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Best St. Peter Poems

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Premium Member Saints and Demons On Halloween
On the eve of All Saints Day known as Halloween
We've a night where nothing is ever as it seems
 
Abraham, Martin and John hosted a...

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Categories: st. peter, holiday
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Farmer Joe
On the banks of the mighty Skagit,
where the rushing waters flow,
sat a fisherman of merit,
the one known as Farmer Joe.
Long he sat there, long he...

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Categories: st. peter, fishing, old, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member - Never Forget a Number -
On Tuesday night, Nick died quietly at home in his bed
He left a grieving wife and their two adult children
After a long and indescribable journey...

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Categories: st. peter, death, funny, identity,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Marhaba
Ancient tombs, of long ago times
Byblos, the walled city, fortress and shrines
Shrouded in mystery, wisdom's, and thyme
The Phoenicians sailed from this very port
Their ships full...

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Categories: st. peter, heaven, history, mystery,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Double Secret
"The Double Secret"




I am skin and bone
wrapped tightly around
an immaculate heart that’s hidden
but known to a fierce soul

Human daughter, sprinkled with holy water

Wherever there is...

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Categories: st. peter, family, freedom, home, i
Form: Free verse



The Executive

The Executive   Story/ poem

There was once a high class executive Lady.
She had a very high paying job and made a
lot of money. She...

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Categories: st. peter, imagination, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cowboys Don'T Cry
Life’s never easy when you are riding the range
You grow use to hard times waiting for things to change
Sit around a campfire singing an old...

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Categories: st. peter, cowboy-western
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Heavenly Hall-O-Ween!
“My God” said St. Peter “how neat
A donkey head for trick or treat!
Just two feet? I want more!”
So god gave him four
off he ran hee-haw...

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Categories: st. peter, funnygod, god,
Form: Limerick
Mrs. Cathy Needs Snow
MRS. CATHY NEEDS SOME SNOW

I called up the thunder; I called up the rain;
I left a message; and gave them your name.
  I left...

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Categories: st. peter, funny, holiday,
Form: Couplet
Wasted Angels
Howard Marks and God Almighty
Shared a spliff, and had a whitey
Then had the munchies, and a bong
Annoying Peter with the pong
By which time it was...

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Categories: st. peter, addiction, creation, god, heaven,
Form: Couplet
How I Got Richer and What I Did Next
How I Got Richer and What I Did Next



I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: st. peter, allegory, funny, heaven, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Another Time
I found him slumped over his Remington No.5, no more "Elite Typing" for this poor fellow. His Fedora was on the floor beside him, flat...

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Categories: st. peter, adventure,
Form: Narrative
How I Got Rich and What Happened Then
Written in summer of 1976.


I used to eat my lunch with groups
of businessmen from Campbell Soups.

We drank a drink at lunch each day
Of Coca-Cola mixed...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: st. peter, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Valentine's Day
My friends have always hated Valentine's Day.
They ridiculed the pimply-faced boys
Whose hormone-infused offerings
Smell of Axe cologne and sweaty palms.

Greater the mocking of pubescent princesses
Who prance...

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Categories: st. peter, cinderella, february, heart, love,
Form: Prose
Blasphemy--Warning: Explicit Language and Highly Offensive
(These are lyrics to a song I wrote called "Blasphemy")

Verses:
Mother Mary sat on a bench with me today
But I couldn't think of one goddamn thing...

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Categories: st. peter, humorous, religion, religious,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs