Get Your Premium Membership

Jonah Poems - Poems about Jonah

Jonah Poems - Examples of all types of poems about jonah 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 jonah.
Premium Member Clean Air
...Clean air has now become a pipe dream. The bleak energy speaks loudly, With a lot of stale and toxic air. Like Jonah in the belly of the whale, People stay choking, choking for fresh......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, abuse, death, nature, pollution,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In the Belly of the Whale
...darkness, like Jonah held in the belly of the whale, the end of a world; closed-in time in dark spaces - gives one, a hell of a time to think in the belly of the whale grew a whole world, ......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, birth, child, dark, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Cosmic Event
... Sometimes, when heavenly bodies align A celestial phenomena is spun Some say it's a sign When we have this total eclipse of the sun The path of the eclipse will pass over places called N......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, earth, moon, sun,
Form: Rhyme
You Will Be Given Nothing But the Sign of Jonah
... Repent America, for your 7 great abominations. Like Ancient Nineveh, you have also shed innocent blood, you adulterous and ungrateful drunkards. You have forsaken God for another. Your Apat......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, art,
Form: Free verse
Jonah and the whales
...Jonah, praying in the great fish, with putrid slime on red eyelids, has the sudden faith of near death - sings on the beach, fish-vomit in his beard. Whale-songs drift, doubts echo, luring......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, faith,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Carcass
...In this landscape, lies a nest made of brown brittle leaves, cracked asphalt, and tire flattened filters this creature, stands broad shouldered and stupid with a flat face and eyes open so......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, extended metaphor, irony, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Jonah
...Man o' mine, bravest o’ sailors, singing sea shanties with death, he wades through icy glaciers, o’ the frostiest breath. Cling to vein and steady this vessel, doldrum this destine my love, J......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, death, extended metaphor, introspection,
Form: Narrative
Please don't be late for this world's greatest escape part five
...Fortunately, their musical video of It's just my destiny's, backfired very badly against all of them! It was rightfully branded and labeled 'as anti-Semitic and hate speech. Thus because Sunrise m......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Slang Footle Male Names: Part 4:
... It’s Sure not Miss Daisy Drivin’ Ivan The Over-Achiever Be more Igor Big Eater Guy Piggy Iggy The Straw Man Flaxen Jackson Street Smart Joseph Knows stuff Serial ki......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, humor,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Guidance
...It was during the summer of 1974, That three states came beckoning me. One state pointed North; the other East. The third state was directing me South. One was 95 miles away; one was 790 miles; ......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, god, prayer,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Hug the Ocean More Than Any Tree
...From shore to deep, the colors of the sea, tan sand and white meringue bursting forth. Can you picture the lovers on the edge long after they're gone? Footprints......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shirley
...Shirley girl it’s been a thrill Let me introduce you to Bill He has a dog called Jet He’s a solid bet You’re dumping me after an hour One hour Sixty minutes of bliss How you reminisced Your e......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, girlfriend, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Expulsion
...Through the front Mr. Jonah was swallowed. In the sea monster’s belly he wallowed. In the muck and the gas unhygienic, alas, was the back door expulsion that followed.......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, allegory, animal, fish, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Salvation Insurer
...August 26 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Jonah 1-4 Key Verse – Jonah 2:9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salva......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chemo
...Wake up and rush for the toilet and say my prayers Stomach races trying to catch up to the bowels emptying anxious Chemo the man said it takes a bit to get used to and I’ll ring you Take a ......Read the rest...
Categories: jonah, bible, eulogy,
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Shattered Sighs