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Descent Poems - Poems about Descent

Descent Poems - Examples of all types of poems about descent to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for descent.
Premium Member Feeling not thinking
...What we affirm now, has been said before but know dear soul, the word is not the thing and so shifting from thinking to feeling, being a melding of head with the heart, in staid silence, negating......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, spiritual,
Form: Sestina



Premium Member REMNANTS-Divine Magnetism Contest
..."The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff." Carl Sagan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We’re all stardust, remnants of Divine Magnetism and celestial fi......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, inspiration, stars,
Form: Free verse
A tarnished soul
...Here's a story poem about a girl's tragic descent, imbued with dark imagery: A Broken Doll's Lament Tiny fingers, a gap in the wood, a scene etched in fright, A scream ripped from silence, shatter......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, anger, cry, depression, divorce,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member SURREALITY
... At No Moon night on way back to home from movie show, suddenly noticed descent Crescent Moon rising slow. Side by side coming Half Moon with half disc yellow. Nex......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Beneath the veil of twilight, time lets its shadow fall
...Beneath the veil of twilight, time lets its shadow fall, It trickles like quicksilver through the unseen hourglass, The silent ticking follows us, we, the children of earth, Try to halt it with th......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unfounded Hatred Toward a Young Stranger
...The subway station heaves with muffled noise, The shuffle of countless feet against the grime, I am aware of unfounded disdain, Coursing between strangers in the city's bowels. The ancient fluo......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, discrimination, hate, prejudice, racism,
Form: Free verse
My solitude weaves the paths of the night that unfolds beneath my footsteps
...My solitude weaves the paths of the night that unfolds beneath my footsteps, And when my eyelashes fall heavy - a puppetry of worlds dims in their blindness. In the frown of my eyebrows, The Moon ......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Merry Melodies Looney Tunes Tribute
...With a quick competitive descent, Darling Daffy and his feisty duels; No sportsmanship? He turns violent; He’s a stickler for all of the rules; Makes no difference if it’s a giraffe or Bugs B......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, emotions, feelings, humor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Barbarossa III
...A new command would counter their attack to stay the storm that harkens at your door. ‘Twould be a feat that stunned the iron pack for nothing dared defy the wolves before. And though his pack c......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member That was then, this is now
...Cleaved from God’s light, we wished to be as He but one day we ate the forbidden fruit, whose toxins caused dread and in heart envy, darkening our luminous soul with soot. Though tempestuous and ......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, god, heaven, love, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member adoption to sonship
...John 1:12-13 NIV? [12] Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— [13] children born not of natural descent, nor of human decisio......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, faith,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Conversation Between the Catcher and the Pitcher
...Diving for the ball, Balling into a dust- Orange roll, The catcher tossed it back to the pitcher After a ball three, and walked up to him. The descent of the night's sky Made the ballfield lig......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, baseball,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Heir
...In days of yore, when gods ruled and men sinned, a tale unfolded, whispered by the wind. Etana, King of Kish, his heart aflame, yearned for a son; a successor to name. Escaping corporeal bo......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, myth, mythology,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Zen mode
...Soma nectar drips, our attention grips God’s sublime elixir, our tremulous heart sips Polarities dance in a game of descent and ascent There’s nothing to be done save granting love consent......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Draw Add Wet View
... Blossoms line my laden descent down to the perked watering hole that plays empty theater, awaiting my creative path, a royal welcome - represented by accumed variety and presumed ......Read the rest...
Categories: descent, art,
Form: Rhyme

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