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Graven Poems - Poems about Graven

The Eternal Question: God, No God, Maybe God
...Gods of Man In the days of yore, in distant times Life was simple Man was simple-minded and his gods were simple, as well. Life began with the light of day and ended with the fall of night.......

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Categories: graven, god,
Form: Free verse
This burden
...#This_burden Heavy walls of endurance crumbles on me. On my last kick of a dying horse. I don't want to be a statistic, for I too, from a woman I was carved, Not immune to pain and hurt. It's......

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Categories: graven, absence, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Mistreatment of Pens
...The pen is mightier than the sword The pen is the copyist of every word Just don’t combine “pen is” as a paper headline once did report And it might be mightier because it seeks pleasure and not w......

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Categories: graven, assonance, funny, metaphor, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Sir Thomas Wyatt Translations 1
...SIR THOMAS WYATT TRANSLATIONS 1 Whoso List to Hunt ("Whoever Longs to Hunt") by Sir Thomas Wyatt loose translation/interpretation/modernization by Michael R. Burch Whoever longs to hunt, I kn......

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Categories: graven, grief, heart, love, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Conversations at the Areopagus
... (The Apostle Paul is waiting at Athens, and some of the Epicureans and Stoics engaged him in conversation.) Agon, Aidos, Apate, Bia, Corus and Dysnomia (talking amongst themselves) say “What w......

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Categories: graven, atheist, bible, jesus, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Chaucer Translation: Welcome Summer
...Welcome, Summer by Geoffrey Chaucer loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Now welcome, Summer, with your sun so soft, since you’ve banished Winter with her icy weather and drive......

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Categories: graven, heaven, sky, song, summer,
Form: Roundel
And Then You Rained
...Your first touch awakened in me A longing, a lotus A love I once thought dead You stood there and filled My entire sky with only that sole Moonstone look in your eyes The one that told me I was......

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Categories: graven, love, nature, rain,
Form: Free verse
Soul Speak
...Sans mind and body— who am I? Nothing, nada, no one— I am not I, Sans brain, I am mere flesh and bones Sans body, a graven image in stone; But mind, Ah mind, is of another kind ......

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Categories: graven, self, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death Blows a Flamed Horn
... In a chariot of fire in the sun blew a pale horse and pale rider’s last breath, and on your grave sings a boding raven in the shadows of the valley of death. Where no graven image rise ......

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Categories: graven, bereavement, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO REINFORCES THAT HE IS THE LORD OUR GOD
...February 10 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Leviticus 26-27 Key Verse – Leviticus 26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shal......

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Categories: graven, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Nero, The Incendiary
...Hail, the doorway keen on the known world ... theme wails attention, time of roses' blooms cower ... usurped magentas, aloof maroons, for the flight of the gossamers ... assume benefits......

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Categories: graven, analogy, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member Come November
...A wind, sharp and cold Leaves the trees shaven, Of such colors bold Yet, in my mind are graven Come November days Less sunlight remains, Where it stayed and plays Filtering, as it drains ......

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Categories: graven, autumn, light, nature, november,
Form: Rhyme
Isadora
...She leaves footprints – on the wet concrete of blinded doubts, For she has carved lives - - like graven images on the palms of her hands, There is substance in her eyes, fire in her soul, zest ......

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Categories: graven, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Ode To the Deprived
...The sun tugs young hours, Wrings the day. Flowers spring, Pupils play, Waitlessness on one youngling. Longing eyes cashed the calendar, But father’s clock ticks. Abysmal second......

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Categories: graven, age, child, father son,
Form: Rhyme
Crown of the Enemy
...One causal cadence continues casting, Crawling, creeping, conniving, grasping, Graven, rotten, rude, deprived, Hatred, boiling, bursting, sly. This cadence is personified, the cause Is wh......

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Categories: graven, analogy, christian, introspection, religion,
Form: Rhyme

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