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Best Tamar Poems

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

Queen Tamar

She had a sword
To cut of the heads
Of subjects not fitting

She has a heart
That lies upon a cold stone
Torn, withered

A knight from afar
On horseback did...

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Categories: tamar, adventure, beauty, death, mystery,
Form: Light Verse

Tamar

I love you little branch 
Dancing in the breeze 
Little leaf laughing at the cloud 
Little wind flirting with the trees' 
Old ego, playing smart...

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Categories: tamar, people,
Form: Verse

Tamar the Great of Georgia

[paraphrase of a Svan folksong]


I, I am Queen Tamar
I raised myself to Heaven
I dug up a barren mountain
I left only a deep hole
I put the...

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Categories: tamar, adventure, allegory, dream, history,
Form: Lyric

Her Name Was Tamar

This Christmas, I am moved by the names in the genealogy of Jesus.            ...

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Categories: tamar, bible, christian, christmas, marriage,
Form: Prose

Princess Tamar of Georgia

[paraphrase of a Svan folk song]

Tamar's mother said, "Tamar,
You were born fully grown.
Child, I saw you in a dream
I looked into the starlit sky and...

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Categories: tamar, allegory, child, history, mother
Form: Lyric

The Perfect Gift

God was never in search of perfect people to fill the Messianic line.            ...

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Categories: tamar, bible, christian, christmas, giving,
Form: Prose

Misguided shepherd 
north of the Tamar Valley
drinks steadily on...

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Categories: tamar, for him,
Form: Haiku

Absaloms Rebellion

Absalom’s Rebellion

After Amnon raped Tamar,
who was Absalom’s beautiful sister,
Absalom plotted to kill
His incestuous, lustful brother.
Amnon fled to Talmai 
to his mother’s father, the king.
Absalom’s rebellion...

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Categories: tamar, faith, political, son, death,
Form: Narrative

Who Matters

Zerah was the twin brother of Perez whose mom and dad were Judah and Tamar. Perez was a direct ancestor of Jesus, but Zerah's name...

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Categories: tamar, bible, christian, christmas, jesus,
Form: Prose

There's No Oasis In the Desert

Skies that turning dark, 
possibly the heavy storm will come.
Storm that will not make you damp, 
I heard a strident blowing of the wind. 
Life...

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Categories: tamar, life, people, day, people,
Form: Narrative

Till the End of Times

I have played drums
I have played Premier England
Right here in our land
I have played Tamar Drums
I have played talking drums
I have played conga
Yes I have...

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Categories: tamar, boyfriend, girlfriend, love,
Form: Free verse

The Knight In the Panther's Skin

THE KNIGHT IN THE PANTHER’S SKIN

Shota Rustaveli (c. 1160-1250), often called simply Rustaveli, was a Georgian poet who is generally considered to be the preeminent...

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Categories: tamar, hero, love, star, stars,
Form: Epic

The List

According to Matthew's recording of the Gospel story, Jesus' genealogy consists of a total of 47 names.*  Four of them are women.  Of...

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Categories: tamar, christmas, jesus,
Form: Prose

The Rest of the Story

This morning as I was reading the genealogy of Jesus from Matthew's Gospel,            ...

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Categories: tamar, bible, christmas, self,
Form: Prose

Psycho Jazz - Pareidolia

If I am not sick with pareidolia,
I couldn’t notice‘The Scream’ by 
Edvard Munch on my neighbour’s door,
created by the light coming from
the ground floor. 

Not...

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Categories: tamar, art, first love, literature,
Form: Free verse