Christthank God for all He has done and let there be no division to find
we are all part of one body and as Christians of...
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Categories:
receptacle, devotion, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Didactic
Be Merciful-.BeFrom the beginning to the end tithe.
Round the circle of eternity, she writhes.
Fresh, full, ripe, and undeniably free.
O God, be merciful to she.
Fill the receptacle...
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Categories:
receptacle, life, love
Form:
Kyrielle
Overcoming the Temptation To Commit Sinbe not a receptacle to that spirit of sin
live by the word of God and be open to Him
in this day where the lines of...
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Categories:
receptacle, devotion, faith, happiness, hope,
Form:
Didactic
Keats NightingaleKeats’ Nightingale
The romantic poets were too early to postulate total atheism,
And so freshened up the church by aligning god with nature,
And I believe they had...
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Categories:
receptacle, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, bird,
Form:
Heroic Couplet