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Best Skeptic Poems

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


The Skeptic
So, what’s up with Noah?
He’s building an ark,
From early each morning,
‘Till long after dark.

He’s preaching that there
Will be judgment someday,
And so he just works,
While the...

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Categories: skeptic, bible, boat, judgement,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Shackles of Love
Shackles of cynicism have displaced your heart,
the love that once transcended time is no more.

No wordsmith can bring beauty to an invisible emotion,
lost in translation...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skeptic, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On the Way To the Prayer Meeting
On my way to the prayer meeting with the Lord
Something funny and amusing happened to me…
First, I faced Miss Skeptic with her arrogant stare
Scorning, she...

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Categories: skeptic, emotions, faith, god, how
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Longing
There is always 
a dull longing
that goes unlabelled
and hangs a layer or two
below a joy, a pang
somewhere in the soul
that can't be coughed up
or cut...

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Categories: skeptic, longing, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Completeness
Rumi Verse: The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.
      ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skeptic, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



To Eden Part Ii
A stone's cast ----

   but what great arm has set about the motion?

   was not the first mother reared? ----

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Categories: skeptic, creation, death, faith, life,
Form: Free verse
It Happened One Night Part One
My friends this is a True story. In the 1990s Ellen Crystall appeared on the Larry King Talk Show. She had written a book called...

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Categories: skeptic, emotions, fear,
Form: Narrative
This Child
This Child believes in magic.
Peeking through the curtains of lace
You see a small innocent picture perfect 
Little face.
She 's terrific
Far from being common place.
A realistic
Who...

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Categories: skeptic, adventure, appreciation, education, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Thank God For
God I thank for His love midst grace bounty
along mercy of sweet serenity…

His bestowed existence-breath’s verity
daily propels blest productivity… 

His gift of life throughout eternity
assures...

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Categories: skeptic, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: List
Premium Member Bouncing Toward Triumph
Bouncing up with gratitude
my heart leaps midst jubilant beat
rising to praise God* for His blessings
overtaking me this New Year.

Propelled by the Holy Ghost
my faith strides...

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Categories: skeptic, appreciation, blessing, christian, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prayer
my lord

thank you
i love the world
i love people
my biggest need 
my biggest want
is to help others.

i am so happy to be in your light
everyday my needs 
are...

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Categories: skeptic, god,
Form: Free verse
I Found Out Today
I found out today you had never been true
You were with someone else when I was seeing you.
You took my love, my heart, my trust
And...

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© Pegi Price  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skeptic, introspection, loss, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Feather At His Feet
She was a beautiful woman…his friend…her heart…simple and pure
She totally believed in miracles…he…was not so sure.

As her end of life approached…as she stood upon deaths...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skeptic, miracle,
Form: Verse
Nonbeliever
Nonbeliever
by Michael R. Burch writing as Kim Cherub

She smiled a thin-lipped smile
(What do men know of love?)
then rolled her eyes toward heaven
(Or that Chauvinist above?)....

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Categories: skeptic, atheist, christian, gender, god,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Newborn Babe
Mysticism is alive and well.
If this seems like a mystification, you have not experienced it yet.
But wait, what if you have? 
Think on the mystique...

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Categories: skeptic, emotions,
Form: Free verse

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