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Dervishes Poems - Poems about Dervishes

Cone Calderas
...Shivering sullen, silent all the time. Suffering, wisdom, alone and sublime. Where, O my oracle, shall I begin? Blanch, light of Sin, nickel, cadmium, tin. Hollow are hearts in the hill-towns, an......

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Categories: dervishes, creation, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Peace, Full
... The silence can seem cold and detached, like a balloon or bubble in space. An Avatar with no face. But also......

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Categories: dervishes, art,
Form: Rhyme



Mind-Walking
...If minds could be seen, we could take them out for a walk, show off a bit. Although we would have to leach and muzzle most of them like dogs. There would be, with luck, a few cool cats but ......

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Categories: dervishes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Syzygy
... "Syzygy" Behind the wet dunes fringed with seagrass a blood crescent kisses the forehead of dreamer traversed twin aeon syzygy barefeet the velvet sophia imprints ......

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Categories: dervishes, dream, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Poseidon's Possum
...The strangest things happen in the Northern hemisphere dancing dervishes become the norm in the mid Norwegian Sun, mercator projected A bird in flight caught by the car lights, travelling inc......

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Categories: dervishes, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Untouched By Tempests
...A drug crazed world spins on ever faster. Bodies tumble out of that carousel never to be seen again. Once whirling dervishes twirled now they stagger and fall drunkenly. Molestation hangs in the......

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Categories: dervishes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nang Nak
...Last night I watched the movie “Nang Nak”; the hero returns home after a war, lives with the ghosts of his wife and child, unaware they had perished while he was afar. And then, when I turned a......

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Categories: dervishes, film, i am, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Requiem
..."Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like the barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands." --Ralp......

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Categories: dervishes, war,
Form: Free verse
Nudnick
...Nudnick By Sy Roth Self, I say Self, Wake up. Your ganglions Are asleep again. Wakey, wakey… Those around you, nudnick, Are whirling dervishes Those who come and go In the Speakeasys......

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Categories: dervishes, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Folks Got Rhythm
...Black folks got rhythm full movements undeterred, and flexible as four winds. How low can we go? with limbo it's in our hands with early rising; planting seeds of joy, washed in ray of hope ......

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Categories: dervishes, america, black love, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grandma Winslet and Her Guest
...It was going to be the best Christmas of the most spectacular, magnificent Christmases in the world.Certainly, the best one we had ever seen, for Grandma Winslet was coming from England which is big.......

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Categories: dervishes, grandchild, granddaughter, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Best Christmas Ever
...It was going to be the best Christmas of the most spectacular, magnificent Christmases in the world. Certainly, the best one we had ever seen, for Grandma Winslet was coming from England which is bi......

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Categories: dervishes, christmas, family, grandmother,
Form: Narrative
Hurricane
...Feeling a presence larger than life bowing palms seem to pray to a force beyond, black sullen clouds drift up the coast, wind-driven spit of God marks its spot in a rough way. Grey ocean maule......

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Categories: dervishes, humanity, image, weather, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Is Liberia Hunnicutt
...Colin is a crusader, a knight, a soldier, a champion, a liberator too. His face is handsome, but well hidden, as are his eyes of lightest blue. His own mother fears this veiled monster when he ente......

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Categories: dervishes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Passionata
... ~*~ God, don't let me fall, into Satan's trap. The evil, infamy, and destruction. Led by my snout, t......

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Categories: dervishes, freedom, god, prayer,
Form: Rhyme

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