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Nuns Poems - Poems about Nuns

Nuns Poems - Examples of all types of poems about nuns 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 nuns.
Premium Member MOST REVEREND ARCH BISHOP CARDINAL JEROME LISTEKI
...OTETS THE MANY DAYS AND NIGHT YOU LENT ME YOUR DIVINE EAR THROUGH PRAYER DURING HARDSHIP TIMES AND ILLNESS RAISING MY GRANDDAUGHTER KEEPING HER SAFE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN WISCONSIN OUR LADY OF......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, america, angel, miracle, seasons,
Form: Free verse



Backwards Spells of FEAR Part I
... so easy to fall, and so hard to break free somehow as a child I knew it was as if they knew my name before I had a clue at 10 reading books about orphans free from the church the dignity of......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, abuse, addiction, child, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dauntless
...“Put on the dauntless spirit of resolution”. ~ By William Shakespeare Meet this dweller of the icy continent Among the few, he is the chief occupant Out in that territory, it is freezing cold ......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, animal, appreciation, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Surreality Of Girlish Dreams
...The girl and her smile straddle the rainbow neon hair the fluid cascades of northern lights seafoam cloak the ripples outgrown by the shore she adores the breeze adorned with gems emeralds fly fr......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, dream, fantasy, fun, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member etiquette
...I’m in the residential dining hall with my suitemates Lisa and Sunny. We’re talking about sausages. Why? Because April 30th is ‘National Sausage day.” Someone mentioned that when I complained abo......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, health, humor, school,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Thunder
... The thunder sounds from far away, wild wind runs before it carrying whispers of the coming storm. Clouds are dark and gray like cloistered nuns escaping hell, and bursting out with rain. ......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, nature,
Form: Personification
Premium Member God Gave Us Easter
... “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die." ......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, easter,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Confused I And Stressed In London
...is everyone from Barking Barking mad? Does everyone In Lambeth do the Lambeth walk? Is Leicester Square In Leicester? Is The Elephant And Castle a place where they hide Elephants? Is Oxford Stre......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, city, confusion,
Form: Free verse
FLAME OF ASCENSION
...FLAME OF ASCENSION No-one can escape Flame of Ascension a glance, a glimmer, a gestalted shadow ghosts or gestures guarded Hearts to genteel progress on a path It night......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, 12th grade, allegory, extended
Form: Alliteration
a doomed affair
...a doomed affair when a young doctor/padre came to the convent to check on the nuns' health, he met the young abbess, and their world ignited when he touched her arm, her impulse was to kiss......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, anti bullying, body, creation,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Ostracized by Nuns
...will to be diff’rent fractals with cursive curlicues cream-colored overalls ostracized by nuns and formal catechisms with habitual fashion sense now I’m in control spinning like a pinwheel......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, poetry, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nicky's Road Kill
...Nicky, the neighbor’s dog, drags a road kill home. A beautiful pelt like those fox shoulder garments women wore in the       forties. But the head is crushed beyond recognition—maybe it’s a fox an......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, death, dog, flower, mother
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Montage, Part One of Many
...I stand Standing upon the emerald landscape posture stiff and still Eyes like black holes devouring the space around me Glass horse galloping, prisms exploding through the plainlands Time pas......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, dream, imagery, imagination, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member answers
...Every once in a while, especially on holidays, I find myself wandering through my memory museum - rattling doors and fishing through those virtual hallways. That’s where I found ‘Father Lucas,’ last ......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, childhood, humor, memory, religion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE EVOLUTION OF MY PRAYING
... Growing up in the Catholic Church the rules and regulations were so demanding… but it was the dichotomy of the nuns behavior I had trouble understanding. How they could be so brutal in their at......Read the rest...
Categories: nuns, prayer,
Form: Rhyme

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